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A Spiritual Heritage Tour of the United States Capitol

Hosted by WallBuilders' founder David Barton, this private tour of America's Capitol reveals the spiritual significance of the structure's statues and artwork. This book offers an exclusive look at some of the most notable events in American history and provides information that will enrich self-guided tours of the Capitol. It is the perfect companion to our Spiritual Heritage DVD.

Passer par le Nord - La nouvelle route maritime

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Un état des lieux géopolitique, économique et écologique sur cette région en plein bouleversement.Après leur voyage dans le Grand Sud, en 2006, Isabelle Autissier et Erik Orsenna ont exploré le Grand Nord, cette région du monde où, dans un contexte de réchauffement climatique, les richesses naturelles, les routes commerciales et les gigantesques ports en construction aiguisent les appétits, tandis que la faune en est la première victime.À trois reprises, ils sont partis dans ces froides contrées. Ils ont suivi la route maritime du Nord, qui permet de relier l'Atlantique au Pacifique en longeant les côtes de la Sibérie, et qui est aujourd'hui le plus court chemin navigable entre l'Europe et l'Asie. Un passage forcément très convoité...Ils retracent ici les aventures de ceux qui ont ouvert ce passage au cours des siècles, ils expliquent les enjeux géopolitiques, économiques et écologiques de cette partie du monde et nous rappellent que notre avenir se joue aussi au pôle Nord.

A grande regressão

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A proposta de uma discussão internacional e plurieditorial vem responder aos questionamentos diante dos acontecimentos políticos recentes. A grande regressão: um debate internacional sobre os novos populismos – e como enfrentá-los, organizado por Heinrich Geiselberger, reúne contribuições de quinze autores consagrados, incluindo Zygmunt Bauman, Nancy Fraser, Bruno Latour e Slavoj Žižek, e um artigo inédito de Renato Janine Ribeiro. O começo do século XXI deixou claro: a globalização neoliberal fracassou. Não chegamos ao "fim da história" e ao auge do progresso humano, e sim testemunhamos os riscos anunciados se verificando um a um: terrorismo internacional, mudanças climáticas, crises financeiras, aumento da desigualdade e grandes movimentos migratórios. As democracias e o establishment neoliberal falharam em atingir soluções para essas questões globais. Neste vácuo, demagogos e populistas ascenderam ao poder, degradando e vulgarizando o discurso público e minando as instituições democráticas. Partidos e sentimentos ultranacionalistas, xenófobos e racistas estão experimentando renovado prestígio, força e voz. Teorias conspiratórias se espalham e passam a figurar como verdade. Os artigos de Arjun Appadurai, Zygmunt Bauman, Donatella della Porta, Nancy Fraser, Eva Illouz, Ivan Krastev, Bruno Latour, Paul Mason, Pankaj Mishra, Robert Misik, Oliver Nachtwey, César Rendueles, Wolfgang Streeck, David Van Reybrouck, Slavoj Žižek e Renato Janine Ribeiro buscam entender as raízes desses desenvolvimentos, localizando-os em seus respectivos contextos históricos, sociais e geográficos, aliando história, sociologia, ciência política, economia, psicologia e crítica cultural, e oferecendo novas formas de pensar e fazer a democracia.

Effervescences féministes

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Dans un contexte de crise de la reproduction sociale et d'inégalités croissantes, des myriades d'initiatives menées par des femmes émergent et se transforment en force politique. Souvent en marge des circuits officiels, elles agissent à bas bruit mais elles fourmille et essaiment. Ce faisant, elles expriment des pratiques de résistance et agissent pour un changement social féministe et durable. Ce livre explore des pratiques menées par des groupes de femmes dans six régions d'Amérique latine et d'Inde. Il innove en proposant une analyse féministe qui renouvelle en profondeur les perspectives sur l'économie solidaire. En ces temps de profonds bouleversements et d'incertitudes, ce livre offre une lueur d'espoir face aux crises écologique, économique, sociale et démocratique qui secouent l'ensemble de la planète.

