All books using the keywords: James M. Craven Omahkohkiaaiipooyii

Critical and Scientific thinking are often like Heaven: Everyone says they want to get there but few look forward to doing what it takes. Critical-Scientific Thinking (C-ST) works and we trust our lives in if in many cases, when we fly in an aircraft and arrive alive with or without our luggage; when a prescribed medication works as predicted and intended. Critical-Scientific Thinking takes courage; it takes integrity; it takes guts to risk some of our most sacred icons or ideas or even whole belief systems, under serious siege from hard facts and truths, demanding we go back to the proverbial drawing boards. Further,C-ST may well threaten entrenched interests with vested interest in ...

What is Imperialism? This is a term and construct that is commonly used in rhetoric yet often ill-defined or undefined. Is imperialism a set of policies and crimes of the few to control the many or a whole system with varied interacting dimensions? How and under what conditions does imperialism emerge? Who wins if anyone, and who loses if anyone, typically? What masks does it wear and what carrots and sticks does it use for a few to rule the many on so many levels: historico-geographical; politico-legal; economic; socio-cultural; technological?. These are but some of the questions explored in this book of readings on different cases as well as dimensions of, imperialism, as a glo ...

This book is Dedicated to and based upon real-world struggles in and outside of courtrooms, Aboriginal and Eurocentric, for survival and sustainability of Indigenous Peoples. This book explores contradictions—between: Theory and/vs Practice of Law; Law and/vs Justice; De Jure promises on paper and/versus De Facto realities--no matter by whom, against whom or under what banners or pretexts of justification; What types of failures; what types of systems of purported Law and Justice? There is an aphorism attributed to Lao Zi: “I hear, I forget. I see, I remember. I do, I understand.” This book is a sort of a tour of discovery, taking you into and through real-world and some notorious, ...

Past and present economic crises have called into questions mainstream economic policies & theories upon which they are based. This book explores, through readings on critical thinking, mainstream economics & various shades of heterodox or radical political economy, how various theories stand up against each other, side-by-side. How do "mainstream" economics & economists compare with radical or "heterodox" political economy & paradigm adherents? What do they admit as facts?; What do they disagree upon & why? What are some basic principles of critical thinking & epistemology to add to debates? What is the state of economics & economists today? What are markets, free or otherwise? What do ...

The term "genocide" is one of the most misunderstood and misused in the English language and commonly used by those who have no idea of the: origins of the word; evolution of international law on genocide; reasons and motives behind genocide; genocidal historical roots and founding pillars of the U.S. and Canada; present genocidal realities of various societies and systems in which Indigenous Peoples continue to be victims of genocide as defined in the 1948 UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. What are the motives and interests behind genocide really? How were and are various key institutions of the U.S. and Canada founded and still run on the bas ...