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In recent years, debate on the state's economic role has too often devolved into diatribes against intervention.

A groundbreaking classic that lays out and defends a democratic theory of educationWho should have the authority to shape the education of citizens in a democracy?

Democracy is not naturally plausible.

Liberty and the News is Walter Lippman's classic account of how the press threatens democracy whenever it has an agenda other than the free flow of ideas.

Today's political scene looks nothing like it did thirty years ago, and that is due mostly to Reagan's monumental reshaping of the Republican party.

For many, Thomas Carlyle's put-down of economics as "e;the dismal science"e; rings true--especially in the aftermath of the crash of 2008.

Under the Cover follows the life trajectory of a single work of fiction from its initial inspiration to its reception by reviewers and readers.

Charles Prow has brought together an impressive lineup of businessmen and women, reporters, and experts to show how the United States can be more competitive in the global economy.

Millions of people around the world live in and travel through the shadows.

Workable Sisterhood is an empirical look at sixteen HIV-positive women who have a history of drug use, conflict with the law, or a history of working in the sex trade.

The American people are frustrated with their government-dismayed by a series of high-profile failures (Iraq, Katrina, the financial meltdown) that seems to just keep getting longer.

Religious violence is surely as old as both faith and fighting themselves.

Uncle Sam's Plantation is an incisive look at how government manipulates, controls, and ultimately devastates the lives of the poorand what Americans must do to stop it.

Lurking in the back of the minds of many students of American government is the question, ';How well does the American political system work?

A World in Chaos: Social Crisis and the Rise of Postmodern Cinema traces the evolution of postmodern cinema through its multiple and overlapping expressions.

State failure, ethnopolitical war, genocide, famine, and refugee flows are variants of a type of complex political and humanitarian crisis, exemplified during the 1990s in places like Somalia, Bosnia, Liberia, and Afghanistan.

DIY Conflict Resolution is the first book by New York City Attorney, Mediator and Conflict Resolution Coach, Nance L.

False charges of racial profiling threaten to obliterate the crime-fighting gains of the last decade, especially in America's inner cities.

Few Canadians have fought harder or longer for national unity and bilingualism than Lowell Green.

The principles of health reform are actually simple, but remain formidable due to the size and complexity of the necessary implementation.

In the unique style that has endeared him to one of Canadas largest and most loyal radio audiences, best-selling author Lowell Green launches an all-out expose on those Canadians he says are wrecking our country.

Documents uncovered from the late FBI director's secret files reveal for the first time the shocking extent of FBI activities in collecting and using derogatory information about prominent Americans and political groups.

This fifth volume in the George Mason Lecture Series analyzes contemporary separation of powers in the American political system and offers answers to the following questions: what is the relationship, if any, of American separation of powers to the older concept of mixed government?

Volume II of The Rights Retained by the People explores how the Ninth Amendment affects the proper way of interpreting the Constitution as a whole.

Just fifty years ago the literary critic Lionel Trilling spoke of liberalism as "e;not only the dominant but even the sole intellectual tradition"e; in American society.

During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Americans with all sorts of disabilities came to be labeled as "e;unproductive citizens.

Why do so many different people with widely dissimilar ideas and customs get along as Americans?

Girls and boys are different.

Evangelical Christianity--the faith professed by one in four Americans--exerts an enormous influence in American society.

Richard Nixon's election to the presidency in 1968 was an improbable vindication for a man branded as a loser after unsuccessful presidential and gubernatorial campaigns.

This book reveals what is happening in small communities across the United States as their newspapers struggle to survive.

In its updated and expanded second edition, this helpful guide offers a wealth of information for people living with HIV and for people caring for HIV-positive loved ones.

Who was most responsible for the Vietnam War?

Nine of the 192 Union military hospitals during the Civil War circulated newspapers edited and printed by convalescents.

Racism has permeated the workings of the U.

This volume presents carefully selected, and annotated, articles about major-leaguers serving at home and overseas in the U.

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This is the first book to document the history of cigarette advertising on college and university campuses.

Captain Ernie Blanchard left for work January 10, 1995, a successful officer.

At a time when mass shootings in schools and other public spaces have become commonplace, it might seem surprising that American college campuses are not magnets for murderers but sanctuaries from them.

Conflict in business and personal relationships is inevitable--much of the success of companies depends on how well they respond to it.

One of the most popular comic strips of the 1950s and the first to reference politics of the day, Walt Kelly's Pogo took on Joe McCarthy before the controversial senator was a blip on Edward R.

It didn't take long for freshman Congressman Stephen A.

Since the early days of the movie industry, filmmakers have created visions of what the presidency of the United States is like.

An entertaining and important account of presidential elections in which the winner of the popular vote lost or came all too close to losing, focusing on the Constitutional Convention in 1787, the disputed elections of 1876 and 2000, the deadlocks of 1800 and 1824 (when the elections were thrown to the House of Representatives) and the close call during the tumultuous year of 1968.

This book presents a comprehensive examination of the complex journey toward achieving environmental resilience in the twenty-first century.

A fascinating new angle on presidential history, assessing the performances of the presidents in their freshman year of the toughest job in the world.

Forty years ago the Watergate scandal deeply wounded Americans' faith in government.

After being sworn in as president, Richard Nixon told the assembled crowd that ';government will listen.

Many Americans believe that foreign military intervention is central to protecting our domestic freedoms.