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The belief that U.S. presidents' legislative policy formation has centralized over time, shifting inexorably out of the executive departments and into the White House, is shared by many who have studied the American presidency. Andrew Rudalevige argues that such a linear trend is neither at all certain nor necessary for policy promotion. In Managing the President's Program, he presents a far more complex and interesting picture of the use of presidential staff. Drawing on transaction cost theory, Rudalevige constructs a framework of &quotcontingent centralization&quot to predict when presidents will use White House and/or departmental staff resources for policy formulation. He backs his assertions through an unprecedented quantitative analysis of a new data set of policy proposals covering almost fifty years of the postwar era from Truman to Clinton.Rudalevige finds that presidents are not bound by a relentless compulsion to centralize but follow a more subtle strategy of staff

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The bestselling author of The Forensic Science of C.S.I. examines the real-life cases behind the hit television series Criminal Minds  Week after week, the hit TV show Criminal Minds gives viewers a look inside the psyches of the fictional serial killers tracked by the BAU (Behavioral Analysis Unit). This elite team of FBI agents travels the country assisting law enforcement officials by examining the crime scene, &quotprofiling&quot the perpetrator, and aiding in arrest and interrogation. In this book Katherine Ramsland reveals how reality differs from fiction and how forensic psychologists actually use their knowledge of human behavior and motivations as consultants in criminal investigations-as well as detailing the real cases that influenced some of Criminal Minds's most memorable episodes.

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Free read  Avenue of Spies: A True Story of Terror, Espionage, and One American Family's Heroic Resistance in Nazi-Occupied Paris

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The best-selling author of The Liberator brings to life the incredible true story of an American doctor in Paris, and his heroic espionage efforts during World War II.The leafy Avenue Foch, one of the most exclusive residential streets in Nazi-occupied France, was Paris's hotbed of daring spies, murderous secret police, amoral informers, and Vichy collaborators. So when American physician Sumner Jackson, who lived with his wife and young son Phillip at Number 11, found himself drawn into the Liberation network of the French resistance, he knew the stakes were impossibly high. Just down the road at Number 31 was the &quotmad sadist&quot Theodor Dannecker, an Eichmann prot&#233g&#233 charged with deporting French Jews to concentration camps. And Number 84 housed the Parisian headquarters of the Gestapo, run by the most effective spy hunter in Nazi Germany. From his office at the American Hospital, itself an epicenter of Allied and Axis intrigue, Jackson smuggled fallen Allied fighter

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The best-selling author of The Professor and the Madman and The Map That Changed the World examines the enduring and world-changing effects of the catastrophic eruption off the coast of Java of the earth's most dangerous volcano - Krakatoa.The legendary annihilation in 1883 of the volcano-island of Krakatoa - the name has since become a byword for a cataclysmic disaster - was followed by an immense tsunami that killed nearly 40,000 people. Beyond the purely physical horrors of an event that has only very recently been properly understood, the eruption changed the world in more ways than could possibly be imagined. Dust swirled round die planet for years, causing temperatures to plummet and sunsets to turn vivid with lurid and unsettling displays of light. The effects of the immense waves were felt as far away as France. Barometers in Bogot&#225 and Washington, DC, went haywire. Bodies were washed up in Zanzibar. The sound of the island's destruction was heard in Australia and India

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The bestselling author of Twenty Years Later delivers a chilling thriller where nothing is at it seems and each reveal is more shocking than the last&#8230right up to the jaw-dropping final twist.&#8220A gripping thriller that will blow readers away.&quot &#8211Mary Kubica, New York Times bestselling author on Don&#8217t Believe It&#8220A superb storyteller.&#8221 &#8212Robert Dugoni, New York Times bestselling authorTwo abducted girls&#8212one who returns, one who doesn't.The night they go missing, high school seniors Nicole Cutty and Megan McDonald are at a beach party in their small town of Emerson Bay, North Carolina. Police launch a massive search, but hope is almost lost--until Megan escapes from a bunker deep in the woods...A year later, the bestselling account of her ordeal has made Megan a celebrity. It's a triumphant story, except for one inconvenient detail: Nicole is still missing.Nicole's older sister, Livia, a fellow in forensic pathology, expects that one day soon

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The bestselling author of What I Saw at the Revolution continues to share her unique insight into Ronald Reagan, arguing that his character and courage made him the object of reverence and respect in America. 150,000 first printing.

