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Was he a Red-baiter, a worldly statesman, a war criminal or, in the end, a punchline? Jacobson combines biography and intellectual and cultural history to understand the emotional life of Richard Nixon, exploring how the former president struggled between great effusions of feeling and great inhibition, how he winced at the notion of his reputation for rage, and how he used that ill repute to his advantage.

Against steep odds, George made land nationalization vital to the politics of a nation dominated by small farmers and helped push liberalism leftward through his calls for collective rights to land and natural resources.

Nabhan tells the inside story of corporate influence, courtroom drama, legal discourse, monumental verdicts, and the ensuing media frenzy surrounding this massive uncovering of the truth and the years of scientific and legal work that led up to it.

Rindfleisch, Robbie Richardson, Yael Shapira, Kaitlin Tonti, Sophie Tunney, Denys Van Renen, Andrew O. Winckles, Joshua Wright, Chi-Ming Yang, Jolene Zigarovich, Tim Zumhof

"This book is an accessible and readable resource for women who are navigating obstacles in their career in higher education. The book draws on secondary sources, anecdotes, and the author's own experiences to suggest ways that women-mostly faculty and administrators-can thrive at their institution"--

"This book provides a historical explanation for cost escalation in American higher education. It also explains why the wealth--the financial capital--of colleges and universities has grown enormously, even faster, over the same period"--

"This volume is written by and for academic leaders in higher education. Each chapter explores a topic related to how administrative leaders are influenced by national events, local partnerships, or on-campus collaborations"--

"The author tells her story of teaching Shakespeare to college students in a world that cares less and less about humanistic ways of thinking. She moves alternately between her classroom experience and the cultural forces pushing in on education in the United States"--

This pathbreaking book reveals how these global corporations further their policy influence through the creation of transnational nongovernmental organizations that support industry views.

"In Play, Marc Malmdorf Andersen argues that playing is not just for kids and the young at heart; rather, it is a scientific process. Through tinkering with one hare-brained idea after another, we become better, more creative adults. Malmdorf Andersen charts the evolution of play and evaluates research in developmental psychology and biology that shows how play helps us develop trust and intimacy, solve problems, and explore the world around us. "--Back cover.

These books present unique insights on a wide range of topics and concepts--everything from love, trust, and play to corruption, welfare, and sleep--that entertain and enlighten readers with exciting discoveries and new perspectives.

"Creativity was once seen as the mark of mad geniuses, troubled souls, and avant-garde eccentrics, Today, however, we expect to find the trait thriving in and around us. In Creativity, Jan L²hmann Stephensen provides a historical and contemporary view of creativity and explains why it is not always the answer to every problem. From van Gogh to Springsteen, L²hmann Stephensen explores the creative process of artists to craft a new theory of creativity, one rooted in collectivism and fluidity."--Back cover

These books present unique insights on a wide range of topics and concepts--everything from love, trust, and play, to corruption, welfare, and sleep--that entertain and enlighten readers with exciting discoveries and new perspectives.

"In Happiness, researcher Christian Bj²rnskov argues that the basic factors that constitute happiness are mostly universal across cultures. By evaluating studies and theories on happiness that test how family, genetics, religion, wealth, work, and trust factor into our happiness as well as how often we smile or compare ourselves to others, Bj²rnskov outlines why our most important source of happiness may be the people around us."--Back cover.

No woman will read the book without experiencing at least one big wake-up call about how to live a happier, healthier life.

The book encourages parents to modify their own behavior, teaching them to shift their focus away from battling with their kids and to use their energy to help their children develop winning habits and attitudes for life.

The book includes detailed information on developing budgets, "beforeand "afterversions of proposals, and descriptions of common pitfalls that everyone can avoid.

This anthology of primary materials--the words of American women writers on the act of authorship and their participation in the literary cultures of the nineteenth century-- offers revealing insight into Hawthorne's "damned mob of scribbling women."

