Neighbors At War! The Creepy Case Against Your Homeowners Association

Neighbors At War! The Creepy Case Against Your Homeowners Association
Ward Lucas (Author)
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Neighbors At War is a critical examination of the modern Homeowners Association movement, and how it has robbed 62 million Americans of their civil rights as outlined in the U.S. Constitution. Homeowners often move into these planned communities and unwittingly sign documents that control their behavior in a multitude of ways. Failing to abide by these 'personality and private behavior' controls has cost thousands of homeowners their homes, their life savings and their peace of mind. While HOAs were theoretically created to protect property values, there is incredible incentive for HOA board officers to "go rogue" and unnecessarily abuse fellow homeowners. When that happens, neighborhoods are torn apart, property values plummet and lives are ruined. Another national scandal is the amount of financial corruption of HOA board members. In one American city, federal indictments of dozens of well-known public figures show what happens when HOAs go out of control.

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• Published on: 2012-10-us.html
• Original language: English
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• Binding: Paperback
• 411 pages

Israeli Apartheid - Second Edition: A Beginner's Guide

Israeli Apartheid - Second Edition: A Beginner's Guide
Ben White (Author)

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Since its release in 2009 Israeli Apartheid: A Beginner’s Guide has become an essential primer for undergraduate students and activists getting to grips with the Palestine/Israel conflict for the first time. Ben White skilfully distills the work of academics and experts into a highly accessible introduction. This new updated and expanded edition includes information on the Israeli blockade and attacks on the Gaza Strip since 2008, new policies targeting Palestinian citizens of Israel and the growth of the global Boycott Divestment Sanctions campaign. Packed with vital information, quotations and resources, Israeli Apartheid never loses the human touch. The book is rooted in the author’s extensive personal experience in Palestine and includes testimonies by Palestinians describing how Israeli apartheid affects their daily lives.

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• Published on: 2014-02-us.html
• Released on: 2014-02-us.html
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

Amazon for President! (The Presidential Essays)

Amazon for President! (The Presidential Essays)
William Keiper (Author), Chris Nelson (Editor)
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What about having Jeff Bezos and the management team at Amazon.com run the business operations of our country?

U.S. economic independence can only be regained through a concerted, long-term effort. We owe it to future generations of our republic to elect leadership capable of getting the job done. As a nation we must stop raising the debt ceiling and borrowing from foreign governments just to keep ours open for business.

We must think outside the box of our divisive two-party political system and seek innovative solutions together. As voters we must voice our collective displeasure at the lack of commitment shown by our elected representatives in the face of our fiscal emergency.

Only by engaging the best thinking and practices of a leading U.S. business do we have a shot at resolving the most critical fiscal challenges facing our nation. The compelling conclusion is that the best candidate for the job is Jeff Bezos and the Amazon.com management team.

>> A Note for Readers: The content and theme of this essay is purposely quite similar to the others in The Presidential Essays series, including Apple for President! and Walmart for President! (also available on Amazon.com). This version has been customized to reflect Amazon's unique qualifications and readiness as the proposed candidate for running the operations of the executive branch. Most elections offer at least two candidates, and each of us usually views one as more qualified than the others. These essays offer an opportunity to compare highly qualified but very different candidates.<<

Although the title Amazon for President! is, I hope, somewhat provocative, the subject matter is serious. As citizens, we can no longer stand around passively hoping that a new economic platform will somehow spontaneously take shape and raise us out of our economic difficulties.

Our government's unapologetic addiction to borrowing and the pervasive financial challenges of many of our citizens are two clear indicators of the magnitude of the challenge. Our current form of government--operating under the same structure first adopted when our Constitution was ratified in 1788--has not kept up with the complexity and pace of our times. Consequently, no individual president--no matter how brilliant or gifted with leadership and other skills--can show the way forward in the creation of a new economic platform.

We need a flexible democracy to meet the challenges of the times.

Creating a shift of the magnitude now required will necessitate applying the best of our political leadership and the best of our private sector acumen and brilliance--all in the service of reengineering our government and economy. Amazon for President! is an idea whose time has come.

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• Published on: 2014-02-17
• Released on: 2014-02-17
• Format: Kindle eBook

Move Our Message: How to Get America's Ear

Move Our Message: How to Get America's Ear
Susan C. Strong (Author)
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Move Our Message: How to Get America’s Ear can help you make change happen. It's packed with practical guidance on “speaking American” about your issues, connecting deeply with your audience, and framing lively political messages that spread. Based on The Metaphor Project’s time-tested methods and tools, the book offers a systematic, up-to-date approach to mainstreaming our messages. All proceeds from book sales support our pro bono work.

