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  • Dancing with the Queen, Marching with King

    The Memoirs of Alexander "Sam" Aldrich

    by Sam Aldrich ...
    Series series Excelsior Editions
    A lively and entertaining memoir of a life in public service to the city and state of New York.When he was twenty-five, Sam Aldrich danced with Queen Elizabeth II in London. By the time he was thirty-seven, he was marching with Martin Luther King Jr. in Selma. Recounting the journey between and beyond those two points, and musing over the irony of the contrast they represent, is the subject of ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • New York's Broken Constitution

    The Governance Crisis and the Path to Renewed Greatness

    Edited by Peter J. Galie, Christopher Bopst, Gerald Benjamin ...
    Series series SUNY series in American Constitutionalism
    Examines the significant gaps between what New York State's constitution says and how the state is actually governed and offers ideas for reform.On its face, New York State's constitution is an elaborate and impressive aggregation of processes, powers, mandates, and limits. But many of these are "inoperative," and New Yorkers who read the document and believe what it says will come away with a ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • Tales from the Sausage Factory

    Making Laws in New York State

    by Daniel L. Feldman, Gerald Benjamin ...
    Series series Excelsior Editions
    A former state legislator and a political scientist team up to show how New York's legislature was once the nation's model professional legislature, and how it might recover from its present dysfunction."Laws are like sausages," Otto von Bismarck is said to have remarked. "It is better not to see them being made." Even among sausage factories, New York State's legislature is notoriously ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of New York State Government and Politics

    by Gerald Benjamin ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    New York remains the Empire State. Its trillion dollar economy makes the state a national-and often world-leader in banking, finance, publishing, soft services (law, accounting, insurance, consulting), higher education, culture, and the arts. With more than one in five of its residents having immigrated from elsewhere, New York State is an ethnic and social harbinger for an increasingly diverse ... Read more

    $170.99 USD

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  • Urban Environmental Policy Analysis

    by Heather E. Campbell, Elizabeth A. Corley ...
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  • The Brooklyn Wars

    The Stories Behind the Remaking of New York's Most Celebrated Borough

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    Across the globe, the word “Brooklyn” has come to represent cutting-edge cuisine, a vibrant music and literary culture, and the epitome of hip. But most of the world doesn’t see the price that local residents pay as their neighborhoods are swallowed by change. In The Brooklyn Wars, masterful storyteller and award-winning journalist Neil deMause turns a spotlight on the borough’s transformation. ... Read more

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    TIME SERVED explores the plight of military veterans deported after serving time for felonies. In this searing investigative report, J. Malcolm Garcia asks the question, "What makes someone American?" Garcia follows four deported vets as they work to return to their families and the country that they served through multiple tours of duty.J. Malcolm Garcia is a freelance writer and author of The ... Read more

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  • A Short History of Peckers

    by Benny Profane, Richard Crasta ...
    Men are ruled by their peckers, and yet, the role of the penis in human history (and also herstory) has been greatly underrated and understudied. There may be a hundred biographies and ten million words written about the life of a President or a king, and nothing at all about the pecker that ruled him. (Or, as more and more women become heads of state: the yoni that rules them.)Benny Profane’s ... Read more

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  • Dragon in the Caribbean: China's Global Re-Dimensioning - Challenges and Opportunities for the Caribbean

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  • Representing Women

    Sex, Gender, and Legislative Behavior in Arizona and California

    by Beth Reingold ...
    Women in public office are often assumed to “make a difference” for women, as women — in other words, to represent their female constituents better than do their male counterparts. But is sex really an accurate predictor of a legislator’s political choices and actions? In this book, Beth Reingold compares the representational activities and attitudes of male and female members of the Arizona and ... Read more

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  • Why Do We Still Have A Race Problem?

    Whatever Makes Us Different, Makes Us the Same

    by Raymond Sturgis ...
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