Professional Documents
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2010 / 350 pp. / cloth 978-0-8157-0402-7 $34.95
N O TA B L E
Bill Colemans story is one that younger generations should mark and inwardly digest, lest they forget the pioneers who helped to make a better America possible. That story also . . . [helps] us understand how in the mid-twentieth century an individual could become, at one and the same time, a great lawyer, a wise statesman, and a leader in the fight for equal rights.From the Foreword by Justice Stephen Breyer
October / 450 pp. / cloth 978-0-8157-0488-1 $34.95
Anyone with an interest in the growing rivalry between India and China, or in the impact that a stronger, although still extraordinarily outdated, Indian military will mean for U.S.-India ties, should read this. This is an important book on an important subject, which is likely to remain unparalleled for many years. Edward Luce, Washington bureau chief, Financial Times
Benjamin Wittes pulls back the curtain of silence to discuss what the U.S. and its allies are currently doing in the way of detention and issues a persuasive call for greater coherence, clarity, and candor in detention policy and practices.
November / 150 pp. / cloth 978-0-8157-0491-1 $22.95
Brain Gain
N ow i n pa p e r b a c k
Digital Medicine
Brain Gain raises the questions that need to be asked if we truly want a debate about immigration policy that prioritizes the long-term economic development of our country.Michael Holston, executive vice president and general counsel, Hewlett Packard A Brookings FOCUS Book
2010 / 182 pp. / cloth 978-0-8157-0482-9 $24.95
West and Millers exploration of the costs, concerns, and possible benefits of digital medicine is both thoughtful and timely. Librarians, health advocates, and policymakers on both sides of the issue will chew on this food for thought.Library Journal
2010 / 185 pp. / paper 978-0-8157-0455-3 $22.95
N e w i n Pa p e r b a c k
Fast Forward
A timely summary of emerging policy and opportunities related to forestry-based carbon markets.Choice A Chatham House book
2010 / 350 pp. / paper 9780-8157-0427-0 $39.95
Strobe Talbott and Bill Antholis have made an admirable and important effort to move beyond the recent political rancor in Washington. They have a plan for leaders who want to be serious about energy and climate. Instead of starting from entrenched ideological base camps, they concentrate on identifying common goals. . . on which Republicans and Democrats alike can agree.Richard G. Lugar, U.S. Senator A Brookings FOCUS Book
2010 / 144 pp. / cloth 978-0-8157-0469-0 $22.95
N e w i n Pa p e r b a c k
Ahmeds insights should be required reading for anyone grappling with national security, national identity, and national cohesion in todays complex era. Colonel David Kilcullen, author of The Accidental Guerrilla
2010 / 528 pp. / cloth, 978-0-8157-0387-7 $29.95
At once lively and entertainingand analytically rigorous and policy relevant. It deserves a wide and influential readership because the country really would be better off with social programs that made fewer bad bets and removed more bad apples. William Kristol, Weekly Standard
2010 / 175 pp. / paper 978-0-8157-0428-7 $19.95
How ChangeCasting Builds Trust, Creates Understanding, and Accelerates Organizational Change
Jackson Nickerson
Management expert Jackson Nickerson provides new insights into why people and organizations are so difficult to engage in change. He proposes a combination of processes and techniques utilizing Web 2.0 technology that will not only lead and direct change in an organization but actually accelerate it. A Brookings Innovations in Leadership Book
2010 / 142 pp. / cloth 978-0-8157-0484-3 $24.95
A superb analysis of the current strategy in Afghanistan. . . . It is a must-read for those who want a clear understanding of the situation, the strategy, and the path ahead in this crucial conflict. General Anthony C. Zinni, USMC (ret.)
Includes maps 2010 / 164 pp. / paper 9780-8157-0409-6 $22.95
N e w i n Pa p e r b a c k
This masterful work will serve as a valuable resource . . . and should be widely read by those interested in the art and craft of governing. Highly recommended. All readership levels.Choice
2010 / 475 pp. / paper 978-0-8157-0511-6 $26.95
N e w i n pa p e r b a c k
Wiki Government
How Technology Can Make Government Better, Democracy Stronger, and Citizens More Powerful
Beth Simone Noveck
Michael OHanlon takes a clear, analytical look at the implications of nuclear disarmament. He argues that abolition is impractical, but that dismantlement of all nuclear weapons is imperative. His book makes a major contribution to this vital issue.William J. Perry, former U.S. Secretary of Defense
2010 / 165 pp. / cloth 978-0-8157-0507-9 $26.95
Novecks approach to e-governance is to study where citizen online collaboration can have an impact, and she shows that one can design for participatory democracy with compelling results.Library Journal A well-argued and fact-filled promotion of expertocracy, the ways in which experts can contribute their narrow skills to specific problems.Science
2010 / 224 pp. / paper 978-0-8157-0510-9 $19.95
AMERICAN POLITICS
New
Bill Coleman has spent a lifetime opening doors and breaking down barriers. He has been an eyewitness to history; moreover, he has made history. This is his inspiring story, in his own words. See page 1 for additional description.
