A Fine and Bitter Snow - [12] A Kate Shugak mystry by Dana Stabenow
The well-known Alaskan P.I. finds herself in the middle of a volatile situation involving proposed drilling for oil in a wildlife preserve. A ranger there is fired for political reasons, and then an important conservationist is poisoned. Be sure to have this on hand.
Il Principe (The Prince) is a political treatise by the Florentine public servant and political theorist Niccolo Machiavelli. Originally called De Principatibus (About Principalities), it was written in 1513, but not published until 1532, five years after Machiavelli's death. The treatise is not actually representative of the work published during his lifetime, but it is certainly the most remembered, and the one responsible for bringing "Machiavellian" into wide usage as a pejorative term.
The Singing of the Dead - [11] Kate Shugak mystery by Dana Stabenow
The background of a hard-fought political campaign in Alaska (where
"in a gathering of four people there are five marriages, six divorces,
and seven political parties") and the devastating effect of a
century-old scandal on the candidates gives even greater depth than
usual to Stabenow's 11th Kate Shugak mystery. The novel shifts effortlessly between the present and the past, tracing
the career of one of the state's most notorious "good time girls" from
the gold mining era. The author paints a strong, striking picture of
the tough life in Alaska 100 years ago and the narrow choice offered
women housekeeper or whore. The character of Angel Beecham, known as
the Dawson Darling, is compellingly portrayed as a complex woman whose
relationship to the contemporary characters is slyly revealed in the
epilogue (but wait until you've finished the book to read it). With
well-drawn characters, splendid scenery and an insider's knowledge of
Alaskan history and politics, this fine novel ranks as one of
Stabenow's best.
Product Description
Neoliberalism--the doctrine
that market exchange is an ethic in itself, capable of acting as a
guide for all human action--has become dominant in both thought and
practice throughout much of the world since 1970 or so. Writing for a
wide audience, David Harvey, author of The New Imperialism and
The Condition of Postmodernity, here tells the political-economic story
of where neoliberalization came from and how it proliferated on the
world stage. Through critical engagement with this history, he
constructs a framework, not only for analyzing the political and
economic dangers that now surround us, but also for assessing the
prospects for the more socially just alternatives being advocated by
many oppositional movements.
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