Author: A. G. Roderick
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780990889205
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Despite growing voter dissatisfaction, the Republican and Democratic parties maintain complete dominance over the American political realm. A majority of voters now identify as independents, yet the traditional powers continue to win every election. Using a combination polling, policy analysis and a sharp wit, A.G. Roderick offers a knockout blow to the Republicans, the Democrats, and the two party system that keeps them in power. Two Tyrants proves that we have the power to dethrone our two political monarchs. The goal is not destruction of either party, but reform of the system that allows them to rule without consequence. The book is a passionate narrative on the cause and effect of two party rule, and an invitation to take the first step toward a new political reality. It is required reading for the coming voter uprising in America.
Two Tyrants
Author: A. G. Roderick
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780990889205
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Despite growing voter dissatisfaction, the Republican and Democratic parties maintain complete dominance over the American political realm. A majority of voters now identify as independents, yet the traditional powers continue to win every election. Using a combination polling, policy analysis and a sharp wit, A.G. Roderick offers a knockout blow to the Republicans, the Democrats, and the two party system that keeps them in power. Two Tyrants proves that we have the power to dethrone our two political monarchs. The goal is not destruction of either party, but reform of the system that allows them to rule without consequence. The book is a passionate narrative on the cause and effect of two party rule, and an invitation to take the first step toward a new political reality. It is required reading for the coming voter uprising in America.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780990889205
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Despite growing voter dissatisfaction, the Republican and Democratic parties maintain complete dominance over the American political realm. A majority of voters now identify as independents, yet the traditional powers continue to win every election. Using a combination polling, policy analysis and a sharp wit, A.G. Roderick offers a knockout blow to the Republicans, the Democrats, and the two party system that keeps them in power. Two Tyrants proves that we have the power to dethrone our two political monarchs. The goal is not destruction of either party, but reform of the system that allows them to rule without consequence. The book is a passionate narrative on the cause and effect of two party rule, and an invitation to take the first step toward a new political reality. It is required reading for the coming voter uprising in America.
The Grand Design
Author: John Marco
Publisher: Spectra
ISBN: 0804180857
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 668
Book Description
From John Marco comes the epic sequel to his thrilling debut military fantasy, The Jackel of Nar. An infamous warrior is once again caught between two irrexixtible forces, and his choice may change the world... Prince Richius Vantran, the Jackal of Nar, has fled into exile. Meanwhile, Nar has exploded in civil war. The conflict is being waged between the religious fanatics of Bishop Herrith, who follow the Light of God, and the ruthless followers of Count Biagio and his Black Renaissance. As the terrifying slaughter mounts, fueled by the development of hideous new war machines, Vantran is offered a chance to ally with a third faction and take his revenge against his ancient enemy Biagio. But Biagio, a master of deception and intrigue, has a grand design to gain total power that involves luring Vantran's new allies into a deadly trap. As for Vantran, Biagio has a special punishment: to strike the warrior-prince's only weakness...Vantran's innocent daughter. And Vantran himself will unwittingly seal the young girl's fate.
Publisher: Spectra
ISBN: 0804180857
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 668
Book Description
From John Marco comes the epic sequel to his thrilling debut military fantasy, The Jackel of Nar. An infamous warrior is once again caught between two irrexixtible forces, and his choice may change the world... Prince Richius Vantran, the Jackal of Nar, has fled into exile. Meanwhile, Nar has exploded in civil war. The conflict is being waged between the religious fanatics of Bishop Herrith, who follow the Light of God, and the ruthless followers of Count Biagio and his Black Renaissance. As the terrifying slaughter mounts, fueled by the development of hideous new war machines, Vantran is offered a chance to ally with a third faction and take his revenge against his ancient enemy Biagio. But Biagio, a master of deception and intrigue, has a grand design to gain total power that involves luring Vantran's new allies into a deadly trap. As for Vantran, Biagio has a special punishment: to strike the warrior-prince's only weakness...Vantran's innocent daughter. And Vantran himself will unwittingly seal the young girl's fate.
Hitler and Stalin
Author: Laurence Rees
Publisher: PublicAffairs
ISBN: 1610399668
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 597
Book Description
An award-winning historian plumbs the depths of Hitler and Stalin's vicious regimes, and shows the extent to which they brutalized the world around them. Two 20th century tyrants stand apart from all the rest in terms of their ruthlessness and the degree to which they changed the world around them. Briefly allies during World War II, Adolph Hitler and Josef Stalin then tried to exterminate each other in sweeping campaigns unlike anything the modern world had ever seen, affecting soldiers and civilians alike. Millions of miles of Eastern Europe were ruined in their fight to the death, millions of lives sacrificed. Laurence Rees has met more people who had direct experience of working for Hitler and Stalin than any other historian. Using their evidence he has pieced together a compelling comparative portrait of evil, in which idealism is polluted by bloody pragmatism, and human suffering is used casually as a political tool. It's a jaw-dropping description of two regimes stripped of moral anchors and doomed to destroy each other, and those caught up in the vicious magnetism of their leadership.
