Departmental Acquisitions: 0-1 http://www.yoursite.com/http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477283Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477283http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476585Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476585http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476584Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476584http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477191Description: "Thomas Jefferson's contribution to the development of administrative thought and practice in the United States have largely been overlooked in American history. His career in public service and his ideas concerning government and constitutional tradition have overshadowed his involvement with public administration. All But Forgotten explores this hidden contribution by investigating Jefferson's two terms as president and the educational history of the University of Virginia, an institution whose early years were influenced by Jefferson's theory and practice of administration."--BOOK JACKET.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477191http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477944Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477944http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477943Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477943http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492452Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492452http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504201Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504201http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493397Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493397http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477650Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477650http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504202Description: Published since 1947, this handbook sets forth the structure of the United Nations, how it works and its main activities and driving concerns. Along with explaining the role played by the U.N. principal organs and the family of U.N. organizations, it explores U.N. contributions to international peace and security, economic and social development, human rights, humanitarian action, international law and decolonization. It also documents U.N. membership, peacekeeping operations and special observances, along with contact information for U.N. information centers.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504202http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479044Description: "The Supreme Court's 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade declared that the Constitution protected decisions regarding abortion--but the debate was far from over, continuing to be a political battleground to this day. In the decades since the case was decided, the American debate on abortion has moved away from the issues that the justices confronted more than three decades ago. Bringing to light key documents that illuminate the case and its political context, Before Roe v. Wade looks back and recaptures how the arguments for and against abortion took shape as claims about the meaning of the Constitution--and about how the nation could best honor its commitment to dignity, liberty, equality, and life"--Cover, p. 2.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479044http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477942Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477942http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476166Description: This book reveals how forensic experts read the story of a murder told in the traces of blood left behind, providing crucial evidence that has helped convict criminals who might have otherwise walked free. When the author began his career in law enforcement, virtually no police force in the world knew how to correctly examine blood spatter. He spent years studying and testing how blood behaves, pioneering a vital new tool that is now a part of any criminal investigation. In this work he demonstrates how detectives and forensic experts use blood-spatter analysis to solve real cases. How can the police tell what type of murder weapon was used when the body is missing and all that's left is a trace of gore? How can they tell if a victim was moved, or which person in a room fired the fatal shot? The author lays out what he's learned on a variety of intriguing cases, from puzzling murders in tiny, remote towns to the highest-profile celebrity trials, including O.J. Simpson, Robert Blake, and many others. Filled with fascinating details of forensic science and real-life CSI stories, this book shows the techniques and tools used to decipher blood spatter's code.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476166http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476165Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476165http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477282Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477282http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477649Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477649http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476164Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476164http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477941Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477941http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493270Description: Delattre implicitly promoting the "bad apple" theory of police corruption and brutality, discusses how to promote good values in individual police officers through training and discusses how those values should lead officers to act in a variety of situations. This new edition adds a chapter on terrorism and policing, complaining that police lack the tools to effectively prosecute the "War on Terrorism" and examining issues of racial profiling.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493270http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476163Description: The need to understand this global giant has never been more pressing: China is constantly in the news, yet conflicting impressions abound. Within one generation, China has transformed from an impoverished, repressive state into an economic and political powerhouse. In China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know , Jeffrey Wasserstrom provides cogent answers to the most urgent questions regarding the newest superpower and offers a framework for understanding its meteoric rise. --From publisher description.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476163http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477190Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477190http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477940Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477940http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477939Description: Systematically addresses the impact of class, race, and gender on criminological theory and all phases of the administration of criminal justice, including its workers. These topics represent the main sites of inequality, power and privilege in the U.S., which consciously or unconsciously shape people's understandings of who is a criminal and how society should deal with them. --from publisher descriptionhttp://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477939http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503923Description: The rule of law has vanished in America's criminal justice system. Prosecutors now decide whom to punish and how severely. Almost no one accused of a crime will ever face a jury. Inconsistent policing, rampant plea bargaining, overcrowded courtrooms, and ever more draconian sentencing have produced a gigantic prison population, with black citizens the primary defendants and victims of crime. In this passionately argued book, the leading criminal law scholar of his generation looks to history for the roots of these problems -- and for their solutions. The Collapse of American Criminal Justice takes us deep into the dramatic history of American crime -- bar fights in nineteenth-century Chicago, New Orleans bordellos, Prohibition, and decades of murderous lynching. Digging into these crimes and the strategies that attempted to control them, Stuntz reveals the costs of abandoning local democratic control. The system has become more centralized, with state legislators and federal judges given increasing power. The liberal Warren Supreme Court's emphasis on procedures, not equity, joined hands with conservative insistence on severe punishment to create a system that is both harsh and ineffective. What would get us out of this Kafkaesque world? More trials with local juries; laws that accurately define what prosecutors seek to punish; and an equal protection guarantee like the one that died in the 1870s, to make prosecution and punishment less discriminatory. Above all, Stuntz eloquently argues, Americans need to remember again that criminal punishment is a necessary but terrible tool, to use effectively, and sparingly. - Publisher.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503923http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477281Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477281http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=480148Description: A journalist's search through Beijing for the classmate she betrayed during the Cultural Revolution reveals three decades of Chinese transformation.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=480148http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=495867Description: "No one thinks it can happen to them, but Americans are 40 times more likely to be defrauded than to have their cars stolen or their homes burgled. Con artists ruin people financially and emotionally, leaving in their wake a trail of destruction, broken hearts, and deflated dreams. The first step to combating fraud is to understand it. What do scams look like? Why are they effective? The next step is to take action. How can we protect ourselves and our families? The Con: How Scams Work, Why You're Vulnerable, and How to Protect Yourself informs and engages with accessible stories of ordinary people from all walks of life thrown into unexpected and disorienting circumstances. The book goes behind the scenes of real-world cons to examine the logistics and psychology that enable scams to succeed. The goal is to help people understand and recognize deception, and in the same way that they avoid other potentially dangerous situations, take a detour. Once readers gain a clear idea of what scams look and sound like and learned simple strategies to reduce personal risk, protecting themselves will be just as instinctive as putting on a seat belt"--Provided by publisher.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=495867http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493273Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493273http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492465Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492465http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477938Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477938http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492460Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492460http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476583Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476583http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493401Description: 'Contemporary Japan' presents a comprehensive examination of the causes of the Japanese economic bubble in the late 1980s and the socio-political consequences of the recent financial collapse.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493401http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477188Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477188http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491219Description: There may be no denying China's growing economic strength, but its impact on the global balance of power remains hotly contested. Political scientist Aaron L. Friedberg argues that our nation's leaders are failing to act expeditiously enough to counter China's growing strength. He explains how the United States and China define their goals and reveals the strategies each is now employing to achieve its ends. Friedberg demonstrates that the ultimate aim of Chinese policymakers is to "win without fighting," displacing the United States as the leading power in Asia while avoiding direct confrontation. The United States, on the other hand, sends misleading signals about our commitments and resolve, putting us at risk for a war that might otherwise have been avoided. A much-needed wake-up call to U.S. leaders and policymakers, this is a compelling interpretation of a rivalry that will go far to determine the shape of the 21st century.--From publisher description.