Unrestrained or Methods in Democratic Network Governance

Unrestrained: Judicial Excess and the Mind of the American Lawyer

Author: Robert Nagel

This volume attempts to explain why, despite almost four decades of conservative and moderate appointments, the Supreme Court continues to intervene aggressively in a wide array of social and political issues. The explanation lies primarily in the psychological effects of the way that lawyers think about law and judging. The instincts ingrained by the experiences common to legal education and the successful practice of law also work to encourage the reckless use of power.

Table of Contents:

1 A Ship that Will Not Turn 1

2 The Rise of Judicial Power 21

3 The Consequences of Excess 37

4 Thinking like a Lawyer 53

5 Realistic Legalism 65

6 High Principle and Self-Restraint 77

7 The Mantra of Legal Authority 89

8 Political Judgments 103

9 Training, Experience, and Instinct 121

App Cases Cited 135

References 137

Index 143

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Methods in Democratic Network Governance

Author: Peter Bogason

There are several competing theoretical approaches to studying governance networks. However, methodological questions about how to study democratic network governance have so far received little research attention. Methods in Democratic Network Governance aims to remedy this problem by addressing some important methodological questions in relation to a comparative case study of the multilevel network governance of employment policy in Britain, France and Denmark.

Indigenous Experience Today or National Security Issues in Science Law and Technology

Indigenous Experience Today

Author: Orin Starn

A century ago, the idea of indigenous people as an active force in the contemporary world was unthinkable. It was assumed that native societies everywhere would be swept away by the forward march of the West and its own peculiar brand of progress and civilization. Nothing could be further from the truth. Indigenous social movements wield new power, and groups as diverse as Australian Aborigines, Ecuadorian Quichuas, and New Zealand Maoris, have found their own distinctive and assertive ways of living in the present world. Indigenous Experience Today draws together essays by prominent scholars in anthropology and other fields examining the varied face of indigenous politics in Bolivia, Botswana, Canada, Chile, China, Indonesia, and the United States, amongst others. The study challenges the accepted notions of indigeneity and the often contentious issue of indigenous rights. Indigenous Experience Today demonstrates the transnational dynamics of contemporary indigenous culture and politics around the world.

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National Security Issues in Science, Law, and Technology: Confronting Weapons of Terrorism

Author: Thomas A Johnson

The tragedy of 9/11 placed homeland security and the prevention of further attacks into the central focus of our national consciousness. With so many avenues of terror open to our enemies in terms of mode, medium, and location, effective management and mitigation of threat must be grounded in objective risk assessment. The structure of national security decisions should be premised on decision theory and science with minimal political posturing or emotional reactivisim.

National Security Issues in Science, Law, and Technology demonstrates a mature look at a frightening subject and presents sound, unbiased tools with which to approach any situation that may threaten human lives. By applying the best of scientific decision-making practices this book introduces the concept of risk management and its application in the structure of national security decisions. It examines the acquisition and utilization of all-source intelligence, including the ability to analyze data and forecast patterns, to enable policymakers to make better informed decisions. The text addresses reaction and prevention strategies applicable to chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons; agricultural terrorism; cyberterrorism; and other potential threats to our critical infrastructure. It discusses legal issues that inevitably arise when integrating new legislation with the threads of our Constitution and illustrates the dispassionate analysis of our intelligence, law enforcement, and military operations and actions. Finally, the book considers the redirection of our national research and laboratory system to investigate the very problems terrorists can induce through the use of weapons we have as yet toconfront.

Taking the guesswork out of hard choices, National Security Issues in Science, Law, and Technology provides anyone burdened with the mantle of responsibility for the protection of the American people with the tools to make sound, well-informed decisions.

Table of Contents:

Preface     ix
Acknowledgments     xi
Editor     xii
Authors     xv
Terrorism: Threats, Vulnerabilities, and Weapons
An Introduction to the Intelligence Process for Addressing National Security Threats and Vulnerabilities   Thomas A. Johnson     3
Medical Response to Chemical and Biological Terrorism   Michael P. Allswede     23
Agroterrorism   Simon J. Kenyon     51
Illicit Trafficking in Nuclear and Radiological Materials   David York     75
Nuclear Capabilities of North Korea: Issues in Intelligence Collection, Analysis, and National Security Policy   Thomas A. Johnson     97
Cyber Terrorism and Cyber Security
A Framework for Deception   Fred Cohen     123
Critical Infrastructure Protection: Issues and Answers   Fred Cohen     221
Information Warfare, Netwar, and Cyber Intelligence   Fred Cohen     243
National Security Strategy: Implications for Science, Law, and Technology
Geographic Information Systems as a Strategic Tool for Better Planning, Response, and Recovery   Lucy Savitz   Roberta P. Lavin   Elisabeth Root     277
An Introduction to the Concept and Management of Risk   James O. Matschulat     291
TheStructure of National Security Decisions   James O. Matschulat     359
National Security Executive Orders and Legal Issues   Roy Shannon     399
Courts-Martial, Military Tribunals, and Federal Courts   Roy Shannon     431
National Nuclear Security Administration Laboratories: Emerging Role in Homeland Security   Richard A. Neiser     459
An All-Hazards National Response Plan: Concluding Remarks   Thomas A. Johnson     473
Appendices     483
National Security Strategy Summary     487
Homeland Security Presidential Directives 1 to 14     541
Index     635

A Case for Conservatism or Globalization from Below

A Case for Conservatism

Author: John Kekes

In his recent book Against Liberalism, philosopher John Kekes argued that liberalism as a political system is doomed to failure by its internal inconsistencies. In this companion volume, he makes a compelling case for conservatism as the best alternative. His is the first systematic description and defense of the basic assumptions underlying conservative thought.

Conservatism, Kekes maintains, is concerned with the political arrangements that enable members of a society to live good lives. These political arrangements are based on skepticism about ideologies, pluralism about values, traditionalism about institutions, and pessimism about human perfectibility.

The political morality of conservatism requires the protection of universal conditions of all good lives, social conditions that vary with societies, and individual conditions that reflect differences in character and circumstance. Good lives, according to Kekes, depend equally on pursuing possibilities that these conditions establish and on setting limits to their violations.

Attempts to make political arrangements reflect these basic tenets of conservatism are unavoidably imperfect. Kekes concludes, however, that they represent a better hope for the future than any other possibility.

What People Are Saying

Herbert London
[Kekes] makes his argument with perspicacity, logical exegesis, and compelling argumentation.

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Globalization from Below: Transnatinal Activists and Protest Networks

Author: Donna Della Porta

When violence broke out at the demonstrations surrounding the 2001 G8 summit in Genoa, Italy, the authors of this book were there. The protests proved to be a critical moment in the global justice movement. Presenting the first systematic empirical research on the global justice movement, Globalization from Below analyzes a movement from the viewpoints of the activists, organizers, and demonstrators themselves. The authors traveled to Genoa with anti-G8 protesters and collected data from more than 800 participants. A year later, they surveyed 2,400 activists at the European Social Forum in Florence. To understand how this cycle of global protest emerged, they examine the interactions between challengers and elites, and discuss how these new models of activism fit into current social movement work. Globalization from Below places the protests within larger debates, revealing and investigating the forces that led to a clash between demonstrators and the Italian government, which responded with violence. Donatella della Porta is professor of political science; Massimiliano Andretta is a researcher in political science and sociology; Lorenzo Mosca is a researcher in information and communication technologies; Herbert Reiter is a researcher in history, all at the European University Institute.

Fighting Words or The Celling of America

Fighting Words

Author: Robin Morgan

The religious right is gaining enormous power in the United States, thanks to a well-organized, media-savvy movement with powerful friends in high places. Yet many Americans — both observant and secular — are alarmed by this trend, especially by the religious right's attempts to erase the boundary between church and state and re-make the U.S. into a Christian nation. But most Americans lack the tools for arguing with the religious right, especially when fundamentalist conservatives claim their tradition started with the Framers of The Constitution. Fighting Words is a a tool-kit for arguing, especially for those of us who haven't read the founding documents of this nation since grade school. Robin Morgan has assembled a lively, accessible, eye-opening primer and reference tool, a "verbal karate" guide, revealing what the Framers and many other leading Americans really believed — in their own words — rescuing the Founders from images of dusty, pompous old men in powdered wigs, and resurrecting them as the revolutionaries they truly were: a hodgepodge of freethinkers, Deists, agnostics, Christians, atheists, and Freemasons — and they were radicals as well.

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The Celling of America: An inside Look at the U.S. Prison Industry

Author: Daniel Burton Ros

This searing indictment of the criminal justice system kicks open the doors of America's prisons and takes you through a hell-raising tour.