The Games Presidents Play provides a new way to view the American presidency. Looking at the athletic strengths, feats, and shortcomings of our presidents, John Sayle Watterson explores not only their health, physical attributes, personalities, and sports IQs, but also the increasing trend of Americans in the past century to equate sporting achievements with courage, manliness, and political competence.From the opening pitch of the baseball season to presenting awards to Olympic champions, our sports culture asks the president to play an increasingly active role. Sports, Watterson argues, open a window into the presidency, shedding light on presidential behavior and offering new perspectives on the office and the sporting men--and women--who have and will occupy it.John Sayle Watterson is an adjunct assistant professor of history at James Madison University. He is the author of College Football: History, Spectacle, Controversy, also published by Johns Hopkins."Sports historian Watterson suggests that presidents' athletic endeavors reveal a lot about their actions in office . . . An enjoyable study of politics and culture."--Publishers Weekly"A wry and perceptive work."--Booklist"With a presidential campaign on the horizon, Watterson introduces an intriguing way of evaluating presidential fitness for office--and opportunities for sports fans to try out for the job of pundit."--Richmond Times-Dispatch"[Watterson] documents the link between sports and the Presidency well and even credits Theodore Roosevelt with 'the twentieth-century sporting presidency.'"--ESPN, ESPN.com"It is the closest thing to the definitive work on the subject yet produced, and likely will remain so for quite some time."--Journal of American Culture

Mendolsohn, a time line of key environmental events, a bibliography of groundbreaking works, and an index organized by specialization, this biographical encyclopedia is a handy and complete guide to the major people involved in the modern American environmental movement.

The thoroughly updated and enlarged edition of Flotilla is the result of impressive research on a forgotten chapter in the development of the young nation's naval and maritime tradition.

The Constitution of the United States says little about the president's specific duties other than the enforcement of the laws of the land. Combining brilliant scholarship with a lively style, this book reveals how deep-seated forces, inherent in American society and affecting the presidency for over two centuries, have transformed the office created by the framers of the Constitution into the complex, powerful, and responsible institution it is today.The administrations of the "strong" presidents have added to the powers and duties of the office as we know them. In addition, social and political forces such as the growth of political parties, economic and geographic expansion, and the changing nature of the national government have all had their influence on the presidency. Binkley traces the history of these processes and illustrates them with vivid examples of how they worked for a number of presidents, including Washington, Jackson, Polk, Lincoln, the two Roosevelts, and Eisenhower.Every chapter of the book brings a fresh and authoritative approach to an office and an institution that is the subject of searching debates today.

The Nanticoke makes clear the urgency of preserving this vital but fragile ecosystem.

Mary Elizabeth Garrett was one of the most influential philanthropists and women activists of the Gilded Age. With Mary's legacy all but forgotten, Kathleen Waters Sander recounts in impressive detail the life and times of this remarkable woman, through the turbulent years of the Civil War to the early twentieth century. At once a captivating biography of Garrett and an epic account of the rise of commerce, railroading, and women's rights, Sander's work reexamines the great social and political movements of the age.As the youngest child and only daughter of the B&O Railroad mogul John Work Garrett, Mary was bright and capable, well suited to become her father's heir apparent. But social convention prohibited her from following in his footsteps, a source of great frustration for the brilliant and strong-willed woman. Mary turned her attention instead to promoting women's rights, using her status and massive wealth to advance her uncompromising vision for women's place in the expanding United States. She contributed the endowment to establish the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine with two unprecedented conditions: that women be admitted on the same terms as men and that the school be graduate level, thereby forcing revolutionary policy changes at the male-run institution. Believing that advanced education was the key to women's betterment, she helped found and sustain the prestigious girls' preparatory school in Baltimore, the Bryn Mawr School. Her philanthropic gifts to Bryn Mawr College helped transform the modest Quaker school into a renowned women's college. Mary was also a great supporter of women's suffrage, working tirelessly to gain equal rights for women.Suffragist, friend of charitable causes, and champion of women's education, Mary Elizabeth Garrett both improved the status of women and ushered in modern standards of American medicine and philanthropy. Sander's thoughtful and informed study of this pioneering philanthropist is the first to recognize Garrett and her monumental contributions to equality in America."Highly recommended."--Midwest Book Review"Sander's book offers a well-researched and warm portrait of a female maverick who redefined the meaning of the term daddy's girl."--Baltimore Sun"Garrett's biography is long overdue, and Kathleen Waters Sander does a splendid job."--American Historical Review"A well-written, judicious, and engrossing examination of one of the major women philanthropists in the United States during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era."--Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era"An important, richly detailed biography of a formidable nineteenth-century woman who worked in a man's world to help women attain education, suffrage, and equality."--Journal of American History