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Price: $18.95
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Sale: $9.95
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Manufacturer: Brookings Institution Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 324.973
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Publication Date: 2007-12-01
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Reading Level: 151
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Description: "Swing voters" occupy a central place in American political lore. Candidates court them, consultants target them, and pundits speculate constantly on which way they'll lean. But nobody has adequately defined them as a group. What exactly is a swing voter? No one really seems to know. The Swing Voter in American Politics fills this conceptual gap by bringing political scientists and pollsters together to answer four basic questions: - What is a swing voter?
- How can analysts use survey data to identify them?
- How do swing voters differ-if at all-from the rest of the electorate?
- And what role do they play in determining the outcomes of contemporary elections?
Drawing on a wide range of sources, including American National Election Studies data, Gallup polls, Pew Center surveys, and the National Annenberg Election Survey, the authors track swing voters across six decades and in national and local elections. The result is an unprecedented picture of this key political group. Contributors: James E. Campbell (University at Buffalo), April Clark (Pew Research Center for the People and the Press), Adam Clymer (Annenberg Public Policy Center, University of Pennsylvania), Michael Dimock (Pew Research Center for the People and the Press), Juliana Menasce Horowitz (Pew Research Center for the People and the Press), Jeffrey M. Jones (Gallup Organization), Daron R. Shaw (University of Texas-Austin), Jeffrey M. Stonecash (Syracuse University), Ruy Teixeira (Center for American Progress and The Century Foundation), Ken Winneg (Annenberg Public Policy Center, University of Pennsylvania).
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Price: $15.95
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Sale: $1.88
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Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Larry Elder
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Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
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Dewey Decimal Number: 361.610973
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Publication Date: 2003-09-20
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Reading Level: 384
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Description: The Ten Things You Can't Say in America struck a chord with eager readers acroos the country, exposing thruths others have been too afraid to address. In his new book, Elder is out to slay entrenched and enmeshed special interest groups, government agencies with the capacity to meddle in Americans' lives and businesses, lawmakers who continue a pattern of outrageous overtaxation, and those who would hamstring this country with good intentions.
Showdown demonstrates how the nation would be better, stronger and safer with less gvernment intervention and how individuals would not only cope but thrive without the so-called safety net. Showdown is a call to arms for a truly free society. Elder discusses:
- What a Republican-led government means for progress
- Where a responsible government would put its citizens' tax dollars
- Why racial and sex discrimination are non-issues in the 21st century.
Larry Elders straight talk and common-sense solutions spare no one and will inspire his passionate and growing audience.
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Price: $29.95
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Sale: $25.00
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Manufacturer: Universal Publishers
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Jack C Fong
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Publisher: Universal Publishers
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Dewey Decimal Number: 305.895
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Publication Date: 2008-04-02
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Reading Level: 376
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Description: The Karen Revolution for self-determination has the distinction of being one of the world's longest-running struggles for freedom, having begun in 1949 and continuing to this very moment. This sociological work makes visible how ethnopolitical, petropolitical, geopolitical, and ecosystemic issues affect the political economy of a people experiencing ethnic cleansing. From the inception of its self-determination struggle in 1949, readers will be taken on a historical journey with the Karen, finally "arriving" in the 21st century. Along the way, the author exposes readers to the anatomy of how Karen revolutionary dynamics attempt to shield the Karen people against internal colonization committed by the various military regimes of Burma, and how these complex dynamics engaged by Karen revolutionaries-in a novel reformulation and reading that transcends oversimplified economisitic indicators of progress-constitute development. A study of revolution that moves beyond the simplicity of a clashing dualism exemplified by Aung San Suu Kyi pitted against the military regime, this text is for readers desiring to examine how other significant players such as the Karen, a proud people living in systemic crisis, construct nation and aspire toward democracy in the labyrinthine ethnopolitical terrain of Burma.
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Price: $20.00
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Sale: $14.99
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Manufacturer: Liberty Fund Inc.
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Irving Babbitt
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Publisher: Liberty Fund Inc.
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Dewey Decimal Number: 321.8
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Publication Date: 1979-07-01
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Reading Level: 392
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Description: Irving Babbitt was a leader of the intellectual movement called American Humanism, or the New Humanism, and a distinguished professor of French literature at Harvard. Democracy and Leadership, first published in 1924, is his only directly political book, and in it he applies the principles of humanism to the civil social order. Babbitt offers a compelling critique of unchecked majoritarianism and addresses the great problem of how to discover leaders with standards.
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Price: $9.95
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Sale: $5.03
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Manufacturer: Ocean Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Ernesto Che Guevara::Ernesto "Che" Guevara
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Publisher: Ocean Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 335
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Publication Date: 2002-07-01
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Reading Level: 100
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Description: "And if someone says we are just romantics, inveterate idealists, thinking the impossible, that the masses of people cannot become almost perfect human beings, we will have to answer a thousand and one times: Yes, it can be done; we are confident that humanity as a whole can advance." (CHE GUEVARA)Is there an alternative to the neoliberal globalization that is ravaging our planet?These classic works by Ernesto Che Guevara present a radical view of a different world in which human solidarity and understanding replace aggressive capitalist competition and exploitation.Included here are Che's essay, "Socialism and Man in Cuba," his controversial speech in Algiers in 1965, and his final message to Tricontinental, in which he calls for the creation of "Two, Three, Many Vietnams."Che Guevara was born in Argentina and traveled throughout Latin America before joining the Cuban revolutionary movement that toppled the Batista dictatorship in 1959. Although best known for his writings on guerrilla warfare, this book shows Che as a profound thinker with a radical world view that still strikes a chord with young rebels in every country today.
