Algora Publishing imprint: 206 books
Ain’t Nobody Be Learnin’ Nothin’
The Fraud and The Fix for High-Poverty Schools
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
America’s most challenged families are segregated into high-poverty schools. Despite a 20-year experiment in nationwide school reform, few students make it over the slippery bridge to the middle class. In this book you will meet the students, families, teachers, and administrators who struggle...
Political Philosophy
The Narrow Path of Social Progress
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
While we might all love for everyone to get along, to help the needy, and for the wars to end, we need to explain how people can reach this point in their biological growth and development by promoting social progress.
Liberals believe social conservatives are oppressive white men who worship...
World Government - Utopian Dream or Current Reality? Vol. 2
Lessons of History: The United States and the European Union
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
As globalization gains speed and as its benefits and also its costs become more apparent, the author sketches out some of the conditions that could, eventually, make for a better life for all. The author follows the evolution of the political system of the US, in particular analyzing the Declaration...
Specters of Anarchy
Literature and the Anarchist Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
Anarchy. The word alone conjures strong emotional responses.Anarchism is one of the most important, if maligned, radical social movements. In the 21st century, anarchist politics have enjoyed a significant revival, offering a positive vision of social change and an alternative to the injustice and inequality...
by Nelson McAvoy
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Come to think of it, we all know the CIA is the organization responsible for hands-on international subterfuge, assassinations, and regime change. But if covert activities are their brief, who is in charge of data collection? What is the real intelligence agency of the United States? Brilliant inventions...
by Raymond W. Converse
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Arguing that a world government may be the best hope for addressing major problems facing the world, that is, poverty, global warming, global trade, the lack of financial regulation, and others, the author approaches the reasons for a world government and the steps necessary to institute it. Total...
On Life
Philosophical Dialogues
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
‘Do you believe we can know the truth about all things, or are there things we simply can never know the truth about?’ This quote from On Life captures the spirit of the book. In it, four friends — Director, Friend, Artist, and Scientist — pursue, in short dialogues, the truth about such topics...
Running Out (2008)
How Global Shortages Change the Economic Paradigm
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The shocking implications of a worldwide scarcity of natural resources have suddenly started to come clear. Higher prices for gas and heating oil may be a mere inconvenience, so far; occasional brown-outs and water shortages can be brushed off as seasonal or regional problems but only up to a...
by Jerry Carrier
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Class is Americas forbidden thought. Class and culture rigidly control who we are, who we associate with, and how much money we can earn. American class culture determines who will prosper and who will fail. This culture and the debilitating consequences that make the American slave class are...
by Robert Underhill
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This book examines the personal and administrative qualities of FDR and from that perspective analyzes the U.S. response to the changing global scene between the two world wars. Governments during the period preceding and throughout World War II were not without defects, yet despite lapses and mistakes...
The Pyramid Age: Riddles of Time and Technology
Vol. 2, Ages in Alignment Series
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In The Pyramid Age, Northern Irish historian Emmet Sweeney provides evidence suggesting the pyramids were not built around 2350 BC, as is currently thought, but only around 800 BC. SweeneyÂs book argues that the dating of ancient history is often much more tenuous than most people...
The Origin of Chinese Characters
An Illustrated History and Word Guide
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
In China, an educated person has to know 8,000 characters or more - a daunting task by any measure. Meanwhile, Western students struggle to learn a few hundred of them. How much easier it is to learn, when you have a clue as to the origins and hidden meanings of the symbols!
An enthusiastic...
Is the Two-State Solution Already Dead?
A Political and Military History of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Written by a Palestinian with intimate knowledge of the political and physical landscape of the region, at its basic level the book advocates for a just peace based on the human rights and international law, a peace which all parties to the century-old conflict need. In this history of Palestine,...
On Wisdom
A Philosophical Dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2017
What does it mean to live well? Every day we choose how to act, what to believe, and where to place our focus. This thoughtful book draws us into an engaging conversation about topics that we often leave unspoken but which wise people think through as a fundamental part of living. The mystery is really not so great: it is within reach all the time.