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Making the News
Politics, the Media, and Agenda Setting
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2013
Media attention can play a profound role in whether or not officials act on a policy issue, but how policy issues make the news in the first place has remained a puzzle. Why do some issues go viral and then just as quickly fall off the radar? How is it that the media can sustain public interest for...
Pop Song Piracy
Disobedient Music Distribution since 1929
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
The music industry’s ongoing battle against digital piracy is just the latest skirmish in a long conflict over who has the right to distribute music. Starting with music publishers’ efforts to stamp out bootleg compilations of lyric sheets in 1929, Barry Kernfeld’s Pop Song Piracy details nearly...
by Francis Steegmuller
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
Born in Australia, novelist Shirley Hazzard first moved to Naples as a young woman in the 1950s to take up a job with the United Nations. It was the beginning of a long love affair with the city, in which the Naples of Pliny, Gibbon, and Auden constantly became reanimated by new experiences, as Hazzard...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
Little magazines have often showcased the best new writing in America. Historically, these idiosyncratic, small-circulation outlets have served the dual functions of representing the avant-garde of literary expression while also helping many emerging writers become established authors. Although changing...
by Lawrence Lessig
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2018
“There is not a single American awake to the world who is comfortable with the way things are.”
So begins Lawrence Lessig's sweeping indictment of contemporary American institutions and the corruption that besets them. We can all see it—from the selling of Congress to special interests to...
Trading Democracy for Justice
Criminal Convictions and the Decline of Neighborhood Political Participation
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
The United States imprisons far more people, total and per capita, and at a higher rate than any other country in the world. Among the more than 1.5 million Americans currently incarcerated, minorities and the poor are disproportionately represented. What’s more, they tend to come from just a few...
Follow the Leader?
How Voters Respond to Politicians' Policies and Performance
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2013
In a democracy, we generally assume that voters know the policies they prefer and elect like-minded officials who are responsible for carrying them out. We also assume that voters consider candidates' competence, honesty, and other performance-related traits. But does this actually happen? Do voters...
Combative Politics
The Media and Public Perceptions of Lawmaking
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2017
From the Affordable Care Act to No Child Left Behind, politicians often face a puzzling problem: although most Americans support the aims and key provisions of these policies, they oppose the bills themselves. How can this be? Why does the American public so often reject policies that seem to offer...
All the Fish in the Sea
Maximum Sustainable Yield and the Failure of Fisheries Management
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2011
Between 1949 and 1955, the State Department pushed for an international fisheries policy grounded in maximum sustainable yield (MSY). The concept is based on a confidence that scientists can predict, theoretically, the largest catch that can be taken from a species’ stock over an indefinite period....
Billion-Dollar Fish
The Untold Story of Alaska Pollock
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
Alaska pollock is everywhere. If you’re eating fish but you don’t know what kind it is, it’s almost certainly pollock. Prized for its generic fish taste, pollock masquerades as crab meat in california rolls and seafood salads, and it feeds millions as fish sticks in school cafeterias and Filet-O-Fish...
Jellyfish
A Natural History
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
Jellyfish, with their undulating umbrella-shaped bells and sprawling tentacles, are as fascinating and beautiful as they are frightening and dangerous. They are found in every ocean at every depth, and they are the oldest multi-organed life form on the planet, having inhabited the ocean for more than...
The Cycling City
Bicycles and Urban America in the 1890s
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2015
Cycling has experienced a renaissance in the United States, as cities around the country promote the bicycle as an alternative means of transportation. In the process, debates about the nature of bicycles—where they belong, how they should be ridden, how cities should or should not accommodate them—have...
American Guides
The Federal Writers’ Project and the Casting of American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
In the midst of the Great Depression, Americans were nearly universally literate—and they were hungry for the written word. Magazines, novels, and newspapers littered the floors of parlors and tenements alike. With an eye to this market and as a response to devastating unemployment, Roosevelt’s...
Inclusion
The Politics of Difference in Medical Research
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2008
With Inclusion, Steven Epstein argues that strategies to achieve diversity in medical research mask deeper problems, ones that might require a different approach and different solutions.
Formal concern with this issue, Epstein shows, is a fairly recent phenomenon. Until the mid-1980s,...