Catálogo de libros: Política y gobierno

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  • The Grocer Who Sold McCarthyism
    Fred M Fiske
    Laurence A. Johnson, a supermarket chain owner in Syracuse, New York, wasn’t just passionate about fresh produce; he was equally fervent about purging communism from America’s airwaves in the early 1950s. Teamed with like-minded anti-communists inspired by Senator Joseph McCarthy, Johnson targeted food giants like Borden and Kraft. His weapon? Fear. He threatened to hurt sales ...
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    25,75 €

  • It Took A Woman Like Me
    Kami Jeff-Smith
    I wish I could tell you when I began writing this book I had it all figured out and my broken pieces were mended. I wish I could tell you that life never brings challenges, trials or heartache when you find a relationship with God or that seeking God wholeheartedly, equates to a life held together. What I can tell you is that by the end of reading this book 'God is still God!' ...
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    17,13 €

  • The Darkest Timeline
    Bram E. Gieben
    Like Black Mirror on steroids, The Darkest Timeline issues 9 vignettes of doom in the form of theoretical essays that outline not the likelihood, but the certainty of our demise as a species. Taking into account an array of apocalyptic modalities, Bram E. Gieben shows us with sardonic wit and erudition that there may be no silver lining. We are left to choose how to countenance...
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    12,90 €

  • Temporal Revolution
    Robert Cruise
    Temporal Revolution - Historical Fiction NovelTemporal RevolutionTemporal Revolution is an epic historical fiction novel set against the backdrop of the French Revolution. Written by Robert Cruise, this gripping tale immerses readers in the turbulent streets of 18th-century Paris, where the fight for liberty, equality, and fraternity defines the era.The Moreau FamilyThe story f...
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    15,27 €

  • Motherhood in Lockdown
    Daisie Lane
    Mothers must not become the forgotten victims of the pandemic. We didn’t lose our lives, but many of us lost our sanity. This must never be allowed to happen again.’The Lockdown Mama Community,’ an online group of mothers built in the wake of the COVID-19, were asked to write about their pregnancy, birth and postpartum experiences during a global pandemic. The aim was a therape...
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    19,02 €

  • The meaning and power of young people’s political abstentionism
    Patrick Emmanuel Emiang Emiang
    The aim of this work, which is part of the sociology of elections and participation, is to take stock of the electoral phenomenon of abstentionism among social actors, namely young Cameroonians aged between 20 and 35, from 2006 to 2018. Indeed, since the advent of the third wave of democratization, the issue of political abstentionism among young people has been the subject of ...
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    110,61 €

  • Early Israel and the Surrounding Nations (Esprios Classics)
    Rev. A. H. Sayce / RevAHSayce
    The Rev. Archibald Henry Sayce (1845-1933), was a pioneer British Assyriologist and linguist, who held a chair as Professor of Assyriology at the University of Oxford from 1891 to 1919. He was able to write in at least twenty ancient and modern languages, and was known for his emphasis on the importance of archaeological and monumental evidence in linguistic research. He was a ...
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    23,67 €

  • Patriarchal Palestine (Esprios Classics)
    Rev. A. H. Sayce / RevAHSayce
    The Rev. Archibald Henry Sayce (1845-1933), was a pioneer British Assyriologist and linguist, who held a chair as Professor of Assyriology at the University of Oxford from 1891 to 1919. He was able to write in at least twenty ancient and modern languages, and was known for his emphasis on the importance of archaeological and monumental evidence in linguistic research. He was a ...
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    22,18 €

  • The French Revolution, Volume I (Esprios Classics)
    Hippolyte A. Taine / Hippolyte ATaine
    Hippolyte Adolphe Taine (1828 -1893) was a French critic and historian. He was the chief theoretical influence of French naturalism, a major proponent of sociological positivism and one of the first practitioners of historicist criticism. Literary historicism as a critical movement has been said to originate with him. Taine is also remembered for his attempts to provide a scien...
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    29,69 €

  • The European Anarchy (Esprios Classics)
    G. Lowes Dickinson / GLowes Dickinson
    Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson (1862-1932), known as Goldie, was a British political scientist and philosopher. He lived most of his life at Cambridge, where he wrote a dissertation on Neoplatonism before becoming a fellow. He was closely associated with the Bloomsbury Group. Dickinson was deeply distressed by Britain’s involvement in the First World War. Within a fortnight of the...
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    19,45 €

