Product Description: Essentials of American Politics, Second Edition, is the ideal alternative to larger, more expensive American government texts. Based on We the People, Fifth Edition, and including chapters on governmental policy, this concise text provides thorough, current coverage of core concepts while highlighting the impact of politics and government on students' day-to-day lives...read more

Product Description: Gun control is one of the most enduringly controversial issues in modern American politics. For the first time this book compiles a comprehensive array of documents that explain and illuminate the historical and contemporary context of the modern gun debate...read more

Product Description: Father Spitzer, President of Gonzaga University, has been using the principles in this book over the last eight years to educate people of all backgrounds in the philosophy of the pro-life movement. The tremendous positive response he has received inspired him to start the Life Principles Institute...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Political scientists and media specialists accept the commonplace assumption that the mass media have a profound and direct impact on virtually every aspect of the political process, yet remarkably few systematic studies examining the relationship between media and policy exist...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: With the incredible popularity of recent books championing agnosticism or atheism, many people might never know that such books almost completely ignore the considerable evidence for theism uncovered in both physics and philosophy over the past four decades...read more

Product Description: Politics and Constitutionalism presents a collection of eight original essays by leading political science and law scholars, organized to recognize and analyze Louis Fisher's prolific and important body of work. The essays explore the role of all three branches of government in shaping constitutional meaning and institutional behavior, noting that the courts do not have sole interpretive power...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

This is a revised and updated analysis of the arguments for and against gun control. It aims to account for the political and cultural forces that make gun control one of the most intractable and divisive issues of American politics. The author proposes a new approach to the debate that offers a method of achieving political accommodation between pro- and anti-gun forces that can work despite their enduring hostility and mutual suspicion. The new framework he proposes for gun control is based on international relations theory.

Product Description: This comprehensive case law book examines the evolution of judicial interpretation of the scope and limitations of presidential power. From interbranch struggles for power, to presidential selection, to campaign financing, to war powers, hardly an issue arises for the modern presidency that does not eventually find itself framed as a legal problem to be addressed by the courts...read more

Product Description: This comprehensive case law book examines the evolution of judicial interpretation of the scope and limitations of presidential power. From interbranch struggles for power, to presidential selection, to campaign financing, to war powers, hardly an issue arises for the modern presidency that does not eventually find itself framed as a legal problem to be addressed by the courts...read more

Product Description: This text offers a fresh look at the evolving relationship between the president and Congress. By focusing heavily on the historical, legal, and political perspectives that shape the interaction of the two branches. Presidency and Congress seeks in part to counter the narrow and historical nature of each modern presidential-congressional analysis...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In The Right to Bear Arms: Rights and Liberties under the Law, the first volume in ABC-CLIO's America's Freedoms series, political scientist Robert J. Spitzer combats hysteria and rhetoric with simple facts.He takes no position on whether more or fewer gun control laws are needed or whether guns are good or bad...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Many organizations have invested in the skills and structures of change, but have forgotten the more intangible quality of spirit. As a result, their changes have been short-lived, their adaptibility slow, and their ability to move to the "next level" nonexistent...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)