Steal This Book
Still Notorious, Radical, and Revolutionary 50 Years Later. A survival guide from one of the greatest creative organizers of the 20th century--now with a new foreword by co-conspirator, Lisa Fithian. Throughout the 1960's and 70's, Abbie Hoffman criss-crossed the country, ferreting out alternative ways of getting by in America--some illegal and all radical. Causing scandals with its advice on how to Survive!, Fight!, and Liberate! in the "prison that is Amerika," Steal This Book is a revolutionary's manual to running a guerilla movement, as well as getting free food, housing, transportation, medical care, and more. This anniversary edition gives a new generation an insider's view into the movements of the sixties and seventies. While many of the holes in the system that Abbie exposed have since been plugged, the spirit of revolution, the dedication to opposing injustice, and the passion of creative activism continue to inspire today.
Downward Spiral
A forensic analysis of ethical failures in the British government. Boris Johnson's tenure as prime minister was marked by a series of scandals that severely eroded trust in the government. From questionable PPE tenders to the 'partygate' fiasco, every aspect of public life seemed tainted. How did this downward spiral begin, and what can be done to reverse it? John Bowers KC presents a fearless examination of the decline in ethical standards before, during and after the Johnson government. Through interviews with insiders, he reveals how the institutions responsible for holding the government to account have been bypassed, and shines a light on a culture of favouritism, where standards are upheld based on little more than the assumption those in power can be trusted to behave. The Labour victory in July 2024 marked a changing of the guard, but the system remains vulnerable to abuse. Downward spiral presents concrete proposals for creating an alternative that is more transparent and accountable.
The Rise of Dogwhistle Politics
The term dogwhistle, meaning a political message with a hidden or coded meaning, only entered mainstream usage in the mid-1990s, but today it seems to be everywhere. Accusations of dogwhistling fly in every political direction, and the meaning of the term has broadened to encompass an ever-expanding range of words, images, actions and objects. This book investigates the rise of the dogwhistle as a key cultural and political reference point, arguing that it�s a sign of our political times. It�s related both to the polarized nature of politics in the era of populism, culture wars and online echo-chambers, and to the preoccupation of radical activists on both sides of the traditional left/right divide with controlling language as a way of remaking culture. Their political aims are different, but their tactics are more similar than they might appear. As well as examining how these tactics have recently been used, and looking at the arguments they now regularly prompt in public settings from social media to courts of law, this book by linguist Deborah Cameron considers some of the theoretical questions they raise about the way communication works and the effects it is capable of producing. It asks why contemporary radical movements put so much emphasis on words and symbols, and whether their faith in the power of language is justified.
The Coherent Nation
Why do some nations thrive in economic disruption while others stagnate? The answer isn't more policy-it's better architecture.THE COHERENT NATION reveals a neuroeconomic blueprint for national competitiveness in the age of AI, intangibles, and radical uncertainty.Dr. Hesham Gabr worked for FORA, a research and analysis unit under the Danish Ministry of Economic & Business Affairs, advising on innovation policy at the highest levels-from the Danish Prime Minister's Globalization Council to OECD working groups shaping international strategy. As a Chief Strategy Officer, he drove +200% growth by applying systems thinking to complex organizations. This book applies those same principles to the ultimate complex system: the nation-state.What You'll Learn: The Intangibles Economy: Why traditional economic metrics fail to capture the true drivers of 21st-century wealth-and what to measure instead.The Coherence Framework: A systems architecture for aligning policy, institutions, and human capital toward sustainable competitive advantage.The AI Transformation Map: How artificial intelligence reshapes labor markets, industry structures, and the very nature of economic value creation-and how nations can position themselves to win.The Resilience Imperative: Building adaptive capacity for a world of accelerating disruption, geopolitical shifts, and technological discontinuity.The Innovation Ecosystem: Engineering the conditions for breakthrough innovation-from education and research to entrepreneurship and capital formation.This book is for policymakers, economists, business leaders, and citizens who sense that the old playbooks no longer work-and seek a coherent framework for national prosperity in an incoherent world.Stop managing decline. Start engineering coherence. The future belongs to coherent nations.
Skh to Skh and Evolutionary Genesis
SKH TO SKH AND EVOLUTIONARY GENESIS: An African-Centered Research Method formally articulates African-centered methodological principles including ancestral dialogics, bio-phonic communication, noetic sensoria, Zaya discourse, and Divine Energy Made Manifest (DEMM). Central to this approach is the African-centered model of interconnecting rings of personhood, familyhood, and neighborhood, positioning wellness, meaning, and knowledge as communal, relational, and historically continuous. At the core of the text is the ancient Kemetic imperative sꜣḫw r sꜣḫw-to illuminate the illumined, reframed as both an ontological orientation and a methodological directive. Nobles advance inquiry as a culturally congruent, spirit-defined process that operates across visible and invisible domains of reality. Evolutionary genesis is presented as a recursive method of rescuing, reclaiming, refining, and regenerating African intellectual traditions as the genesis for contemporary research design, analysis, and interpretation. Vol. 4 in the Little Black Book Series establishes a foundational framework for African-centered research grounded in ancestral epistemology, spirit-defined being, and cosmological coherence. Designed for graduate students, faculty, researchers, and practitioners in Africana Studies, Black Psychology, Research Methods, Education, and related disciplines, SKH TO SKH AND EVOLUTIONARY GENESIS provides a durable methodological infrastructure for African-centered inquiry. Volume 4 in the Little Black Book Series in Methodology, Theory and Praxis, is a scholarly intervention, offering a disciplined pathway for advancing research that is culturally grounded and epistemically rigorous, a methodology for knowledge production within Africana and African-descended scholarship.
The Protest Economy
Protest is usually framed as a moral act or a political gesture. This book treats it as something else.The Protest Economy examines protest and mass mobilisation as economic systems. It asks how people are mobilised at scale, how participation is sustained over time, how costs are distributed, and how incentives shape behaviour once protest becomes persistent rather than exceptional.Drawing on economics, political economy, and historical case studies, the book traces protest from ancient societies to the modern era, showing how collective action functions when formal institutions fail to absorb conflict. It explores logistics, coordination, signalling, funding structures, legal exposure, and the limits of sustained mobilisation.Rather than judging legitimacy or ideology, this book describes mechanisms. It explains why payment is a blunt and risky tool, why indirect incentives matter more than direct compensation, and why the long-term consequences of persistent protest tend to fall unevenly on participants, organisers, and institutions.Written for academic readers, policymakers, analysts, and serious general readers, The Protest Economy provides a framework for understanding protest as an economic force rather than a rhetorical one.This paperback edition is designed for extended reading and reference.
