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War Powers
Princeton University Press 2013; US$ 29.95Armed interventions in Libya, Haiti, Iraq, Vietnam, and Korea challenged the US president and Congress with a core question of constitutional interpretation: does the president, or Congress, have constitutional authority to take the country to war? War Powers argues that the Constitution doesn't offer a single legal answer to that question. But... more...
Founding Rivals
Regnery Publishing 2013; US$ 16.95The Amazing True Story of the Election That Saved the Constitution In 1789, James Madison and James Monroe ran against each other for Congress?the only time that two future presidents have contested a congressional seat. But what was at stake, as author Chris DeRose reveals in Founding Rivals: Madison vs. Monroe, the Bill of Rights, and the Election... more...
The Founding Fathers Guide to the Constitution
Regnery Publishing 2013; US$ 14.95What Does the Constitution Really Mean? Are liberals right when they cite the ?elastic? clauses of the Constitution to justify big government? Or are conservatives right when they cite the Constitution?s explicit limits on federal power? The answer lies in a more basic question: How did the founding generation intend for us to interpret and apply... more...
Words Kill
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 44.95When Communist revolutionaries seized control of Mainland China in 1949, they faced enormous challenges of state and nation building. China occupied a vast territory, had a huge and poorly integrated population and suffered from a woefully backward economy. Building a Socialist Chinese state required effectivly managing significant opposition to the... more...
The Price of Justice
Henry Holt and Co. 2013; US$ 29.99A nonfiction legal thriller that traces the fourteen-year struggle of two lawyers to bring the most powerful coal baron in American history, Don Blankenship, to justice Don Blankenship, head of Massey Energy since the early 1990s, ran an industry that provides nearly half of America?s electric power. But wealth and influence weren?t enough for... more...
The European Union and South East Europe
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 125.00This book explores the interaction of the EU in Greece, Slovenia, Croatia, and Macedonia in three key policy sectors ? cohesion, border managements and the environment ? and assesses the degree to which the European Union?s engagement with the democracies of South East Europe has promoted Europeanization and Multi-Level Governance. Although there... more...
Coalition Government and Party Mandate
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 130.00Which kind of decisions are passed by Cabinet in coalition governments? What motivates ministerial action? How much leeway do coalition parties give their governmental representatives? This book focuses on a comparative study of ministerial behaviour in Germany, Belgium, Italy and the Netherlands. It discredits the assumption that ministers are... more...
Control
Threshold Editions 2013; US$ 12.00When our founding fathers secured the Constitutional ?right of the people to keep and bear arms,? they also added the admonition that this right SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED. It is the only time this phrase appears in the Bill of Rights. So why aren?t more people listening? History has proven that guns are essential to self-defense and liberty?but tragedy... more...
Enacting European Citizenship
Cambridge University Press 2013; US$ 76.00Examines the changing character of European citizenship, focusing on 'acts' of citizenship. more...
Control
Threshold Editions 2013; Not AvailableWhen our founding fathers secured the Constitutional ?right of the people to keep and bear arms,? they also added the admonition that this right SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED. It is the only time this phrase appears in the Bill of Rights. So why aren?t more people listening? History has proven that guns are essential to self-defense and liberty?but tragedy... more...









