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Presidential Government

By: Benjamin Ginsberg

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Noted political scientist Benjamin Ginsberg has written an essential text for courses on the United States presidency. An invaluable resource, Ginsberg’s comprehensive analysis emphasizes the historical, constitutional, and legal dimensions of presidential power. He explores the history and essential aspects of the office, the president’s relationship to the rest of the executive branch and to a subordinated Congress, and the evolution of the American president from policy executor to policy maker. Compelling photo essays delve into topics of special interest, including First Spouses, Presidential Eligibility, and Congressional Investigations of the White House.

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Yale University Press

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0300212062

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9780300212068

America's State Governments

A Critical Look at Disconnected Democracies

By: Jennifer Bachner,Benjamin Ginsberg

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America's State Governments

A Critical Look at Disconnected Democracies

By: Jennifer Bachner,Benjamin Ginsberg

This timely and important new work takes a critical look at government in the American states and illustrates the disconnect between state government institutions and their constituents. The text illuminates three basic political problems of state governments: weak constitutional and institutional foundations; a lack of civic engagement; and long histories of unchecked public corruption. In addition, the book explains why some states did and others did not respond promptly to the COVID-19 pandemic and examines America's long-standing problem of police and prosecutorial misconduct–providing a context for understanding the demonstrations and protests that rocked American cities in the summer of 2020. For students and citizens of state politics, the book concludes with a proposal aimed at civic literacy and action

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164

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Routledge

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1000094588

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9781000094589

Bruckner's Fourth

The Biography of a Symphony

By: Benjamin M Korstvedt,George N and Selma U Jeppson Professor of Music Department of Visual and Performing Arts Benjamin M Korstvedt

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Bruckner's Fourth

The Biography of a Symphony

By: Benjamin M Korstvedt,George N and Selma U Jeppson Professor of Music Department of Visual and Performing Arts Benjamin M Korstvedt

Bruckner's Fourth: The Biography of a Symphony is a detailed account of the music and history of the most well-known symphony by the great Austrian composer Anton Bruckner (1824-1896). This book presents the first accurate, complete account of the history of this symphony based on extensive new research and critical analysis.

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356

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Oxford University Press

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0197765661

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9780197765661

A Good Life

Newspapering and Other Adventures

By: Ben Bradlee,Benjamin C. Bradlee,Bob Woodward,Carl Bernstein,Sally Quinn

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A Good Life

Newspapering and Other Adventures

By: Ben Bradlee,Benjamin C. Bradlee,Bob Woodward,Carl Bernstein,Sally Quinn

In this witty, candid memoir, Ben Bradlee, the most important, glamorous, and famous newspaperman of modern times, traces his path from Harvard to the battles of the Pacific war to the pinnacle of success as the editor of The Washington Post--during the Watergate scandal and every other important event of the last three decades. of photos.

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Simon and Schuster

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1501191713

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9781501191718

The Train and the Telegraph

A Revisionist History

By: Benjamin Sidney Michael Schwantes

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The Train and the Telegraph

A Revisionist History

By: Benjamin Sidney Michael Schwantes

A challenge to the long-held notion of close ties between the railroad and telegraph industries of the nineteenth century. To many people in the nineteenth century, the railroad and the telegraph were powerful, transformative forces, ones that seemed to work closely together to shape the economy, society, and politics of the United States. However, the perception—both popular and scholarly—of the intrinsic connections between these two institutions has largely obscured a far more complex and contested relationship, one that created profound divisions between entrepreneurial telegraph promoters and warier railroad managers. In The Train and the Telegraph, Benjamin Sidney Michael Schwantes argues that uncertainty, mutual suspicion, and cautious experimentation more aptly describe how railroad officials and telegraph entrepreneurs hesitantly established a business and technical relationship. The two industries, Schwantes reveals, were drawn together gradually through external factors such as war, state and federal safety regulations, and financial necessity, rather than because of any perception that the two industries were naturally related or beneficial to each other. Complicating the existing scholarship by demonstrating that the railroad and telegraph in the United States were uneasy partners at best—and more often outright antagonists—throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, The Train and the Telegraph will appeal to scholars of communication, transportation, and American business history and political economy, as well as to enthusiasts of the nineteenth-century American railroad industry.

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223

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JHU Press

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1421429756

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9781421429755

The Polygamists

A History of Colorado City, Arizona

By: Benjamin G. Bistline

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The Polygamists

A History of Colorado City, Arizona

By: Benjamin G. Bistline

Bistline, resident historian of Colorado City, Arizona, has compiled a detailed history of the shifts in power, changes in leadership and philosophies, and the persecution from outside and within this polygamist community.