Publisher: PublicAffairs
ISBN: 1610399668
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 597
Book Description
An award-winning historian plumbs the depths of Hitler and Stalin's vicious regimes, and shows the extent to which they brutalized the world around them. Two 20th century tyrants stand apart from all the rest in terms of their ruthlessness and the degree to which they changed the world around them. Briefly allies during World War II, Adolph Hitler and Josef Stalin then tried to exterminate each other in sweeping campaigns unlike anything the modern world had ever seen, affecting soldiers and civilians alike. Millions of miles of Eastern Europe were ruined in their fight to the death, millions of lives sacrificed. Laurence Rees has met more people who had direct experience of working for Hitler and Stalin than any other historian. Using their evidence he has pieced together a compelling comparative portrait of evil, in which idealism is polluted by bloody pragmatism, and human suffering is used casually as a political tool. It's a jaw-dropping description of two regimes stripped of moral anchors and doomed to destroy each other, and those caught up in the vicious magnetism of their leadership.
Alienography 2
Author: Chris Riddell
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 9780230741041
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Pack of playing cards attached to page 41.
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 9780230741041
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Pack of playing cards attached to page 41.
Blood of Tyrants
Author: Naomi Novik
Publisher: Del Rey
ISBN: 0345522893
Category : Alternative histories (Fiction)
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
Captain Laurence washes onto the shores of Japan with limited memories about his life, a situation that tests the strength of his bond with the dragon Temeraire.
Publisher: Del Rey
ISBN: 0345522893
Category : Alternative histories (Fiction)
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
Captain Laurence washes onto the shores of Japan with limited memories about his life, a situation that tests the strength of his bond with the dragon Temeraire.
A Wolf in the City
Author: Cinzia Arruzza
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190678860
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
The problem of tyranny preoccupied Plato, and its discussion both begins and ends his famous Republic. Though philosophers have mined the Republic for millennia, Cinzia Arruzza is the first to devote a full book to the study of tyranny and of the tyrant's soul in Plato's Republic. In A Wolf in the City, Arruzza argues that Plato's critique of tyranny intervenes in an ancient debate concerning the sources of the crisis of Athenian democracy and the relation between political leaders and demos in the last decades of the fifth century BCE. Arruzza shows that Plato's critique of tyranny should not be taken as veiled criticism of the Syracusan tyrannical regime, but rather of Athenian democracy. In parsing Plato's discussion of the soul of the tyrant, Arruzza will also offer new and innovative insights into his moral psychology, addressing much-debated problems such as the nature of eros and of the spirited part of the soul, the unity or disunity of the soul, and the relation between the non-rational parts of the soul and reason.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190678860
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
The problem of tyranny preoccupied Plato, and its discussion both begins and ends his famous Republic. Though philosophers have mined the Republic for millennia, Cinzia Arruzza is the first to devote a full book to the study of tyranny and of the tyrant's soul in Plato's Republic. In A Wolf in the City, Arruzza argues that Plato's critique of tyranny intervenes in an ancient debate concerning the sources of the crisis of Athenian democracy and the relation between political leaders and demos in the last decades of the fifth century BCE. Arruzza shows that Plato's critique of tyranny should not be taken as veiled criticism of the Syracusan tyrannical regime, but rather of Athenian democracy. In parsing Plato's discussion of the soul of the tyrant, Arruzza will also offer new and innovative insights into his moral psychology, addressing much-debated problems such as the nature of eros and of the spirited part of the soul, the unity or disunity of the soul, and the relation between the non-rational parts of the soul and reason.
The Jackal of Nar
Author: John Marco
Publisher: Spectra
ISBN: 0804152667
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 991
Book Description
A nation's fate rests one one man's struggle between loyalty and desire. His enemies call Prince Richius "the Jackal," but he is merely a reluctant warrior for the Emperor in the fight for the strife-ridden borderland of Lucel-Lor. And though the empire's war machines are deadly, when the leader of a fanatical sect sweeps the battlefield with potent magic, Richius's forces are routed. He returns home defeated—but the Emperor will not accept the loss. Soon Richius is given one last chance to pit the empire's science against the enemy's devastating magic, and this time he fights for more than a ruler's mad whim. This time Richius has his own obsessive quest—and where he hesitated to go for an emperor's greed, for love he will plunge headlong into the grasp of the deadliest enemy he has ever encountered. . . .