October / 450 pp. / cloth 978-0-8157-0488-1 $34.95
Opportunity 08
Wide-ranging and clear-eyed, this book is a rich gift to students of public policy and practitioners of policy analysis.Martha Derthick, University of Virginia
Investing in Democracy
Carmen Sirianni
An absolutely riveting journey into an America most Americans have no idea about. As the U.S. faces up to the tensions within its own Muslim communities, it could not be more timely.Christina Lamb, Sunday Times Washington Bureau Chief This important new book advances [Ahmeds] heroic, even dangerous, five minutes to midnight effort to save us from our foolish mutual animosities. Pray his efforts are not too late.Tony Blankley, Washington Times and Heritage Foundation See page 2 for additional description.
2010 / 528 pp. / cloth, 978-0-8157-0387-7 $29.95
AMERICAN POLITICS
congress & the p r e s i d e n c y
N e w i n pa p e r b a c k
Absolute Power
John P. MacKenzie
The work as a whole has remarkable historical sweep and detail. It will be instructive and useful to both students and specialists.David W. Rohde, Duke University
2009 / 198 pp. / paper 978-0-8157-0340-2 $22.95
The most recent edition of this celebrated series skillfully combines historical context with insightful observations and copious data to produce an invaluable analysis of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives.
2008 / 192 pp. / paper 978-0-8157-6665-0 $29.95
What Do We Do Now?
Stephen Hess
An engrossing, informative, and uplifting story of Washington as it can be, of Washington at its best. Eric Redman, author of The Dance of Legislation
2008 / 276 pp. / paper 978-0-8157-3653-0 $22.95 (cloth ed. avail.)
Difficult Transitions
Unquestionably a book that members of the Obama administration should read and reread.National Interest
2008 / 204 pp. / cloth 978-0-8157-1340-1 $26.95
C a m p a i g n s & E l e c t i o n s
Neustadts former colleagues and students celebrate the rich and diverse contributions of the most penetrating analyst of power since Machiavelli.
2007 / 217 pp. / cloth 978-0-8157-1842-0 $29.95 Includes photos
N ow i n pa p e r b a c k
This is the ultimate fine-grained handbook for small-d democrats at every level of our wild and crazy political system.Hendrik Hertzberg, senior editor, The New Yorker, and author of Politics: Observations & Arguments
Power Play
Election Fraud
Reveals the Bush administrations violations of longstanding, constitutionally mandated democratic principles.Publishers Weekly
2009 / 299 pp. / paper 978-0-8157-0335-8 $22.95
Presents research on defining, measuring, and detecting election fraud and electoral manipulation by leading scholars of election law, election administration, and U.S. and comparative politics.
F ORTHCOMING
The latest installment of a series that dates back nearly half a century, Financing the 2008 Election is the definitive analysis of how campaign finance and spending shaped the historic presidential and congressional races of 2008.
2010 / 240 pp. / paper 978-0-8157-0332-7 $29.95
Provides a clear and nuanced understanding of the geographic and demographic changes that are transforming the United States and how that transformation is reshaping American politics and public policy.
2008 / 274 pp. / paper 978-0-8157-8315-2 $22.95 (cloth ed. avail.)
Highly recommended.Choice Pew Forum Dialogue Series on Religion and Public Life
2006 / 118 pp. / paper 978-0-8157-9515-5 $18.95 See descriptions of this and additional volumes in the series online at www.brookings.edu/press
The editors of this volume leave no stone unturned in recounting 2008s primary contests. . . . The book offers a significant contribution to the growing reform debate. Politics
2009 / 205 pp. / paper 978-0-8157-0289-4 $19.95 (cloth ed. avail.)
Defines what swing voters are and the role they play in determining the outcomes of contemporary elections.
2008 / 151 pp. / paper 978-0-8157-5531-9 $19.95 (cloth ed. avail.)
Voting Technology
A Matter of Faith
David E. Campbell, ed.
A must read for anyone interested in this important topic.Paul DeGregorio, former chairman, U.S. Election Assistance Commission
2008 / 215 pp. / paper 978-0-8157-3563-2 $20.95 (cloth ed. avail.) Includes photos
Primary Politics
Elaine C. Kamarck
S o c i a l P o l i c y I s s u e s
Boosting Paychecks
Daniel P. Gitterman
Takes a hard look at how the financial industry and some of its practices are likely to change in the years ahead. Copublished with the Nomura Institute of Capital Markets Research
2010 / 175 pp. / paper 978-0-8157-0404-1 $26.95
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Brain Gain
Borrowing to Live
An invaluable work that as dispassionately, factually, and objectively as possible analyzes the political and economic aspects of immigration and their effect on our nation.Vartan Gregorian, president, Carnegie Corporation of New York See page 1 for additional description. A Brookings FOCUS Book
2010 / 182 pp. / cloth 978-0-8157-0482-9 $24.95
Copublished with the Harvard University Joint Center for Housing Studies
2008 / 289 pp. / paper 978-0-8157-7413-6 $28.95
A bold and thoughtful vision of how to change American economic and social policy to promote a more productive and less unequal society. . . . A major contribution to the policy debate.James J. Heckman, Nobel laureate, University of Chicago
2009 / 347 pp. / paper 978-0-8157-0322-8 $28.95
New
Reconsidering Retirement
Moving Forward
Goes beyond the headlines to explain how the economic crisis will affect retirement patterns and the well-being of older Americans.
