After Hope And Change

Author : James W. Ceaser,Andrew E. Busch,John J. Pitney
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781442247468

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After Hope and Change by James W. Ceaser,Andrew E. Busch,John J. Pitney Pdf

Now updated to include the 2014 midterms and previewing the coming 2016 election cycle, After Hope and Change provides the most comprehensive and authoritative account of the national election, including the presidential nomination process and election and congressional elections. As they have for every national election since 1992, James W. Ceaser and Andrew E. Busch, now joined by John J. Pitney Jr., combine a concise account of the elections as well as the broader context for American politics and institutions. Previous books in the series After Hope and Change: The 2012 Elections and American Politics Epic Journey: The 2008 Elections and American Politics Red Over Blue: The 2004 Elections and American Politics The Perfect Tie: The True Story of the 2000 Presidential Election Losing to Win: The 1996 Elections and American Politics Upside Down and Inside Out: The 1992 Elections and American Politics

Author : Ted Rall
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781609804510

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The Book of Obama by Ted Rall Pdf

How did a charismatic young president elected in an atmosphere of optimism and expectation lead the United States to the brink of revolution? From a chance encounter in the early 1980s to the Democratic primaries of 2007-08, syndicated columnist and political cartoonist Ted Rall was one of the first to size up Barack Obama as we know him now: conservative, risk-averse and tonedeaf. In The Book of Obama Rall revisits the rapid rise and dizzying fall of Obama--and the emergence of the Tea Party and Occupy movements--and draws a startling conclusion: We the People weren't lied to. We lied to ourselves, both about Obama and the two-party system. We voted when we ought to have revolted.

Author : Casey Gwinn,Chan Hellman
Publisher : Morgan James Publishing
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781683509660

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Hope Rising by Casey Gwinn,Chan Hellman Pdf

Learn to overcome trauma, adversity, and struggle by unleashing the science of hope in your daily life with this inspiring and informative guide. Hope is much more than wishful thinking. Science tells us that it is the most predictive indicator of well-being in a person’s life. Hope is measurable. It is malleable. And it changes lives. In Hope Rising, Casey Gwinn and Chan Hellman reveal the latest science of hope using nearly 2,000 published studies, including their own research. Based on their findings, they make an impassioned call for hope to be the focus not only of our personal lives, but of public policy for education, business, social services, and every part of society. Hope Rising provides a roadmap to measure hope in your life. It teaches you to assess what may have robbed you of hope, and then provides strategies to let your hope flourish once again. The authors challenge every reader to be honest about their own struggles and end the cycle of shame and blame related to trauma, illness, and abuse. These are important first steps toward increasing your Hope score—and thriving because of it.

Author : Kyle Cease
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-02
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781501152207

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I Hope I Screw This Up by Kyle Cease Pdf

A New York Times bestseller! In this irreverently funny, one-of-a-kind book, transformational comedian Kyle Cease shows you how to love failure and follow your heart, release the addictions of your mind, and live in a state of infinite possibility. If Eckhart Tolle and Jim Carrey had a baby, that baby would be Kyle Cease. After twenty-five years of achieving what he thought were his dreams of being a headlining touring comedian and actor, Kyle Cease suddenly discovered that the belief that “When something happens, I will be happy” is a complete lie. With nothing more than an intuition, he decided to quit his stand-up career at its peak, and now—as a transformational comedian, he brings his one-of-a-kind self-help wisdom to sold-out audiences in his Evolving Out Loud Live stage show. In I Hope I Screw This Up, he disarms readers as he leads them to their own personal breakthroughs, helping them to recognize that actual happiness and fulfillment is available to them—not in some distant future, but right now. As he has shown audiences all over the world, when you embrace your pain, fear, and vulnerability instead of pushing it away, you will discover an authentic creativity and power that is truly unstoppable. Using self-deprecating personal stories, hilarious observations on life, and poorly drawn illustrations, Kyle unravels the deepest issues standing between us and emotional freedom. From discovering the never-ending opportunities that come from playing—and going with whatever comes up in the moment—to learning to let go of what feels heavy in our lives, this book is a journey into the endless possibility that can appear if we just dare to let go of our fear of screwing up. This is not motivation. This is not inspiration. This is true transformation.

Author : Rebecca Solnit
Publisher : Haymarket Books
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781608465798

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Hope in the Dark by Rebecca Solnit Pdf

“[A] landmark book . . . Solnit illustrates how the uprisings that begin on the streets can upend the status quo and topple authoritarian regimes” (Vice). A book as powerful and influential as Rebecca Solnit’s Men Explain Things to Me, her Hope in the Dark was written to counter the despair of activists at a moment when they were focused on their losses and had turned their back to the victories behind them—and the unimaginable changes soon to come. In it, she makes a radical case for hope as a commitment to act in a world whose future remains uncertain and unknowable. Drawing on her decades of activism and a wide reading of environmental, cultural, and political history, Solnit argues that radicals have a long, neglected history of transformative victories, that the positive consequences of our acts are not always immediately seen, directly knowable, or even measurable, and that pessimism and despair rest on an unwarranted confidence about what is going to happen next. Now, with a moving new introduction explaining how the book came about and a new afterword that helps teach us how to hope and act in our unnerving world, she brings a new illumination to the darkness of our times in an unforgettable new edition of this classic book. “One of the best books of the 21st century.” —The Guardian “No writer has better understood the mix of fear and possibility, peril and exuberance that’s marked this new millennium.” —Bill McKibben, New York Times–bestselling author of Falter “An elegant reminder that activist victories are easily forgotten, and that they often come in extremely unexpected, roundabout ways.” —The New Yorker