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Agreka Books

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1888106743

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9781888106749

Organizational Climate and Culture

An Introduction to Theory, Research, and Practice

By: Mark G. Ehrhart,Benjamin Schneider,William H. Macey

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Organizational Climate and Culture

An Introduction to Theory, Research, and Practice

By: Mark G. Ehrhart,Benjamin Schneider,William H. Macey

The fields of organizational climate and organizational culture have co-existed for several decades with very little integration between the two. In Organizational Climate and Culture: An Introduction to Theory, Research, and Practice, Mark G. Ehrhart, Benjamin Schneider, and William H. Macey break down the barriers between these fields to encourage a broader understanding of how an organization’s environment affects its functioning and performance. Building on in-depth reviews of the development of both the organizational climate and organizational culture literatures, the authors identify the key issues that researchers in each field could learn from the other and provide recommendations for the integration of the two. They also identify how practitioners can utilize the key concepts in the two literatures when conducting organizational cultural inquiries and leading change efforts. The end product is an in-depth discussion of organizational climate and culture unlike anything that has come before that provides unique insights for a broad audience of academics, practitioners, and students.

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385

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Routledge

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1317934407

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9781317934400

Letters from a Life Volume 3 (1946-1951)

The Selected Letters of Benjamin Britten

By: Benjamin Britten

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Letters from a Life Volume 3 (1946-1951)

The Selected Letters of Benjamin Britten

By: Benjamin Britten

The third volume of the annotated selected letters of composer Benjamin Britten covers the years 1946-51, during which he wrote many of his best-known works, founded and developed the English Opera Group and the Aldeburgh Festival, and toured widely in Europe and the United States as a pianist and conductor.Correspondents include librettists Ronald Duncan (The Rape of Lucretia), Eric Crozier (Albert Herring, Saint Nicolas, The Little Sweep) and E. M. Forster (Billy Budd); conductor Ernest Ansermet and composer Lennox Berkeley; publishers Ralph Hawkes and Erwin Stein of Boosey & Hawkes; and the celebrated tenor Peter Pears, Britten's partner. Among friends in the United States are Christopher Isherwood, Elizabeth Mayer and Aaron Copland, and there is a significant meeting with Igor Stravinsky.This often startling and innovative period is vividly evoked by the comprehensive and scholarly annotations, which offer a wide range of detailed information fascinating for both the Britten specialist and the general reader.Donald Mitchell contributes a challenging introduction exploring the interaction of life and work in Britten's creativity, and an essay examining for the first time, through their correspondence, the complex relationship between the composer and the writer Edward Sackville-West.

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Faber & Faber

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0571279937

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9780571279937

Home Front Heroes [3 volumes]

A Biographical Dictionary of Americans during Wartime [3 volumes]

By: Benjamin F. Shearer

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Home Front Heroes [3 volumes]

A Biographical Dictionary of Americans during Wartime [3 volumes]

By: Benjamin F. Shearer

Brings together 1,000 focused biographies of Americans who affected how the United States made, supported, perceived, and protested its major wars from the Revolution to Gulf War II. Inventors and scientists, nurses and physicians, reformers and clerics, civil rights and labor leaders, financiers and economist, artists and musicians have all been soldiers on the home front. Home Front Heroes brings together brief and focused biographies of 1,000 Americans who affected how the United States made, supported, perceived and protested its major war efforts from the Revolution to Gulf War II. Battlefield victories and defeats are in a very real sense the reflection of the society waging war. Inventors and scientists, social reformers and clerics, civil rights and labor leaders, nurses and physicians, actors and directors, financiers and industrialists, economists and psychologists, artists and musicians, writers and journalists, have all been soldiers on the home front. The biographical entries highlighting the subjects' wartime contributions are arranged alphabetically. Many of the entries also include suggestions for further reading. Thematic indexes make it easy to look up people alphabetically by last name and by war, and other indices list entries under broad categories - Arts and Culture; Business, Industry, and Labor; Nursing and Medicine; Science, Engineering and Inventions - with more detailed occupational background. Entries include: Julia Ward Howe, composer of The Battle Hymn of the Republic; Robert Fulton, inventor of the steam engine and architect of the submarine Nautilus; Martin Brander, maker of Eliot's Saddle Ring Carbine; Robert Parker Parrott, inventor of the Parrott cannon; Novelist and War Correspondent Stephen Crane; Founder of the Army Nurse Corps Dr. Anita Newcomb McGee; Composer John Philip Sousa (Stars and Stripes Forever); Louis M. Terman, who invented the IQ test; Reginald Fessenden, developer of a sonic depth finder; machine-gun inventor Benjamin Hotchkiss; Labor leader John L. Lewis; Comedian and USO stalwart Bob Hope; Dr. Ancel Keys developer of the K-ration; napalm inventor Louis F. Fieser; and many more. The work is fully indexed, and contains an extensive bibliography.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313047057

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9780313047053

Book's by Benjamin Cooke

Presidential Government

Presidential Government

America's State Governments

America's State Governments

Bruckner's Fourth

Bruckner's Fourth

A Good Life

A Good Life

The Train and the Telegraph

The Train and the Telegraph

The Polygamists

The Polygamists

Organizational Climate and Culture

Organizational Climate and Culture

Letters from a Life Volume 3 (1946-1951)

Letters from a Life Volume 3 (1946-1951)

Home Front Heroes [3 volumes]

Home Front Heroes [3 volumes]

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