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Download or read book Loserman written by Tom Calderon and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-05-17 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A journey through the underworld taken by a Postmodern Orpheus guided by sex, drugs and counterculture spirituality.

Download or read book Click On Democracy written by Grant Reeher and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-03-09 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Click on Democracy examines the first national election in which the Internet played a major role. The contributors argue that the Internet's most profound political impact on Election 2000 has largely been missed or underestimated. The reason: the difference it made was more social than electoral, more about building political communities than about generating votes and money. The contributors to Click on Democracy talk at length with the people who are using the Internet in new and effective ways, and who are capitalizing on the Internet s power as a networking tool for civic action. Viewed from this bottom-up perspective, the Internet emerges as an exciting and powerful source of renewal for civic engagement. The new foreword is from Scott Heiferman and William Finkel, both of Meetup, Inc.

Download or read book The Oxford Dictionary of American Political Slang written by Grant Barrett and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-04-21 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is a wonderful Baedeker to down-and-dirty politics--more than six hundred slang terms straight from the smoke-filled rooms of American political speech. Hatchet Jobs and Hardball: The Oxford Dictionary of American Political Slang illuminates a rich and colorful segment of our language. Readers will find informative entries on slang terms such as Beltway bandit and boondoggle, angry white male and leg treasurer, juice bill and Joe Citizen, banana superpower and the Big Fix. We find not only the meaning and history of familiar terms such as gerrymander, but also of lesser-known terms such as cracking (splitting a bloc of like-minded voters by redistricting) and fair-fight district (which refers to areas redistricted to favor no political party). Each entry includes the definition of the word, its historical background, and illuminating citations, some going back more than 200 years. (We learn, for instance, that a term as seemingly current as political football actually dates back to before the Civil War.) Selected entries will have extended encyclopedic notes. The book also features sidebar essays on topics such as political words in Blogistan; a short history of "big cheese"; all about chads and the 2000 election; the suffix "-gate" and all the related Watergate terms; and the naming of legislation. Political junkies, policy wonks, journalists, and word lovers will find this book addictive reading as well as a reliable guide to one of the more colorful corners of American English.

Download or read book Law, Reason and Emotion written by Mortimer Sellers (org.) and published by Initia Via Editora. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 887 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume III: Working Groups

Download or read book The Oxford Dictionary of American Political Slang written by Grant Barrett and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-09-10 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is a wonderful Baedeker to down-and-dirty politics--more than six hundred slang terms straight from the smoke-filled rooms of American political speech. Hatchet Jobs and Hardball: The Oxford Dictionary of American Political Slang illuminates a rich and colorful segment of our language. Readers will find informative entries on slang terms such as Beltway bandit and boondoggle, angry white male and leg treasurer, juice bill and Joe Citizen, banana superpower and the Big Fix. We find not only the meaning and history of familiar terms such as gerrymander, but also of lesser-known terms such as cracking (splitting a bloc of like-minded voters by redistricting) and fair-fight district (which refers to areas redistricted to favor no political party). Each entry includes the definition of the word, its historical background, and illuminating citations, some going back more than 200 years. (We learn, for instance, that a term as seemingly current as political football actually dates back to before the Civil War.) Selected entries will have extended encyclopedic notes. The book also features sidebar essays on topics such as political words in Blogistan; a short history of "big cheese"; all about chads and the 2000 election; the suffix "-gate" and all the related Watergate terms; and the naming of legislation. Political junkies, policy wonks, journalists, and word lovers will find this book addictive reading as well as a reliable guide to one of the more colorful corners of American English.

Download or read book The Clintonian written by The Clintonian Institute and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2005-02 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Clintonian was created to help people laugh at the Liberal Democrats. Just as the Liberals have been redefining political civility...It's now time to redefine the Liberal Democrats political vocabulary.

Download or read book Tears. Tickles. Triumphs. written by Jesse Lewis III and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-12-31 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "If you laugh, you cry, and you think, that's a full day. That's a heck of a day." These are the words of the late Jim Valvano, better known as, Jimmy V. If these three emotions make for a heck of a day, then Tears, Tickles, and Triumphs is certainly a heck of a book. JLew brings life to the pages through emotional compositions such as Band Aids On Bruises, tickles all your funny bones with his Kid Issues, and captures your heart and mind with Kingship. Without a doubt, Tears, Tickles, and Triumphs is the emotional roller coaster we call life, from cover to cover.