The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia by Kodansha Amer Inc $30.00
This "immensely readable and magisterially detached work" (Financial Times) is the story of the great imperial struggle for strategic and economic supremacy fought across a cruel and desolate terrain stretching from the Caucasus to China--espionage and treachery on a grand scale and in exotic settings. 39 photographs. 5 maps.

Social Welfare- Politics & Public Policy with Research Navigator 6th EDITION by AllynBacon,2006 $14.00

Drug War Politics: The Price of Denial by University of California Press $27.95
Why have our drug wars failed and how might we turn things around? Ask the authors of this hardhitting exposè of U.S. efforts to fight drug trafficking and abuse. In a bold analysis of a century's worth of policy failure, Drug War Politics turns on its head many familiar bromides about drug politics. It demonstrates how, instead of learning from our failures, we duplicate and reinforce them in...

Enter The Dragon: China's Undeclared War Against The U.S. In Korea, 1950-51 by Newmarket Press

Philadelphia Murals and the Stories They Tell by David Graham $41.50
In June 1984, Jane Golden, a young muralist from Margate, New Jersey, headed up a project that was originally planned as a six-week youth program in the fledgling Philadelphia Anti-Graffiti Network. This small exercise in fighting graffiti grew into the most vibrant public art project in the United States. Led by Golden and dozens of artists, neighborhood residents, and volunteers, the...

A Contract with the Earth by Edward O. Wilson $20.00
Focusing the environmental debate on the principle of common commitment, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich and eminent conservationist Terry L. Maple present A Contract with the Earth. They declare a need for bipartisan environmentalism -- a new era of environmental stewardship with principles that they believe most Americans will share. While acknowledging that liberals and conservatives...

Frontiers Of Illusion: Science, Technology and the Politics of Progress by Temple University Press $33.95
For the past fifty years, science and technology supported with billions of dollars from the U.S. government have advanced at a rate that would once have seemed miraculous, while society's problems have grown more intractable, complex, and diverse. Yet scientists and politicians alike continue to prescribe more science and more technology to cure such afflictions as global climate change, natural...

I Remember Julia: Voices of the Disappeared by Temple University Press $27.95
In 1977 'Julia' became one of the 30,000 victims of Argentina's most recent military dictatorship. Julia was a young physician and mother-to-be kidnapped from a medical clinic and found years later in a clandestine grave along with 334 other corpses. Who were these thousands of victims? Who was Julia? By reconstructing the life of one victim, Eric Stener Carlson gives voice to the thousands of...

The Politics of American Economic Policy Making by Paul Peretz $39.95

The Federal Vision: Legitimacy and Levels of Governance in the US and EU by Kalypso Nicolaidis $225.00
Based on a transatlantic dialogue between scholars, this work addresses the complex and changing relationship between levels of governance within the United States and the European Union. It examines modes of governance on both sides, analyzing the ramifications of the legitimacy crisis in our multi-layered democracies and moving beyond the current policy debates over "devolution" and...