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The Class of '74: Congress After Watergate and the Roots of Partisanship
A thought-provoking look at the game-changing congressional Class of 1974.In November 1974, following the historic Watergate scandal, Americans went to the polls determined to …
Weight Loss for Life
This is not a fad diet book. This is the most comprehensive, scientifically based program to lose weight and keep it off, with practical details about diet and nutrition, movement …
Mixing Races
This book explores changing American views of race mixing in the twentieth century, showing how new scientific ideas transformed accepted notions of race and how those ideas played …
Finding Order in Nature
Since emerging as a discipline in the middle of the eighteenth century, natural history has been at the heart of the life sciences. It gave rise to the major organizing theory of …
Second Amendment
For many years, some groups have claimed that the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution stands as an obstacle to most gun control laws. Lawrence E. Rosenthal and Adam Winkler …
Manufacturing Revolution
"e;While much has been written about the industrial revolution,"e; writes Lawrence Peskin, "e;we rarely read about industrial revolutionaries."e; This absence, he …
Captives and Countrymen
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries the Barbary States captured and held for ransom nearly five hundred American sailors. The attacks on Americans abroad-and the …
Manufacturing Revolution
Lawrence A. Peskin argues that, in accounting for American industrialization, students of the phenomenon have focused mistakenly on large forces and theoretical constructs and on …
America and the World
This American history explores the country's role as a globalizing force from the arrival of Columbus to the 21st century.The twenty-first century may be the age of globalization, …
The Black Butterfly
The best-selling look at how American cities can promote racial equity, end redlining, and reverse the damaging health- and wealth-related effects of segregation.Winner of the IPPY …
Faculty at Work
In recent years, college and university faculty members have witnessed a marked change in institutional climate. Competition has replaced collegiality. Criticism of faculty from …