Too Dangerous to Live
What happens when knowledge becomes a threat?Throughout history, those who uncover uncomfortable truths often face consequences far beyond criticism-careers collapse, reputations are destroyed, voices are erased, and in some cases, lives quietly disappear. Too Dangerous to Live explores this hidden pattern with unflinching depth, revealing how power reacts when its narratives are challenged and its structures exposed.This book examines the moment when information stops being neutral and starts becoming dangerous. Not because it is false-but because it is true in the wrong place, at the wrong time, and against the wrong interests. From silent suppression and psychological warfare to legal entanglement, surveillance, and character assassination, this work exposes the invisible mechanisms used to neutralize those who threaten stability with truth. It reveals how modern control rarely looks like censorship-it looks like distraction, exhaustion, isolation, and plausibility.Drawing from recurring historical patterns, institutional behavior, and psychological manipulation, Too Dangerous to Live dissects how knowledge itself becomes a weapon-and how silence becomes a survival strategy. It explores why some truths are never meant to surface, how whistleblowers are reframed as unstable, and why disappearance often follows exposure. This is not a sensationalist account. It is a structural analysis of how suppression works when it must appear legal, reasonable, and invisible.More than a book about power, this is a book about perception. About what happens inside the mind of those who see what others are not allowed to see. About how knowing changes identity, fractures trust, and forces impossible choices between safety and integrity. And about the quiet question that follows every revelation: What would you do if you knew too much?This book is for readers interested in hidden power systems, psychological control, modern suppression, surveillance culture, whistleblowing, information warfare, and the unseen cost of truth. It does not tell you what to believe-it teaches you how to observe.Because in a world built on managed reality, understanding itself can become dangerous.
Love Has No Borders
Love Has No Borders is a nonfiction account of forty years of work with refugees and immigrants who have come to the United States to begin a new life.One can hear the desperation of many as they have crossed the desk of a social worker. Immigrants from Cuba, Russia, the Middle East and Asia, Latin America, and Mexico, have come through the doors looking for sanctuary in a country that is known for accepting the refugee. However, there are those who say no to the incoming families who are seeking a way to feed and educate their children in a safe and nonthreatening environment. What are we, the privileged, called to do for our neighbors in this global land of plenty?This book includes personal stories of Guatemalan women who have left home to work as servants in the cities in order to help their abused mothers. It speaks of the men and women of Cuba who came to the United States on rafts, with issues of mental illness and criminal backgrounds. It tells the story of the family who is assumed to have money because of relatives who live in the United States and then killed because they cannot pay the extortion fees. It will tell the story of the young women who are trafficked for sex, who then come into the community with babies to support.Individuals and groups of all ages and nationalities will be interested in this book. Remember, you could be a refugee someday.Phyllis Dodd brings a professional and personal perspective to an important issue in our nation, going beyond the headlines to tell the stories of refugees and immigrants from the inside. It's a thought-provoking resource for people of faith and people everywhere.---Walt Wiltschek Pastor, Easton (Md.) Church of the Brethren and At-Large Editor, Messenger magazine
In Public Record
Acquitted in court. Convicted in public opinion.September 1990. In Shaker Heights, Ohio, teenage honors student Lisa Lee Pruett vanishes into the night. A boy calls 911 when she does not arrive for a secret late-night meet-up. Police soon find her nearby, stabbed to death and left exposed.Lisa had just passed an important test and earned her driver's license. She was a Girl Scout, athlete, musician, and lover of poetry. Then her life was cut short.Investigators quickly focused on a troubled young man who lived a few blocks away. His name leaked, the media swarmed, and the case became a spectacle. Two years later, he was indicted on controversial testimony, tried under national attention, and ultimately acquitted. His life never recovered.Decades later, the murder remains unsolved.Now a former police officer reopens the trail, determined to separate rumor from evidence and find the truth, if it is still there to be found.
It's Different For Women
In late January of 2012, I was twenty-nine years old and just beginning my first on campus college experience. While I had transferred into this private, fouryear institution as a junior, I had previously only attended courses online or on military bases for the past ten years. I had attended a handful of community college courses before joining the military, courses I could barely recall the subject of if it were not for the help of my college transcripts. I was excited for college. I was excited to be leaving the military. I purposefully wore sweatpants and tie-dyed arm warmers most of the first month of classes - simply because I could. I was less excited for some of the classes I was being asked to take, in particular, an arts course that was taught with a feminist theory framework.
The People Can Fly
What does it mean to be deemed promising in an unjust world? The award-winning poet and MIT Distinguished Chair of the Humanities interrogates this question--and offers a more expansive vision of giftedness--in this striking, original work. "The People Can Fly will levitate your mind and enrich your soul." --Lena Waithe What does promise cost in America? Especially when that promise is seen as grounds to separate us from the communities we cherish, and framed as the key to success, salvation, survival? In The People Can Fly, Dr. Joshua Bennett explores the complex position of black prodigies in a society that has, all too often, defined blackness as absence, as lack of intellect or inner life. Through this hybrid work of memoir and cultural history, Dr. Bennett shares how his own academic journey reflected the ebb and flow of being seen as both promising and as a problem. He turns to the childhood archives of Malcolm X, Stevie Wonder, Gwendolyn Brooks, James Baldwin, Nikki Giovanni, and others to further explore this theme: highlighting the role of cultural institutions, and loving communities, in shaping the lives of leading lights within African American culture. What's more, Dr. Bennett clarifies how these spaces--these mentors, teachers, friends, and kin--helped defend young people from a world that sought to exclude them from its vision of promise and possibility. With stunning prose and grace, The People Can Fly is an urgent reflection on what it means to be gifted, and to give one's gifts away, in the present day. It is a praise song for generations of black dreamers who dared to imagine another world--where miracles abound, and ascension is only the beginning.
We the Voters
Many Americans today are frustrated, unsettled, or just plain perplexed about the rules governing our democracy and who gets make them. Concern about rigged systems, confusion about the Electoral College, and uncertainty about who's in charge of it all have shaken our faith in elections as a reliable way to peacefully transfer political power in a deeply fractured nation. In We the Voters, Lori A. Ringhand brings a fresh perspective to these issues. In straightforward and accessible language, she explains how certain questions - who "we the people" are, how they should be represented, and who gets to make the rules governing our elections - have always lurked just beneath the surface of our nation's most contentious fights about how our elections should work. When there are clear answers to these questions, this book explains them. But its primary purpose is to help readers understand why so many of these questions are genuinely difficult, and how decisions made by past generations both structure and empower our choices today. Using constitutional text, history, and landmark Supreme Court decisions, Ringhand shows how the Constitution often serves less as rigid rule book for our elections and more as a general framework, empowering each generation of Americans to engage for themselves the important questions underlying our electoral system by interrogating what is and isn't working for them. We the Voters is pragmatic, but also optimistic. In the end, the Constitution leaves the defense of our democracy up to us; it equips us with the tools we need to question, debate, and ultimately change how our system of self-government works. This book urges us to take up that call with vigor.
