Global Environmental Politics or Henry Adams

Global Environmental Politics

Author: David L Downi

When Global Environmental Politics was first published, the environment was just emerging as a pivotal issue in traditional international relations. Today, the environment is considered to be a central topic to discussions of international politics, political economy, international organization, and the relationship between foreign and domestic policy. With new and updated case studies throughout, a revised chapter on improving compliance with international environmental regimes, and a new section on environment within the larger context of sustainable development, this classic text is more complete and up-to-date than any survey of international environmental politics on the market. In addition to providing a concise yet comprehensive overview of global environmental issues, the authors have worked to contextualize key topics such as the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development, the Kyoto Protocol, the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants, international forest policy, and the trade, development and environment nexus. Environmental concerns from global warming to biodiversity loss to whaling are seen as challenges to transnational relations, with governments, NGOs, IGOs, and MNCs all involved in the multilateral interaction that is necessary to address the ever-complicated subject of global environmental politics.

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Henry Adams: History of the United States of America During the Administrations of Thomas Jefferson (Library of America), Vol. 1

Author: Henry Adams

This monumental work, complete in two volumes, culminated Henry Adams' lifelong fascination with the American past. First published in nine volumes from 1889-91, it has been judged one of the greatest historical works in English -- and yet has been out of print for several decades. Adams' History traces the formative period of American nationality from the rise of Thomas Jefferson's Republican party through the War of 1812. Hoping to keep the United States out of Europe's Napoleonic wars, Jefferson's pacificism instead antagonizes both France and England, the two greatest military powers in the world. While the states threaten to duplicate the map of Europe by dissolving into separate, squabbling sections, Madison leads the country into a war with British regulars and Indian tribes that he is illequipped to fight. Yet time is on the side of the American people -- who, despite statesmen and generals, emerge from the conflict a single nation ready to flex its burgeoning muscles. In Adams' ironic narrative, personalities like Bonaparte and Aaron Burr, William "Tippecanoe" Harrison and Andrew Jackson, Shawnee leader Tecumseh and Haitian revolutionary Toussaint Louverture act their glittering parts against a background of inexorable historical forces that transform the United States from a pre-industrial backwater into an emergent world power.

In this first volume, Jefferson's optimistic laissez-faire principles -- designed to prevent American government from becoming a militaristic European "tyranny" -- clash with the realities of European war and American security. The party of small government presides over the Louisiana Purchase, the most extensive use of executive power the country had yet seen. Jefferson's embargo -- a high-minded effort at peaceable coercion -- breeds corruption and smuggling, and the former defender of states' rights is forced to use federal power to suppress them. The passion for peace and liberty pushes the country toward war. In the center of these ironic reversals, played out in a Washington full of diplomatic intrigue, is the complex figure of Jefferson himself, part tragic visionary, part comic mock-hero. Like his contemporary Napoleon Bonaparte, he is swept into power by the rising tide of democratic nationalism; unlike Bonaparte, he tries to avert the consequences of the wolfish struggle for power among nation-states.

The grandson of one president and great-grandson of another, Adams gained access to hitherto secret archives in Europe. The diplomatic documents that lace the history lend a novelistic intimacy to scenes such as Jefferson's conscientious introduction of democratic table manners into stuffily aristocratic state dinner parties. Written in a strong, lively style pointed with Adams' wit, the History chronicles the consolidation of American character, and poses questions about the future course of democracy.

Table of Contents:

Volume 1
I.	Physical and Economical Conditions	5
II.	Popular Characteristics	31
III.	Intellect of New England	54
IV.	Intellect of the Middle States	76
V.	Intellect of the Southern States	91
VI.	American Ideals	107
VII.	The Inauguration	126
VIII.	Organization	148
IX.	The Annual Message	169
X.	Legislation	180
XI.	The Judiciary Debate	193
XII.	Personalities	209
XIII.	The Spanish Court	227
XIV.	The Retrocession	238
XV.	Toussaint Louverture	255
XVI.	Closure of the Mississippi	269
XVII.	Monroe's Mission	285
Volume 2
I.	Rupture of the Peace of Amiens	301
II.	The Louisiana Treaty	319
III.	Claim to West Florida	336
IV.	Constitutional Difficulties	352
V.	The Louisiana Debate	366
VI.	Louisiana Legislation	380
VII.	Impeachments	393
VIII.	Conspiracy	409
IX.	The Yazoo Claims	431
X.	Trial of Justice Chase	449
XI.	Quarrel with Yrujo	467
XII.	Pinckney's Diplomacy	480
XIII.	Monroe and Talleyrand	496
XIV.	Relations with England	516
XV.	Cordiality with England	533
XVI.	Anthony Merry	546
XVII.	Jefferson's Enemies	567
XVIII.	England and Tripoli	581
	Maps
	The States of North Africa	166
	The Coast of West Florida and Louisiana	302

