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Campaign Finance

What Everyone Needs to Know

By: Robert E. Mutch

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Campaign Finance

What Everyone Needs to Know

By: Robert E. Mutch

Campaign Finance: What Everyone Needs to Know(R) explains the laws, regulations, and court decisions surrounding campaign finance, and asks how they fit into the larger debate about how we want our democracy to work.

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Oxford University Press

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0190274689

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Money Matters

Consequences of Campaign Finance Reform in U.S. House Elections

By: Robert K. Goidel,Donald August Gross,Todd G. Shields

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Money Matters

Consequences of Campaign Finance Reform in U.S. House Elections

By: Robert K. Goidel,Donald August Gross,Todd G. Shields

Methods of campaign financing have been controversial since George Washington first ran for office, and debates over campaign finance reform have raged just as long. Contemporary critics of reform often contend that it would decrease electoral competition, voter turnout, and the amount of information voters receive about candidates. Money Matters subjects these criticisms to careful, systemic analysis_using simulations, aggregate vote analyses, and individual-level data analyses based on House elections_and concludes that reform, with modest public subsidies and spending limits, would enhance rather than diminish the U.S. system of democratic governance. This timely book helps bridge the gap between quantitative academic research and applied progressive reform efforts. It will be of interest to scholars and students of political parties, the legislative process, campaigns and elections, political institutions, public policy, and political behavior and methodology.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0847688682

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Environmental Science

Systems and Solutions

By: Michael L. McKinney,Robert M. Schoch,Logan Yonavjak

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Environmental Science

Systems and Solutions

By: Michael L. McKinney,Robert M. Schoch,Logan Yonavjak

Updated with the latest data from the field, Environmental Science: Systems and Solutions, Fifth Edition explains the concepts and teaches the skills needed to understand multi-faceted, and often very complex environmental issues. The authors present the arguments, rebuttals, evidence, and counterevidence from many sides of the debate. The Fifth Edition includes new Science in Action boxes which feature cutting-edge case studies and essays, contributed by subject matter experts, that highlight recent and ongoing research within environmental science. With an "Earth as a system" approach the text continues to emphasize Earth's intricate web of interactions among the biosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere, and lithosphere, and how we are central components in these four spheres. This flexible, unbiased approach highlights:1. how matter cycles over time through Earth's systems2. the importance of the input-throughput-output processes that describe the global environment3. how human activities and consumption modify Earth's systems4. and the scientific, economic, and policy solutions to environmental problemsRevised and updated to reflect current trends and statistics within Environmental Science.New content on renewable energy, solar panels, and compact fluorescent light bulbs.The latest information on Hydropower and the advantages and disadvantages of hydroelectric energy.The companion website includes robust learning tools that enable students to make full use of today's learning technology. Students will find practice quizzes, virtual flashcards, answers to in-text questions, and links to additional coverage regarding material discussed in the text.Instructor Resources include an instructor's manual, Test Bank, PowerPoint Lecture Outline Slides, and a PowerPoint Image Bank.