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491219http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=495869Description: "In the first Supreme Court history told primarily through eyewitness accounts from Court insiders, Clare Cushman provides readers with a behind-the-scenes look at the people, practices, and traditions that have shaped an American institution for more than two hundred years. This entertaining and enlightening tour of the Supreme Court's colorful personalities and inner workings will be of interest to all readers of American political and legal history"--http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=495869http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491162Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491162http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503924Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503924http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477937Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477937http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476162Description: Security expert Richard A. Clarke goes beyond "geek talk" to succinctly explain how cyber weapons work and how vulnerable America is to the new world of nearly untraceable cyber criminals and spies. This sobering story of technology, government, and military strategy involving criminals, spies, soldiers, and hackers begins the much needed public policy debate about what America's doctrine and strategy should be, not just for waging, but for preventing the First Cyber War.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476162http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476161Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476161http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493277Description: "Explores the long and contentious relationship between the United States and Pakistan since Pakistan's founding with emphasis on events that occurred during the author's thirty-year career with the CIA and on how Pakistan's history and U.S. responses have contributed to the current struggle with terrorism"--Provided by publisher.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493277http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476582Description: From the Publisher: The American trial looms large in our collective imagination-witness the enormous popularity of Law & Order-but it is, in reality, almost extinct. In 2002, less than 2 percent of federal civil cases culminated in a trial, down from 12 percent forty years earlier. And the number of criminal trials also dropped dramatically, from 9 percent of cases in 1976 to only 3 percent in 2002. In The Death of the American Trial, distinguished legal scholar Robert P. Burns makes an impassioned case for reversing this rapid decline before we lose one of our public culture's greatest achievements. Burns begins by cutting through all-too-common misinformation about contemporary trials, reminding readers of its essential features and functions. These characteristics, he shows, resulted from a centuries-long process that brought trials to maturity only in the early twentieth century. As a practice that is adapted for modern times yet rooted in ancient wisdom, the trial is uniquely suited to balance the tensions-between idealism and reality, experts and citizens, contextual judgment and reliance on rules-that define American culture. Arguing that many observers make a grave mistake by taking a positive or even complacent view of the trial's demise, Burns concludes by laying out the catastrophic consequences of losing an institution that so perfectly embodies democratic governance. As one federal judge put it, the jury is the "canary in the mineshaft; if it goes, if our people lose their inherited right to do justice in court, other democratic institutions will lose breath too." The Death of the American Trial arrives not a second too soon to spark a rescue operation before trials are relegated to the purely fictional realm of televised drama.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476582http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491160Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491160http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476160Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476160http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476159Description: Examines how the failure of the nation building policies of the United States have contributed to increased instability in both Pakistan and Afghanistan, a result which represents the greatest threat to peace and security in the global community.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476159http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=480147Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=480147http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477958Description: "In this book, Alan I. Abramowitz presents an argument that the most important divide in American politics is not between left and right but rather between citizens who are politically engaged and those who are not. It is the engaged members of the public, he argues, who most closely reflect the ideals of democratic citizenship - but this is also the group that is most polarized. Polarization at the highest levels of government, therefore, is not a sign of elites' disconnection from the public but rather of their responsiveness to the more politically engaged parts of it. Though polarization is often assumed to be detrimental to democracy, Abramowitz concludes that by presenting voters with clear choices, polarization can serve to increase the public's interest and participation in politics and strengthen electoral accountability."--BOOK JACKET.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477958http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491159Description: Drawing on polling results and other data, Fiorina examines the disconnect between an unrepresentative "political class" and the citizenry it purports to represent, showing how politicians have become more polarized while voters remain moderate; how politicians' rhetoric and activities reflect hot-button issues that are not public priorities; and how politicians' dogmatic, divisive, and uncivil style of "debate" contrasts with the more civil discourse of ordinary Americans, who tend to be more polite and open to compromise than their leaders."--[book jacket]http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491159http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477936Description: Prominent observers complain that public discourse in America is shallow and unedifying -- This debased conditions often attributed to, among other things, the resurgence of religion in public life. Steven D. Smith argues that this diagnosis has the matter backwards: it is not primarily religion but rather the strictures of secular rationalism that have drained our modern discourse of force and authenticity. Thus Rawlsian "public reason" filters appeals to religion or "other comprehensive doctrines" out of public deliberation. But these restrictions have the effect of excluding our deepest normative commitments, virtually assuring that the discourse will be shallow. Furthermore, because we cannot defend our normative positions without resorting to convictions that secular discourse deems inadmissible, we are frequently forced to smuggle in those convictions under the guise of benign notions such as freedom and equality. Smith suggests that this sort of smuggling is pervasive in modern secular discourse. He shows this by considering a series of controversial, contemporary issues, including the Supreme Court's assisted-suicide decisions, the "harm principle," separation of church and state, and freedom of conscience. He concludes by suggesting that it is possible and desirable to free public discourse of the constraints associated with secularism and "public reason."http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477936http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=480146Description: "Provides basic consumer health information about the physical, mental, and social effects of violence against intimate partners, children, teens, parents, and the elderly, along with prevention and intervention strategies. Includes index, glossary of related terms and directory of resources"--Provided by publisher.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=480146http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476196Description: "'Endless war' features controversial strategist Ralph Peters at his most provocative and popular, raising preceptive, often shocking questions others fear to ask. In a sweeping collection that ranges from Muslim military triumphs a thousand years ago through the turning of the tide between East and West to the brutal unconventional struggles of today and tomorrow, former Military Intelligence Office Peters extends his successful series of books on strategy and security affairs that have won him diehard fans for his insight, firsthand experience, and frankness" --Cover, p. 2.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476196http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476158Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476158http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477280Description: This work is a new approach to addressing undocumented Mexican migration through substantial investment in Mexico's infrastructure and economy. In his topical new book, the author asks, why do undocumented immigrants from Mexico continue to enter the United States and what would discourage this surreptitious traffic? An expert on immigration law and policy, he examines the relationship between NAFTA, globalization, and undocumented migration, and he considers the policy options for controlling immigration. He develops an ethical rationale for opening up the U.S./Mexican border, as well as improving conditions in Mexico so that its citizens would have little incentive to migrate. He insists that reforming NAFTA is vital to ameliorating much of the poverty that drives undocumented immigration and he points to the European Union's immigration and economic development policies as a model for North America. He considers the worldwide economic crisis and the social problems that attend labor migration. He argues for a spectrum of changes, including: a new vision of border enforcement; a broader view of the visa system; a path to citizenship for undocumented migrants; and consideration of a guest worker program. He also situates NAFTA and its effects in the larger, and rapidly shifting, context of globalization, particularly the recent rise of China as the world's economic giant. Showing how NAFTA's unintended consequences have been detrimental to Mexico, he argues that the United States is ethically bound to address the problems in a way that puts prosperity within the grasp of all North Americans.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477280http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=480145Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=480145http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493278Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493278http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491125Description: Examines First Amendment cases throughout history, discussing Yetta Stromberg, Dannie Martin, Raymond Procunier, Earl Caldwell, Larry Flynt, Clinton Fein, and others, and describing the impact of Communists, Jehovah's Witnesses, Ku Klux Klansmen, prison wardens, and others have had on First Amendment rights in the United States. Recounting controversial First Amendment cases from the Red Scare era to Citizens United, William Bennett Turner shows how we've arrived at our contemporary understanding of free speech. His strange cast of heroes and villains, some drawn from cases he litigated, includes Communists, Jehovah's Witnesses, Ku Klux Klansmen, the world's leading pornographer, prison wardens, dogged reporters, federal judges, a computer whiz, and a counterculture comedian. Offers a brief and insightful history of speaking up and facing the consequences.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491125http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490381Description: Former Justice Stevens discusses the accomplishments of the earliest Chief Justices and the role of Chief Justice, profiles each of the Chief Justices he knew personally and their most important cases, and describes his relationship with each.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490381http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477935Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477935http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476157Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476157http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477279Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477279http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477278Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477278http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493279Description: "Iraq's streets are unsafe, its people tormented, and its identity as a state challenged from within and without. For some, Iraq is synonymous with internal hatred, bloodshed, and sectarianism. The contributors to this book, however, know another Iraq: a country that was once full of hope and achievement and that boasted one of the most educated workforces in its region--a cosmopolitan secular society with a great tradition of artisans, poets, and intellectuals. The memory of that Iraq inspired the editors of this volume to explore Iraq's current struggle. The contributors delve into the issues and concerns of building a viable Iraqi state and recognize the challenges in bringing domestic reconciliation and normalcy to Iraqis.