Auf der Suche nach neuer Sicherheit

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Die Terroranschläge in New York, Madrid und London gaben in fast allen westlich orientierten Staaten den symbolischen Katalysator ab, mit dem weitreichende Veränderungen der Politik der Inneren Sicherheit legitimiert wurden und immer noch werden. Der vorliegende Band nimmt dies zum Anlass, den Prozess der Herstellung Innerer Sicherheit in Deutschland einer aktuellen Analyse zu unterziehen und die wichtigsten Ergebnisse der sozialwissenschaftlichen Forschung zur Inneren Sicherheit zu reflektieren.

Auf der Suche nach neuer Sicherheit

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Il Principe

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Un’altra edizione - ce ne sono tantissime - dell’opera più conosciuta di Niccolò Machiavelli e molto spesso citata senza averla mai consultata. Questa versione digitale proposta da Media&Books offre la possibilità di poter apprezzare il testo in una veste grafica molto accurata, arricchita da moltissime illustrazioni, note esplicative e cronologia, ma soprattutto corredata dal testo critico di Francesco De Sanctis, datato 1870 e tratto dalla sua monumentale Storia della Letteratura Italiana, che rimane ancora oggi un validissimo contributo per comprendere e meglio apprezzare l’opera di Machiavelli. Un testo che chi ha ambizioni politiche o di governo farebbe bene a leggere o rileggere con attenzione, tenendo a mente i versi del Petrarca che chiudono il libro “...l’antico valore nelli italici cor non è ancor morto”.

Changing of the Guard

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"Make the most of today… And tomorrow. They'll be your only carefree days in this job..."; Nicolas Sarkozy's sole words of advice during a telephone call to François Hollande on 6 May, the evening of his election as President of the French Republic. The left were back in power after ten years in opposition. They were facing a Europe-wide recession, a disoriented French population, and a still active right wing. From one President to another, from the Elysée to Matignon, this is the account of a changeover where, beneath the calm veneer, the hazards, ambitions, and challenges facing those men and women now responsible for leading the country are already starting to show. It is always in the first few days that the character of a new power is defined. We reveal the distinct traits of this new power, forged behind the deceptive tranquillity of its initial days in office…

Âge libéral et néo-libéralisme

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[Premières lignes] Le libéralisme est, avec son antonyme – le « communautarisme » dans ses différentes réalisations –, au cœur même des problématiques de la science politique, voire, dans l'opposition de ces deux « systèmes », constitutif de cette science elle-même : – au plan de la structuration du champ d'objet de cette science, l'opposition libéralisme/communautarisme désigne la question centrale de la relation entre les individus et les groupes « primaires », d'une part, et la collectivité, d'autre part, en même temps que celle de la nature et des enjeux de la « médiation » ou de l'« arbitrage » étatiques. [...]

The Prince

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Niccolò Machiavelli was an Italian historian, diplomat, and philosopher who is often credited with being the founder of modern political science. He also served as Secretary to the Second Chancery of the Republic of Florence from 1498 to 1512. Machiavelli’s life coincided with tumultuous times when the Italian city-states were in flux. His experiences living during the Renaissance shaped Machiavelli’s political writings including his most important work, The Prince. The Prince is a political discourse on power politics. It provides a practical guide on ruling. Chapters include advice on how to acquire and hold new states, whether it is better to be feared or loved, and how to maintain a strong military.

