Títulos em Política e Governo

The Katrina List: An Untold Story of Hurricane Katrina offers an intimate and powerful account of one of America’s most devastating disasters. Going beyond headlines and statistics, it captures the raw human experiences of those who endured the storm—stories of survival, separation, and resilience. Through overlooked personal narratives, it exposes the emotional toll of loss and the failures of government response. This audiobook also highlights the importance of remembrance, showcasing the Katrina National Memorial Museum’s role in preserving these voices for future generations.

A compelling study looking at the relationship between electoral politics and grassroots activism, Movement Parties of the Far Right illuminates the complex organizational and strategic choices underlying far-right mobilization.

This timely follow-up to J. E. Fowlers’ bestselling exposés Democracy at Risk and 200 Dangerous Truths About Project 2025 lays out a complete understanding of the dangerous reality we're living in. Pulling from extensive research, he moves from a complete history of Project 2025 to incisive analysis, a section-by-section summary of the original publication, and a clear-eyed breakdown of how Project 2025’s policies are already being implemented by the second Trump administration with the goal of making these changes irreversible.

These are the stories of the female kings: women who risked everything, sometimes unwillingly, to find their place in a man's world. From the lush oases of Ancient Egypt to the cherry blossomed lands of Japan, the machinations of the Tudor court to the far reaches of Pacific Island kingdoms, Women Who Ruled the World is an expansive and comprehensive history of female royal power.

The book examines the relationship between the presidency and the sport, and argues through stories that the two naturally go together. Golf is the sport of presidents. It defines the presidency. It is a game of patience, concentration, focus, and moving forward toward a target. The job is about aim and guiding others toward an end goal amid the obstacle, and the job requires simplicity and making progress in as fewer moves as possible. Golf allows access to the president, and it is also a form of communication the leader uses to send subtle messages to the public.

In Teach like an Ally, veteran classroom teacher and celebrated transgender advocate Flint Del Sol weaves humor, storytelling, and expertise into a guide for educator-allies. Del Sol offers actionable strategies that you can implement in classrooms. He also tackles the complex questions teachers face: What should you do when a student asks for one name in the classroom, but another at home?

The Republican House Divided is the first comprehensive study of the relationships between the Republican Party and Civil War memory in the twentieth century. Tim Galsworthy reveals how rival Republicans deployed Civil War memory to support, oppose, and ultimately shape the GOP's transformation, during the civil rights era, into a racially conservative party.

In the early days of the Cold War, the United States faced a crisis in intelligence analysis. A series of intelligence failures in 1949 and 1950, including the failure to warn about the North Korean invasion of South Korea, made it clear that gut instinct and traditional practices were no longer sufficient for intelligence analysis in the nuclear age. The new director of the Central Intelligence Agency, Walter Bedell Smith, had a mandate to reform it.

Stoicism as a Warrior Philosophy grapples with these questions and more. Authored by a serving military professional, it breaks down the most advanced concepts of Stoicism into plain language without oversimplifying. Exhaustively researched, steeped in original sources, and informed by examples from the cutting edge of modern conflict, it builds upon ancient thinking to develop innovative theories of patriotic duty and ethical warfighting.

After decades of debate about global warming, the fact of the climate crisis is finally widely accepted. People at all scales—from the household to the global market—are attempting to govern climate to deal with its causes and impacts. Although the stakes are different now, governing climate is centuries old. In this book, Zeke Baker develops a genealogy of climate science that traces the relationship between those who have created knowledge of the climate and those who have attempted to gain power and govern society, right up to the present, historic moment.

El lector se encontrará en Los indomables con la expresión más cercana y familiar de dos líderes políticos cuya influencia excede largamente los límites de su sector y su partido. Las tres secciones que dan forma a este libro —Raíces, Frutos y Semillas— conforman un entrañable recorrido por la vida, el pensamiento y la acción de una pareja imprescindible para comprender desde un ángulo íntimo las últimas cinco décadas de la historia uruguaya.

Pela primeira vez o jornalista Luís Costa Pinto – que há quase 30 anos deu início ao processo que resultou na queda do presidente Fernando Collor – revela os bastidores de uma investigação dramática, num tempo em que nem a Polícia Federal nem o Ministério Público estavam aparelhados para cumprir com o papel que exercem hoje. Trapaça – Volume 1 – Collor é o primeiro de quatro audiolivros da saga que pretende contar, em ritmo de thriller policial e literário, os bastidores do poder no Brasil ao longo de três décadas, da ascensão e queda de Collor aos dias de hoje.

More devastating then economic downturns and school violence, the Character Deficit has been chipping away at the core of our country one person at a time. Journey with Michael B. Ross as he explores the fascinating and frightening effects of the Character Deficit and teaches you how to overcome Character Deficits in your world.

What life do you want to live? What country do you want to live in? On the left hand, you have nothing; someone makes all the decisions regarding your life. On the right hand, you have everything, including your life and choice. That freedom of choice brings responsibility, wherein you have to put effort into your life and your freedom. That brings us to honesty, truth, compassion, love, and responsibility--those together make a fist to include penalty. Why is it those six words are not included in our US Constitution?

The Real Fall of Union Carbide: Fraud, Corruption, and Mismanagement delves into the hidden story of how one of the world’s leading chemical corporations fell from grace. As Union Carbide rose to prominence for its innovation and safety record, it concealed a culture of greed and corruption behind its polished image. Told by a former U.S Treasury Special Agent and Union Carbide's Manager of Special Investigations, the book uncovers a web of fraud, bribery, and negligence within management, ultimately leading to the tragic Bhopal disaster and a total collapse of public trust.

For decades, coal has been crucial to America's culture, society, and environment, an essential ingredient in driving out winter's cold, cooking meals, and lighting the dark. In the coalfields and beyond, Bob Wyss describes how this magical elixir sparked the Industrial Revolution, powered railroads, and built urban skylines, while providing home comforts for families.

They told you to win friends and smile often. They told you to hustle harder, promising happiness would follow. They told you to embrace suffering, calling it the ultimate reward. But deep down, you’ve always wondered: Is this too good to be true? Meanwhile, the ruling class has never been more powerful, more shameless, more efficient. Here’s the simple truth: Unless you feel inadequate, they cease to exist. The Psychopath Mantra takes you inside the predatory mind of the ruling class. This is self-improvement through the eyes of professional psychopaths, raw and uncensored.

Senator Bob Menendez stands alone as the most corrupt US Senator in history. After corruption charges were dropped in a 2017 mistrial, he may have considered himself invincible. But when the Feds raided his home in June 2022, they found a gifted Mercedes Benz, more than $600,000 in cash, and thirteen gold bars stuffed in envelopes, clothes, and closets. It was an outrageous haul for a man who styled himself as a fierce anti-corruption crusader, an ambitious Democrat who overthrew his mob-connected predecessor and rose through the ranks to the House of Representatives and the Senate.

¿Y si tener un gobierno honesto y preocupado por el bienestar de sus ciudadanos no fuera una utopía, sino una realidad? En un país hastiado de promesas rotas y políticos corruptos, este libro prueba que el poder sí puede y debe usarse para servir, no para servirse a sí mismo. Contracorriente es la historia real de cómo un grupo de ciudadanos sin partidos ni pasado político, pero con una convicción poderosa, se propusieron transformar el gobierno desde dentro. Y lo lograron.

Through his groundbreaking undercover investigations, Kafui Okpattah opens up the sleazy and scandalous world of the online scam by exposing the methods, motivations, and machinations of these cyber criminals. Is it a surprise to learn that those causing chaos to acquire ill-gotten gains are most often teenagers and school children?