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This book traces Christianity's change from European imperialism's moral foundation to a voice of political and social change during decolonization.
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"Grassroots Fundraising" delves into the vital role of grassroots fundraising in modern political campaigns, offering a guide for political science professionals, students, and enthusiasts. Through a combination of case studies and practical strategies, the book highlights how local support can provide the sustainable financial backing essential for success in today's political landscape. Chapter Brief Overview: 1. Core principles and methods of grassroots fundraising. 2. Case study: Democracy for America's grassroots model. 3. Matching funds and their role in boosting contributions. 4. Overview of U.S. campaign finance laws and their effects. 5. Howard Dean's pioneering grassroots technique...
This book, first of all, wants to be a quick guide for those who are looking to fund their projects using a crowdfunding platform. In this book you can find 50 of the most working crowdfunding platforms, described for their main features, so that you can make your selection and finally choose the right platform that should be useful to fund your project. This book is written after a previous scan of dozens of websites and crowdfunding guides and after a previous check of more than 400 crowdfunding platforms websites, that eventually led us to the selection of 50. In the meanwhile some changes could have happened, in that case we'd be glad if you report it to our email you an find inside. We would be glad, anyway, to receive your opinion and specially recommendations to improve this guide. As you understand this guide could be edited again, brushed up and with more platforms reviewed, so please help us doing that!
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How is popular knowledge of war shaped by the stories we consume, what are the boundaries of this knowledge, and how are these boundaries policed or contested by journalists producing knowledge from war zones? Based on years of fieldwork in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Afghanistan, and Ukraine, Conflicted challenges normative conceptions of war by revealing how representational authority comes to be. Turning the lens on journalists from The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and other prominent publications, Isaac Blacksin shows why news coverage of contemporary conflict, widely presumed to function as a critique of excessive violence, instead serves to sanction official ...
To the amusement of the pundits and the regret of the electorate, our modern political jargon has become even more brazenly two-faced and obfuscatory than ever. Where once we had Muckrakers, now we have Bed-Wetters. Where Blue Dogs once slept peaceably in the sun, Attack Dogs now roam the land. During election season--a near constant these days--the coded rhetoric of candidates and their spin doctors, and the deliberately meaningless but toxic semiotics of the wing nuts and backbenchers, reach near-Orwellian levels of self-satisfaction, vitriol, and deceit. The average NPR or talk radio listener, MSNBC or Fox News viewer, or blameless New York Times or Wall Street Journal reader is likely to...