The first comprehensive study in more than forty years to explain congressional leadership selectionHow are congressional party leaders chosen? In the first major study since Robert Peabody’s classic Leadership in Congress, political scientists Matthew Green and Douglas Harris draw on newly collected data about U.S. House members who have sought leadership positions from the 1960s to the present—including whip tallies, public and private vote commitments, ...

Completely revised and updated with a dozen new colleges and universities, this is the essential guide students need to navigate the college admissions process and gain admission to the outstanding schools that fit them best.Based on Howard and Matthew Greene’s years of experience as premier educational consultants, The Hidden Ivies is an invaluable, in-depth look inside sixty-three renowned academic institutions. These private colleges and universities offer students a br...

"Breathtaking. Cock-throbbing." L'HOMO Magazin. This is the first volume of Eric Kollen's Fragrance of Sin series – thirty stories across six volumes, amounting to 1,667 pages of boundary-pushing passion. In the Netherlands they count among the most popular gay books of all time. These stories are full of imagination and dazzling variety: some are set in the present, but the next moment you find yourself caught up in homoerotic entanglements during the Second World War, in the seventeenth ...

Peace of mind is a most precious resource, without which neither rich nor poor can know happiness. Yet mental health is undervalued and routinely taken for granted. Moreover, we allow war, torture, violence, poverty, d- ease, discrimination, and domestic abuse to undermine it. The wounds inflicted by these great human ills sicken the individual psyche, tear f- ilies apart, and send shock waves through society. Natural disasters, too, can cause sudden and acute trauma. Often, the damage—a c...