Kategoria BISAC: Political Science >> Essays

Ever wonder why we think and do the things we do. What would happen if time went backwards or why we think we need to do things better? Why it seems that solving one mystery uncovers ten more or why is there music? Why you grab an umbrella when it rains?

The reader will experience a strange but truly...

The study of...

He tells it like it is in describing the drug and alcohol usage your children see everyday. Your eyes will be opened to the impact the disintegrating family structure and current trends in entertainment are having on the way your children behave.

You'll read about parents who...

But they ain't the only ones.

The Internet has made publishing and widespread distribution available to a new brand of opinion writers. They are teachers, lawyers, construction workers and parents with plenty of insightful things to say. And...

In this volume of political and social commentaries, Anthony Livingston Hall synthesizes the most critical developments of 2006 with remarkable clarity and inimitable wit. But, unlike more celebrated columnists who trade in partisan political talking points, Hall seems beholden to no ideology and is definitely an equal-opportunity critic. Moreover, you would be hard-pressed to find another columnist anywhere who writes as persuasively about the international menace of Iran's nuclear program as he does about the interpersonal dynamics of an NBA...

He answered, ." . . a republic, if you can keep it."

A concerned citizen is fed up as he watches the Democratic Party turn into a radical anti-American socialist organization bent on the destruction of his country. Mr. Lord writes: my country is in danger! It is being invaded by an organized group of socialists (and communists) that want to destroy this great nation and turn it into the Socialist States of America. This invasion is not from any foreign land, but from within the...

Agree on a comprehensive worldview rooted in a commitment to protect the environment and serve all humanity Steadily reform our institutions, our culture, and ourselves to serve that purpose Cultivate home-based communities that nurture the whole person Form alliances with people in other countries working in the...

In "Short Jabs to the Head," the jabs are my words (each 1000, more or less) after being rope-a-doped on the Internet, and now aimed at your head, hoping to make an impact. I don't expect a knock-out every time-but I'm hoping .

Left Hooks, are essays and stories of the leftward persuasion, hoping to achieve the same objective.

"Short Jabs to the Head" should give you detailed close-ups of various aspects of the Bush Administration, like looking through someone's photo album who lived it.

No Storm Troopers here, no Gestapo, no Sturm und Drang.

In America, fascism creeps in on...

Considering what we have in America, what can possibly be wrong? To start with, 9/11 sent a message to Americans that we need to pay closer attention to what is going on around the world. As citizens, we also need to monitor U.S policies abroad and how they influence other people with whom we share the planet....

Everyday we are besieged with thousands of messages. TV is terrible. Magazines are particularly egregious, stuck in the face of every housewife and teenager at every check out station in the country. These offer secrets on everything: looks, stress, sex, health, environment, etc.

In addition you...

Agree on a comprehensive worldview rooted in a commitment to protect the environment and serve all humanitySteadily reform our institutions, our culture, and ourselves to serve that purposeCultivate home-based communities that nurture the whole personForm alliances with people in other countries working in the same...

In this volume of political and social commentaries, Anthony Livingston Hall synthesizes the most critical developments of 2006 with remarkable clarity and inimitable wit. But, unlike more celebrated columnists who trade in partisan political talking points, Hall seems beholden to no ideology and is definitely an equal-opportunity critic. Moreover, you would be hard-pressed to find another columnist anywhere who writes as persuasively about the international menace of Iran's nuclear program as he does about the interpersonal dynamics of an NBA...

The Politics of Hope and The Bitter Heritage brings together two important books that bracket the tempestuous politics of 1960s America. In The Politics of Hope, which historian Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., published in 1963 while serving as a special assistant to President Kennedy, Schlesinger defines the liberalism that characterized the Kennedy administration and the optimistic early Sixties. In lively and incisive essays, most of them written between 1956 and 1960, on topics such as the basic differences underlying liberal and conservative politics, the writing of...