The Power Elite is a book written by sociologist C. Wright Mills in 1956. In it Mills calls attention to the interwoven interests of the leaders of the military, corporate, and political elements of society and suggests that the ordinary citizen is a relatively powerless subject of manipulation by those entities.

C. Wright Mills and the Power Elite

Politics & Social Sciences

Domhoff,G. William

Social Sciences

Beacon Pr

Shape Space

One morning while eating her alphabet cereal, Anna discovers that she is a word wizard and is soon involved in the adventure of her life as she embarks on a quest to help a young boy named Zack find his way home across the ocean.

Children's Books

Falwell, Cathryn

Education & Reference

Big-box Swindle: The True Cost of Mega-retailers And the Fight for America's Independent Businesses

Business & Money

Mitchell, Stacy

Industries

A Peace Corps volunteer's inspirational story about the power of small change In 2001, Peace Corps volunteer Rajeev Goyal was sent to Namje, a remote village in the eastern hills of Nepal. Brimming with idealism, he expected to find people living in conditions of misery and suffering; instead, he discovered a village full of happy, compassionate people. After organizing the villagers to build a water-pumping system in the midst of the dangerous Maoist war that had gripped the country, Goyal learned how complex rural development truly is. He also witnessed how the seemingly lowliest villager can hold profound power to influence not only his or her own village but also the highest rungs of government. &#x2028;&#x2028; Years after this experience, Goyal applied the lessons he learned in Namje to his work on Capitol Hill. Approaching Congress as if it were a Nepalese caste system, Goyal led a grassroots campaign to double the size of the Peace Corps. His unique approach to advocacy included strategically positioning himself outside the men's room of the capitol building waiting for lawmakers to walk out. As a result of his determined bird-dogging, Goyal managed to make allies of more than a hundred members of Congress and in the process, he ruffled the feathers of some of the most powerful figures in Washington. But due to his efforts, the Peace Corps was granted a $60-million increase in funding, the largest dollar-amount increase in the organizations history. On this path to victory Goyal endured a number of missteps along the way, and, as he reveals, his idealism at times faded into fear, anger, and frustration. In this honest and inspirational account of his life as an activist, Goyal offers daring ideas for how the Peace Corps and other organizations can be even more relevant to our rapidly changing world. He urges environmentalists, educators, farmers, artists, and designers to come together and contribute their talents. Filled with history, international politics, personal anecdotes, and colorful characters, The Springs of Namje is a unique and inspiring book about the power of small change. From the Hardcover edition.

The Springs of Namje: A Ten-Year Journey from the Villages of Nepal to the Halls of Congress

Goyal, Rajeev

Job Hunting & Careers

Reproductions of newspaper clippings, transcripts from political meetings and press conferences, interviews, and protest pamphlets document the resistance to South Africa's apartheid system from 1976 to the present

South Africa: A Different Kind of War : From Soweto to Pretoria

Frederikse, Julie

A personal account of life in the Catholic ghetto of West Belfast by a Chicago journalist offers vivid portraits of people adjusting to bomb threats, murders, police searches, hunger strikes, and sporadic violence

Belfast Diary: War As a Way of Life

History

Conroy, John

World

Resolution of intractable problems around the world requires understanding ordinary people as well as leaders. This street-level view of Northern Ireland provides the best explanation of the twenty-five-year conflict.

Belfast Diary: War as a Way of Life

John Conroy

Sophiatown: Coming of Age in South Africa

Physical description; xxii, 151 pages ; 21 cm. Subjects; Mattera, Don, -- 1935. Poets, South African -- 20th century -- Biography. Journalists -- South Africa -- Biography.

Biographies & Memoirs

Mattera, Don

Arts & Literature

Biting at the Grave: The Irish Hunger Strikes and the Politics of Despair

Looks at the lives and motivations of Bobby Sands and the other 1981 IRA hunger strikers, and their families, and examines the effects of the ten deaths on the situation in Northern Ireland

O'Malley, Padraig

Europe

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