Political Science
212 books
*Non-fiction
632
United States Senate Committee on Armed Services - Report of the Inquiry into the Role and Oversight of Private Security Contractors in Afghanistan
The Inquiry into the Role and Oversight of Private Security Contractors in Afghanistan, which reported in September 2010, was precipitated by events in August 2008, when US forces bombed the Afghan village of...
6 hours 4 minutes
*Non-fiction
987
Jacob A. Riis - How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York
How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York (1890) was a pioneering work of photojournalism by Jacob Riis, documenting the squalid living conditions in New York City slums in the 1880s. It...
8 hours 50 minutes
Political Science
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Abdu’l-Bahá ‘Abbás - Mysterious Forces of Civilization
The Mysterious Forces of Civilization (Persian: Risálih-i-Madaníyyih) is a work written before 1875 by ‘Abbás Effendí, known as ‘Abdu’l-Bahá (the Servant of Bahá) (1844-1921). The Persian text was first lithographed...
4 hours 5 minutes
Political Science
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Friedrich Schiller - History of the Thirty Years War, Volume 1
The History of the Thirty Years War is a five volume work, which followed his very successful History of the Revolt of the Netherlands. Written for a wider audience than Revolt, it is a vivid history, colored by...
3 hours 13 minutes
*Non-fiction
869
Imbert de Saint-Amand - Marie Antoinette and the Downfall of Royalty
Paris in 1792 is no longer what it was in 1789. In 1789, the old French society was still brilliant. The past endured beside the present. Neither names nor escutcheons, neither liveries nor places at court, had...
11 hours 9 minutes
Political Science
1.6K
Jefferson Davis - Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Volume 1a
The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government (1881) is written by Jefferson Davis, former President of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War. Davis wrote the book as a straightforward...
12 hours 56 minutes