Author : Henry A. Giroux
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317254003

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Politics After Hope by Henry A. Giroux Pdf

As the new administration moved beyond its first year in office, Obama's politics of hope increasingly has been transformed into a politics of accommodation. To many of his supporters, his quest for pragmatism and realism has become a weakness rather than a strength. By focusing on those areas where Obama grounded his own sense of possibility, Giroux critically investigates the well-being and future of young people, including the necessity to overcome racial injustices, the importance of abiding by the promise of a democracy to come, and the indisputable value of education in democracy. Giroux shows why considerations provide the ethical and political foundations for enabling hope to live up to its promises, while making civic responsibility and education central to a movement that takes democracy seriously.

Author : Nathan Agin
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780062961129

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How We Change by Nathan Agin Pdf

The Coronavirus pandemic has revealed a very big secret we’ve been keeping from ourselves and each other: We can be remarkably agile in the face of change. How is it that we are able to so radically and rapidly change our daily behavior in order to follow the social distancing and stay-at-home policies during the pandemic, and yet--pandemic or not--we typically find it difficult, if not impossible, to reach smaller personal goals like dieting, getting organized or changing destructive habits? The pandemic is life-threatening, so it ignites our survival instincts, activating that part of our brains charged with speedily and efficiently getting us to safety. But cholesterol, alcohol, and physical passivity are all life-threatening, and many of us humans have done a lousy job changing in regard to these issues, even when we have reliable information that they are killing us. Why do we struggle to change what would so obviously help ourselves individually? Ross Ellenhorn’s book, How we Change (and the Ten Reasons Why We Don’t) gives a fascinating answer. A clinician and thought leader in the mental health and addiction fields, he suggests that we’re often looking in the wrong direction when we try to decipher the factors that support human change. He suggests that it’s much more fruitful to look at why we don’t change, than figure out why we do. By looking at the reasons we don’t change, we give ourselves the best chance of actually changing in meaningful ways. Ellenhorn explains how we are wired to double down on the familiar because of what he calls the "Fear of Hope" - the act of protecting ourselves from further disappointment—and identifies the “10 Reasons Not to Change” to help us see why we behave the way we do when we are faced with the challenge of hope. Among them are: · To change means raising your expectations and thus risking that you’ll disappoint yourself. · Once you change, you are more accountable to make other changes than if you stayed the same · When you change, your future become much less predictable. · Change means destroying psychological monuments you’ve built to commemorate past injuries · Every time you change, you raise the possibility of losing or disrupting your relationship with certain people By addressing this little known reality of fear of hope, and how it influences the 10 Reasons Not to Change, Ellenhorn actually gives us hope, helping us to work toward the change we seek. Ellenhorn speaks to the core of our insecurities and fears about ourselves, with a humor and kindness. By turning our judgments about self-destructive behaviors into curious questions about them, he teaches us to think about our actions to discover what we truly want - even if we’re going about getting it in the wrong way. How We Change is a brilliant approach that will forever alter our perspective - and help us achieve the transformation we truly seek.

Author : Christopher J. Warren
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781456868956

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The Tragedy of Hope and Change by Christopher J. Warren Pdf

A Beach Read for Political Junkies... The Tragedy of Hope and Change contains insights vital to understanding the changes progressive politics have added to our political landscape. A self-employed kayak guide, small business owner, and political junkie, Chris Warren explores both the workings of the 2008 presidential election, and the overt actions by Congress, as they pertain to middle class working Americans. Exploring everything from education to individual responsibility and even media bias, the Tragedy of Hope and Change will take you on a journey to discover how the broad brushstrokes of ambiguity progressives use to modify policy, can alter the Constitution of the United States, and forever destroy the freedoms we the electorate hold so dear.

Author : Dr. Somdutta Singh
Publisher : Notion Press
Page : 85 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781638735922

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Stories From New India: Policies, Hope And Change by Dr. Somdutta Singh Pdf

Author : Robert R. Morman, PhD
Publisher : Author House
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2010-05-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781452006390

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Obama’s First Year — “Hope and Change” by Robert R. Morman, PhD Pdf

Obama’s First Year as president consisted of “government bailouts” to Wall Street, Chrysler, GM with “temp” ownership, subsidies to small businesses, bribe to Social Security recipients, stimulus package “creating” few if any jobs, 10 percent unemployment, 15.4 million idled, a $1.4 trillion deficit, re-deploying troops from Iraq to Afghanistan plus a surge, trying Gitmo terrorists as “criminals” in New York City, no real increases in Defense, open borders, amnesty for “illegals,” continuing trade deficits, “free trade” a farce, no plan to keep manufacturing in the U.S., no peace in the Middle East, “selling out” to Canada and Mexico in the NAU, indoctrinating students with globalization and reverence for Obama, rebuffed on his socialistic, $1.6 million deficit health care plan, and global socialist using Bush as the “bad guy” when things go bad, while freely following and expanding his policies.