In The System That Never Blinks
In The System That Never Blinks, readers are taken inside the invisible architecture of modern surveillance-a world where observation is constant, automated, and largely unquestioned. This is not a book about cameras alone. It is about data, algorithms, behavioral tracking, predictive systems, and the quiet transformation of freedom in a society designed to monitor, measure, and influence human life.Surveillance today no longer waits for wrongdoing. It anticipates behavior. It assigns value, risk, and relevance before action occurs. From smartphones and workplaces to financial systems, governments, and digital platforms, monitoring has become infrastructure rather than exception. What makes this system so powerful is not its visibility, but its subtlety-how it embeds itself into convenience, safety, and everyday participation until opting out feels impossible.This book examines how total monitoring reshapes power, economics, consent, identity, and psychology. It explores how attention is turned into profit, how behavior becomes a commodity, and how individuals adapt under constant observation-often without realizing it. Readers will discover how algorithms quietly replace human judgment, how absence itself becomes data, and how prediction is used to guide outcomes rather than respond to them.Importantly, The System That Never Blinks does not rely on conspiracy or sensationalism. It presents a structured, analytical exploration of how modern monitoring systems emerged, why they were normalized, and what their long-term consequences may be. It asks difficult but necessary questions: What happens to autonomy when systems never forget?What does consent mean when participation is required to function in society?Can freedom survive in a world optimized for prediction and control?Written for readers who sense that something fundamental has shifted-but want clarity rather than fear-this book offers insight into the mechanisms shaping modern life and the psychological costs of living under invisible pressure. Awareness, it argues, is not resistance-but it is the first step toward meaningful choice.If you want to understand the system you already live inside, this book is essential reading.
Thinking Under Observation
What happens to the human mind when it knows it is being watched?In Thinking Under Observation: The Hidden Psychology of Control, this gripping and thought-provoking exploration uncovers how modern systems of visibility-surveillance, social monitoring, digital tracking, and psychological conditioning-are quietly reshaping the way people think, choose, and define themselves. This is not a book about cameras alone. It is about how awareness of being observed alters human behavior, suppresses originality, encourages self-censorship, and replaces genuine freedom with silent compliance. Drawing from psychological insight and social analysis, the book reveals how control today rarely looks like force-it looks like normal life.Through powerful chapters such as The Age of Being Watched, Control Without Force, and The Psychology of the Watching Eye, the reader is guided into the unseen mechanisms that influence thoughts before actions even occur. You will discover how fear becomes subtle, how self-regulation replaces enforcement, and how people internalize invisible expectations that shape their identity, emotions, and imagination. Modern power does not demand obedience-it designs environments where obedience feels like choice THINKING UNDER OBSERVATIONThis book is for readers who sense that something fundamental has changed in human freedom but cannot yet name it. It is for thinkers, seekers, psychologists, technologists, and anyone who wants to understand how control now operates through anticipation rather than punishment, design rather than domination, and comfort rather than chains. Thinking Under Observation does not tell you what to believe-it teaches you how belief itself is shaped.If you've ever wondered why people silence themselves, why creativity feels dangerous, or why modern freedom feels strangely limited, this book will change the way you see your own thoughts.
Spiked by the System
This book is a direct, unflinching invitation for men into the conversations women have once they're safely out of earshot. It isn't an accusation. It's a guided tour through the invisible rules, unspoken expectations, and systemic imbalances that shape women's daily lives. With a voice that is equal parts warm, candid, and sharply observant, the author reveals how privilege, communication gaps, the mental load, and restrictive masculinity collide in modern relationships.Drawing on personal experience, cultural analysis, and relatable examples, the book dismantles defensiveness, reframes common misunderstandings, and makes visible the unseen labour women carry. It explains not only what these dynamics are, but why they persist, how they impact intimacy and connection, and what awareness can make possible.Across fourteen chapters, the reader is taken from foundational concepts of privilege, through behavioural patterns like weaponised incompetence and #NotAllMen defensiveness, into deeper explorations of emotional work, beauty standards, and communication breakdowns. The book also examines how traditional masculinity harms men themselves, and closes with a practical, achievable blueprint for everyday allyship and raising the next generation with healthier expectations.Balancing empathy with clarity, this book offers men a way in rather than a way out - showing that awareness is not about blame, but about building relationships rooted in safety, equality, and genuine partnership. It is both a mirror and a map, inviting the reader to see the system clearly, and then choose differently.
The garnishment
This book is providing a comparative analysis of Garnishment law and practice in notable jurisdictions ranging from United Kingdom to United States until India, Nigeria and Cameroon, and Iran treating age old questions and contemporary issues.To give helpful background, understanding, and guidance, the book is updated with cases from the last several years, academic publications, and the author's personal experiences also as a legal practitioner fully aware of the potential for abuse on the part of the defendant, which would nullify the jurisdictional process, as well as to make it easier to execute the ruling, take into account pertinent exigencies, and achieve favorable results for this institution. This strategy has been used by several well-known legal systems.
In The System That Never Blinks
In The System That Never Blinks, readers are taken inside the invisible architecture of modern surveillance-a world where observation is constant, automated, and largely unquestioned. This is not a book about cameras alone. It is about data, algorithms, behavioral tracking, predictive systems, and the quiet transformation of freedom in a society designed to monitor, measure, and influence human life.Surveillance today no longer waits for wrongdoing. It anticipates behavior. It assigns value, risk, and relevance before action occurs. From smartphones and workplaces to financial systems, governments, and digital platforms, monitoring has become infrastructure rather than exception. What makes this system so powerful is not its visibility, but its subtlety-how it embeds itself into convenience, safety, and everyday participation until opting out feels impossible.This book examines how total monitoring reshapes power, economics, consent, identity, and psychology. It explores how attention is turned into profit, how behavior becomes a commodity, and how individuals adapt under constant observation-often without realizing it. Readers will discover how algorithms quietly replace human judgment, how absence itself becomes data, and how prediction is used to guide outcomes rather than respond to them.Importantly, The System That Never Blinks does not rely on conspiracy or sensationalism. It presents a structured, analytical exploration of how modern monitoring systems emerged, why they were normalized, and what their long-term consequences may be. It asks difficult but necessary questions: What happens to autonomy when systems never forget?What does consent mean when participation is required to function in society?Can freedom survive in a world optimized for prediction and control?Written for readers who sense that something fundamental has shifted-but want clarity rather than fear-this book offers insight into the mechanisms shaping modern life and the psychological costs of living under invisible pressure. Awareness, it argues, is not resistance-but it is the first step toward meaningful choice.If you want to understand the system you already live inside, this book is essential reading.
From Prison to Possibilities
Be sure to get the companion journal!The purpose of this book is to develop a plan for your successful transition from incarceration to living a full and productive life post-release. Ideally, the process of getting ready for the transition starts six months prior to your release. The ideal structure is for you to have a mentor and go through this program every week while still in prison and twelve weeks post-incarceration. The objective is to reduce recidivism by addressing community-reintegration issues and providing a structure for transition success. In other words, to keep you from returning to prison by helping you build a successful life as you address typical problems in the free world outside of the prison walls! The book provides some prework to get you ready to reach out to a mentor. Once you are ready, you and your mentor will meet weekly to discuss the chapter. The design of the book is to provide you with an opportunity to work on life and employability skills. Finally, a checklist and templates are provided to ensure post-release readiness. By the grace of God, most people have not been incarcerated and probably cannot imagine how their life would have turned out if they had gone to prison. It is my prayer that if you or your family member or a church partner are reading this book, they will believe you are worth it and want to reinvest in you to give you a second chance. We all deserve a second chance. Certainly, God has provided for a lifetime of chances!
