Author: Graham Fuller
Publisher: United States Institute of Peace Press
Keywords: state, pivotal, world, series, muslim, turkish, turkey, new, republic
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2007-12-12
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1601270194
ISBN-13: 9781601270191

The first in a series of volumes that examine pivotal states in the Muslim world, this timely work explores how, after a long period of isolation, Turkey is becoming a major player in Middle Eastern politics once again. In fact, by acting independently and attempting to reconcile its constitutionally secular form of governance and vibrant traditional culture, it is now for the first time becoming positively viewed by others in the Muslim world as a state worth watching - and maybe even emulating. As a result, Turkey’s dynamic political scene and new search for independence in its foreign

Author: John N. Pade
Publisher: United States Institute of Peace
Keywords: state, nigeria, pivotal, series, world, muslim, politics, faith
Number of Pages: 180
Published: 2008-04-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1601270291
ISBN-13: 9781601270290

As the most populous country in Africa and a major oil producer, Nigeria has long been recognized as the dominant force in West Africa. But its standing within the broader international arena, especially its comparative position within the Muslim world, has been less well understood. Indeed, does Nigeria’s influence extend beyond the region?In this concise volume, John N. Paden answers this very question, contending that Nigeria is globally significant for a multitude of reasons, not least of which for the political resiliency it has demonstrated despite its complex ethnolinguistic and r

Author: Keith Krehbiel
Publisher: University Of Chicago Pre
Keywords: lawmaking, theory, politics, pivotal
Number of Pages: 274
Published: 1998-06-22
List price: $23.00
ISBN-10: 0226452727
ISBN-13: 9780226452722

Politicians and pundits alike have complained that the divided governments of the last decades have led to legislative gridlock. Not so, argues political scientist Keith Krehbiel, who advances the provocative theory that divided government actually has little effect on legislative productivity. Offering an incisive account of when gridlock is overcome, Krehbiel remakes our understanding of American lawmaking.

Author: Keith Krehbiel
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: lawmaking, theory, politics, pivotal
Number of Pages: 274
Published: 1998-07-20
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 0226452719
ISBN-13: 9780226452715

Politicians and pundits alike have complained that the divided governments of the last decades have led to legislative gridlock. Not so, argues Keith Krehbiel, who advances the provocative theory that divided government actually has little effect on legislative productivity. Gridlock is in fact the order of the day, occurring even when the same party controls the legislative and executive branches. Meticulously researched and anchored to real politics, Krehbiel argues that the pivotal vote on a piece of legislation is not the one that gives a bill a simple majority, but the vote that allows it

Author: Howard Jone
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: history, american, moments, pivotal, pigs
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2008-08-08
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 019517383X
ISBN-13: 9780195173833

In The Bay of Pigs, Howard Jones provides a concise, incisive, and dramatic account of the disastrous attempt to overthrow Castro in April 1961. Drawing on recently declassified CIA documents, Jones deftly examines the train of missteps and self-deceptions that led to the invasion of U.S.-trained exiles at the Bay of Pigs. Ignoring warnings from the ambassador to Cuba, the Eisenhower administration put in motion an operation that proved nearly unstoppable even after the inauguration of John F. Kennedy. The CIA and Pentagon, meanwhile, both voiced confidence in the outcome of the invasion, espe

Author: Brendan January
Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books (CT)
Keywords: history, moments, pivotal, revolution, iranian
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2007-12-15
List price: $38.60
ISBN-10: 0822575213
ISBN-13: 9780822575214

Author: William Marshall
Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky
Keywords: era, pivotal, baseball
Number of Pages: 528
Published: 1999-02-25
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0813120411
ISBN-13: 9780813120416

"With personal interviews of players and owners and with over two decades of research in newspapers and archives, Bill Marshall tells of the players, the pennant races, and the officials who shaped one of the most memorable eras in sports and American history. At the end of World War II, soldiers returning from overseas hungered to resume their love affair with baseball. Spectators still identified with players, whose salaries and off-season employment as postmen, plumbers, farmers, and insurance salesmen resembled their own. It was a time when kids played baseball on sandlots and in pastures,