  • The Modern Regime, Volume II (Esprios Classics)
    Hippolyte A. Taine / Hippolyte ATaine
    Hippolyte Adolphe Taine (1828 -1893) was a French critic and historian. He was the chief theoretical influence of French naturalism, a major proponent of sociological positivism and one of the first practitioners of historicist criticism. Literary historicism as a critical movement has been said to originate with him. Taine is also remembered for his attempts to provide a scien...
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    25,97 €

  • American Men of Action (Esprios Classics)
    Burton E. Stevenson / Burton EStevenson
    Burton Egbert Stevenson (1872-1962) was an American author, anthologist, and librarian. He was born in Chillicothe, Ohio, and attended Princeton University 1890-1893. While at Princeton, Stevenson was a correspondent for United Press and for the New York Tribune. He was city editor for the Chillicothe Daily News (1894-1898), and worked for the Daily Advertiser (1898-1899). Stev...
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    25,21 €

  • As We Go (Esprios Classics)
    Charles Dudley Warner
    Charles Dudley Warner (1829 - 1900) was an American essayist, novelist, and friend of Mark Twain, with whom he co-authored the novel The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today. Warner traveled widely, lectured frequently, and was actively interested in prison reform, city park supervision, and other movements for the public good. He was the first president of the National Institute of Art...
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    18,67 €

  • The American
    Henry James
    Henry James was an American born author and literary critic of the late 19th and the early 20th centuries. He contributed to the criticism of fiction, particularly in his insistence that writers be allowed the greatest freedom possible in presenting their view of the world. He spent most of his writing career in Britain. He is best known for a number of novels showing Americans...
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    28,96 €

  • The Complete State of the Union Addresses of Franklin Pierce (Esprios Classics)
    Franklin Pierce
    Franklin Pierce (1804-1869) was an American politician and the fourteenth President of the United States, serving from 1853 to 1857. He is to date the only president from New Hampshire and was the first president born in the nineteenth century. Pierce was a Democrat and a 'doughface' (a Northerner with Southern sympathies) who served in the U. S. House of Representatives and Se...
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    19,86 €

  • The Complete State of the Union Addresses of James Polk (Esprios Classics)
    James Polk
    James Knox Polk (1795-1849) was the eleventh President of the United States, serving from 1845 to 1849. Polk was born in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, but mostly lived in and represented the state of Tennessee. A Democrat, Polk served as Speaker of the House (1835-1839) and Governor of Tennessee (1839-1841) prior to becoming president. A firm supporter of Andrew Jackson, ...
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    22,15 €

  • A Modern Utopia (Esprios Classics)
    H. G. Wells
    Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 - 13 August 1946) was an English writer. Prolific in many genres, he wrote dozens of novels, short stories, and works of social commentary, history, satire, biography and autobiography. His work also included two books on recreational war games. Wells is now best remembered for his science fiction novels and is often called the 'father of...
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    25,13 €

  • The New Machiavelli (Esprios Classics)
    H. G. Wells
    Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 - 13 August 1946) was an English writer. Prolific in many genres, he wrote dozens of novels, short stories, and works of social commentary, history, satire, biography and autobiography. His work also included two books on recreational war games. Wells is now best remembered for his science fiction novels and is often called the 'father of...
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    29,68 €

  • Ireland in the New Century (Esprios Classics)
    Sir Horace Plunkett
    Sir Horace Curzon Plunkett KCVO PC (Ire) JP DL FRS (24 October 1854 - 26 March 1932), was an Anglo-Irish agricultural reformer, pioneer of agricultural cooperatives, Unionist MP, supporter of Home Rule, Irish Senator and author. Plunkett, a younger brother of John Plunkett, 17th Baron of Dunsany, was a member of the Congested Districts Board for Ireland for over 27 years, found...
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    23,69 €

  • The Farmer Boy and How He Became Commander-in-Chief (Esprios Classics)
    Morrison Heady
    James Morrison Heady (July 19, 1829 - December 19, 1915) was an American deafblind author. Heady published multiple volumes of children’s books and poetry and was frequently referred to by the contemporary press as the 'Blind Bard of Kentucky'. He was one of the first advocates for books for the blind in the United States and he invented several devices to facilitate communicat...
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    23,67 €

