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How Media, Money, and Message Shaped the 2008 ElectionBarack Obama&'s stunning victory in the 2008 presidential election will go down as one of the more pivotal in American history. Given America&'s legacy of racism, how could a relatively untested first-term senator with an African father defeat some of the giants of American politics?  In The...

A comprehensive modern-day bestiary.--The New Yorker...

This is the only critical edition available of two of the most popular modern classics in English literature. Three Men in a Boat describes a comic expedition by middle-class Victorians up the Thames to Oxford, and provides brilliant snap-shots of London's playground in the late 1880s. Three Men on the Bummel records a similar escapade some ten...

The first history of the formative phase of Islam to be grounded in important non-Islamic as well as Islamic sources, this book is essential reading for anyone wanting to understand Islam as a religion and political force, the modern Middle East, and the jihadist impulse, as evident today as it was in the 7th century....

Cicero's The Republic is an impassioned plea for responsible government, based on Greek political theory, and written just before the civil war that ended the Roman Republic. Its sequel, The Laws, expounds the influential doctrine of Natural Law, setting out an ideal code for a reformed Roman Republic that is half in the realm of Utopia. This is...

This book highlights the rewards of taking a step beyond global account management to create a Global Customer Management approach, integrating globally all aspects of the relationship between supplier and customer. It gives a framework that guides international companies in using their relationships with global customers to their full potential....