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Drawn to Extremes: The Use and Abuse of Editorial Cartoons in the United States
by Chris Lamb  Publisher Comments Featuring 150 cartoons, this book explores the mission and limitations of the cartoonist's craft from the courtroom to the newsroom. Lamb charges that the relatively generic, gag-related, syndicated cartoons typical of most newspapers today are...
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How Voters Decide: Information Processing in Election Campaigns (Cambridge Studies in Public Opinion and Political Psychology)
by Richard R. Lau Publisher Comments This book attempts to redirect the field of voting behavior research by proposing a paradigm-shifting framework for studying voter decision making. An innovative experimental methodology is presented for getting 'inside the heads' of citizens as they...
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The Sound of Money: How Political Interests Get What They Want
by Darrell M West Synopsis Looks at the impact of political interest groups on health-care reform, the Republican Party's Contract with America, telecommunications reform, and Medicare reform....
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How to Be Invisible: The Essential Guide to Protecting Your Personal Privacy, Your Assets, and Your Life
by J J Luna Publisher Comments From cyberspace to crawl spaces, new innovations in information gathering have left the private life of the average person open to scrutiny, and worse, exploitation. In this thoroughly revised update of his immensely popular guide How to Be Invisible, J...
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The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: Democracy, the Internet, and the Overthrow of Everything
by Joe Trippi Publisher Comments Joe Trippi’s campaign for Howard Dean marked a quantum leap in how the Internet could be used to shake up politics and empower Americans—now Trippi reveals how technology can harness the power of the people in every sector. When Joe Trippi...
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American Government and Politics Today, Brief Edition, 2006-2007
by Steffen W. Schmidt Publisher Comments With new engaging features and as part of the Wadsworth Advantage Series, AMERICAN GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS TODAY: BRIEF EDITION, 2008-2009 highlights today's controversial issues and shows how you can become involved in American government and make a...
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Worse Than Watergate: The Secret Presidency of George W. Bush
by John W. Dean 
Publisher Comments Former White House counsel and New York Times bestselling author John Dean reveals how the Bush White House has set America back decades - employing a worldview and tactics of deception that will do more damage to the nation than Nixon at his worst....
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Static: Government Liars, Media Cheerleaders, and the People Who Fight Back
by Amy Goodman
Publisher Comments From the authors of the New York Times bestseller The Exception to the Rulers comes a new book that pushes backagainst official lies and spin and gives voice to the silenced majority. In Static, the brother-sister team of Amy Goodman, host of the...
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Neither Right Nor Left: Fascist Ideology in France
by Zeev Sternhell Publisher Comments "Few books on European history in recent memory have caused such controversy and commotion", wrote Robert Wohl in 1991 in a major review of Neither Right nor Left. Listed by Le Monde as one of the forty most important books published in France during the...
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Civil Rights Chronicle
by Clayborne Carson Publisher Comments The dramatic personal and political stories behind the Civil Rights Movement as it happened across the North and the South. More than 900 striking photographs of people, events, and artifacts-with lively, expert commentary. Complete coverage, slave days...
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Trajectory of Change, Volume 1 (02 Edition)
by Michael Albert Publisher Comments The Trajectory of Change charts a course for the growing, international movement against corporate globalization. Michael Albert, a longtime activist and analyst of popular struggles, challenges the movement to reach out to "ordinary people" by...
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Abuse Your Illusions: The Disinformation Guide to Media Mirages and Establishment Lies
by Russ Kick
Powells.com Staff Pick These essays, from some of the most potent radicals writing today, serve to fill the massive informational void that American corporate media chooses to ignore. Abuse Your Illusions is an essential addition to post-9/11 discourse. Gerry, Powells....
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Disaster: Hurricane Katrina and the Failure of Homeland Security
by Christopher Cooper Publisher Comments In this troubling expose of what went wrong with America's emergency response system after Hurricane Katrina, Christopher Cooper and Robert Block draw on exclusive interviews with federal, state, and local officials to reveal the inexcusable...
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The Politics of Truth: A Diplomat's Memoir: Inside the Lies That Led to War and Betrayed My Wife's CIA Identity
by Joseph Carte Wilson Publisher Comments Ambassador Wilson recounts more than two decades in the U.S. Foreign Service in this look at the life of an American diplomat, and gives an unabashed account of policies that both succeeded and failed....
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Public Law and Public Administration
by Phillip J. Cooper Publisher Comments This trusted text provides students who plan to enter government service and those engaged in mid-career education for public administration with a readable and interesting treatment of the field of administrative law, and more broadly of the range of...
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The Bookseller of Kabul
by Asne Seierstad
Powells.com Staff Pick In this remarkable portrait, Norwegian journalist Åsne Seierstad recounts with brutal honesty the day to day lives of one Afghani family persevering through life in a country beset by chaos. With the assent of the Khan family with whom she lives...
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Era of Education: the Presidents and the Schools, 1965-2001 (06 Edition)
by Lawrence J. Mcandrews Publisher Comments This study of educational policy from Lyndon Johnson through Bill Clinton focuses on three specific issues--public school aid, non-public (especially Catholic) school aid, and school desegregation--that speak to the proper role of the federal government...
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Cheney: The Untold Story of the Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President in American History
by Stephen F. Hayes Publisher Comments Over a forty-year career in politics, US Vice-President Dick Cheney has been involved in many of the most consequential decisions in recent American history. He was one of a handful of advisers in the room when President Gerald Ford decided to declare an...
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New Pearl Harbor : Disturbing Questions About the Bush Administration and 9/11 (04 Edition)
by David Ray Griffin Publisher Comments From a skeptical vantage-point, but also taking to heart the classic idea that those who benefit from a crime ought to at least be investigated, Griffin, an eminent philosopher and theologian, brings together an account of the national tragedy that is...
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The Price of Federalism
by Paul E. Peterson Publisher Comments In this timely book, Peterson examines which level of government should be responsible for the specific programs and recommends that more responsibility should be placed in the hands of the states and other localities....
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