October / 160 pp. / cloth 978-0-8157-0499-7 $28.95
Copublished with the Harvard University Joint Center for Housing Studies
December / 275 pp. / paper 978-0-8157-0503-1 $28.95
This book should be required reading for all policy makers. Highly recommended.Choice
2009 / 230 pp. / paper 978-0-8157-0304-4 $22.95
At every stage of development, sustaining effective public policies for poor people requires engaging middle-class voters. Here is a book that actually studies them from a global perspective: their interests, their attitudes, their prospects, their power.Robert Solow, Nobel laureate in economics
2009 / 199 pp. / paper 978-0-8157-0284-9 $28.95
PUBLIC POLICY
New
Fast Forward
Fast Forward makes the case in clear, concise, and compelling terms for urgent action and American leadership in addressing the threat that global warming poses to our nation and our planet. Senator Dianne Feinstein (DCalif.) See page 1 for additional description. A Brookings FOCUS Book
2010 / 144 pp. / cloth 978-0-8157-0469-0 $22.95
N e w i n pa p e r b a c k
At once lively and entertainingand analytically rigorous and policy relevant. It deserves a wide and influential readership.William Kristol, Weekly Standard Won Honorable Mention for the Charles Levine Prize as best book in Comparative Policy and Administration.
2010 / 175 pp. / paper 978-0-8157-0428-7 $19.95
N ow i n pa p e r b a c k
Provides a much needed blueprint for overcoming the two great crises of our time.Helene D. Gayle, President and CEO, CARE USA A Brookings Blum Roundtable Project
2009 / 307 pp. / paper 978-0-8157-0281-8 $24.95
Working Longer
A well-researched, thoughtful explanation of a critical national issue and a well-reasoned proposal to cope with this challenge. Highly recommended.Choice
2009 / 212 pp. / paper 978-0-8157-0311-2 $19.95
Topics include the economic and environmental effects of border tax adjustments for climate policy, technology transfers and climate change, and lessons for governing global climate from world trade.
2009 / 197 pp. / paper 978-0-8157-0298-6 $36.00
Env i r o n m e n t / En e r g y P o l i c y
Climatic Cataclysm
Kurt M. Campbell, ed.
This excellent book tackles the hardest questions in energy policy today.James E. Rogers, chairman, president, and CEO of Duke Energy
2009 / 194 pp. / paper 978-0-8157-0293-1 $26.95
N e w i n pa p e r b a c k
Reveals the ways Cuba can secure access to adequate energy resources, including greater cooperation with its longtime nemesis, the United States.
2010 / 172 pp. / paper 978-0-8157-0342-6 $26.95
An absolute must for any environmental discussion and for community and college library environmental collections.Midwest Book Review See page 1 for additional description. A Chatham House book
2010 / 350 pp. / paper 9780-8157-0427-0 $39.95
Energy Security
Looks at the United States and global quests for energy security within the context of geopolitical, economic, and environmental challenges.
2009 / 279 pp. / paper 978-0-8157-6919-4 $22.95
PUBLIC POLICY
F o rt h c o m i n g
A far-ranging and sober look at the challenges facing the world energy system.David G. Victor, University of CaliforniaSan Diego Copublished with the Global Public Policy Institute
2010 / 372 pp. / paper 978-0-8157-0343-3 $39.95
Global Warming
Ernesto Zedillo, ed.
Looks at the best policies to tackle the challenges we face today, including climate change, biodiversity loss, toxic chemicals, and water scarcity. An OECD Book
2008 / 461 pp. / paper 978-92-64-04048-9 $117.00
Repairing Paradise
William R. Lowry
Green Cities
Greenhouse Governance
Barry G. Rabe, ed.
Sustainability Science
Heads Up!
Books in the Sustainability Science Series explore specific sustainable development issues on regional and global levels. All five volumes in the series are available from Brookings online at www.brookings.edu/press.
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N ow i n pa p e r b a c k
Usable Thoughts
Encourages thought and discussion on the earths climate system, including its interrelation to human society and the environment, the impact of climate variability, and climate extremes and change. A United Nations University Press Book
2010 / 270 pp. / paper 978-92-808-1186-5 $10.00
PUBLIC POLICY
H e a l t h P o l i c y
Digital Medicine
Investigates the factors limiting digital technologys ability to remake health care and explores the political, social, and ethical challenges presented by online care. See page 1 for additional description.
2010 / 185 pp. / paper 978-0-8157-0455-3 $22.95
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Boomburbs
The wealth of statistical and contextual analyses of these places makes the book valuable for graduate students and faculty in urban affairs, as well as for city planners.Choice James A. Johnson Metro Series
2009 / 212 pp. / paper 978-0-8157-0303-7 $22.95 Includes photos
Focus on Health Policy in Times of Crisis, Competition and Regulation, Evaluation in Health Care
Ray Moynihan, Kerstin Blum, Reinhard Busse & Sophia Schlette, eds.
