The Congress of the United States

Reducere. In At Penpoint Monica Popescu traces the development of African literature during the second half of the twentieth century to address the intertwin...

The United States Congress has been described as dysfunctional, gridlocked, polarized, hyperpartisan, chaotic, and do-nothing. In Changing Cultures...

Reducere. What makes it so difficult to enact and sustain comprehensive social welfare policy that would aid the disadvantaged in the United States? Addressi...

Reducere. The system of securities regulation that prevails today in the United States is one that has been formed through piecemeal federal legislation, Sec...

Award NameAmbassador Book AwardsAward categoryPoetryWinner of the C. Hugh Holman Award A central figure in twentieth-century American literature, R...

This book provides a counter-view on the conventional wisdom regarding the United States Senate. Specifically, it presents an alternative approach ...

Reducere. From the restrictive immigration laws that the United States Congress passed against Arabs in the early 20th century to the backlash against this c...

DescriptionOn July 31, the U.S. Navy destroyer USS Maddox (DD-731) began a reconnaissance cruise off the coast of North Vietnam. On August 2, three...

Reducere. Winner of the Jules and Frances Landry Award In April 1862, the Confederacy faced a dire military situation. Its forces were badly outnumbered, the...

Reducere. Nurses work in hospitals, clinics, and schools. They work on cruise ships and at summer camps, and they debate in the United States Congress. They ...

Reducere. DescriptionA biography of James Monroe who became the fifth president of the United States in 1816. Ammon recreates his remarkable career, through ...

This insightful collection of essays details the political life of one of the most prominent and gifted American statesmen of the twentieth century...

Reducere. The United States Constitution provides two methods for proposing amendments, one through the Congress and one through the States which has yet to ...

Reducere. Over the course of less than a century, the U.S. transformed from a nation that excluded Asians from immigration and citizenship to one that receiv...

A decade of mounting tension in a polarized America, from Wall Street to the rural heartlandA decade ago, Ken Light (born 1951) traveled across the...

Teutonic Titans: Hindenburg, Ludendorff, and the Kaiser's Marshals and Generals, 1847-1955 covers the era 1847-1955 and is heavily illustrated with...

DescriptionIn chronicling the life and career of Albert Gore, Sr., historian Anthony J. Badger seeks not just to explore the successes and failures...

Reducere. On June 18, 1916, President Woodrow Wilson called up virtually the entire army National Guard, some 150, 000 men, to meet an armed threat to the Un...

How presidents spark and sustain support for wars remains an enduring and significant problem. Korea was the first limited war the U.S. experienced...

Reducere. "The Enemies Within" is designed to show American voters exactly how modern communism works and how it impacts on your life, every single day. Just...

Reducere. Offering a comprehensive overview of Puerto Rico's history and evolution since the installation of U.S. rule, Cesar Ayala and Rafael Bernabe connec...

Reducere. George Blue Spruce Jr. is recognized as the first American Indian dentist in the United States. His life story reaches back to the ancient Pueblo c...

In 1986, the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) adopted the Doi Moi (Renovation) policy at its sixth national congress, opening up a new chapter in t...

Reducere. On June 25, 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its decision in Shelby County v. Holder, invalidating a key provision of voting rights law. Th...

Reducere. Book annotation not available for this title.Title: History of the Virgin IslandsAuthor: Dookhan, IsaacPublisher: Univ of West Indies PrPublication...

DescriptionWho determines the fuel standards for our cars? What about whether Plan B, the morning-after pill, is sold at the local pharmacy? Many p...

Reducere. DescriptionWith a proud tradition reaching back to its founding in 1845, the United States Naval Academy today pursues its role as the nation's pre...

Reducere. Alexandria, Virginia, has been witness to events which helped create America. Many of the nation's founding fathers and well-known historical figur...

Reducere. An inspiring and eye-opening memoir showing how Democrats can reconnect with rural and red-state voters, from Montana's three-term democratic senat...

Reducere. In November 2002 the United States Congress and President George W. Bush established by law the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the U...

DescriptionInvestigative reporter Luke Rosiak is being hailed as "one of the smartest, most diligent reporters in Washington" (TUCKER CARLSON) and ...

Reducere. History and Culture of Guam. The beginning of the Chamorro race, The Settlement of American, The Governance, People and tradition. Guam is an uninc...

Written and illustrated by master wood engraver Barry Moser, this primer on the art of wood engraving is filled with valuable knowledge including h...

Reducere. Often remembered as the president who died shortly after taking office, William Henry Harrison remains misunderstood by most Americans. Before beco...

Reducere. DescriptionThe U.S. Congress has been assembling unlawfully since 1861. That's right Since 1861, martial (military) law has prevailed in the United...

