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  • The Modern Legislative Veto

    Macropolitical Conflict and the Legacy of Chadha

    by Michael J. Berry ...
    Series series Legislative Politics And Policy Making
    In The Modern Legislative Veto, Michael J. Berry uses a multimethod research design, incorporating quantitative and qualitative analyses, to examine the ways that Congress has used the legislative veto over the past 80 years. This parliamentary maneuver, which delegates power to the executive but grants the legislature a measure of control over the implementation of the law, raises troubling ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

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  • Utopia: On The Best State Of A Republic And On The New Island Of Utopia

    On the Best State of a Republic and on the New Island of Utopia

    by Sir Thomas More ...
    Sir Thomas More wrote Utopia in 1516 in Latin. His Utopia is a fictional island, whose society, religion and politics he explores. Critics do not believe that the island depicted More's idea of the perfect society, but rather that he hoped to throw the politics of his own time into a new light by contrasting them with his imagined island society. The work references Plato's Republic. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • When the Tea Party Came to Town

    Inside the U.S. House of Representatives' Most Combative, Dysfunctional, and Infuriating Term in Modern History

    by Robert Draper ...
    When the Tea Party Came to Towndemonstrates Robert Draper’s uncanny ability to ferret out news-making tidbits and provides us with the first look at this game-changing Congress—sure to be a classic work.In When the Tea Party Came to Town, Robert Draper delivers the definitive account of what may turn out to be the worst congressional term in United States history. As he did in writing about ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Montauk Files

    Unearthing the Phoenix Conspiracy

    by K.B. Wells ...
    Beginning with the infamous 1943 Philadelphia Experiment in radar invisibility, the path leads to modern-day scraps of evidence left at a desolate Air Force Station at the eastern tip of Long Island --- scraps of mind-control experiments and other questionable activities that were undertaken even after the base had officially ceased to function. Connections emerge that weave an incredible tapestry ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Research and Development: Articles on Surveillance Technologies from “Green Anarchist”

    by Green Anarchist, Grimalkin, Terra Selvaggia ...
    Series series Anarchist Library Texts
    This ebook has been ported from theanarchistlibrary.org.8 articles on surveillance technology from now-defunct GreenAnarchist.org:Ubiquitous Id Tags on the WayTerror Excuse for ID CardsMarvels of Technology: The ID Sniper rifle TMNew York Surveillance Camera Players — Live at Leeds“I Can See the Future”: 10 predictions concerning cell-phonesThe Nano-Nigh... ... Read more

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  • Life Among the Cannibals

    A Political Career, a Tea Party Uprising, and the End of Governing As We Know It

    by Arlen Specter, Charles Robbins ...
    A revealing memoir of how Washington is changing---and not for the betterDuring a storied thirty-year career in the U.S. Senate, Arlen Specter rose to Judiciary Committee chairman, saved and defeated Supreme Court nominees, championed NIH funding, wrote watershed crime laws, always staying defiantly independent, "The Contrarian," as Time magazine billed him in a package of the nation's ten-best ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Constitutional Deliberation in Congress

    The Impact of Judicial Review in a Separated System

    by J. Mitchell Pickerill, Neal Devins, Mark A. Graber ...
    Series series Constitutional Conflicts
    In Constitutional Deliberation in Congress J. Mitchell Pickerill analyzes the impact of the Supreme Court’s constitutional decisions on Congressional debates and statutory language. Based on a thorough examination of how Congress responds to key Court rulings and strategizes in anticipation of them, Pickerill argues that judicial review—or the possibility of it—encourages Congressional attention ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • The Handbook of Law and Society

    Edited by Austin Sarat, Patricia Ewick ...
    Series series Wiley Handbooks in Criminology and Criminal Justice
    Bringing a timely synthesis to the field, The Handbook of Law and Society presents a comprehensive overview of key research findings, theoretical developments, and methodological controversies in the field of law and society.Provides illuminating insights into societal issues that pose ongoing real-world legal problemsOffers accessible, succinct overviews with in-depth coverage of each topic, ... Read more

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  • The Untouchables Who Were They And Why They Became Untouchables

    by B.R.Ambedkar ...
    The Untouchables Who Were They And Why They Became Untouchables ? by B.R.AmbedkarThis book is a sequel to my treatise called The Shudras—Who they were and How they came to be the Fourth Varna of the Indo-Aryan Society which was published in 1946. Besides the Shudras, the Hindu Civilisation has produced three social classes whose existence has not received the attention it deserves. ... Read more

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  • The First Congress

    How James Madison, George Washington, and a Group of Extraordinary Men Invented the Government

    by Fergus M. Bordewich ...
    This “fascinating” (Chicago Tribune), “lively” (The New York Times) history tells how the First Congress and the Washington administration created one of the most productive and far-reaching governments in American history—“gracefully written…and well worth reading” (The Wall Street Journal).The First Congress may have been the most important in American history because it established how our ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • Legislative Style

    by William Bernhard, Tracy Sulkin ...
    Series series Chicago Studies in American Politics
    Once elected, members of Congress face difficult decisions about how to allocate their time and effort. On which issues should they focus? What is the right balance between working in one’s district and on Capitol Hill? How much should they engage with the media to cultivate a national reputation? William Bernhard and Tracy Sulkin argue that these decisions and others define a “legislative style” ... Read more

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  • Politics Over Process

    Partisan Conflict and Post-Passage Processes in the U.S. Congress

    by Hong Min Park, Steven S. Smith, Ryan J. Vander Wielen ...
    Series series Legislative Politics And Policy Making
    Although the U.S. Constitution requires that the House of Representatives and the Senate pass legislation in identical form before it can be sent to the president for final approval, the process of resolving differences between the chambers has received surprisingly little scholarly attention. Hong Min Park, Steven S. Smith, and Ryan J. Vander Wielen document the dramatic changes in intercameral ... Read more

    $17.99 USD