Thinking Under Observation
The System That Never Blinks takes readers inside the hidden architecture of modern monitoring, where observation is no longer an act but an environment. In this world, surveillance does not rely on force, threats, or visible authority. It works quietly-through psychology, design, normalization, and self-regulation-until control feels indistinguishable from everyday life.This book explores how constant observation reshapes human behavior long before any rule is enforced. It reveals how people learn to censor themselves, soften their opinions, and regulate their emotions simply by knowing they might be watched. Over time, the external observer becomes internalized. Individuals begin monitoring their own thoughts, choices, and identities, adapting not because they are ordered to-but because deviation feels unsafe.Moving beyond cameras and technology, The System That Never Blinks examines surveillance as a social structure. Monitoring becomes embedded in work, communication, platforms, relationships, and even imagination. Algorithms replace judgment. Visibility becomes currency. Convenience disguises control. The result is a society where people feel free, yet behave predictably-guided by anticipation rather than coercion.Drawing on psychological insight rather than speculation, this book explains: Why observation no longer feels like controlHow fear, compliance, and self-regulation replace forceHow creativity, dissent, and private thought quietly erodeWhy modern power prefers prediction over punishmentThis is not a conspiracy narrative. It is a sober examination of how control matures when it no longer needs to announce itself. The greatest danger is not being watched-but forgetting how deeply watching changes thinking.Written for readers who sense that something fundamental has shifted in modern life but want clarity instead of panic, The System That Never Blinks offers awareness as the first step toward reclaiming mental autonomy in a world designed to observe without appearing to threaten.
Woke
Critical Social Justice or wokeism is a relatively new phenomena that has dominated the recent culture wars since the antiracism movement intensified in the wake of George Floyd's death. In this volume, internationally acclaimed cultural critics, social political theorists, psychologists, philosophers, behavioral scientists, and scholars of humanities examine contemporary issues in social critique that address a myriad of topics including critical race theory (CRT), identity politics, decolonialism, diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) movements, whiteness theory, gender critical feminism, transgenderism, cancel culture, antizionism/antisemitism, postmodern epistemology, the free speech debate, and political authoritarianism. This is the first book of its kind to offer a scholarly critique of the social justice ideology that has saturated our modern times, stoked by polarization and societal division, fomenting discord, radical politics, censorship, and new forms of fascism.Woke: A Critique of Social Justice Ideology will be of interest to cultural theorists, philosophers, political scientists, journalists, media studies, psychologists, sociologists, anthropologists, psychoanalysts, religious studies, popular culture, and those generally interested in the humanities and social sciences.
This Is an Uprising
In a book that has become a modern classic of social movement organizing, Mark and Paul Engler explain that there is a craft to uprising--and that this craft can change the world. From protests around climate change and immigrant rights, to #BlackLivesMatter and movements to defend democracy, a new generation is unleashing strategic nonviolent action to shape public debate and force political change. While mass movements are often portrayed as spontaneous and unpredictable, Mark and Paul Engler explore the hidden art behind such outbursts of protest, examining core principles that have been used to spark and guide moments of transformative unrest. Now updated with new material discussing the major mobilizations of the past decade--including #MeToo, protests for racial and climate justice, and anti-Trump resistance--This Is an Uprising shows how new protest movements can be essential in fighting authoritarianism and advancing social and economic justice today.
Privacy Is Dead - And Freedom Is Next
There was a time when privacy was the default state of human existence. Conversations faded when spoken. Movements disappeared once completed. Thoughts belonged to the individual alone. That world no longer exists.Privacy Is Dead - And Freedom Is Next exposes how modern surveillance has quietly transformed everyday life into a system of continuous observation, prediction, and behavioral control. This book reveals how freedom does not disappear overnight-it erodes gradually, disguised as convenience, safety, efficiency, and technological progress.Drawing from political psychology, surveillance studies, and real-world systems already shaping society, this book explains how power has evolved. Control no longer relies on force or visible authority. It operates silently through data collection, algorithms, digital identities, financial monitoring, and behavioral prediction. When privacy disappears, freedom becomes conditional-managed rather than owned.Inside this book, you will discover: How surveillance shifted from targeted monitoring to permanent, systemic observationWhy digital footprints and metadata are more powerful than content itselfHow big tech corporations became private surveillance empiresThe psychological impact of constant observation on thought, behavior, and dissentWhy anonymity has become a myth in the modern worldHow freedom survives briefly after privacy dies-before quietly following itThis is not a book driven by fear or nostalgia. It does not argue against technology itself. Instead, it provides clarity-clarity about the systems shaping human behavior, the trade-offs rarely explained, and the freedoms slowly being redefined without public consent.Privacy Is Dead - And Freedom Is Next is for readers who sense that something fundamental has changed but want a deeper understanding of how and why. It challenges the assumption that surveillance is harmless, inevitable, or neutral-and asks the most urgent question of our time: What happens to human freedom in a world where nothing is truly private?
Privacy Is Dead - And Freedom Is Next
There was a time when privacy was the default state of human existence. Conversations faded when spoken. Movements disappeared once completed. Thoughts belonged to the individual alone. That world no longer exists.Privacy Is Dead - And Freedom Is Next exposes how modern surveillance has quietly transformed everyday life into a system of continuous observation, prediction, and behavioral control. This book reveals how freedom does not disappear overnight-it erodes gradually, disguised as convenience, safety, efficiency, and technological progress.Drawing from political psychology, surveillance studies, and real-world systems already shaping society, this book explains how power has evolved. Control no longer relies on force or visible authority. It operates silently through data collection, algorithms, digital identities, financial monitoring, and behavioral prediction. When privacy disappears, freedom becomes conditional-managed rather than owned.Inside this book, you will discover: How surveillance shifted from targeted monitoring to permanent, systemic observationWhy digital footprints and metadata are more powerful than content itselfHow big tech corporations became private surveillance empiresThe psychological impact of constant observation on thought, behavior, and dissentWhy anonymity has become a myth in the modern worldHow freedom survives briefly after privacy dies-before quietly following itThis is not a book driven by fear or nostalgia. It does not argue against technology itself. Instead, it provides clarity-clarity about the systems shaping human behavior, the trade-offs rarely explained, and the freedoms slowly being redefined without public consent.Privacy Is Dead - And Freedom Is Next is for readers who sense that something fundamental has changed but want a deeper understanding of how and why. It challenges the assumption that surveillance is harmless, inevitable, or neutral-and asks the most urgent question of our time: What happens to human freedom in a world where nothing is truly private?
Humans, Temporary Absolutes
Albert Piette chose to "note", regretting that he was not an artist who could express "time". As an anthropologist, he has transformed his fear of time into acts of noting that have become central to his own work. His father, his daughters' childhoods, the moments of a day and his experience of a blocked nose are "noted". The author's main aim is to show how, on the basis of such daily notes on his own life, it is possible to carry out anthropology. In so doing, he debates with artists, philosophers and anthropologists. Above all, he offers a radically different perspective on anthropology as a theoretical reflection on the "resistance" of being - the absolute being - from which he draws out the elementary laws of functioning. The book concludes with proposals for an ethics of noting as an antidote to violence.