The Lazlo Letters or The Shape of the River

The Lazlo Letters

Author: Don Novello

In letters to stars, dignitaries, and chairmen of the country's most powerful organizations, Don Novello's alter ego Lazlo Toth pestered his victims for photographs, offered outlandish advice, fired off strange inquiries, and more. The strangest part? Practically everyone answered, leaving Toth with a hilarious collection of outlandish correspondence unmatched in the history of American letters.

The Lazlo Letters contains nearly 100 notes to public figures, including then-President Nixon, Vice President Ford ("I've been Vice President of a lot of organizations myself, so I know how you feel."), Bebe Rebozo, Lester Maddox, Earl Butz, and America's top business leaders. The replies, says the author, "classic examples of American politeness."

In an on-going correspondence with the White House, Toth suggests everything from ridiculously corny jokes for the President to use, to a campaign song sung to the tune of "Tea for Two." He asks the president of a bubble bath company just how to use the product, as the packaging instructions specifically state to "keep dry."

"No matter how absurd my letter was, no matter how much I ranted and raved, they always answered," reports the author. "Many of these replies are beautiful examples of pure public relations nonsense." One is not: columnist James Kilpatrick has a lone sentiment for Toth-"Nuts to You!" 247,000 copies in print.

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The Shape of the River: Long-Term Consequences of Considering Race in College and University Admissions

Author: William G Bowen

This is the book that has forever changed the debate on affirmative action in America. The Shape of the River is the most far-reaching and comprehensive study of its kind. It brings a wealth of empirical evidence to bear on how race-sensitive admissions policies actually work and clearly defines the effects they have had on over 45,000 students of different races. Its conclusions mark a turning point in national discussions of affirmative action--anything less than factual evidence will no longer suffice in any serious debate of this vital question.

Glenn Loury's new foreword revisits the basic logic behind race-sensitive policies, asserting that since individuals use race to conceptualize themselves, we must be conscious of race as we try to create rules for a just society. Loury underscores the need for confronting opinion with fact so we can better see the distinction between the "morality of color-blindness" and the "morality of racial justice."

Across the country, in courts, classrooms, and the media, Americans are deeply divided over the use of race in admitting students to universities. Yet until now the debate over race and admissions has consisted mainly of clashing opinions, uninformed by hard evidence. This work, written by two of the country's most respected academic leaders, intends to change that. It brings a wealth of empirical evidence to bear on how race-sensitive admissions policies actually work and what effects they have on students of different races.

The authors are the economist William G. Bowen, President of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and former President of Princeton University, and Derek Bok, former President of Harvard University andformer Dean of the Harvard Law School. Bowen and Bok argue that we can pass an informed judgment on the wisdom of race-sensitive admissions only if we understand in detail the college careers and the subsequent lives of students-or, to use a metaphor they take from Mark Twain, if we learn the shape of the entire river. The heart of the book is thus an unprecedented study of the academic, employment, and personal histories of more than 45,000 students of all races who attended academically selective universities between the 1970s and the early 1990s.

The study reveals how much race-sensitive admissions increase the likelihood that blacks will be admitted to selective universities and demonstrates what effect the termination of these policies would have on the number of minority students at different kinds of selective institutions. The authors go on to determine how well black students have performed academically in comparison to their white classmates, what success they have had in their subsequent careers, and how actively they have participated in civic and community affairs. The authors also explore the views expressed by graduates of selective colleges about the value of their education and the contributions that a diverse student body has made to their capacity to live and work with people of other races.

In the final chapters, Bowen and Bok relate their findings to the current debate about the wisdom of race-sensitive admissions. They consider whether critics are correct in claiming that such policies harm their intended beneficiaries by forcing minority students to compete with academically superior classmates. They examine alternative policies that have been proposed to increase diversity without relying explicitly on race in the admissions process. They end by reflecting on the thorny question of whether the concept of "merit" is compatible with a deliberate effort to achieve a racially diverse student body.

Authoritative, powerfully argued, and elegantly written, this book is a landmark work in one of the most important debates in recent American history. In the words of Harvard Law Professor Randall Kennedy, "The Shape of the River should be essential reading for anyone seeking a dependable guide through the morass of competing claims that obscure from public attention the questions that need to be posed and the answers that need to be assessed."

