Political Ideologies

In the dark dungeons beneath Nazi Germany, teams of occult experts delved into ancient and forbidden lore, searching for lost secrets of power. This book tells the complete history of the Nazi occult programs, from their quests for the Ark of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780991030354Author Richard BeckerFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Liberation MediaPublisher Liberation MediaWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781595230973Author David MametFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint SentinelPublisher Sentinel

An unflinching examination of the effects and boundaries of partisan animosity. For generations, experts argued that American politics needed cohesive parties to function effectively. Now many fear that strong partisan views, particularly hostility to...

AMERICA AT THE POINT OF NO RETURN The next election is the most important one America has faced in more than a century. That's not campaign hype. America is divided as almost never before-with contesting political factions regarding themselves not as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629634470Author Gaston LevalFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press

In post-war Britain, left-wing policy maker and sociologist Michael Young played a major role in shaping British intellectual, political, and cultural life, using his study of the social sciences to inform his political thought. In the mid-twentieth...

Arthur Kenneth (A.K.) Chesterton was a soldier, journalist and activist whose involvement with fascist and extreme right-wing politics in Britain spanned four decades. Beginning with his recruitment to Oswald Mosley's 'Blackshirts' in the 1930s,...

In nearly two decades since Samuel P. Huntington proposed his influential and troubling 'clash of civilizations' thesis, nationalism has only continued to puzzle and frustrate commentators, policy analysts and political theorists. No consensus exists...

La Grande Italia traces the history of the myth of the nation in Italy along the curve of its rise and fall throughout the twentieth century. Starting with the festivities for the fiftieth anniversary of the unification of Italy in 1911 and ending with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865973947Author H B ActonFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 498g

Architectural design can play a role in helping make the past present in meaningful ways when applied to preexisting buildings and places that carry notable and troubling pasts. In this comparative analysis, Rumiko Handa establishes the critical role...

If capitalism is such an efficient system, why does 40 percent of all U.S. food production go to waste-while one in six people in the nation face hunger? This startling truth has stirred increasing interest and action of late, but none so radical as that...

The dominant view concerning the rule of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is that it is simply a matter of time before it comes to an end. This view has been dominant since the pro-democracy protests in 1989 and has only been strengthened by the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849352826Author Angel J. CappellettiFormat PaperbackPage Count 440Imprint AK PressPublisher AK Press

A rediscovery of patriotism as a virtue in line with the core values of democracy in an extremist age "Like you perhaps, I still regard myself as an extremely patriotic person. Which is why I so admired [this book]. . . . It explained my emotion to me,...

Religious liberty is under attack in America. Your freedom to believe may not last much longer. To all those who say they don't care about the culture war, Erick Erickson has only one response: "The Left will not let you stay on the sidelines. You will...

It is often said that with the election of Donald Trump nativism was raised from the dead. After all, here was a president who organized his campaign around a rhetoric of unvarnished racism and xenophobia. Among his first acts on taking office was to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904859772Author Chris CarlssonFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint AK PressPublisher AK PressWeight(grams) 446g

In this highly topical introduction, Professor Raymond Wacks explains and evaluates the leading theories of justice that have shaped our societies and their legislative and judicial systems, and explores the extent to which fundamental notions like...

Ruling Bodies centers around an epochal ontological shift in ideas that changed the nature and the meaning of coercion in modern political thought. It begins with a review of Foucault, Arendt, and Habermas, and points out a discrepancy in the way each...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807043219Author Ellen WillisFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 138mm * 17mm

A new beginning for Marxism might just be on the horizon of a landscape despoiled by Soviet communism and a now wobbling world capitalism. The attention attracted by the 150th anniversary of The Communist Manifesto included laudatory references to Marx...

Inchon, a dramatic Cold War event: in the first two volumes in the author's series on battles of the Korean War, North Korean ground forces, armour and artillery cross the 38th Parallel into South Korea, inflicting successive ignominious defeats on the...

In a radical reflection, John Young contends that the US model of democracy has failed the Global South because its emphasis on the supremacy of market capitalism entails a loss of national sovereignty and a truncated notion of human rights that leaves...

Despite the fact that citizens of advanced market democracies are satisfied with their material progress, many are haunted by a spirit of unhappiness. There is evidence of a rising tide of clinical depression in most advanced societies, and in the United...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943894185Author Phil M WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint Phil W. BooksPublisher Phil W. BooksWeight(grams) 458gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

The 2015 winner of the Brown Democracy Medal, Joan C. Tronto, argues in Who Cares? that we need to rethink American democracy, as well as our own fundamental values and commitments, from a caring perspective. Asserting that Americans are facing a "caring...

This book initiates a critical discussion on the varieties of global anti-fascism and explores the cultural, political and practical articulations of anti-fascism around the world.This volume brings together a group of leading scholars on the history of...

This text seeks to show that anarchy, as the absence of government, is neither chaos nor some Utopian dream, but a system which has characterized much of the human past.ReviewsIn this lively and entertaining book Harold Barclay argues the case for...

Revisiting Gramsci's Notebooks offers a rich collection of historical, philosophical, and political studies addressing the thought of Antonio Gramsci, one of the most significant intellectuals of the twentieth century. Based on thorough analyses of...

Martineau challenges us to see time not as an objective reality, but as something structured by power and property relations. In Time, Capitalism And Alienation, the author offers and account of the histories of social time in Europe. Approaching time as...

Condemnations of "victim politics" are a familiar feature of American public life. Politicians and journalists across the ideological spectrum eagerly denounce "victimism." Accusations of "playing the victim" have become a convenient way to ridicule or...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781902593258Author Daniel Cohn-BenditFormat PaperbackPage Count 239Imprint AK PressPublisher AK PressWeight(grams) 323g

The veritable tsunami of anxieties that are affecting individual lives, the increasingly dysfunctional nature of society and the potential catastrophes of global conflict and of climate change, have a common cause. The inability of capitalism or the...

The Italian Far Right from 1945 to the Russia-Ukraine Conflict provides a comprehensive account of the postwar parliamentary and extra parliamentary far right in Italy. This book explores the ideology, movements and activism of the extreme right and neo-...

The turn of the millennium is characterised by exponential growth in everything related to communication - from the internet and email to air traffic. Tyranny of the Moment deals with the most perplexing paradoxes of this new information age. Who...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853456476Author Tedor ShaninFormat PaperbackPage Count 297Imprint Monthly Review Press,U.S.Publisher Monthly Review Press,U.S.

If the twentieth century witnessed the triumph of democracy then something appears to have gone seriously wrong. Citizens around the world have become distrustful of politicians, sceptical about democratic institutions, and disillusioned about the...

First published in 1987. The legal and political writings of the German Social Democrats Kirchheimer and Neumann, from the period prior to the National Socialist seizure of power, are little known to English readers. This volume presents a selection of...