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The 2014 midterm congressional elections provided a view of the attitude of American voters in the sixth year of Barack Obama’s presidency. This book provides insight about the formative aspects of the 2014 campaign season as well as in depth coverage of key races for Congress. The first section...

The 2016 presidential race is arguably already over in 40 states and the District of Columbia. If recent presidential election trends are any indication of what will happen in 2016, Democrats in Texas and Republicans in New York might as well stay home on election day because their votes will matter...

Contributors from a range of disciplines consider the disconnect between human evolutionary studies and the rest of evolutionary biology. The study of human evolution often seems to rely on scenarios and received wisdom rather than theory and methodology, with each new fossil or molecular analysis...

In a region famous for its flamboyant politicians, Earl K. Long was one of the most flamboyant of them all. This first full-scale biography of the former Louisiana governor explores his controversial life-style and his strong family ties, his raw humor and his political savvy, his abuse of power and...

Transforming our energy supplies to be more sustainable is seen by many to be the biggest challenge of our times. In this comprehensive textbook, L. D. Danny Harvey sets out in unprecedented detail the path we must take to minimize the effects that the way we harness energy will have on future climate...

Iran: The Nuclear Challenge maps the objectives, tools, and strategies for dealing with one of the most vexing issues facing the United States and global community today. The book brings together leading expertsCFRs Elliott Abrams, Robert D. Blackwill, Robert M. Danin, Richard A. Falkenrath, Matthew...

Michigan Modern: Design That Shaped America is an impressive collection of important essays touching on all aspects of Michigan’s architecture and design heritage. The Great Lakes State has always been known for its contributions to twentieth-century manufacturing, but it’s only beginning...

The zombie virus is spreading, and our world is falling apart. Not everyone will react in the same way...Some people will pick up a gun, and some people will make a different choice. Falling Apart includes two haunting stories of regular people caught up in the apocalypse.

Banton does his best to keep his mind on his casework and keep his love Mary Ann happy at the same time. His newest case might be his most absurd yet! Will he be able to gather all the clues and solve the case without losing Mary Ann forever?

Women who came of age in the late twentieth century were raised in the era of choice; they grew up believing that reproductive decision-making is a political right, a responsibility of women living the successes of second wave feminism, and under their control. Contemplating Maternity in an Era of...

Interdisciplinary approaches to identifying, understanding, and remediating people's reliance on inaccurate information that they should know to be wrong. Our lives revolve around the acquisition of information. Sometimes the information we acquire—from other people, from books, or from the...

Charles Splints has a reputation for never leaving a case unfinished. He brought an end to the leader of the Grid, but now someone else has taken the role and has put a hit out on the "The Solver". Splints has to fight his way through members of the Grid in order to find where the new leader is hiding....

Will this girl be able to help the detective stop the string of murders surrounding Harper's Arms? What makes her so special and necessary for the detective? Abigail Weston is pulled into a gory case alongside the detective that has requested her aid and pulled her from the asylum. Why was she in there in the first place? What skills does she possess that the detective requires?

A narrative of a suicide, and all the fundamental causes and circumstances that surrounded it. It is a chronicle narrated in the first person by its author, about the culmination of the circumstances that pushed a young real estate agent to commit the greatest barbarity that any human can commit...