Politics & Government

In A Decade Of Constant Crises, Perhaps The Most Formidable Challenge That Americans Faced In The 1970s Was The Energy Shortage. An Era Of Inexpensive And S...

Repeatedly In The Twentieth Century, The United States Has Been Involved In Confrontations With Other Countries, Each With The Potential For Widespread Inte...

A Widely-read Washington Post Columnist Takes A Deep Dive Into What The End Of The Baby Boom Means For American Politics And Economics. Philip Bump, A Repor...

During World War II, 110,000 citizens and resident aliens of Japanese ancestry were banished from their homes and confined behind barbed wire for two and a ...

For more than half a century, the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Gaimusho) possessed an independent police force that operated within the space of Ja...

Throughout what publisher Henry Luce dubbed the "American century," the United States has wrestled with two central questions. Should it pursue its securit...

This definitive and thorough exploration of the causes and course of the Vietnamese Revolution of August 1945 provides new insights from hitherto unexploit...

Twenty-six Essays In This Volume Showcase The Brilliant Originality And Range Of Economic Thought That Earned Hoover Institution Senior Fellow Gary S. Becke...

Book by McCormick, R.E., Tollison, Robert D.Categories: Politics & Social Sciences Politics & Government Specific TopicsIncome Inequality

Imagine This: A Mere Century Ago, The Purchasing Power Of An Average American Was One-tenth Of What It Is Today. But What Will It Take To Sustain That Growt...

In this much-anticipated book, a leading economist argues that many key problems of the American economy are due not to the flaws of capitalism or the inev...

This Work Analyzes Events Surrounding The Yokohama Incident (1942-1945), Which Led To The Arrest Of Dozens Of Journalists And Researchers In Japan During Th...

"A truly excellent book that explains where our pandemic response went wrong, and how we can understand those failings using the tools of economics." --Tyle...

The roots of Japan's aggressive, expansionist foreign policy have often been traced to its concern over acute economic vulnerability. Michael A. Barnhart t...

This lucid, hard-hitting book explores a central paradox of the Japanese economy: the relegation of women to low-paying, dead-end jobs in a workforce that d...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...