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El libro Ciclos Polticos (En la historia del pueblo mexicano: 1812 a 2012) se inspira en el viejo paradigma histrico que seala: pueblo que desconoce su historia est condenado a repetirla. En esta ocasin se abordan los ciclos que van desde el levantamiento armado de 1810 hasta el inicio del siglo XXI en donde se observa cmo desde sus orgenes y en sus distintas modalidades de gobiernos y constituciones, Mxico ha repetido las mismas circunstancias una...
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One of the bloodiest conflicts ever to take place on American soil, the Civil War pitted brother against brother as North and South fought to secure their futures. Confederate president Jefferson Davis's 1881 memoir, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government is a history of the Confederate States of America and a vindication of the Southern cause.
While Rise and Fall disappointed Davis's hopes of restoring his fortune, destroyed during and...
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The purpose of this book is to bring your conscious mind a Revelation. The Truth is that you are the Spirit that inhabits your form. My story will acquaint you with Agape love exploits in a life of young and intelligent people. They each have a mission and an agenda to live their lifestyle. To make it explicitly different the woman subject is a witch and the male is by the Holy Spirit protected. A county is in need to expending their infrastructure....
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Why are so many countries so poorly governed? In Misgovernment, Mark Lipse presents a compelling theory - that misgovernment is the almost inevitable legacy of lawmakers ignoring natural rights when setting up the legal, administrative and constitutional powers of governments. The result, especially in developing countries, is predatory jurisdiction, or government powers, which, while lawful, and generally viewed as normal and natural, actually have...
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Pensar y discutir "la cuestión populista" hoy se asemeja al eterno trabajo de Sísifo: cargar la roca de reflexión del populismo una y otra vez, frente a la pendiente inalcanzable de los lugares comunes. Como la de Sísifo, la nuestra es una labor -a todas luces- interminable. Por ello, este libro no pretende saldar o cerrar el debate, sino alivianar un poco la roca de reflexión, más que descifrar la naturaleza del populismo, nos proponemos pensarlo...
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This newly revised edition of “The Fate of America” examines the national character of the United States against the backdrop of its history, popular culture, and media. Michael Gellert suggests that the deterioration of America's "heroic ideal", the heart of its national character, is responsible for the country's deepening social ills and the erosion of its vital institutions. He calls for a spiritual and intellectual renaissance and a renewed...
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In this Anansi Digital Publication, James Laxer analyzes the descent of the United States into civil conflict. At a time when American society is roiled by deep divisions over immigration, guns, the role of the state, and the economic crisis, Laxer makes the case that serious conflict is likely to be generated from the right of the American political spectrum, from the forces he refers to as "Old America." Laxer poses the provocative question:...
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The people of the United States get caught up fighting each other when their attention and anger should be directed at the politicians that are running the country into the ground. Just like the Boston Tea Party, there needs to be another revolution so that the people can have a say in government. Join Dale Young, a former marine, as he shares his Conservative viewpoints on fixing the Social Security system, understanding the difference between fees...
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The practical handbook to making good decisions in our changing healthcare marketplace. At over 2,700 pages - with an additional 20,000 pages of regulations -the ObamaCare law is longer than the Bible, with many more rules. Rules that will, in the words of the president, fundamentally transform healthcare in America. What no one explains is if the transformation will be a good one or a bad one. And that's why the ObamaCare Survival Guide is so important...
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Understanding the Constitution has been primarily designed for secondary school students of United States history and government. The books usefulness extends to immigrants taking citizenship courses as well as adult general readers. The text includes informative essays, charts, graphs, twenty-five lessons, quizzes, examinations, topic locator, glossary, copies of the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution of the United States, as well as...
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Quand il s'agit de comprendre pourquoi les États-Unis agissent d'une façon ou d'une autre dans le monde, les débats sont généralement virulents, et souvent réducteurs. Les théories peuvent alors être très utiles pour éviter ces dérapages dans la mesure o elles permettent de structurer l'expression des enjeux et des arguments.
Conçu comme une introduction générale – et totalement revu et mis à jour –, ce livre vise essentiellement...
72) The Common Law
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"The Common Law" is a classic work from the great Supreme Court Justice, Oliver Wendell Holmes. In The Common Law, Holmes examines many aspects of the common law giving great attention to the historical perspective and precedence and its influence on modern common law. In this work you will lengthy discussions on several areas of law including: liability, criminal law, torts, contracts, and successions. Extensively annotated, this edition of "The...
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"So Blue They're Red" is a conservative political view on modern politics and history through multiple different periods all relating to modern times. Written by first-time author Roy Court. So Blue They're Red's goal is to inform the general public, statements, and action proving radicalism amidst the radical faction within the Democratic party that is continuing to grow in influence as more and more embrace the socialist and communist ideals taking...
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How did a charismatic young president elected in an atmosphere of optimism and expectation lead the United States to the brink of revolution? From a chance encounter in the early 1980s to the Democratic primaries of 2007-08, syndicated columnist and political cartoonist Ted Rall was one of the first to size up Barack Obama as we know him now: conservative, risk-averse and tone-deaf. In The Book of Obama Rall revisits the rapid rise and dizzying fall...
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If you listen to any political argument, you're eventually bound to hear something like: "The science is settled on this." Or: "Just look at the statistics!" Or: "There have been studies that say..."
You'd think we were living in the golden age of science and reason. But the truth is far more sinister, says Austin Ruse. We're actually living in the age of the low information voter, easily mislead by all-too-convincing false statistics and studies....
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The Functions of Government is a book about what governments do - not their philosophy, not how they operate, not how they get appointed, but rather what governments generally do and have done throughout history. It explores the origins of government and the various issues that gave rise to governments and how different countries addressed them. It will attempt to show how much various governments, despite differences in form and philosophy, have...
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If you look back at the last 85 years in America, you will see how much our country and society has changed. The next 85 years look to be even more dramatic. Changes will occur in rapid order in technology, medicine, education, society, economics, trade and almost any area you can think of. To date, America's modus operandi has been to wait until something becomes a crisis before dealing with it. Our Government's past policy of compromise to get things...
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Kakistocracy, a term that describes what our government has become, a government controlled by "leaders" who are the least able or least principled citizens. These leaders are labeled "kakistocrats."
In Reform the Kakistocracy, Kovacs describes how the kakistocracy transformed our federal government from one of limited powers to one of immense power without any constitutional changes. This decades-long transformation revised the functions and powers...
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In Leviathan, renowned public interest attorney Bolick describes how the unchecked growth of local governments is eroding our nation's productive vitality and threatening us with "grassroots tyranny"-and ultimately reveals that, although the rules are often rigged in favor of local governments and against ordinary citizens, we can take action to rein in these bureaucracies.
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The author has divided the book into three sections. Each section has a mechanical illustration that describes the context of a fundamental law or principle used by the founders when creating this republic and its levels of government. The first section describes the context of the fundamental principles found in "the Laws of Nature." The Laws of Nature restrict man's freewill and identify the areas of criminal law to be enforced by State governments...
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