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Jones & Bartlett Publishers

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1449628338

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GRE Psychology Test

By: Ronald Thomas Kellogg,Robert T. Kellogg,Richard Pisacreta

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GRE Psychology Test

By: Ronald Thomas Kellogg,Robert T. Kellogg,Richard Pisacreta

If You're Serious About Your Career, Use the Most Comprehensive GRE Guide on the Market Today! REA's NEW GRE Psychology Test Prep with Practice Tests on CD Gets You into Grad School! Higher GRE scores mean better options! Scoring well on the GRE Psychology Subject Test doesn't just help you get into grad school, it helps move your career forward. So it's worth every minute of your valuable time to be knowledgeable, confident, and prepared to do your best. REA's new test prep will get you ready for the GRE and on your way to grad school! Designed for students and professionals looking to advance their careers, this eighth edition of our popular test prep contains everything you need to succeed. A list of review topics identifies all the information tested on the GRE Psychology test. A comprehensive glossary containing more than 2,000 must-know psychology terms is provided for reference and additional study. The book includes six full-length practice tests based on the most recent GRE Psychology exam. Each test contains every type of question that can be expected on the GRE so you can "practice for real" and boost your confidence before taking the exam. Three of the book's exams are featured on our TestWare(R) CD with the most powerful scoring and diagnostic tools available today. Automatic scoring and instant reports help you zero in on the topics and types of questions that give you trouble now, so you'll succeed when it counts! Our on-screen detailed explanations of answers help you identify your strengths and weaknesses. We don't just say which answers are right - we also explain why the other answer choices are incorrect - so you'll be prepared on test day! Our exclusive Pro Study Plan helps you maximize your valuable study time while learning effective test-taking strategies and timesaving tips from the pros. As an added bonus, up-to-the-minute GRE test information and updates are available at: www.rea.com/GRE If you're serious about your career and are ready to take on the GRE Psychology Subject Test - get the most comprehensive guide on the market today!

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Research & Education Assoc.

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0738608394

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9780738608396

Half Heaven Half Heartache

By: Robert E. Alexander

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Half Heaven Half Heartache

By: Robert E. Alexander

Most of us are eager to share our achievements, but few are willing to expose our failures. Half Heaven Half Heartache does just that as Judge Robert Alexander bares his soul on every page; good, bad, and ugly. Adopted by a Christian family, Alexander suffered terribly when his parents divorced, and struggled through military service as a young man during the Vietnam War. Embracing the horrors of a biker's life, he became everything he hated. You will love him and loathe him riding shotgun through Hell and back, watching him claw his way up from the lowest of lows. Seizing the brass ring of power, you'll endure his despair as he is blindsided by the agonizing emptiness awaiting him at the top. And just when it seemed hope was lost, Robert Alexander discovered the truth that even the deepest wounds can be healed when a man experiences God's amazing grace and mercy. Judge Robert E. Alexander is retired from the NYS Department of Correctional Services where he has served in a number of capacities. Additionally, he has taught for over 25 years as an Adjunct Faculty member at two prestigious colleges, serving on numerous civic organizations. Presently Judge Alexander presides over the Village of Corfu and Town of Pembroke Courts. Featured on radio, television, in documentaries, and magazine articles, he is the founder and Director of Men of the Harvest Ministries, a Christian charity providing appliances, food, and low cost vehicles for those in need. While holding several academic degrees, Judge Alexander is also an Ordained Minister who travels across the United States and Canada sharing the life changing message of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. He and his wife, Gerry Ellen, have beenmarried for 36 years, and have six children and 12 grandchildren.

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Xulon Press

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1607910942

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Untruth

Why the Conventional Wisdom Is (Almost Always) Wrong

By: Robert J. Samuelson

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Untruth

Why the Conventional Wisdom Is (Almost Always) Wrong

By: Robert J. Samuelson

In Untruth, Newsweek and Washington Post columnist Robert J. Samuelson explains why our political, economic and cultural debates so routinely traffic in misinformation--popular fads that, like meteors, momentarily burn brightly in public consciousness and then fizzle out. Advocacy groups, politicians and their unwitting allies in the media instinctively create agendas of problems that afflict society and must be "solved".The problems are often exaggerated and oversimplified, and the result is that the public is misled about what is wrong and how easily it can be made right. Untruth is the first collection of Samuelson's insightful assaults on the conventional wisdom. Included are columns arguing that campaign contributions have not corrupted politics, that the "service economy" is not turning America into a nation of hamburger flippers, and that the Internet isn't the most important invention since the printing press.