Author : Hugh Hewitt
Publisher : Center Street
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781455516292

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The Brief Against Obama by Hugh Hewitt Pdf

Voters can do nothing until they have the facts---the hard, cold, true facts, and that is what Hugh Hewitt provides in THE BRIEF AGAINST OBAMA: The Rise, Fall & Epic Fail of the Hope & Change Presidency. Hugh makes the case that Obama's has been a disastrous presidency, a fiasco in fact, and reveals the president to be a wholly unprepared and incapable-of-learning ideologue whose nearly every move has been wrong, and whose almost every decision has been ill-conceived and poorly executed. But for the SEALs' dispatch of bin Laden and the military's removal of al-Awalki and other terrorists---whom the president still seeks to remove from Gitmo to domestic courts in the United States---Obama would be wholly without anything to claim as an achievement of his time in the Oval Office. In addition to the monumental failures of Obamacare, the soaring unemployment rate, the 2009 "stimulus" and the massive debt, Hugh Hewitt examines the scores and scores of broken promises and fraudulent forecasts, dozens of dodges and hundreds of disastrous innovations that President Obama has inflicted on America. It has been a reign of incompetency not before seen in the country---ever. According to Hewitt, President Obama is not just a failed president, but the most spectacularly failed president of modern times, and Hewitt's precise and lawyerly indictment is made to help the American people see what has happened, and what desperately needs to be done in the upcoming election. The path for the American people is clear and urgent: Barack Obama mustn't be allowed to run the country into the ground as the Commander-in-Chief for four more years.

Author : Jacob Shively
Publisher : Springer
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137576996

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Hope, Change, Pragmatism by Jacob Shively Pdf

This book seeks to uncover a clear picture of Barack Obama’s grand strategy, the overarching methods applied to identify and achieve national interests in a global setting. Pressed for an “Obama doctrine” during his final years in office, the President claimed a simple international relations approach: applying all tools at his disposal before resorting for military force. Critics, however, remain unimpressed. They charge the administration with strategic incoherence and weak leadership. Stepping away from ideological and theoretical commitments, Shively applies a simple framework for grand strategy, one that also deepens our systematic understanding. After untangling a complex history and narrating three cases of tumult in 2009, 2011, and 2014, Shively characterizes Obama’s grand strategy as “pragmatic internationalism” and argues that it was a promising but poorly implemented approach.

Author : Mary Zournazi
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000947700

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Hope by Mary Zournazi Pdf

How is hope to be found amid the ethical and political dilemmas of modern life? Writer and philosopher Mary Zournazi brought her questions to some of the most thoughtful intellectuals at work today. She discusses joyful revolt with Julia Kristeva, the idea of the rest of the world with Gayatri Spivak, the art of living with Michel Serres, the carnival of the senses with Michael Taussig, the relation of hope to passion and to politics with Chantal Mouffe and Ernesto Laclau. A dozen stimulating minds weigh in with their visions of a better social and political order. The result is a collaboration - of writing, of thinking, and of politics - that demonstrates more clearly than any single-authored project could how ideas encountering one another can produce the vision needed for social change.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0578940515

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Authentic Peace by Anonim Pdf

Authentic Peace is the debut memoir by Anne-Marie Zanzal, M.Div. It tells the honest and real-life account of a married woman, in mid-life, who experiences a physical and emotional awakening that opens her eyes to her sexuality and sensuality, which had long been ignored. Authentic Peace is for those who are in similar transitional stages in life, whether leaving a marriage or a relationship. This is a story of embarking on the journey of finding your true, authentic self and the book includes topics of sexuality and sensuality, marriage, parenting, parental relationships, divorce, grief, racism, politics, spirituality, religion, and more. This book continues Anne-Marie's work, which includes online coaching and support groups for people coming out later in life. Anne-Marie has dedicated her life to building community and helping people overcome societal restrictions to find and claim their authentic, true selves despite all odds.

Author : Chris Doran
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498297028

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Hope in the Age of Climate Change by Chris Doran Pdf

It is difficult to be hopeful in the midst of daily news about the effects of climate change on people and our planet. While the Christian basis for hope is the resurrection of Jesus, unfortunately far too many American Protestant Christians do not connect this belief with the daily witness of their faith. This book argues that the resurrection proclaims a notion of hope that should be the foundation of a theology of creation care that manifests itself explicitly in the daily lives of believers. Christian hope not only inspires us to do great and courageous things but also serves as a critique of current systems and powers that degrade humans, nonhumans, and the rest of creation and thus cause us to be hopeless. Belief in the resurrection hope should cause us to be a different sort of people. Christians should think, purchase, eat, and act in novel and courageous ways because they are motivated daily by the resurrection of Jesus. This is the only way to be hopeful in the age of climate change.