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The Islamist: Why I joined radical Islam in Britain, what I saw inside and why I leftby: Ed Husain May 03, 2007 Best Selling > Books > Government and Politics |
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I picked the book up on Friday and had finished it by Monday and loved it. I knew very little about Islam and why people became fanatic and so reading this book was a fabulous insight into the world of fanatics.
From the start we can see how the author was alone in school and the only people who would talk to him were the people who bring him into the radical side. The book then gets very in deph into the Islamist world and why they believe what they do. Once the author leaves that world we see how he realises that all the things he had believed were all lies and the people who preached to them were telling them lies. What is also worrying about this book is that a book about radical islam that the author read as a ... Read More: >>More Details |
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Children in Society: Contemporary Theory, Policy and Practicefrom: Palgrave Macmillan in assoc with Open University November 27, 2001 Best Selling > Books > Government and Politics |
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I am a social work student in my first year and stuggle with some academic books. This book is informative and interesting - I used it for my essays. It is well written and easy to understand. I thoroughly recommend it to future students.
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The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Goodby: William Easterly September 27, 2007 Best Selling > Books > Government and Politics |
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`The White Man's Burden: Why the West's efforts to aid the rest have done so much ill and so little good' poses two fairly simple questions. First of all, how have the rich countries managed to give away $2.3 trillion over the last decades and still see people dying of malnutrition and entirely curable diseases? And secondly, why can the free market deliver millions of copies of a new Harry Potter book to children around the world all on the same day, but can't deliver a life-saving vaccination programme?
His conclusion is that aid has failed, from a mixture of corruption, overambition, and incompetence. He then draws a distinction between `planners', and 'searchers'. Planners are the big thinkers, the `big push' schemes like the Millennnium ... Read More: >>More Details |
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Confessions of an Economic Hit Man: The Shocking Story of How America Really Took Over the Worldby: John Perkins February 02, 2006 Best Selling > Books > Government and Politics |
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On the US Amazon site there are over 650 reviews of this book! Do you have any idea how unusual that is?!
Many books have been written about the US victimisation of third world countries (for facts, read books like Blackwater, No Logo, Shock Doctrine, The New Nuclear Danger). This one, unusually, is an insider's perspective and a fascinating look behind the scenes, if you ignore the retrospective moralising about the use of U.S. aid policy to manipulate foreign countries. However, while it's shocking, feasible, readable and enjoyable... it's probably not honest. For decades the author acquired wealth and status by lying, stealing, cheating - and must have been aware of the enormous human misery he was helping to create. His life has certainly ... Read More: >>More Details |
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The Long European Reformation: Religion, Political Conflict and the Search for Conformity, 1350-1750 (European History in Perspective)by: Peter G. Wallace September 11, 2003 Best Selling > Books > Government and Politics |
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If you're studying the Open University course A200 1400-1900 (From Medieval to Modern) then this book is a set book and you'll need it to complete the course. You'll rely heavily on the book throughout the earlier modules of the course, and an understanding of Wallace's views on the reformation(s) will hold you in good stead for the course final examination.
If you're not studying the course, then I'd suggest that you've got to be very interested in the period in question for this to be a must-have purchase. Wallace is clearly an expert on the period in question, however it's not an easy read for anyone other than a historian. >>More Details |
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Exploring History 1400-1900: An Anthology of Primary Sourcesby: Rachel Gibbons December 31, 2006 Best Selling > Books > Government and Politics |
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This is a set book for the Open University course A200 (1400 to 1900 - From Medieval to Modern), so if you're signed up for the course, then you need it. If you're not signed up for the course, then it's difficult to assess whether it will deliver what you need, as the examples presented are chosen to complement the course itself. There is a wide range of primary source material here from a very wide date range, and while some articles are very dry, some are able to really bring the events they're describing to life. Personally, the sections detailing the trial of Charles I will live with me for many years, and were some of the most moving and inspiring pieces I have read, although I should state that I was reading the book as part of the OU course mentioned above.
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Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)by: Hunter S. Thompson April 04, 2005 Best Selling > Books > Government and Politics |
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Having read just about the entire output of HST I can honestly say I'd rather gargle with pins than read this again.It all started off fine but soon dives off a cliff into a sea of political intrigue that I frankly found pretty dull in comparison to the rest of his works.OK so theres a few respites here and there but not enough to make it the classic people claim it to be.If you have a good understanding and interest in the American political system then it may appeal to you,if however you read this hoping for more gonzo type journalism then you'll probably be disappointed.
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The Communist Manifesto: Complete with Seven Rarely Published Prefacesby: Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels December 26, 2005 Best Selling > Books > Government and Politics |
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Having read just about the entire output of HST I can honestly say I'd rather gargle with pins than read this again.It all started off fine but soon dives off a cliff into a sea of political intrigue that I frankly found pretty dull in comparison to the rest of his works.OK so theres a few respites here and there but not enough to make it the classic people claim it to be.If you have a good understanding and interest in the American political system then it may appeal to you,if however you read this hoping for more gonzo type journalism then you'll probably be disappointed.
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The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policyby: John J Mearsheimer, Stephen M Walt June 26, 2008 Best Selling > Books > Government and Politics |
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I highly recommend this book to everyone interested in Midle East and the Israel problem.
You can find a lot of information althought it's not too extensive. I've read Cheryl Rubenberg's "Israel and the American National Interest" and I've found it extremely extensive sometimes. This book has more recent information too. I've enjoyed specially the second half of the book more than the first one. Reading this book I discovered (among other things) that Bush was really willing to create a Palestinian State just after 9/11, and were actually the jews and Sharon who were opposed to creating a viable Palestinian state, and thus who had no interest in negotiating with the Palestinians. A must read if you want to know the truth about U.S.foreign policy in Middle ... Read More: >>More Details |
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Leviathan (English Library)by: Thomas Hobbes, C.B. Mac Pherson July 24, 2008 Best Selling > Books > Government and Politics |
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What would you do if your government made a law that was completely immoral? It required you to act in an immoral way? This is not just a theoretical question, it has happened - consider Nazi Germany. So what would you do? Follow the law because it is what the law says and as citizens we are under a duty to follow the law? Refuse to follow the law because it is immoral (and risk prison/execution)? What if everybody refused to follow laws they didn't like? Wouldn't that result in anarchy? Would anarchy be so much better or maybe it would be even worse? Maybe if the law was immoral enough you would start a revoltion?
If you think about questions like this, Hobbes' Leviathan is the beginning of the modern consideration of this question. You may not like Hobbes answer (and personally ... Read More: >>More Details |
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