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The Democracy Index
Why Our Election System Is Failing and How to Fix It
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2009
Despite howls for reform, the only thing separating us from another election disaster of the kind that hit Florida in 2000, and that almost struck again in Ohio in 2004, may simply be another close vote. In this lucid and lively book, Heather Gerken diagnoses what is wrong with our elections and proposes...
Line in the Sand
A History of the Western U.S.-Mexico Border
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2011
Line in the Sand details the dramatic transformation of the western U.S.-Mexico border from its creation at the end of the Mexican-American War in 1848 to the emergence of the modern boundary line in the first decades of the twentieth century. In this sweeping narrative, Rachel St. John explores how...
Agrarian Crossings
Reformers and the Remaking of the US and Mexican Countryside
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2017
In the 1930s and 1940s, rural reformers in the United States and Mexico waged unprecedented campaigns to remake their countrysides in the name of agrarian justice and agricultural productivity. Agrarian Crossings tells the story of how these campaigns were conducted in dialogue with one another as...
Currency Power
Understanding Monetary Rivalry
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Monetary rivalry is a fact of life in the world economy. Intense competition between international currencies like the US dollar, Europe's euro, and the Chinese yuan is profoundly political, going to the heart of the global balance of power. But what exactly is the relationship between currency and...
The Free-Market Innovation Machine
Analyzing the Growth Miracle of Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
Why has capitalism produced economic growth that so vastly dwarfs the growth record of other economic systems, past and present? Why have living standards in countries from America to Germany to Japan risen exponentially over the past century? William Baumol rejects the conventional view that capitalism...
Getting Incentives Right
Improving Torts, Contracts, and Restitution
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2014
Lawyers, judges, and scholars have long debated whether incentives in tort, contract, and restitution law effectively promote the welfare of society. If these incentives were ideal, tort law would reduce the cost and frequency of accidents, contract law would lubricate transactions, and restitution...
Reputation and Power
Organizational Image and Pharmaceutical Regulation at the FDA
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is the most powerful regulatory agency in the world. How did the FDA become so influential? And how exactly does it wield its extraordinary power? Reputation and Power traces the history of FDA regulation of pharmaceuticals, revealing how the agency's organizational...
Art of the Deal
Contemporary Art in a Global Financial Market
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2014
Art today is defined by its relationship to money as never before. Prices have been driven to unprecedented heights, conventional boundaries within the art world have collapsed, and artists think ever more strategically about how to advance their careers. Art is no longer simply made, but packaged,...
by Mark Bevir
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2010
Democratic Governance examines the changing nature of the modern state and reveals the dangers these changes pose to democracy. Mark Bevir shows how new ideas about governance have gradually displaced old-style notions of government in Britain and around the world. Policymakers cling to outdated concepts...
Small Unmanned Aircraft
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2012
Autonomous unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) are critical to current and future military, civil, and commercial operations. Despite their importance, no previous textbook has accessibly introduced UAVs to students in the engineering, computer, and science disciplines--until now. Small Unmanned Aircraft...
by Eric A. Posner, David Weisbach
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2010
Climate change and justice are so closely associated that many people take it for granted that a global climate treaty should--indeed, must--directly address both issues together. But, in fact, this would be a serious mistake, one that, by dooming effective international limits on greenhouse gases,...
When People Come First
Critical Studies in Global Health
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2013
When People Come First critically assesses the expanding field of global health. It brings together an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars to address the medical, social, political, and economic dimensions of the global health enterprise through vivid case studies and bold conceptual...
American Zoo
A Sociological Safari
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Orangutans swing from Kevlar-lined fire hoses. Giraffes feast on celebratory birthday cakes topped with carrots instead of candles. Hi-tech dinosaur robots growl among steel trees, while owls watch animated cartoons on old television sets. In American Zoo, sociologist David Grazian takes us on a safari...
Financing the American Dream
A Cultural History of Consumer Credit
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
Once there was a golden age of American thrift, when citizens lived sensibly within their means and worked hard to stay out of debt. The growing availability of credit in this century, however, has brought those days to an end--undermining traditional moral virtues such as prudence, diligence, and...