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Drawing on decades spanning a diversity of roles in business, ecumenical service and elected political office, Patrick Payton delivers a bold vision for reclaiming trust, resisting outrage, and building a future rooted in humility, courage, and common ground. In today's America, the loudest voices often come from the political extremes—yet most citizens find themselves somewhere else entirely: in the Middle.

Bloomsbury presents The Edge of Revolution written and read by David Torrance Author of the critically acclaimed The Wild Men, David Torrance explores another tumultuous and era-defining moment in British political history. On Tuesday 4 May 1926, two million workers downed tools in the only...

An urgent and shocking examination of how the ultra-rich dominate democracies, hoard political power, and maintain inequality—and how we might chart another path. The wealthy and powerful few have dominated the many throughout most of human history. This is now more starkly visible than...

Dieses Buch ist aus einem inneren Ringen entstanden. Ein Ringen zwischen meiner beruflichen Welt – geprägt von Technologie, User Experience und klaren Business-Entscheidungen und meinem Glauben, der mir Orientierung und Werte schenkt. Beide Welten haben eines gemeinsam: sie stellen die Frage, für wen wir eigentlich arbeiten. Für uns selbst? Für eine Elite? Oder für die Menschen, die am Ende davon betroffen sind? Die Antwort auf diese Frage entscheidet über Erfolg oder Scheitern. Im Produkt genauso wie in der Politik.

Exploring the backstory of contemporary political polarization, What's Going On? recognizes that simple stories of blame and uncontested stories of polarization prove themselves to be bad stories that produce bad politics.

In an increasingly polarized age, culture wars are everywhere. They are often criticized as superficial or confected disagreements designed to distract us from more important issues. Is this true, or are they rather more fundamental than that? In this thoughtful and passionate intervention...

American political history has a rhythm and a progression. Part of that progression is White populist anger and resentment. The Forgotten Man and White Populist Resentment: Power, Politics, and Narrative Dominance in the Trump Era traces how this White populism rose to dominate the Republican Party primary base, how the populist campaigns of Pat Buchanan and Newt Gingrich paved the way for the rise of Donald Trump, and how he maintains narrative dominance over both parties and American political discourse.

Bullying and intimidation are not accidental features of contemporary American life; they have become deliberate tools of power that increasingly define our politics. In Confronting Political Intimidation and Public Bullying, Roddey Reid examines how intimidation and bullying have been normalized across public life-from schools, workplaces, and new media ecosystems to electoral politics and civic institutions.

»Die Gewalt umgibt uns. Kein Milieu, keine Kultur, keine Klasse sind vor ihr immun. Schaffen wir es, sie als das zu sehen, was sie ist?« Überall wird über Opfer gesprochen. Doch immer häufiger sind damit nicht Menschen gemeint, denen Unrecht widerfahren ist. Sondern solche, die die Harmonie...

Nigel Farage is arguably the most consequential British politician of our age, and on current polling he is set to become the UK prime minister after the next general election. But aspects of his life story remain shrouded in mystery. Who is the real Nigel Farage, and does he possess the...

Alles, was der Politik-Aktivist Arne Semsrott in seinem Bestseller Machtübernahme als Szenario einer rechtskonservativen Wende beschrieben hat, ist längst Wirklichkeit geworden – allerdings ganz ohne AfD, sondern unter Führung der CDU/SPD-Koalition: ein hartes Grenzregime, die Herabwürdigung der sozial Schwächeren, ein Ende des Klimaschutzes und eine Politik der Angst. Dieses Hörbuch zeigt, dass jede:r aktiv werden kann, um die Welt zu einem besseren Ort zu machen: Wir erfahren, was Gesundheits-Streiks bewirken und welche Verantwortung der Öffentlich-rechtliche Rundfunk hat.

Who really rules our future? When Silicon Valley says it is ‘moving fast and breaking things’, the world interprets the chaos as a necessary cost of innovation. Gil Durán reveals something far more sinister: a decades-long campaign to replace elected governments with corporate rule. Drawing...

An urgent examination of the great wave of change breaking over today’s world – from the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic and New York Times bestselling author of The Death of Truth ‘A profoundly inspiring and prophetic perspective on the contemporary world’ Ai Weiwei In the twenty-first...

Brought to you by Penguin. In a hyper-competitive world obsessed with rankings, super-wealth and greatness, how can we live up to democratic ideals of equality? Erica Benner has spent a lifetime thinking about these questions from different angles in different countries - from post-war Japan...

This is the first definitive account of Zuma’s catastrophic misrule, offering eyewitness descriptions and cogent analysis of how South Africa was brought to its knees–and how the people fought back.

In 2010, government spokesperson Themba Maseko was called to the Gupta family’s Saxonwold compound and asked by Ajay Gupta to divert the government’s entire advertising budget to the family’s media company. When Maseko refused to do so, he was removed from his position and forced to leave the public service. The life of this once-proud civil servant would never be the same again.

In a divided America, the biggest solvable problem fueling political extremism and dysfunction is hiding in plain sight: party primaries. The Primary Solution is the “thought-provoking” (Arnold Schwarzenegger) answer the country needs. Congress has become an unproductive and unaccountable...

Уолтер Липпман (1889–1974) – американский писатель, журналист, пропагандист и социолог, один из творцов современного американского либерализма, двукратный лауреат Пулитцеровской премии. Принимал активное участие в предвыборной кампании американского президента Вудро Вильсона и в разработке "Четырнадцати пунктов" – американской программы послевоенного развития мира. Во время Первой мировой войны занимался вопросами пропаганды и написал бессчетное количество листовок и статей, однако позже был отстранен Вильсоном от работы из-за идеологических разногласий.

Wilkins decided to make a congressional run when the elected official in his district reneged on his commitment not to seek re-election after five terms. Wilkins asserts that term limits would encourage greater involvement in the political process. He hopes this book will encourage citizens to retrieve the reins of power from the hands of career politicians and restore it to the American people—where it has always belonged.

Winner of the North American Society for Social Philosophy's 2025 Best Book Award For readers of Hood Feminism and Against White Feminism, an incisive examination of why the pillars of feminism have eroded—and how all women, not just the #girlbosses, can rebuild them After over 175 years, the...