The Choice of Civil War
TURNING CITIZENS INTO ENEMIES, NEOLIBERAL GOVERNMENTS HAMSTRING DEMOCRACY Margaret Thatcher's mantra 'there is no alternative' was not a statement of historical fact but a strategic objective. She shared with Hayek, Pinochet, Mises, Trump, Bolsonaro, and Macron a commitment to utilizing ideology, constitutional economics, labour discipline, and culture wars, as well as police and military force, to prevent popular resistance from organizing. Whatever their doctrinal differences, they all see the state's tight control of democracy as the most effective means of defeating egalitarian alternatives. Neoliberalism persists today thanks to its ability to defeat opponents while deepening social and cultural regression.
Your After-Credits Scene
Spoiler Alert: The State Already Wrote Your Ending From Harry Potter to Star Wars, every story we love teaches us this: legacy matters. But in real life, your legacy isn't left to magic, the Force, or a throne-it's shaped by the choices you make now. If you're a nerd, millennial, Gen Xer, or just someone with stuff and people you care about, this is your estate-planning guide.Your After-Credits Scene turns the confusing world of wills, trusts, and probate into something actually understandable (and, dare we say, entertaining). Using lessons from your favorite fandoms-Star Wars, Harry Potter, the MCU, and Game of Thrones-this book makes estate planning feel less like a chore and more like building an empire that lasts long after the credits roll.Attorney and fellow fangirl Cecilia Amo busts the myths that keep you from planning ahead and shows exactly how to protect what matters most.In this practical, relatable, and surprisingly fun guide, you'll learn: What "estate" really means (hint: it's not just mansions and yachts)Why a simple will isn't enough-and how to keep your family out of courtHow to protect your digital assets, collectibles, and chosen familyThe difference between transactional and holistic planningWays to ensure your story and values live onAt its heart, estate planning is about love, not legalese. This book speaks your language-whether you're a parent juggling bedtime stories and mortgages, a nerd safeguarding collectibles, or anyone who wants planning ahead to feel empowering, not overwhelming.Perfect For: Parents who want their kids protected, no matter what happensChild-free adults who want assets to go to the right people (or causes)Singles who need more than "leave everything to Mom"Couples - married or not - navigating modern or blended familiesPet parents who want their fur babies cared for, even in the worst timelineCollectors, creatives, and anyone with digital treasures that deserve to live onPeople who've delayed planning because it felt too overwhelming or irrelevantPop-culture fans who'd rather learn through story than slog through legaleseKeep the People and Passions You Love ProtectedThis isn't about preparing for the worst-it's about making sure your story ends the way you want it to, with the people, passions, and legacy you love most protected. Whether you're starting fresh or updating an old plan, Your After-Credits Scene gives you the clarity and confidence to act.Ready to be the hero your family's future needs? Start your After-Credits Scene today.
The Human Farm
What if modern freedom is only an illusion-and you are already part of the system?In The Human Farm, a powerful and unsettling expos矇, this book reveals how corporations, governments, and algorithms have quietly transformed human beings into measurable, predictable, and profitable products. No chains. No force. No visible oppressors. Just systems engineered so seamlessly that participation feels voluntary.We live in an age where attention is harvested, emotions are monetized, and behavior is shaped long before conscious choice occurs. Data has replaced oil as the world's most valuable resource-and human life is its primary source. Every click, scroll, movement, and hesitation feeds vast systems designed to predict, influence, and optimize behavior for profit and control.This book takes readers deep inside the architecture of modern power: How surveillance capitalism turned everyday life into an extraction economyHow "free" services mask the true cost of behavioral data harvestingHow addiction, habit loops, and attention engineering are deliberately designedHow corporations became behavioral architects shaping desire and identityHow autonomy erodes without force-through convenience, personalization, and consent illusionsUnlike conspiracy-driven narratives, The Human Farm offers a sober, structured examination of how control actually operates in the modern world. Drawing from history, psychology, economics, and digital systems, it exposes how centuries of human management evolved into today's invisible, algorithm-driven dominance.This is not an argument against technology. It is a warning about power without accountability-and a call to awareness.Because awareness is the first act of resistance.If human beings are being optimized, managed, and harvested... the most important question is no longer who is in control- but whether we still are.
Wild Partners
Wild Partners traces the history of the Maututu Nakanai of West New Britain, Papua New Guinea. According to a Maututu ontology, or worldview, they are surrounded by a forest filled with threatening wild forces. It is believed that outstanding men and women pioneer ways to engage these forces to bring benefit to their village community. In recent times, the Maututu have had to engage with human outsiders, including government officers, church administrators, industrial managers and migrant settlers, who like their mythological counterparts have threatened to disrupt the established world.This study captures Maututu approaches to the threats and challenges they have faced over the last hundred years-the proclamation of the Christian world, the dislocation of the Pacific war, the development programs of the colonial and independent governments and the industrial expansion of oil palm. The challenges have at times threatened the very essence of their being through the destruction of forests, loss of land, competition for schooling and health care, marginalisation within the oil palm industry and the emergence of 'big shot' individuals who ignore community obligations.Maututu have adapted to these threats, becoming successful oil palm producers and prominent professionals throughout Papua New Guinea while seeking to rejuvenate Christianity, protect forest and marine environments and build partnerships that benefit their village communities. Central to these efforts has been partnership with outside forces.
Woke
Critical Social Justice or wokeism is a relatively new phenomena that has dominated the recent culture wars since the antiracism movement intensified in the wake of George Floyd's death. In this volume, internationally acclaimed cultural critics, social political theorists, psychologists, philosophers, behavioral scientists, and scholars of humanities examine contemporary issues in social critique that address a myriad of topics including critical race theory (CRT), identity politics, decolonialism, diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) movements, whiteness theory, gender critical feminism, transgenderism, cancel culture, antizionism/antisemitism, postmodern epistemology, the free speech debate, and political authoritarianism. This is the first book of its kind to offer a scholarly critique of the social justice ideology that has saturated our modern times, stoked by polarization and societal division, fomenting discord, radical politics, censorship, and new forms of fascism.Woke: A Critique of Social Justice Ideology will be of interest to cultural theorists, philosophers, political scientists, journalists, media studies, psychologists, sociologists, anthropologists, psychoanalysts, religious studies, popular culture, and those generally interested in the humanities and social sciences.
Statism with Chinese Characteristics
Statism with Chinese Characteristics offers a fresh perspective on the Chinese economy and its impact on the world. By diving into details and data such as the private nature of rural enterprises, early financial reforms, and the critical role of initial political openness, Yasheng Huang challenges the popular view that credits China's success to a unique blend of government interventions and autocratic governance. Huang shows how China's growth was driven by private entrepreneurship and gradual liberalization, not by infrastructural development, statist finance, and meritocratic autocracy. He confronts assumptions regarding the conventional wisdom about the Chinese economy, explicitly engaging with the policy pivot from the 1980s to the 1990s and infrastructure as a crucial factor behind China's growth. Underscoring the significant role of politics in shaping economic outcomes, this second edition explores the challenges facing the Chinese economy today, emphasizing how political changes dictate economic reforms, rather than the opposite.
