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  • Act of Congress

    How America's Essential Institution Works, and How It Doesn't

    A Washington Post Notable BookAn eye-opening account of how Congress today really works—and how it doesn’t— Act of Congress focuses on two of the major players behind the sweeping financial reform bill enacted in response to the Great Crash of 2008: colorful, wisecracking congressman Barney Frank, and careful, insightful senator Christopher Dodd, both of whom met regularly with Robert G. Kaiser ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • So Damn Much Money

    With a New ForewordIn So Damn Much Money, veteran Washington Post editor and correspondent Robert Kaiser gives a detailed account of how the boom in political lobbying since the 1970s has shaped American politics by empowering special interests, undermining effective legislation, and discouraging the country’s best citizens from serving in office. Kaiser traces this dramatic change in our ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • "R.F.K. Must Die!"

    Chasing the Mystery of the Robert Kennedy Assassination

    The definitive text on the mystery of R.F.K.'s assassination by a reporter who "got inside this story . . . with his impressive grasp of all the loose ends" ( Kirkus Reviews).On the night of June 4, 1968, Sirhan Sirhan shot and killed Sen. Robert F. Kennedy in a steamy pantry of the Los Angeles Ambassador Hotel. Kennedy and his entourage had been celebrating his victory in the California primary ... Read more

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  • The News About the News

    American Journalism in Peril

    Freedom of the press is a primary American value. Good journalism builds communities, arms citizens with important information, and serves as a public watchdog for civic, national, and global issues. But what happens when the news turns its back on its public role?Leonard Downie Jr., executive editor of The Washington Post, and Robert G. Kaiser, associate editor and senior correspondent, report on ... Read more

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  • The Man Without Qualities. Illustrated

    by Robert Musil ...
    Translated by Eithne Wilkins, Ernst Kaiser ...
    Robert Musil’s monumental novel The Man Without Qualities (Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften) is one of the defining works of twentieth-century modernist literature. Set in Vienna on the eve of World War I, the narrative unfolds in the waning days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, capturing the intellectual, political, and cultural tensions of a world on the brink of collapse. At its center is Ulrich, a ... Read more

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  • Movin'Up Spiritually

    Encouragement for Christian Maturity

    People have an interest in moving up in their jobs, financially, housing, and so many other things in life. Why do they not want to spend time moving up spiritually?Movin' Up Spiritually is an encouragement to help people mature in their relationship with God. It shows that the basic standards for life come from the Bible. As shown in this book, scriptures point the way for a harmonious and joyful ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Politics of Sex and Religion

    How the people of God, not the pope, changed the Catholic Church's teaching on birth control. A history of the papal birth control commission of the 1960s and its aftermath narrated by a man who was there, Time magazine's correspondent at Vatican II. ... Read more

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  • Research Interviews

    A Practical Guide to Qualitative Data Collection with Experts in Political Science

    by Robert Kaiser ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    The textbook is primarily aimed at students and younger researchers and offers a concise but systematic practical guide to planning and conducting qualitative expert interviews in political science. It provides a methodologically sound and application- or problem-oriented approach to this form of independent qualitative data collection.The English translation of this book, originally in German, ... Read more

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  • Love Conquers Life's Challenges

    A story of romance and devotion based on a woman’s love of life and enduring commitment which overcomes the challenges of a perceived scandalous affair and the struggles of providing for her family. Beginning in the early 1960’s through the present day, it is the tale of the adventures of a woman who joins her lover in the strange new land of jazz music, artichokes, and sandy beaches of northern ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Bad News about the News

    The digital revolution has forever changed American journalism, and not for the better. Robert Kaiser, former managing editor of The Washington Post, writes in his new Brookings Essay that the changing media landscape is not only a threat to traditional news, but to the future of democracy. A news industry without a viable business model, distracted by the need to attract eyeballs and discover new ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Filling the Leadership Pipeline

    Competition is fiercer today than ever before, and effective leadership represents a rare source of competitive advantage. With strong leadership and a richly stocked pool of future leaders, organizations prosper and endure. There is an easy case to make for the imperative of investing in tomorrow's leaders today. It's the law of supply and demand: more organizations in greater competition under ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • A Church in Search of Itself

    Benedict XVI and the Battle for the Future

    A deeply informed look at the intensifying struggle over the future of the Catholic Church.Robert Blair Kaiser examines the most important and divisive issues confronting the Church: the sex abuse scandal, a shortage of priests due to the insistence upon celibacy, the ban on contraception, the roles of women in the Church, the increased participation of laypeople in Church affairs. He gives us an ... Read more

    $11.99 USD