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493279http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479043Description: The author describes five lawsuits that have helped change the way lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transsexual (LGBT) people are treated in the United States. The cases are Braschi v. Stahl Associates, in which an appellate court recognize that two men can constitute a family; Nabozny v. Podlesny (1996), in which a Wisconsin jury recognized that a bullied gay teenager had had his constitutional rights violated by school officials who looked the other way; Rome v. Evans, in which the U.S. Supreme Court held that it is unconstitutional to deny LGBT people the opportunity to seek antidiscrimination protection under the law; Baehr v. Lewin (1993), in which the Hawaii Supreme Court questioned the constitutionality of denying same-sex couples the right to marry; and Lawrence v. Texas (2003), in which the U.S. Supreme Court held that the government cannot criminalize private and consensual gay sex. For each case, he offers a description of the facts involved, a discussion of the legal issues involved and how they were dealt with in the litigation, and an analysis of the legal and social impact of the case.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479043http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477277Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477277http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=495871Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=495871http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493280Description: This book introduces the concept of how gender shapes our understanding of every aspect of crime. Moving beyond criminological theories and research that have often neglected gender, this book shows that gender is central to the definition, prosecution, and sentencing of crimes, that it shapes how victimization is experienced and understood, and that it structures the institutions of the criminal justice system and the experiences of workers within that system. Discussing the intersections of race, class, gender, and sexuality with crime and punishment, this book demonstrates that crime, victimization, and crime control are never generic, they are instead produced and experienced by gendered (and race, and classed, and sexualized) actors within contexts of social inequality. This book highlights key concepts and encourages critical thinking through a range of real-life examples, from school violence to corporate crime.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493280http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477648Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477648http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477276Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477276http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493430Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493430http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477934Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477934http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=495872Description: This work examines the increasing political influence of religion across the globe, which sometimes promotes civil war, but sometimes promotes democracy, and offers suggestions on how to confront the challenges posed by globally resurgent religion. Is religion a force for good or evil in world politics? How much influence does it have? Despite predictions of its decline, religion has resurged in political influence across the globe, helped by the very forces that were supposed to bury it: democracy, globalization, and technology. And despite recent claims that religion is exclusively irrational and violent, its political influence is in fact diverse, sometimes promoting civil war and terrorism but at other times fostering democracy, reconciliation, and peace. Looking across the globe, the authors explain what generates these radically divergent behaviors. In a time when the public discussion of religion is overheated, the authors use original analysis and case studies to show both how and why religion's influence on global politics is surging. Finally they offer suggestions on how to both confront the challenges and take advantage of the opportunities posed by globally resurgent religion.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=495872http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477275Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477275http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493281Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493281http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477274Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477274http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=480144Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=480144http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493282Description: Hamas's overwhelming electoral victory in January 2006 transformed politics in the Middle East and shocked the world. Hamas was able to seize control of the entire Gaza Strip in June 2007, despite its status as a terrorist organization in Israel, the U.S., and the E.U. Azzam Tamimi's longtime relationships and extensive interviews with Hamas's leading members allow him to create a more intimate portrait of Hamas in its own words. This book is a history of Hamas from its origins among the Muslim Brotherhood to the present.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493282http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=455291Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=455291http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477955Description: "Over two billion people worldwide are without access to clean, modern energy, which leads to drudgery, ill health and sometimes death. Although a lack of adequate energy affects people's health and well-being, as well as their productive and educational capacities, addressing this deficit is a low priority for governments and donor agencies. The Hidden Energy Crisis outlines why we have failed so far to extend energy access to the world's poor, and suggests operating models that have greater potential to make a difference. It argues that meeting the basic needs of the world's energy poor will not make a significant difference to global carbon emissions. However, it will take substantial effort and finance from international donors, multinational and national governnments to scale up successful pilot projects dramatically to make a real impact on the poor."--Publisher's description.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477955http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=480143Description: The development of forensic science in solving crimes, with real-life case examples.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=480143http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477933Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477933http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477932Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477932http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476581Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476581http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477273Description: From the Publisher: Arlene Fink's practical guide examines the nuts and bolts of interview and questionnaire design. It takes the reader through the process of deciding informational needs, choosing a questionnaire or interview format, designing a data-collection method, choosing a sample, analyzing the findings and reporting results. The book is geared to everyone who needs to learn how to do a simple survey, regardless of background. With practical exercises and informative appendices, this book is appropriate for both self-teaching and classroom use.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477273http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477272Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477272http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=480142Description: New ID card systems are proliferating around the world. These may use digitized fingerprints or photos using a scanner & may rely on computerized registries of personal information. In this book, David Lyon argues that such IDs represent a fresh phase in the long-term attempts of modern states to find stable ways of identifying citizens.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=480142http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477647Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477647http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477931Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477931http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477271Description: "This book takes a look at how the law responds to that distinctly American dream of immortality. While American law provides virtually no protections for the interests we hold most dear - our bodies and our reputations - when it comes to property interests, the American dead have greater control than anywhere else in the world. Moreover, these rights are growing daily. From grave robbery to Elvis impersonators, Ray D. Madoff shows how the law of the dead has a direct impact on how we live." "Madoff examines how the rising power of the American dead enables the deceased to exert control over their wealth forever through grandiose schemes like "dynasty trusts" and perpetual private charitable foundations and to control their creative works and identities well into the unforeseeable future. Madoff explores how the law of the dead can, in essence, extend the reach of life by granting virtual immortality to individuals. All of this comes, Madoff contends, at real costs imposed on the living."--BOOK JACKET.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477271http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=480141Description: "This book examines Indian nuclear policy, doctrine, strategy, and posture, clarifying the elastic concept of "credible minimum deterrence" at the center of the country's approach to nuclear security. This concept, Karnad demonstrates, permits the Indian nuclear forces to be beefed up, size and quality-wise, and to acquire strategic reach and clout, even as the qualifier "minimum" suggests an overarching concern for moderation and economical use of resources and strengthens India's claims to be a "responsible" nuclear weapon state." "Based on interviews with Indian political leaders, nuclear scientists, and military and civilian nuclear policy planners, the book provides unique insights into the workings of India's nuclear decision-making and deterrence system. It refutes the alarmist notions about a "nuclear flashpoint" in South Asia, which derive from stereotyped analysis of India-Pakistan "wars," and it examines India's likely conflict scenarios involving China and Pakistan."--BOOK JACKET.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=480141http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=495979Description: A guide to the Affordable Care Act, our new national health care law.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=495979http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477646Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477646http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493285Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493285http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477930Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477930http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492466Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492466http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477645Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477645http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493403Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493403http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477644Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477644http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=480140Description: Looks at terrorism threats in the twenty-first century, reviews the history of terrorism, and offers advice to Americans on how to prepare to respond to an attack.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=480140http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=480139Description: Based on extensive interviews, "Israel at Sixty" presents a balanced, comprehensive account of this complex and amazing land. It re-creates historic events from the actions of Israel's founding visionaries through the ravages of six wars with its Arab neighbors to its growing strength and international stature and efforts to make permanent peace with its adversaries. Complete with more than fifty previously unpublished photos, Israel at Sixty is a beautiful keepsake for anyone who loves, respects, and supports the Jewish state.