Excessive consumption of calories, too much fat, and too little fibre in western regions such as Latin America have caused a range of twentieth-cen...

In July 2015, multilateral talks with Iran culminated in an agreement called the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), through which Iran com...

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) provides a range of benefits and services to veterans and eligible dependents who meet certain criteria as ...

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has made limited progress toward addressing information technology (IT) system modernization challenges. Ch...

This book reviews the evolution of the modern vice presidency -- the historical events and developments that have contributed to the expansion of t...

In recent years, much has been written on how the moral meaning and significance of the Holocaust has been appropriated in popular and political di...

Vietnam remains a mystery to the American mind. A former enemy which somehow defeated the American war machine with few weapons or uniformed milita...

This book provides an overview and examination of the Vietnamese services sector. Vietnam is growing rapidly as it transitions from a state-planned...

A vigilante group is an armed private group that has taken the law into its own hands or that has the announced potential of doing so. There are qu...

A recent series of terrorist attacks, the uncovering of a large terrorist network, and a string of continuing regional conflicts have raised an awa...

This book provides insightful recommendations for the Department of Defense against perpetrators of "targeted violence" -- those individuals who co...

Violence in Central America has reached crisis levels. Throughout Central America, Mexican drug trafficking organization, local drug traffickers, t...

Sadly, the threat of violent extremism in America is nothing new. Throughout our history, misguided groups, including international and domestic te...

Virtual currencies are financial innovations that pose emerging challenges to federal financial regulatory and law enforcement agencies in carrying...

A powerful way to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the United Nations Human Rights Declaration, this book reminds us of its impact and each of its...

This volume is the first to explore U.S. visor hats of the 1930s-1950s in detail. Fully illustrated in superb full-color photographs, the variety o...

Inaugurating the International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples, leaders from 20 cultures of North, Central, and South America, the Pacific...

The authority to regulate U.S. elections is shared by federal, state, and local officials. Congress has addressed major functional areas in the vot...

One of the hallmarks of American democracy is the right to vote. In fact, the freedom to vote is so ingrained in American culture that it is taken ...

One of the hallmarks of American democracy is the right to vote. In fact, the freedom to vote is so ingrained in American culture that it is taken ...

This book focuses on voting practices, election reform and local election officials who are critical to the administration of federal elections and...

This book provides details about new and exciting ways of administering elections so that each jurisdiction can chart the future of its own system ...

Millions turn out to vote in U.S. general elections, and there were reports of long wait times at some polling places on Election Day in 2012. The ...

The United States runs its elections unlike any other country in the world. Responsibility for elections is entrusted to local officials in approxi...

By passing the Voting Rights Act of 1965, Congress challenged the widespread evidence of disfranchisement of black citizens in certain southern sta...

The Voting Rights Act was necessary because of this country's long and painful history of not extending the right to vote to all. The Voting Rights...

In American Samoa, the first minimum wage increase raised the wages of about three-quarters of workers at private sector employers. By 2016, the mi...

Edwin Cole Bearss, born in 1923, is an American World War II wounded warrior of the Greatest Generation. As a U.S. Marine, he was shot four times b...

This second book of the Edwin Cole Bearss memoir begins with his first days in a 40-year career in the National Park Service. Beginning as the Park...