The Machinery of Democracy
This book examines how modern systems shape human opportunity and how individuals, organizations, and communities can reclaim agency inside complex social, economic, and technological environments. Drawing on years of research across public policy, systems design, and applied ethics, the author connects theory to lived reality through clear analysis and grounded storytelling. Rather than offering quick fixes, the book builds a practical framework for understanding how institutions actually function and where leverage for change really exists. Readers are guided through the forces that shape outcomes in education, health, labor, and civic life, with special attention to how technology and automation redefine power, access, and responsibility.Written for scholars, practitioners, and engaged citizens alike, this work serves as both a diagnostic tool and a field guide. It equips readers to see patterns others miss, ask better questions, and act with intention inside systems that often feel immovable. This is a book for readers who care about impact over ideology and solutions over slogans.This book examines how modern systems shape human opportunity and how individuals and organizations can reclaim agency in complex social, economic, and technological environments.
Bitcoin for Women
Money is not neutral. It determines who can act quickly, who must wait, and who is required to explain themselves when systems tighten. For women, those dynamics are not theoretical. They appear during moments of care, responsibility, transition, and pressure, when access, timing, and discretion matter most. Bitcoin for Women examines how modern financial systems are structured around permission, surveillance, and institutional control, and why those structures often fail women quietly rather than dramatically. It explains how inflation, account restrictions, compliance rules, and behavioral monitoring operate in practice, not in theory. These mechanisms are treated as infrastructure, not ideology, with attention to how authority is enforced and where burden is shifted downward. Bitcoin is introduced as a contrasting structure, not a solution or identity. Its design, limits, risks, and tradeoffs are addressed directly, including environmental cost in context and the responsibilities that come with ownership. Written in clear, non-technical language, this book equips readers to understand when traditional systems function as intended, when they do not, and how to evaluate alternatives without belief, urgency, or abstraction.
Narcoterrorism 3.0
Narcoterrorism 3.0 is a strategic and analytical examination of how organized crime, terrorism, corruption, and fragile state structures have converged into a new global system of power.This book moves beyond traditional narratives of crime and violence to explore how narcotrafficking has evolved from an illicit economic activity into a geopolitical force capable of reshaping governance, undermining institutions, and destabilizing entire regions.Drawing from decades of field experience, intelligence analysis, and geopolitical research, Johan Obdola maps the transformation of criminal networks into transnational power actors - and explains how these networks now intersect with extremist movements, corrupt elites, and global financial systems.Rather than treating terrorism, organized crime, and political corruption as separate phenomena, Narcoterrorism 3.0 shows how they function as a single, integrated system - a hybrid architecture of power that operates across borders, institutions, and legal frameworks.The book addresses critical questions such as: - How do criminal networks evolve into political and strategic actors? - Why do fragile states become platforms for transnational power? - How do illicit financial flows undermine governance and accountability? - Why are traditional institutions struggling to respond to these threats?Narcoterrorism 3.0 is written for policymakers, security professionals, analysts, journalists, and institutional leaders seeking to understand one of the most consequential and least understood transformations of the modern world.This is not a book about crime. It is a book about power.
Cheque Dishonour Cases Exclusive
Cheque Dishonour Cases Exclusive - The Practical Guide is a comprehensive and practice-oriented book on cheque dishonour litigation under Section 138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881.The book is specially designed for trial court practice and provides step-by-step procedural guidance from both the complainant's as well as the accused's perspective. It covers the entire process starting from issuance of statutory demand notice, filing of complaint, conduct of trial, evidence, cross-examination, interim applications, arguments, and final judgment.This book includes a rich draft library of statutory notices, complaints, affidavits, applications, and miscellaneous pleadings commonly used in cheque dishonour cases. It also explains practical aspects of law of evidence, marking of exhibits, interim reliefs, and important judicial precedents.Authored by the CLC(R) Team, Mumbai, under the guidance of Advocate Vinod Kumar Chhabra of the Bombay High Court, this book serves as an essential reference for advocates, law students, and legal professionals dealing with cheque dishonour cases.
The Hunted Has Become The Hunter
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE TIDE BEGINS TO TURN?Donald J. Trump has been relentlessly pursued by his political enemies. The investigations, indictments, and harassment have been unrelenting. He has been thehunted.But what if everything they have done to try to destroy him starts to backfire? What if the relentless pursuit transforms into a moment of reckoning, and the hunter becomes the one being pursued?This book is not just about revenge; it's about accountability, truth, and the resilience of a man who has vowed to stand tall and fight back.THE HUNTED HAS BECOME THE HUNTERunveils the seismic shift in dynamics and the quest for justice when the tables turn.JOHN A. ALEXANDERis a dedicated researcher and writer focusing on political and societal issues, known for his thought-provoking analysis and commitment to uncovering the truth.
A 3rd Letter to America
A NATION AT A CROSSROADS.A WARNING TO THE WORLD. THAT NO LONGER CAN BE IGNORED. From an outsider looking in, international speaker and author JOHN A. ALEXANDER delivers a bold, uncompromising message to the United States at one of the most critical moments in its history. In A 3rd Letter to America, he reveals how the world views the rise of misinformation, political division, violence, weakened institutions, and a country struggling to reconcile truth with deception. IT IS A SPIRITUAL WARNING. A CALL TO RETURN TO TRUTH. A CHALLENGE FOR AMERICA. TO RISE ONCE AGAIN. Through powerful chapters touching on leadership, morality, justice, media influence, national identity, and the future of children, this book exposes: How Global nations now perceive America's internal conflicts Why moral decay is more dangerous than political opponents The consequences of abandoning God's truth How corruption, division, and ideological warfare reshape America's image Why 2025-2026 is the turning point - NOW OR NEVER America still has time to change course. But the world is watching. And the clock is ticking.
Outsider Rules
Dedicated staffer, Nick Taft, exits the halls of Congress for an eye-opening journey through Washington's lobbying world awash in money and bereft of morality. Joining the ACC, a well-connected communications coalition, he learns through Kale McDermott, a seasoned lobbyist, the ways of survival in Washington's power grid. Along the way he discovers how well-intentioned politicians are so often persuaded against their better judgment: money. Assigned to cover Montana for his coalition, he befriends powerful Senator Clarence Waters, whose staffers' antics quickly place him on the edge of criminal activity. But Nick needs their boss's support, and the embattled third-term incumbent needs help from every financial source, including Nick. Desperate to secure his own career and guarantee the reelection of Senator Waters, Nick is swept into a gold mining company's campaign finance scheme. But the miners' lawyer manipulates a twisted strategy by engaging a Mexican drug cartel that leads Nick into the middle of the vast and often dangerous Crow Reservation.In his second novel, Roger Fleming takes on the dual beasts of DC lobbying and the dark side of campaign finance. His insider's view alternates between the ethically threadbare lobbying world of the 1990s to a meth-addled campaign trail in 2006 that together determine the outcome of one of America's closest and most consequential U.S. Senate elections of the early 21st Century. Roger Fleming, who is also the author of Majority Rules, was born and raised in Florida. He served as Legislative Director to U.S. Congressman E. Clay Shaw, Jr., as Majority and Minority Counsel on the Judiciary Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives, and as a political appointee in the Administration of President George H.W. Bush. Roger is a graduate of Emory University and lives in Alexandria, Virginia
Spitting Back!