Richard D. Kahlenberg

The Shape of the River makes a business case for diversity, a case that is chilling in its emphasis on efficiency over fairness. Maybe this book will help show that today's affirmative action is not the liberal program that liberals believe it to be. -- Washington Monthly

New York Times

No study of this magnitude has been attempted before. Its findings provide a strong rationale for opposing curent efforts to demolish race-sensitive policies in colleges across the country. . . .The evidence collected flatly refutes many of the misimpressions of affirmative-action opponents.

Los Angeles Times

A compelling new book. . .demonstrates why affirmative action programs can be good for the country. . .The authors prove with facts, not anecdotes, that affirmative action works.

Newsweek

The most ambitious and authoritative study to date of the effects of affirmative action in higher education.

Ronald Dworkin

Offers much more comprehensive statistics and much more sophisticated analysis than has been available before. . . .Impressionistic and anecdotal evidence will no longer suffice. -- The New York Review of Books

The New York Times

No study of this magnitude has been attempted before. Its findings provide a strong rationale for opposing curent efforts to demolish race-sensitive policies in colleges across the country. . . .The evidence collected flatly refutes many of the misimpressions of affirmative-action opponents.

Newsweek

The most ambitious and authoritative study to date of the effects of affirmative action in higher education.

Los Angeles Times

A compelling new book. . .demonstrates why affirmative action programs can be good for the country. . .The authors prove with facts, not anecdotes, that affirmative action works.

David Karen

. . .Bowen and Bok have performed a major service for advocates of affirmative action. . . .[and] have also written a book that underliens the degree to which colleges are useful investments in human capital. -- The Nation

David Gergen

The most comprehensive study ever done of affirmative action in higher education.. .it demands the attention of anyone who cares about American universities. -- U.S. News & World Report

What People Are Saying

Garry Wills
An extensive and intensive study. . .finds that. . .what is good for business. . .is good for society, too -- good for all of us. This report may, at last, make that fact evident even to the most obtuse (Garry Wills is a syndicated columnist).

Robert M. Solow
This important book is a calm, expert, analytical study of race-sensitive college admissions, and what happens afterwards. . . .It tells us many things we didn't know, because untill now there was no way to know them (Robert M. Solow is M.I.T. Noel Laureate in Economics).

Bill Bradley
An invaluable resource for those interested in American higher education and, more generally, race in America.

Randall Kennedy
Written by two of the most respected figures in higher education, The Shape of the River offers the public what has long been needed: a large dose of crucial, unvarnished fact about affirmative action. -- Harvard Law School

Table of Contents:

	List of Figures
	List of Tables
	Preface
Ch. 1	Historical Context	1
Ch. 2	The Admissions Process and "Race-Neutrality"	15
Ch. 3	Academic Outcomes	53
Ch. 4	Advanced Study: Graduate and Professional Degrees	91
Ch. 5	Employment, Earnings, and Job Satisfaction	118
Ch. 6	Civic Participation and Satisfaction with Life	155
Ch. 7	Looking Back: Views of College	193
Ch. 8	Diversity: Perceptions and Realities	218
Ch. 9	Informing the Debate	256
Ch. 10	Summing Up	275
App. A	The College and Beyond Database	291
	App. B. Notes on Methodology	336
App. C	Earnings in Relation to Advanced Degrees, Sector of Employment, and Occupation	362
	App. D. Additional Tables	375
	References	451
	Index	461