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AtRandom

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0679647155

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Livio Orazio Valentini

An Artist's Spiritual Odyssey

By: Robert E Alexander,John A. Elliott

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Livio Orazio Valentini

An Artist's Spiritual Odyssey

By: Robert E Alexander,John A. Elliott

An illustrated biography celebrating the life and legacy of a renowned Italian artist In this illustrated biography of the late Italian artist, Livio Orazio Valentini: An Artist's Spiritual Odyssey, Robert E. Alexander and John A. Elliott celebrate the life and legacy of the renowned painter and sculptor while acknowledging his special relationship with the people of Aiken, South Carolina. Born to a poor family in 1920, Valentini lived most of his life in Orvieto, Italy. With no money for a formal education, he became a self-taught artist. At the age of twenty, Valentini was called into military service during World War II. After being captured by the Germans, he was confined in Buchenwald and other concentration camps, where he endured two years of physical labor. For Valentini the confinement was life-changing; he experienced a spiritual awakening that became a lifelong odyssey reflected in his art and teaching. Valentini's art and even his existence centered on his efforts to find freedom. His paintings, charcoal sketches, and sculptures formed from terracotta, forged iron, tile, or stone are often a statement on the human condition, germination and rebirth, and the negativity and violence of humanity. Valentini often spoke about injustice and oppression through the metaphor of a caged bird, explaining how compassion could overcome cruelty and art could bring healing and hope to conquer fear. While Valentini's art was well known in Italy and other European countries, it was relatively unknown in the United States until the 1990s, when Aiken, South Carolina, and Orvieto, Italy, became linked after a chance meeting between Valentini and a fellow Rotary Club member who was vacationing in Orvieto. The connection blossomed into a multifaceted exchange program for students and citizens that celebrates culture and art, including Valentini's. Erika Pauli Bizzarri, who offered editorial assistance on this volume, has worked as a research and translation assistant on countless volumes including McGraw Hill's English edition of Encyclopedia of World Art. She taught art history at Gonzaga University in Florence, Italy.

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Univ of South Carolina Press

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1611178991

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Issues in American Political Life

Money, Violence and Biology

By: Robert Thobaben,Charles Funderburk,Donna Schlagheck

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Issues in American Political Life

Money, Violence and Biology

By: Robert Thobaben,Charles Funderburk,Donna Schlagheck

A core text for undergraduate courses in American Public Policy, or supplemental reading in such courses as Introduction to American Government or Politics, American Public Policy Analysis, Introduction to Political Science. A substantive alternative to typical "issues" texts-which cover too many issues, too superficially-this intriguing and comprehensive text offers a more in-depth and coherent approach to contemporary policy problems and solutions. It provides a conceptual framework in which students can become comfortable actually doing policy analysis, and in learning skills beyond reading about certain political issues. Thematically organized, it looks at nine specific issues grouped into three broad categories that hold an enduring importance in American political life-money and politics, violence and politics, and biology and politics. All nine chapters and their respective topics (campaigns, corruption, welfare, crime, terrorism, arms control, the environment, biomedical issues, and biotechnology) have a strong conceptual base with current political dimensions and policy concerns woven throughout. Students not only learn the context, status, and prospects of issues confronting the U.S. government, but also see how these issues now cross our domestic borders into a global realm.

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Routledge

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1317347064

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Tennessee, a Short History

By: Robert Ewing Corlew

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Tennessee, a Short History

By: Robert Ewing Corlew

A general survey of Tennessee history from the earliest settlements to the present.

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0870496476

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9780870496479

Buying the Vote

A History of Campaign Finance Reform

By: Robert E. Mutch

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Buying the Vote

A History of Campaign Finance Reform

By: Robert E. Mutch

Are corporations citizens? Is political inequality a necessary aspect of a democracy or something that must be stamped out? These are the questions that have been at the heart of the debate surrounding campaign finance reform for nearly half a century. But as Robert E. Mutch demonstrates in this fascinating book, these were not always controversial matters. The tenets that corporations do not count as citizens, and that self-government functions best by reducing political inequality, were commonly heldup until the early years of the twentieth century, when Congress recognized the strength of these principles by prohibiting corporations from making campaign contributions, passing a disclosure law, and setting limits on campaign expenditures. But conservative opposition began to appear in the 1970s. Well represented on the Supreme Court, opponents of campaign finance reform won decisions granting First Amendment rights to corporations, and declaring the goal of reducing political inequality to be unconstitutional. Buying the Vote analyzes the rise and decline of campaign finance reform by tracking the evolution of both the ways in which presidential campaigns have been funded since the late nineteenth century. Through close examinations of major Supreme Court decisions, Mutch shows how the Court has fashioned a new and profoundly inegalitarian definition of American democracy. Drawing on rarely studied archival materials on presidential campaign finance funds, Buying the Vote is an illuminating look at politics, money, and power in America.

