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Poverty and the Government in America: A Historical Encyclopedia
ABC-CLIO 2009; US$ 195.00The most comprehensive encyclopedia available on the U.S. government's responses to poverty from the colonial era to the present day. more...
At the Center of the Storm
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 13.99In the whirlwind of accusations and recriminations that emerged in the wake of 9/11 and the Iraq war, one man's vital testimony has been conspicuously absent. Candid and gripping, At the Center of the Storm recounts George Tenet's time at the Central Intelligence Agency, a revealing look at the inner workings of the most important intelligence... more...
The Audacity of Races and Genders
Zed Books 2009; US$ 29.95In this exciting and insightful new work, Zillah Eisenstein engages the 2008 election of Barack Obama as a site of new anti-imperial possibility. more...
Delaware Politics and Government
University of Nebraska Press 2009; US$ 35.00This volume provides a comprehensive analysis of both the historical and the contemporary dimensions of the politics and government of the First State. Once a sparsely populated, agrarian, and relatively insignificant polity, Delaware has become a densely and diversely populated financial and legal center often called the corporation... more...
Accountable
Atria Books 2009; US$ 19.99Accountable provides real-life examples of how crucial issues -- including health care, education, the economy, unequal justice, and the environment -- manifest themselves in our communities. The book demonstrates the urgent need to hold politicians and ourselves responsible, because the stakes have never been higher. Accountable examines present-day... more...
A Field Guide to the Culture Wars
ABC-CLIO 2008; US$ 49.00Like any realignment in politics, the Democratic takeover of Congress in the 2006 midterm elections inspired a raft of instant analyses. One take on the results that is surely wrong is that the change in control of Congress and the spike in Democratic hopes for the 2008 presidential race mark an end to the culture wars that conventional wisdom blamed... more...
To Serve the President
Brookings Institution Press 2008; US$ 26.95Come hell or high water, the American people will elect a new president in November 2008, and the following January will see a changeover in presidential administrations. One of the first challenges facing the new chief executive, and one of the most consequential, is to put his or her stamp on the personnel and day-to-day operations of the new... more...
Restructuring the Philadelphia Region
Temple University Press 2008; US$ 28.95Restructuring the Philadelphia Region offers one of the most comprehensive and careful investigations written to date about metropolitan inequalities in America’s large urban regions. Moving beyond simplistic analyses of cities-versus-suburbs, the authors use a large and unique data set to discover the special patterns of opportunity in greater... more...
From the Primaries to the Polls
Greenwood Publishing Group 2007; US$ 50.00Describes the most advanced concept for overhauling the presidential nomination process, and recounts the story of how support for the idea has spread through a network of grassroots activists. more...
Betraying Our Troops
Palgrave Macmillan 2007; US$ 9.99In this shocking exposé, two U.S government fraud experts reveal how private contractors have put soldiers' lives on the line while damaging America's strategic interests and image abroad. Drawing on exclusive sources the authors show how money and power have conspired to undermine America's fighting forces and threaten the country's... more...