Crime Scene Investigation and Reconstruction or Nursing Physician Control and the Medical Monopoly

Crime Scene Investigation and Reconstruction

Author: Robert Ogl

This comprehensive text achieves the ultimate goal of crime scene investigation in answering – What happened? – Who was responsible for each action? – What was the sequence of each action? Readers see the importance of each step through authentic photos, real life cases and full coverage of crime scene reconstruction. It also includes the most recent technological advances in the forensic sciences (i.e. database technologies, digital cameras, DNA analyses, and computer-aided crime scene reconstructions). Systematically organized to follow the same sequence in which crime scenes are processed, this is one of the most informative texts of its kind available. Introduces crucial concepts regarding collecting, examining and interpreting physical evidence. Comprehensive coverage of procedural methods for crime scene searches, photography, sketching, and collecting of all major physical evidence categories. Extensive coverage of sexual assault investigations including how to collect physical evidence from the crime scene, from the victim and from the suspect. Key information regarding homicide scene investigations, including the procedures essential to the forensic autopsy. Examines the various types of physical evidence used in reconstructions. Serves as comprehensive reference for those working in law enforcement.

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Nursing, Physician Control and the Medical Monopoly: Historical Perspectives on Gendered Inequality in Roles, Rights and Range of Practice

Author: Thetis M Group

Nursing, Physician Control, and the Medical Monopoly traces the efforts by physicians over time to achieve a monopoly in healthcare, often by subordinating nurses—their only genuine competitors. Attempts by nurses to reform many aspects of healthcare have been repeatedly opposed by physicians whose primary interest has been to achieve total control of the healthcare "system," often to the detriment of patients' health and safety.

Thetis M. Group and Joan I. Roberts first review the activities of early women healers and nurses and examine nurse-physician relations from the early 1900s on. The sexist domination of nursing by medicine was neither haphazard nor accidental, but a structured and institutionalized phenomenon. Efforts by nurses to achieve greater autonomy were often blocked by hospital administrators and organized medicine. The consolidation of the medical monopoly during the 1920s and 1930s, along with the waning of feminism, led to the concretization of stereotyped gender roles in nursing and medicine. The growing unease in nurse-physician relations escalated from the 1940s to the 1960s; the growth and complexity of the healthcare industry, expanding scientific knowledge, and increasing specialization by physicians all created heavy demands on nurses.

Conflict between organized medicine and nursing entered a public, open phase in the late 1960s and 1970s, when medicine unilaterally created the physician's assistant, countered by nursing's development of the advanced nurse practitioner. But gender stereotypes remained central to nurse-physician relations in the 1980s and into the 1990s.

Finally, Group and Roberts examine the results of the medical monopoly, from the impact on patients' health and safety, to the development of HMOs and the current overpriced, poorly coordinated, and fragmented healthcare system.

About the Authors:
Thetis M. Group is Professor Emerita at Syracuse University, where she was Dean of the College of Nursing for ten years. She is also adjunct faculty member at the University of Utah College of Nursing. She is co-author of Feminism and Nursing and has published numerous articles in professional nursing journals.

Joan I. Roberts, social psychologist, is Professor Emerita at Syracuse University. A pioneer in Women's Studies in higher education, she is co-author of Feminism and Nursing and author of numerous books and articles on gender issues and racial and sex discrimination.

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Reviewer: Bonnie L. Saucier, PhD, RN (Indiana State University)
Description: This book is the second in an interrelated set of books that provide a comprehensive perspective on gender and nursing. The second volume in this series analyzes resources that exemplifies the writing of social scientists, nurses, and physicians on gendered relationships from very early periods to the 1990s. The first volume relates the status of women to the status of nursing and to nurses' awareness of feminist issues. The third volume focuses on recent role changes involving nurses and their interactions with physicians. A fourth volume focuses on the historical interrelation between nursing and the discriminatory patterns inherent in patriarchial educational and economic systems. There are two additional volumes that address major published sources and problems of male nurses.
Purpose: The purpose is to examine sources on gendered nurse-physician relations over time. The authors trace the centuries- old effort of physicians to dominate and to achieve a monopoly over healthcare. The book also adresses the efforts of women healers and nurses to sustain medical-nursing functions. The objectives of the book are met and are indeed worthy for all nurses to develop an awareness of the historical perspective of a medical monopoly.
Audience: Nursing students, particularly those in graduate education, and nurses can excel in their practice by becoming aware of social contraints in the development of the profession. Authors identify nurses in the profession to profit from the book. The authors are experts in the subject.
Features: In this book, the authors trace the development of the continued efforts by physicians to achieve a medical monopoly. Early women healers, prior to the nineteenth century are analyzed. Nurse-physician relations, before and after the turn of the century, are examined. The consolidation of the medical monopoly in the 1920s and 1930s are discussed and the growing unease in nurse-physician relations from the 1940s to the 1960s is addressed. Reference lists are extensive and the index is inclusive.
Assessment: This second book in a related series provides a thorough examination of the effforts by physicians over time to achieve a monopoly in healthcare. Historical events are reviewed while the activities of the early healers/nurses are covered in a thoughtful and inclusive manner.The phases of organized medicine and nursing throughout the 1990s are described in-depth. This book is a valuable asset for all nurses to better understand and explain what the impact of medical monopoly is on the healthcare system today.

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Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments

Black Mass or Tourists of History

Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia

Author: John N Gray

For the decade that followed the end of the cold war, the world was lulled into a sense that a consumerist, globalized, peaceful future beckoned. The beginning of the twenty-first century has rudely disposed of such ideas—most obviously through 9/11and its aftermath. But just as damaging has been the rise in the West of a belief that a single model of political behavior will become a worldwide norm and that, if necessary, it will be enforced at gunpoint. In Black Mass, celebrated philosopher and critic John Gray explains how utopian ideals have taken on a dangerous significance in the hands of right-wing conservatives and religious zealots. He charts the history of utopianism, from the Reformation through the French Revolution and into the present. And most  urgently, he describes how utopian politics have moved from the extremes of the political spectrum into mainstream politics, dominating the administrations of both George W. Bush and Tony Blair, and indeed coming to define the political center. Far from having shaken off discredited ideology, Gray suggests, we are more than ever in its clutches. Black Mass is a truly frightening and challenging work by one of Britain’s leading political thinkers.

Publishers Weekly

Some readers will see pessimism where others see sober appraisal in Gray's antiutopian argument that we must reconcile ourselves to a world of multiple truths and incompatible freedoms, where there is no overarching meaning and human values and desires can never be fully harmonized. The views that history progresses toward perfection and the millenarian faith in human salvation-both rooted in abiding Christian myths-are as tenacious as they have proven destructive, the renowned British political theorist and critic argues. Building succinctly on arguments developed in his previous work (including Two Faces of Liberalismand Al Qaeda and What It Means to Be Modern), Gray traces the course of apocalyptic-utopian politics from early Christianity through its secular variant in the Enlightenment and into modern political thought from Marx to Francis Fukuyama, the French Revolution to radical Islamism. Centrally, he assails the contemporary American right (and staunch neoconservative fellow traveler Tony Blair), which after 9/11 advanced into the mainstream the utopianism previously confined to the extreme right and left. His eloquent and illuminating attack also challenges a notion common to the liberal establishment: that history moves inexorably toward the universal application of U.S.-style liberal democracy. He calls it a delusional article of faith that, like the utopian variants before it, easily justifies violence in the name of a greater destiny. (Oct.)

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Kirkus Reviews

Seeing history as a progressive narrative, especially one with a utopian ending, is a practice that has doomed earlier civilizations and threatens our own, argues Gray (European Thought/London School of Economics). Having dealt with the concept of human progress in such previous books as Al Qaeda and What It Means to Be Modern (2003), the author sees no reason to revise his core belief: "Human knowledge tends to increase, but humans do not become any more civilized as a result." He urges Western powers to adopt a political philosophy of realism. Look, he says, not at the Middle East you want to see-a cluster of none-too-peaceable kingdoms transformed by force into little democracies whose oil wells gurgle merrily to supply the West-but as it really is, a volatile place whose populations have always hated one another and probably always will. Gray spends lots of time painting the historical and philosophical background. He examines the apocalyptical aspects of Christianity and other religions, all of which in his view share a number of traits, most significantly the notion that the end is near. He takes a look at utopian communities of earlier times and notes that inhumane means have almost always been used to attempt to achieve humane ends. In a troubling chapter about the 20th century, Gray characterizes both Communists and Nazis as "children of the Enlightenment," employing the "scientific" principles of economics and eugenics to justify their political goals. The English author has some harsh words for both Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair (equally deluded, in his view), but he bashes Bush continually for reliance on "faith-based intelligence"-with Iraq serving as a compelling argumentfor the pitfalls of this approach. Throughout his impassioned text, Gray's prose is thick with allusion and quotation, but even thicker with erudition and provocation. Makes a discomfiting case that Western liberal democracy just is not suitable for much of the world. Agent: Tracy Bohan/Wylie Agency

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Tourists of History: Memory, Kitsch, and Consumerism from Oklahoma City to Ground Zero

Author: Marita Sturken

In Tourists of History, the cultural critic Marita Sturken argues that over the past two decades, Americans have responded to national trauma through consumerism, kitsch sentiment, and tourist practices in ways that reveal a tenacious investment in the idea of America's innocence. Sturken investigates the consumerism that followed from the September 11th attacks; the contentious, ongoing debates about memorials and celebrity-architect designed buildings at Ground Zero; and two outcomes of the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City: the Oklahoma City National Memorial and the execution of Timothy McVeigh.

