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  • McClellan, Sherman, and Grant

    Here are the characters and personalities of the three great Union generals, explored with intelligence and wit by one of our most distinguished historians of the Civil War. Mr. Williams is interested not only in military skills but in the temperament for command and, most of all, in moral courage. Each of these men, he writes, "represents a particular and significant aspect of leadership, and ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Toward an Ethic of Citizenship

    Creating a Culture of Democracy for the 21St Century

    The idea for this book arose out of a little known political scandal, known as "phonegate", that occurred in Minnesota in the early 1990's in which a number of legislators were found to have been abusing their phone privileges. The hubris of the legislature in response to the discovery of this abuse not only made me rather angry, but, since I had been called for jury duty the year before, gave me ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Why Gore Will Win in 2000

    The book traces the presidential primaries and compares conventional wisdom with the probabilistic scenario. The prediction is that Gore will win the Presidency in 2000 based on the analysis of the primaries. The shakeout in the Republican primary revealed the inherent weakness of the Republican Party in the post Clinton Era. Gore will prevail due to the strong national economy and peace in the ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Whatever Happened to the Egyptians?

    Changes in Egyptian Society from 1850 to the Present

    by Galal Amin ...
    Based on both academic research and the author's own personal experiences and impressions, this delightful and informative book examines the underlying causes of some of the more disturbing social, political, economic, and cultural phenomena that characterize Egyptian society in the 1990s. Egypt's crisis of culture and other woes are often attributed to the 'open door policy' (Infitah) initiated ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Leadership in Nepal

    by Lok Raj Baral ...
    Leadership like institutions and values is a crucial variable in politics and governance. Leadership qualities and roles are universal in nature and dimensions as all leaders should be endowed with certain new traits that set him apart from the common man. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • From the Center to the Edge

    The Politics and Policies of the Clinton Presidency

    From the Center to the Edge is the first historical interpretation of the politics and public policies of the Clinton administration. Eminent political historian William C. Berman describes in penetrating detail the origins, evolution, and transformation of Clinton's programs for change as well as the reasons for its various successes and failures. Berman sheds new light on both domestic matters ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Leading in an Upside-Down World

    New Canadian Perspectives on Leadership

    Edited by J. Patrick Boyer ...
    The world as we know it has been turned upside down by recent events but it’s still a place where leadership is needed more than ever.Fifteen Canadians with highly diverse perspectives and richly different experience explore this timely question in Leading in an Upside-Down World.Chapter by chapter, stories of Canada unfold and future prospects for leadership grow clearer as these eminent ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ike Would Be Proud

    Eisenhower Fellowships - a Leadership Program

    Dick Peterson has written this book about the Eisenhower Fellows, and for the Fellows. He has chosen to focus on two very visible examples of the Fellows leadership and networking the Irish Peace Process and ProyectoCities. As an active EF Trustee since 1994, Dick has become convinced that these models can be adapted and applied by Fellows around the world in ways that will make a real difference ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Whatever Else Happened to the Egyptians?

    From the Revolution to the Age of Globalization

    by Galal Amin ...
    Translated by David Wilmsen ...
    At the time of the Egyptian Revolution in 1952, the population of Egypt was around 22 million. At the end of 2002, it stood at 69 million, and was growing at a rate of 1.33 million a year. What happens to a society that grows so quickly, when the habitable and cultivable land of the country is strictly limited? After the success of Whatever Happened to the Egyptians?, Galal Amin now takes a ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • American Machiavelli

    Alexander Hamilton and the Origins of U.S. Foreign Policy

    Alexander Hamilton rose from his humble beginnings as an illegitimate West Indian orphan and emigrant to become the premier statebuilder and strategic thinker of the American Founding generation. This is the first detailed narrative study of his foreign policy role and ideas to appear in more than thirty years. It focuses on Hamilton's controversial activities as a key member of President George ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • So Monstrous A Travesty

    Chris Watson and the world's first national Labor government

    by Ross McMullin ...
    A century ago, Australia led the world in progressive social initiatives. Admiring visitors crossed the globe to inspect this advanced social laboratory. Chris Watson’s 1904 ministry, the culmination of Australian Labor’s astonishingly rapid rise, was the first national Labor government in the world.This book is the story of that pioneering government.Its accomplished prime minister, little known ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Political Elites and the New Russia