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Read Family Unfriendly: How Our Culture Made Raising Kids Much Harder Than It Needs to Be

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The bestselling author ofAlienated Americatraveled the country asking families and experts the same two questions: Why is parenting so hard now? And why are the results so bad?Our culture tells parentsthere's one best way to raise kids: enroll them in a dozen activities, protect them from trauma, and get them into the most expensive college you can. If you can't do that, don't bother.How is that going? Record rates of anxiety, depression, medication, debts, loneliness and more. In Family Unfriendly, bestselling author and Washington Examinercolumnist Timothy P. Carney says it's time to end this failed experiment in overparenting.Have more kids, have more fun, cancel the travel soccer games, let your kids wander off, and give them deeper sources of meaning than material success.This is anold-fashioned view, but every day theevidence validates it. Drawing on rigorous research&#8212both as a reporter and as a dad of six&#8212Carney demonstrates why modern parenting is so misguided. The

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Read The O'Reilly Factor for Kids: A Survival Guide for America's Families

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The bestselling author ofThe O'Reilly Factor, The No Spin Zone, and Who's Looking Out for You? talks straight to kids this time. He is as demanding, direct, and wry asever&#8212but he's also more revealing too, sharing candid snapshots of his own childhood throughout.Bill O'Reilly, a former schoolteacher, now an award-winning broadcast news journalist, husband, and father of two, joins forces with an experienced educator to bring you, America's youth, a code of ethics by which to live.In this latest book, Bill takes to task bullies, cheaters, advertisers who target you irresponsibly, and parents who fight for their children to win undeserved honors instead of earning them on their own merit.He lays bare the unvarnished truths about sex, money, smoking, drugs, alcohol, and friends. What he has to say about these issues may very well surprise you. He offers coping devices for those enduring a divorce, struggling with teacher, parent, or sibling relationships, and planning their

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Read How We Win the Civil War: Securing a Multiracial Democracy and Ending White Supremacy for Good

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The bestselling author pulls no punches on what America needs to defeat white supremacy National political commentator Steve Phillips&#8217s &#8220politically charged and thoughtfully reasoned&#8221 (Kirkus Reviews) How We Win the Civil War helped chart the way forward for progressives and people of color, arguing that Democrats must recognize the nature of the fight we&#8217re in, which is a contest between democracy and white supremacy left unresolved after the Civil War. Combining a powerful grasp of history with Phillips&#8217s trademark, no-nonsense political critique, this &#8220spirited and persuasive . . . rousing call for change&#8221 (Publishers Weekly) argues that we will not overcome until we govern as though we are under attack&#8212until we finally recognize that the time has come to finish the conquest of the Confederacy and all that it represents.With a new preface laying out what is at stake in the 2024 general election, Phillips delivers razor-sharp prescriptions

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The bestselling author, media pioneer, and curator of TED exploresone of humankind&#8217s defining but overlooked impulses, and how we can super-charge its potential to build a hopeful future&#8212&#8220an essential read to kick off the new year&#8221 (Forbes, &#822016 Must Have Books and Podcasts for Leaders in 2024&#8221)&#8220I flew through these pages with an increasing sense of joy. I hope that millions read this book.&#8221&#8212Elizabeth Gilbert,author of Eat, Pray, LoveLet&#8217s face it: Recent years have been tough on optimists. Hopes that the Internet might bring people together have been crushed by the ills of social media. Is there a way back?As head of TED, Chris Anderson has had a ringside view of the world&#8217s boldest thinkers sharing their most uplifting ideas. Inspired by them, he believes that it&#8217s within our grasp to turn outrage back into optimism. It all comes down to reimagining one of the most fundamental human virtues: generosity. What if generosity

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The bestselling authors of How God Changes Your Brain reveal the neurological underpinnings of enlightenment, offering unique strategies to help readers experience its many benefits.  In this original and groundbreaking book, Andrew Newberg, M.D., and Mark Robert Waldman turn their attention to the pinnacle of the human experience: enlightenment. Through his brain- scan studies on Brazilian psychic mediums, Sufi mystics, Buddhist meditators, Franciscan nuns, Pentecostals, and participants in secular spirituality rituals, Newberg has discovered the specific neurological mechanisms associated withthe enlightenment experience--and how we might activate those circuits in our own brains.  In his survey of more than one thousand people who have experienced enlightenment, Newberg has also discovered that in the aftermath they have had profound, positive life changes. Enlightenment offers us the possibility to become permanently less stress-prone, to break bad habits, to improve our

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