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James Thurber (Author)

Many Moons

Editura: SAN VAL INC

Anul aparitiei: 1973

Andrew James Thurber (Author)

The Book of Lester

Editura: PASSIONATE LIFE MINISTRIES

Anul aparitiei: 2011

At 19 Lester John was an Olympic hopeful with all of the promise in the world. One accident took it all away. 11 years later he is tortured by the physical and mental pain of losing the only thing he ever wanted. Hung over, he stumbles into work Monday morning as his supervisor calls him into her office. To his surprise she gives him a week off to answer two questions, "Do you find any sense of accomplishment from your job and are you satisfied with your life?" The catch: she hands him a small book that has the power to give him his dreams back. Meanwhile, his best friend Jerry Humberger is on the brink of creating the perfect marijuana plant called, "SUPER-WEED" that will revolutionize the drug industry. Friendships will be tested as these two factory workers in rural Pennsylvania will both stumble upon discoveries that will put them on opposite sides of a hidden war. A novel of supernatural suspense and a love triangle that could make one man the most powerful person in the world.

James A. Thurber (Editor)

Rivals for Power: Presidential-Congressional Relations

Editura: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBL GROU

Anul aparitiei: 2001

What is it about the institutional relationship between the US Congress and the presidency that ensures conflict even in the face of necessary co-operation? The contributors to this volume explore both branches of government and what unites as well as divides them. Page dim. 228 x 153 x 16 Weight: 390 grams

James A. Thurber (Editor)

Rivals for Power: Presidential-Congressional Relations

Editura: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBL GROU

Anul aparitiei: 2009

Rivals for Power is a lively and up to date description of the power struggle between the president and Congress. In it, leading congressional and presidential scholars and knowledgeable former public officials consider the historical, political, and constitutional foundations of conflict between the two branches. The authors give practical advice about how to build cooperative policymaking between the president and Congress as they struggle over major crises in solving economic problems and addressing domestic issues and the challenges in defense and foreign policy making. The book features original academic research and practitioner knowledge from the White House and the Hill. This fourth edition includes all new essays with unique and critical viewpoints on the role of the president and Congress in the policy making process. Many of the essays focus on lessons learned about cooperation and conflict between the two branches from the Clinton and Bush presidencies. The essays include preliminary analyses of President Barack Obama s relationship with Congress. Because the authors have made major contributions as congressional and presidential scholars, and have played key roles in ...

James Thurber (Author)

Rivals for Power: Presidential-Congressional Relations

Editura: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBL GROU

Anul aparitiei: 2009

Rivals for Power is a lively and up to date description of the power struggle between the president

James A. Thurber (Editor)

Campaigns and Elections American Style

Editura: WESTVIEW PR

Anul aparitiei: 2009

With new and revised essays throughout, this book provides a real education in practical campaign po

James A. Thurber (Editor)

Campaign Warriors: The Role of Political Consultants in Elections

Editura: BROOKINGS INSTITUTION

Anul aparitiei: 2000

Campaign politics has become increasingly professionalized in recent years. The growing prevalence and influence of paid consultants in the United States and other democracies is one of the most important factors changing the nature of electoral politics. Page dim. 237 x 162 x 22 Weight: 488 grams

James A. Thurber (Editor)

The Battle for Congress: Consultants, Candidates, and Voters

Editura: BROOKINGS INSTITUTION

Anul aparitiei: 2001

" This volume provides an in-depth examination of six political campaigns waged during competitive 1998 races for the U.S. House of Representatives. The case studies evaluate the professional political consultants who managed each campaign, their interaction with the candidates, and the impact of the campaigns on voters. Relying on unparalleled access to both the consultants involved and the candidates themselves, the contributors explore the electoral setting and context of the congressional districts, the strategy, theme, and message of each campaign, the consultants' decisionmaking, fund-raising, and spending, and any outside forces that entered into the races. The book features new data on tracking, polls, and television advertising budgets. "

James Thurber (Author)

The 13 Clocks

Editura: AMEREON LTD

Anul aparitiei: 1999

James Thurber (Author)

Conversations with James Thurber

Editura: UNIV PR OF MISSISSIPPI

Anul aparitiei: 1989

In Conversations with James Thurber this remarkable man who has been called America s twentieth-century Mark Twain and who was one of the great talkers of his time expresses his opinions on just about everything and recounts stories and anecdotes about his life which provided the basis for much of his humor writing. These entertaining interviews, conducted by Arthur Miller, Harvey Breit, George Plimpton, Arthur Gelb, and others, span twenty-two years, from 1939--1961. In them Thurber recalls his youth in Columbus, Ohio, his struggles as a student at Ohio State University, and his days of literary and journalistic apprenticeship in Europe as a code clerk and newspaperman who had to recreate entire stories from a few words of coded copy provided by the wire service. He tells too of his early days in New York City when he joined the staff of The New Yorker, of the origins of his drawings, of the pleasures that word games and mental puzzles gave him, and of his increasing blindness and its effect on his work and his perception of the world. As a man who like to express his opinions and to have an audience, Thurber enjoyed interviews and rarely refused to grant them. With the interview ...