Savage Peace or Crime Scene

Savage Peace: Hope and Fear in America 1919

Author: Ann Hagedorn

Written with the sweep of an epic novel and grounded in extensive research into contemporary documents, Savage Peace is a striking portrait of American democracy under stress. It is the surprising story of America in the year 1919.
In the aftermath of an unprecedented worldwide war and a flu pandemic, Americans began the year full of hope, expecting to reap the benefits of peace. But instead, the fear of terrorism filled their days. Bolshevism was the new menace, and the federal government, utilizing a vast network of domestic spies, began to watch anyone deemed suspicious. A young lawyer named J. Edgar Hoover headed a brand-new intelligence division of the Bureau of Investigation (later to become the FBI). Bombs exploded on the doorstep of the attorney general's home in Washington, D.C., and thirty-six parcels containing bombs were discovered at post offices across the country. Poet and journalist Carl Sandburg, recently returned from abroad with a trunk full of Bolshevik literature, was detained in New York, his trunk seized. A twenty-one-year-old Russian girl living in New York was sentenced to fifteen years in prison for protesting U.S. intervention in Arctic Russia, where thousands of American soldiers remained after the Armistice, ostensibly to guard supplies but in reality to join a British force meant to be a warning to the new Bolshevik government.
In 1919, wartime legislation intended to curb criticism of the government was extended and even strengthened. Labor strife was a daily occurrence. And decorated African-American soldiers, returning home to claim the democracy for which they had risked their lives, were badly disappointed. Lynchings continued, raceriots would erupt in twenty-six cities before the year ended, and secret agents from the government's "Negro Subversion" unit routinely shadowed outspoken African-Americans.
Adding a vivid human drama to the greater historical narrative, Savage Peace brings 1919 alive through the people who played a major role in making the year so remarkable. Among them are William Monroe Trotter, who tried to put democracy for African-Americans on the agenda at the Paris peace talks; Supreme Court associate justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., who struggled to find a balance between free speech and legitimate government restrictions for reasons of national security, producing a memorable decision for the future of free speech in America; and journalist Ray Stannard Baker, confidant of President Woodrow Wilson, who watched carefully as Wilson's idealism crumbled and wrote the best accounts we have of the president's frustration and disappointment.
Weaving together the stories of a panoramic cast of characters, from Albert Einstein to Helen Keller, Ann Hagedorn brilliantly illuminates America at a pivotal moment.

Publishers Weekly

Former Wall Street Journalstaffer Hagedorn (Beyond the River) makes a stylish entry into the history-of-a-year genre with this account of America in upheaval in the wake of WWI. In 1919, both the world and the U.S. were in need of reconstruction: soldiers returning from war needed jobs, and the influenza epidemic wasn't quite under control. Two threads Hagedorn follows are middle-class Americans' fear of Bolshevism, and the struggles of black Americans. U.S. Attorney-General Palmer instigated raids to try to root out leftist activists, and in what may have been "the State Department's first official interference in African-American politics," the agency denied black Americans' request for passports to travel to France and speak to the Paris Peace Conference about racial equality. In a year rife with lynchings in the Deep South, W.E.B. Du Bois, who had urged black Americans to shelve their grievances and fight the Germans, now argued that blacks, having served the nation, deserved to be accorded civil rights. Still, some exciting cultural developments presaged the roaring '20s: F. Scott Fitzgerald's star rose, and the nation's first dial telephones were installed in Norfolk, Va. This vivid account of a nation in tumult and transition is absorbing, and the nexus of global and national upheaval is chillingly relevant. (Apr.)

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Table of Contents:

Prologue: Armistice Day 1918     1
Winter: Jubilation and Hope
Gods of War and Peace     19
Spies Are Everywhere     24
Christmas at Villa Lewaro     37
Women and Molasses     46
The List     53
A Mere Slip of a Girl     61
Polar Bears in Peril     80
Sergeant Henry Johnson     91
Trotter and the Passports     104
The Magisterial Wand     114
Blinders     124
Shuffleboard     134
In Like a Lion     143
Out Like a Lion     155
Spring: Fear
Inner Light     163
Make-Believe Riots and Real Bombs     175
It's in the Mail     188
Monsieur Trotter     203
302 Seconds in May     210
What Happened on R Street     218
War of a Different Sort     226
Thrilling Feats     234
Summer: Passion
Missichusetts     249
Paris     262
Independence Day 1919     269
The Narrow Path     279
Miss Puffer Insane?     285
That Certain Point     297
Weapons in Their Hats     308
Kingof the Index     323
"I'll Stay With You, Mary"     334
Autumn: Struggle
"The Right to Happiness"     345
Tugs-of-War and of the Heart     356
Autumn Leaflets     364
Not Exactly Paradise     376
Albert in Wonderland     386
Greatness     391
Armistice Day 1919     398
Falling Ladders     404
All Aboard     408
Boughs of Glory     417
Epilogue: Endings and Beginnings     425
Notes on Sources     447
Notes     455
Selected Bibliography     499
Acknowledgments     511
Index     517

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Crime Scene: How Forensic Science Solves

Author: W Mark Dal

The Crime Scene: How Forensic Science Works is an affordable trade paperback for those who want to learn more about forensic science and how it is used to solve criminal cases.

This book will appeal to the college student who is studying forensic science, or the person who is interested in learning more about it for a career or course of study in criminal justice. Unlike the popular trade books out there on crime scene investigation, this book doesn’t just focus on the gory details of a crime and how it is solved; rather, it introduces the student to the science of the investigation and what it takes to break a case.

In addition, it will be aligned to criminal justice curriculum and the education of investigators-to-be.