The Evolving Congress
The Evolving Congress

Author: Congressional Research Congressional Research Service Library of Congress

Publisher: CreateSpace

Published: 2015-05-17

Total Pages: 490

ISBN-13: 9781512234244

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For 100 years, the Congressional Research Service (CRS) has been charged with providing nonpartisan and authoritative research and analysis to inform the legislative debate in Congress. This has involved a wide range of services, such as written reports on issues and the legislative process, consultations with Members and their staff, seminars on policy and procedural matters, and congressional testimony. The Government and Finance Division at CRS took a step back from its intensive day-to-day service to Congress to analyze important trends in the evolution of the institution-its organization and policymaking process-over the last many decades. Changes in the political landscape, technology, and representational norms have required Congress to evolve as the Nation's most democratic national institution of governance. The essays in this print demonstrate that Congress has been a flexible institution that has changed markedly in recent years in response to the social and political environment.

Electricity Restructuring
Electricity Restructuring

Author: Laura Lynne Kiesling

Publisher: A E I Press

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780844742823

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This volume explores how Texas's groundbreaking program of electricity restructuring has become a model for truly competitive energy markets in the United States. The authors contend that restructuring in Texas has been successful because the industry is free from federal over...

A History of Army Communications and Electronics at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, 1917-2007
A History of Army Communications and Electronics at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, 1917-2007

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Publisher: Department of the Army

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13:

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A History of Army Communications and Electronics at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, 1917-2007 chronicles ninety years of communications-electronics achievements carried out by the scientists, engineers, logisticians and support staff at Fort Monmouth, NJ. From homing pigeons to frequency hopping tactical radios, the personnel at Fort Monmouth have been at the forefront of providing the U.S. Army with the most reliable systems for communicating battlefield information. Special sections of the book are devoted to ground breaking achievements in "Famous Firsts", as well as "Celebrity Notes", a rundown on the notable and notorious figures in Fort Monmouth history. The book also includes information on commanding officers, tenants and post landmarks.

On Account of Sex
On Account of Sex

Author: Cynthia Harrison

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1989-06-08

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 9780520909304

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Examining the political activities of the period between 1920, when women gained the right to vote, and the mid-1960s, when the women's movement revived, Cynthia Harrison illuminates a long-neglected but vital chapter of women's history.

Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
Anti-Intellectualism in American Life

Author: Richard Hofstadter

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2012-01-04

Total Pages: 465

ISBN-13: 0307809676

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Winner of the 1964 Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction Anti-Intellectualism in American Life is a book which throws light on many features of the American character. Its concern is not merely to portray the scorners of intellect in American life, but to say something about what the intellectual is, and can be, as a force in a democratic society. "As Mr. Hofstadter unfolds the fascinating story, it is no crude battle of eggheads and fatheads. It is a rich, complex, shifting picture of the life of the mind in a society dominated by the ideal of practical success." —Robert Peel in the Christian Science Monitor

Annual Report of the Securities and Exchange Commission
Annual Report of the Securities and Exchange Commission

Author: United States. Securities and Exchange Commission

Publisher:

Published: 1957

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13:

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The Annual report of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is published with a view to protecting investors and maintaining the integrity of the securities markets.

A Century of U.S. Naval Intelligence
A Century of U.S. Naval Intelligence

Author: Wyman H. Packard

Publisher: www.Militarybookshop.CompanyUK

Published: 2010-12-01

Total Pages: 522

ISBN-13: 9781907521782

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Reprint of this scarce joint 1996 publication by the U.S. Naval Historical Center and the Office of Naval Intelligence. This comprehensive reference work is intended to provide intelligence professionals, scholars, and the general public with a detailed, topical accounting of the long and varied activities of U.S. Naval Intelligence. ill.