James Thurber (Author)

My World, and Welcome to It

Editura: AMEREON LTD

Anul aparitiei: 1985

James Thurber (Author)

Thurber on Crime

Editura: MYSTERIOUS PR

Anul aparitiei: 1991

Page dim. 236 x 157 x 21 Weight: 449 grams

James Thurber (Author)

Many Moons

Editura: NAN HAI CHU BAN GONG SI

Anul aparitiei: 2008

James Thurber (Author)

Many Moons

Editura: NAN HAI CHU BAN GONG SI

Anul aparitiei: 2011

James Thurber (Author)

Many Moons

Editura: HE YING CHU BAN SHE

Anul aparitiei: 2003

James A. Thurber (Author)

Campaigns and Elections American Style

Editura: WESTVIEW PR

Anul aparitiei: 2013

With new and revised essays throughout, Campaigns and Elections American Style provides a real education in practical campaign politics. In the fourth edition, academics and campaign professionals explain how campaign themes and strategies are developed and communicated, the changes in campaign tactics as a result of changing technology, new techniques to target and mobilize voters, the evolving landscape of campaign finance and election laws, and the increasing diversity of the role of media in elections. Offering a unique and careful mix of Democrat and Republican, academic and practitioner, and male and female campaign perspectives, this volume scrutinizes national and local-level campaigns with special focus on the 2012 presidential and congressional elections. Students, citizens, candidates, and campaign managers will learn not only how to win elections but also why it is imperative to do so in an ethical way. Perfect for a variety of courses in American government, this book is essential reading for political junkies of any stripe and serious students of campaigns and elections.

James Thurber (Author)

The Greatest Man in the World: Also the Secret Life of Walter Mitty

Editura: PERFECTION LEARNING CORP

Anul aparitiei: 1979

James A. Thurber (Editor)

Rivals for Power: Presidential-Congressional Relations

Editura: CAMBRIDGE UNIV PR

Anul aparitiei: 2013

In our current age of unprecedented political polarization, nothing has been more strained by partisanship than the relationship between our President and the Congress with which he must deal. Now in its fifth edition, Rivals for Power: Presidential-Congressional Relations provides students an unmatched level of insight into the relationship between the executive and legislative branches of our federal government. Edited by James A. Thurber, this new edition includes 11 new chapters by leading scholars, journalists, and former public officials detailing previously unexplored aspects of the necessary rivalry upon which our nation's governing philosophy was founded centuries ago. In addition to thorough analyses of the causes of macro-level governmental conflict throughout our history, the book highlights many specific points of contention from President Obama's first term -- from the Dodd-Frank Act, to the "Fast and Furious" gunrunning scandal, to the ongoing battles surrounding the Affordable Care Act and its implementation -- as examples of how power, no matter how concentrated or sweeping, is ultimately checked and balanced by our democracy. Students and policy makers alike will ...

James Thurber (Author)

Many Moons

Editura: BIBLIOBAZAAR

Anul aparitiei: 1994

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was condu

James A. Thurber (Editor)

American Gridlock: The Sources, Character, and Impact of Political Polarization

Editura: CAMBRIDGE UNIV PR

Anul aparitiei: 2015

American Gridlock brings together the country's preeminent experts on the causes, characteristics, and consequences of partisan polarization in US politics and government, with each chapter presenting original scholarship and novel data. This book is the first to combine research on all facets of polarization, among the public (both voters and activists), in our federal institutions (Congress, the presidency, and the Supreme Court), at the state level, and in the media. Each chapter includes a bullet-point summary of its main argument and conclusions, and is written in clear prose that highlights the substantive implications of polarization for representation and policy-making. Authors examine polarization with an array of current and historical data, including public opinion surveys, electoral and legislative and congressional data, experimental data, and content analyses of media outlets. American Gridlock's theoretical and empirical depth distinguishes it from any other volume on polarization.