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National Pastime

Stefan Szymanski, Andrew Zimbalist

• Hardcover | Engels
• This is the story of two great sports. One is ""America's game,"" while the other is ""the world's game."" Baseball and soccer are both beloved cultur... Lees meer

Private Pensions and Public Policies

• Hardcover | Engels
• The private pension system, together with Social Security, has provided millions of Americans with income security in retirement. But over the past th... Lees meer

School Choice

Brown Center on Education Policy

• Paperback | Engels
• In going about its work, the commission reviewed the possible effects of school choice in light of the core value of public education: that all childr... Lees meer

Demystifying Kashmir

Navnita Chadha Behera

• Hardcover | Engels
• The Kashmir issue is typically cast as a ""territorial dispute"" between two belligerent neighbors in South Asia. But there is much more to the story ... Lees meer

No Slack

Michael S Barr

• Hardcover | Engels
• The financial crisis exposed the potentially unsavoury results of the interaction between low- and moderate income households and alternative and main... Lees meer

Reforming Planned Economies in an Integrating World Economy

Barry P Bosworth, Gur Ofer

• Hardcover | Engels | Integrating National Economies: Promise & Pitfalls
• The still chaotic states of the former Soviet Union, a growing China, and the divergent nations of Eastern Europe are striving to radically transform ... Lees meer

Death and Dollars

• Hardcover | Engels
• Despite the recent downturn in the stock market, the 1990s boom and the shift to defined contribution plans mean that more individuals will have signi... Lees meer

In the Web of Politics

Joel D Aberbach, Bert A Rockman

• Hardcover | Engels
• Most people think of governmental bureaucracy as a dull subject. Yet for thirty years the American federal executive has been awash in political contr... Lees meer

Defending America

James M Lindsay, Michael E O'Hanlon

• Hardcover | Engels
• Arms control and missile defense are once again at the forefront of the American national security agenda. Not surprisingly, the debate has broken dow... Lees meer

Climatic Cataclysm

• Hardcover | Engels
• Global climate change poses not only environmental hazards but profound risks to planetary peace and stability as well. Climatic Cataclysm gathers exp... Lees meer

Peace Process

William B Quandt

• Paperback | Engels
• "Updated through the first term of President George W. Bush, the latest edition of this classic work analyzes how each U.S. president since Lyndon Joh... Lees meer

Repairing Paradise

William R Lowry

• Hardcover | Engels | Brookings Publications (All Titles)
• " By the turn of the millennium, it had become painfully apparent that the United States had made some serious misjudgments in its interactions with t... Lees meer

Government's Greatest Achievements

Paul C Light

• Hardcover | Engels
• In an era of promises to create smaller, more limited government, Americans often forget that the federal government has amassed an extraordinary reco... Lees meer

The Future of Academic Medical Centers

• Hardcover | Engels
• Academic medical centers provide cutting edge acute care, train tomorrow's physicians, and carry out research that will expand the range of treatable ... Lees meer

The Opportunity

Steven Pifer, Michael E O'Hanlon

• Hardcover | Engels | Brookings Focus Book
• For some observers, nuclear arms control is either a relic of the cold war, or a utopian dream about a denuclearized planet decades in the future. But... Lees meer

Turning Point

Darrell M West, John R Allen

• Hardcover | Engels
• Artificial Intelligence is here, today. How can society make the best use of it? Until recently, "artificial intelligence" sounded like something out ... Lees meer

American Living Standards

• Paperback | Engels
• American Living Standards contends that the central problem of the U.S. economy has been for some years now, and for the foreseeable future will conti... Lees meer

The Dissidents

Peter Reddaway

• Hardcover | Engels
• The nearly forgotten story of Soviet dissidents It has been nearly three decades since the collapse of the Soviet Union--enough time for the role that... Lees meer

The Party Leads All

• Paperback | Engels | Brookings-Wharton Papers on Urban Affairs
• Examining the past, current, and potential future roles of the Communist Party in governing China This book offers the most comprehensive and up-to-da... Lees meer

Rivalry and Response

• Paperback | Engels
• " In this timely volume, leading experts from Southeast Asia, Australia, and the United States assess these great power dynamics by examining the stra... Lees meer

The Iranian Revolution at Forty

• Paperback | Engels
• How Iran--and the world around it--have changed in the four decades since a revolutionary theocracy took power Complete with a helpful timeline and su... Lees meer

Norms of Protection

United Nations University

• Paperback | Engels
• A series of humanitarian tragedies in the 1990s (Somalia, Rwanda, Srebrenica, Kosovo) demonstrated the international community's failure to protect ci... Lees meer

Money and Good Intentions Are Not Enough

John E Brandl

• Hardcover | Engels
• State governments are spending a lot, accomplishing too little, and failing to meet their responsibilities to the public. In this book, John Brandl ar... Lees meer

Mergers, Sell-Offs, and Economic Efficiency

David J Ravenscraft, F M Scherer

• Paperback | Engels
• " This book covers the consolidation and merger of corporations and corporate divestiture in the United States. " Lees meer