Reducere. On May 4, 1964, Congress designated bourbon as a distinctive product of the United States, and it remains the only spirit produced in this country ...

Reducere. New York Times best selling author William R. Forstchen now brings us a story which can be all too terrifyingly real...a story in which one man str...

Reducere. Benjamin Franklin conceived of it. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle endorsed it. Winston Churchill campaigned for it. Kaiser Wilhelm first employed it. Woodr...

In the spring of 2001, George W. Bush selected Dallas attorney Robert W. Jordan as the ambassador to Saudi Arabia. Jordan's nomination sped through...

St. Elizabeths has been a mental health hospital in Washington, D.C., since 1852, when it was established by the United States Congress as the Gove...

Reducere. When the United States was divided by war, future president James Abram Garfield was one of many who stepped forward to defend the Union. While his...

Reducere. DescriptionThis hardcover book contains the three most pivotal documents in American history, in easy-to-read large print: The United States Declar...

Reducere. Wisconsin was the perfect setting for the lumber industry: acres of white pine forests (acquired through treaties with American Indians) and rivers...

Reducere. Downloaded 19 May 2018. Table of contents and article numbers have been corrected. Now includes the new Article 117a titled 'Wrongful broadcast or ...

Reducere. In Frontier Regulars Robert M. Utley combines scholarship and drama to produce an impressive history of the final, massive drive by the Regular Arm...

Reducere. With the Declaration of Independence, the 13 colonies in America declared their independence from Great Britain. Virginian Thomas Jefferson, later ...

Reducere. DescriptionThe life of John Marshall, Founding Father and America's premier chief justice In 1801, a genial and brilliant Revolutionary War veteran...

From the #1 bestselling authors Hillary Clinton and Louise Penny comes a novel of unsurpassed thrills and incomparable insider expertise--State of ...

Reducere. Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times bestselling author Stephen Hunter returns with a taut, white-knuckled thriller featuring master sniper Bob...

Reducere. Based on the extraordinary life of National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich's grandfather who worked as a night watchman and carried the f...

Reducere. Tucked among Alexander Hamilton's papers at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC, is a rare collection of twenty-one samples of black silk lac...

Reducere. A masterful political thriller thrusts veteran Washington fixers Peter Rena and Randi Brooks into a dark world of cyberattacks, a new era of foreig...

Reducere. The scion of a political dynasty ushers in the era of big governmentPolitics was in Benjamin Harrison's blood. His great-grandfather signed the Dec...

Reducere. New York Times BestsellerBased on the extraordinary life of National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich's grandfather who worked as a night w...

Reducere. The idea of the United States as a nation of immigrants is at the core of the American narrative. But in 1924, Congress instituted a system of ethn...

When the United States acquired New Mexico by invasion and conquest on August 15, 1846, it inherited a land grant problem of considerable magnitude...

Reducere. Are you curious to learn what happened after the US Civil War? Then dive into the captivating history of the Reconstruction Era The US Civil War br...

Reducere. In June of 2002, in his father's garage, Bruce W. Smalley discovered the map portion of the U.S. Department of the Interior's The Lewis and Clark T...

Ulysses S. Grant served as the Commanding General and the 18th President of the United States. He cooperated closely with President Abraham Lincoln...

Available for the first time in a modern and readable edition Preceding The Federalist by several years, this first volume of John Adams' A Defence...

Reducere. "The whole power over the subject of religion is left exclusively to the State governments, to be acted upon according to their justice and the Sta...

In 1876, the U.S. Congress declared the locust "the single greatest impediment to the settlement of the country between Mississippi and the Rocky M...

Reducere. A New York Times Bestseller A timely collection of speeches by David McCullough, the most honored historian in the United States--winner of two Pul...

The Arizona Constitution was adopted in the afternoon of Dec. 9, 1910. The Constitutional Convention lasted 61 days with 52 delegates representing ...

Too Strong to Be Broken explores the dynamic life of Edward J. Driving Hawk, a Vietnam and Korean War veteran, chairman of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe,...

Reducere. A sweeping and original work of economic history by Michael Lind, one of America's leading intellectuals, Land of Promise recounts the epic story o...

Reducere. This ground-breaking book demonstrates that the decentralized decision-making processes characteristic of democracies are responsible for making th...

DescriptionWhen Arlington National Cemetery refused to accept my grandmother's last request to be laid to rest there, I refused to let her legacy a...

Reducere. "Without Prejudice" UCC 1-207 means "that which is so clearly stated or distinctly set forth that there is no doubt as to its meaning." Negotiable ...

Join Robin on her trip around the capital of the United States as she learns about history and government. Robin visits the Senate, White House, an...