Reforming Medicare
Aaron and Lambrew are two of the most thoughtful, judicious students of health policy around, and their efforts at achieving clarity and balance are evident in every page.Health Affairs A Century Foundation Book
2008 / 202 pp. / cloth 978-0-8157-0124-8 $29.95
This vibrant, full-color volume documents the evolution of HOPE VI, a federal program that promotes mixedincome housing integrated with services and amenities. It details the fate of residents, neighborhoods, cities, and public housing systems through personal testimony, interviews, case studies, data analyses, research summaries, photographs, and more.
2009 / 334 pp. / paper 978-0-8157-1425-5 $29.95 Includes charts, maps, and color photos
PUBLIC POLICY
A Choice Recommended Book. The ideas offered will make the book of interest to practitioners and academics working in the assisted rental housing sphere.Journal of the American Planning Association Copublished with the Harvard University Joint Center for Housing Studies
2008 / 370 pp. / paper 978-0-8157-7411-2 $29.95
Mega-Projects
Sunbelt/Frostbelt
Volume 2
Alan Berube, Bruce Katz & Robert E. Lang, eds.
Migration, income and poverty, and housing trends in the nations largest cities and metropolitan areas.
2005 / 348 pp. / paper 978-0-8157-4897-7 $26.95 (cloth ed. avail.)
Twenty-First-Century Gateways
Audrey Singer, Susan W. Hardwick & Caroline B. Brettell, eds. Foreword by Henry Cisneros
Volume 3
Alan Berube, Bruce Katz & Robert E. Lang, eds.
The changing shape of metropolitan America and the consequences for policies on employment, public services, and urban revitalization.
2006 / 275 pp. / paper 978-0-8157-0883-4 $26.95 (cloth ed. avail.)
Accessible to all relevant audiences. Students will appreciate the superb organization of each chapter. Faculty will identify national and regional trends relevant to their research. . . . Highly recommended.Choice
2008 / 330 pp. / paper 978-0-8157-7927-8 $28.95 (cloth ed. avail.) Includes 30 maps
New frameworks, cutting-edge analysis, and innovative policy solutions for a sustainable and supportable economy in older industrial areas. Copublished with the American Assembly
2008 / 437 pp. / cloth 978-0-8157-5556-2 $39.95
Volume II
Nancy Pindus, Howard Wial & Harold Wolman, eds.
2009 / 267 pp. / paper 978-0-8157-0297-9 $29.95
Topics include job location and postwar suburbanization, mortgage lending, and urban sprawl in Europe.
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PUBLIC POLICY
EDUCATION
New
Looks at the origins, impact, and legality of higher educations longstanding program that tends to benefit wealthy whites: legacy preferences for the children of alumni. A Century Foundation Press Book
2010 / 400 pp. / paper 978-0-87078-518-4 $19.95
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Inexcusable Absence
Besieged
A systematic look at how school boards fare when they interact with their political superiors, teachers unions, and the public.
2005 / 356 pp. / paper 978-0-8157-3683-7 $29.95 (cloth ed. avail.)
Few aspects of education policy have escaped judicial involvement. Schools and districts now regularly face lawsuits over discipline policies, personnel decisions, holiday celebrations, and more. From Schoolhouse to Courthouse considers the implications of this development. Copublished with the Thomas B. Fordham Institute
2009 / 280 pp. / paper 978-0-8157-0307-5 $28.95
The most important work to appear in recent decades on this controversial subject.Orlando Patterson, Harvard University
1998 / 536 pp. / paper 978-0-8157-4609-6 $26.95 (cloth ed. avail.)
An Economica Book
2008 / 314 pp. / cloth 978-2-7178-5507-4 $59.95
In Plain Sight
Gordon MacInnes
Closed Minds?
Simple, Difficult Lessons from New Jerseys Expensive Effort to Close the Achievement Gap
A Century Foundation Book
2009 / 138 pp. / paper 978-0-87078-513-9 $14.95
A remarkably lucid and penetrating study of the recent trends affecting the nations universities and the culture of the academy.Richard C. Atkinson, president emeritus, University of California
2008 / 278 pp. / cloth 978-0-8157-8028-1 $32.95
Lessons Learned
Tom Loveless, ed.
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PUBLIC POLICY
A revealing indication of how accountability, rather than markets, has become the current mantra. Times Educational Supplement
2003 / 320 pp. / paper 978-0-8157-7029-9 $26.95 (cloth ed. avail.)
Performance Incentives
Matthew G. Springer, ed.
Ideal introduction to the OECDs unrivaled collection of internationally comparative data on education and learning, presenting concise and easily accessible data on key topics.
October / 94 pp. / paper 978-92-64-08469-8 $39.00
Highlights the largely ignored private, fiscal, and public costs of not educating Americas children.
2007 / 273 pp. / paper 978-0-8157-0863-6 $28.95 (cloth ed. avail.)
