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  • Government's End

    by Jon Rauch ...
    An earlier edition of this extraordinarily prescient, elegantly written book created a sensation among Washington media insiders when it was published more than five years ago under the title Demosclerosis. In it, Jonathan Rauch, a former correspondent for The Economist and a columnist for National Journal, showed with startling clarity the reasons why America's political system (and, in fact, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Anarchy, State, and Utopia

    by Robert Nozick ...
    The foundational text of libertarian thought, named one of the 100 Most Influential Books since World War II (Times Literary Supplement)First published in response to John Rawls' A Theory of Justice, Robert Nozick's Anarchy, State, and Utopia has since become one of the defining texts in classic libertarian thought. Challenging and ultimately rejecting liberal, socialist, and conservative agendas, ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Keeping the Republic

    Saving America by Trusting Americans

    by Mitch Daniels ...
    Upon leaving the Constitutional Convention, Benjamin Franklin was asked what sort of government the delegates had created. His reply to the crowd: "A republic, if you can keep it." Now America's most respected governor explains just how close we've come to losing the republic, and how we can restore it to greatness.Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels has been called "the most presidential man in ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • A Look Over My Shoulder

    A Life in the Central Intelligence Agency

    A Look over My Shoulder begins with President Nixon’s attempt to embroil the Central Intelligence Agency, of which Richard Helms was then the director, in the Watergate cover-up. Helms then recalls his education in Switzerland and Germany and at Williams College; his early career as a foreign correspondent in Berlin, during which he once lunched with Hitler; and his return to newspaper work in the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Groundbreakers

    How Obama's 2.2 Million Volunteers Transformed Campaigning in America

    Much has been written about the historic nature of the Obama campaign. The multi-year, multi-billion dollar operation elected the nation's first black president, raised and spent more money than any other election effort in history, and built the most sophisticated voter targeting technology ever before used on a national campaign. What is missing from most accounts of the campaign is an ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • Dealing with Dysfunction

    Innovative Problem Solving in the Public Sector

    Series series Brookings / Ash Center Series, "Innovative Governance in the 21st Century"
    How can we intervene in the systemic bureaucratic dysfunction that beleaguers the public sector? De Jong examines the roots of this dysfunction and presents a novel approach to solving it. Drawing from academic literature on bureaucracy and problem solving in the public sector, and the clinical work of the Kafka Brigade-a social enterprise based in the Netherlands dedicated to diagnosing and ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Case For Democracy

    The Power of Freedom to Overcome Tyranny and Terror

    Natan Sharansky believes that the truest expression of democracy is the ability to stand in the middle of a town square and express one's views without fear of imprisonment. He should know. A dissident in the USSR, Sharansky was jailed for nine years for challenging Soviet policies. During that time he reinforced his moral conviction that democracy is essential to both protecting human rights and ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Conservative Case for Trump

    A book to challenge the status quo, spark a debate, and get people talking about the issues and questions we face as a country! ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The People Have Spoken (and They Are Wrong)

    The Case Against Democracy

    Democracy may be one of the most admired ideas ever concocted, but what if it’s also one of the most harebrained? After many years of writing about democracy for a living, David Harsanyi has concluded that it’s the most overrated, overused, and misunderstood idea in political life. The less we have of it the better.“Democracy” is not synonymous with “freedom.” It is not the opposite of tyranny. In ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Power, Perception and Foreign Policymaking

    US and EU Responses to the Rise of China

    by Scott Brown ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Foreign Policy Analysis
    This book examines the changing dynamics of power in the international arena since the end of the Cold War. Brown engages in analysis of how the United States and the European Union have responded to the so-called rise of China through an examination of how policymakers’ perceptions of China have changed over time and influenced their policy choices. This study undertakes rigorous analysis of how ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Clouds of Secrecy

    The Army's Germ Warfare Tests Over Populated Areas

    Now available from Bloomsbury Academic. Bloomsbury Academic publish acclaimed resources for undergraduate and postgraduate courses, as well as the general reader, across a broad range of subjects including Archaeology, Art & Visual Culture, Biblical Studies, Business & Management, Drama & Performance Studies, Economics, Education, Film & Media, History, Linguistics, Literary Studies, Music & Sound ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • Health at Risk

    America's Ailing Health System—and How to Heal It

    Edited by Jacob Hacker ...
    Series series A Columbia / SSRC Book (Privatization of Risk)
    In this volume, the nation's leading advisors on health policy and financing appraise America's ailing healthcare system and suggest reasonable approaches to its rehabilitation. Each chapter confronts a major challenge to the country's health security, from runaway costs and uneven quality of care to declining levels of insurance coverage, medical bankruptcy, and the growing enthusiasm for health ... Read more

    $24.99 USD