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Born and raised on the South Side of Chicago, London-based author and playwright Bonnie Greer seeks to demonstrate that Barack Obama's presidency is what she calls a 'South Side Presidency'. And that it is only the South Side of Chicago, with its history and culture and institutions, that could have sent an African American, in this day and age, to the White House. Obama Music is a mixture of anecdotes about her own growing up in one of America's most formidable black communities, mixed in with observations on the origins and progress of the music of the South Side.

When Ann Richards delivered the keynote of the 1988 Democratic National Convention and mocked President George H. W. Bush - "Poor George, he can't help it. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth" - she instantly became a media celebrity and triggered a rivalry that would alter the course of American history. In 1990, Richards won the governorship of Texas, upsetting the GOP's colorful rancher and oilman Clayton Williams. The first ardent feminist elected to high office in America, she opened up public service to women, Blacks, Hispanics, Asian Americans, gays, and the disabled.

The system is rigged: America’s political leadership remains overwhelmingly white, male, moneyed, and Christian. Even at the local and state levels, elected office is inaccessible to the people it aims to represent. But in People Like Us, political scientist Sayu Bhojwani shares the stories of a diverse and persevering range of local and state politicians from across the country who are challenging the status quo, winning against all odds, and leaving a path for others to follow in their wake.

Le présent ouvrage raconte comment la «rencontre des deux mondes» entre les nations autochtones et les empires européens a provoqué un immense choc des cultures. Il analyse les mécanismes qui ont mené, au nom de la civilisation, à l’écrasement et à l’expropriation des peuples de l’Amérique septentrionale. Par des exemples concrets, il dévoile ce que les auteurs appellent «le piège de la modernité», la liberté promise par les Occidentaux, servant en définitive à opprimer et à refouler les populations amérindiennes.

This audiobook is a vital guide to understanding the Alt-Right - the white nationalist, anti-feminist, far-right movement that rose to prominence during Donald Trump's successful election campaign in the United States. It looks at the support for this reactionary network, arguing that while Trump is in office and the far-right grows across Europe, we need to gain a deeper understanding of the movement's philosophy, history and role in politics today.

La medicina acompaña al hombre desde el inicio de los tiempos, siempre hemos conocido la enfermedad y la muerte y siempre hemos luchado, con todos nuestros medios, contra ellas. Desde la Prehistoria, en la que la curación estaba ligada a la magia, hasta la actualidad, en la que existen máquinas nanotecnológicas o píldoras capaces de regular casi todos nuestros procesos, la historia de la medicina es una aventura apasionante llena de hombres que sacrificaron todo por acabar con las enfermedades principales de sus comunidades.

Are Donald Trump's irrationality, cruelty and bombast symptoms of his personality? Is the chaos surrounding him a sign of his incompetence? Are his populism, illiberalism and nationalism just cynical appeals to existing feelings of abandonment, resentment and rage? Lawrence Grossberg shows that the truth is bigger and more frightening. Locating Trumpism in the long struggle among traditional conservatism, the new right and the reactionary right, he suggests that the chaos is far more significant and strategic...and dangerous. .

Decades after the colonial powers withdrew from Africa, the continent is still struggling to catch up with the rest of the world. When the same colonists withdrew from Asia, it kick-started several decades of sustained and unprecedented growth throughout the continent. So what went wrong in Africa? And are we doing the right things to fix it, or are we making matters worse?

Ottimista globale, utopista impaziente, riluttante imperatore contemporaneo - per censo e per influenza -, Bill Gates dedica ormai da anni le sue risorse, economiche e intellettuali, a cercare di risolvere i problemi del mondo. Il padre di Microsoft Corporation si racconta in questa conversazione con Massimo Franco, ripercorrendo le tappe significative della sua vita e tratteggiando la sua filosofia di intellettuale organico della globalizazzione.

Amerika unter Trump - die Weltmacht scheint plötzlich anders, fremd zu werden. Der Amerika-Experte Ronald D. Gerste beschreibt die vielfältigen Facetten eines mächtigen - und manchmal beängstigenden - Landes. Eine kompakte Reise durch Kultur und Geschichte einer Nation,die niemanden gleichgültig lässt. Nach fast 70 Jahren transatlantischer Partnerschaft wirkt die Schutzmacht USA für viele Europäer plötzlich fremd. In der Tat stellt die Wahl des 45. amerikanischen Präsidenten, der so denkbar wenig Ähnlichkeit mit einem George Washington, einem Abraham Lincoln oder einem Barack Obama hat, eine Zeitenwende dar.

