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41) Courts and elites in the Hellenistic empires: the Near East after the Achaemenids, c. 330 to 30 BCE
Author
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Author
Series
Monographs in German history volume 11
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
45) Shadow elite: how the world's new power brokers undermine democracy, government, and the free market
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
An award-winning public policy expert and author of Collision and Collusion explains how an elite group of power-wielding agenda promoters are erasing the boundaries between government, private and non-profit organizations for their own benefit and have been behind headline-making scandals.
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"From historian and author of the popular daily newsletter Letters From An American, a vital narrative that explains how America, once a beacon of democracy, now teeters on the brink of autocracy -- and how we can turn back. In the midst of the impeachment crisis of 2019, Heather Cox Richardson launched a daily Facebook essay providing the historical background of the daily torrent of news. The essays soon turned into a newsletter and, spread by word...
56) The good fight
Author
Language
English
Description
The daughter and granddaughter of prominent Manhattan lawyers, Meredith McKenzie is destined for the best of everything: top schools, elite social circles, the perfect marriage. Spending her childhood in Germany as her father prosecutes Nazi war criminals at the Nuremberg trials, Meredith soaks up the conflict between good and evil as it plays out in real time. When her family returns to the United States, she begins blazing her own trail, swimming...
Author
Series
Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Educating Activist Allies offers a fresh take on critical education studies through an analysis of social justice pedagogy in schools serving communities privileged by race and class. By documenting the practices of socially committed teachers at an urban private academy and a suburban public school, Katy Swalwell helps educators and educational theorists better understand the challenges and opportunities inherent in this work. She also examines...
Author
Series
Series on contemporary China volume 8
Publisher
World Scientific
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English