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This book explores specific problems related to the phenomenon of the Arab Spring in North Africa. These topics include sexual minorities, youth, and gender issues, as well as broader themes covering the ideological, social, political, and religious backgrounds of the Arab Spring.

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The author recounts how he successfully appealed the constitutionality of a local hate-crime ordinance to the Supreme Court.

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This collection brings together eighteen outstanding essays originally published in Civil War History. All of the contributions are recent. They reflect the latest scholarship on the nonmilitary aspects of the Civil War--revisionist viewpoints that are often derived from new social statistical methodologies.

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John Zogby, one of Americas most prominent pollsters, offers readers a master class in understanding what polls can reveal about public opinion. Illustrating his arguments from key political races of the last 40 years, Zogby shares true stories about how polls have been misused and when they have been well or badly.

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This text argues that contemporary Japanese nationalism has no connection to its pre-war embodiment. Nationalism in Japan today is manifested by a strong ethnic, cultural and racial identification and not by citizen identification with the state.

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This text argues that contemporary Japanese nationalism has no connection to its pre-war embodiment. Nationalism in Japan today is manifested by a strong ethnic, cultural and racial identification and not by citizen identification with the state.

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In Beyond Tiananmen, Robert Suettinger suggests the calamity in Tiananmen Square marked a critical turning point in U.S.-China affairs. He traces the turbulent bilateral relationship since that time and outlines the opportunities he sees for cooperation between the two countries in the future.

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Designed to provide the white house with innovative and actionable policy initiatives, this book is constructed as a series of memos to President Obama. It presents a set of policy analysis and recommendations from The Foreign Policy scholars at the Brookings Institution.

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"Ms. Grieder's is the rare book that takes stock of the Texas model without ridiculing many of its traditions and politicians...This is a good book, and Ms. Grieder's clear, vivid writing makes it downable in a single afternoon... a promising debut from a promising young author." -The New York Times

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Three critical problem areas in American politics involve the urban political machine, conflicting tensions among ethnic groups, and sexual discrimination. This study examines the dynamic interaction of all three factors in one political campaign.

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The presidential campaign from October 4, 1991, to November 3, 1992, is covered in Part two, and Part three provides sources on the transition period from November 4, 1992 to the inauguration.

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Bill Clinton's administration was filled with new policies and achievements for the nation's future, but those achievements were easily overshadowed by personal flaws and scandal.

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A reference guide to women who have served in Congress.

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Well-known Latin Americanist Alexander and his colleagues (some with reputations equal to that of their editor) provide information about Latin American and Caribbean leaders over the past two centuries.

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Complementing texts that introduce students to the major theories of public administration, this biographical dictionary introduces the reader to the individuals who originated or had a significant impact on those theories.

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"a collection of essays on some 275 individuals, including important figures from the 19th century and a few from the New Left, most of them (about 75 percent) born between 1870 and 1920 and prominent in the major left wing organizations of the first half of the 20th century." Choice

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Describing the men who have led the U.S. Treasury since its creation in 1789, this book profiles those who have held the cabinet position of Secretary of the Treasury from Alexander Hamilton to Robert Rubin.