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Rewarding Strivers
Kahlenberg again gathers the best thinkers on how to challenge this status quo.Anthony Marx, president, Amherst College A Century Foundation Press Book
2010 / 231 pp. / paper 978-0-87078-516-0 $19.95
Vol. 1 Demography 2009 / 300 pp. / paper 978-92-64-04065-6 $62.00 Vol. 2 Technology 2009 / 150 pp. / paper 978-92-64-06093-7 $40.00 Vol. 3 Globalization 2009 / 500 pp. / paper 978-92-64-05660-2 $80.00
Examines the growing use of adequacy lawsuits as an alternative strategy in the pursuit of improved public education.
2006 / 373 pp. / paper 978-0-8157-7031-2 $26.95 (cloth ed. avail.)
Required reading for everyone concerned about the impact of NCLB on student academic outcomes. Maureen T. Hallinan, University of Notre Dame
2007 / 340 pp. / paper 978-0-8157-3033-0 $29.95 (cloth ed. avail.)
New
Presents 26 major trends in the context of education, grouped in nine broad themes including aging societies, global challenges, a new economic landscape, and the learning society.
2009 / 88 pp. / paper 978-92-64-04661-0 $37.00
An Economica Book
2010 / 300 pp. / cloth 978-2-7178-5797-9 $59.95
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PUBLIC POLICY
Anyone interested in the ongoing debate about the governance of urban public schools and the role of mayors needs to read this book.Michael Casserly, executive director, Council of the Great City Schools
2009 / 255 pp. / paper 978-0-8157-9043-3 $22.95 (cloth ed. avail.)
Decentralizing Governance
Emerging Concepts and Practices
G. Shabbir Cheema & Dennis A. Rondinelli, eds.
2007 / 300 pp. / paper 978-0-8157-1389-0 $29.95
Governing by Network
Winner of the 2005 Louis Brownlow Book Award from the National Academy of Public Administration. Copublished with Innovations in American Government, Harvard University
2004 / 224 pp. / paper 978-0-8157-3129-0 $19.95 (cloth ed. avail.)
A thoughtful, wise plan for overhauling government that will inspire a new generation of men and women to serve their country.David Gergen, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
2009 / 359 pp. / paper 978-0-8157-0141-5 $22.95
Innovations in Government
Sandford F. Borins, ed.
This is the most important book on American federalism to appear in a long time.Donald F. Kettl, University of Pennsylvania Cosponsored by the National Academy of Public Administration
2008 / 368 pp. / paper 978-0-8157-1541-2 $28.95 (cloth ed. avail.)
Unleashing Change
Steven Kelman
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N e w i n pa p e r b a c k
Wiki Government
Beth Simone Noveck
How Technology Can Make Government Better, Democracy Stronger, and Citizens More Powerful
See page 2 for description.
2010 / 224 pp. / paper 978-0-8157-0510-9 $19.95
Anyone who is serious about advancing the conversation in this young field will find this book engaging and provocative.J. Gregory Dees, Duke University
2008 / 295 pp. / paper 978-0-8157-5211-0 $26.95 (cloth ed. avail.)
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American Foundations
Roles and Contributions
Helmut K. Anheier & David C. Hammack, eds.
The most comprehensive effort to date to assess the impact and significance of philanthropic foundations in the United States.
2010 / 457 pp. / cloth 978-0-8157-0339-6 $64.95
Salamons volume presents a robust entry-level overview of the [nonprofit] sector from some of the most notable scholars currently in the field. Arthur C. Brooks in Public Administration Review
2010 / 575 pp. / paper 978-0-8157-0330-3 $36.95
Democracy at Risk
How Political Choices Undermine Citizen Participation, and What We Can Do About It
Stephen Macedo & others
2005 / 228 pp. / paper 978-0-8157-5405-3 $19.95 (cloth ed. avail.)
Investing in Democracy
Carmen Sirianni
United We Serve
MEDIA / COMMUNICATIONS
New New
Winner of the National Press Clubs 2004 Arthur Rowse Award for Press Criticism. Cosponsored with the Shorenstein Center at Harvard University
2003 / 307 pp. / paper 978-0-8157-3581-6 $24.95
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Internatio n a l Re l a t i o n s / S e c u r i t y & D ef e n s e
N ow i n pa p e r b a c k
Blindside
Means to an End
Provides a range of ideas and insights on future low-probability, potentially high-impact events. Recommended.Choice An American Interest Book
2008 / 198 pp. / paper 978-0-8157-2991-4 $19.95
Myanmar/ Burma
Lex Rieffel, ed.
Copublished with the World Peace Foundation and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
2009 / 497 pp. / paper 978-0-8157-0329-7 $39.95
F o rt h c o m i n g
A comprehensive account of now the Chvez regime has revamped the nation, with a particular focus on its political transformation.
November / 175 pp. / paper 978-0-8157-0497-3 $22.95
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First in a series of books on comparative public administration, to be copublished by Brookings and the Italian National School of Public Administration.
