This book grows out of the authors' conviction that as public policy issues become suffused with scientific and technical content, they become difficult for the democratic citizens to understand. It attempts to determine mass public capacity and their motivation to respond to the challenges.

This book poses the question of whether identifiable individual-level attributes (e.g., values, interests, knowledge, demographic characteristics) lead to support for or opposition to the development and implementation of alternative energy technologies. In recent years, attempts to site alternative energy technologies (e.g., wind, solar, wave) have been met by intense opposition from a variety of sources, including many environmentalists from whom one might expect support for non-carbon b...

Thomas S. Foley, a Democratic representative from the traditionally Republican region of eastern Washington, served in Congress from 1964 to 1994. In 1989 he became the first Speaker of the US House of Representatives from a district west of Texas. His thirty years of experience as a Democrat representing a Republican-leaning district contributed to his strong commitment to bipartisanship and institution building. His speakership came to an end when the Newt Gingrich-led “Republican Revolu...

The book examines contemporary immigration policy and immigrant assimilation with a focus on the adoption of sanctuary ordinances in US local governments in connection with Latino in-migration. It also investigates the adoption of anti-immigrant settlement local ordinances in many local governments with particular focus on local law enforcement positions taken on enforcement of federal immigration laws. The book investigates a wide range of county-level characteristics of 3,000+ U.S. count...

The recent advent of gridlock and hyper-partisanship in the United States Congress has raised questions about whether similar divides are occurring in state governments, and if so, why? To find out, researchers--working in 2018 and 2019 under a National Institute for Civil Discourse (NICD) grant--conducted a survey of registered lobbyists and public agency legislative liaison officers in all fifty states. They received over 1,200 completed surveys. The researchers hope that understanding r...

The Oldest Code of Laws in the World presents the celebrated legal collection associated with Hammurabi, king of Babylon, whose reign in the eighteenth century BCE marked a high point of Old Babylonian statecraft. Inscribed in formal Akkadian cuneiform on a monumental stele, the text combines a royal prologue, a carefully arranged series of case-based provisions, and an epilogue praising the king's justice. Its subjects—property, commerce, family, labor, bodily injury, slavery, and judicia...

In The American Military Tradition historians John M. Carroll and Colin F. Baxter gather an esteemed group of military historians to explore the pivotal issues and themes in American warfare from the Colonial era to the present conflict in Iraq. From the reliance on militia and the Minutemen of the American Revolution to the all-volunteer specialized troops of today, these twelve essays analyze the continuities and changes in the conduct of war over the past three centuries. In this comple...

Unshakable Confidence can change your life. Transform Fear into Fuel. Turn Pressure into Power. Build the Confidence That Changes Everything.Are you tired of watching opportunities slip by because of self-doubt? Ready to break free from office politics and the paralysis of perfectionism? Unshakable Confidence isn't just another business book; it's your battle-tested roadmap to thriving in corporate America's most challenging environments.Dr...

No one on the planet can deny the Physical Signs of the Era in which we live. We see them every day on television, the internet or in newspapers. But, the Real Signs are "unseen and are Spiritual in nature. In the King James Bible, Deception is not only mentioned four times in Matthew chapter twenty-four, but Jesus mentions it first among the signs of the end. Certainly it must be among the most significant and perhaps the most powerful sign before His return. We will discover this is grea...

Some people spend their lives dreaming of being somewhere else. Sylvia Haskins is certain that fulfillment exists beyond the limits of her marriage, her home, and the small college town where she lives. When an unexpected opportunity allows her to break free from the routines she despises, she embraces a new existence filled with endless possibilities.At first, the world seems larger than she ever imagined. She can go anywhere, see anyone, and slip unnoticed into places she once on...

"Uncommonly good...the most satisfying discussion to be found." — Scientific American.Behind the familiar surfaces of the telephone, radio, and television lies a sophisticated and intriguing body of knowledge known as information theory. This is the theory that has permitted the rapid development of all sorts of communication, from color television to the clear transmission of photographs from the vicinity of Jupiter. Even more revolutionary progress is expected in the futu...

Behind the familiar surfaces of the telephone, radio, and television lies a sophisticated and intriguing body of knowledge known as information theory. This is the theory that has permitted the rapid development of all sorts of communication, from color television to the clear transmission of photographs from the vicinity of Jupiter. Even more revolutionary progress is expected in the future.Beginning with the origins of this burgeoning field, Dr. Pierce follows the brilliant formu...