Európa furcsa halála

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Az Európa furcsa halálakülönösen személyes hangvételű számvetés az öngyilkosságra készülő öreg kontinensről és kultúrájáról. A születések számának csökkenése, a tömeges bevándorlás, az általánosan jellemző önbizalomhiány és öngyűlölet együtt azt eredményezte, hogy az európai emberek képtelenek kiállni magukért, és meg sem kísérlik megakadályozni társadalmuk gyökeres átalakulását. Ez a könyv nemcsak a demográfiai és politikai tények elemzése, hanem egy szemtanú beszámolója az önmegtagadás felé haladó kontinensről. A szerző tudósításai lefedik a teljes földrészt: megfordul azokon a helyeken, ahol a bevándorlók partot érnek, és ott is, ahová végül eljutnak; beszél olyanokkal, akik örömmel fogadják őket, és olyanokkal is, akik elzárkóznak tőlük. A teljesen első kézből szerzett információkat tartalmazó könyv, amely ugyanakkor figyelemre méltó kutatásra és tényanyagra támaszkodik, beszél a multikulturalizmus kiábrándító bukásáról, Angela Merkel teljes fordulatáról a bevándorlást illetően, a hazatelepítés szándékának és megvalósításának hiányáról és a nyugati országok állandósult bűntudatáról. Murray utazásai során bejárja Berlint, Párizst, Skandináviát, Lampedusa szigetét és Görögországot, hogy megvizsgálja az európai kultúra szívének nyugtalanító állapotát, és meghallgassa azokat, akik elképesztő távolságokból érkeztek a kontinensre. Minden fejezetben tesz egy lépést hátrébb is, hogy nagyobb távlatokból mutasson rá az okokra, amelyek Európa halálvágya mögött rejlenek. Így próbál választ találni arra a kérdésre, miért hagy bárki is magára egy teljes civilizációt, és mi visz rá valakit arra, hogy ilyet tegyen önmagával. Murray két Európa-látomással zárja könyvét – az egyik a reményteli, a másik a pesszimista változat –, amelyek bemutatják a kialakult helyzet lehetséges megoldásait, mindvégig szem előtt tartva azt a sokat hallott tételt, miszerint a bevándorlás folyamata visszafordíthatatlan.

Challenges in Expanding Development Assistance

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This paper highlights the macro and microeconomic challenges associated with success of the effort to mobilize 0.7 percent of GNP for official development assistance (ODA). To promote achievement of the Millennium Development Goals, enhanced ODA must be as productive as possible. In weighing the distribution of enhanced ODA among countries, the paper emphasizes the need to limit potentially adverse "real transfer effects." It recommends a multi-pronged approach to ODA that includes, inter alia, in addition to direct bilateral transfers, enhanced use of trust funds and the financing of global public goods.

The Principles of Communism

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*Illustrated *Includes Table of Contents Friedrich Engels (November 28, 1820 - August 5, 1895) was a German industrialist, social scientist, author, political theorist, philosopher, and father of Marxist theory, working in close collaboration alongside Karl Marx. In 1845, he published The Condition of the Working Class in England, based on personal observations and research. In 1848, he produced with Marx The Communist Manifesto and later he supported Marx financially to do research and write Das Kapital. After Marx's death Engels edited the second and third volumes. Additionally, Engels organized Marx's notes on the "Theories of Surplus Value" and this was later published as the "fourth volume" of Capital. Engels is commonly known as a "ruthless party tactician", "brutal ideologue", and "master tactician" when it came to purging rivals in political organizations. However, another strand of Engels’s personality was one of a "gregarious", "big-hearted", and "jovial man of outsize appetites", who was referred to by his son-in-law as "the great beheader of champagne bottles.” Anti-Dühring, Herr Eugen Dühring's Revolution in Science is a detailed critique of the philosophical positions of Eugen Dühring, a German philosopher and critic of Marxism. In the course of replying to Dühring, Engels reviews recent advances in science and mathematics and seeks to demonstrate the way in which the concepts of dialectics apply to natural phenomena. Many of these ideas were later developed in the unfinished work, Dialectics of Nature. The last section of Anti-Dühring was later edited and published under the separate title, Socialism: Utopian and Scientific. This edition of Engels’ The Principles of Communism is specially formatted with a Table of Contents and illustrations.