November / 240 pp. / paper 978-0-8157-0496-6 $28.95
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Learning to Salsa
New
Two longtime U.S. diplomats argue that the United States is long overdue in rethinking its policy toward Cuba and should adopt a proactive policy of critical and constructive engagement.
2010 / 239 pp. / paper 9780-8157-0389-1 $24.95
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Confronting Poverty
A timely reminder that alleviating global poverty and shoring up weak states are key components of a more balanced and sustainable U.S. national security strategy.
2010 / 244 pp. / paper 978-0-8157-0390-7 $26.95
F o rt h c o m i n g
A viable and progressive alternative to the hubris and hypocrisy that has undermined previous American approaches to democracy promotion.Larry Diamond, Hoover Institution and Stanford University A Century Foundation Book
2010 / 308 pp. / paper, 978-0-87078-514-6, $19.95
Shooting up
An important and timely book that challenges the conventional wisdom about counternarcotics and counter insurgency.Bruce Hoffman, Georgetown University
2009 / 273 pp. / cloth 978-0-8157-0328-0 $28.95
Presents an agenda for reforming the statutory law governing this new battle, balancing the need for security, the rule of law, and the constitutional rights of freedom. Copublished with the Hoover Institution and the Georgetown Center on National Security and the Law
2009 / 420 pp. / cloth 978-0-8157-0310-5 $34.95
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Winning Turkey
Outer Space
N e w i n pa p e r b a c k
This is an important book on an important subject, which is likely to remain unparalleled for many years. Edward Luce, Washington bureau chief, Financial Times
2010 / 350 pp. / cloth 978-0-8157-0402-7 $34.95
Avoiding Trivia
Daniel Drezner, ed.
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Aaron, H.J., 9 Absolute Power, 4 Achieving an AIDS Transition, 9 Acting in Time on Energy Policy, 7 Advice and Dissent, 4 Affirmative Action for the Rich, 11 After the Crash, 6 Ahmed, A., 2, 3 Alden, E., 3 Alexandroff, A.S., 15 Altshuler, A.A., 10 Alvarez, R.M., 4 American Foundations, 14 American Metropolitics, 9 Anheier, H.K., 14 Antholis, W., 1, 7 Antos, J.R., 9 Arbatov, A., 16 Are New Millennium Learners Making the Grade? 11 Arming without Aiming, 16 Arons, D.F., 14 Attacks on the Press, 14 Avoiding Trivia, 16 Ball, R.M., 6 Belfield, C.R., 12 Belsky, E.S., 6, 9, 10 Benjamin-Alvarado, J., 7 Berry, J.M., 14 Berube, A., 10 Besieged, 11 Betts, J.R., 11 Bilmes, L., 13 Binder, S.A., 4 Bindi, F., 15 Birdsall, N., 4 Black-White Test Score Gap, 11 Blindside, 15 Bliss, D.T., 1, 3 Blum, K., 9 Boomburbs, 9 Boosting Paychecks, 6 Borins, S.F, 13 Borrowing to Live, 6 Boyle, G., 8 Brady, D.W., 3 Brain Gain, 1, 6 Brainard, L., 7 Brettell, C.B., 10 Breyer, S., 1, 3 Bridging the Achievement Gap, 11 Brookings Papers on Education Policy, 13 Brookings Trade Forum, 7 Brookings-Wharton Papers, 10 Brown Center Report on American Education, 11 Budgeting for Hard Power, 16 Building Assets, Building Credit, 9 Burman, L.E., 9 Burtless, G., 10 Bush, J., 3 Bush, R., 15 Busse, R., 9 Cain, B.E., 4 Campbell, D.E., 5 Campbell, K.M., 4, 7 Challenge of Legislation, 4 Cheema, G.S., 13 Chubb, J.E., 11 Cisneros, H., 9, 10 Climate Change and Forests, 1, 7 Climate Change and Global Poverty, 7 Climate Change and Global Sustainability, 8 Climate Change, Trade, and Competitiveness, 7 Climatic Cataclysm, 7 Closed Minds? 