The Fall of the Berlin Wall

• Paperback | Engels | Publication
• In February 1999 key players in U.S. foreign policy during the 1980s gathered in Washington to discuss the policies and initiatives undertaken by the ... Lees meer

Up from the Projects

Walter E Williams

• Paperback | Engels | Publication
• Nationally syndicated columnist and prolific author Walter E. Williams recalls some of the highlights and turning points of his life. From his lower m... Lees meer

Eight Questions You Should Ask about Our Health Care System (Even If the Answers Make You Sick)

Charles E Phelps

• Hardcover | Engels | Publication
• Charles E. Phelps provides a comprehensive look at our health-care system, including how the current system evolved, how the health-care sector behave... Lees meer

The Crimean Tatars

Alan W Fisher

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• This volume is the most comprehensive survey of the Crimean Tatars to appear since V. D. Sirnov's late nineteenth-century account. Professor Fisher pr... Lees meer

Beyond the Color Line

Abigail Thernstrom, Stephan Thernstrom

• Hardcover | Engels | Publication
• Twenty-five essays covering a range of areas from religion and immigration to family structure and crime examine America's changing racial and ethnic ... Lees meer

Education

Thomas Sowell

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• In the papers collected in Education: Assumptions versus History, Dr. Thomas Sowell takes a hard look at the state of education in our schools and uni... Lees meer

Colonial Wrongs and Access to International Law

• Hardcover | Engels | Publication | nr. 40
• This eye-opening book invites careful reflection on how we should respond to colonial and post-colonial wrongs from the perspective of international l... Lees meer

Power in International Criminal Justice

• Hardcover | Engels | Publication | nr. 28
• Edited by Morten Bergsmo, Mark Klamberg, Kjersti Lohne and Christopher B. Mahony, this book comprehensively explores the role and manifestations of po... Lees meer

Skating on Stilts

Stewart A Baker

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• Stewart A. Baker examines the technologies we love-jet travel, computer networks, and biotech-and finds that they are likely to empower new forms of t... Lees meer

Terrorism, the Laws of War, and the Constitution

Peter Berkowitz

• Paperback | Engels | Publication
• The modern laws of war that emerged in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were developed with a particular concept of war in mind--one that does... Lees meer

Soviet Defectors

Vladislav Krasnov

• Paperback | Engels | Publication
• The topic of defection is taboo in the USSR, and the Soviets, are anxious to silence, downplay, or distort every case of defection. Surprisingly, Vlad... Lees meer

Politicizing Science

• Paperback | Engels | Publication
• Politics and science make strange bedfellows. In politics, perceptions are reality and facts are negotiable. The competing interests, conflicting obje... Lees meer

The Greening of U.S. Foreign Policy

Terry L Anderson, Henry I Miller

• Paperback | Engels | Publication
• In 1996 the U.S. government announced an increased emphasis on environmental issues in its foreign affairs. Since then "green" foreign policy has beco... Lees meer

Pension Wise

Charles Blahous

• Hardcover | Engels | Publication
• America's insurance system for single-employer pension plans, operated by the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC), is under serious financial ... Lees meer

Lenin and the Twentieth Century

Lennard Gerson

• Paperback | Engels | Publication
• Bertram D. Wolfe (1896-1977) was one of the foremost American authorities on Soviet history and politics. Several generations of students in dozens of... Lees meer

The Best Defense?

Abraham D Sofaer

• Hardcover | Engels | Publication
• Drawing from the findings of the Stanford Task Force on Preventive Force, Abraham D. Sofaer offers a practical guide to identifying and considering th... Lees meer

Living with the UN

Kenneth Anderson

• Hardcover | Engels | Publication
• What exactly is the United Nations? For that matter, why is there still a United Nations at all? In Living with the UN , international legal scholar K... Lees meer

Unconditional Democracy

Toshio Nishi

• Paperback | Engels | Publication
• On December 8 (Japan time), 1941, Imperial Japan launched a massive attack on beautiful Pearl Harbor, calling it "the preemptive first strike." The is... Lees meer

Power to the Patient

• Paperback | Engels | Publication
• HOW CAN WE BEGIN TO CONTROL THE RISING COSTS OF HEALTH CARE? When calculated on a per capita basis, the United States has the costliest health care sy... Lees meer

Law and Economics in Developing Countries

Edgardo Buscaglia, William Ratliff

• Paperback | Engels | Publication
• This book focuses on the critical link between legal/judicial systems and successful reform of political and economic institutions and practices in de... Lees meer

Conversations about Energy

• Paperback | Engels | Publication
• Drawn from the Hoover Institution's Shultz-Stephenson Task Force on Energy Policy January 2010 conference, this book discusses critical energy issues ... Lees meer

Reacting to the Spending Spree

• Paperback | Engels | Publication
• Few doubt the seriousness of the recent crisis afflicting the financial systems of the United States and the world, and still fewer claim that nothing... Lees meer

Conserving Liberty

Mark Blitz

• Hardcover | Engels | Publication
• Originating in Hoover Institution discussions held under the auspices of the Boyd and Jill Smith Task Force on Virtues of a Free Society, Conserving L... Lees meer

Advancing Student Achievement

Herbert J Walberg

• Hardcover | Engels | Publication
• A renowned educator-psychologist explains how children learn and how family, classroom, and school practices can help them learn more effectively. In ... Lees meer