Presents a collection of essay that provide an examination of the Executive branch in American government, explaining how the Constitution created the executive branch and discusses how the executive interacts with the other two branches of ...
Mark Peterson makes an extraordinary claim in this fascinating book focused around the life and thought of Galileo: it was the mathematics of Renaissance arts, not Renaissance sciences, that became modern science.
Peterson (Government, Harvard) argues against the presidency-centered perspective on national government and contends that Congress is far more influential in crafting proposals.
This book offers a new alternative to the prevailing narrative, which has been frequently criticized but heretofore never adequately replaced. The author s argument follows two main strands.
The cases in Korean adoption and inheritance reveal steps in the transition called "Confucianization" that took place mostly in the seventeenth century.
The findings show that neither the types of injuries claimed by plaintiffs nor the level of compensation for most injuries changed appreciably between 1960 and 1980.