11 Cobb, R.W., 14 Cohen, S.P., 16 Coile, C.C., 6 Coleman, W.T., 1, 3 Confronting Poverty, 16 Conlan, T.J., 13 Cooper, A.F., 15 Corrado, A., 1, 5 Corrales, J., 15 Corruption, Global Security, and World Order, 15 Counsel for the Situation, 1, 3 Creating an Opportunity Society, 6 Creating Competitive Markets, 3 Cubas Energy Future, 7 Dasgupta, S., 16 DeGregorio, P., 4 de Jong, J., 13 de Souza Briggs, X., 10 de Vasconcelos, ., 15 Decentralizing Governance, 13 Democracy at Risk, 14 Democracy in the States, 4 Detention and Denial, 1, 16 Diamond, P.A., 6 Dickinson, M.J., 4 Difficult Transitions, 4 Digital Medicine, 1, 9 Dionne, E.J., 14 Donovan, T., 4 Downs, A., 10 Dragon in the Tropics, 15 Drawing the Line, 3 Drezner, D., 16 Drogosz, K.M., 14 Duderstadt, J.J., 11, 12 Dunn, J., 11 Dvorkin, V., 16 East Moves West, 15 Education at a Glance, 12 Education Gap, 11 Education Policy Analysis, 12 Eggers, W.D., 13 Election Fraud, 4 Elkind, J., 7 Ellwood, D.T., 7 Energy Security, 7 Engdahl, L., 9 Epstein, N., 13 Escobar, M., 9 Estache, A., 6 Evans, G., 15 Exclusion, Gender and Education, 11 Fast Forward, 1, 7 Felbab-Brown, V., 16 Feldman, R.J., 6 Financing the 2008 Election, 1, 5 Fit not Fat, 9 Fritschler, A.L., 11 From Despair to Hope, 9 From Few to Many, 9 From Schoolhouse to Courthouse, 11 Fuchita, Y., 6 Fuchs, M.H., 16 Fukuyama, F., 15 Furman, J., 9 Future of Insurance Regulation in the U.S., 6 Future of International Environmental Law, 8 Gallagher, K.S., 7 Gamoran, A., 12 Geography of Opportunity, 10 Gerber, A.S., 3, 5 Get Out the Vote, 5 Getting Choice Right, 11 Giedion, U., 9 Ginsburg, S., 16 Gitterman, D.P., 6 Giuffrida, A., 9 Giving Knowledge for Free, 12 Glantz, M.H., 8 Glassman, A., 9 Global Energy Governance, 8 Global Public Mgmnt. Rev., 13 Global Warming, 8 Globalization of Higher Education, 11 Goldsmith, S., 13 Goldthau, A., 8 Gordon, P.H., 16 Gould, W.S., 13 Governing by Network, 13 Grace, M.F., 6 Graff, C., 16 Green, D.P., 5 Green Cities, 8 Greenhouse Governance, 8 Greenspan Commission, 6 Growth Management and Affordable Housing, 10 Guardian of the Presidency, 4 Haass, R., 15 Hall, T.E., 4 Halperin, M.H., 16 Hammack, D.C., 14 Hanmer, M.J., 5 Hardwick, S.W., 10 Haskins, R., 3, 6 Heads Up! 8 Health at a Glance, 9 Health Policy Developments, 9 Healy, P.F., 9 Herring, R.J., 6 Herrnson, P.S., 5 Hess, F., 13 Hess, S., 4, 14 Higher Education to 2030, 12 Highlights from Education at a Glance, 12 Hilley, J.L., 4 Howell, W.G., 11 Huddleston, V., 7, 15 Hunter, J.D., 5 Hyde, S.D., 4 Improving on No Child Left Behind, 11 In Plain Sight, 11 Indyk, M.S., 15 Inexcusable Absence, 11 Innovations in Government, 13 Intergovernmental Management for the 21st Century, 13 Investing in Democracy, 3, 14 Is There a Culture War? 5 Italy and the European Union, 15 Janson-Smith, T., 1, 7 Jencks, C., 11 Jones, A., 7 Jones, B., 2, 16 Journey into America, 2, 3 Kahlenberg, R.D., 11, 12 Kahn, M.E., 8 Kalb, M., 14 Kamarck, E.C., 5 Katz, B., 10 Keeping the Lights On, 8 Kelman, S., 13 Kemp, G., 15 Kettl, D.F., 13 Klein, R.W., 6 Knake, R.K., 14 Komiyama, H., 8 Lambrew, J.M., 9 Landy, M.K., 3 Lang, R.E., 9, 10 LeFurgy, J.B., 9 Leading Change in a Web 2.1 World, 2, 13 Learning to Salsa, 15 Leary, D., 8 Legislating the War on Terror, 16 Leipziger, D., 6 Lessons Learned, 11 Levin, H.M., 12 Levin, M.A., 3 Levine, P.B., 6 Lewis, M.A., 11 Light, P.C., 14 Litan, R.E., 6, 14 Lobbyists, Government, and Public Trust, 6 Lockheed, M.E., 11 Loveless, T., 11, 13 Lowenthal, A.F., 15 Lowry, W.R., 8 Luberoff, D.E., 10 Macedo, S., 14 MacInnes, G., 11 MacKenzie, J.P., 4 Magleby, D.B., 1, 5 Making Choices about Hydrogen, 8 Malbin, M.J., 4 Maltzman, F., 4 Managing Water for All, 8 Mann, T.E., 4 Marketplace of Democracy, 5 Martinez, R., 4 Mass Atrocity Crimes, 15 Matter of Faith, 5 Mayer, J.D., 11 Mayer, W.G., 5 McDonald, M.P., 5 McLarty, M., 3 Means to an End, 15 Media and the War on Terrorism, 14 Mega-Projects, 10 Miller, E.A., 1, 9 Moving Forward, 6 Moynihan, R., 9 Munnell, A.H., 7 Myanmar / Burma, 15 Mytelka, L.K., 8 Neustadt, E.A., 4 Nickerson, J., 2, 13 Niemi, R.G., 5 Nivola, P.S., 3 No Child Left Behind? 