Sturken contends that a consumer culture of comfort objects such as World Trade Center snow globes, FDNY teddy bears, and Oklahoma City Memorial T-shirts and branded water, as well as reenactments of traumatic events in memorial and architectural designs, enables a national tendency to see U.S. culture as distant from both history and world politics. A kitsch comfort culture contributes to a "tourist" relationship to history: Americans can feel good about visiting and buying souvenirs at sites of national mourning without having to engage with the economic, social, and political causes of the violent events. While arguing for the importance of remembering tragic losses of life, Sturken is urging attention to a dangerous confluence-of memory, tourism, consumerism, paranoia, security, and kitsch-that promulgates fear to sell safety, offers prepackaged emotion at the expense of critical thought, contains alternative politics, and facilitates public acquiescence in the federal government's repressive measures at home and its aggressive political and militarypolicies abroad.

About the Author:
Marita Sturken is a professor of culture and communication at New York University

Theresa Kintz - Library Journal

This engaging book probes the impact of two traumatic historical events, the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Oklahoma City bombing, from a novel perspective. Sturken seeks to illuminate the transformation of the secular into the sacred, and the intersection of two cultures: that of mourning and that of consumerism. Like an archaeologist, Sturken (culture & communications, NYU) digs deep to uncover the symbolism contained in our material response to politically motivated violence. She offers a sophisticated and insightful analysis of what the treatment of the actual sites, now ruins, and the cultural production of souvenirs say about the psyche of the American consumer-citizen. The book is full of images exemplifying how the construction of post-tragedy national identity draws upon our notions of collective innocence, incorporating material culture in the quest for certainty and comfort in an uncertain and uncomfortable world. For example, our fear is soothed by the public presence of the Teddy Bear and the Stars and Stripes. With the terrorist as iconoclast, the memorial and the souvenir come to the emotional rescue. Readers will be fascinated by the social and political commentary buried in Sturken's appraisal of kitsch. A thought-provoking work; highly recommended.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments     ix
Introduction     1
Consuming Fear and Selling Comfort     35
Citizens and Survivors: Cultural Memory and Oklahoma City     93
The Spectacle of Death and the Spectacle of Grief: The Execution of Timothy McVeigh     139
Tourism and "Sacred Ground": The Space of Ground Zero     165
Architectures of Grief and the Aesthetics of Absence     219
Conclusion     287
Notes     295
Bibliography     319
Index     333

Explaining Hitler or Atomic Tragedy

Explaining Hitler: The Search for the Origins of His Evil

Author: Ron Rosenbaum

When Hitler's war ended in 1945, the war over Hitler--who he really was, what gave birth to his unique evil--had just begun. Hitler did not escape the bunker in Berlin but, half a century later, he has managed to escape explanation in ways both frightening and profound. Explaining Hitler is an extraordinary quest, an expedition into the war zone of Hitler theories. This is a passionate, enthralling book that illuminates what Hitler explainers tell us about Hitler, about the explainers, and about ourselves.

New York Times Book Review

A report on . . .refractory issues of Hitler theory, and on the theorists themselves, by a sharp, critical investigative journalist.

Michael R. Marrus

[Rosenbaum] has a sympathetic ear, a knack for classification and a sharp, critical mind. -- The New York Times Book Review

People Magazine

What made Hitler so evil? There are dozens of conflicting theories, the most engaging of which are dissected here.

Washington Post Book World - Marc Fisher

Cultural criticism served up as riveting narrative history. . .with words and ideas that surprise, amuse and even elevate the reader.

Boston Globe

Uniquely illuminates one of the darkest corners of modern experience.

Gabriel Schoenfeld

Glistens with insight and intelligence and shimmers with originality — Commentary

Library Journal

Rosenbaum, a literary journalist (Esquire, New York Times Magazine), believes that although much has been written about Hitler, not much has been settled. Drawing on archival research and interviews with historians, he has produced a well written work of historiography and, at times, investigative journalism, tracing the history not of Hitler per se, but of the 'Hitler explainers.' Beginning with the intrepid Munich Post reporters of the '20s and early '30s, who dared to challenge Hitler's controlled public image and were a thorn in his side, to the early postwar historians (Trevor-Roper and Bullock) and the new generation of scholars (Browning and Goldhagen), the author gives these historians opportunities to address questions that might not have been covered in their published works. Readers expecting a full-length biography of Hitler (which was not the author's purpose) will no doubt be disappointed, but Rosenbaum admirably sheds light on the many quarrels and inconsistencies in the literature, from the mysterious death of Geli Raubal (Hitler's niece), to the question of Hitler's evil, to the debate between functionalists and intentionalists. -- John A. Drobnicki, CUNY York College Library

Library Journal

Rosenbaum, a literary journalist (Esquire, New York Times Magazine), believes that although much has been written about Hitler, not much has been settled. Drawing on archival research and interviews with historians, he has produced a well written work of historiography and, at times, investigative journalism, tracing the history not of Hitler per se, but of the 'Hitler explainers.' Beginning with the intrepid Munich Post reporters of the '20s and early '30s, who dared to challenge Hitler's controlled public image and were a thorn in his side, to the early postwar historians (Trevor-Roper and Bullock) and the new generation of scholars (Browning and Goldhagen), the author gives these historians opportunities to address questions that might not have been covered in their published works. Readers expecting a full-length biography of Hitler (which was not the author's purpose) will no doubt be disappointed, but Rosenbaum admirably sheds light on the many quarrels and inconsistencies in the literature, from the mysterious death of Geli Raubal (Hitler's niece), to the question of Hitler's evil, to the debate between functionalists and intentionalists. -- John A. Drobnicki, CUNY York College Library

Lance Morrow

Brilliant. . .Restlessly probing and deeply intelligent. -- Time Magazine

Lawrence L. Langer

...[A] picaresque excursion through the landscape of theories about Hitler's criminality and...his hatred of Jews....Rosenbaum....roams the intellectual countryside in pursuit of Hitler's authentic identity, meeting...a cast of characters....[who] have different ideas about the nature and origin of the evil...that led to the destruction of European Jewry. -- The Atlantic Monthly

Marc Fisher

Cultural criticism served up as riveting narrative history. . .with words and ideas that surprise, amuse and even elevate the reader. -- Washington Post Book World

Michiko Kakutani

An important contribution. . .An exciting, lucid book informed by old-fashioned moral rigor and common sense. -- The New York Times

Gabriel Schoenfeld

Glistens with insight and intelligence and shimmers with originality -- Commentary

The Philadelpia Inquirer

Reading this book is like having a long conversation with someone who's passionate, brilliant.

Kirkus Reviews

A resourcefully imaginative examination of our desperate search for an explanation of ultimate evil. In the vast literature on Hitler and the Holocaust, one question recurs again and again: Why? If the 'how' (the mechanics and bureaucracy) of the 'final solution' has been detailed, then the vexatious 'why' still haunts the world's collective conscience. Rosenbaum (Travels with Dr. Death; Manhattan Passions), a New York Observer cultural affairs columnist, brings a journalist's vigorous, querying temperament to a topic that all too often drowns in opaque pedantic moralizing.

Rosenbaum has read extensively and thoughtfully; he also casts a wide intellectual net, writing chapters on the interpretive musings of H.R. Trevor-Roper, Alan Bullock, Yehuda Bauer, the philosopher Berel Lang, literary critic George Steiner, filmmaker Claude Lanzmann, and even the Hitler apologist and revisionist David Irving. (Conspicuously and curiously absent is Primo Levi, whose work The Drowned and the Saved is a classic in the field.) Potentially explosive subjects—for example, Hitler's reportedly 'abnormal' sexuality—are handled with discerning intelligence. Rosenbaum employs a brilliant methodological stratagem by taking Albert Schweitzer's 1906 study, The Quest for the Historical Jesus, as a model. Schweitzer realized that the 19th-century school of German Protestant 'higher criticism,' which prided itself on its 'scientific' positivism in explaining Jesus, actually revealed more about scholars themselves than the historical figure they were studying. Similarly, Rosenbaum shows how the various attempts to 'explain' Hitler are prisms that reflect our ownfears and desires. This leads, of course, to the not insignificant matter of Rosenbaum's own fears and desires, ironically not fully addressed by the author. Yet his great contribution is that, unlike most Holocaust scholars, he refuses to offer a definitive explanation. Instead, he lays out with memorable clarity a series of tantalizing interpretations, preferring a 'poetry of doubt' that allows us to grapple for ourselves with the question of evil. Profound and provocative.

What People Are Saying

Sam Tanenhaus
Bold and provocative...Illuminates the most perplexing unsolved mystery of the twentieth century...In Explaining Hitler, profound historical quesitons spring urgently and hauntingly to life.

Robert Conquest
A major contribution...It goes deep into the basic issues of ethics, of free will and the problem of evil.

Gerald Posner
A work of exceptional scholarship...A must-read for anyone interested in trying to understand Hitler.

David Remnick
A remarkable journey by one of the most original journalists and writers of our time.