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=480139http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477643Description: "Years before his inquiry into the Kennedy assassination, New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison first captured the spotlight in late 1962, when he launched a series of raids on French Quarter strip clubs and bars. Even more extraordinary than the vice raids themselves was Garrison's verbal feud with Orleans Parish's criminal court judges, whom he accused of restricting funds for his raids due to their ties to organized crime. Convicted of defaming the jurists, Garrison took his crusade from the back booths of Bourbon Street bars to the marbled confines of the United States Supreme Court. In 1964 a unanimous court ruled that an individual's freedom to criticize elected judges and other public officials was not only protected by the First Amendment of the Constitution, but that it was 'the essence of self-government.' Jim Garrison's Bourbon Street Brawl is the first full-length examination of this fundamental legal precedent"--Cover, p. 4.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477643http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476580Description: This book is a sweeping and revealing insider look at court history and the life of William Brennan, champion of free speech and public access to information, and widely considered the most influential Supreme Court justice of the twentieth century.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476580http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477929Description: "Juvenile Delinquency offers a timely, comprehensive look at the unlawful and criminal behavior of young persons and the manner in which the criminal justice system treats the young. In this highly readable text, Donald J. Shoemaker explores the social issues of race, class, and gender and their impact on youth. After grounding readers with a historical perspective, Shoemaker presents a series of sharply focused chapters on schooling, religion, and family, as well as sections on drug use, gangs, and female delinquency, With a strong emphasis on the importance of theory and practice, Juvenile Delinquency is a must-read for everyone trying to understand crime and youth culture."--Jacket.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477929http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477642Description: Presents an introduction to the federal health care law passed in March, 2010, explaining the provisions of the legislation and discussing its implications for consumers, employers, insurers, and the medical establishment.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477642http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479042Description: "The Last Gasp takes us to the dark side of human history in the first full chronicle of the gas chamber in the United States. In page-turning detail, award-winning writer Scott Christianson tells a dreadful story that is full of surprising and provocative new findings. First constructed in Nevada in 1924, the gas chamber, a method of killing sealed off and removed from the sight and hearing of witnesses, was originally touted as a 'humane' method of execution. Delving into science, war, industry, medicine, law, and politics, Christianson overturns this mythology for good. He exposes the sinister links between corporations looking for profit, the military, and the first uses of the gas chamber after World War I. He explores little-known connections between the gas chamber and the eugenics movement. Perhaps most controversially, he has unearthed new evidence about American and German collaboration in the production and lethal use of hydrogen cyanide and about Hitler's adoption of gas chamber technology developed in the United States. More than a book about the death penalty, this compelling history ultimately reveals much about America's values and power structures in the twentieth century." -- Book jacket.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479042http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476579Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476579http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477641Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477641http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477640Description: "Law's Imagined Republic shows how the American Revolution was marked by the rapid proliferation of law talk across the colonies. This legal language was both elite and popular, spanned different forms of expression from words to rituals, and included simultaneously real and imagined law. Since it was employed to mobilize resistance against England, the proliferation of revolutionary legal language became intimately intertwined with politics. Drawing on a wealth of material from criminal cases, Steven Wilf reconstructs the intertextual ways Americans from the 1760s through the 1790s read law : reading one case against another and often self-consciously comparing transatlantic legal systems as they thought about how they might construct their own legal system in a new republic. What transformed extraordinary tales of crime into a political forum? How did different ways of reading or speaking about law shape our legal origins? And, ultimately, how might excavating innovative approaches to law in this formative period, which were constructed in the street as well as in the courtroom, alter our usual understanding of contemporary American legal institutions? Law's Imagined Republic tells the story of the untidy beginnings of American law"--Provided by publisher.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477640http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475365Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475365http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504213Description: This work is an account of the Egyptian revolution, written by a Cairo-based Egyptian-American reporter for Foreign Policy and The Times (London), who witnessed firsthand Mubarak's demise and the country's efforts to build a democracy. In early 2011, the world's attention was riveted on Cairo, where after three decades of supremacy, Hosni Mubarak was driven from power. It was a revolution as swift as it was explosive. For eighteen days, anger, defiance, and resurgent national pride reigned in the streets; protestors of all ages struck back against police and state security, united toward the common goal of liberation. But the revolution was more than a spontaneous uprising. It was the end result of years of mounting tension, brought on by a state that shamelessly abused its authority, rigging elections, silencing opposition, and violently attacking its citizens. When revolution bloomed in the region in January 2011, Egypt was a country whose patience had expired, with a people suddenly primed for liberation. As a journalist based in Cairo, the author was an eyewitness to the perfect storm that brought down Mubarak and his regime. He was subjected to tear gas alongside protestors in Tahrir Square, barely escaped an enraged mob, and witnessed the day-to-day developments from the frontlines. From the halls of power to the back alleys of Cairo, he offers a look at a nation in the throes of an uprising. This book is a revealing look at the revolution that transformed the modern history of one of the world's oldest civilizations.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504213http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477928Description: In "The Living Constitution," leading constitutional scholar David Strauss forcefully argues against the claims of Scalia, Clarence Thomas, Robert Bork, and other "originalists," explaining in clear, jargon-free English how the Constitution can sensibly evolve, without falling into the anything-goes flexibility caricatured by opponents.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477928http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479901Description: A prison door clangs shut. The reverberation echoes with immense meaning both for the person locked up and those left on the outside. But the reality is that once offenders have served their terms and leave prison, doors still shut. Feel the heartbreak and the victories as you follow a young woman putting her life back together after eleven years in prison. Experience the difficulties ex-offenders face when looking for a job. See how mental illness complicates an ex-offender's life.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479901http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477639Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477639http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493404Description: Official figures classify some fifty million of the world's people as 'victims of forced displacement'. Refugees, asylum seekers, disaster victims, the internally displaced and the temporarily tolerated -- categories of the excluded proliferate, but many more are left out of count. In the face of this tragedy, humanitarian action increasingly seems the only possible response. On the ground, however, the 'facilities' put in place are more reminiscent of the logic of totalitarianism. In a situation of permanent catastrophe and endless emergency, 'undesirables' are kept apart and out of sight, while the care dispensed is designed to control, filter and confine. How should we interpret the disturbing symbiosis between the hand that cares and the hand that strikes? After seven years of study in the refugee camps, Michel Agier reveals their 'disquieting ambiguity' and stresses the imperative need to take into account forms of improvisation and challenge that are currently transforming the camps, sometimes making them into towns and heralding the emergence of political subjects. -- Back cover.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493404http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477638Description: "Citizenship is generally viewed as the most desired legal status an individual can attain, invoking the belief that citizens hold full inclusion in a society, and can exercise and be protected by the Constitution. Yet this membership has historically been exclusive and illusive for many, and in Citizenship and its Exclusions, Ediberto Roman provides a sweeping, interdisciplinary analysis of citizenship's contradictions." "Roman offers an exploration of citizenship that spans from antiquity to the present, and crosses disciplines from history to political philosophy to law, including constitutional and critical race theories. Beginning with Greek and Roman writings on citizenship, he moves on to late-medieval and Renaissance Europe, then early Modern Western law. His analysis culminates with an explanation of how past precedents have influenced U.S. law and policy regulating the citizenship status of indigenous and territorial island people, as well as how different levels of membership have created a de facto subordinate citizenship status for many members of American society, often lumped together as the "underclass."" ""What kind of harms matter, and why? Steeped in the history of American tort law, Martha Chamallas and Jennifer B. Wriggins demonstrate how attitudes about race and gender run through the harms recognized---and not recognized---by American law. Along the way, this fine book sheds light on deliberate and unconscious stereotyping, the shifting treatments of workplace and family injuries, the influence of social movements on law and public attitudes, and alternative approaches to harms, causation, and damages. This book is brimming with insights about how societies do and should express what matters in assigning liability for human pain and loss."".http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477638http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477637Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477637http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479273Description: Daniel Ellsberg was an unlikely rebel. As a brilliant tactician, Harvard graduate, and committed Cold Warrior, he played a crucial role in mapping out the American strategy in Vietnam, even living in Vietnam to see firsthand how the war was going. The more Ellsberg learned about American involvement in Southeast Asia, the more violently disillusioned he became, because he was charged with trying to win what he came to see as an unwinnable war. The proud hawk became a passionate dove, setting the stage to become one of the highest-profile whistle-blowers in American history, for leaking the "Pentagon Papers" (a massive set of classified documents detailing the Pentagon's botch of the war and the bogus grounds under which it was fought) to the New York Times. Thus was Daniel Ellsberg transformed, into a firebrand radical committed to ending the war by any means necessary, even if it meant spending the rest of his life in jail.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479273http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491218Description: "Hours of top-secret videos and hundreds of thousands of highly classified documents poured from the vaults of high-level governments and corporations. They exposed lies, hypocrisy, cover-ups, and high level diplomatic gossip, making headlines around the world. Julian Assange, Nobel Peace Prize nominee and the editor-in-chief of the Internet-based whistleblower site, WikiLeaks, has left the White House stunned, and the U.S. military, banks, and major corporations severely embarrassed..."--Dust jacket.