Hoover Press imprint: 226 books
Estonia and the Estonians
Second Edition, Updated
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2002
A comprehensive survey of Estonian history, placing recent events into historical perspective. The author analyzes the country's post-communist transition, its strategic geopolitical location, and the role of ethnic Estonians in shaping the history of the area.
by John M. Carland
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1985
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1985
A study in the relationship between one department of the Colonial Office and the colonies in which it had responsibility.
Rules for International Monetary Stability
Past, Present, and Future
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
Since the end of the Great Recession in 2009 the central banks of the advanced countries have taken unprecedented actions to reflate and stimulate their economies. There have been significant differences in the timing and pace of these actions. These independent monetary policy actions have had significant...
Democracy's Dangers & Discontents
The Tyranny of the Majority from the Greeks to Obama
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
By democracy we usually mean a government comprising popular rule, individual human rights and freedom, and a free-market economy. Yet the flaws in traditional Athenian democracy can instruct us on the weaknesses of that first element of modern democracies shared with Athens: rule by all citizens...
by Jeremy Carl, David Fedor
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
In Keeping the Lights On at America's Nuclear Power Plants, Jeremy Carl and David Fedor discuss the decline of American nuclear power in light of major economic, technological and political challenges. They show how high costs, low public support, and popular clean energy trends threaten America's...
Energy Efficiency
Building a Clean, Secure Economy
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
The entire world, especially the United States, is in the midst of an energy revolution. Since the oil embargo of 1973, individuals, corporations, and other organizations have found ways to economically reduce energy use. In this book, Jim Sweeney examines the energy policies and practices of the...
Spin Wars and Spy Games
Global Media and Intelligence Gathering
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
As most long-standing news outlets have shuttered their foreign bureaus and print operations, the role of GNNs as information collectors and policy influencers has changed in tandem. Western GNNs are honored for being untethered to government entities and their ability to produce accurate yet critical...
Milton Friedman on Freedom
Selections from The Collected Works of Milton Friedman
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
In this book, Robert Leeson and Charles Palm have assembled an amazing collection of Milton Friedman's best works on freedom. Even more amazing is that the selection represents only 1 percent of the 1,500 works by Friedman that Leeson and Palm have put online in a user-friendly format—and an even...
Nuclear Security
The Problems and the Road Ahead
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Concern about the threat posed by nuclear weapons has preoccupied the United States and presidents of the United States since the beginning of the nuclear era. Nuclear Security draws from papers presented at the 2013 meeting of the American Nuclear Society examining worldwide efforts to control nuclear...
Game Changers
Energy on the Move
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
It is becoming increasingly obvious that the United States needs reliable and inexpensive energy to propel our economy and protect our national security interests. Game Changers presents five research and development efforts from American universities that offer a cheaper, cleaner, and more secure...
by Angelo M. Codevilla
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Author Angelo Codevilla asks, What is to be America's peace? How is it to be won and preserved in our time? He notes that our government's increasingly unlimited powers flow in part from our statesmen's inability to stay out of wars or to win them and that our statesmen and academics have ceased to...
by Robert Wesson
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1978
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1978
This concise monograph traces Russian Marxism from its beginnings to mid-1977, shows how and why the party achieved power, how it has strengthened its position, and how it has undertaken to remold the country and to solve its internal problems. Wesson's study is the only up-to-date party history currently...
Hammer, Sickle, and Soil
The Soviet Drive to Collectivize Agriculture
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
In Hammer, Sickle, and Soil, Jonathan Daly tells the harrowing story of Stalin's transformation of millions of family farms throughout the USSR into 250,000 collective farms during the period from 1929 to 1933. History's biggest experiment in social engineering at the time and the first example of...
by Samuel Tadros
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Offering insights on Egypt's failed revolution—how it happened and why it did not succeed—author Samuel Tadros argues that, as Egypt continues on its destructive downward path, it is important to examine the role that its revolutionaries played in that trajectory. He raises long-unanswered questions...