David Remnick
A remarkable journey by one of the most original journalists and writers of our time. -- Author of Lenin's Tomb

Table of Contents:

	Introduction: The Baby Pictures and the Abyss
Pt. 1	The Beginning of the Beginning
Ch. 1	The Mysterious Stranger, the Serving Girl, and the Family Romance of the Hitler Explainers	3
Ch. 2	The Hitler Family Film Noir	16
Ch. 3	The Poison Kitchen: The Forgotten First Explainers	37
Pt. 2	Two Postwar Visions: Sincerity and Its Counterfeit
Ch. 4	H. R. Trevor-Roper: The Professor and the Mountebank	63
Ch. 5	Alan Bullock: Rethinking Hitler's Thought Process	78
Pt. 3	Geli Raubal and Hitler's "Sexual Secret"
Ch. 6	Was Hitler "Unnatural"?	99
Ch. 7	Hitler's Songbird and the Suicide Register	118
Ch. 8	The Dark Matter: The Sexual Fantasy of the Hitler Explainers	135
Pt. 4	Hatred: Complex and Primitive
Ch. 9	Fritz Gerlich and the Trial of Hitler's Nose	155
Ch. 10	The Shadow Hitler, His "Primitive Hatred," and the "Strange Bond"	179
Pt. 5	The Art of Evil and the Future of It
Ch. 11	To the Gestapo Cottage; or, A Night Close to the Fuhrer	201
Ch. 12	David Irving: The Big Oops	221
Pt. 6	The War over the Question Why
Ch. 13	A Tale of Three Kafkas: A Cautionary Parable	239
Ch. 14	Claude Lanzmann and the War Against the Question Why	251
Ch. 15	Dr. Louis Micheels: There Must Be a Why	267
Pt. 7	Blame and Origins
Ch. 16	Emil Fackenheim and Yehuda Bauer: The Temptation to Blame God	279
Ch. 17	George Steiner: Singling out the Jewish "Invention of Conscience"	300
Ch. 18	Singling out Christianity: The Passion Play of Hyam Maccoby	319
Ch. 19	Daniel Goldhagen: Blaming Germans	337
Ch. 20	Lucy Dawidowicz: Blaming Adolf Hitler	369
	Notes	397
	Acknowledgments	425
	Index	429

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Atomic Tragedy: Henry L. Stimson and the Decision to use the Bomb Against Japan

Author: Sean L Malloy

Atomic Tragedy offers a unique perspective on one of the most important events of the twentieth century. As secretary of war during World War II, Henry L. Stimson (1867-1950) oversaw the American nuclear weapons program. In a book about how an experienced, principled man faltered when confronted by the tremendous challenge posed by the intersection of war, diplomacy, and technology, Sean L. Malloy examines Stimson's struggle to reconcile his responsibility for "the most terrible weapon ever known in human history" with his long-standing convictions about war and morality.

Ultimately, Stimson's story is one of failure; despite his beliefs, Stimson reluctantly acquiesced in the use of the atomic bomb against heavily populated Japanese cities in August 1945. This is the first biography of Stimson to benefit from extensive use of papers relating to the Manhattan Project; Malloy has also uncovered evidence illustrating the origins of Stimson's commitment to eliminating or refining the conduct of war against civilians, information that makes clear the agony of Stimson's dilemma.

The ultimate aim of Atomic Tragedy is not only to contribute to a greater historical understanding of the first use of nuclear weapons but also to offer lessons from the decision-making process during the years 1940-1945 that are applicable to the current world environment. As the United States mobilizes scientists and engineers to build new and supposedly more "usable" nuclear weapons and as nations in Asia and the Middle East are replicating the feat of the Manhattan Project physicists at Los Alamos, it is more important than ever that policymakers and analysts recognize the chain of failures surrounding thefirst use of those weapons at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Ed Goedeken - Library Journal

These two new books provide important perspectives on the continuing debate about the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, which ultimately concluded the war in the Pacific and World War II. Were these bombings necessary? Rotter's well-written narrative looks at the development of the bomb from an international standpoint and recounts the vigorous competition between the Allies and the Axis powers to come up with an effective atomic weapon that could be used to turn the tide of war. Going beyond the accounts found in such classics as Richard Rhodes's The Making of the Atomic Bomb, Rotter delves into the complex personalities of the numerous military, political, and scientific leaders who were engaged in this enterprise. In so doing, he creates the context-both in military and in diplomatic terms-that led the Americans to use the bomb on the two unsuspecting Japanese cities.

Malloy's study of Henry L. Stimson, who served as secretary of war during World War II, is equally valuable. Stimson, who was in his seventies during the war, was one of the Republican Party's most respected elder statesmen, having been in Hoover's and Taft's cabinets before. He was a deeply moral man who believed in the rule of law to keep international order. Yet despite his fervent belief in moral suasion, he succumbed to the allure of the atomic bomb-and all its attendant horrors-when presented with the possibility that the terrible war could be concluded through its use, even though at the expense of civilian life. Malloy's book, which builds on earlier work by Hodgson (The Colonel) and Morison's classic Turmoil and Tradition, presents us with an updated and exceedinglyinsightful assessment of the aging statesman, perhaps no longer at the top of his game yet faced with one of our country's most challenging decisions during its most awful conflict. Malloy believes Stimson's decision to support the bomb went against his most cherished beliefs and was for many a disappointing conclusion to an outstanding career of public service. Both of these works are highly recommended for all collections.

Administrative Law Principles and Practice or Fascism

Administrative Law, Principles and Practice (American Casebook Series)

Author: John H Rees

Attention is given to administrative law, the Administrative Procedure Act, and public information. The authors continue with a discussion of agency administration of its legislative program followed by procedural requirements for rulemaking and for federal adjudication, and procedural rights of persons and parties. The text includes material on constitutionally required procedural fairness, formal hearing and agency decisions in formal proceedings, and additional APA provisions. The book concludes by addressing the availability of judicial review, timing, relief pending, and scope of judicial review.

Table of Contents:

Preface to the Second EditionPreface to the First Edition Acknowledgements Table of Cases Table of Statutes Chapter Introduction To Administrative Law What Is Administrative Law? Why Do We Have Administrative Agencies? What Is an Administrative Agency? Separation of Powers Creating an Agency Summary—The Headless ''Fourth Branch'' of Government Introduction to the APA Relevance of APAs History of APAs The Purposes and Structure of the Federal APA General Analysis Under APA The Fundamental Distinction Between Rule Making and Adjudication Summary: The Role of APAs in Administrative Law Public Information Section 3 of the Original APA The Freedom of Information Act The Privacy Act of 1974 The Government in the Sunshine Act Agency Administration of Its Legislative Program Asserting Agency Authority—The Available Means Asserting Agency Authority—Choosing the Means Asserting Agency Authority—Making the Choices Asserting Agency Authority—The Court—Imposed Choice Asserting Agency Authority—Implementing the Choice Procedural Requirements for Rule Making—Federal Agency Legislation The Administrative Procedure Other Procedural Requirements for Federal Rule Making Procedural Requirements for Rule Making: State and Local Procedural Requirements for Adjudication—Federal Initiating the Adjudicatory Process Adjudication Procedures: Agency Legislation Adjudication Procedures: Administrative Procedure Legislation (APA) Informal Adjudication Summary Procedural Rights of Persons and Parties Introduction Agency Legislation Administrative Procedure Act (APA) Discovery: Court Rules, The APA, The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and Agency Discovery Rules Constitutionally Required Procedural Fairness Introduction Does Due Process Apply? What Process Is Due? Procedural Due Process—Summary Formal Hearings Introduction The Administrative Procedure Agency Decisions in Formal Proceedings Individual and Institutional Decisions The Morgan Cases Extensive Delegation Within the Agencies Decision Requirements in Agency Legislation Decision Requirements in the APA Additional APA Provisions Agency Powers and Sanction Authority Agency Licensing Actions Coordination With Other Statutes and Superseding or Modifying the APA Negotiated Rule Making The Negotiated Rulemaking Act Administrative Dispute Resolution The Administrative Dispute Resolution Act Regulatory Flexibility The Regulatory Flexibility Act Availability of Judicial Review Presumption of Reviewability Jurisdiction to Provide Review Preclusion of Review Form of Proceeding; Venue; Review in Enforcement Proceedings Federal Court Standing: Model for Making a Standing Analysis; Sovereign Immunity Introduction: Standing as a Component of Article III Justiciability Major Factors Involved in Standing Analysis Major Factors Analyzed Special Considerations—Administrative Law A General Model for Standing Analysis Standing Themes Illustrated Sovereign Immunity Timing of Judicial Review and Relief Pending Review Finality and Ripeness Exhaustion of Administrative Remedies Primary Jurisdiction Relief Pending Judicial Review and Interim Relief Scope of Judicial Review Questions of Law Findings of Fact A Summary Statement on Judicial Review Scope of Judicial Review in the States Index

Interesting book: Das Schaffen Wirksamer Mannschaften: Ein Guide für Mitglieder und Führer