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491218http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475710Description: Ciudad Juarez lies just across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas. A once-thriving border town, it now resembles a failed state. Infamously known as the place where women disappear, its murder rate exceeds that of Baghdad. Last year 1,607 people were killed, a number that is on pace to increase in 2009. In Murder City, Charles Bowden, one of the few journalists who has spent extended periods of time in Juarez, has written an extraordinary account of what happens when a city disintegrates. Interweaving stories of its inhabitants, a raped beauty queen, a repentant hitman, a journalist fleeing for his life with a broader meditation on the town's descent into anarchy, Bowden reveals how Juarez's culture of violence will not only worsen, but inevitably spread north.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475710http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=495870Description: "The world has watched stunned at the bloodshed in Mexico. Forty thousand murdered since 2006; police chiefs shot within hours of taking office; mass graves comparable to those of civil wars; car bombs shattering storefronts; headless corpses heaped in town squares. And it is all because a few Americans are getting high. Or is it? The United States throws Black Hawk helicopters, DEA assistance, and money at the problem. But in secret, Washington is confused and divided about what to do. Who are these mysterious figures tearing Mexico apart, they wonder. What is El Narco? El Narco draws the first definitive portrait of Mexico's cartels and how they have radically transformed in the past decade. El Narco is not a gang; it is a movement and an industry drawing in hundreds of thousands, from bullet-ridden barrios to marijuana-covered mountains. The conflict spawned by El Narco has given rise to paramilitary death squads enlisting tens of thousands of men-at-arms ready to do battle from Guatemala to the Texas border (and sometimes beyond.) Journalist Ioan Grillo has spent a decade in Mexico covering the drug war from the front lines. This piercing book joins testimonies from inside the cartels with firsthand dispatches and unsparing analysis. The devastation may be south of the Rio Grande, El Narco shows, but the United States is very much a part of the battleground."--Book jacket.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=495870http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477927Description: Presents neo-conservatism in three ages covering the history, and illuminating core developments, including the split of liberalism, and the shifting relationship of party affiliation and foreign policy position.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477927http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477636Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477636http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477635Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477635http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493290Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493290http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493291Description: Looks at the obstacles faced by women who aspire to run for president, examines the mistakes made by female candidates in their quest for the presidency, and offers strategies to help them succeed.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493291http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476578Description: Follows the lives of six North Koreans over fifteen years, a chaotic period that saw the rise to power of Kim Jong Il and the devastation of a famine that killed one-fifth of the population, illustrating what it means to live under the most repressive totalitarian regime today.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476578http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479041Description: Woodward shows Obama making the critical decisions on the Afghanistan War, the secret war in Pakistan and the worldwide fight against terrorism.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479041http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477270Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477270http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477269Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477269http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477633Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477633http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479040Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479040http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=480138Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=480138http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476577Description: The book finds that the most important consideration for the public is the expectation of success. If the public believes that a mission will succeed, the public will support it even if the costs are high. When the public does not expect the mission to succeed, even small costs will cause the withdrawal of support. Providing a wealth of new evidence about American attitudes toward military conflict, Paying the Human Costs of War offers insights into a controversial, timely, and ongoing national discussion.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476577http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479039Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479039http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477926Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477926http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479038Description: Looks at the reasons why the author believes China's economic emergence is good for the United States and the rest of the Western world.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479038http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476155Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476155http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492633Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492633http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503927Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503927http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503928Description: For this edition, the Handbook editors have attempted to cover national elections for all of 2011. This information is incorporated within the regular text wherever possible or in headnotes at the beginning of the country entries for elections that occurred in the latter part of the year. Each entry begins with information on a country's political status, area, population, major urban centers, languages, currency, and head of state and chief executive. Demographic and economic information is presented in the section titled "The Country," while political background, constitution and government, foreign relations, and current issues are examined in "Government and Politics." "Political Parties and Groups" provides an extensive analysis of formal parties, political groupings, and any antigovernment or illegal formations. Each entry ends with an overview of the nation's legislature, a current cabinet list, and a brief intergovernment representation section, including a membership list of intergovernment organizations for the respective country.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503928http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493294Description: "This is a comprehensive history of political violence during Europe's incredibly violent twentieth century. Leading scholars examine the causes and dynamics of war, revolution, counterrevolution, genocide, ethnic cleansing, terrorism and state repression. They locate these manifestations of political violence within their full transnational and comparative contexts and within broader trends in European history from the beginning of the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire in the late nineteenth-century, through the two world wars, to the Yugoslav Wars and the rise of fundamentalist terrorism. The book spans a 'greater Europe' stretching from Ireland and Iberia to the Baltic, the Caucasus, Turkey and the southern shores of the Mediterranean. It sheds new light on the extent to which political violence in twentieth-century Europe was inseparable from the generation of new forms of state power and their projection into other societies, be they distant territories of imperial conquest or ones much closer to home"--http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493294http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493295Description: "Democracy, prosperity and self-rule, this was the vision of African independence. Across the continent, however, the 'optimism' that characterized the immediate post-independence period has largely faded. Meanwhile, ordinary Africans lurch between undemocratic, unaccountable and unresponsive governments and a decaying traditional African past. How did things go so wrong? Why has the continent lagged behind others in economic development despite its potential natural resources? Why are so many African states prone to conflict? And why has democracy been slow to take root in a majority of the countries? Covering everything from African economies to the role of the state, rural livelihoods to issues of gender, 'Politics in Africa' offers a fresh perspective in answering these questions, making the continent's problems more understandable, less wretched and even intensely hopeful. Up-to-date, concise and provocative, this is indispensable reading for anyone interested in African politics."--P. [4] of cover.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493295http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477634Description: Sixty years ago, China was one of the poorest countries in the world, populated mostly by rural peasants, and still suffering from more than a century of internal turmoil and international humiliation. Today, China is a rapidly modernizing economic dynamo with growing global influence. This work is an introduction to how this transformation occurred, and how China is governed today. Each chapter offers an accessible overview of a key topic in Chinese politics. The opening section provides readers with a firm grounding in China's modern political history, from the fall of the last imperial dynasty through era of communist rule under Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, and their successors. The next section covers the political system, with chapters on Communist Party ideology, the structure of the political system, and the policies behind the country's spectacular economic performance. The book then focuses on several major issues in China today: politics in the countryside and the cities; the arts; the environment; public health; and population policy. The final chapters cover politics in four important areas located on China's geographic periphery: Tibet, Xinjiang, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. It is a guide for studying contemporary China, and also for learning how this rising power has evolved in recent times and the workings of its current political system.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477634http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493296Description: Lynching has often been called "America's national crime" that has defined the tradition of extralegal violence in America. Having claimed many thousand victims, "Judge Lynch" holds a firm place in the dark recesses of our national memory. In this book the author explores the history of lynching from the colonial era to the present. American lynch law, he argues, has rested on three pillars: the frontier experience, racism, and the anti-authoritarian spirit of grassroots democracy. He looks beyond the familiar story of mob violence against African American victims, who comprised the majority of lynch targets, to include violence targeting other victim groups, such as Mexicans and the Chinese, as well as many of those cases in which race did not play a role. As he nears the modern era, he focuses on the societal changes that ended lynching as a public spectacle. His narrative concludes with an examination of lynching's legacy in American culture. From the colonial era and the American Revolution up to the twenty-first century, lynching has been a part of our nation's history. The author here provides us with the first comprehensive overview of "popular justice."http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493296http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475707Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475707http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477268Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477268http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477632Description: This work examines the history of private military forces, the types of private armed forces, the conflict environments in which private forces operate, and approaches to the study of the privatization of security. Through an array of theoretical approaches and empirical material, this surveys private armed forces and directly challenges conventional stereotypes of security contractors. Private armed forces are nothing new. The estimated ratio of contractor to military personnel during the American Revolution was about 1 to 6. Yet the use of private military companies has proliferated exponentially during the 21st century, and today, they are largely seen as a threat to global security. But are they dangerous or a necessary adjunct to Department of Defense forces? This provides a comprehensive survey of the private military groups involved in conflicts worldwide. Organized around four themes, it covers the history of private military forces since 1600, the main contemporary actors and their defining characteristics, the environments in which private armed forces operate, and provides an analysis of the logic behind privatizing security. This book goes beyond conventional knowledge, offering both a theoretical approach and a new, practical perspective to advance the understanding of the ongoing climate of global instability and relevant players within it. Numerous examples help the reader grasp the full range of real world challenges and conceptual facets surrounding this polarizing topic.