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Free Download The Labour Party’s Political Thought: A History By Geoffrey Foote
1997 | 400 Pages | ISBN: 0333669444 | PDF | 20 MB
‘an extremely welcome and useful book…the best available text in the field.’ – Gregory Claeys, Albion ‘A comprehensive encyclopaedia of the ideology of the British Labour Movement…What emerges is by far the clearest account I have ever read of its strengths and weaknesses.’ – Tony Benn, MP This book provides a synoptic and accessible history of the development of political ideas within the Labour Party. It traces the complex relationship between power and political thought and illustrates how Labour’s political ideas have been shaped and formed by the Labour Party’s political experience. It presents ‘labourism’ or trade union politics as a clear theory and stresses its importance in understanding the different phases in the party’s history, arguing that it constitutes the bedrock of the party’s thought and that its crisis has caused the recent changes in party ideology.

Free Download Mo Zi, "The Essential Mòzǐ: Ethical, Political, and Dialectical Writings "
English | ISBN: 0198848102 | 2020 | 336 pages | AZW3 | 1330 KB
‘The task of the benevolent person is surely to diligently seek to promote the benefit of the world and eliminate harm to the world’

Free Download Richard M. Perloff, "The Dynamics of Political Communication Ed 3"
English | ISBN: 036727941X | 2021 | 524 pages | EPUB, PDF | 6 MB + 67 MB
The third edition of The Dynamics of Political Communication continues its comprehensive coverage of communication and politics, focusing on problematic issues that bear on the functioning of democracy in an age of partisanship, social media, and political leadership that questions media’s legitimacy.

Free Download The Dark Horse: The Surprise Election and Political Murder of President James A. Garfield by Kenneth D. Ackerman
English | June 1, 2003 | ISBN: 0786711515, 1619450003 | EPUB | 416 pages | 3.3 MB
In post–Civil War America, politics was a brutal sport played with blunt rules. Yet James Garfield’s 1881 "dark horse" campaign after the longest-ever Republican nominating process (36 convention ballots), his victory in the closest-ever popular vote for president (by only 7,018 votes out of over 9 million cast), his struggle against feuding factions once elected, and the public’s response to its culmination in violence, sets a revealing comparison with America approaching a new campaign year in 2004.

Free Download Sub-Saharan Political Cultures of Deceit in Language, Literature, and the Media, Volume I: Zimbabwe as a Case Study
by Esther Mavengano and Isaac Mhute
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031353226 | 376 Pages | True PDF | 4.71 MB

Free Download Robert C. Bartlett, "Sophistry and Political Philosophy: Protagoras’ Challenge to Socrates"
English | ISBN: 022663969X | 2019 | 256 pages | EPUB | 760 KB
One of the central challenges to contemporary political philosophy is the apparent impossibility of arriving at any commonly agreed upon "truths." As Nietzsche observed in his Will to Power, the currents of relativism that have come to characterize modern thought can be said to have been born with ancient sophistry. If we seek to understand the strengths and weaknesses of contemporary radical relativism, we must therefore look first to the sophists of antiquity-the most famous and challenging of whom is Protagoras.

Free Download Jeremy Harris Lipschultz, "Social Media and Political Communication"
English | ISBN: 0367772426 | 2022 | 210 pages | EPUB, PDF | 3 MB + 20 MB
This book offers a wide-scale, interdisciplinary analysis and guide to social media and political communication, examining the political use of social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and TikTok.

Free Download Silencing Political Dissent: How Post-September 11 Anti-Terrorism Measures Threaten Our Civil Liberties by Nancy Chang, Center for Constitutional Rights, Howard Zinn
English | July 15, 2002 | ISBN: 1583224947 | 168 pages | PDF | 1.21 Mb
In her groundbreaking new book, Silencing Political Dissent, constitutional expert Nancy Chang examines how the Bush administration’s fight against terrorism is resulting in a disturbing erosion of First Amendment rights and increase of executive power.

Free Download Jack DeRochi, "Richard Brinsley Sheridan: The Impresario in Political and Cultural Context "
English | ISBN: 1611484804 | 2012 | 320 pages | EPUB | 29 MB
This new collection of essays on Richard Brinsley Sheridan brings the most important British playwright of the eighteenth century back to the forefront of literary and cultural studies of the era. While his pyrotechnic life as a romantic hero, playwright, Member of Parliament, and theatre manager has generated a number of recent biographies, it is Sheridan’s works-not just plays but also poetry and orations-that endure. These essays reclaim the legacy of the man of letters and partisan bon vivant who burst from obscurity to become a powerful cultural force in Georgian London. This collection covers the many lives of Sheridan, taking into account both his variegated career and the competing accounts of the man, as well as his early verse, which lays the foundation for his success as a playwright. Chapters are devoted to Sheridan’s theatre, and provide innovative readings of his most famous dramatic pieces: The Rivals, The Duenna, The School for Scandal, The Critic, and Pizarro. The volume also includes extensive discussion of the dramatic highs of Sheridan’s long political career, thus placing the playwright-politician firmly in the world in which performance and politics were inextricably entwined.

Free Download Fiona M. Douglas, "Political, Public and Media Discourses from Indyref to Brexit: The Divisive Language of Union "
English | ISBN: 3030673839 | 2021 | 173 pages | PDF | 3 MB
This book focuses on the language of two unions (the United Kingdom and the European Union), tracing the emergence of divisive discourses from indyref to Brexit. It explains the background to the creation of these unions and summarizes recent political events that have brought their future into question. It considers which identities (national, supranational, social, ethnic or racial) were invoked during the indyref and EU referendum campaigns, emphasising the crucial role played by language in maintaining these identities, in conceptualizing the nation, to do politics, and its power to unite or divide. Based on analysis of three specialist corpora totaling over 143 million words and comprising multiple text types (newspapers, speeches, Twitter posts, parliamentary debates, party political websites and campaign materials), it interrogates the language used by politicians, the media and the public, uncovering increasingly problematic, scaremongering, xenophobic and incendiary linguistic strategies used to divide