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What is it like to be a woman living through the transition from communism to democracy? What effect does this have on a woman's daily life, on her concept of herself, her family, and her community? This book presents the stories of women in Romania as they describe their experiences on the journey to democratic citizenship. In candid and revealing conversations, women between the ages of 24 and 83 explain how they negotiated their way through radical...
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Published in 1937, and now recognized as one of the most influential, yet highly accessible, volumes on naval command and organization, Running a Big Ship provides a truly unique insight into life at sea during the Second World War.
O'Conor famously commenced the book with his "ten commandments," a concise code of orders that comprise "a little that everyone must know." The main body of the book sets out each of the duties required of a Royal Navy...
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Inspired by their popular USA Today column, conservative Cal Thomas and liberal Bob Beckel unmask the hypocrisy of the issues, organizations, and individuals that have created and deepened the partisan divide at the center of American politics, and make a strategic case for why this bickering must stop. Thomas and Beckel explain how bipartisanship and consensus politics are not only good for the day-to-day democratic process but also essential for...
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Authoritarian regimes have made a concerted effort to shrink the space available for civil society by restricting access to domestic decision-making, transparency, and accountability. An ultimate power ruler is known as an autocrat. A democracy's three branches of government - executive, judicial, and legislative - serve as an essential check on an executive leader's unchecked and uncontested power. The executive branch has grown at the expense of...
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Can the West Be Saved? Liz Truss, the former Conservative prime minister of Great Britain, thinks that's an open question.
During her ten years at the highest levels of the British government, she often found that she was the only conservative in the room. She witnessed, first-hand, the machinations of globalists who would like nothing more than to impose corporate state-socialism on the world. Freedom is at risk, she warns, and the Conservative...
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This book offers a complete translation of the original work titled "Golem: metla Čechů...: rozklad českého nacionalismu," published in the Czech language in 1942. The author's original essay, "Golem...Geissel der Tschechen, die Zersetzung des Tschechischen Nationalismus," was originally written in German. While different translations of the title exist, such as "The Plague of the Czechs" or "The Scourge of the Czechs," the most common and chosen...
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"This is a starry love story, a tale of seething jealousies and subterfuge, a political imbroglio, and religious cruelties. It sounds like Shakespeare and it could have very well been the plot of one of his plays."
--Toronto Star
In 1494, award-winning author Stephen R. Bown tells the untold story of the explosive feud between monarchs, clergy, and explorers that split the globe between Spain and Portugal and made the world's oceans a battleground.
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In her New York Times bestsellers Going Rogue and America by Heart, Sarah Palin revealed the strong Christian faith that has guided her life and family. In Good Tidings and Great Joy she calls for bringing back the freedom to express the Christian values of the season. She asserts the importance of preserving Jesus Christ in Christmas-in public displays, school concerts, pageants, and our expressions to one another other-and laments the over-commercialization...
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In the 1960s, Lyndon Johnson's Great Society and War on Poverty promised an array of federal programs to assist working-class families. In the 1980s, Ronald Reagan declared the GOP the party of "family values" and promised to keep government out of Americans' lives. Again and again, historians have sought to explain the nation's profound political realignment from the 1960s to the 2000s, five decades that witnessed the fracturing of liberalism and...
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The book presents a compelling argument asserting that Donald Trump legally won the 2020 Presidential Election. By midnight of Election Day Trump held a clear popular vote lead in crucial states surpassing the required 270 Electoral Votes. The constitutionally mandated closure of vote counting for Electors at midnight, as per Article II, Section 1 of the U.S. Constitution, was overlooked, leading to what Captain Rick terms the blue shift favoring...
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Refuser de condamner les abus de pouvoir, les mensonges et la répression des manifestations par les politiciens actuels peut être vu comme une complicité. Beaucoup d'entre eux semblent plus intéressés par leurs intérêts personnels que par le bien-être du peuple, dont la voix est souvent ignorée et les besoins négligés. L'autorité authentique repose sur la capacité à persuader sans recourir à la violence, mais cela semble faire défaut....
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"Manifeste pour gagner la paix – Des Valois à Poutine" explore la culture de la guerre qui s'est imposée à la civilisation de la paix, en février 2022. Il constate que, malgré de nombreuses victoires militaires, la paix a rarement triomphé. Aussi, il alerte contre les régimes totalitaires qui s'efforcent de prendre le guidon de l'histoire tout en soulevant deux interrogations : quelles sont les exigences de la paix ? Comment s'inspirer de...
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A book that "could serve as an effective introduction to German history, biblical studies and modern nationalism, among other fields" (German History).
As German scholars, poets, and theologians searched for the origins of the ancient Israelites, Ofri Ilany believes, they created a model for nationalism that drew legitimacy from the biblical idea of the Chosen People. In this broad exploration of eighteenth-century Hebraism, Ilany tells the story...
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Brexit. Trump. Ford Nation. In this timely book, David Moscrop asks why we make irrational political decisions and whether our stone-age brains can process democracy in the information age.
In an era overshadowed by income inequality, environmental catastrophes, terrorism at home and abroad, and the decline of democracy, Moscrop argues that the political decision-making process has never been more important. In fact, our survival may depend on it.
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During the late Ottoman period (1856—1922), a time of contestation about imperial policy toward minority groups, music helped the Ottoman Greeks in Istanbul define themselves as a distinct cultural group. A part of the largest non-Muslim minority within a multi-ethnic and multi-religious empire, the Greek Orthodox educated elite engaged in heated discussions about their cultural identity, Byzantine heritage, and prospects for the future, at the...
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2022, année électorale en France.
La France est lessivée.
Les projets politiques sont déprimants de platitude.
La rupture entre le Peuple et ses édiles est consommée.
Après avoir servi la France sans moufter pendant près de 40 ans en bon Hussard de la République, Gille en a marre.
Ce pamphlet est son cri de désespoir.
De révolte également.
D'espérance aussi.
Il exprime son ressenti de citoyen, sans artefact sociologisant....
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From efficient instructions on how to kill civilians to horrifying videos of beheadings, no terrorist organization has more comprehensively weaponized social media than ISIS. Its strategic, multiplatformed campaign is so effective that it has ensured global news coverage and inspired hundreds of young people around the world to abandon their lives and their countries to join a foreign war. The Media World of ISIS explores the characteristics, mission,...
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L'Occident a été coupable de tromperie à plusieurs niveaux, utilisant ses médias influents pour dominer le monde par la désinformation, la manipulation de masse et le mensonge. Cela a abouti à l'oubli de l'histoire royale des Africains et de la beauté incomparable de leurs origines. Depuis le début de l'opération spéciale en Ukraine, le président russe, Vladimir Poutine, transmet un puissant message de justice qui réfute les mensonges...
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Julie Hemment provides a fresh perspective on the controversial nationalist youth projects that have proliferated in Russia in the Putin era, examining them from the point of view of their participants and offering provocative insights into their origins and significance. The pro-Kremlin organization Nashi ("Ours") and other state-run initiatives to mobilize Russian youth have been widely reviled in the West, seen as Soviet throwbacks and evidence...
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