12 Noveck, B.S., 2, 14 OHanlon, M.E., 2, 3, 16 OSullivan, R., 1, 7 Obama Administration and the Americas, 15 Obama Moment, 15 OECD Environmental Outlook to 2030, 8 OECD TALIS, 12 Opportunity 08, 3 Orfield, M., 9 Ornstein, N.J., 4 Orszag, P.R., 6 Outer Space, 16 Over, M., 9 Pack, J.R., 10 Pascual, C., 2, 7, 15, 16 Patashnik, E.M., 3 Patterson, B.H., 2, 4 Patterson, W., 8 Penfold, M., 15 People Factor, 13 Performance Incentives, 12 Perils of Proximity, 15 Peterson, P.E., 11, 12 Pew Forum Dialogue Series, 5 Pfiffner, J.P., 4 Phillips, M., 11 Piccone, T., 15 Pindus, N., 10 Pisupati, B., 8 Plane Truth, 14 Plug-in Electric Vehicles, 6 Posner, P.L., 13 Power and Responsibility, 2, 16 Power Play, 4 Price We Pay, 12 Primary Politics, 5 Primo, D.M., 14 Promoting Cybersecurity through Internet Governance, 14 Promoting the General Welfare, 3 Puentes, R., 10 Purvis, N., 7 Rabe, B.G., 8 Reconsidering Retirement, 6 Red and Blue Nation? 3 Red, Blue, and Purple America, 5 Redefining Urban and Suburban America, 10 Reforming Medicare, 9 Reforming the Presidential Nomination Process, 5 Regulatory Craft, 13 Repairing Paradise, 8 Responsibility to Protect, 15 Restoring Fiscal Sanity, 9 Restoring the Balance, 15 Rethinking e-Government Services, 13 Retooling for Growth, 10 Retsinas, N.P., 6, 9, 10 Revisiting Rental Housing, 10 Rewarding Strivers, 12 Rice, S.E., 16 Riedel, B., 15 Rieffel, L., 15 Rising States, Rising Institutions, 15 Rivlin, A.M., 9, 13 Rizvi, G., 13 Rondinelli, D.A., 13 Rotberg, R.I., 15 Salamon, L.M., 14 Samples, J., 5 Sandalow, D.B., 6 Sass, S.A., 7 Saving Social Security, 6 Sawhill, I., 6 Schlette, S., 9 School Money Trials, 12 Schuck, P.H., 2, 7 Search for Al Qaeda, 15 Search for Social Entrepreneurship, 14 Securing Human Mobility in the Age of Risk, 16 Shapiro, M., 3 Sherjan, H., 2, 16 Shooting Up, 16 Simon, J., 14 Singer, A., 10 Siriani, C., 3, 14 Skeptics Case for Nuclear Disarmament, 2, 16 Smith, B.L.R., 11 Smith, S.S., 5 Sorkin, I., 7 Sparrow, M.K., 13 Springer, M.G., 12 Springer, M.J., 5 Standards-Based Reform and the Poverty Gap, 12 Stark, A., 3 State of Access, 13 State of Nonprofit America, 14 Stedman, J.S., 2, 16 Steinberg, J.B., 4 Stern, G.H., 6 Still Stuck in Traffic, 10 Streck, C., 1, 7 Stuck in the Middle, 6 Students with Disabilities..., 12 Sumi, A., 8 Sunbelt/Frostbelt, 10 Survival and Success of Liberty, 16 Sustainability Science, 8 Sustainability Science Series, 8 Sustaining Nonprofit Performance, 14 Swing Voter in American Politics, 5 Taking the High Road, 10 Talbott, S., 1, 7, 15 Tarasofsky, R., 1, 7 Targeting in Social Programs, 2, 7 Taspinar, O., 16 Teixeira, R., 5 Through Their Eyes, 14 To Serve the President, 2, 4 Tolbert, C.J., 4 Too Big to Fail, 6 Toughing It Out in Afghanistan, 2, 16 Trends Shaping Education, 12 Twenty-First Century Gateways, 10 United We Serve, 14 University Research for Innovation, 13 Unleashing Change, 13 Urban and Regional Policy and Its Effects, 10 Usable Thoughts, 8 Using Taxes to Reform Health Insurance, 9 U.S. Immigration Policy, 3 Vital Statistics on Congress 2008, 4 Viteritti, J.P., 13 Voice for Nonprofits, 14 Volcker, P.A., 6 Voting Technology, 5 Weber, L.E., 11, 12 West, D.M., 1, 6, 9 West, M.R., 11, 12 What Do We Do Now? 4 When Mayors Take Charge, 13 White House and the World, 4 Whitehead, L., 15 Who Has the Cure? 9 Whos in Charge Here? 13 Wial, H., 10 Wiki Government, 2, 14 Wilson, W.J., 10 Winning Turkey, 16 Witte, J.M., 8 Wittes, B., 1, 16 Wolfe, A., 5 Wolman, H., 10 Work over Welfare, 3 Working Longer, 7 Ye, Q., 8 Zaborowski, M., 15 Zakaria, F., 14 Zeckhauser, R.J., 2, 7 Zedillo, E., 8
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