• Rank: #478208 in Books
• Published on: 2012-01-17
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 8.39" h x 5.43" w x .35" l, .46 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 172 pages

Cruel and Usual Punishment

Cruel and Usual Punishment
Nonie Darwish (Author)
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Cruel and Usual Punishment is a wake up call to the Western world.

Nonie Darwish presents an insider's look at Sharia and examines how radical Muslim laws are destroying the Western world from within. Living under Sharia law for the first thirty years of her life,a virtual slave to Islamic law, Darwish never questioned or challenged her rights--or dared to even think about the validity of Sharia laws. She didn't try to examine what Sharia was, how it came about or why she followed it. "This is Allah's law," she was told, and she knew what awaited those who questioned Allah's law.

But she doesn't believe the lies anymore, and now she wants to share her experiences with the Western world. Cruel and Usual Punishment is an insider's look at how Muslims sacrifice their basic human rights to obey the archaic and brutal laws handed down to their prophet centuries ago.

Heed this warning: Sharia Law is attempting to infiltrate Western culture and destroy democracy.

• Rank: #197246 in Books
• Published on: 2008-11-11
• Format: International Edition
• Original language: English
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• Binding: Paperback
• 272 pages

A Legal Guide for Lesbian & Gay Couples (Legal Guide for Lesbian and Gay Couples)

A Legal Guide for Lesbian & Gay Couples (Legal Guide for Lesbian and Gay Couples)
Frederick Hertz Attorney (Author), Emily Doskow Attorney (Author)

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Laws affecting LGBT couples are changing rapidly, and while it's an exciting time for all gay and lesbian partners, keeping up with the myriad ways the shifting legal landscape touches your family life can be daunting. Now more than ever, it's important that you take the proper legal steps to define and protect your relationship in the eyes of the law. If you don't, you run the risk of being shut out of each other's lives -- and the lives of children you co-parent -- in times of medical, financial or personal crisis.

• Rank: #393524 in Books
• Published on: 2014-06-30
• Original language: English
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• Binding: Paperback
• 448 pages

Resister: A Story of Protest and Prison during the Vietnam War

Resister: A Story of Protest and Prison during the Vietnam War
Bruce Dancis (Author)

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Bruce Dancis arrived at Cornell University in 1965 as a youth who was no stranger to political action. He grew up in a radical household and took part in the 1963 March on Washington as a fifteen-year-old. He became the first student at Cornell to defy the draft by tearing up his draft card and soon became a leader of the draft resistance movement. He also turned down a student deferment and refused induction into the armed services. He was the principal organizer of the first mass draft card burning during the Vietnam War, an activist in the Resistance (a nationwide organization against the draft), and a cofounder and president of the Cornell chapter of Students for a Democratic Society. Dancis spent nineteen months in federal prison in Ashland, Kentucky, for his actions against the draft.

In Resister, Dancis not only gives readers an insider's account of the antiwar and student protest movements of the sixties but also provides a rare look at the prison experiences of Vietnam-era draft resisters. Intertwining memory, reflection, and history, Dancis offers an engaging firsthand account of some of the era’s most iconic events, including the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, the Abbie Hoffman-led "hippie invasion" of the New York Stock Exchange, the antiwar confrontation at the Pentagon in 1967, and the dangerous controversy that erupted at Cornell in 1969 involving African American students, their SDS allies, and the administration and faculty. Along the way, Dancis also explores the relationship between the topical folk and rock music of the era and the political and cultural rebels who sought to change American society.

• Rank: #140495 in Books
• Published on: 2014-03-04
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 1.20" h x 6.10" w x 9.30" l, 1.55 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 384 pages

Saeed Abedini: Prisoner for Christ

Saeed Abedini: Prisoner for Christ
Brad Frese (Author)
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A Brief Kindle Narrative on Pastor Saeed Abedini

Pastor Saeed Abedini has been imprisoned in appalling conditions in Iran since September 26, 2012. In 6,589 words, the author gives the reader an overview of Saeed Abedini's conversion to a follower of Christ, his ministry in Iran as well as the story behind his arrest, trial for house church activities in Iran, and imprisonment in two of the worst prisons in the world. The reader is also given ideas on how to join the fight to free Saeed and bring him home to his family where he belongs.

