authoritarianism

The world as we know it is ending. Evolution has reversed itself, affecting every living creature on earth. Science cannot stop the world from running backwards, as woman after woman gives birth to infants that appear to be primitive species of humans. Twenty-six-year-old Cedar Hawk Songmaker, adopted daughter of a pair of big-hearted, open-minded Minneapolis liberals, is as disturbed and uncertain as the rest of America around her. But for Cedar, this change is profound and deeply personal. She is four months pregnant. Though she wants to tell the adoptive parents who raised her from infancy, Cedar first feels compelled to find her birth mother, Mary Potts, an Ojibwe living on the reservation, to understand both her and her baby's origins. As Cedar goes back to her own biological beginnings, society around her begins to disintegrate, fueled by a swelling panic about the end of humanity. There are rumors of martial law, of Congress confining pregnant women. Of a registry, and rewards for those who turn these wanted women in. Flickering through the chaos are signs of increasing repression: a shaken Cedar witnesses a family wrenched apart when police violently drag a mother from her husband and child in a parking lot. The streets of her neighborhood have been renamed with Bible verses. A stranger answers the phone when she calls her adoptive parents, who have vanished without a trace. It will take all Cedar has to avoid the prying eyes of potential informants and keep her baby safe.

This slapstick postmodern tale is also a profound statement about dictatorship and peaceful revolution.

"A revelatory inner history of China during a moment of transformation"--Provided by publisher.

American psychoanalyst Erich Fromm argues that the modern world has created a predominant personality of detachment--a sort of societal pathology--and proposes measures for helping humankind hang onto morality and social responsibility.

This book looks at the ethics (the concept of right and wrong) of different political systems and discusses why governments succeed or fall and how they can be changed.

Compares political repression in three military regimes--Brazil, Chile, and Argentina--focusing on political trials and each regime's approach to the law.

Examines issues spanning 150 years in Russian and Soviet history, analyzing questions and presenting excerpts from sources on ideologies and regimes, political parties, repression and terror, agriculture and industry, the social classes, war, and other topics.

Presents alphabetized biographical profiles that provide basic information on over four hundred major European figures from 1600 to 1720, including those who had significant impact on intellectual and cultural activity of the era.

Explores how the United States attempts to control the political and economic problems of the world have failed and endangered the American people, and argues that in order to create a safer world for everyone the government must completely rethink its approach to rogue nations and governments.