Fascism

Author: Roger Griffin

No political ideology has had a greater impact on modern history, or caused more intellectual controversy, than fascism. It has been identified with totalitarianism, state terror, fanaticism, orchestrated violence, and blind obedience, and was directly associated with the horrors of the Second World War, which left more than 40 million dead and introduced inconceivable notions of inhumanity. The mere mention of the term today evokes visions of atrocities and ineffable cruelty. Yet, the end of the twentieth century appears to have spawned a renewed interest in fascism, suggesting that it is time for us to examine our understanding of its ideas, ideals, and inequities.
Edited by Roger Griffin, described as 'the premier theorist {of fascism} of the younger generation' (Contemporary European History), this important Oxford Reader demonstrates why fascism strongly appeals to many people, and how dangerous the result of this fascination may be. It includes a wide selection of texts written by fascist thinkers and propagandists, as well as by prominent anti-fascists from both inside and outside Europe, before and after the Second World War. Included are texts on fascism in Germany and Italy, on the abortive pre-1945 fascisms in more than a dozen countries around the world, on reactions to fascism, and on post-war and contemporary fascism. With contributions from writers as diverse as Benito Mussolini and Primo Levi, Joseph Goebbels and George Orwell, Martin Heidegger and Max Horkheimer, this compelling anthology provides insight into the depths and breadths of the destructive repercussions of fascist ideology. In no other volume will students of political theory, history, sociology, andpsychology have access to such a compendium of key texts on this simultaneoulsy intriguing and frightening political force.

Privacy Information and Technology or Flag Wars and Stone Saints

Privacy, Information, and Technology

Author: Daniel J Solov

Privacy, Information, and Technology, with its comprehensive approach, is ideal for use in cyberlaw, law and technology, privacy law, and information law courses and seminars.

Features include:

Perfect addendum for instructors wanting to cover information privacy issues in more depth in their courses and provides material for one to three weeks worth of class instruction. It is a great addition to courses in communications, media, cyberspace, information society, and technology

Extensive and clear background about the law and policy issues relating to information privacy and computers, databases, and the Internet Useful in undergraduate and graduate courses for an introduction to information privacy and technology issues because it explains the law clearly for the layperson

Introductory chapter provides comprehensive thought-provoking philosophical discussion of information privacy

Covers emerging information technologies: computer databases, RFID, cookies, spyware, and data mining

Covers new issues such as privacy and access to public records, government access to personal information, airline passenger screening and profiling, data mining, identity theft, consumer privacy issues, and financial privacy

New interesting book: The Forme of Cury or The Salad Book

Flag Wars and Stone Saints: How the Bohemian Lands Became Czech

Author: Nancy Merriwether Wingfield

In a new perspective on the formation of national identity in Central Europe, Nancy Wingfield analyzes what many historians have treated separately—the construction of the Czech and German nations—as a larger single phenomenon.

Czech and German nationalism worked off each other in dynamic ways. As external conditions changed, Czech and German nationalists found new uses for their pasts and new ways to stage them in public spaces for their ongoing national projects. These grassroots confrontations transformed public culture by reinforcing the centrality of nationality to everyday life and by tying nationalism to the exercise of power. The battles in the public sphere produced a cultural geography of national conflict associated with the unveiling of Joseph II statues that began in 1881, the Badeni Language Ordinances of 1897, the 1905 debate over a Czech-language university in Moravia, and the celebration of the emperor's sixtieth jubilee in 1908. The pattern of impassioned national conflict would be repeated for the duration of the monarchy and persist with even more violence into the First Czechoslovak Republic.

Numerous illustrations show how people absorbed, on many levels, visual clues that shaped how they identified themselves and their groups. This nuanced analysis is a valuable contribution to our understanding of Central European history, nationalism, and the uses of collective memory.

Table of Contents:

List of Maps and Illustrations     xi
List of Abbreviations     xv
A Note on Language     xvii
Introduction     1
Imagining the Emperor: Statues of Joseph II as Sites of German Identity     17
The Battle Joined: Protesting the Badeni Language Ordinances     48
The Moravians Compromise? Czechs, Germans, and the Question of a Second Czech University     79
Centers and Peripheries: The Francis Joseph Jubilees     107
National Myths and the Consolidation of the Czechoslovak State     135
Pomp and Circumstances: Commemorations and the Construction of National Memory     170
The Politics of Sound: "Talkies" and Anti-German Demonstrations in Prague     199
The Attempt to Construct a German Community     231
The Politics of Memory in Postwar Czechoslovakia     261
Conclusion     291
Notes     303
Index     345

Boomburbs or Your Money or Your Life

Boomburbs: The Rise of America's Accidental Cities

Author: Robert E Lang

A glance at a list of America's fastest growing "cities" reveals quite a surprise: most are really overgrown suburbs. Places such as Anaheim, California, Coral Springs, Florida, Naperville, Illinois, North Las Vegas, Nevada, and Plano, Texas, have swelled to big-city size with few people really noticing--including many of their ten million residents. These "boomburbs" are large, rapidly growing, incorporated communities of more than 100,000 residents that are not the biggest city in their region. Here, Robert E. Lang and Jennifer B. LeFurgy explain who lives in them, what they look like, how they are governed, and why their rise calls into question the definition of urban.

Located in over twenty-five major metro areas throughout the United States, numerous boomburbs have doubled, tripled, even quadrupled in size between census reports. Some are now more populated than traditional big cities. The population of the biggest boomburb-Mesa, Arizona-recently surpassed that of Minneapolis and Miami.

Typically large and sprawling, boomburbs are "accidental cities," but not because they lack planning. Many are made up of master-planned communities that have grown into one another. Few anticipated becoming big cities and unintentionally arrived at their status. Although boomburbs possess elements found in cities such as housing, retailing, offices, and entertainment, they lack large downtowns. But they can contain high-profile industries and entertainment venues: the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim and Arizona Cardinals are among over a dozen major-league sports teams who play in the boomburbs.

Urban in fact but not in feel, these drive-by cities of highways, office parks,and shopping malls are much more horizontally built and less pedestrian friendly than most older suburbs. And, contrary to common perceptions of suburbia, they are not rich and elitist. Poverty is often seen in boomburb communities of small single-family homes, neighborhoods that once represented the American dream.

Boomburbs are a quintessential American landscape, embodying much of the nation's complexity, expansiveness, and ambiguity. This fascinating look at the often contradictory world of boomburbs examines why America's suburbs are thriving and how they are shaping the lives of millions of residents.

What People Are Saying

Robert Fishman
"This lively, original, and perceptive book enables us to see a new form of city where previous observers had seen only suburban sprawl. These 'accidental cities' that Lang and LeFurgy call 'boomburbs' not only challenge our traditional concept of the urban; the fate of the boomburbs will increasingly determine the future of metropolitan America."--(Robert Fishman, Taubman College of Architecture and Planning, University of Michigan)

Robert Bruegmann
"Robert E. Lang has become one of America's best commentators on the vast urban territory outside of the traditional city center. In this book, he and Jennifer LeFurgy explore a group of new cities sprouting in the suburbs that is changing our very definition of what it means to be urban. Deploying acute first-hand observation, ingenious research, and a fondness for neologisms, they provide excellent insight into topics ranging from the demographic diversity of the 'New Brooklyns' to the exclusive governance of the 'cluburbs.'"--(Robert Bruegmann, professor of art history, architecture, and urban planning at the University of Illinois at Chicago and author of Sprawl: A Compact History)

Bill Fulton
"Urban and metropolitan studies have been mired for too long in a false dichotomy about cities and suburbs. Boomburbs is an important book because it leaves all that baggage behind and describes fast-growing American communities as they really are-big yet small, tedious yet vibrant, pimply yet mature."--(Bill Fulton, author of The Reluctant Metropolis and The Regional City)

Jon Teaford
"Boomburbs is one of the most significant contributions to contemporary metropolitan studies. It explores a new world and carefully maps this previously overlooked sector of metropolitan life. It should become a classic in the field and required reading for all students of the early twenty-first century American metropolis."--(Jon Teaford, professor of history, Purdue University)

Table of Contents:

Foreword by Ed Glaeser
Preface
1. Legoland
2. From Settlements to Super Suburbs
3. Who Lives in the Boomburbs
4. The Business of Boomburbs
5. Big Skies, Small Lots: Boomburb Housing and Master-Planned Development
6. The Small Town Politics of Big Cities
7. Boomburbs at Buildout
8. Emerging Urban Realms and the Boomburbs of 2030
Notes
Index

Interesting book: SELECT Series or A Design That Cares

Your Money or Your Life: The Tyranny of Global Finance

Author: Eric Toussaint

In the last decade, neoliberal policies have created debt and global impoverishment on a massive scale. In this updated edition of his internationally recognized book, Eric Toussaint traces the origins and development of the crisis in global finance.

This new edition is fully updated with new statistics to account for new developments in global financial institutions like the World Bank and IMF. Your Money or Your Life is widely considered one of the clearest and best-documented books on globalization available. Includes an extensive bibliography and notes.

Eric Toussaint is president of the Committee for the Cancellation of Third World Debt and is a fellow and frequent lecturer at the International Institute for Research and Education in Amsterdam.

