Does market liberalization promote democracy? The accepted answer from scholars, pundits, and politicians alike has been yes. However, the contributors to this innovative study of market reforms and political change in Mexico and the People's Republic of China argue that this easy equation is not only empirically uncertain but methodologically flawed. Using comparative contextual analysis, the contributors carefully identify the elective affinities between these two very different polities...

Most overviews of American history depict an isolationist country finally dragged kicking and screaming onto the world stage by the attack on Pearl Harbor. David Hendrickson shows that Americans instead conducted often-raucous debates over international relations in the long epoch customarily seen as isolationist-debates that form the ideological origins of today’s foreign policy arguments.Union, Nation, or Empire is a sequel to Hendrickson’s acclaimed Peace Pact,...

Dave awakes at five ayem with a splitting headache. Is it brain cancer or is he being a nutcase? When the day goes downhill from there, bestselling humorist Dave Hendrickson uses it all as fodder for one of his funniest and most-loved features. Also includes an introduction specially written for this edition and the bonus feature story, "A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To Tully Forum."Hendrickson has earned the Joe Concannon and Scarlet Quill awards for his sports coverage on US ...

Twelve years ago, private detective Mick Flanagan and his buddy Zeke were gridiron gods. The Pain Train delivered massive, bone-crushing blows to their opponents. But all those blows exacted a horrible price. For Zeke, that price has taken the form of unbearable, uncontrollable pain.These days Zeke’s riding a different train. Addicted to Oxy, he’s playing a vicious game against opponents he doesn’t understand and can’t possibly beat. Not on his own.Mick Flanagan has seen th...

Action-Adventure tales to lead you to places you’ve never been — and hope you make it back.Make a wildfire your ally. Tread softly with the French Resistance during WWII. Extract an informant from the dangers of the Babylonian streets. Sail the Atlantic, float down a river, or take a fishing boat far out to sea. And you can always fight the Phoenicians with the least lucky Viking ever born.Join the adventure and you’ll never look back.

“I realize how fortunate I was to spend the first half of my life with a passion, thanks to my hockey career. It took me a while to realize it, but now I feel fortunate to have lived the second half of my life with a purpose.”– Travis Roy The dream goes from euphoric reality to tragic nightmare in a split second. The life of a hockey player ends; the life of a quadriplegic begins. *Travis Roy: Quadriplegia and a Life of Purpose* looks at Travis Roy...

Professional killers for hire. Do you need evil done, or justice? Did you hire one, or turn yourself into one when nobody was looking?What lurks in the darkness?

Choice Outstanding TitleThat New England might invade Virginia is inconceivable today. But interstate rivalries and the possibility of intersectional war loomed large in the thinking of the Framers who convened in Philadelphia in 1787 to put on paper the ideas that would bind the federal union together. At the end of the Constitutional Convention, Benjamin Franklin rejoiced that the document would “astonish our enemies, who are waiting to hear with confidence . . ....

13 Tales of BetrayalThe coin-toss side of honor. Where faith in others is misplaced. When the most trusted should have been the least.Betrayal, at the worst possible moment, can leave you dangling in the wind, facing the wrong end of the gun, or dead.Unless you move FAST!

Have you ever dreamed of an entire school reading your book? Would you like to double (or more!) your writing income? This book shows you how. Drawing from his own first-hand experience, David H. Hendrickson leads you through every step of the process. He highlights the critical pitfalls to avoid, and points out ways to maximize your profit when a school adopts your book. With advice and insights that are adaptable to getting your book in front of audience...

Springtime. A time for new love, new romance, and discovering that special someone who just might change your life in the best possible way.Romance for All Seasons is proud to present a stellar lineup of stories of sweet springtime romance sure to leave you with that wonderful ah! feeling romance readers live for! Fall in love with these all too human heroines and heroes as they meet cute, meet silly, and meet again during that magical time of year when the world shakes of...

We always want to know who's doing what, what is happening behind closed doors, who's actually aligned with whom.So we send out our spies, our talented chameleons, to gather information for us.But things rarely go as planned.What you'll find here are fascinating, thrilling, and even funny stories about spies and their world.MCM - So Criminal, It's Good.