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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...
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...
Behind the Ballot Box
Greenwood Publishing Group 2000; US$ 115.00Exploring the advantages and disadvantages of different voting systems used in the USA and many other Western democracies, this text provides information and analytical tools needed to examine voting systems and their far-reaching political implications. 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...
CQ's Guide to Current American Government, Fall 2006
CQ Press, a Division of SAGE 2006; US$ 32.20Every spring and fall, researchers, students, people who work in the world of politics or simply enjoy reading about it, look forward to the new edition of CQ Press's Guide to American Government. This resource contains the best Congressional Quarterly reporting published during the past six months in CQ Weekly and related CQ publications. The... more...
Continuity and Change in the Rhetoric of the Moral Majority
ABC-CLIO 1991; US$ 103.95The persuasive strategies employed by the Moral Majority in the early 1980s reassured and calmed a segment of the American population left confused and uncertain by recent national events. David Snowball analyzes this powerful movement, how its rhetoric energized its supporters, the positions it endorsed and causes it championed, and its response to... more...
Contracting Out Government Services
ABC-CLIO 1999; US$ 111.00Privatization of government services in the United States has accelerated in the last two decades, especially at the state and local levels. This work focuses on contracting out?the most widely used method of privatization. Contributors from academia, consulting firms, government agencies, and private providers discuss the why and how of contracting... more...
Cooperation, Conflict and Consensus in the Organization of American States
Palgrave Macmillan 2004; US$ 110.00An examination of how the Organization of American States' rules and norms affect behavior and decisions of member countries, including the United States 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...









