Tag: Confused

Angry, Bored, Confused A Citizen Handbook Of American Politics


Free Download Michael J Kryzanek, "Angry, Bored, Confused: A Citizen Handbook Of American Politics"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 0813368847, 0813368855, 036731455X | EPUB | pages: 320 | 1.0 mb
Angry, bored, and confused-three words that aptly describe the typical American’s view toward the world of politics. But it doesn’t have to stay this way, argues Michael Kryzanek, in Angry, Bored, Confused. Kryzanek discusses issues central to American politics-citizenship, power, leadership, problem solving, initiating change-through a series of straightforward questions, with sometimes surprising answers. Angry, Bored, and Confused examines American politics from the perspective of an anxious consumer seeking to understand the political world, and to change it for the better.

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Babel Political Rhetoric of a Confused Legacy


Free Download Samuel L. Boyd, "Babel: Political Rhetoric of a Confused Legacy"
English | ISBN: 1506480675 | 2023 | 325 pages | PDF | 5 MB
In Babel: Political Rhetoric of a Confused Legacy, Samuel L. Boyd offers a new reading of the Tower of Babel in Genesis 11:1-9. Using recent insights on the rhetoric of Neo-Assyrian politics and its ideology of governance as well as advances in biblical studies, Boyd shows how the Tower of Babel was not originally about a tower, Babylon, or the advent of multilingualism, at least in the earliest phases of the history and literary context of the story. Rather, the narrative was a critique against the Assyrian empire using themes of human overreach found in many places in Genesis 1-11.

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