Public Affairs & Policy

The race for the White House in 1968 was a watershed event in American politics. In this brilliantly succinct narrative analysis, Lewis L. Gould shows how t...

Asia's History Has Been Shaped By Her Waters. In Unruly Waters, Historian Sunil Amrith Reimagines Asia's History Through The Stories Of Its Rains, Rivers, C...

Each year more than 17 million Americans suffer from a depressive illness, yet few suffer in solitude. How You Can Survive When They're Depressed explores ...

In the wake of the North American Free Trade Agreement and the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, renowned public intellectual and scholar Stephen Cl...

"But what about me?" "Is it possible to go one day without dealing with the survivor's issues?" "Will we ever make love again?" "Will the survivor love me ...

you Think You Know About Darwinism And Intelligent Design, But Did You Know: *there Is No Overwhelming Evidence For Darwinism; *intelligent Design Is Base...

It's December 1997, And A Man-eating Siberian Tiger Is On The Prowl Outside A Remote Village In Russia's Far East. The Tiger Isn't Just Killing People, It's...

When The U.s. Public Health Service Endorsed Water Fluoridation In 1950, There Was Little Evidence Of Its Safety. Now, Six Decades Later And After Most Coun...

Political activist and social media star Candace Owens explains all the reasons how the Democratic Party policies hurt, rather than help, the African Ameri...

The greatest threat to privacy today is not the NSA, but good-old American companies. Internet giants, leading retailers, and other firms are voraciously ga...

For The First Time, The Startling Full Story Of The Disastrous War On Drugs -- Propelled By Moving Human Stories, Revolutionary Insight Into Addiction, And ...

An Introduction to Sustainability provides students with a comprehensive overview of the key concepts and ideas which are encompassed within the growing fi...

Social Security law has changed! Get What’s Yours has been revised and updated to reflect new regulations that took effect on April 29, 2016.Get What’s...

The groundbreaking number one international bestseller and "one of the most important books of this young century" (David Suzuki) Climate change is real, a...

In this urgent, thought-provoking book, Bjorn Lomborg presents the 12 most efficient solutions for the world's poorest and our global SDG promises. • If y...

Featuring a new introduction and a “Back Home” afterword, Shortest Way Home is Pete Buttigieg’s inspirational story that challenges our perception of ...

"Save Your City is an inspired and powerful must-read. Our democracy is in peril and this book delivers the right message, by the right person, at the right...

An approach to reinvigorating economic competition that doesn’t break up corporate giants, but compels them to share their technology, data, and knowledge...

Decisions Made By The Food, Tobacco, Alcohol, Pharmaceutical, Gun, And Automobile Industries Have A Greater Impact On Today's Health Than The Decisions Of S...

Mark H. Moore’s now classic Creating Public Value offered advice to public managers about how to create public value. But that book left a key question u...

Dying, Death and Grief is written for anyone who provides support to adults following bereavement. The author explains the theoretical background to attachm...

This book exposes and examines how Medicare, Medicaid, and private health insurance plans combined with widespread business practices and fraud create inequ...

How to research, visit, evaluate, and join the ecovillage or sustainable community of your dreams. Finding community is as critical as obtaining food an...

a Harrowing Yet Poignant Examination Of A Famous Lynching That Considers America's Ongoing Struggles With Race, Equality, And Justice. washington Post Bo...

A Respected Economist And Columnist For The New York Times Shares A Collection Of His Most Influential Columns, Along With Commentary, That Critically Analy...

A new tool for mapping urban land cover that integrates design principles and ecological knowledge for understanding cities as complex, patchy and dynamic ...

Like it or not, all of us who live in modern society are organization men and women. The author shows how pervasive these patterns of relationship are in ou...

A congregational community is an ideal place to share and strengthen faith, form lasting relationships, and develop special gifts and talents. Too often, t...

The first comprehensive philosophical examination of our duties to future generations, Dr de-Shalit argues that they are a matter of justice, not charity or...

We Often Think Of Our Capacity To Experience The Suffering Of Others As The Ultimate Source Of Goodness. Many Of Our Wisest Policy-makers, Activists, Scient...

This textbook offers a fresh approach to the study of comparative politics and public policy. Instead of concentrating on why countries differ, Learning Fro...

Here We Stand : What A Forensic Scientist Does / Jon J. Nordby -- Section I. Forensic Pathology And Related Specialties -- The Role Of The Forensic Patholog...

rethinking Domestic Violence Is The Third In A Series Of Books By Donald Dutton Critically Reviewing Research In The Area Of Intimate Partner Violence (ipv...

Take a random walk through your life and you’ll find it is awash in industrial, often toxic, chemicals. Sip water from a plastic bottle and ingest bisphe...

Alateen, part of the Al-Anon Family groups is a fellowship of young people whose lives have been affected by alcoholism in a family member or close friend.....

James Grant’s story of America’s last governmentally untreated depression: A bible for conservative economists, this “carefully researched history…m...

Former Secretary of the Treasury Hank Paulson -- who was at the very epicenter of the crashing financial markets -- provides a startling, first- person acco...

Zones Of Social Abandonment Are Emerging Everywhere In Brazil's Big Cities - Places Like Vita, Where The Unwanted, The Mentally Ill, The Sick, And The Homel...

A shocking expose of the CIA’s role as drug baron. On March 18, 1998, the CIA’s Inspector General, Fred Hitz, told astounded US Reps that the CIA had ma...

This book traces the spiritual journey of Satish Kumar: child monk, peace pilgrim, ecological activist, and educator. In it he recounts the sources of inspi...

In San Diego, not far from the gates of the fantasy world of Disneyland, tent cities lining the freeways remind us of an ugly reality. Homeless individual...

In Her First Work Of Nonfiction, Winner Of The 2018 Unesco City Of Literature Paul Engle Prize Dina Nayeri--an Author Whose Exploration Of The Exile's Predi...

Displaying Gleaming New Shopping Centers And Refurbished Row Houses, Harlem Today Bears Little Resemblance To The Neighborhood Of The Midcentury Urban Crisi...

Property rights are a tool humans use in regulating their use of natural resources. Understanding how rights to resources are assigned and how they are con...

"The Policy Governance Fieldbook is not a theoretical treatise, but a practical study. Its authors are concerned with real people in real organizations wit...

Arguing that changing cultures and biological changes have rendered traditional ways of thinking obsolete, the authors advocate a new set of thoughts and re...

With its practical, hands-on approach, this text is perfect for counselors, human service workers, law enforcement, nurses, psychologists, social workers ...

Building On The Success Of Its Second Edition, The Third Edition Of The Sustainable Urban Development Reader Provide A Generous Selection Of Classic And Con...