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Oxford University Press

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0199340021

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Half Heaven Half Heartache

By: Robert E. Alexander

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Half Heaven Half Heartache

By: Robert E. Alexander

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Zenons Politeia

By: Robert Bees

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Zenons Politeia

By: Robert Bees

Zeno’s Republic, a design of the ideal state consisting of gods and wise citizens, is subjected to a new reading as the vision of a society where life is lived according to natural law. Attached are the fragments with German translations. - Zenons Politeia, der Entwurf eines idealen Staates aus Göttern und Weisen, erfährt in der vorliegenden Studie eine neue Deutung als Gesellschaftsform, in der das Leben nach dem Gesetz der Natur verwirklicht ist. Beigegeben ist eine Sammlung der Testimonien.

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BRILL

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9004192026

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9789004192027

Interest Groups and Campaign Finance Reform in the United States and Canada

By: Robert G Boatright

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Interest Groups and Campaign Finance Reform in the United States and Canada

By: Robert G Boatright

In the early 2000s, the United States and Canada implemented new campaign finance laws restricting the ability of interest groups to make political contributions and to engage in political advertising. Whereas both nations' legislative reforms sought to reduce the role of interest groups in campaigns, these laws have had opposite results in the two nations. In the United States, interest groups remained influential by developing broad coalitions aimed at mobilizing individual voters and contributors. In Canada, interest groups largely withdrew from election campaigns, and, thus, important voices in elections have gone silent. Robert G. Boatright explains such disparate results by placing campaign finance reforms in the context of ongoing political and technological changes. Robert G. Boatright is Associate Professor of Political Science at Clark University. Cover photo: © iStockphoto.com / alfabravoalpharomeo

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University of Michigan Press

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0472026755

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9780472026753

Fundamentals and Applications of Bioremediation

Principles

By: Robert L. Irvine,Subhas K. Sikdar

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Fundamentals and Applications of Bioremediation

Principles

By: Robert L. Irvine,Subhas K. Sikdar

FROM THE INTRODUCTION This three-volume set, Bioremediation: Principles and Practice, provides state of the art description of advances in pollution treatment and reduction using biological means; identify and address, at a fundamental level, broad scientific and technological areas that are unique to the subject or theme and that must be understood if advances are to be made; and provide a comprehensive overview of new developments at the regulatory, desk-top, bench-scale, pilot scale, and full-scale levels. The set covers all media-air, water, and soil/sediment-and blends the talents, knowledge, and know-how of academic, industrial, governmental, and international contributors. The set addresses the removal of both hazardous and nonhazardous contaminants from the liquid, solid, and gas phase using biological processes. This includes the biological treatment of wastes of municipal and industrial origin; bioremediation of leachates, soils, and sediments; and biofiltration for contaminated gases.

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1566763088

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Book's by Robert E Alexander

Campaign Finance

Campaign Finance

Money Matters

Money Matters

Environmental Science

Environmental Science

GRE Psychology Test

GRE Psychology Test

Half Heaven Half Heartache

Half Heaven Half Heartache

Untruth

Untruth

Livio Orazio Valentini

Livio Orazio Valentini

Issues in American Political Life

Issues in American Political Life

Tennessee, a Short History

Tennessee, a Short History

Buying the Vote

Buying the Vote

Half Heaven Half Heartache

Half Heaven Half Heartache

Zenons Politeia

Zenons Politeia

Interest Groups and Campaign Finance Reform in the United States and Canada

Interest Groups and Campaign Finance Reform in the United States and Canada

Fundamentals and Applications of Bioremediation

Fundamentals and Applications of Bioremediation

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