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477632http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477925Description: This book is a critical examination of mainstream research on racial profiling. Through qualitative analysis of interviews with people of color who have experienced racial profiling, it offers an alternative understanding of racialized law and the traffic stop as the manifestation of racialized law enforcement.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477925http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477924Description: "Over the last decade, political Islam has been denounced in the Western media and in the surrounding literature as a terrorist or fascist movement that is entirely at odds with Western democratic ideology. Kai Hafez's book overturns these arguments, contending that, despite its excesses, as a radical form of political opposition the movement plays a central role in the processes of democratization and modernization, and that these processes have direct parallels in the history and politics of the West. By analyzing the evolution of Christian democratization through the upheavals of the Reformation, colonisation, fascism, and totalitarianism, the book shows how radicalism and violence were constant accompaniments to political change, and that these components - despite assertions to the contrary - are still part of Western political culture to this day. In this way, the book draws hopeful conclusions about the potential for political, religious, and cultural transformation in the Islamic world, which is already exemplified by the cases of Turkey, Indonesia, and many parts of South Asia. The book marks an important development in the study of radical movements and their contribution to political change"--http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477924http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477631Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477631http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477630Description: "Realism and constructivism, two key contemporary theoretical approaches to the study of international relations, are commonly taught as mutually exclusive ways of understanding the subject. Realist Constructivism explores the common ground between the two, and demonstrates that, rather than being in simple opposition, they have areas of both tension and overlap. There is indeed space to engage in a realist constructivism. But at the same time, there are important distinctions between them, and there remains a need for a constructivism that is not realist, and a realism that is not constructivist. Samuel Barkin argues more broadly for a different way of thinking about theories of international relations, that focuses on the corresponding elements within various approaches rather than on a small set of mutually exclusive paradigms. Realist Constructivism provides an interesting new way for scholars and students to think about international relations theory"--Provided by publisher.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477630http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477923Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477923http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477922Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477922http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477629Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477629http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477921Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477921http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493297Description: Denis Lacorne identifies two competing narratives defining the American identity. The first narrative, derived from the philosophy of the Enlightenment, is essentially secular. Associated with the Founding Fathers and reflected in the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Federalist Papers, this line of reasoning is predicated on separating religion from politics to preserve political freedom from an overpowering church. Prominent thinkers such as Voltaire, Thomas Paine, and Jean-Nicolas Dãaemeunier, who viewed the American project as a radical attempt to create a new regime free from religion and the weight of ancient history, embraced this American effort to establish a genuine "wall of separation" between church and state. The second narrative is based on the premise that religion is a fundamental part of the American identity and emphasizes the importance of the original settlement of America by New England Puritans. This alternative vision was elaborated by Whig politicians and Romantic historians in the first half of the nineteenth century. It is still shared by modern political scientists such as Samuel Huntington. These thinkers insist America possesses a core, stable "Creed" mixing Protestant and republican values. Lacorne outlines the role of religion in the making of these narratives and examines, against this backdrop, how key historians, philosophers, novelists, and intellectuals situate religion in American politics.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493297http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493298Description: "In no other country has health care served as such a volatile flashpoint of ideological conflict. America has endured a century of rancorous debate on health insurance, and despite the passage of legislation in 2010, the battle is not yet over. This book is a history of how and why the United States became so stubbornly different in health care, presented by an expert with unsurpassed knowledge of the issues.Tracing health-care reform from its beginnings to its current uncertain prospects, Paul Starr argues that the United States ensnared itself in a trap through policies that satisfied enough of the public and so enriched the health-care industry as to make the system difficult to change. He reveals the inside story of the rise and fall of the Clinton health plan in the early 1990s--and of the Gingrich counterrevolution that followed. And he explains the curious tale of how Mitt Romney's reforms in Massachusetts became a model for Democrats and then follows both the passage of those reforms under Obama and the explosive reaction they elicited from conservatives. Writing concisely and with an even hand, the author offers exactly what is needed as the debate continues--a penetrating account of how health care became such treacherous terrain in American politics"--Provided by publisher.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493298http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490729Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490729http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491155Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491155http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477628Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477628http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493407Description: Drawing on two decades of research, Treisman analyzes the paradoxes in Russian politics and society, illuminating why the disintegration of the U.S.S.R. wasn't more violent, the repercussions of the Chechen wars, the "sacred place" vodka holds in the Russian imagination (and its pernicious effect on Russia's demographics), and how, 20 years after the fall of communism, relations between Russia and the U.S. remain so frosty. Yet as Treisman convincingly argues, most of the world's international problems--nuclear proliferation, Islamic terrorism, global warming--will be difficult to solve without Russia's helphttp://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493407http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476576Description: "In The Rise and Fall of Repression in Chile, Pablo Policzer tackles the difficult task of analyzing how authoritarian regimes utilize coercion. Even in relatively open societies, coercive institutions such as the police and military tend to be secretive and mistrustful of efforts by outsiders to oversee their operations. In more closed societies, secrecy is the norm, making coercion that much more difficult to observe and understand. Drawing on organization theory to develop a comparative typology of coercive regimes, Policzer analyzes the structures and mechanisms of coercion in general and then shifts his focus to the early part of the military dictatorship in Chile, which lasted from 1973 to 1990. Policzer's book sheds new light on a fundamental, yet little-examined, period during the Chilean dictatorship. Between 1977 and 1978, the governing junta in Chile quietly replaced the secret police organization known as the Direcciâon de Informaciones Nacional (DINA) with a different institution, the Central Nacional de Informaciones (CNI). Policzer provides the first systematic account of why the DINA was created in the first place, how it became the most powerful repressive institution in the country, and why it was suddenly replaced with a different organization, one that carried out repression in a markedly more restrained manner. Policzer shows how the dictatorship's reorganization of its security forces intersected in surprising ways with efforts by human rights watchdogs to monitor and resist the regime's coercive practices. He concludes by comparing these struggles with how dictatorships in Argentina, East Germany, and South Africa organized coercion." -- Publisher's description.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476576http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=495838Description: "The story of the United States' intimate and pivotal relationship with the Arab world's largest nation over the course of six decades"--Provided by publisher.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=495838http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477920Description: "Together with Plato's Republic, Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Social Contact is regarded as one of the most original examples of Utopian political engineering in the history of ideas. Similar to the Republic, Rousseau's Social Contract is better known today for its author's idiosyncratic view of political justice than its lessons on law-making or governance in any concrete sense. Challenging this common view, Rousseau, Law and the Sovereignty of the People examines the Genevan's contribution as a constitutionalist and builder of institutions, relating his major ideas to issues and debates in twenty-first century political science. Ethan Putterman explores how Rousseau's just state would actually operate, investigating how laws would be drafted, ratified and executed, arguing that the theory of the Social Contract is more pragmatic and populist than many scholars assume today"--Provided by publisher.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477920http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476154Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476154http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476575Description: Examines the crisis in the Darfur region of Sudan in the context of the country's turbulent history, including the Cold War's effect on neighboring Chad's civil war, and how that violence spilled over in Sudan, exacerbating the already severe problems caused by Sudan's tribal conflicts.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476575http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493409Description: "Profiles the most important figures in the al Qaeda movement--Osama bin Laden, Ayman Zawahiri, Abu Musaib al Zarqawi, and Mullah Omar, giving a comprehensive analysis of its origins, leadership, ideology, and strategy. Focuses more closely on what has happened to al Qaeda since 9/11 and outlines its ultimate goals"--Provided by publisher.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493409http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=480137Description: Presents a history of the agency, from its inception in 1945, to its role in the Cold War, to its controversial advisory position at the time of the Bush administration's search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, shortly before the invasion of 2003.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=480137http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=480136Description: Examines the role of drug trafficking in the support of terrorist groups and the international criminal underworld connected to the Taliban in Pakistan and Afghanistan, arguing that the most important focus for Western policymakers is to stop the flow of money to terrorist networks.