• Rank: #76676 in eBooks
• Published on: 2014-02-15
• Released on: 2014-02-15
• Format: Kindle eBook

Lights Out: Islam, Free Speech And The Twilight of the West

Lights Out: Islam, Free Speech And The Twilight of the West
Mark Steyn (Author)
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Roaming from America to Europe to Australia, Lights Out is a trenchant examination of the tensions between a resurgent Islam and a fainthearted west - and of the implications for liberty in the years ahead.

In 2007, the Canadian Islamic Congress brought three suits against Maclean s, Canada s biggest-selling newsweekly, for running an excerpt from Steyn s bestselling book America Alone, plus other flagrantly Islamophobic columns by the author. A year later the CIC had lost all its cases and Steyn had become a poster boy for a worldwide phenomenon - the collision between Islam, on the one hand, and, on the other, western notions of free speech, liberty and pluralism.

In this book, Steyn republishes all the essays the western world's new thought police attempted to criminalize, along with new material responding to his accusers. Covering other crises from the Danish cartoons to the Salman Rushdie fatwa, he also takes a stand against the erosion of free speech, and the advance of a creeping totalitarian "multiculturalism"; and he considers the broader relationship between Islam and the west in a time of unprecedented demographic transformation.

• Rank: #1530 in eBooks
• Published on: 2014-02-11
• Released on: 2014-02-11
• Format: Kindle eBook

Domestic Politics and International Human Rights Tribunals: The Problem of Compliance (Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law)

Domestic Politics and International Human Rights Tribunals: The Problem of Compliance (Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law)
Courtney Hillebrecht (Author)

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International politics has become increasingly legalized over the past fifty years, restructuring the way that states interact with each other, with international institutions, and even with their own constituents. The area subjected to the most intense restructuring has perhaps been human rights. The rise of the international legalization of human rights now makes it possible for individual constituents to take human rights claims against their governments at international courts such as the European and Inter-American Courts of Human Rights. This book brings together theories of compliance from international law, human rights, and international relations to explain the increasingly important phenomenon of states' compliance with human rights tribunals' rulings. The central argument of the book is that compliance with international human rights tribunals' rulings is an inherently domestic affair. It posits three overarching questions: First, why do states comply with human rights tribunals' rulings? Second, how does the compliance process unfold and what are the domestic political considerations around compliance? Third, what effect does compliance have on the protection of human rights? This book answers these questions through a combination of quantitative analyses and in-depth case studies from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Italy, Portugal, Russia, and the United Kingdom.

• Rank: #134723 in Books
• Published on: 2014-02-10
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .80" h x 6.20" w x 9.10" l, 1.00 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 200 pages

Resistance to Tyranny: A Primer

Resistance to Tyranny: A Primer
Joseph Martino (Author)
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This book is a primer on armed revolt. It is not intended to cover the subject in detail. It is intended to introduce readers things they might not have thought of, provide them with a brief presentation of the topic, and lead them to sources of more detailed information. Topics covered include justification for armed revolt, likely government responses, training, logistics, communications and encryption, land navigation, sniping, raids, ambushes, and intelligence gathering.

• Rank: #46294 in eBooks
• Published on: 2014-01-25
• Released on: 2014-01-25
• Format: Kindle eBook

Falling in Love with America Again

Falling in Love with America Again
Jim DeMint (Author), Ben Carson (Foreword)

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In his new role as president and CEO of The Heritage Foundation, Jim DeMint has travelled the country talking to Americans about how to return to our founding principles and restore and protect our economy and culture for future generations. He's realized that he-and all of us as fellow citizens-must fall in love with America-again.

In this book, DeMint introduces Americans all across the country who are working towards the same goal, We see example after example of Americans coming together locally in what DeMint calls the "little platoons"-the families, churches, communities and voluntary organizations succeeding on the model that smaller is better. They are the hands-on citizens who make America the exceptional, caring and can-do country it has always been.

DeMint illustrates why each of us-regardless of political party, age, race, religion or ethnicity-must rediscover the power we represent. The country's future is at risk, not just because of constant pressure from "the Bigs" (big government, big banks, big labor, big Wall Street cronies etc.), but because so many of us fear it's too late to solve problems so huge and seemingly intractable. Jim DeMint is here to reassure us that this is not true.