Global Political Economy or Woman of Valor

Global Political Economy

Author: Theodore H Cohn

Praised for its authoritative coverage of theory and history, Global Political Economy places the study of IPE in the broadest global context. Written by one of the field’s leading scholars, this text helps students understand the fundamental importance of international political economy and make sense of current events in the global economy. Its three areas of focus–globalization, North-North relations, and North-South relations–encourage students to connect theory and history with practice, explore domestic and international economic interactions, and examine the critical relationship between economic and security issues.

Read also International Human Resource Management or Bringing Geographical Information Systems into Business

Woman of Valor: Margaret Sanger and the Birth Control Movement in America

Author: Ellen Chesler

Ellen Chesler's 1992 biography of Margaret Sanger is acclaimed as definitive and is widely used and cited by scholars and activists alike in the fields of women's health and reproductive rights.

Chesler's substantive new Afterword considers how Sanger's life and work hold up in light of subsequent developments, such as U.S. Supreme Court cases challenging the constitutional doctrine of privacy and international definitions of reproductive health as an essential human right.

Table of Contents:

Introduction     11
The Woman Rebel     19
Ghosts     21
Love and Work     44
Seeds of Rebellion     56
The Personal Is Political     74
Bohemia and Beyond     89
A European Education     105
The Frenzy of Renown     128
The Company She Kept     150
The Lady Reformer     177
New Woman, New World     179
The Conditions of Reform     200
Organizing for Birth Control     223
Happiness in Marriage     243
Doctors and Birth Control     269
A Community of Women     287
Grande Dame, Grandmere     311
Lobbying for Birth Control     313
Same Old Deal     336
Foreign Diplomacy     355
From Birth Control to Family Planning     371
Intermezzo     396
Last Act     414
Woman of the Century     443
Afterword     469
Notes     493
Selected Bibliography     617
Acknowledgments     637
Index     641

Prison Nation or Field of Schemes

Prison Nation: The Warehousing of America's Poor

Author: Tara Herivel

Prison Nation is a distant dispatch from a foreign and forbidden place--the world of America's prisons. Written by prisoners, social critics and luminaries of investigative reporting, Prison Nation testifies to the current state of America's prisoners' living conditions and political concerns. These concerns are not normally the concerns of most Americans, but they should be. From substandard medical care the inadequacy of resources for public defenders to the death penalty, the issues covered in this volume grow more urgent every day. Articles by outstanding writers such as Mumia Abu-Jamal, Noam Chomsky, Mark Dow, Judy Green, Tracy Huling and Christian Parenti chronicle the injustices of prison privatization, class and race in the justice system, our quixotic drug war, the rarely discussed prison AIDS crisis and a judicial system that rewards mostly those with significant resources or the desire to name names. Correctional facilities have become a profitable growth industry, for companies like Wackenhut that run them and companies like Boeing that use cheap prison labor. With fascinating narratives, shocking tales and small stories of hope, Prison Nation paints a picture of a world many Americans know little or nothing about.

Library Journal

Wright, a prisoner in Washington State's Monroe Correctional Complex, and prison activist Herivel have compiled 41 previously published essays that chronicle the injustices of the U.S. penal system. The essays can be read separately or as a unit, for each is drawn like a magnet to the theme: America is warehousing its poor in prisons, mistreating them, and earning a profit from this mistreatment. The essays, many by reputable writers (e.g., Noam Chomsky, Mark Dow, Judith Green, and Mumia Abu-Jamal), cover the lack of legal counsel, the paucity of healthcare, the racial overtones, the plight of women prisoners, the impact of the war on drugs, and numerous other related subjects. One especially poignant essay describes a prison's effect on the town in which it is located. The writers hammer away relentlessly at their themes, which they back up with careful documentation. Although it may not have strong appeal for the general reader, this work certainly should find a place in the crime collections of academic and larger public libraries.-Frances Sandiford, formerly with Green Haven Correctional Facility Lib., Stormville, NY

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
	The Accused Get What the System Doesn't Pay For	6
	Absolute Power, Absolute Corruption	23
	Color Bind	30
	Capital Crimes	41
	Drug Policy as Social Control	57
	"Victims' Rights" as a Stalking-horse for State Repression	60
	Swept Away	66
	An American Seduction	73
	Deadly Nostalgia	85
	Secrecy, Power, Indefinite Detention	93
	Trapped by the System	100
	Relocation Blues	106
	Making Slave Labor Fly	112
	The Politics of Prison Labor	120
	Work Strike Suppressed and Sabotaged in Ohio	129
	Prison Jobs and Free Market Unemployment	133
	Bailing Out Private Jails	138
	Juvenile Crime Pays - But At What Cost?	148
	University Professor Shills for Private Prison Industry	154
	Campus Activism Defeats Multinational's Prison Profiteering	156
	Juveniles Held Hostage for Profit by CSC in Florida	164
	The New Bedlam	168
	Wreaking Medical Mayhem on Women Prisoners in Washington State	174
	Hepatitis C	181
	Dying for Profits	187
	"The Judge Gave Me Ten Years. He Didn't Sentence Me to Death"	195
	FDOC Hazardous to Prisoners' Health	204
	Bill Clinton's Blood Trails	210
	The Restraint Chair	216
	Cowboys and Prisoners	227
	Deliberate Indifference	231
	Corcoran	245
	Guarding Their Silence	252
	Our Sisters' Keepers	258
	Not Part of My Sentence	262
	"Make it Hard for Them"	269
	Anatomy of a Whitewash	274
	Sentenced to the Backwaters of Greene County, PA	276
	Prison Litigation 1950-2000	281
	Barring the Federal Courthouses to Prisoners	301
	The Limits of Law	315
	Contributors	317
	About Prison Legal News	321
	Index	323

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Field of Schemes: How the Great Stadium Swindle Turns Public Money into Private Profit

Author: Neil deMaus

An expose showing how your tax dollars go to building large sports stadiums and private profits.

Social Ethics or American and Texas Government

Social Ethics: Morality and Social Policy

Author: Thomas Mappes

In its seventh edition, Social Ethics: Morality and Social Policy continues to provide material that will encourage reflective and critical examination of key contemporary moral problems. With additional readings and a new organization that groups related chapters together under four categories, this edition enhances the teachability that was the most salient characteristic of previous editions. The text maintains its ability to bring the central issues into clear focus, while allowing supporting arguments for widely diverse positions to be presented by those who embrace them.

Table of Contents:

Preface

PART ONE: LIFE-AND-DEATH ISSUES

CHAPTER 1 ABORTION

Introduction

Pope John Paul II, The Unspeakable Crime of Abortion

Mary Anne Warren, On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion

Don Marquis, Why Abortion is Immoral

Judith Jarvis Thomson, A Defense of Abortion

Margaret Olivia Little, The Morality of Abortion

Justice Harry A. Blackmun, Majority Opinion in Roe v. Wade

George J. Annas, “Partial-Birth Abortion” and the Supreme Court

Suggested Additional Readings for Chapter 1

CHAPTER 2 EUTHANASIA AND PHYSICIAN-ASSISTED SUICIDE

Introduction

James Rachels, Active and Passive Euthanasia

Daniel Callahan, Killing and Allowing to Die

Dan W. Brock, Voluntary Active Euthanasia

Stephen G. Potts, Objections to the Institutionalisation of Euthanasia

David T. Watts and Timothy Howell, Assisted Suicide Is Not Voluntary Active Euthanasia

Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, Opinion of the Court in Washington v. Glucksberg

Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, Concurring Opinion in Washington v. Glucksberg and Vacco v. Quill

Franklin G. Miller and Diane E. Meier, Voluntary Death: A Comparison Of Terminal Dehydration and Physician-Assisted Suicide

Suggested Additional Readings for Chapter 2

CHAPTER 3 THE DEATH PENALTY

Introduction

Justices Potter Stewart, Lewis F. Powell, Jr., and John Paul Stevens, Opinion in Gregg v. Georgia

Justice Thurgood Marshall, Dissenting Opinion in Gregg v.Georgia

Igor Primoratz, A Life for a Life

Stephen Nathanson, An Eye for an Eye?

