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Politics and Partnerships The Role of Voluntary Associations in America's Political Past and Present
ISBN: PB: 9780226109978, ISBN: HB: 9780226109961, University of Chicago Press, February 2011
352 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 13 tables, 3 halftones, 17 line illus.
Exhorting people to volunteer is part of the everyday vocabulary of American politics. Routinely, members of both major parties call for partnerships between government and nonprofit organizations. These entreaties increase dramatically during times...
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£24,00
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Dominion from Sea to Sea Pacific Ascendancy and American Power
ISBN: PB: 9780300168006, Yale University Press, October 2010
672 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 21 black&white illus., 13 colour illus.
America is the first world power to inhabit an immense land mass open at both ends to the world's two largest oceans – the Atlantic and the Pacific. This gives America a great competitive advantage often overlooked by Atlanticists, whose focus remain...
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Cruel and Unusual The Culture of Punishment in America
ISBN: PB: 9780300168013, ISBN: HB: 9780300111743, Yale University Press, October 2010
336 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
The statistics are startling. Since 1973, America's imprisonment rate has multiplied over five times to become the highest in the world. More than two million inmates reside in state and federal prisons. What does this say about our attitudes toward...
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£21,00
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Deaf President Now! The 1988 Revolution at Gallaudet University
ISBN: PB: 9781563681523, Gallaudet University Press, July 2003
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"Deaf President Now!" reveals the groundswell leading up to the history-making week in 1988 when the students at Gallaudet University seized the campus and closed it down until their demands were met. To research this probing study, the authors inter...
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£27,50
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