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Congress's Constitution: Legislative Authority and the Separation of Powers by Josh Chafetz
epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Josh Chafetz [Chafetz, Josh]

For Congress to compete effectively with the other branches in the public sphere, it must be able to communicate with the public. This means that its members must be able ...
( Category: Legislative Branch January 19,2020 )
More on War by van Creveld Martin;
epub |eng | 2016-11-16 | Author:van Creveld, Martin;

3. The Ordinary and the Extraordinary Maintenance of aim and flexibility; husbanding force and sacrificing it; concentration and dispersion; battle and maneuver; direct and indirect approach; advance and retreat; breakthrough ...
( Category: Military Policy January 19,2020 )
Indigenous Identity and Resistance: Researching the Diversity of Knowledge by Brendan Hokowhitu
epub |eng | 2010-01-15 | Author:Brendan Hokowhitu

Elsewhere in the British Empire, native races were supposed to enjoy the status of British subjects, although they were not always treated accordingly. What was remarkable in New Zealand was ...
( Category: Americas January 19,2020 )
Taxing the Rich: A History of Fiscal Fairness in the United States and Europe by Kenneth Scheve & David Stasavage
epub, pdf |eng | 2016-01-15 | Author:Kenneth Scheve & David Stasavage [Scheve, Kenneth & Stasavage, David]

FRANCE The history of debates about progressive income taxation in France is a complex one. We can attribute this to the unsettled inheritance of the French Revolution. During the Revolution, ...
( Category: Social Policy January 19,2020 )
Cinema's Military Industrial Complex by Haidee Wasson & Lee Grieveson
epub |eng | 2018-01-19 | Author:Haidee Wasson & Lee Grieveson [Wasson, Haidee & Grieveson, Lee]

PUBLICIZING MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL TRAINING One of the most salient features of the wartime military film was its shifting, sometimes incompatible itineraries, which reflected the military’s belief that cinema could be useful ...
( Category: Performing Arts January 19,2020 )
Charles I's Killers in America by Matthew Jenkinson
epub |eng | 2019-03-25 | Author:Matthew Jenkinson

Revisiting the royal commission of 1664 In 1799 Hannah Adams’s Summary History of New-England, From the First Settlement at Plymouth was ‘published according to Act of Congress’. It included the ...
( Category: Great Britain January 19,2020 )
Sex and Secularism by Scott Joan Wallach;
epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Scott, Joan Wallach; [Scott, Joan Wallach;]

Freedom of Religion In March 1946, British prime minister Winston Churchill delivered a speech at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, in which he coined the phrase “iron curtain” to refer ...
( Category: Women in History January 19,2020 )
Reagan Revolution by Troy Gil;
epub |eng | 2009-01-15 | Author:Troy, Gil; [Troy, Gil;]

7. President Reagan hosts Speaker of the House Tip O’Neill at the White House in January 1986, with Vice President George H. W. Bush looking on. Even so, it took ...
( Category: History & Theory January 19,2020 )
The Six Day War: The Breaking of the Middle East by Guy Laron
epub, pdf |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Guy Laron [Laron, Guy]

16 SECRET LIAISONS On the Importance of Unuttered Words IN JUNE 1964, Eshkol came to Washington for a fateful visit. He was worried that Johnson would bring up the tricky ...
( Category: African January 19,2020 )
Homer by Barbara Graziosi
epub |eng | 2019-01-17 | Author:Barbara Graziosi

Projects and relationships are interrupted by death. Protesilaus, the first Achaean warrior to disembark on Trojan soil, is killed straight away, and leaves a young wife in a ‘half-built house’. ...
( Category: Epic January 19,2020 )
Beauty in Sufism by Murata Kazuyo;
epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Murata, Kazuyo; [Murata, Kazuyo;]

5 The Prophetology of Beauty Surely you have a beautiful example in God’s messenger. —Qurʾān 33:21 Human beauty is superior to cosmic beauty, but not all human beauty is equal. ...
( Category: Sufism January 19,2020 )
Believing Women in Islam: Unreading Patriarchal Interpretations of the Qur'An by Asma Barlas
epub |eng | 2019-01-15 | Author:Asma Barlas

Thus, religious, racial, and linguistic differences are all divinely ordained and are “Signs For those who know” (30:22 [Ali, 1056]). By representing differences as expressions of God’s will, the Qurʾān ...
( Category: Women in Islam January 19,2020 )
Global Crisis: War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century by Geoffrey Parker
epub, pdf |eng | 2017-06-02 | Author:Geoffrey Parker [Parker, Geoffrey]

CHAPTER FIFTEEN The Americas, Africa and Australia1 Most of the surviving human and natural archives from the mid-seventeenth century relate to Europe and Asia. Despite the immense size of the ...
( Category: History & Theory January 19,2020 )
Black Banners of ISIS: The Roots of the New Caliphate by David J. Wasserstein
epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:David J. Wasserstein [Wasserstein, David J.]

A Hidden Battle of the Sexes Living a traditional, secluded lifestyle offers one way of fulfilling the IS female dream. Another way in which women are empowered by IS and ...
( Category: History January 19,2020 )
Simón Bolívar by John Lynch
epub |eng | 2006-01-15 | Author:John Lynch [Lynch, John]

( Category: Latin America January 19,2020 )

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