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  • The Myths of Standardized Tests

    Why They Don't Tell You What You Think They Do

    by Phillip Harris, Bruce M. Smith, Joan Harris, Larry Barber, Gerald W. Bracey, Tom O'Brien, Ken Jones, Gail Marshall, Susan Ohanian, Stanley Pogrow, W James Popham ...
    Pundits, politicians, and business leaders continually make claims for what standardized tests can do, and those claims go largely unchallenged because they are in line with popular assumptions about what these tests can do, what the scores mean, and the psychology of human motivation. But what most of what these opinion leaders say-and the public believes-about standardized testing just isn't so. ... Read more

    $29.19 USD

  • Paddle the North of England

    The Best Places to Go with a Paddleboard, Kayak or Canoe

    by Mr Bruce Smith ...
    Series series Paddling Guides
    The definitive guide to exploring the North of England under paddle power, from the majestic Northumberland coastline to the spectacular landscapes of the Lake District.With countless beautiful lakes, rivers and coastlines, the North of England offers abundant opportunities for paddleboarders, canoeists and kayakers. Written by highly experienced paddleboard instructor Bruce Smith, this guide ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • The Dictator's Handbook

    Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics

    by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Alastair Smith ...
    “A lucidly written, shrewdly argued meditation on how democrats and dictators preserve political authority.” —Wall Street JournalBruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith’s canonical book on political science turns conventional wisdom on its head. They start from a single proposition: leaders do whatever keeps them in power. They don’t care about the “national interest”—or even their subjects ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Between Eternities

    On the Tradition of Political Philosophy

    by Gregory Bruce Smith ...
    Between Eternities reflects on the possibility of political philosophy as an ongoing, architectonic activity that is necessarily linked to both the past and future. Almost all contemporary work in political philosophy either studies the subject with an eye to past tradition_choosing a winner from that tradition and then deducing what follows from the posited premises in a thoroughly modern, ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Anticipating Instability

    Assessing and Removing Risks Before They Happen

    by Bruce Bueno De Mesquita, Alastair Smith ...
    A theory of politics that looks at what did not happen—or non-events—to explain policy change, economic development, democratization, and “autocratization.”Anticipating Instability puts forward a general theory of politics that attempts to explain the very many destabilizing political events in history that did not happen. Although most of us do not pay close attention to what did not occur, ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • The Answers Lie in Africa

    Is the past ever truly forgotten?

    by Bruce Smith ...
    Is the past ever truly forgotten?Fiona Truscott has spent twenty years avoiding the truth about her family’s past. But when new evidence surfaces suggesting that her Great-Grandfather Finn Beckett was wrongfully accused of serious crimes in South Africa, she can no longer turn away. With her husband Karl by her side, she embarks on a perilous journey to the heart of Africa, determined to uncover ... Read more

    $3.31 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Life on the Rocks

    A Portrait of the American Mountain Goat

    by Bruce L. Smith ...
    National Outdoor Book Award Winner: A photo-filled study of the elegant, elusive American mountain goat in its rugged natural habitat.Confined to the remote, rugged mountains of the western United States and Canada, the American mountain goat is one of the least familiar species of hoofed mammals in North America. These extraordinary mountaineers are seldom seen, and their lives and fortunes may ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • American Science Policy since World War II

    by Bruce Smith ...
    Just after the close of World War II, America's political and scientific leaders reached an informal consensus on how science could best serve the nation and how government might best support science. The consensus lasted a generation before it broke under the pressures created by the Vietnam War. Since then the nation has struggled to reestablish shared beliefs about the means and goals of ... Read more

    $23.89 USD

  • The Spoils of War

    Greed, Power, and the Conflicts That Made Our Greatest Presidents

    by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Alastair Smith ...
    Two eminent political scientists show that America's great conflicts, from the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror, were fought not for ideals, or even geopolitical strategy, but for the individual gain of the presidents who waged them.It's striking how many of the presidents Americans venerate-Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and John F. Kennedy, to name a few-oversaw ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Stories from Afield

    Adventures with Wild Things in Wild Places

    by Bruce L. Smith ...
    Series series Outdoor Lives
    2017 Great Northwest Book Festival in the Nature Writing Category2017 WWA Spur Awards, Finalist in Best Western Contemporary NonfictionOver the past four decades, Bruce L. Smith has worked with most big-game species in some of the American West’s most breathtaking and challenging landscapes. In Stories from Afield, readers join Smith on his adventures as a naturalist, sportsman, and wildlife ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • Chance, Strategy, and Choice

    An Introduction to the Mathematics of Games and Elections

    by Samuel Bruce Smith ...
    Series series Cambridge Mathematical Textbooks
    Games and elections are fundamental activities in society with applications in economics, political science, and sociology. These topics offer familiar, current, and lively subjects for a course in mathematics. This classroom-tested textbook, primarily intended for a general education course in game theory at the freshman or sophomore level, provides an elementary treatment of games and elections. ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • The Answers Lie in Africa

    by Bruce R Smith ...
    Is the past ever truly forgotten?Fiona Truscott has spent twenty years avoiding the truth about her family's past. But when new evidence surfaces suggesting that her great-grandfather, Finn Beckett, was wrongfully accused of serious crimes in South Africa, she can no longer turn away. With her husband Karl by her side, she embarks on a perilous journey to the heart of Africa, determined to uncover ... Read more

    $4.49 USD