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James K Polk is described as a spoilsman who appointed officers based upon their party affiliation rather than their qualifications. This book asserts that Polk followed an existing pattern of nomination that dated back to the beginning of the republic, in which the chief executives looked to qualifications first and loyalty to the party second.

Discusses the role of Arab transnational media in the emergence of pan-Arabism. This book explores the emergence of McArabism, a pan-Arab identity representing the convergence of local tribal identities with globalization and McArabism's impact on Arab society, the Arab-Israeli conflict, and various representations of the West and the Arab World.

In 1941, German and Finnish military forces established a blockade around Leningrad. During the 900 days of the siege, Leningrad was beset with aerial bombings, fuel shortages, and extreme starvation. Svetlana Magayeva, just ten years old in 1941, witnessed these raids and endured the cold and hunger. This is her story.

Managing the Mills reconstructs the management culture of this industry and shows how it interacted with the economics of steelmaking to shape particular labor policies like the twelve-hour day, welfare capitalism and the use of spies in the workplace.

Many classical as well as modern models of ministry appear to stress either a Christian identity or secular relevance. However, both qualities are essential to a comprehensive model of ministry. The author presents a friendship model of ministry that is both traditionally faithful and worldly pertinent.

This book is a verse-by-verse commentary that examines Mark 8:22-9:13, and concludes that these three episodes form the transition point-from dealing with Jesus' identity to his mission.

Previous studies of H. Richard Niebuhr's intellectual background have fallen into two groups: those that stress the German and especially Kantian sources of Niebuhr's thought, and those that emphasize the American and especially pragmatic sources of his thought.

Jesse Marvin Unruh acquired a national political reputation despite the fact that he never gained office above the California governmental level. He spent sixteen years (1955-1970) in the state legislature, seven of them as assembly speaker. While there he secured passage of moderate-liberal legislation and upgraded the quality of the state legislature to the number one position in the nation.

An Introduction to Connecticut State and Local Government is a timely, comprehensive, and well-referenced college level text for political science courses focused on state and local government. Author Edward Sembor covers the major governmental institutions and actors found at the state and local levels in Connecticut.

Basic Statistics for Social Workers covers descriptive and inferential statistics at an introductory level. Using examples from social work, the text covers single-subject analysis, as well as multiple regression. The mathematics is presented in a simple user-friendly manner.

This book chronicles the evolution of veteran's entitlement programs from 1636 through the Veteran's Millennium Health Care Act of 1999. The primary purpose of the book is to identify and explain role orientations of legislators in Congress, the President and Interest Groups in the formulation and enactment of the Veteran's Millennium Health Care Act of 1999.

Prison Argot is Gilbert L. Encinas' study of the different elements of prison language.

Legal Rights of Prisoners is a timely book that addresses the constitutional rights of people in places of confinement. More specifically, it examines the amendments that inmates use and the case law that has developed to address their concerns.

This book examines how the political and legislative process, and political money corrupt the enactment of a true banking reform legislation. The focus of the book is FIDICIA and all that surrounded it. The book's greatest contribution lies in examining the political process which fields the grounds and the groundrules on which banking institutions compete.

This book provides an up-to-date theologically balanced introduction to the Bible and its study, which takes biblical scholarship seriously and takes an affirming stance on faith.

Transcendental Wife tells the story of Abigail May Alcott (1800-1877), a 19th-century wife and mother, who accepted the view that women best served society and moral authority by supporting involved husbands and by nurturing future citizens, the children.