Politics & Government

Drawing on his diplomatic experience and expertise, George F. Kennan offers an informed, plain-spoken appraisal of United States foreign policy. His evalua...

The United States has been epitomized as a land of opportunity, where hard work and skill can bring personal success and economic well-being. The American D...

Less Freedom. More Regulation. Higher Costs. Make No Mistake: Those Are The Surefire Consequences Of The Modern Global Warming Campaign Waged By Political A...

Two Noted Professors Offer Easily Remembered Rules For Using History Effectively In Day-to-day Management Of Governmental And Corporate Affairs To Avoid Cos...

It Has Been Fifty Years Since Japan Admitted Defeat And Accepted The Terms Of The Potsdam Declaration Following World War Ii. At The Time, Japan Was In Sham...

as America Descends Deeper Into Polarization And Paralysis, Social Psychologist Jonathan Haidt Has Done The Seemingly Impossible—challenged Conventional T...

The Classic Study Of Human Nature Which Depicts The Degeneration Of A Group Of Schoolboys Marooned On A Desert Island. By William Golding ; With A Biographi...

Having created his alter-ego, the Hungry Cyclist and with thousands of pedal-powered miles before him, Tom Kevill-Davies pushed off from New York City on on...

The follow-up to Clark Howard's #1 New York Times bestseller, Living Large in Lean Times, offers no-nonsense financial tips for achieving lifelong prosperi...

New York Times Bestselling Journalist John Stossel Shows How The Expansion Of Government Control Is Destructive For American Society. Fixing The Economy -- ...

Americans Are Living Through A Social Crisis. Populist Firebrands -- On Left And Right Alike -- Propose To Address The Crisis Through Acts Of Tearing Down. ...

perspectives On The Nature & Causes Of Suicide/suicide Prevention, Postvention/approaches For Trmt/rational Suicide booknews a Revised Edition Of The T...

**Shortlisted for the 2021 Stephan Russo Goddard Riverside Book Prize for Social Justice** This definitive account of the battle for reproductive freedom i...

Douglas Little exposes the persistence of "orientalist" stereotypes in American popular culture and examines United States policy toward the Middle East fro...

Once A Sleeping Giant, China Today Is The World's Fastest Growing Economy -- The Leading Manufacturer Of Cell Phones, Laptop Computers, And Digital Cameras ...

All Nations Make Themselves Up As They Go Along, But Not All Make Themselves Up In The Same Way. In This Study, Alon Confino Explores How Germans Turned Nat...

Over recent decades, John W. Dower, one of America’s preeminent historians, has addressed the roots and consequences of war from multiple perspectives. I...

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They are burning Japanese cars in Detroit. The top management at Toyosan Motors must decide whether to begin offshore production of its cars in the U.S. But...

Deterrence remains a primary doctrine for dealing with the threat of nuclear weapons in the 21st century. The author reviews the history of nuclear deterr...

Mike Nickerson. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 431-433) And Index.Categories: Politics & Social Sciences Politics & Government Public Affai...

A conceptual and practical presentation of the strengths perspective in social work. Part of Advancing Core Competencies Series, a unique series that help...

Illustrates Family Therapy Techniques. With Its Clinical Focus And Extremely Practical Presentation, The Essentials Of Family Therapy, 6/e Examines The Rich...

Doctors Without Borders, also known as Médecins Sans Fronti`res, delivers emergency aid around the world. This book is its history and examines t...

Respected for its coverage of foreign policy and domestic politics, Present Tense also provides a thorough examination of social and cultural history. Thi...

Living Through Loss is the first book to identify the many ways in which people experience loss over the course of life and to discuss the interventions mo...

In Third Wave Capitalism, John Ehrenreich Documents The Emergence Of A New Stage In The History Of American Capitalism. Just As The Industrial Capitalism Of...

an International Bestseller And The Basis For A Hugely Successful Film, Ken Kesey's One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest Was One Of The Defining Works Of The 19...

Finalist for the 2015 Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in JournalismLonglisted for the Lionel Gelber Award for the Best Non-Fiction book in the wo...

Akira Iriye And Warren Cohen, Editors. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.Categories: Politics & Social Sciences Politics & Government In...

On the centennial of the peace treaty that ended the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-5, Dartmouth College hosted a conference to examine the background and makin...

Alan Dawley. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [359]-386) And Index.Categories: Politics & Social Sciences Politics & GovernmentPolitical Scie...

Looks at the open door policy, describes the trials of the Chinese immigrant, and analyzes foreign relations between the U.S. and China prior to World War I...

Full Tents And Empty Cathedrals -- Oriental Wisdom -- Enlightenment Values. Ian Buruma. Includes Bibliographical References.Categories: Religion & Spiri...

We walk to the faucet, turn it on and are refreshed by a glass of cold, clean water. But this ordinary action we take for granted is not the norm in the wor...

This Newly Revised Volume Drawn From Professor Hane's Classic Text, Japan: A Historical Survey, Presents A Rich Account Of Early Japanese History For Studen...

A visionary analysis of how the politics of fear, secrecy, cronyism, and blind faith has combined with the degration of the public sphere to create an envi...

Not since the Roman Empire has any nation had as much economic, cultural, and military power as the United States does today. Yet, as has become all too ev...

This book divides the time period since the colonization of America to the present into five parts; within each section, Dolbeare and Cummings have selected...

A groundbreaking scientific examination of the way our brains understand politics from a New York Times bestselling author One of the world 's best-known ...

Who were the Progressives? In the first two decades of the twentieth century, a diverse array of Americans sought solutions to the social problems caused by...

Interest in U.S. foreign relations has soared to great heights in the early twenty-first century. Long admired as the most comprehensive and accessible Ame...

In this fascinating new interpretation of Cold War history, John Lewis Gaddis focuses on how the United States and the Soviet Union have managed to get thr...

William H. Overholt. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Library Journal Best BooksCategories: Politics & Social Sciences Politics & Gove...

In this new interpretation of the making of modern America, prizewinning historian Alan Dawley traces the group struggles involved in the nation's rise to p...

Hiroshima Notes is a powerful statement on the Hiroshima bombing and its terrible legacy by the 1994 Nobel laureate for literature. Oe’s account of the li...

First, there are questions concerning the role and relative importance of internal and external factors in the pattern of events. Did the activities of the...

Foreword / John W. Hall -- Prospectus And Summary / William W. Lockwood -- Part 1: The Eve Of Modernization -- The Tokugawa Heritage / E. Sydney Crawcour --...