In a culture increasingly dominated by divisive identity politics and "woke" ideology, Bruce O'Brien refuses to sit silently by. "Spitting Back" delivers twenty-two sharp, unfiltered essays that shatter progressive orthodoxies while defending the values that built America. Drawing on historical examples and contemporary developments, O'Brien exposes what he sees as the dangerous influence of Cultural Marxism in our schools, corporations, and government. From Critical Race Theory to DEI initiatives, from campus censorship to environmental alarmism, he systematically dismantles the ideological framework threatening to transform our republic. Written with conviction and unwavering clarity, O'Brien's perspectives will resonate with readers concerned about America's cultural direction. He argues that conservatives are the true progressives, championing individual rights, free speech, and equal opportunity rather than equal outcomes. The collection culminates with "The Gull," a reflective short story that reveals a softer, contemplative side to O'Brien's otherwise combative prose. "Spitting Back" isn't just a critique-it's a call to action. Whether you're already aligned with conservative principles or simply questioning the excesses of today's social justice movements, this collection offers intellectual ammunition for defending Western values against what O'Brien describes as a coordinated assault on our civilization. For those tired of being told to sit down and shut up, O'Brien's message is clear: it's time to start spitting back.
Was My Cousin a Triple Agent?
Maxwell Nasmyth Wilcocks was born in 1921, a man who seemed ordinary on the surface but harboured a lifetime of secrets. To his family, he was a Walter Mitty character, spinning tales of exotic travels and claiming diplomatic immunity, yet never revealing the truth about his mysterious work.Those who met him could not forget his towering presence and commanding charisma. He often called from far-off places like Brazil or Russia, with stories that seemed impossible at the time. After his death, reality was revealed. Wilcocks had been an MI6 operative, living multiple lives under false names and high-ranking titles, a world far beyond anything his family had imagined.Now the question remains: Who was the real Maxwell Nasmyth Wilcocks, and can his hidden Faberg矇 egg ever be found?
The History of British Trotskyism
This book is a unique contribution to the history of British Trotskyism, written by Ted Grant (1913-2006), who shaped the course of Trotskyism in Britain for over half a century.Grant offers a detailed account of this beginning from the 1924 debate on Trotskyism in the British Communist Party, through to the events of the Second World War with the wartime activities of the Worker's International League and Revolutionary Communist Party, and his role as the chief theoretician. The activities even drew the attention of the British state - a report by the Home Secretary on the Trotskyist movement in Britain, alongside a Secret Service Report, is included in the appendices.This is followed by more than thirty years of revolutionary work within the Labour Party, where Grant founded and led the Militant Tendency, which haunted the Labour leadership and was eventually expelled along with the Militant editorial board in 1983. A postscript by Rob Sewell, the national organiser for the Militant throughout the 1980s, brings this unique history up to date.This book is a first-hand account of the personal recollections and role of a man who preserved the unbroken thread of Trotskyism throughout this time, combined with his seminal theoretical pieces, such as 'Stalinism in the Post War World' and 'Programme of the International', presented in the appendices.This is an indispensable tool to students of political history, and above all, an inspiration to all those seeking to change the world.
The Silent Rulers
The most powerful rulers of the modern world do not govern from thrones or parliaments. They do not issue public decrees or march armies through the streets. They operate quietly-embedded within systems so deeply woven into everyday life that most people no longer recognize them. These rulers are surveillance networks, and they are reshaping how power functions across the globe.The Silent Rulers exposes the hidden architecture behind modern control-how governments, corporations, algorithms, and global intelligence alliances have transformed surveillance from a security tool into a permanent system of influence. From digital footprints and biometric identity to predictive analytics, smart cities, and financial monitoring, this book reveals how observation has evolved into behavioral management. Control no longer relies on force; it operates through data, automation, and psychological conditioning-often with full public participation and little awareness.Drawing on history, technology, psychology, and political analysis, this book explains how constant monitoring reshapes thought, behavior, and freedom itself. It examines the rise of global surveillance alliances, the role of Big Tech as a private intelligence empire, and the subtle ways consent is engineered rather than informed. More importantly, it challenges readers to confront a defining question of the modern age: what happens to autonomy, privacy, and democracy when surveillance becomes the foundation of governance?The Silent Rulers is an essential read for anyone concerned with privacy, power, digital freedom, and the unseen systems shaping the future of humanity. The rulers of this world may be silent-but their influence is everywhere.
Applied Elite Theory
In Applied Elite Theory, Neema Parvini brings the arguments of The Populist Delusion and The Prophets of Doom into direct confrontation with contemporary political reality. Drawing from over forty essays and speeches written between 2022 and 2025, Parvini tests the central claims of classical elite theory-derived from Mosca, Pareto, and Michels-against the tumult of present-day events in Britain, America, and beyond.Parvini's premise is simple: populism is the thickest of all delusions. Power never flows upward; it is always exercised by an organised minority, and every movement that forgets this truth is destined for capture. Across three sections, he shows this pattern repeating. In America, the populist wave surrounding Donald Trump succumbs to the "Iron Law of Oligarchy," transforming from rebellion to empty formalism within a single political cycle. In Britain, Tony Blair's enduring influence and the hollow collapse of the Conservative Party reveal an establishment that has survived every supposed change of regime. Throughout, Parvini's tone is unsparing yet analytical, combining political realism with cultural diagnosis.The collection also documents Parvini's own evolution-from early engagement with the dissident right to a disillusioned realism that sees even online radicalism as a new form of containment. Written originally for his Substack The Forbidden Texts, his Chronicles column "Riding the Tiger," and public lectures, these pieces gain new coherence in print: together they map a world in which ideology masks interest, elites recycle themselves beneath shifting symbols, and history vindicates the cynics of power.Applied Elite Theory continues Parvini's work on power, decline, and belief. If The Populist Delusion was theory and The Prophets of Doom history, this is practice-a guided tour through the politics of the 2020s, showing how elite theory predicts, explains, and perhaps forecloses on the hopes of populism itself.
A 3rd Letter to America
A NATION AT A CROSSROADS.A WARNING TO THE WORLD. THAT NO LONGER CAN BE IGNORED. From an outsider looking in, international speaker and author JOHN A. ALEXANDER delivers a bold, uncompromising message to the United States at one of the most critical moments in its history. In A 3rd Letter to America, he reveals how the world views the rise of misinformation, political division, violence, weakened institutions, and a country struggling to reconcile truth with deception. IT IS A SPIRITUAL WARNING. A CALL TO RETURN TO TRUTH. A CHALLENGE FOR AMERICA. TO RISE ONCE AGAIN. Through powerful chapters touching on leadership, morality, justice, media influence, national identity, and the future of children, this book exposes: How Global nations now perceive America's internal conflicts Why moral decay is more dangerous than political opponents The consequences of abandoning God's truth How corruption, division, and ideological warfare reshape America's image Why 2025-2026 is the turning point - NOW OR NEVER America still has time to change course. But the world is watching. And the clock is ticking.
