Elections & Political Process
epub |eng | 2008-11-03 | Author:Max De Pree [De Pree, Max]

Second, just as moving up in the hierarchy does not confer competence, so organizational power does not guarantee wisdom. The discernment and judgment necessary to evaluate creative gifts and true ...
( Category: Leadership June 9,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Dauvergne, Peter, LeBaron, Genevieve

CHAPTER FIVE Institutionalizing Activism The brand of a nonprofit organization can be worth billions of dollars. Amnesty International has one the world’s most trusted brands. So does WWF. In Europe, ...
( Category: Political Advocacy May 30,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-12-23 | Author:Engler, Mark; Engler, Paul

“I don’t think I got any sleep for three weeks,” Offner recalls, reflecting on the sit-in. “I don’t think any of the organizers did.” But, in a way, it was ...
( Category: Political Advocacy May 10,2016 )
epub |eng | 2011-02-01 | Author:Elaine Scarry

Chapter Three THE PLACE OF HABIT IN ACTS OF THINKING The rejection of procedures and constitutional guarantees, this book has so far suggested, comes from three sources: first, the belief ...
( Category: Leadership May 9,2016 )
epub |eng | 2010-05-04 | Author:Walter Isaacson

MR. MCGRAW Kevin Baker THEY CALLED HIM THE LITTLE NAPOLEON, AN ODDLY REDUNDANT nickname that was nonetheless apt. He led his teams with a passion that might—literally—leave your city razed ...
( Category: Leadership May 5,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-04-21 | Author:Jon Knokey

Since at least 1886, when he offered to fight against Mexico with “an entire regiment of cowboys,” Theodore had dreamed of military glory. He wanted to restore honor to the ...
( Category: Leadership April 22,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:John Sweeney

1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qd3H9X-Y12k 2 Sweeney: The Life and Evil Times of Nicolae Ceausescu, p8. 3 Martin, p547. 13 The Washing of Brains ‘It was a bright cold day in April, and ...
( Category: General April 21,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Phyllis Schlafly [Schlafly, Phyllis]

17 The Accidental President 1974 The Eastern Establishment and the kingmakers were probably well satisfied with the way Republican President Nixon allowed Henry Kissinger to continue the foreign and defense ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism April 20,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-10-20 | Author:Lawrence Lessig [Lessig, Lawrence]

1. Making Government Small When Al Gore was vice president, his policy team had a proposal to deregulate the Internet. As a “network of networks,” the Internet lives atop other ...
( Category: Elections April 20,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-10-12 | Author:Richard Javad Heydarian

23 January 2013 Philippines filed Notification and Statement of Claim (NSC) in the South China Sea 19 February 2013 China formally rejected the Philippines’ NSC, a position it reiterated on ...
( Category: Asian April 20,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:David Sehat

CHAPTER SIX The Montage Effect In the sweltering August of 1963, Washington, D.C., braced for an epic riot. Plans were for hundreds of thousands of black protesters to descend on ...
( Category: Revolution & Founding April 17,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Robert Higgs

CULTIVATING AND PRUNING THE FIRST NEW DEAL: THE SUPREME COURT Legislate as it might, the 73rd Congress still had to get its laws past the courts. For several years the ...
( Category: General April 14,2016 )
epub |eng | 2010-09-08 | Author:Ben Shapiro

THE ELECTION OF 1960 pitted one of America’s wittiest presidential candidates, John F. Kennedy, against one of its gloomiest, Richard M. Nixon. JFK’s sparkling repartee contrasted sharply with Nixon’s dogged ...
( Category: Executive Branch April 13,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Thomas J. Christensen

The First North Korean Nuclear Crisis ONLY ONE YEAR after acceding to the NPT, China would be put to the test by North Korea, its longtime ally. The 1993–1994 crisis ...
( Category: Asian April 11,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jamie Whyte [Whyte, Jamie]

Evil exists, and An all-good and all-powerful god exists. Their inconsistency is not immediately obvious, but inconsistent they are. An all-good god would want to avoid any evil he could ...
( Category: Elections April 9,2016 )