Louis P. Pojman, Deterrence and the Death Penalty

Jeffrey Reiman, Common Sense, the Deterrent Effect of the Death Penalty, and the Best Bet Argument

David Dolinko, Procedural Arguments Against the Death Penalty

Suggested Additional Readings for Chapter 3

PART TWO: LIBERTY ISSUES

CHAPTER 4 SEX AND MARRIAGE

Introduction

Vincent C. Punzo, Morality and Human Sexuality

Thomas A. Mappes, Sexual Morality and the Concept of Using Another Person

John Corvino, Why Shouldn’t Tommy and Jim Have Sex? A Defense of Homosexuality

Chief Justice Margaret H. Marshall, Majority Opinion in Goodridge v. Department of Public Health

Justice Martha B. Sosman, Dissenting Opinion in Goodridge v. Department of Public Health

Maggie Gallagher, What Marriage Is For: Children Need Mothers and Fathers

Jonathan Rauch, For Better or Worse? The Case for Gay (and Straight) Marriage

Suggested Additional Readings for Chapter 4

CHAPTER 5 PORNOGRAPHY, HATE SPEECH, AND CENSORSHIP

Introduction

John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

The Attorney General’s Commission on Pornography, The Question of Harm

Helen E. Longino, Pornography, Oppression, and Freedom: A Closer Look

Mark R. Wicclair, Feminism, Pornography, and CensorshipIllinois Supreme Court, Opinion in Village of Skokie v. National Socialist Party of America

Charles R. Lawrence III, Racist Speech as the Functional Equivalent of Fighting Words

Andrew Altman, Liberalism and Campus Hate Speech: A Philosophical Examination

Judge Peter Stone, Opinion in Corry v. Stanford University

Suggested Additional Readings for Chapter 5

CHAPTER 6 DRUG CONTROL AND ADDICTION

Introduction

Justice Jacob J. Spiegel, Opinion in Commonwealth v. Joseph D. Leis

Thomas S. Szasz, The Ethics of Addiction

Robert E. Goodin, Permissible Paternalism: Saving Smokers from Themselves

Ethan A. Nadelmann, The Case for Legalization

James Q. Wilson, Against the Legalization of Drugs

Daniel Shapiro, Addiction and Drug Policy

Suggested Additional Readings for Chapter 6

CHAPTER 7 TERRORISM, HUMAN RIGHTS, AND CIVIL LIBERTIES

Introduction

Stephen Nathanson, Can Terrorism Be Morally Justified?

Alison M. Jaggar, What Is Terrorism, Why Is It Wrong, and Could It Ever Be Morally Permissible?

David Luban, The War on Terrorism and the End of Human Rights

Justice Hugo Lafayette Black, Majority Opinion in Korematsu v. United States

Justice Frank Murphy, Dissenting Opinion in Korematsu v. United States

Jeremy Waldron, Security and Liberty: The Image of Balance

Suggested Additional Readings for Chapter 7

PART THREE: JUSTICE ISSUES

CHAPTER 8 SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE

Introduction

John Hospers, What Libertarianism Is

Kai Nielsen, A Moral Case for Socialism

Iris M. Young, Five Faces of Oppression

Nancy Fraser, After the Family Wage: A Postindustrial Thought Experiment

Howard McGary, The African-American Underclass and the Question of Values

Suggested Additional Readings for Chapter 8

CHAPTER 9 WORLD HUNGER AND POVERTY

Introduction

Peter Singer, Famine, Affluence, and Morality

Garrett Hardin, Living on a Lifeboat

Amartya Sen, Property and Hunger

Thomas Pogge, Two Reflections on The First United Nations Millennium Development Goal

Max Borders, Western Ethical Imperialism?

United Trauma Relief, A Consensus Statement on Sweatshop Abuse

Matt Zwolinski, Sweatshops

Suggested Additional Readings for Chapter 9

PART FOUR: PLANETARY ISSUES

CHAPTER 10 ANIMALS

Introduction

Peter Singer, All Animals Are Equal

Tom Regan, The Case for Animal Rights

R. G. Frey, Moral Vegetarianism and the Argument from Pain and Suffering

Carl Cohen, The Case for the Use of Animals in Biomedical Research

Mary Anne Warren, Human and Animal Rights Compared

Suggested Additional Readings for Chapter 10

CHAPTER 11 THE ENVIRONMENT

Introduction

William F. Baxter, People or Penguins: The Case for Optimal Pollution

Jan Narveson, For Free Market Environmentalism

Tony Smith, Against Free Market Environmentalism

Peter S. Wenz, Just Garbage

Aldo Leopold, The Land Ethic

Bernard E. Rollin, Environmental Ethics

Bill Devall and George Sessions, Deep Ecology

Ramachandra Guha, Radical American Environmentalism and Wilderness Preservation: A Third World Critique

Suggested Additional Readings for Chapter 11

About the Contributors

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American and Texas Government: Policy and Politics

Author: Neal Tannahill

Known for the extremely student-friendly, jargon-free style of the two books from which it was made, the new American and Texas Government: Policy and Politics introduces the essentials of American and Texas government in a way that any student can understand.

 

For the first time, Tannahill’s American Government and Texas Government are offered together in one comprehensive and accessible text.  This new version features the same public policy emphasis that shows students the impact that government has on their lives, and offers the wealth of useful study aids and exercises to engage students in the course material and encourage them to become active participants in their government.  This new edition is published as a Longman Study Edition and therefore contains a battery of chapter tests for student study and practice.   It also offers the latest coverage of issues in both American and Texas government, including the results of the 2006 midterm elections, immigration reform, and the challenge posed by nuclear programs in Iran and North Korea.

Administrative Law or Black Visions

Administrative Law: Cases and Comments

Author: Peter L Strauss

After defining the constitutional framework for administration, the casebook discusses related topics such as downsizing government, regulators' thirst for information and the Paperwork Reduction Act, Fourth and Fifth Amendment concerns, Freedom of Information Act, and the future of the administrative state. Author forum available at twen.com.

Table of Contents:

An Introduction to Administrative LawAgencies and the Structural Constitution Procedural Frameworks for Administrative Action The Procedural Categories in Action: Adjudication The Procedural Categories in Action: Rulemaking Open Government and the Freedom of Information Act Procedural Due Process: Constitutional Constraints on Administrative Decisionmaking Scope of Review of Administrative Action Obtaining Judicial Review: Access to Court to Challenge Agency Action or Inaction

Book review: Taste of the Sea or Incest and Morris Dancing

Black Visions: The Roots of Contemporary African-American Political Ideologies

Author: Michael C Dawson

This stunning book represents the most comprehensive analysis to date of the complex relationships between black political thought and black political identity and behavior. Ranging from Frederick Douglass to rap artist Ice Cube, Michael C. Dawson brilliantly illuminates the history and current role of black political thought in shaping political debate in America.

Hickling Blanchard or Mary of Nazareth Prophet of Peace

Hickling/Blanchard: Overcoming the Trauma of Your Motor Vehicle Accident Therapy Guide

Author: Edward J Hickling

Motor vehicle accidents account for over 3 million injuries annually and are one of the most common traumas individuals experience. But the physical injuries are often less impactful in the long run than the severe emotional distress, flashbacks, and substantial impairment in work or family life. Studies of the general population have found that approximately 9% of people who survivor an accident develop Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. And yet, few people seek treatment immediately, mostly because they are not aware of the nature of their condition or that successful brief treatments are available.
Written by the creators of an empirically supported cognitive-behavioral therapy program developed at The Center for Stress and Anxiety Disorders in Albany, this therapist guide includes all the information and materials necessary to implement a successful program for treating accident-related PTSD. The therapeutic technique described in this book is research-based with a proven success rate.
The renowned authors provide clinicians with step-by-step instructions for teaching their clients important skills that have been scientifically tested and shown to be effective in treating emotional trauma caused by involvement in a car accident. Designed to be used in conjunction with its corresponding workbook, this therapist guide outlines a treatment program that includes cognitive restructuring, relaxation techniques, and exposure exercises.
User-friendly and comprehensive, Overcoming the Trauma of Your Motor-Vehicle Accident, Therapist Guide is a resource that no clinician can do without.

Doody Review Services

Reviewer: Nicholas Greco IV, M.S., BCETS, CATSM, CCRA(College of Lake County)
Description: This is the therapist guide to a two-part set which is focused on a cognitive-behavioral treatment program for clients who have been involved in a motor vehicle accident. This is the latest installment of a series of books on such topics as GAD and ADHD. The books in this series all involve evidence-based treatment for PTSD and incorporate the latest research in the field.
Purpose: The purpose of this book and the set is to provide an evidence-based treatment program for PTSD as a result of a motor vehicle accident (MVA). The authors provide a structured guide to address the unmet needs of those who do not fully recover without professional treatment. The goal of this book is to share a treatment approach that is the product of more than 15 years of working with MVA survivors. Given the fact that MVAs are the leading cause of PTSD in the general population, this book is much needed and meets not only the authors', but also the readers' objectives.
Audience: This book is geared for clinicians who are well versed in cognitive-behavioral therapy and working with survivors of motor vehicle accidents. Of note, the client should be ready to enter into this treatment plan which is supplemented with a separate client workbook. The authors and researchers involved in this program are unquestionably experts in the field.
Features: As all of the books in this series, this program is well thought out. The therapist guide allows for the therapist to give the client verbal information while the workbook acts to substantiate the verbal in theform of written exercises with an emphasis on key problem areas such as fear and to incorporate relaxation training. This is a ten-session course that begins with the client's understanding of PTSD, working through negative self-talk, relaxation, numbing, and a final termination session. This is a self contained program that is well detailed and described in the therapist's guide.
Assessment: This is truly a masterpiece for the field of mental health and more specifically for those working with survivors of motor vehicle accidents.

