In the first comprehensive study of the subject in decades, political scholar Matthew Green disputes the conventional belief that the minority party in the U.S. House of Representatives is an unimportant political player. Examining the record of the House minority party from 1970 to the present, and drawing from a wide range of quantitative and qualitative data, Green shows how and why the minority seeks to influence legislative and political outcomes and demonstrates that the party’s ef...

Newt Gingrich is one of the most polarizing and consequential figures in US politics. First elected to the House of Representatives in 1978, he rose from a minority party backbencher to become the first Republican Speaker of the House in forty years. Though much has been written about Gingrich, accounts of his time in Congress are incomplete and often skewed.In their book Newt Gingrich: The Rise and Fall of a Party Entrepreneur, political scientists Matthew N. Green and Je...

Matthew N. Green provides the first comprehensive analysis of how the Speaker of the House has exercised legislative leadership from 1940 to the present. Green finds that the Speaker’s party loyalty is tempered by a host of competing objectives, including reelection, passage of desired public policy laws, handling the interests of the president, and meeting the demands of the House as a whole.

The first comprehensive study in more than forty years to explain congressional leadership selectionHow are congressional party leaders chosen? In the first major study since Robert Peabody’s classic Leadership in Congress, political scientists Matthew Green and Douglas Harris draw on newly collected data about U.S. House members who have sought leadership positions from the 1960s to the present—including whip tallies, public and private vote commitments, ...

In Newt Gingrich: The Rise and Fall of a Party Entrepreneur, political scientists Matthew N. Green and Jeffrey Crouch draw from newly uncovered archival material, original interviews, and other data to provide a fresh and insightful look at Gingrich's entire congressional career. Green and Crouch argue that Gingrich is best understood as a "party entrepreneur," someone who works primarily to achieve their congressional party's collective goals. From the moment he entered Congress,...

Step back in time and discover the sights, sounds and smells of London through the ages in this enthralling journey into the capital's rich, teeming and occasionally hazardous past.Let time traveller Dr Matthew Green be your guide to six extraordinary periods in London's history - the ages of Shakespeare, medieval city life, plague, coffee houses, the reign of Victoria and the Blitz.We'll turn back the clock to the time of Shakespeare and visit a savage bul...

From Green Beret to Shamanism: One Man's Journey to Heal is a raw and transformative memoir about war, trauma, and the search for wholeness. Matthew Butler, a retired U.S. Army Green Beret, carried invisible wounds long after combat ended. Haunted by PTSD, loss, and the weight of violence, he found himself on the brink of collapse. But where conventional paths offered little relief, ancient ones called out. Drawn into the world of shamanism, plant medicine, and holistic healing, Butler emb...

The Green Pulse Awakens is not a seasonal guide or symbolic spiritual book-it is a manual for recognizing when life itself begins moving forward again inside you. Framed through a Wiccan, earth-centered lens, this book reveals Ostara as a living activation signal that travels through land, body, and nervous system, reawakening what has been dormant through stagnation, trauma, or prolonged survival.Rather than offering wishful rituals or aesthetic spirituality, ...

Ever wondered how Matthew McConaughey rose to stardom?Matthew David McConaughey was born November 4, 1969 in Uvalde, Texas to Mary Kathleen (nee McCabe) and James Donald McConaughey.He was the last of three sons for the couple, joining brothers Michael, known as Rooster, and Pat.Mary Kathleen is an actress, appearing in 2011's Bernie, and a former substitute kindergarten teacher.James was a former member of the Houston Cougars and the Arizona Wildcats college f...

It’s time for a vacation so Tom decides that an adventure on mainland Alaska is in order. Swan joins him and they head across Alaska and British Columbia toward Ketchikan on an old motorcycle. It’s an interesting trip to take in the autumn, especially with the frosty nights and a hot companion. Their vacation is full of delight and wonderment as Tom and Swan explore their new love and see the sights of Alaska. They meet some interesting characters on their trip and Swan proves to be an int...

The one he loves most, is the one he knows leastThirteen-year-old Michael Parsons is dealing with a lot. His father's sudden death; his mother's new husband, Glen, who he loathes; his two younger siblings, who he looks after more and more now his mother works extra shifts.And then one day, Michael wakes up and his mother is gone. In her place is an exact, duplicate mother. The 'other mother'. No one else seems to notice the real version is missing....

Green witch Rhianne Alkenn is trading city lights for country nights.Well, more like a hinterland mystery — she's teaming up with Grandpa to untangle a thorny situation: a murder within the dryad community and a vanished teen.Add to that the sparky tension between Isobel, the pathologist with secrets, and Nel, Rhianne's incubus best friend. Their dynamic is about to explode, revealing truths that might just be too hot for Nel to handle.Oh, and murde...