Food Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know by Robert Paarlberg, 2nd EditionRequirements: .PDF reader, 1mbOverview: The politics of food is changing fast. In rich countries, obesity is now a more serious problem than hunger. Consumers once satisfied with cheap and convenient food now want food that is also safe, nutritious, fresh, and grown by local […]
The Politics of Mass Violence in the Middle East: Zones of Violence by Laura Robson / Narrated by Lisa S. WareRequirements: .MP3 player, 200 mbOverview: The Middle East today is characterized by an astonishingly bloody civil war in Syria, a highly racialized and militarized approach to the concept of a Jewish state in Israel and […]
50 Politics Classics: Freedom – Equality – Power by Tom Butler-BowdonRequirements: .MP3 reader, 399.1 MBOverview: Featuring texts by Saul Alinsky, Edmund Burke, Rachel Carson, Carl von Clausewitz, Francis Fukuyama, Mahatma Gandhi, Friedrich Hayek, Thomas Hobbes, Martin Luther King, Niccolo Machiavelli, Karl Marx, J. S. Mill, George Orwell, Thomas Paine, Plato, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Alexis De Tocqueville, […]
The Politics of Maps: Cartographic Constructions of Israel/Palestine by Christine LeuenbergerRequirements: .MP3 reader, 312 MbOverview: Blending science and technology studies, sociology, and geography with a host of archival material, in-depth interviews, and ethnographies, The Politics of Maps explores how the geographical sciences came to be entangled with the politics, territorial claim-making, and nation-state building of […]
The Politics of Fear: The Peculiar Persistence of American Paranoia by Arthur GoldwagRequirements: .ePUB reader, 2 MbOverview: From the author of Cults, Conspiracies, and Secret Societies, a probing exploration of the bizarre and dangerous conspiracies that have roiled America over the past decade and captured the minds of so many Americans Some of the conspiracy […]