Hoover Institution Press: 227 books
by Richard A. Posner
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
The author reveals the dangerous weaknesses undermining domestic intelligence in the United States and tells why a new national security service should not be part of the FBI. He explains the need for a new domestic intelligence agency, modeled on the Canadian Security Intelligence Service and lodged in the Department of Homeland Security.
School Reform
The Critical Issues
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
This book explores a wide range of critical areas in education, examines the basic nature of our education problems, provides a clear understanding of underperformance, and proposes reasonable and effective strategies for success.
Power to the Patient
Selected Health Care Issues and Policy Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
The debate rages on over how to cope with the rising costs of medical care—proposed solutions range from a single payer system with a broad government control to loosely defined market-driven plans. The authors look at three key elements of health care costs and offer thoughtful, realistic suggestions to help stem the tide of rising expenses for everyone.
From Protest to Challenge, Vol. 2
A Documentary History of African Politics in South Africa, 1882-1964: Hope and Challenge, 1935-1952
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
This remarkable collection of material is as relevant today as when it was first published; graphically demonstrating the native African's struggle for peace, freedom, and equality in his native land during the 19th and 20th centuries.
A Country I Do Not Recognize
The Legal Assault on American Values
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
During the past forty years, activists have repeatedly used the court system to accomplish substantive policy results that could not otherwise be obtained through the ordinary political processes of government, both in the United States and abroad. In five insightful essays, the contributors to this...
Two-Fer
Electing a President and a Supreme Court
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Constitutional scholar Clint Bolick examines the importance of judicial nominations in current and future political campaigns—not just in campaigns for president but also for the senators who confirm the nominees and the governors who appoint state court judges. He offers his opinion of the framers'...
Death Grip
Loosening the Law's Stranglehold over Economic Liberty
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Clint Bolick examines the assault on economic liberty brought about by the 19th century's Slaughter-House Cases. He explains how those cases nullified the privileges or immunities clause of the 14th Amendment and how the repercussions continue to manifest themselves today. Bolick offers hope for the...
Living with the UN
American Responsibilities and International Order
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
International legal scholar Kenneth Anderson analyzes US-UN relations in each major aspect of the United Nations' work-security, human rights and universal values, and development-and offers workable, practical principles for US policy toward the United Nations. He addresses the crucial question of...
by Hugh Agnew
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
In this first up-do-date, single volume history of the Czechs, Agnew provides an introduction to the major themes and contours of Czech history for the general reader—from prehistory and the first Slavs to the Czech Republic's entry into the European Union.
Unconditional Democracy
Education and Politics in Occupied Japan, 1945-1952
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
The difficult mission of a regime change: Toshio Nishi gives an account of how America converted the Japanese mindset from war to peace following World War II.
Behind the Facade of Stalin's Command Economy
Evidence from the Soviet State and Party Archives
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
The "red files" revealed. Examining the period from the early 1930s through Stalin's death in 1953—the height of the Stalinist regime—this enlightening book reveals what we have learned from the archives, what has surprised us, and what has confirmed what we already knew. Most of the authors have worked with these archives since they were opened.
Burden of Empire
An Appraisal of Western Colonialism in Africa South of the Sahara
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Since its publication in 1967, Burden of Empire has been widely praised and criticized for its controversial approach to the problem of colonialism in Africa. The authors have challenged the new "orthodoxy" about Africa—the belief that little but evil and exploitation has resulted from the era of European colonialism.
The Last Empire
Nationality and the Soviet Future
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
The historical background, the present position, and the future prospects of both the non-Russian and Russian peoples are considered in their many aspects, as are the maneuvers of the Communist regime to suppress, appease, or make use of them. The future of the Soviet Union, and thus of the world,...
The Volga Tatars
A Profile in National Resilience
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
This is the first Western language study that investigates the history of the Volga Tatars since the Tenth Century A.D. The central theme of the book is the shaping and evolution of the identity of these people, focusing on the history of the first non-Christian and non-Slavic people incorporated into the Russian state.