  • A Letter Addressed to the Abbe Raynal (Esprios Classics)
    Thomas Paine
    Thomas Paine (born Thomas Pain) (1737 - 1809) was an English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theorist, and revolutionary. He authored Common Sense (1776) and The American Crisis (1776-1783), the two most influential pamphlets at the start of the American Revolution, and helped inspire the patriots in 1776 to declare independence from Great Britain. His ...
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    18,47 €

  • History of the Constitutions of Iowa (Esprios Classics)
    Benjamin F. Shambaugh / Benjamin FShambaugh
    Benjamin Franklin Shambaugh (29 January 1871 in Elvira, Iowa - 7 April 1948 in Iowa City) was a US historian and political scientist. He was a professor at the State University of Iowa, later the University of Iowa, and served as president of the American Political Science Association (APSA) in 1929/30. Shambaugh graduated with a bachelor’s degree from what was then the State U...
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    20,65 €

  • The Seminole Indians of Florida (Esprios Classics)
    Clay MacCauley
    'It will be convenient for me to describe the Florida Seminole as they present themselves, first as individuals, and next as members of a society. I know it is impossible to separate, really, the individual as such from the individual as a member of society; nevertheless, there is the man as we see him, having certain characteristics which, we call personal, or his own, whences...
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    19,60 €

  • Concerning Justice (Esprios Classics)
    Lucilius A. Emery / Lucilius AEmery
    Lucilius A. Emery (July 27, 1840 - August 26, 1920), of Portland, Maine, was a Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court from October 5, 1883 to July 27, 1911. Born in Carmel, Maine, Emery graduated from Bowdoin College in 1861 and read law to gain admission to the bar in 1863, at which time he settled in Ellsworth, Maine. He was the elected to the Maine Senate in 1874 and 18...
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    15,12 €

  • The Ancient Regime (Esprios Classics)
    Hippolyte A. Taine / Hippolyte ATaine
    Hippolyte Adolphe Taine (1828 -1893) was a French critic and historian. He was the chief theoretical influence of French naturalism, a major proponent of sociological positivism and one of the first practitioners of historicist criticism. Literary historicism as a critical movement has been said to originate with him. Taine is also remembered for his attempts to provide a scien...
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    31,90 €

  • The Modern Regime, Volume I (Esprios Classics)
    Hippolyte A. Taine / Hippolyte ATaine
    Hippolyte Adolphe Taine (1828 -1893) was a French critic and historian. He was the chief theoretical influence of French naturalism, a major proponent of sociological positivism and one of the first practitioners of historicist criticism. Literary historicism as a critical movement has been said to originate with him. Taine is also remembered for his attempts to provide a scien...
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    29,69 €

  • Gettysburg Oration (Esprios Classics)
    Edward Everett
    Edward Everett (April 11, 1794 - January 15, 1865) was an American politician, pastor, educator, diplomat, and orator from Massachusetts. Everett, as a Whig, served as US. Representative, US. Senator, the 15th Governor of Massachusetts, Minister to Great Britain, and United States Secretary of State. He also taught at Harvard University and served as its president. Everett was ...
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    18,38 €

  • Early European History-Volume I (Esprios Classics)
    Hutton Webster
    David Hutton Webster (March 24, 1875 − May 20, 1955) was an American sociologist, economist and anthropologist. He was Lecturer Emeritus of Sociology at Stanford University. He went to California in 1893, receiving a A. B. from Stanford University in 1896. From 1902 he was a teaching fellow in economics at Harvard University, where he received his Ph. D. in economics in 1904. W...
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    28,93 €

  • The Man in Grey (Esprios Classics)
    Baroness Emmuska Orczy
    Baroness Emma Magdolna Rozália Mária Jozefa Borbála 'Emmuska' Orczy de Orci (1865 - 1947) was a Hungarian-born British novelist and playwright. She is best known for her series of novels about an English aristocrat, Sir Percy Blakeney, Bart., who rescued French aristocrats from the French Revolution: The Scarlet Pimpernel. Orczy wrote over a dozen sequels featuring Sir Percy Bl...
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    21,46 €

  • Royal Edinburgh (Esprios Classics)
    Mrs. Oliphant / MrsOliphant
    Margaret Oliphant Wilson Oliphant (born Margaret Oliphant Wilson; 4 April 1828 - 20 June 1897) was a Scottish novelist and historical writer, who usually wrote as Mrs. Oliphant. Her fictional works encompass 'domestic realism, the historical novel and tales of the supernatural'. In the 1880s she was the literary mentor of the Irish novelist Emily Lawless. During this time Oliph...
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