Publisher: Spectra
ISBN: 0804152667
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 991
Book Description
A nation's fate rests one one man's struggle between loyalty and desire. His enemies call Prince Richius "the Jackal," but he is merely a reluctant warrior for the Emperor in the fight for the strife-ridden borderland of Lucel-Lor. And though the empire's war machines are deadly, when the leader of a fanatical sect sweeps the battlefield with potent magic, Richius's forces are routed. He returns home defeated—but the Emperor will not accept the loss. Soon Richius is given one last chance to pit the empire's science against the enemy's devastating magic, and this time he fights for more than a ruler's mad whim. This time Richius has his own obsessive quest—and where he hesitated to go for an emperor's greed, for love he will plunge headlong into the grasp of the deadliest enemy he has ever encountered. . . .
Tyrants
Author: Waller R. Newell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107083052
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
A history of tyranny from Achilles to today's jihadists, this volume shows why tyrannical temptation is a permanent danger.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107083052
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
A history of tyranny from Achilles to today's jihadists, this volume shows why tyrannical temptation is a permanent danger.
Resistance to Tyrants, Obedience to God
Author: Dustin A. Gish
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 073918220X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Both reason and religion have been acknowledged by scholars to have had a profound impact on the foundation and formation of the American regime. But the significance, pervasiveness, and depth of that impact have also been disputed. While many have approached the American founding period with an interest in the influence of Enlightenment reason or Biblical religion, they have often assumed such influences to be exclusive, irreconcilable, or contradictory. Few scholarly works have sought to study the mutual influence of reason and religion as intertwined strands shaping the American historical and political experience at its founding. The purpose of the chapters in this volume, authored by a distinguished group of scholars in political science, intellectual history, literature, and philosophy, is to examine how this mutual influence was made manifest in the American Founding—especially in the writings, speeches, and thought of critical figures (Thomas Paine, Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, Charles Carroll), and in later works by key interpreters of the American Founding (Alexis de Tocqueville and Abraham Lincoln). Taken as a whole, then, this volume does not attempt to explain away the potential opposition between religion and reason in the American mind of the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth- centuries, but instead argues that there is a uniquely American perspective and political thought that emerges from this tension. The chapters gathered here, individually and collectively, seek to illuminate the animating affect of this tension on the political rhetoric, thought, and history of the early American period. By taking seriously and exploring the mutual influence of these two themes in creative tension, rather than seeing them as diametrically opposed or as mutually exclusive, this volume thus reveals how the pervasiveness and resonance of Biblical narratives and religion supported and infused Enlightened political discourse and action at the Founding, thereby articulating the complementarity of reason and religion during this critical period.
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 073918220X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Both reason and religion have been acknowledged by scholars to have had a profound impact on the foundation and formation of the American regime. But the significance, pervasiveness, and depth of that impact have also been disputed. While many have approached the American founding period with an interest in the influence of Enlightenment reason or Biblical religion, they have often assumed such influences to be exclusive, irreconcilable, or contradictory. Few scholarly works have sought to study the mutual influence of reason and religion as intertwined strands shaping the American historical and political experience at its founding. The purpose of the chapters in this volume, authored by a distinguished group of scholars in political science, intellectual history, literature, and philosophy, is to examine how this mutual influence was made manifest in the American Founding—especially in the writings, speeches, and thought of critical figures (Thomas Paine, Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, Charles Carroll), and in later works by key interpreters of the American Founding (Alexis de Tocqueville and Abraham Lincoln). Taken as a whole, then, this volume does not attempt to explain away the potential opposition between religion and reason in the American mind of the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth- centuries, but instead argues that there is a uniquely American perspective and political thought that emerges from this tension. The chapters gathered here, individually and collectively, seek to illuminate the animating affect of this tension on the political rhetoric, thought, and history of the early American period. By taking seriously and exploring the mutual influence of these two themes in creative tension, rather than seeing them as diametrically opposed or as mutually exclusive, this volume thus reveals how the pervasiveness and resonance of Biblical narratives and religion supported and infused Enlightened political discourse and action at the Founding, thereby articulating the complementarity of reason and religion during this critical period.
Modern Tyrants
Author: Daniel Chirot
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780691027777
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Along with its much vaunted progress in scientific and economic realms, the twentieth century has witnessed the rise of the most brutal and oppressive regimes in the history of humankind. Even with the collapse of Marxism, current instances of "ethnic cleansing" remind us that tyranny persists in our own age and shows no sign of abating. Daniel Chirot offers an important and timely study of modern tyrants, both revealing the forces that allow them to come to power and helping us to predict where they may arise in the future.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780691027777
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Along with its much vaunted progress in scientific and economic realms, the twentieth century has witnessed the rise of the most brutal and oppressive regimes in the history of humankind. Even with the collapse of Marxism, current instances of "ethnic cleansing" remind us that tyranny persists in our own age and shows no sign of abating. Daniel Chirot offers an important and timely study of modern tyrants, both revealing the forces that allow them to come to power and helping us to predict where they may arise in the future.