Justin: 1754 books
Incremental Polarization
A Unified Spatial Theory of Legislative Elections, Parties and Roll Call Voting
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
As the last decade has shown, ideological polarization in Congress has reached historic levels. Yet, spatial theory has become increasingly important for how scholars understand Congress and legislative elections. In spatial models, candidates select positions along an ideological spectrum, and voters...
Representational Style in Congress
What Legislators Say and Why It Matters
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2013
This book demonstrates the consequences of legislators' strategic communication for representation in American politics. Representational Style in Congress shows how legislators present their work to cultivate constituent support. Using a massive new data set of texts from legislators and new statistical...
Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings in the U.S. Senate
Reconsidering the Charade
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2014
Critics claim that Supreme Court nominees have become more evasive in recent decades and that Senate confirmation hearings lack real substance. Conducting a line-by-line analysis of the confirmation hearing of every nominee since 1955—an original dataset of nearly 11,000 questions and answers from...
by Justin F. Stone
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
Based on the author's experiences and outlooks about sacred life in Asia and India, this packed volume contains Justin Stone's unique views on Chinese Taoism and Indian Buddhism. Stone relates compelling personal incidents from his life and writes thoughtful essays, such as "The Human Condition" and...
Radicals in the Barrio
Magonistas, Socialists, Wobblies, and Communists in the Mexican-American Working Class
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
•Justin Akers Chacón's previous book, No One is Illegal, is widely used by activists and educators
•Chacón is a well-known voice among those campaigning for immigrants' rights
•Radicals in the Barrio will be of interest to the growing number of scholars studying the influence of left-wing ideas in the early U.S. labor movement
Zbigniew Brzezinski
America’s Grand Strategist
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
As National Security Adviser to President Jimmy Carter, Zbigniew Brzezinski (1928–2017) guided U.S. foreign policy at a critical juncture of the Cold War. But his impact on America’s role in the world extends far beyond his years in the White House, and reverberates to this day. His geopolitical...
by Justin Buckley Dyer, Micah J. Watson
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2016
Conventional wisdom holds that C. S. Lewis was uninterested in politics and public affairs. The conventional wisdom is wrong. As Justin Buckley Dyer and Micah J. Watson show in this groundbreaking work, Lewis was deeply interested in the fundamental truths and falsehoods about human nature and how...
Apostle of Progress
Modesto C. Rolland, Global Progressivism, and the Engineering of Revolutionary Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2019
From the late nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth century, Mexico experienced major transformations influenced by a global progressive movement that thrived during the Mexican Revolution and influenced Mexico’s development during subsequent governments. Engineers and other revolutionary...
by Justin Reich, Tom Daccord
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2015
Your school may have a technology plan, but how will that plan advance learning? Millions of iPads are in the hands of students worldwide. Many educators, however, see them only as game stations or replacements for notebooks and textbooks. In iPads in the Classroom, authors Tom Daccord and Justin...
by Justin Sirois
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2013
OVER 100 FIVE STARS ON AMAZONWhite-collar everyman, Henry, is hired by a successful software developer and college friend who has created kidnApp, a cell phone app and social network that allows people to kidnap each other for fun. The app is growing faster than they can handle. His friend...
by Justin Sirois
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
This is the final book of the series. As Haymaker gains popularity and power within the kidnApp network, his influence over people grows to the point of jeopardizing the company. Book three explores his rise to power and exactly who he has been manipulating the entire time.
Hugh Howey, author of Wool, says, “[kidnApp is] so real, it’s almost creepy.”
by Shane Dixon, Justin Shewell
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
Learning another language seems like an impossible task to many, but it doesn’t have to be that way. We like to think of learning a language as a journey or an adventure, where you follow clues and progress one step at a time toward your goal.
This book provides 50 language “mini adventures”...
by Justin Maguire
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2015
Exercise and nutrition are integrally involved in the process of establishing health and optimal living. Fitness Industry marketing however often confuses us as to how we can go about the best strategy that would suit our individual needs. Bespoke training should educate us as to how we can optimize...
Statin Nation
The Ill-Founded War on Cholesterol, What Really Causes Heart Disease, and the Truth About the Most Overprescribed Drugs in the World
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Heart disease is the leading cause of death worldwide, and for decades conventional health authorities have pushed that the culprits are fat and cholesterol clogging up coronary arteries. Consequently, lowering cholesterol has become a hugely lucrative business, and cholesterol-lowering Statin drugs...