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Mary of Nazareth, Prophet of Peace

Author: John Dear

Walk through the events in Mary's life and find her powerful message of peace and nonviolence. Experience the power of her prayer and the prophetic model of her life. Of course, this is not a book about Mary alone. It is a book about us, a challenge to live a life of nonviolence, a summons to proclaim to a world filled with violence that we stand for something entirely different. It is a call for us to live a life steeped in prayer. Enhanced by William Hart McNichols' evocative icons, Mary of Nazareth, Prophet of Peace is a book that is eternal in its message and timely in its urgency.

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgments	8
	Foreword	9
	Introduction	11
I.	The Annunciation: Mary and Contemplative Nonviolence	22
1	The Prayer of Peace	25
2	The Encounter with God	35
3	Behold the Servant of the God of Peace	43
II.	The Visitation: Mary and Active Nonviolence	56
1	Love Your Neighbor	59
2	The Words of Peace	69
3	Beatitudes of Peace	77
III.	The Magnificat: Mary and Prophetic Nonviolence	84
1	My Spirit Rejoices: God's Revolution Has Begun	87
2	God's Nonviolence at Work in the World	97
3	The Mighty From Their Thrones, the Hungry Fed and Full	107
	Conclusion	123

The Theoretical Evolution of International Political Economy or Western Times and Water Wars

The Theoretical Evolution of International Political Economy: A Reader

Author: George T Cran

This collection of seminal readings in international political economy charts the historical and theoretical evolution of the field from the eighteenth century to the present day. Bringing together classic works and leading contemporary arguments, this book outlines the development of three schools of IPE thought -- Liberalism, Marxism, and Realism -- and also includes recent syntheses of these approaches to show how conventional theoretical categories are giving way to more eclectic conceptual schemes. The second edition features an added section on the postmodern turn in the study of international political economy, and includes a number of new readings. The readings include works by Alexander Hamilton, Friedrich List, David Ricardo, Adam Smith, Lenin, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Richard Cooper, Robert O. Keohane, Joseph S. Nye, Christopher Chase-Dunn, Robert Cox, Robert Gilpin, Mancur Olson, Richard Zeckhauser, Bruno S. Frey, Immanuel Wallerstein, Susan Strange, Donald J. Puchala, Raymond F. Hopkins, Alice A. Amsden, Peter M. Haas, David Harvey, and Michael J. Shapiro. Providing many of the most frequently cited IPE references in a single volume, the second edition of The Theoretical Evolution of International Political Economy will no doubt be a valuable resource for students of international relations and international economics.

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Western Times and Water Wars: State, Culture, and Rebellion in California

Author: John Walton

Western Times and Water Wars chronicles more than a hundred years of tumultuous events in the history of California's Owens Valley. From the pioneer conquest of the native inhabitants to the infamous destruction of the valley's agrarian economy by water-hungry Los Angeles, this legendary setting is a microcosm of the development of the American West.

Library Journal

The Owens Valley communities of eastern California and their battles with the city of Los Angeles concerning water rights is a classic example of territorial conflicts. Walton presents a historical and sociological study of this largely unsuccessful battle in a community in which violence, rebellion, political activity, and state domination have been a fact of life since 1920. Walton guides the reader through conquest of Native Americans in the Owens Valley, the building of a pioneer economy, conflicts among ethnic groups and social classes, and the struggle to regain their lost dignity through collective action. His analysis shows how the expansion of a state's administrative and coercive power can undermine the autonomy of a local community by placing it in the hands of politicians, bureaucracies, and those with privileged access to state agencies. This book should be required reading for small communities involved in turf wars with nearby urban areas.-- Irwin Weintraub, Rutgers Univ. Libs., Piscataway, N.J.

Table of Contents:

Preface

1. Introduction
2. Conquest and Incorporation
3. Pioneer Economy and Social Structure
4. Frontier Civil Society
5. Rebellion
6. The Local World Transformed
7. The Environmental Movement
8. State, Culture, and Collective Action

Woman in the Nineteenth Century or One Night in America

Woman in the Nineteenth Century

Author: Margaret Fuller

In this influential book, the prototypical feminist writer of her day addressed a range of issues, from the Woman Question to prostitution and slavery, marriage and employment reform, and the European revolutionary movements of the 1840s. A thought-provoking challenge to contemporary assumptions of male privilege, it is a feminist literature classic.

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One Night in America: Robert Kennedy, Cesar Chavez, and the Dream of Dignity

Author: Steven W Bender

Robert Kennedy and César Chávez came from opposite sides of the tracks of race and class that still divide Americans. Both optimists, Kennedy and Chávez shared a common vision of equality. They united in the 1960s to crusade for the rights of migrant farm workers. Farm workers faded from public consciousness following Kennedy's assassination and Chávez's early passing. Yet the work of Kennedy and Chávez continues to reverberate in America today.

Bender chronicles their warm friendship and embraces their bold political vision for making the American dream a reality for all. While many books discuss Kennedy or Chávez individually, this is the first book to capture their multifaceted relationship and its relevance to mainstream U.S. politics and Latino/a politics today. Bender examines their shared legacy and its continuing influence on political issues including immigration, education, war, poverty, and religion. Mapping a new political path for Mexican Americans and the poor of all backgrounds, this book argues that there is still time to prove Kennedy and Chávez right.

Duncan Stewart - Library Journal

Bender (law, Univ. of Oregon Sch. of Law; Greasers and Gringos) frames his history of American Latino political participation within a study of the friendship of Robert Kennedy and César Chávez, who first met during JFK's presidential campaign. RKF oversaw outreach to Latinos, while Chávez headed the largest voter registration organization in California. Later, Chávez turned to rural union organizing of immigrant agricultural workers and called for help from RFK, who backed their 1966 strike. His backing of Chávez and the union, their shared belief in nonviolent activism, and their commitment to Catholic teachings on the poor created a bond between the son of Irish wealth and the Mexican farm worker. In turn, Chávez and the United Farm Workers Union worked to help RFK win the 1968 California primary from which Bender dates the decline of Chávez's union. After RKF's assassination, union political enthusiasm waned, and President Nixon sought to undermine the Farm Workers legally and economically. In the face of the anti-immigrant movement that began in 2006 and some anti-Hispanic vitriol from 2008 GOP candidates, Bender issues a plea for a revival of the RFK-Chávez concern for the dignity and well-being of the poor. He conveys both the fact and the emotion of the Latino dream for uplift, as shared by Chávez and RFK. Recommended for public and academic libraries.

High Priests of American Politics or Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream

High Priests of American Politics: The Role of Lawyers in American Political Institutions

Author: Mark C Miller

Using a multidisciplinary approach, Mark C. Miller draws in large part on interviews he conducted with members of the U.S. House of Representatives, the Ohio legislature, and the Massachusetts legislature. From this rich data, he shows how American lawyers are socialized into a common legal ideology, which in turn shapes the behavior of individual lawyer-politicians, legislative committees dominated by lawyers, and the entire legislative institutions of government. Miller goes on to explore the various roles lawyers play in the development of public policy. He identifies some intriguing differences in attitude between lawyer and nonlawyer legislators toward the courts and then establishes a typology of differences among lawyer-politicians themselves, showing how these different "types" affect the legislative process at both the committee and the macro-institutional levels. In the final chapter, he examines the ways in which the lawyerly approach to decision making influences the substantive policy choices of Congress and shapes its internal political culture. The ultimate effect of lawyer-dominated legislatures, Miller concludes, is a government that is preoccupied with incremental, rights-oriented procedural solutions - and not with sweeping changes in the substance of public policy.

Booknews

Documents how lawyers dominate state and national politics and policy, and explores the impact of that influence. Drawing on interviews with members of the US, Ohio, and Massachusetts legislatures, shows how lawyers are socialized into a common ideology, their effect legislation at both committee and whole- body levels, and differences between lawyer and non-lawyer legislators and among lawyers. Concludes that lawyers make the government more concerned with incremental than sweeping change. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgments
1	The Study of Politics and of Lawyers	1
2	Socialization into the Legal Profession	17
3	Lawyers, Lawyers Everywhere	29
4	The Prevalence of Lawyer-Legislators in the United States	57
5	Are Lawyers Really Different from Nonlawyers?	76
6	How Lawyer-Legislators and Nonlawyer-Legislators View the Courts	95
7	Are All Lawyer-Legislators the Same? A Typology	122
8	Lawyers on Congressional Committees	139
9	Lawyers' Views and Lawyers' Ways: The Institutional Effects of Lawyer-Politicians	162
	Notes	175
	References	185
	Index	223

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Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream

Author: Doris Kearns Goodwin

Doris Kearns Goodwin's classic life of Lyndon Johnson, who presided over the Great Society, the Vietnam War, and other defining moments the tumultuous 1960s, is a monument in political biography. From the moment the author, then a young woman from Harvard, first encountered President Johnson at a White House dance in the spring of 1967, she became fascinated by the man—his character, his enormous energy and drive, and his manner of wielding these gifts in an endless pursuit of power. As a member of his White House staff, she soon became his personal confidante, and in the years before his death he revealed himself to her as he did to no other.

Widely praised and enormously popular, Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream is a work of biography like few others. With uncanny insight and a richly engrossing style, the author renders LBJ in all his vibrant, conflicted humanity.