Opinionated talk show host and columnist Michael Smerconish has been chronicling local, state, and national events for the Philadelphia Daily News and the Philadelphia Inquirer for more than 15 years. He has sounded off on topics as diverse as the hunt for Osama bin Laden and what the color of your Christmas lights says about you. In this collection of 100 of his most memorable columns, Smerconish reflects on American political life with his characteristic feistiness.

Engaging but caustic and openly ideological, Antonin Scalia was among the most influential justices ever to serve on the United States Supreme Court. In this fascinating new book, legal scholar Richard L. Hasen assesses Scalia's complex legacy as a conservative legal thinker and disruptive public intellectual. The left saw Scalia as an unscrupulous foe who amplified his judicial role with scathing dissents and outrageous public comments.

Here, political scientist Jakub J. Grygiel brings to light the importance of incorporating geography into grand strategy. He argues that states can increase and maintain their position of power by pursuing a geostrategy that focuses on control of resources and lines of communication.

The role of social media in the events of the Arab Spring and its aftermath in the Muslim world has stimulated much debate, yet little in the way of useful insight. Now Haroon Ullah, a scholar and diplomat with deep knowledge of politics and societies in the Middle East, South Asia, and Southeast Asia, draws the first clear picture of the unprecedented impact of Twitter, Facebook, and other means of online communication on the recent revolutions that blazed across Muslim nations.

Das Terrorregime des sogenannten Islamischen Staates hat eine neue Dimension an Grausamkeit und Entmenschlichung erreicht. Die selbst ernannten Gotteskrieger, die seit 2011 weite Teile Syriens und des Irak unter ihre Kontrolle gebracht haben und in verschiedenen anderen islamischen Staaten aktiv sind, scheuen nicht vor Völkermord, Versklavung, Vergewaltigung und Zwangskonvertierung zurück, um ihr Verständnis von einem gerechten Staat durchzusetzen.

Si l'on veut réellement rassembler la grande majorité des classes populaires autour d'un programme de déconstruction graduelle du système capitaliste (et non pas simplement accroître ses privilèges électoraux), il faut impérativement commencer par remettre en question ce vieux système de clivages fondé sur la "confiance aveugle dans l'idée de progrès".

Two days before the collapse of Hosni Mubarak's regime in Egypt, one man gathered the courage to tell the president the truth: he would be killed in his palace if he did not step down. What came next revealed the bitter power struggles atop the most populous country in the Middle East at its most vulnerable moment in six decades. This is the inside story of the final days of Egypt's modern day pharaoh, who ruled with near autocratic powers for three decades before being forced to resign on February 11, 2011.

Google se prend pour Dieu : il veut "augmenter" l'homme et tuer la mort... pour les plus riches. Les autres deviendront les "chimpanzés du futur". Google considère la vie privée comme une anomalie et la surveillance comme un désagrément inévitable. Google milite pour la viande sans viande et la voiture sans conducteur. Google, champion des paradis fiscaux, exerce un pouvoir totalitaire : celui de faire vivre ou mourir les sites internet qui le concurrencent. Google est le leader de l'intelligence artificielle, qui pourra décréter un jour que l'homme est inutile.

On les appelle les Big Datas. Google, Apple, Facebook ou Amazon, ces géants du numérique, qui aspirent à travers Internet, smartphones et objets connectés, des milliards de données sur nos vies.Derrière cet espionnage, dont on mesure chaque jour l'ampleur, on découvre qu'il existe un pacte secret scellé par les Big Datas avec l'appareil de renseignement le plus puissant de la planète. Cet accouplement entre les agences américaines et les conglomérats du numérique, est en train d'enfanter une entité d'un genre nouveau.

Après neuf années passées à la tête du Conseil constitutionnel, Jean-Louis Debré renoue avec la liberté de ton qu'on lui connaît. Jamais on n'a autant parlé de cette institution ni mieux compris son utilité que sous sa présidence. Dans ce livre audio, il évoque les dossiers qu'il a eu à traiter, les combats qu'il a menés, les dirigeants politiques qu'il a côtoyés et souvent affrontés.