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A renowned educator-psychologist explains how children learn and how family, classroom, and school practices can help them learn more effectively. In addition to drawing on studies of learning outcomes, the author reveals economic research on teacher education and school choice that challenges many popular assumptions.

What is to be America's peace? How is it to be won and preserved in our time? Angelo Codevilla notes that the US government's increasingly unlimited powers flow in part from an inability to stay out of wars or to win them, and that statesmen and academics have ceased to think about such things. The purpose of this book is to rekindle such thoughts.

The twenty-one essays in this book provide an overview of the contributions of Nobel laureate and Hoover Institution honorary fellow Friedrich A. von Hayek to the fields of economics, political theory, history, and philosophy.

Prolific author Walter E. Williams recalls some of the highlights and turning points of his life. From his lower middle class beginnings in a mixed but predominantly black neighbourhood in West Philadelphia to his department chair at George Mason University, Williams tells an `only in America' story of a life of achievement.

What are the keys to good economic policy? George P. Shultz and John B. Taylor draw from their several decades of experience at the forefront of American economic policy making to show how letting the market work on its own, without government intervention, is a recipe for success.

Explores the vulnerabilities of Israeli democracy and the obstacles to forming a sustainable national consciousness. The author merges narratives about his own life in Israel with ruminations on the Jewish diaspora and the arc of Israel's history, illuminating the conflicts between Jewish identities, and democratic values and the halacha.

Allan H. Meltzer (1928-2017), a leading monetary economist of the twentieth century, is memorialized in eleven essays by prominent economists. Among his achievements, Meltzer transformed the field of central banking and dissected the economic disasters of the 1930s and late 2000s, as well as the avoidance of disaster in the 1970s.

Analyses the challenges NATO faced in the war in Afghanistan, and explains how the alliance maintained cohesion despite them. The author examines why NATO succeeded in Afghanistan when history suggests most coalitions fracture under such intense pressure.

Charts the origins and growth of what is today the Hoover Institution over the course of a century of global upheaval, from World War I and the Russian Revolution, through World War II and the Cold War, to the rapidly developing challenges we face today.

Explores the three years, three months, and three days of Nat Bellantoni's life on the Pacific front in World War II. Now collected in a lavishly illustrated volume, his watercolours, sketches, and photographs offer a window onto one of the most significant moments in American history.

The inner workings of Iranian politics, as experienced by two key figures at their centre, are revealed as never before through the meticulously preserved documents and photographs in the Ardeshir Zahedi Papers at the Hoover Institution Library. These materials are essential for understanding modern Iranian history and its global context.

In documenting the extent of Beijing's expanding influence operations inside the United States, the authors of this book aim to raise awareness of China's efforts to penetrate and sway a range of American institutions: state and local governments, academic institutions, think tanks, media, and businesses.

What caused the Financial Crisis of 2008? Russ Roberts argues that the underlying cause of the mess was the past bailouts of large financial institutions that allowed these institutions to gamble carelessly because they were effectively using other people's money.

As a response to the Great Depression, President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal is widely understood as a turning point in American history. David Davenport and Gordon Lloyd go even further, calling the New Deal "America's French Revolution", refashioning American government and public policy in ways that have grown to epic proportions today.

In Thinking About the Future, George Shultz has collected and revisited key writings, applying his past thinking to America's most pressing contemporary problems. Each chapter includes new commentary from the author, providing context, colour, and behind-the-scenes glimpses of how decisions are made in the halls of power.

The conflict between Soviet Communists and Boris Pasternak over the publication of Doctor Zhivago did not end when he won the Nobel Prize, or even when the author died. Paolo Mancosu Paolo Mancosu's book is the first to explore the post-Nobel history of Pasternak and his partner Olga Ivinskaya.

Drawing from their 2018 conference, the Hoover Institution brings together leading academics and monetary policy makers to share ideas about the practical issues facing central banks today. The expert contributors discuss US monetary policy at individual central banks and reform of the international monetary and financial system.

Presents a complex and nuanced picture of the Japanese American community in the early twentieth century: a people challenged by racial prejudice and anti-Japanese immigration laws trying to gain a foothold in a new land while remaining connected to Japan.

Uses interviews with an expansive and diverse set of GNN professionals to deliver a vivid depiction of the momentous sea change in mass media production. Kounalakis traces the evolution of global news networks, revealing today's drastically altered news business model that places precedence on networks leveraging global power.

Examines the legacy of one of the most eccentric newspapers to cover the Vietnam War. With its mix of hard-hitting exposes, pinups, and comic strips, Overseas Weekly earned a reputation as a muckraking truth teller. Through photographs and essays, this book brings viewers behind the viewfinders of photojournalists who covered the conflict.

Examines one of the most under appreciated forces that has shaped modern US foreign policy: American-Iranian relations. The authors argue that America's flawed reading of Iran's politics has hamstrung decades of US diplomacy, resulting in humiliations and setbacks ranging from the 1979-81 hostage crisis to Barack Obama's nuclear weapons deal.

The historical background, the present position, and the future prospects of both the non-Russian and Russian peoples are considered in their many aspects in this volume, as are the manoeuvres of the Communist regime to suppress, appease, or make use of them.

Presents thirteen essays by Hoover fellows that discuss the unique factors that have historically set America apart from other nations and how these factors shape public policy. The authors show how America and its people have prospered and emerged as global leaders by prizing individuality and economic freedom and explore key factors in America's success.

In a time marked by gridlock and incivility, it seems the only thing Americans can agree on is this: we're more divided today than we've ever been in our history. In Unstable Majorities Morris P. Fiorina surveys American political history to reveal that, in fact, the American public is not experiencing a period of unprecedented polarization.

Discusses slavery around the world, with research and firsthand stories that reframe slavery as a modern-day crisis, not a historical phenomenon or third-world issue. Identifying four types of slavery - chattel slavery, debt bondage, forced labour, and sex slavery - W. Kurt Hauser examines the efforts and failures of governments to address them.

Tells the harrowing story of Stalin's transformation of millions of family farms throughout the USSR into 250,000 collective farms during the period from 1929 to 1933. Drawing on scholarly studies and primary-source collections, this volume offers an accessible and accurate narrative for the general reader.

Russia has long played an influential part in its world of Islam, and not all the dimensions are as widely understood as they ought to be. In Russia and Its Islamic World, Robert Service examines Russia's interactions with Islam at home and around the globe and pinpoints the tsarist and Soviet legacy, current complications, and future possibilities.

Tim Kane analyzes the strengths and weaknesses of the US armed forces leadership culture and personnel management. He proposes a blueprint for reform that empowers troops as well as local commanders. Kane's proposals extend the All-Volunteer Force reforms of 1973 further along the spectrum of volunteerism, emphasize greater individual agency during all stages of a US military career, and restore diversity among the services.