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=480136http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=480135Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=480135http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=480134Description: "Hamida Ghafour and her family fled Kabul in 1981 when the Russians invaded. In this memoir, she tells how she went back in 2003 as a journalist to cover the country's post-9/11 reconstruction." "As Hamida is drawn deeper into her country's present, other members of her family come to life for us - her great-grandfather the Sufi mystic, her poetess grandmother who urged women to unveil, her great-uncle who wrote the first democratic constitution, her brave cousin Bahodine who paid for his views with his life. Her parents and their student days of hamburgers, hunting trips with American hippies and searches for the perfect pomegranate. In her family's past she finds the story of Afghanistan itself." "She finds its future in people like the Midwestern beautician teaching women a new kind of independence, her cousin the parliamentary candidate and the archaeologist digging for his country's lost civilization - in the form of a giant Sleeping Buddha."--BOOK JACKET.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=480134http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476588Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476588http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477267Description: "In this thrilling panorama of real-life events, Patrick Radden Keefe investigates a secret world run by a surprising criminal: a charismatic middle-aged grandmother, who from a tiny noodle shop in New York's Chinatown managed a mulitmillion-dollar business smuggling people."--P.[4] of cover.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477267http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=480133Description: A lively, intimate memoir that vividly recalls the idealism of the Kennedy administration. As deputy attorney general under Bobby Kennedy and then attorney general and under secretary of state for Lyndon Johnson, Nicholas deB. Katzenbach offers a unique perspective on the civil rights movement, Vietnam, and other issues of the day. In this engaging memoir, by turns intensely dramatic and charmingly matter-of-fact, we are treated to a ringside seat for Katzenbach's confrontation with segregationist governor George C. Wallace over the integration of the University of Alabama, his efforts to steer the Civil Rights Act of 1964 through Congress, and then his transition to the State Department, where he served at the center of the storm over Vietnam. In the political climate of this election season, Some of It Was Fun provides a refreshing reminder of the hopes and struggles of an earlier era, speaking both to readers who came of age in the 1960s and to a generation of young people looking to that period for political inspiration.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=480133http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476153Description: The definitive biography of the first Latina and third woman ever appointed to the Supreme Court from the biographer of Condoleeza Rice and Laura Bush. The author delves behind the headlines to tell the compelling story of how the daughter of Puerto Rican immigrants living in the South Bronx became one of the greatest legal minds in the country. With insight and thoughtful analysis, she explores the tenacity that makes Sotomayor a sharp, fearless judge; the sense of compassion that drives her to seek justice for the underprivileged; and her strong community ties, which never let her forget where she came from. Drawing on candid interviews with figures from Sotomayor's personal and professional life as well as speeches, interviews with Sotomayor, and published papers, the author paints a revealing portrait of the woman who would come to meet President Obama's rigorous criteria for a Supreme Court justice and whose appointment would make history.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476153http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477919Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477919http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477918Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477918http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477627Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477627http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492635Description: 'The Sports Management Toolkit' is a practical guide to the most important management tools and techniques available to those working in the sport and leisure industries. Each chapter includes a detailed, step-by-step description of the key tools and techniques and their application.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492635http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479037Description: "Published in cooperation with Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Stanford, California."--T.p.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479037http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476574Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476574http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=480132Description: In Iraq, America made mistake after mistake. Many gave up on the war. Then the war took a sharp U-turn. Two generals--David Petraeus and Raymond Odierno--displayed the leadership America expected. A universally respected combat journalist provides a history, based on five years of front-line reporting, about how the war was turned around--and the choice now facing America. In the course of fourteen extended trips over five years, West embedded with more than sixty front-line units, discussing strategy with generals and tactics with corporals. He provides an expert's account of counterinsurgency, disposing of myths. During the battle for Fallujah, West asked an Iraqi colonel why the archterrorist al-Zarqawi had fled in women's clothes. The colonel pointed to a Marine patrol walking by and said, "Americans are the strongest tribe."--From publisher description.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=480132http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492469Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492469http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=495875Description: Buchanan's latest polemic exposes the risks America faces today and what those dangers will mean for the country's future. He warns against not only the dangers that the country faces under Obama, but also the risk of sliding into irrelevancy that the Republican party faces if it chooses to forget its core values.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=495875http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476152Description: This book grew out of an historic opportunity to interview all of the living Supreme Court justices for a C-SPAN feature documentary about the Court, the only time that the nine sitting members and their two retired colleagues have granted interviews to a single television network. Ten of those interviews--the entire current court, plus retired Justice Sandra Day O'Connor--are gathered here in this singular collection.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476152http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492470Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492470http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476573Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476573http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476151Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476151http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503932Description: In The Syrian Rebellion, Fouad Ajami offers a detailed historical perspective on the current rebellion in Syria. Focusing on the similarities and the differences in skills between former dictator Hafez al-Assad and his successor son, Bashar, Ajami explains how an irresistible force clashed with an immovable object: the regime versus people who conquered fear to challenge a despot of unspeakable cruelty. Although the people at first hoped that Bashar would open up the prison that Syria had become under his father, it was not to be--and rebellion soon followed. Ajami shows how, for four long decades, the Assad dynasty, the intelligence barons, and the brigade commanders had grown accustomed to a culture of quiescence and silence. But Syrians did not want to be ruled by Bashar's children the way they had been ruled by Bashar and their parents had been by Bashar's father. When the political hurricane known as the Arab Spring hit the region, Bashar al-Assad proclaimed his country's immunity to the troubles. He was wrong. This book tells how a proud people finally came to demand something more than a drab regime of dictatorship and plunder.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503932http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493300Description: This book is the author's newsbreaking investigation of our era's most high-profile perjurers, revealing the alarming extent of this national epidemic. Our system of justice rests on a simple proposition: that witnesses will raise their hands and tell the truth. In this book he reveals in detail the consequences of the perjury epidemic that has swept our country, undermining the very foundation of our courts. With many prosecutors, investigators, and participants speaking for the first time, the book goes behind the scene of the trials of media and homemaking entrepreneur Martha Stewart; top White House political adviser Lewis "Scooter" Libby; home-run king Barry Bonds; and Wall Street money manager Bernard Madoff. The saga of Martha Stewart's conviction captured the nation, but until now no one has answered the most basic question: Why would Stewart risk prison, put her entire empire in jeopardy, and lie repeatedly to government investigators to save a few hundred thousand dollars in stock gains? Moreover, how exactly was the notoriously meticulous Ms. Stewart brought down? Drawing on the accounts of then-deputy attorney general James Comey and U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, the author sheds new light on the Libby investigation, making clear how far into the White House the Valerie Plame CIA scandal extended, and why Libby took the fall. In San Francisco, Giants home-run king Barry Bonds faces trial due to his testimony before a grand jury investigating the use of illegal steroids in sports. Bonds was warned explicitly that the only crime he faced was perjury. The author unlocks the story behind the mounting evidence that he nonetheless lied under oath. Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme is infamous, but less well known is how he eluded detection for so long in the face of repeated investigations. Of the four he is the only one who has admitted to lying. The perjury outbreak is symptomatic of a broader breakdown of ethics in American life. It isn't just the judicial system that relies on an honor code: Academia, business, medicine, and government all depend on it. This book explores the age-old tensions between greed and justice, self-interest and public interest, loyalty and duty. At a time when Americans seem hungry for moral leadership and clarity, this work reaffirms the importance of truthhttp://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493300http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477266Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477266http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493232Description: News anchor Jim Lehrer explores some of the most memorable presidential debates, including those between John McCain and Barack Obama.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493232http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479036Description: Award-winning investigative journalist and poet, Eliza Griswold has spent the past seven years traveling between the equator and the tenth parallel: in Nigeria, the Sudan, and Somalia, and in Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines. The stories she tells in "The Tenth Parallel" show us that religious conflicts are also conflicts about land, water, oil, and other natural resources, and that local and tribal issues are often shaped by religious ideas. Above all, she makes clear that, for the people she writes about, one's sense of God is shaped by one's place on earth; along the tenth parallel, faith is geographic and demographic.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479036http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=480131Description: Written by a 20-year veteran of the U.S. intelligence community, this second edition reflects the latest geopolitical factors affecting global terrorist incidents and regional insurgencies. A new section includes an analysis of transformations within Al Qaeda, coverage of the modern insurgency, and new global and regional terrorist groups. Completely updated, the section on terrorist tactics reveals the latest trends and attack methods and includes a new chapter on previously unseen suicide bombings. This book is an invaluable training tool on how to identify an attack; how to mitigate damage from successful attacks; and how to recognize the various stages of developing terrorist plots.