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How Congress Evolves: Social Bases of Institutional Change by Nelson W. Polsby 9780195182965
RRP: £30.49Booksplease Price: £24.63In this greatly entertaining tale of one of our most august institutions, Nelson Polsby argues that among other things, from the 50's to the 90's, Congress evolved. In short, Polsby argues that air... -
American Secession: The Looming Threat of a National Breakup by F.H. Buckley 9781641770804
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.18Americans have never been more divided, and we're ripe for a breakup. The bitter partisan animosities, the legislative gridlock, the growing acceptance of violence in the name of political virtue-it... -
Sequential Analysis: Hypothesis Testing and Changepoint Detection Alexander Tartakovsky 9780367740047
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £46.08Sequential Analysis: Hypothesis Testing and Changepoint Detection systematically develops the theory of sequential hypothesis testing and quickest changepoint detection. It also describes important... -
The New Brooklyn: What It Takes to Bring a City Back by Kay S. Hymowitz 9781538116111
Booksplease Price: £15.23Featured in The New York Times Book Review Only a few decades ago, the Brooklyn stereotype well known to Americans was typified by television programs such as "The Honeymooners" and "Welcome Back,... -
The Essential Ronald Reagan: A Profile in Courage, Justice, and Wisdom by Lee Edwards 9780742543768
Booksplease Price: £32.58The Essential Ronald Reagan recounts_in a concise way_the extraordinary life and career of a great American president from his small-town Midwestern roots through his Hollywood film star days to his... -
Missing and Modified Data in Nonparametric Estimation: With R Examples Jie Chen 9781138054882
RRP: £105.00Booksplease Price: £93.17This book presents a systematic and unified approach for modern nonparametric treatment of missing and modified data via examples of density and hazard rate estimation, nonparametric regression,... -
A Teacher's Guide to Land of Hope: An Invitation to the Great American Story by Wilfred M. McClay
Booksplease Price: £18.17A wonderfully written, sweeping narrative history of the United States that will help Americans discover the land they call home.Guide for Teachers using Land of Hope in the classroomThis Guide... -
The Pursuit of Happiness in Times of War by Carl M. Cannon 9780742525924
Booksplease Price: £23.92The Founders wrote in 1776 that 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness' are unalienable American rights. In The Pursuit of Happiness in Times of War, Carl M. Cannon shows how this single phrase... -
The Son Also Rises: Surnames and the History of Social Mobility by Gregory Clark 9780691162546
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.55How much of our fate is tied to the status of our parents and grandparents? How much does it influence our children? More than we wish to believe. While it has been argued that rigid class structures... -
The Son Also Rises: Surnames and the History of Social Mobility by Gregory Clark
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £15.75How much of our fate is tied to the status of our parents and grandparents? How much does it influence our children? More than we wish to believe. While it has been argued that rigid class structures... -
Sparta's Sicilian Proxy War: The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta, 418-413 B.C. by Paul A. Rahe 9781641773379
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £17.75The great expedition to Sicily described in the sixth and seventh books of Thucydides' history can be depicted in a variety of ways. By some, it has been thoughtfully treated as an example of... -
Land of Hope: An Invitation to the Great American Story by Wilfred M. McClay 9781641771399
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £25.77For too long we've lacked a compact, inexpensive, authoritative, and compulsively readable book that offers American readers a clear, informative, and inspiring narrative account of their country... -
River War 2v: Historical Account of Reconquest of Soudan by James W Muller 9781587317002
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £119.10Winston Churchill wrote five books before he was elected to Parliament at the age of twenty-five. The most impressive of these books, The River War tells the story of Britain's arduous and risky... -
The Obama Doctrine: American Grand Strategy Today by Colin Dueck 9780190659943
RRP: £16.49Booksplease Price: £13.12By mid-2015, the Obama presidency will be entering its final stages, and the race among the successors in both parties will be well underway. And while experts have already formed a provisional... -
A Student Workbook for Land of Hope: An Invitation to the Great American Story Wilfred M. McClay 9781641771894
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £16.09When we published Land of Hope in May of 2019, we had an immediate response from teachers and students that (1) they loved the book, and (2) they would need ancillary materials to aid them in the... -
The Human City: Urbanism for the Rest of Us by Joel Kotkin 9781572842168
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.15In The Human City, internationally recognized urbanist Joel Kotkin challenges the conventional urban-planning wisdom that favors high-density, "pack-and-stack" strategies. By exploring the economic,... -
Land of Hope Young Readers' Edition: An Invitation to the Great American Story by Wilfred M. McClay 9781641771702
Booksplease Price: £21.36VOLUME ONE: SHAPING A NEW NATION From 1492 to 1877 The American story begins before there was an America at all, except in the imagination of peoples around the world, living in poverty and... -
Miles to Go: A Personal History of Social Policy by Daniel Patrick Moynihan 9780674574410
Booksplease Price: £30.07Has liberalism lost its way--or merely its voice? This book by one of the nation's most insightful, articulate, and powerful Democrats at last breaks the silence that has greeted the Republican... -
A Young Reader's Edition of Land of Hope: An Invitation to the Great American Story (Volume 2) by Wilfred M. McClay
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.36VOLUME TWO: THE MAKING OF MODERN AMERICA From 1877 to 2020 The Founders of the American nation would have had trouble recognizing the America that emerged after the Civil War. By century's end we... -
The Hardhat Riot: Nixon, New York City, and the Dawn of the White Working-Class Revolution by David Paul Kuhn 9780197577837
RRP: £20.49Booksplease Price: £16.09The nail-biting story of when the hardhats of downtown Manhattan beat scores of hippies bloody in May 1970, four days after Kent State, and how the nation reacted. In May 1970, four days after...