"I told them Libya would become a failed state. I told them Egypt's military would never surrender power. I told them Syria would become a jihadist wasteland. I said this on television in March 2011, while the revolution was spreading. Nobody wanted to hear it." In March 2011, as euphoria swept the Arab world and Western leaders promised a "new Middle East," one analyst stood alone in predicting catastrophe. He had lived in Libya under Qaddafi's surveillance state. He had driven thro...

American democracy has entered its terminal phase. Not through a coup or a revolution, but through gradual decay.In The Divine Republic, Alessandro Bruno and Robert Quigley argue that the United States is no longer governed by a living democratic system, but by its institutional remains. Elections persist, laws multiply, and rhetoric flourishes—yet legitimacy, accountability, and civic trust have steadily eroded.The book traces the processes that led to this outcome: the co...

THE TYRANNY OF CERTAINTY:How Expert Fraud, Therapeutic Wokism, and the Tyranny of Certainty Destroyed the Economic Left and Bankrupted CivilizationThey were certain they were right. That's what made them dangerous. In 2008, Alan Greenspan sat before Congress and admitted he had found "a flaw" in his worldview. But this was no mere technical error. The global financial crisis was the predictable result of a priesthood that claimed to know the future, built mathematical models...

A distinctive exploration of how workers see workFor more than twenty years, Robert Bruno has taught labor history and labor studies to union members from a wide range of occupations and demographic groups. In the class, he asked his students to finish the question “Work is—?” in six words or less. The thousands of responses he collected provide some of the rich source material behind What Work Is. Bruno draws on the thoughts and feelings experienced by wo...

In reaction to the changes imposed on public schools across the country in the name of "education reform," the Chicago Teachers Union redefined its traditional role and waged a multidimensional fight that produced a community-wide school strike and transformed the scope of collective bargaining into arenas that few labor relations experts thought possible. Using interviews, first-person accounts, participant observation, union documents, and media reports, Steven K. Ashby ...

Des milliers d'automobilistes circulent chaque jour sur l'autoroute A13. Il arrive que l'on puisse observer fugitivement leurs attitudes, installé sur un pont. C'est ce que fait Hugo Malard. Avec un savoir faire d'entomologiste, il enrichit sa collection de physionomies perçues durant seulement quelques instants.

L'an 1035, un pèlerin venu des environs de Coutances était le témoin d'un spectacle irréel et poignant quelque-part au beau milieu des plateaux d'Anatolie. Semblant sortie d'un mirage, une caravane improbable allait croiser son chemin. C'était la pitoyable escorte de Robert, duc de Normandie, qui revenait des lieux saints.Geoffrey Pigache en conserva longtemps le souvenir et longtemps raconta sa surprenante aventure à qui voulait bien l'entendre.

From musician and New York Times bestselling author Rory Feek, comes The Cow Said Neigh!, a fun and humorous tale of farm animals who wish they were like the other animals . . . which leads to a barn full of confusion!Children will laugh out loud when the cow wants to run free like a horse, the sheep wants a snout like a pig, and the dog wants to be inside like the cat in this charming farm story.The Cow Said Neigh! will teach chi...

"Run, run as fast as you can.You can't catch me, I'm the gingerbread man!"A beautifully illustrated retelling of this favourite traditional story. Join in the chase, but beware falling for the words of the sly, old fox!Must Know Stories includes favourite tales, celebrating the diversity of our literary heritage. Level 1 stories are told in under 500 words, for children to read independently.

In this non-ficiton reader, learn all about amazing lizards, from the biggest and smallest to where they live and what they eat. This book is part of Reading Champion, a series carefully linked to book bands to encourage independent reading skills, developed with Dr Sue Bodman and Glen Franklin of UCL Institute of Education (IOE)Reading Champion offers independent reading books for children to practise and reinforce their developing reading skills.Fantastic...

This book is part of Reading Champion, a series carefully linked to book bands to encourage independent reading skills, developed with UCL Institute of Education (IOE)Living in a Tree is a non-fiction text exploring the different animals that live in trees. The repeated sentence structure offers readers the opportunity for a very first independent reading experience with the support of the illustrations.Reading Champion offers independent reading b...

This story is part of Reading Champion, a series carefully linked to book bands to encourage independent reading skills, developed with Dr Sue Bodman and Glen Franklin of UCL Institute of Education (IOE)When a little chick hatches with the ducklings, she grows up to think she's a duck!Reading Champion offers independent reading books for children to practise and reinforce their developing reading skills.Fantastic, original stories are accompanied by...