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=480131http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476150Description: The United States of America is in danger of becoming a Third World nation. The evidence is all around us: Our industrial base is vanishing, taking with it the jobs that have formed the backbone of our economy; our education system is in shambles, making it harder for tomorrow's workforce to land good 21st century jobs; our infrastructure is crumbling; our economic system has been reduced to recurring episodes of Corporations Gone Wild; our political system is in thrall to a small financial elite using the power of the checkbook to control both parties. Our children and grandchildren will enjoy fewer opportunities and face a lower standard of living than we did. Finally, she shows what we need to do to stop our freefall.--From publisher description.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476150http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=495876Description: A history of Chinese espionage in America draws on interviews with key FBI and CIA insiders, focusing on two key cases--double agent Katrina Leung and the scientist known as Tiger Trap, who was suspected of stealing nuclear weapons secrets.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=495876http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492471Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492471http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479035Description: Provides essays covering 700 individual cases, providing historical and legal perspectives on the American legal system.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479035http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477916Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477916http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477626Description: The twenty-first century has seen millions unemployed, livelihoods undermined by environmental degradation, and middle-class cities across Europe and Asia turned into cauldrons of violence. The lessons of conflicts in places like Bosnia, Kosovo, and Iraq are that security is no longer achievable.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477626http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477625Description: Over the past 30 years, Mexico has been plagued by debt, currency fluctuations, tax collection problems, political corruption, and state controlled business monopolies that block foreign investment and imports. Weintraub offers changes that would help Mexico level the playing field. Most importantly, he points to developing policies that are proactive. Each chapter also contains a timeline addressing the development of the issues addressed in that chapter.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477625http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477917Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477917http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493301Description: "Waterboarding. Sleep deprivation. Sensory manipulation. Stress positions. Over the last several years, these and other methods of torture have become garden variety words for practically anyone who reads about current events in a newspaper or blog. We know exactly what they are, how to administer them, and, disturbingly, that they were secretly authorized by the Bush Administration in its efforts to extract information from people detained in its war on terror. What we lack, however, is a larger lens through which to view America's policy of torture--one that dissects America's long relationship with interrogation and torture, which roots back to the 1950s and has been applied, mostly in secret, to "enemies," ever since. How did America come to embrace this practice so fully, and how was it justified from a moral, legal, and psychological perspective? [This book] opens with a compelling preface by Sister Dianna Ortiz, who describes the unimaginable treatment she endured in Guatemala in 1987 at the hands of the Guatemalan government, which was supported by the United States. Then a psychologist, a historian, a political scientist, a philosopher, a sociologist, two journalists, and eight lawyers offer one of the most comprehensive examinations of torture to date, beginning with the CIA during the Cold War era and ending with today's debate over accountability for torture.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493301http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476149Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476149http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=495877Description: Hezbollah is the most powerful Islamist group operating in the Middle East today, and no other Western journalist has penetrated as deeply inside this secretive organization as Nicholas Blanford. Now Blanford has written the first comprehensive inside account of Hezbollah and its enduring struggle against Israel. Based on more than a decade and a half of reporting in Lebanon and conversations with Hezbollah's determined fighters, Blanford traces their evolution from a zealous group of raw fighters motivated by Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution into the most formidable non-state military organization in the world, whose charismatic leader vows to hasten Israel's destruction. He reveals their ideology, motivations, and training, as well as new information on military tactics, weapons, and sophisticated electronic warfare and communications systems, providing an essential understanding of a key player in a region rocked by change and uncertainty.--From publisher description.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=495877http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476148Description: For the last half century, as administrations have come and gone, the fundamental assumptions about America's military policy have remained unchanged: American security requires the United States (and us alone) to maintain a permanent armed presence around the globe, and to be ready to intervene anywhere at any time. In the Obama era, just as in the Bush years, these beliefs remain unquestioned. In this vivid analysis, Andrew J. Bacevich presents the origins of this consensus, forged at a moment when American power was at its height. He exposes the preconceptions, biases, and habits that underlie our pervasive faith in military might, especially the notion that overwhelming superiority will oblige others to accommodate America's needs and desires--whether for cheap oil, cheap credit, or cheap consumer goods. And he challenges the usefulness of our militarism as it has become both unaffordable and increasingly dangerous--From publisher description.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476148http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477624Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477624http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504208Description: War is as old as humankind, but in the past, warriors were prepared for battle by ritual, religion and literature, which also helped bring them home. In this narrative, the author weaves accounts of his combat experiences with thoughtful analysis, self-examination, and his readings from Homer to the Mahabharata to Jung. He talks frankly about how he is haunted by the face of the young North Vietnamese soldier he killed at close quarters and how he finally finds a way to make peace with his past. He discusses the daily contradictions that warriors face in the grind of war, where each battle requires them to take life or spare life, and where they enter a state he likens to the fervor of religious ecstasy. He also underscores the need for returning veterans to be counseled properly.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504208http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477265Description: "From mothers who kill their children in post-partum fugues, to fathers who murder their kids for revenge against an estranged wife, the stories in this book are chilling yet real, and bring home the message that children are vulnerable to violence even in the care of those who should love and protect them the most. Sadly, child murder by parents and caregivers happens more frequently than one might guess, and while each case is different, there are often warning signs that something might be amiss. Signs of physical abuse may precede the ultimate act of murder. A mother's mental state after the birth of a child may signal true distress and the potential for extreme actions. No one can predict with certainty when a parent or other caregiver may snap, but here Alt and Wells examine many cases of child murder to find out what they have in common, how we might prevent such violence, and what more we can do to protect children in potentially explosive situations."--BOOK JACKET.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477265http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493410Description: This work presents a history of the Peace Corp and exposes Washington infighting, presidential influence, and the struggles volunteers faced abroad. Not an institutional history, the book is a look at the Peace Corps's first fifty years. On October 14, 1960, at an impromptu speech at the University of Michigan, John F. Kennedy presented an idea to a crowd of restless students for an organization that would rally American youth in service. Though the speech lasted barely three minutes, his germ of an idea morphed dramatically into Kennedy's most enduring legacy, the Peace Corps. From this offhand campaign remark, shaped speedily by President Kennedy's brother-in-law, Sargent Shriver, in 1961, the organization ascended with remarkable excitement and publicity, attracting the attention of thousands of hopeful young Americans. The author unpacks the complicated history with sharp analysis and anecdotes, taking readers on a global trek starting with the historic first contingent of Volunteers to Ghana on August 30, 1961. The Peace Corps has served as an American emblem for world peace and friendship, yet few realize that it has sometimes tilted its agenda to meet the demands of the White House. Tracing its history through the past nine presidential administrations, the author discloses, for instance, how Lyndon Johnson became furious when Volunteers opposed his invasion of the Dominican Republic; he reveals how Richard Nixon literally tried to destroy the Peace Corps, and how Ronald Reagan endeavored to make it an instrument of foreign policy in Central America. But somehow the ethos of the Peace Corps endured, largely due to the perseverance of the 200,000 volunteers themselves, whose shared commitment to effect positive global change has been a constant in one of our most complex-and valued-institutions.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493410http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493302Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493302http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=488240Description: The greatest danger facing the world today, says Alan M. Dershowitz, comes from religiously inspired, state sponsored terrorist groups that seek to develop weapons of mass destruction for use against civilian targets. In this book Dershowitz argues passionately and persuasively that global terrorism is a phenomenon largely of our own making and that we must and can take steps to reduce the frequency and severity of terrorist acts. Analyzing recent acts of terrorism and our reaction to them, Dershowitz explains that terrorism is successful when the international community gives in to the demands of terrorists, or even tries to understand and eliminate the "root causes" of terrorism. He discusses extreme approaches to wiping out international terrorism that would work if we were not constrained by legal, moral, and humanitarian considerations. And then, given that we do operate under such constraints, he offers a series of proposals that would effectively reduce the frequency and severity of international terrorism by striking a balance between security and liberty.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=488240http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477623Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477623http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476147Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476147http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477915Description: Rev. ed. of : Women and (in)justice / Sheryl J. Grana. 2002.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477915http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=495878Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=495878http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=480130Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=480130http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477914Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477914http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477264Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477264http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477913Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477913http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493303Description: Explores the American empire at home and abroad, looking at everything from the ill effects of the War on Terror to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493303http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477912Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477912