Edwin Bearss' Government career created National Parks and Presidential Historic Parks, including his direct relationships with President Lyndon B....

This timely book offers a fresh perspective on the issue of contemporary migratory labor, otkhodnichestvo, in Russia-the temporary departure of inh...

This book, sharing its title with a curious and entertaining travel book written by Australian-born writer John Lang, is a collection of essays abo...

Many students have come to the study of war and peace from a background heavily influenced by media exposure and political commitment. Some tend to...

Many students have come to the study of war and peace from a background heavily influenced by media exposure and political commitment. Some tend to...

This comprehensive volume analyzes the radical change in the nature of armed conflicts and in the way they are narrated and represented. Ever since...

Although he died at the age of thirty-two, Randolph Bourne (1886-1918) left a body of writing on politics, culture, and literature that made him on...

Although he died at the age of thirty-two, Randolph Bourne (1886-1918) left a body of writing on politics, culture, and literature that made him on...

This multi-authored monograph consists of the sections: “Pop Rock, Ethno-Chaos, Battle Drums, and a Requiem: The Sounds of the Ukrainian Revolution...

The so-called war on drugs has been going on in the United States since 1880, when opium was prohibited from shipment to America from China. The ar...

Concern for humanity's future has never been more urgent than now - in the present time - when humanity has achieved the level of capability of des...

This collection of essays represents a sample of the work carried out on the various urgent issues arising from the contemporary "war in terror" by...

Warren Gamaliel Harding was a traditional man in the mode of the late-nineteenth, early-twentieth century. His values, perspective on the world aro...

Warren Gamaliel Harding was a traditional man in the mode of the late-nineteenth, early-twentieth century. His values, perspective on the world aro...

Contractors represent over half of the U.S. presence in the contingency operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, at times employing more than a quarter-...

On 16 September 2013, Aaron Alexis, a Navy contractor employee with a Secret security clearance, shot and killed 12 U.S. Navy civilian and contract...

The federal government is the world's largest and most complex entity, with about $3.5 trillion in outlays in the fiscal year of 2010, funding a br...

On September 11, 2001, this country suffered the most devastating terrorist attacks ever experienced on our soil. The series of co-ordinated attack...

Much progress has been made in achieving the ambitious goals that Congress established in 1972 in the Clean Water Act (CWA) to restore and maintain...

In his collection of Prairie essays-some of them profoundly personal, some poetic, some political-Roger Epp considers what it means to dwell attent...

In this anthology, the author asks two questions: 1) What is the meaning and what has been the impact of "We the people" in view of the fact that w...

DOD spends billions of dollars annually to sustain its weapon systems to support current and future operations. The Air Force and Navy are operatin...

The Webster-Hayne Debate consists of speeches delivered in the United States Senate in January of 1830. The debates between Daniel Webster of Massa...

Voting is fundamental to our democracy, yet many U.S. citizens who are eligible to vote do not take advantage of their constitutional right to vote...

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) provides benefits to low-income, eligible households on an electronic benefit transfer (EBT) c...

Globally, industrialization and urbanization are leading to improvement in society's economic condition which is often accompanied by lifestyle cha...

What a Life is a unique book that is part memoir, part historical chronicle, part a social psychological dissertation of the impact of a set of div...

The seemingly endless battle to reform American schools rages onward as we approach the 21st century. Taxpayers seem confused and are not supportin...

The passage of land rights laws in New South Wales in 1983 saw political intrigue, deception and disappointment as well as unprecedented engagement...

The book aims at offering an overview of the current human rights practice, indicating some main specific features able to provide a meaningful exp...

The book aims at offering an overview of the current human rights practice, indicating some main specific features able to provide a meaningful exp...

Antizionism - the opposition to Zionism and the state of Israel - has progressed at a breath-taking speed. Whether it be at the United nations, in ...

An Amazon.ca Editor's Pick for 2012 and a Globe and Mail Top 100 Book of 2012Shortlisted, Governor General's Award for Non-Fiction, Shaughnessy Coh...