Only in Ireland does Barbara Williams unlock the secrets of her late grandmother's troubled personality-and her own anxiety. Their Kenny ancestors were farm laborers who had endured famines, violent uprisings…

Challenging traditional accounts of the origins of astrophysics, this book re-examines the life and career of nineteenth-century English amateur astronomer William Huggins and his wife, Margaret Huggins. Written in an…

Ending Racial Preferences: The Michigan Story provides an in-depth account of the 2006 Michigan Civil Rights Initiative, told from the perspective of Toward A Fair Michigan, a non-partisan educational organization…

Now updated to include a more graphic approach, this introductory text presents the framework of statistical inference as the objective of statistics, and uses numerous examples, problems and exercises to…

The Presidential Election of 2020: Donald Trump and the Crisis of Democracy analyzes the election in the context of the Trump presidency, his self-aggrandizing behavior and the threat he posed…

Each essay shows how particular countries, governments, and organizations devise constitutions to reflect their visions of governance and sets of rules for their leaders. Using the methods and writing of…

This volume provides scholarly insights, pedagogical strategies, and curricular resources for use in schools.