Where Murder Lies
Justice is, in this day, bewailing its plight...The murder of a retired Los Angeles school teacher in 2004 never made the evening news, yet within hours arrests were made, charges filed, and a speedy conviction sent to prison Jimmy Kitlas, an incredibly shy, special needs teenager with no criminal history whatsoever. 20 years after the murder, a woman named Kelley Leigh asked Burl Barer and Frank C. Girardot to investigate. She believed that the case's rapid resolution concealed a deeper, more troubling narrative-one marked by deception, manipulation, dishonesty, and a profound disregard for truth and justice.She was right. Of the last three people to see the victim alive, only one had both the motive and the opportunity to strangle him to death, and it wasn't Jimmy Kitlas.What begins with a dead body on the bed leads to a bizarre scheme to steal a fortune in gold, a plot to smuggle MDMA, and an incredible joint effort by the American Mafia and the Russian Mob to defraud the United States Government out of billions of dollars. "Tautly written and deeply reported, the authors have created a gripping page-turner...A masterwork of true crime-and an unforgettable study of injustice."--Kerrie Droban, true crime author of Running with the Devil
The Right of American Slavery
The Right of American Slavery is a controversial nineteenth-century political and philosophical tract by T. W. Hoit that presents an argument in defense of the institution of slavery in the United States. Written during the height of national debate over slavery, the work reflects the ideological positions used to justify bondage on legal, moral, and social grounds.Hoit constructs his case by appealing to constitutional interpretation, historical precedent, and prevailing racial theories of the era. The text provides modern readers with a clear example of pro-slavery reasoning, offering insight into the arguments that abolitionists sought to dismantle and the moral conflict that divided the nation.As a historical document, The Right of American Slavery is valuable for understanding the intellectual landscape of nineteenth-century America. Preserved as a public domain work, it serves as an important primary source for scholars studying slavery, political ideology, and the roots of sectional conflict.
Africa
Across Africa, a storm is gathering. The abandoned youth-excluded from governance, profiled as threats rather than partners-are striking back through insurgencies, kidnappings, protests, and migration. But why has a generation once full of talent and promise turned so desperate? Africa: Vengeance of the Abandoned traces this crisis to the continent's rupture with its indigenous leadership traditions. Before colonisation, societies anchored youth in responsibility and service through age grades, initiation, and communal structures. Philosophies like Ubuntu in the South, Ibu Anyi Danda in the West, and Ujamaa in the East fostered inclusion and collective strength. Their dismantling left a vacuum still unfilled today. Both a lament and a call to action, this book draws on African folklore, proverbs, and parables to argue for a Pan-African renewal. By returning to ancestral wisdom-restoring dialogue, inclusion, and indigenous problem-solving-we may yet calm the storm and reclaim the abandoned. The question remains: will Africa act in time, or will the storm prevail?Steve Okey Onwuka is a seasoned diplomat with almost two decades of service and an MBA in Global Leadership. At the frontline of African diplomacy since 2008, he has been a pioneer Chief of Protocol of the ECOWAS Commission, shaping diplomacy with integrity and finesse. His blend of practical statecraft and academic grounding in leadership studies informs this urgent call for a return to Africa's indigenous wisdom as a path to renewal.
Counterrevolution
A thorough investigation of the current combination of austerity and extravagance that characterizes government spending and central bank monetary policy At the close of the 1970s, government treasuries and central banks took a vow of perpetual self-restraint. To this day, fiscal authorities fret over soaring public debt burdens, while central bankers wring their hands at the slightest sign of rising wages. As the brief reprieve of coronavirus spending made clear, no departure from government austerity will be tolerated without a corresponding act of penance. Yet we misunderstand the scope of neoliberal public finance if we assume austerity to be its sole setting. Beyond the zero-sum game of direct claims on state budgets lies a realm of indirect government spending that escapes the naked eye. Capital gains are multiply subsidized by a tax system that reserves its greatest rewards for financial asset holders. And for all its airs of haughty asceticism, the Federal Reserve has become adept at facilitating the inflation of asset values while ruthlessly suppressing wages. Neoliberalism is as extravagant as it is austere, and this paradox needs to be grasped if we are to challenge its core modus operandi. Melinda Cooper examines the major schools of thought that have shaped neoliberal common sense around public finance. Focusing, in particular, on Virginia school public choice theory and supply-side economics, she shows how these currents produced distinct but ultimately complementary responses to the capitalist crisis of the 1970s. With its intellectual roots in the conservative Southern Democratic tradition, Virginia school public choice theory espoused an austere doctrine of budget balance. The supply-side movement, by contrast, advocated tax cuts without spending restraint and debt issuance without guilt, in an apparent repudiation of austerity. Yet, for all their differences, the two schools converged around the need to rein in the redistributive uses of public spending. Together, they drove a counterrevolution in public finance that deepened the divide between rich and poor and revived the fortunes of dynastic wealth. Far-reaching as the neoliberal counterrevolution has been, Cooper still identifies a counterfactual history of unrealized possibilities in the capitalist crisis of the 1970s. She concludes by inviting us to rethink the concept of revolution and raises the question: Is another politics of extravagance possible?
Carrie Carolyn Coco
An NPR Best Book of the Year ● An Oprah Daily Best Book of the Summer ● A Chicago Review of Books Must-Read Book of the Month Acclaimed author Sarah Gerard turns her keen observational eye and penetrating prose to the 2016 murder of her friend Carolyn Bush, examining the multi-faceted reasons for her death―personal and societal, avoidable and inevitable. "Sarah Gerard redefines true crime in this poignant tribute to her friend . . . using in-depth reporting to expose the privilege and misogyny at the heart of this case." --NPR"Astonishing. . . . What stuns about Carrie Carolyn Coco is . . . the intricate ways in which Sarah Gerard unravels poison in the dark corners of Carolyn Bush's world: a fancy liberal arts college with a chilling history of violence; the violence in Bush's everyday existence; the web of people who are willing to stand up for Bush's murderer, some with dubious motives." ―Esm矇 Weijun Wang, New York Times bestselling author of The Collected SchizophreniasOn the night of September 28, 2016, twenty-five-year-old Carolyn Bush was brutally stabbed to death in her New York City apartment by her roommate Render Stetson-Shanahan, leaving friends and family of both reeling. In life, Carolyn was a gregarious, smart-mouthed aspiring poet, who had seemingly gotten along well with Render, a reserved art handler. Where had it gone so terribly wrong? This is the question that has plagued acclaimed author Sarah Gerard and driven her obsessive pursuit to understand this horrific tragedy. In Sarah's exploration of Carolyn's life and death, she spent thousands of hours interviewing Carolyn's and Render's friends and family, poring over court documents and news media, reading obscure writings and internet posts, and attending Carolyn's memorials and Render's trial. What emerged from Sarah's relentless instinct to follow a story and its characters to their darkest ends is a book that is at once a striking homage to Carolyn's life, a chilling excavation of a brutal crime, and a captivating whydunit with a shocking conclusion.