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Price: $27.95
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Sale: $8.49
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Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Francis Wheen
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Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
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Dewey Decimal Number: 335.4092
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Publication Date: 2000-05
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Reading Level: 448
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Description: Karl Marx, whose influence on modern times has been compared to that of Jesus Christ, spent most of his lifetime in obscurity. Penniless, exiled in London, estranged from relations, and on the run from most of the police forces of Europe, his ambitions as a revolutionary were frequently thwarted, and his major writings on politics and economics remained unpublished (in some cases until after the Second World War). He has not lacked biographers, but even the most distinguished have been more interested in the evolution of his ideas than any other aspect of his life. Francis Wheen's fresh, lively, and moving biography of Marx considers the whole man--brain, beard, and the rest of his body. Unencumbered by ideological point scoring, this is a very readable, humorous, and sympathetic account. Wheen has an ear for juicy gossip and an eye for original detail. Marx comes across as a hell-raising bohemian, an intellectual bully, and a perceptive critic of capitalist chaos, but also a family man of Victorian conformity (personally vetting his daughters' suitors), Victorian ailments (carbuncles above all), and Victorian weaknesses (notably alcohol, tobacco, and, on occasion, his housekeeper). But there is great pathos, too, as Marx witnessed the deaths of four of his six children. For those readers who feel Marxism has given Marx a bad name, this is a rewarding and enlightening book. --Miles Taylor, Amazon.co.uk
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Price: $26.00
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Sale: $1.20
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Manufacturer: Threshold Editions
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Ed Gillespie
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Publisher: Threshold Editions
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Dewey Decimal Number: 324.70973
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Publication Date: 2006-09-05
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Reading Level: 304
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Description: It's been nearly two decades since Chris Matthews' national bestseller Hardball opened a door onto the inner workings of Washington politics, and now the time is ripe for a sharp, new insider's perspective on how the game is played and on the challenges facing the Republican Party in the future. No one is more qualified to provide that analysis than Ed Gillespie: In Winning Right, the former chairman of the Republican National Committee draws from lessons learned in more than twenty years of campaign strategy and national policy debate -- most especially from his role at the heart of the historic and groundbreaking 2004 presidential election -- to reveal how the game of politics is played on its highest level. In a frank and engaging narrative, he looks inside the George W. Bush presidency and beyond, to discuss such topics as - A political code of ethics and playing by the rules
- Successes and failures in campaign planning and execution
- The role of old and new media
- The battle for the Supreme Court
- Hot-button issues
- The future of the GOP -- and how to win right in 2008
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Price: $17.00
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Sale: $12.99
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Manufacturer: Pathfinder Press (NY)
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Leon Trotsky
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Publisher: Pathfinder Press (NY)
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Dewey Decimal Number: 320
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Publication Date: 1973-02
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Reading Level: 286
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Description: Written in 1936 and published the following year, this brilliant and profound evaluation of Stalinism from the Marxist standpoint prophesied the collapse of the Soviet Union. Trotsky employs facts, figures, and statistics to show how Stalinist policies rejected the enormous productive potential of the nationalized planned economy engendered by the October Revolution.
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Price: $113.00
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Sale: $110.74
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Manufacturer: SPIE Publications
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Larry C. Andrews; Ronald L. Phillips
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Publisher: SPIE Publications
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Edition: 2nd
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Dewey Decimal Number: 621.366
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Publication Date: 2005-09
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Reading Level: 820
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Description: Since publication of the first edition of this text in 1998, there have been several new, important developments in the theory of beam wave propagation through a random medium, which have been incorporated into this second edition. Also new to this edition are models for the scintillation index under moderate-to-strong irradiance fluctuations; models for aperture averaging based on ABCD ray matrices; beam wander and its effects on scintillation; theory of partial coherence of the source; models of rough targets for ladar applications; phase fluctuations; analysis of other beam shapes; plus expanded analysis of free-space optical communication systems and imaging systems.
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Price: $75.00
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Sale: $60.18
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Manufacturer: Palgrave Macmillan
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Everett Carl Dolman
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Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
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Dewey Decimal Number: 322.5
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Publication Date: 2005-01-15
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Reading Level: 240
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Description: Putting into question the conventional view that the military is detrimental to democratic development, Dolman provides a multifaceted examination of the institutional incentives of the military and its relations with civilian authorities. Drawing on classical political theory, a wide range of historical examples, and statistical findings, The Warrior State argues that the military can facilitate democracy as the result of specific norms and conditions that focus on individual action. Ironically, this may be best inculcated through a focus on the offensive, precisely the military doctrine commonly seen as most likely to result in international conflict. The paradox of offensive strategies possibly increasing international conflict while also enhancing democracy, which is supposed to decrease such conflict, form a core of this provocative book.
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