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Owning and using scholarship : an IP handbook for teachers and researchers

by Kevin L. Smith, JD

Contents: Technology and the growing problem of intellectual property in academia — What is intellectual property law and why does it matter? — Who owns […]

Obamacare wars : federalism, state politics, and the Affordable Care Act

by Daniel Beland, Philip Rocco, and Alex Waddan

The first thorough account of the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, this book reveals the fissures the act exposed in the American federal system. […]

Nation on the take : how big money corrupts our democracy and what we can do about it

by Wendell Potter and Nick Penniman

American democracy has become coin operated. Special interest groups increasingly control every level of government. The necessity of raising huge sums of campaign cash has […]

Minority voting in the United States

by Kyle L. Kreider and Thomas J. Baldino, editors (2 volume set)

Contents: Volume 1. African American, women, and Latino/Latina voters — volume 2. Native American, Jewish American, Arab and Muslim American, Asian American, and LGBT voters

Imbeciles : the Supreme Court, American eugenics, and the sterilization of Carrie Buck

by Adam Cohen

ln 1927, the Supreme Court handed down a ruling so disturbing, ignorant, and cruel that it stands as one of the great injustices in American […]

Thomas and Charity Rotch : the Quaker experience of settlement in Ohio in the early republic,1800-1824

by Barbara K. Wittman

This first full length study of Quakers Charity and Thomas Rotch, early New England settlers to northeast Ohio (1811–1824) explores their role in the transformation […]

The road taken : the history and future of America’s infrastructure

by Henry Petroski

“Physical infrastructure in the United States is crumbling. The American Society of Civil Engineers has, in its latest report, given American roads and bridges a […]

Revealed– Columbus : the story of us

by Jamie A. Greene [editor]

Johnson’s Island : a prison for Confederate officers

by Roger Pickenpaugh

“Decidedly the best location”: establishing the prison — “A prison for officers alone”: early days of operation — “Everything in prison is elated”: the road […]

The fight to vote

by Michael Waldman

Michael Waldman takes a succinct and comprehensive look at a crucial American struggle: the drive to define and defend government based on “the consent of […]