In riveting yet plainspoken style, he tells real-life success stories and affirms the compelling truth that conservative ideas are really American ideas, and they must guide us as we turn our institutions upside-down, taking them from the top-down centrally-controlled bureaucracies they've become back to the bottom-up democratic framework the Constitution intended.

Through this heartfelt, fascinating and inspiring look inside the America of both yesterday and today, and the everyday citizens who are working tirelessly and selflessly to insure its future fulfills the promise of its beginnings, Jim DeMint is beckoning us to join him on one of the most meaningful and momentous journeys we have ever undertaken together: FALLING IN LOVE WITH AMERICA AGAIN.

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• Published on: 2014-03-04
• Released on: 2014-03-04
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
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• Binding: Hardcover
• 320 pages

Corporate Obligations Under International Law (Oxford Monographs in International Law)

Corporate Obligations Under International Law (Oxford Monographs in International Law)
Markos Karavias (Author)

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This book examines the extent to which international law places obligations directly on corporate entities. It is often argued that corporations are bound by, inter alia, the same human rights and environmental obligations that states have. This book examines the source of these supposed obligations in treaty law, international custom, and in internationalized contracts, to determine whether they really can be transposed to corporations so easily.

The focus of the book is on the regulation by international law of private corporate conduct. It examines whether corporate obligations, namely obligations binding directly upon a corporation under positive international law, have indeed emerged, and if so, whether corporations may be systemically included in the predominantly state-centric framework of international law. It investigates the challenges facing international law as a result of the potential emergence of corporate obligations, and engages in a structural analysis of what corporate obligations under international human rights law might entail. Ultimately, it warns against conceptualizing corporations as both holders and potential violators of human rights, explaining why they are not automatically bound by the same obligations that are imposed on states.

• Rank: #156850 in Books
• Published on: 2014-01-28
• Original language: English
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• Binding: Hardcover
• 280 pages

The Burglary: The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover?s Secret FBI

The Burglary: The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover?s Secret FBI
by Betty Medsger (Author), Bronson Pinchot (Narrator)

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Soul of a Citizen: Living with Conviction in Challenging Times

Soul of a Citizen: Living with Conviction in Challenging Times
Paul Rogat Loeb (Author)
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Soul of a Citizen awakens within us the desire and the ability to make our voices heard and our actions count. We can lead lives worthy of our convictions.

A book of inspiration and integrity, Soul of a Citizen is an antidote to the twin scourges of modern life--powerlessness and cynicism. In his evocative style, Paul Loeb tells moving stories of ordinary Americans who have found unexpected fulfillment in social involvement. Through their example and Loeb's own wise and powerful lessons, we are compelled to move from passivity to participation. The reward of our action, we learn, is nothing less than a sense of connection and purpose not found in a purely personal life.

Soul of a Citizen has become the handbook for budding social activists, veteran organizers, and anybody who wants to make a change—big or small—in the world around them. At this critical historical time , Paul Loeb's completely revised edition—and inspiring message—is more urgently important than ever.

 

• Rank: #30128 in Books
• Published on: 2010-03-30
• Released on: 2010-03-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 8.27" h x 5.24" w x 1.06" l, .81 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 400 pages

Helen Suzman: Bright star in a dark chamber

Helen Suzman: Bright star in a dark chamber
Robin Renwick (Author)



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Armed with relentless determination and biting wit, Helen Suzman battled the racist regime and earned her reputation as a legendary anti-apartheid campaigner. Despite constant antagonism and the threat of violence, she forced into the global spotlight the injustices of the country’s minority rule. A fascinating insight into the life of a truly great South African.

• Rank: #133553 in Books
• Published on: 2014-09-09
• Binding: Hardcover
• 256 pages

A TOBY'S FABLE

A TOBY'S FABLE
Felton Williamson Jr (Author)
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“A Toby’s Fable” is a fictional account of the Aristocracy, using the Bureaucracy to increase the profits of their cronies. The action drives small farmers out of business and limits consumer’s choices. While the specifics of this story, a fictional, similar oppression is all too common in our society. Are you at risk? .

“A Toby’s fable” is more like a long, fully illustrated (16 cartoons) magazine article than a book. But you won’t find a better description of the creeping tyranny that is destroying America.
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• Rank: #108237 in eBooks
• Published on: 2014-01-13
• Released on: 2014-01-13
• Format: Kindle eBook