    The Power Basis of Yeltsin's and Putin's Regimes

    by Anton Steen ...
    Political Elite and the New Russia convincingly argues that although reforms in Russia have been initiated by those close to the President, in fact local and national elites have been the crucial strategic actors in reshaping Russia's economy, democratising its political system and decentralising its administration.This book analyses the role of elites under Yeltsin and Putin, discussing the ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • Regime Change Begins at Home

    Freeing America from Corporate Rule

    Since 1980, America has been run by a corporate regime that has co-opted both political parties and shifted sovereignty from "we the people" to trans-national corporations. The result has been job insecurity for millions of workers, debts as far as the eye can see, and a dangerous quest for global domination. Democracy itself has been undermined and the Constitution weakened. This regime must be ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Reorganising Power in Indonesia

    The Politics of Oligarchy in an Age of Markets

    Series series Routledge/City University of Hong Kong Southeast Asia Series
    Reorganising Power in Indonesia is a new and distinctive analysis of the dramatic fall of Soeharto, the last of the great Cold War capitalist dictators, and of the struggles that reshape power and wealth in Indonesia. The dramatic events of the past two decades are understood essentially in terms of the rise of a complex politico-business oligarchy and the ongoing reorganisation of its power ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • New Labour, Old Labour

    The Wilson and Callaghan Governments 1974-1979

    Edited by Kevin Hickson, Anthony Seldon ...
    We are constantly told that New Labour forms an historic departure from the traditions of the Labour Party. This book, written by a distinguished selection of academics and commentators, provides the most detailed comparison yet of old and new Labour in power. It is also the first to offer a comprehensive analysis of the last Labour Government before the rise of Thatcher and the re-emergence of ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Sounds of Sirens

    Essays in African Politics & Culture

    Sounds of Sirens: Essays in African Politics & Culture critically examines the political and cultural landscape of the putatively primal continent since the advent of the post-colonial era. It is a scholarly but non-academic critique, thus rendering its contents readily accessible to the general reader. In the final analysis, Okoampa-Ahoofe concludes that there is an urgent need for altruistic and ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Propaganda

    “Bernays’ honest and practical manual provides much insight into some of the most powerful and influential institutions of contemporary industrial state capitalist democracies.”—Noam Chomsky“The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Revitalizing Political Psychology

    The Legacy of Harold D. Lasswell

    The goal of this book is to recapture the diminished roles of affect, psychological needs, and the psychodynamic mechanisms that are crucial for understanding political behavior by explaining and extending the contributions of Harold D. Lasswell, the dominant figure in political psychology in the mid-twentieth-century. Although Lasswell was best known for applying psychodynamic theories to ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Why Isn't Al Gore President?

    A View of the Millenium Election from 2004

    The book is the summary of the major circumstances contributing to Al Gore's loss in 2000, derived from books and articles intended for the non-academic reader. Topics discussed are the electoral college, voter roll purging in Florida, Ralph Nader's candidacy, ballot design in Palm Beach and Duval Counties and the recount in Palm Beach County, the decision of the Bush campaign to obstruct the ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Nepali Congress

    by Rajesh Gautam ...
    This book is about Nepal Congress where Mohan Shamsher, son of Chandra Shamsher had delivered a speech leading the sons of Chandra Shamsher at a grand feast arranged in the palace after awarding punishment to the members and supporters of the Nepal Praja Parishad organised to abolish the Rana regime from Nepal in order to establish democracy.1 In the aforesaid feast Mohan Shamsher had expressed ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Women's Political Discourse

    A 21st-Century Perspective

    Series series Communication, Media, and Politics
    Although the United States ranks sixtieth internationally in women's political leadership, in 2004, a record nine women held governorships, sixty women served as House members with an additional three women elected as delegates from Washington, D.C., Guam, and the Virgin Islands, and fourteen women occupied Senate seats. How have these women managed to beat the odds in their successful attempts to ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Lincoln's American Dream

    Despite the voluminous literature on the central figure in American history, no other book in the field of political science compares to Lincoln's American Dream. It addresses comprehensively the overarching themes of Lincoln's political thought and leadership through provocative and divergent interpretations from leading scholars. Each chapter is devoted to one of these major themes about Lincoln ... Read more

    $29.95 USD

  • The Executive Branch

    Series series Institutions of American Democracy
    The presidency and the agencies of the executive branch are deeply interwoven with other core institutions of American government and politics. While the framers of the Constitution granted power to the president, they likewise imbued the legislative and judicial branches of government with the powers necessary to hold the executive in check. The Executive Branch, edited byJoel D. Aberbach and ... Read more

    $39.99 USD