Liveright, September 2019. Hardcover. Previous owner's name on front end page, initials on side edge of book block. Previous owner's name on front end page, initials on side edge of book block. Television has entertained America, television has ensorcelled America, and with the election of Donald J. Trump, television has.....

Broadside Books, July 2022. Hardcover. "Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy." -H.L. Mencken The Left used to be the party of the hippies and the free spirits. Now it's home to woke scolds and humorless idealogues. The New Puritans can judge a person's moral character by.....

Simon & Schuster, August 2012. Hardcover. Dubbed "savagely funny" (The New York Times) and "wickedly entertaining" (San Francisco Chronicle), acclaimed travel writer Chuck Thompson embarks on a controversial road trip to prove that both sides might be better off if the South were to secede once and for all. Let's.....

New Society Publishers, September 2006. Trade Paperback. Since oil is the primary fuel of global industrial civilization, its imminent depletion is a problem that will have a profound impact on every aspect of modern life. With-out international agreement on how to manage the decline of this vital resource, the world.....

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, March 2022. Hardcover. Pages marked. Pages marked. A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice One of Kirkus Reviews' ten best US history books of 2022 A leading historian tells the story of the United States' most enduring political party and its long, imperfect and newly.....

Basic Books, November 2021. Trade Paperback. From the New York Times bestselling author of Democracy Awakening, the paradoxical evolution of the Republican Party--founded to give the poor equal opportunity, but too often aligned with the country's elites. "The most comprehensive account of the GOP and its competing impulses." --Los Angeles.....

University Press of Kansas, June 2000. Trade Paperback. During the first two decades of the twentieth century in cities across America, both men and women struggled for urban reform but in distinctively different ways. Adhering to gender roles of the time, men working for independent research bureaus sought to apply.....

Yale University Press, November 2003. Trade Paperback. A Washington Post Book World Best Seller "Robert A. Dahl . . . is about as covered in honors as a scholar can be. . . . He knows what he is talking about. And he thinks that the Constitution has something the.....

Princeton University Press, September 2020. Trade Paperback. A landmark defense of democracy that has been hailed as one of the most important books of the twentieth century One of the most important books of the twentieth century, The Open Society and Its Enemies is an uncompromising defense of liberal democracy.....

Belknap Press, March 2024. Trade Paperback. A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice A Public Books Best Book of the Year "A profound and optimistic call to action and reflection. For Piketty, the arc of history is long, but it does bend toward equality. There is nothing automatic about.....

United States. Government Printing Office. 1977. Hardcover. Biweekly, comprehensive compilation of decisions, reports, public notices, and other documents of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission. Spine tilt and slight separation at upper spine binding. Biweekly, comprehensive compilation of decisions, reports, public notices, and other documents of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.....

Simon & Schuster, September 2010. Hardcover. Over the last few decades, the Supreme Court and the federal appellate courts have undergone a dramatic shift to the right, the result of a determined effort by right-wing lawmakers and presidents to reinterpret the Constitution by reshaping the judiciary. Conservative activist justices have.....

University of Minnesota Press, April 1998. Trade Paperback. Eminent contributors look at the present and future of cosmopolitanism and its relationship to nationalism. Nationalism and the nation-state have recently come under siege, their political dominance gradually eroding under the strain of such forces as ethnic strife, religious fundamentalism, homogenizing global.....