Elogio della politica

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Perché, oggi, un elogio della politica? Una risposta viene dalla parola classica e dalla parola biblica: nella loro irriducibile diversità, esse resistono alla modernità deteriore, che della “politica”, quale condizione e destino dell’uomo, ha perduto il senso alto, a volte tragico, ma sempre incombente e necessario. La politica è dell’uomo perché l’uomo è della polis: il luogo dove – con difficoltà e bellezza – prendono forma i linguaggi, le funzioni e gli interessi di tutti. Sul tema, nei suoi aspetti infiniti e conflittuali, si interrogano otto interpreti del nostro tempo, in dialogo con i testi antichi qui riuniti in un’antologia che va dall’Antico Testamento agli apologeti cristiani, da Omero a Virgilio, da Platone e Aristotele ad Agostino.

Residential Electricity Subsidies in Mexico

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Large and growing subsidies to residential consumers in Mexico have become a major policy concern. This report explains the growth of subsidies, the current distribution of subsidies across income classes, and uses utility and household survey data to simulate how alternative subsidy mechanisms could improve distributional and fiscal performance. The goal is to help inform discussion in Mexico about how to reduce subsidies and redirect them toward the poor. The findings also offer lessons for other countries that are planning tariff reforms in their electricity sectors.

The Nobility of Policing

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We live in a democracy based on principles and the rule of law. But as Plato understood, any democracy would need guardians whose mission would be to preserve those principles, to promote fundamental fairness, and to uphold the rule of law. In the community, the guardians are present-always-perhaps not visible, but they are there. Be it at the local, county, state, or federal level, there are men and women prepared to respond without question in service of a worthy cause. The reality of policing is that our officers serve in the most challenging of environments--often misunderstood, often criticized, and are to often placed into circumstances demanding a split-second decision out of which there can be no winners. Too often, policing does the greatest harm to those willing to take the oath and wear the badge. Yet, these noble and peaceful warriors embrace the challenge knowing that they serve a cause bigger than self-they serve a great good! This book is about the profession of policing-and the men and women who safeguard our freedoms. In doing so, they honor the nobility of policing.

Withdrawing from Iraq

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The U.S. and Iraqi governments—and most Iraqis—want to see both the U.S. presence in Iraq reduced, with the Iraqi government and security forces assuming a greater role in providing for public security. The challenge is to effect this drawdown while preserving security and stability in the country and in the region. Asked by the U.S. Congress to study the withdrawal from Iraq, RAND researchers assessed logistical constraints, trends in insurgent activity, the readiness of Iraqi security forces, and implications for the size of the residual U.S. force and for security in Iraq and the region. This book presents alternative schedules: one consistent with the Obama administration's intentions, one somewhat slower, and another faster. It also identifies steps to alleviate constraints and risks.

The Independent Whig, Volume II

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“Every government, which we know at this day in the world, was established by the wisdom and force of mere men” - John Trenchard Thomas Gordon and John Trenchard published a series of essays to in “The Independent Whig” from 1720-1721, and they would soon go on to write “Cato’s Letters” from 1720 to 1723, a series of letters arguing against British tyranny and advancing further freedom and free speech. This edition of Volume 2 of their famous series includes a table of contents for easier navigation.

Evaluating the Effectiveness of Correctional Education

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After conducting a comprehensive literature search, the authors undertook a meta-analysis to examine the association between correctional education and reductions in recidivism, improvements in employment after release from prison, and other outcomes. The study finds that receiving correctional education while incarcerated reduces inmates’ risk of recidivating and may improve their odds of obtaining employment after release from prison.

Civil Disobedience

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Resistance to Civil Government (Civil Disobedience) is an essay by American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau that was first published in 1849. In it, Thoreau argues that individuals should not permit governments to overrule or atrophy their consciences, and that they have a duty to avoid allowing such acquiescence to enable the government to make them the agents of injustice. Thoreau was motivated in part by his disgust with slavery and the Mexican–American War.

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