Product Description: Will Allen may be one of the smartest boys in the 6th grade, but all his cleverness is of little use when monsters infest his room! Fortunately, a mysterious business card summons the Great Monster Detective, Bigelow Hawkins, who teaches Will how to conquer monsters...read more

Product Description: In this fourth installment in the Chronicles of the Monster Detective Agency series, fledgling Monster Detective Will Allen has so far triumphed over horrors of every kind, and even survived his mother\'s cooking, but now he faces a challenge that all of his skill, cleverness, and bravery are powerless against - dealing with GIRLS! And even if he muddles his way through that obstacle, can Will then rise to the occasion and save himself and his friends from living manifestations of their worst fears when his special monster-fighting tools, the RevealeR and the MonsterScope, suddenly lose their magical powers...read more

Product Description: Hayek thought that all economic behavior (and by implication other human behavior) is based on fallible interpretations of what information is important and of its implications for the future. This epistemological idea animated not only his heterodox economic thought, but his ideal of the rule of law; his road-to-serfdom thesis; and his critique of the notion of social justice...read more

Product Description: In the Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion (1992), John Zaller set out one of the most influential models of opinion formation: he presented the public as a pliable instrument of political elites, who are able to garner support simply by sending "cues" through the mass media telling Republicans or Democrats, for example, what "the" Republican or Democratic position is on a given issue...read more

Product Description: The complexity of the modern world makes it difficult to predict the effects of political actions. In his 1992 book, System Effects, Robert Jervis underscored this difficulty by pointing to various sources of complexity when people interact...read more

Product Description: In the foundational document of modern public-opinion research, Philip E. Converse’s "The Nature of Belief Systems in Mass Publics" (1964) established the U.S. public’s startling political ignorance. This volume makes Converse’s long out-of-print article available again and brings together a variety of scholars, including Converse himself, to reflect on Converse’s findings after nearly half a century of further research...read more

Fifth-grade Will Allen enlists the help of Bigelow Hawkins, the great monster detective, when he finds a monster under his bed, but it is Will who must conquer the monsters himself.

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