Author: Alissa Quart
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Keywords: threatens, childhood, succeed, pressure, kids, hothouse
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2007-07-31
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0143111914
ISBN-13: 9780143111917

A devastating indictment of the "gifted child" myth The effort to produce "gifted" children through an exhausting regimen of early (and ever-earlier) training has grown into a troubling national phenomenon. With less free playtime and overwhelming pressure to achieve, the kids are the ones who suffer. Investigative journalist Alissa Quart knows the terrain firsthand, having herself negotiated the gifted-child label. With phenomenal research and sharp insight, she takes a damning look at the industry that profits from marketing educational products to enhance giftedness and questio

Author: Robert Spencer
Publisher: Regnery Publishing, Inc.
Keywords: america, west, threatens, jihad, muslim, soldiers, onward
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2003-10-25
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0895261006
ISBN-13: 9780895261007

Islam claims to be a religion of peace and tolerance, yet the fact remains that jihad, or Islamic holy war, is growing faster than ever. In his new book, Onward Muslim Soldiers, Robert Spencer reveals exactly why this is the case. He shows how jihad warriors have penetrated and established themselves in the American homeland and how they are quickly gaining a hold in Europe, spreading values of hatred, violence, and intolerance as they go. Spencer, a student of Islam for over twenty years, gives a unique perspective on the fundamental bases and truths of Islam, focusing on facts that the media

Author: Paul R. Verkuil
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: threatens, democracy, functions, government, sovereignty, privatization, outsourcing
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 2007-07-16
List price: $22.99
ISBN-10: 0521686881
ISBN-13: 9780521686884

Reliance on the private military industry and the privatization of public functions has left our government less able to govern effectively. When decisions that should have been taken by government officials are delegated (wholly or in part) to private contractors without appropriate oversight, the public interest is jeopardized. Books on private military have described the problem well, but they have not offered prescriptions or solutions this book does.

Author: Peter M. Shane
Publisher: University Of Chicago Pre
Keywords: american, democracy, threatens, power, nightmare, executive, madison
Number of Pages: 258
Published: 2009-05-15
List price: $27.00
ISBN-10: 0226749398
ISBN-13: 9780226749396

The George W. Bush administration’s ambitious—even breathtaking—claims of unilateral executive authority raised deep concerns among constitutional scholars, civil libertarians, and ordinary citizens alike. But Bush’s attempts to assert his power are only the culmination of a near-thirty-year assault on the basic checks and balances of the U.S. government—a battle waged by presidents of both parties, and one that, as Peter M. Shane warns in Madison’s Nightmare, threatens to utterly subvert the founders’ vision of representative government.Tracing this tendency back to the first Re

Author: Nena Baker
Publisher: North Point Press
Keywords: threatens, health, things, everyday, hazardous, chemistry, toxic
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2009-07-21
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0865477469
ISBN-13: 9780865477469

We are running a collective chemical fever that we cannot break. Everyone everywhere now carries a dizzying array of chemical contaminants, the by-products of modern industry and innovation, that contribute to a host of developmental deficits and health problems in ways just now being understood. These toxic substances, unknown to our grandparents, accumulate in our fat, bones, blood, and organs as a consequence of womb-to-tomb exposure to industrial substances as common as the products that contain them. Almost everything we encounter—from soap to soup cans, computers to clothing—contribu

Author: Nena Baker
Publisher: North Point Press
Keywords: threatens, health, things, everyday, hazardous, chemistry, toxic
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2008-08-05
List price: $24.00
ISBN-10: 0865477078
ISBN-13: 9780865477070

We are running a collective chemical fever that we cannot break. Everyone everywhere now carries a dizzying array of chemical contaminants, the by-products of modern industry and innovation that contribute to a host of developmental deficits and health problems in ways just now being understood. These toxic substances, unknown to our grandparents, accumulate in our fat, bones, blood, and organs as a consequence of womb-to-tomb exposure to industrial substances as common as the products that contain them. Almost everything we encounter—from soap to soup cans and computers to clothing—contribu

Author: David Michaels
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: threatens, health, science, assault, product, industry, doubt
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2008-04-23
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 019530067X
ISBN-13: 9780195300673

"Doubt is our product," a cigarette executive once observed, "since it is the best means of competing with the ’body of fact’ that exists in the minds of the general public. It is also the means of establishing a controversy." In this eye-opening expose, David Michaels reveals how the tobacco industry’s duplicitous tactics spawned a multimillion dollar industry that is dismantling public health safeguards. Product defense consultants, he argues, have increasingly skewed the scientific literature, manufactured and magnified scientific uncertainty, and influenced policy decisio