di TELES, STEVEN MICHAEL

Reveals the challenges that conservatives faced in competing with legal liberalism. This work explores how conservative mobilization was shaped by the legal profession, the legacy of the liberal movem ... (Continua)

di ALVAREZ, R.MICHAEL HALL, THAD E.

Elections by nature are fraught with risk. This work examines the range of past methods and the various technologies that have been created to try to minimize risk and accurately reflect the will of v ... (Continua)

di MOSKOS, PETER

Offers an insir's story of what it is really like to be a police officer on the front lines of the war on drugs. This book provis a window into this world that outsirs never see - the drug corners, th ... (Continua)

di ROBERTSON, MICHAEL

Long before Walt Whitman was established in the canon of American poetry, feminists, socialists, spiritual seekers, and supporters of same-sex passion saw him as an enlightened figure who fulfilled th ... (Continua)

di SAINT-PL, GILLES

Offers a theoretical analysis of the important mechanisms by which technical progress and innovation affect the distribution of income. This book shows how the structure of mand changes as the economy ... (Continua)

di HARRINGTON, BROOKE

During the 1990's, the United States unrwent a transformation: investing in stocks. This book follows the trajectory of this market populism via the rise of investment clubs, through which millions of ... (Continua)

di MCCRAY, W. PATRICK

When the Soviets launched Sputnik in 1957, thousands of ordinary people across the globe seized the opportunity to participate in the start of the Space Age. This book tells the story of this network ... (Continua)

di MAO, DOUGLAS

Recovers the lost intellectual, social, and literary history of the belief that the beauty - or ugliness - of the environment in which one is raised influences or even termines one's fate. This book c ... (Continua)

di STUART, DOUGLAS T.

A study of the political and bureaucratic struggles that surround the passage and implementation of the 1947 National Security Act. It shows how disputes over the lessons of Pearl Harbor and World War ... (Continua)

di BESSEN, JAMES MEURER, MICHAEL J.

Looks at the economic performance of patents. This book questions whether patents work well as property rights, and, if not, what institutional and legal reforms are necessary to make the patent syste ... (Continua)

di WOLIN, SHELDON

mocracy is struggling in America. But what if the country is no longer a mocracy at all? This title consirs: has America unwittingly morphed into a strange kind of political hybrid, one where economic ... (Continua)

di GALLAGHER, CATHERINE

Revises the intellectual history of nineteenth-century Britain by monstrating that political economists and the writers who often presented themselves as their literary antagonists actually held most ... (Continua)

di SMITH, DANIEL JORDAN

Attempts to unrstand the dilemmas average Nigerians face every day as they try to get ahead - or just survive - in a society riddled with corruption. This book paints a portrait of Nigerian corruption ... (Continua)

di COHEN, JEFFREY E.

Traces the dwindling of public trust in the news and shows how people pay less attention to it than they once did. The author argues that the news media's influence over public opinion has creased con ... (Continua)

di HOLOMAN, D.KERN

How do you spell Menlssohn? Where do you place the hyphen in Beethoven if it breaks between two lines? Is it premiere or premiere? This book provis answers to these questions. It covers - how to go ab ... (Continua)

di FOUCLT, MICHEL

What does it mean to write "This is not a pipe" across a bluntly literal painting of a pipe? By exploring the nuances and ambiguities of Magritte's visual critique of language, the author finds the pa ... (Continua)

di GADAMER, HANS-GEORG

Contains 13 essays from "Kleine Schriften", aling with hermeneutical reflection, phenomenology, existential philosophy, and philosophical hermeneutics. This book applies hermeneutical analysis to Heig ... (Continua)

Prose fiction, although not always associated with classical antiquity, did in fact flourish in the early Roman Empire, principally in the Greek ial romance of love and adventure to which they are rel ... (Continua)

di SALT, JEREMY

Begins by examining a question that has been asked by several commentators since September 11, 2001: "Why do they hate us?" This book offers the background essential for unrstanding the Middle East by ... (Continua)

di MCBRIDE, DAWN M. CUTTING, J. COOPER

Suitable for instructors who teach a lab component with their methods course.