books about: deadlock     books:       Deadlock (V.I. Warshawski Novels)6 reviews Sara Paretsky Dell, 1992 The Legend Continues... The only mysteries I read feature strong women characters, and VI Warshawsky is one of the toughest. I had read these early books in the series years ago, but the recent discovery of JM Redmann's Mickey Knight made me want to revisit V.I. and her stories. Paretsky has a way of punning her titles and this book is no exception. Deadlock. Dead lock. I had never considered the magnitude of tanker ...             Deadlock Iris Johansen St. Martin's Press, 2009 Emily Hudson is an archeologist who travels the world in search of priceless artifacts from war-torn countries and other hot spots.    Her best friend and partner, Joel Levy, is always at her side?until one day, her entire crew is massacred and Joel and Emily are held captive. Victims of one of the most ruthless and evil human beings on earth.  For two weeks they try to survive, until Emily is the unwitting instrument in Joel?s demise.  John ...             Breaking the Abortion Deadlock: From Choice to Consent6 reviews Eileen McDonagh Oxford University Press, USA, 1996 Great Book It's time we took action against these vicious fetuses. For too long they have been invading women's bodies and having their way with them. Fetuses are nothing but tiny rapists. These despicable parasites MUST be eradicated, and Eileen L. McDonagh has shown us the way. Remember the fetus is the cause of pregnancy.             Deadlock2 reviews Colin Forbes Trans-Atlantic Publications, 1988 A fast-paced read with many unexpected twists Colin Forbes's favourite spies, England's finest, Tweed, Paula Grey(in her debut field assignment) and international foreign correspondent Bob Newman are hot on the trail of a former Russian strategic warfare planner who has in his possession Triton Three, the most powerful non-nuclear explosive in the world. What is his target? Who is the mysterious sniper called The Monk and whose side is he ...             The Two Americas: Our Current Political Deadlock and How to Break It11 reviews Stanley B. Greenberg St. Martin's Griffin, 2005 Highly readable, surprisingly funny Stanley Greenberg has written a deeply researched, extensively footnoted, highly readable indictment of our current political state, and we should be humbly grateful for it. From the preface, where he observes the press "...prefers the politics of character...." to reporting anything of substance, to the afterword, in which he presents the two scenarios he developed in the previous 300 pages ...             Groupthink or Deadlock: When Do Leaders Learn from Their Advisors? (Suny Series on the Presidency: ... Paul Kowert State University of New York Press, 2002 Argues that too much advice can lead to policy deadlock depending on leadership style.             The One-State Solution: A Breakthrough for Peace in the Israeli-Palestinian Deadlock12 reviews Virginia Tilley University of Michigan Press, 2005 Changed my whole view I first heard about this book from friends who are angry about it, so I figured I wouldn't bother with it. After all, only some seriously ignorant ideologue would think a one-state solution for this conflict could ever work, right? But then one of my uncles, who happens to be a Holocaust survivor, told me to read it and not have preconceptions, and that it had given him hope for the first time in ...             Deadlock15 reviews James Scott Bell Zondervan, 2002 ENTERTAINING, ENLIGHTENING James Scott Bell tackles a fascinating dilemma: What if a Supreme Court Justice becomes a Christian right before appointment as chief justice? The one who holds tie-breaking power has changed her worldview. Bell handles the social debate with excellence and entertaining form. I meant to do a quick read, but had to peruse every word. The woman who had a knack for "beating God back with a ...             Breaking the Deadlock: The 2000 Election, the Constitution, and the Courts24 reviews Richard A. Posner Princeton University Press, 2001 Every vote must count? What's a "vote" anyway? Judge Richard Posner performs an invaluable service by cutting through the Cherminsky and Sunstein left-wing legal clutter surrounding Florida Election 2000. Judge Posner delivers clear legal analysis that is still accessible to the educated layperson. His overall conclusions: the Florida vote was fair, the Florida supreme court was partisan, and the U.S. Supreme Court was as well, although it ...             Policy-Making and Diversity in Europe: Escape from Deadlock (Theories of Institutional Design) Adrienne H^D'eritier Cambridge University Press, 1999 Policy-Making and Diversity in Europe examines the European Union and its policy-making processes. In particular, it asks how an institution that is so riddled with veto points manages to be such an active policy maker. Héritier argues that the diversity of actors' interests and the need for consensus in European institutions would almost inevitably lead to deadlock, were it not for the existence of creative informal strategies and policy-making ...             The Deadlock of Democracy in Brazil (Interests, Identities, and Institutions in Comparative Politics)1 review Barry Ames University of Michigan Press, 2002 what motivates Brazilian politicians? Ames furnishes a detailed political science analysis of the Brazilian parliament. An often quantitative assessment of various strategies used by the politicians. He explains these in terms of the need to build coalitions between groups of rather disparate interests. Where, given the size of Brazil, these groups might hark from different regions. Perhaps the best chapter is on ...             Drug War Deadlock: The Policy Battle Continues Hoover Institution Press, 2005 A Foundation for Inquiry into the Drug Debate in America The dynamics of our drug policies in the United States are a complex puzzle to which there are no simplistic solutions. Drug War Deadlock presents a diverse collection of readings from scholarly journals, government reports, think tank studies, newspapers, and books that offer a comprehensive look at the drug debate. Each section of the book features opposing articles written by many ...             Deadlock: The Inside Story oF America's Closest Election15 reviews Ellen Nakashima, Washington Post, ... PublicAffairs, 2001 Terrific re-telling of a gripping era in American history I don't care what Repubs say, there was no liberal media bias apparent in this book. They showed both campaigns, warts and all, and let the public form its own opinion. The book was a fantastic behind-the-scenes re-telling of America's most recent Constitutional crisis, one that could have disrupted government for years to come. Of course, recent events have taken peoples' minds off of this ...             Deadlock or Decision: The U.S. Senate and the Rise of National Politics A Twentieth Century Fund Book Fred R. Harris Oxford University Press, USA, 1993 In this lively and compelling text, political scientist and former U.S. Senator Fred R. Harris offers a penetrating examination of the development of the U.S. Senate from its earliest days, with particular emphasis on its post-war transformation from a close-knit, deliberative body revered as the "Citadel of Democracy" under the firm leadership of Lyndon Baines Johnson, to its current status as an institution whose members are so independent and ...              search for books abortion, advisors, americas, breaking, breakthrough, comparative, constitution, contemporary, continues, deadlock, decision, democracy, diversity, election, groupthink, identities, institutional, institutions, interests, israeli-palestinian, national, one-state, palestinian, policy-making, political, politics, presidency, solution, twentieth, warshawski books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen music: The Unimaginable Life leave a comment home  impressum - about us