Real Politics

Political Realignment tracks the evolution of citizen and elite opinions on economic and cultural issues from the 1970s to the 2010s - and the impact of these changes on electoral politics and public policy. Citizen positions on these cleavages have realigned over time, producing a similar realignment in the structure of the party systems to represent these demands. Economic issues remain important, now joined by divisions on cultural issues as a backlash to modernization. Assembling a time series of empirical evidence, this study explains the new forces of elector change in both Europe and the United States.

NEWSREAL is a political comedy that explores the real consequences of fake news. Big-city reporter Alecia Troust writes a weekly column for The Gruffington Buzz. Her hopes of promotion are dashed when her make-it-or-break-it article is lost along with her laptop. Instead of playing a victim to circumstance, Alecia instead submits an even more compelling story. However, this new story—regarding homegrown terrorism and containing “evidence" of an execution on American soil—is a fabrication. It is fake news. Although she initially receives national attention, Alecia’s lie draws the ...

The brilliant and hugely influential book by the winner of the 2017 Royal Society Insight Investment Science Books Prize. Gender inequalities are increasingly defended by citing hard-wired differences between the male and female brain. That’s why, we’re told, there are so few women in science, so few men in the laundry room - different brains are just suited to different things.

Many people believe that the New World Order is rapidly closing in on our personal liberties. Even our identities are being stolen. ID Cards are being forced upon the British and press freedom is a thing of the past as journalists are told what to say and what not to say.But there is a group of people who refuse to take this oppressive Big Brother State attitude lying down. They are speaking out for our freedom and they say it's time we all stood up to be counted.

This audiobook presents the complete cultural history of psilocybin mushrooms, from prehistory to modern times. It also systematically presents psilocybin’s medical, chemical, and healing properties. Magic mushrooms have unfortunately been wrongly presented in the media. Some abuse it by using it as a psychedelic drug, and these are the stories that the media most often cover. However, there have been many scientific experiments and research that have proven the healing properties of these mushrooms.

Ever since the publication of Bram Stoker's novel Dracula, vampires have been a part of the popular consciousness. Now, with the release of the phenomenally popular Twilight novel and the subsequent films, it seems that we can't get enough of these bloodsucking creatures of the night. But we might not sleep quite so soundly if we knew that vampires aren't confirmed to the page and the screen. There is a thriving UK vampire scene that has its roots deep in our history.

Edmar Lisboa Bacha revisita a trajetória acadêmica e profissional que o levou até o mais bem-sucedido projeto de estabilização econômica do Brasil.

Dr. Len Horowitz is a physician, best-selling author, humanitarian, public health expert, behavioural scientist and speaks on issues of health across the world. In 1999 the World Natural Health Organization awarded him Author of the Year. In 2006 they called him one of the world's leading intellects.

"After Dinner Conversation" Magazine - December 2022 Mrs. Robinson: Set in Elizabethan England, a young woman marries a too-good-to-be-true heir to an estate, only to find out he has a secret. Male Privilege: The narrator is picked by the retiring Mayor to be his successor, but his questionable past catches up to him before election day. The Bargain: Alien real estate developers visit earth to let us know our planet is in a prime development location and set to add 40 billion inhabitants. The Kill Registry: In a world where everyone in society gets "one free kill," the narrator finds out ...

Catherine Standish ist die diskrete Assistentin von Jackson Lamb, dem jähzornigen Chef der Geheimdienstagenten, die im Dienst versagt haben. Als sie eines Morgens nicht zur Arbeit erscheint, merkt sogar Lamb, dass sie fehlt. Mehr noch: Sie wurde entführt - von einem ehemaligen Liebhaber. Doch Catherines Entführung ist nur die Spitze des Eisbergs einer viel größeren Verschwörung - gegen den MI5 und sogar den Premierminister.

What if we could plan not to have a heart attack? As a cardiologist, I have not yet met a patient who expected to have a problem. Yet, what if we could be forewarned about, or prepared for, a potential problem with our coronary arteries? What if we were able to put in place preventative measures that may avert a problem?

世論調査では日本国民の8割が死刑制度に賛成だ。だが死刑の詳細は法務省によって徹底的に伏せられ、国民は実態を知らずに是非を判断させられている。暴れて嫌がる囚人をどうやって刑場に連れて行くの

Where fresh water appears to be abundant and generally accessible, chronic pollution may be relatively ignored as a public issue. Yet there are those whose lives, livelihoods, and traditions are touched directly by the destructive albeit essential relationship between humans and water.

What have jobs really been like for the past 40 years and what do the workers themselves say about them? In What Workers Say, Roberta Iversen shows that for employees in labor market industries—like manufacturing, construction, printing—as well as those in service-producing jobs, like clerical work, healthcare, food service, retail, and automotive—jobs are often discriminatory, are sometimes dangerous and exploitive, and seldom utilize people’s full range of capabilities. Most importantly, they fail to provide any real opportunity for advancement.

In Material Law, distinguished scholar John Brigham focuses on the places where law and material life intersect, and how law creates and alters our social reality. Brigham looks at an eclectic group of bodies and things - from maps and territories and trends in courthouse architecture to a woman's womb and a judge's body - to make connections between the material and the legal.

Lackland's Bravest explores the distinguished history of the Lackland Air Force Base Fire Department. In addition, it takes an in-depth look inside the day-to-day lives of current members. See how they train for emergencies. Marvel at the impressive array of tools and technologies that they use to save lives, and find out why these modest individuals have taken the courageous step to make this their life's mission, so others may live. Get ready to climb aboard the engine and learn what it takes to earn the title of "Lackland's Bravest".

Here is a liberating vision of love that offers couples powerful new ways of using words and touch to create levels of intimacy they have never reached before. Barbara De Angelis, Ph.D., reveals how partners can experience deeper sexual and emotional connections as she helps them become better lovers in--and out of--the bedroom. Interweaving the sensual and the spiritual, Real Moments for Lovers offers inspiration for finding profound meaning in our most intimate relationships.

Within every religion and every State there lurks an underground stream controlling and manipulating those in power. Great knowledge was fostered and hidden. Wars and revolutions were carefully planned and orchestrated by a Universal Brotherhood. Whether it was practical methods of survival such as navigation and measurement or inner psychological and spiritual wisdom, it would become the foundation for secret societies the world over.

The media obsession with Donald Trump is not new, but it transformed into a full-blown, demented, Ahab-like crusade after Trump’s electoral victory. In their mania to prove that Trump is not “normal”, the media has tossed out any remaining semblance of objectivity and professionalism. The most extreme example of this feverish journalism is the best-selling book Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House. Now journalist Eddie Scarry collects and systematically debunks the worst errors, falsehoods, and silly innuendo spread throughout Wolff’s exhausting tome.

Em 1942, os Aliados estavam perdendo a guerra e a Alemanha parecia invencível. A inteligência britânica tinha espiões treinados em todo tipo de serviço, mas percebeu que, para vencer, era necessário tomar uma medida sem precedentes: recrutar agentes do sexo feminino. Trinta e nove mulheres responderam ao chamado, deixando suas vidas para se tornarem sabotadoras na França.