Totalitarianism: The Basics is an easy-to-read introduction into the main concepts, ideologies, and regimes associated with totalitarianism.Starting with an overview of how scholars have attempted to define totalitarianism, Phillip W. Gray begins with an examination of the various types of terms used, helping the reader think about how these terms do – and do not – apply to different ideologies and governments. Easily accessible language and the use of numerous examples ai...

Providing an innovative conceptualization to extremist political movements founded upon "world-historic" populations and vanguard party organizations, Vanguardism sets out a new path in investigating the intellectual and historical influences that created extremist politics, the totalitarian movements and regimes of the twentieth century, and a framework for interpreting extremism in the present.Expanding its view across the turbulent intellectual currents of the nineteent...

The success of individual nation states today is often measured in terms of their ability to benefit from and contribute to a host of global economic, political, socio-cultural, technological, and educational networks. This increased multifaceted international inter-dependence represents an intuitively contradictory and an immensely complex situation. This scenario requires that national governments, whose primary responsibility is towards their citizenry, must relinquish a degree of contr...

Russians in Cold War Australia explores the time during the Cold War when Russian displaced persons, including former Soviet citizens, were amongst the hundreds of thousands of immigrants given assisted passage to Australia and other Western countries in the wake of the Second World War. With the Soviet Union and Australia as enemies, skepticism surrounding the immigrants' avowed anti-communism introduced new hardships and challenges. This book examines Russian immigration to Aust...

This ground-breaking book takes an insightful and close "New Look" at one of the most fascinating subjects of the Civil War--the long-overlooked battlefield contributions of the most forgotten fighting men of the Civil War, Black Confederates. With the release of the popular 1989 film Glory, the American public first learned about the heroism of the black troops of the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry and their courageous assault on Fort Wagner, South Carolina, in July 1863. But what ...

Rusty Clay sits alone in his office. It is dead winter and he knows he should have waited out the season in Florida. He also knows something has lured him back to Alabama.In walks local blogging celebrity Lucy Smith, wanting Rusty to find out who is trying to kill her. As a young girl, Lucy was the last person to see Rusty's sister Lola—a cult music figure decades after her death—before she disappeared into thin air. Rusty knows a can of worms is about to be opened.Then, Ru...

Rusty Clay is having the worst day of his year—the anniversary of the disappearance of his sister Lola, whose taped alternative folk/classic concert has made her a cult figure.As he is falling into a dismal abyss, in walks one-armed Tooley. He wants Rusty to find his arm that he lost forty years ago.Soon, Tooley is found dead, killed Civil War Tory style. Later, a mussel diver dies in a diving accident. The man's widow Mina, with whom Rusty is infatuated, hires Rusty to hel...

Co-Existing in a Globalized World: Key Themes in Inter-Professional Ethics brings together, and engages with, the scholarly work accomplished individually under the banner of professional ethics in various fields. The overarching theme of the volume is that globalization inevitably pairs professionals from distinct fields as co-workers. This necessitates serious reflection on how diverse fields can co-exist and achieve superior results through combining best practices from each. The author...

William Buckley was a six-foot-seven British convict who escaped from the first British penal colony established in the southeastern part of the Australian continent in 1803, and he would go on to spend the next thirty-three years living among the local Aborigines until he was discovered by settlers of the region in 1835. From Dreamtime to Armageddon tells the fascinating story of William Buckley, Australias very own Robinson Crusoe. Relying on a mix of fact and fiction, author Phillip Gra...

A young Marine in the Second Marine Regiment is followed from August 10, 1942 to the end of World War II. He participates in action on the Solomon Islands, the Tarawa Atoll and the Mariana Island of Saipan. In addition to the campaigns, events at rest areas in New Zealand and Hawaii are described. The Novel is fiction based on fact. Actual battle and battle conditions were similar to the action in the novel. However, all characters are fictional.