A comprehensive exploration of how labor unions, broadly conceived, shape party loyalties in the American mass public.How and why do labor unions matter for American mass party loyalties, specifically party identification and vote choice? Labor Unions and American Mass Politics marshals a wide range of survey data to test two different ways through which labor unions can shape mass party loyalties. The first is via people's personal affiliation with organi...

This first comprehensive account of the Illinois village of Kaskaskia covers more than two hundred years in the vast and compelling history of the state. David MacDonald and Raine Waters explore Illinois’s first capital in great detail, from its foundation in 1703 to its destruction by the Mississippi River in the latter part of the nineteenth century, as well as everything in between: successes, setbacks, and the lives of the people who inhabited the space.At the outset the Kaskas...

Winner, ISHS Annual Award for a Scholarly Publication, 2017Fort de Chartres, built in 1719-1720 in the heart of what would become the American Midwest, embodied French colonial power for half a century. Lives of Fort de Chartres, by David MacDonald, details the French colonial experience in Illinois from 1720 to 1770 through vivid depictions of the places, people, and events around the fort and its neighboring villages.In the first section, MacDonald explores the f...

The Meeting PlaceBy: David MacDonaldBooks are written. Sometimes people write the book; other times, something comes through the person. The question becomes, “what comes through?”Many writers, artists, musicians have recognized this distinction, and most have been at a loss to describe it, although they know and sense the “something.” Perhaps in the reading, or the listening, we also connect to the “something,” and in the connection, there is a shift in mood, awaren...

**“Zelda is a marvel, a living, breathing three-dimensional character with a voice so distinctive she leaps off the page.” —**The New York TimesSometimes life isn’t as simple as heroes and villains in this “heartwarming and unforgettable” (People) debut novel perfect for fans of Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine and The Rosie Project.**For Zelda, a twenty-one-year-old Viking enthusiast who liv...

**“Zelda is a marvel, a living, breathing three-dimensional character with a voice so distinctive she leaps off the page.” —**The New York TimesSometimes life isn’t as simple as heroes and villains in this “heartwarming and unforgettable” (People) debut novel perfect for fans of Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine and The Rosie Project.**For Zelda, a twenty-one-year-old Viking enthusiast who liv...

Adapted by Robert David MacDonald from Gitta Sereny's Into That Darkness"Robert David MacDonald’s In Quest of Conscience, based on Gitta Sereny’s Into That Darkness, a record of her interviews with death camp commandant Franz Stangl, takes it for granted that the Holocaust was a shocking crime against humanity; what it wants to know, with an urgency amounting to desperation, is how it happened, and how it can be prevented from happening again." - Joyce Macmillan, S...

For all dog lovers, a stunningly illustrated and scientifically informed global guide to our beloved canine companions and their wild kin.Dogs are spectacularly diverse. From the world’s smallest wild canid, the diminutive fennec fox, to the majestic grey wolf, and from the towering great Dane to the tiny Chihuahua, The Book of Dogs celebrates the connections between humans’ best friends, their ancestors, and their wild cousins, offering insights into both...

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Extinction is a natural process. In geological time there have been several periods of mass extinction. One of these periods is unfolding right now but all the evidence suggests that current extinction rates are between a hundred and a thousand times greater than the background rate. To put this in to context, a quarter of all known mammalian species is at risk. The current extinction crisis is unique, because it is ca...

Thinking History, Fighting Evil presents the most thorough exploration to date of how World War II analogies, particularly those focused on the Holocaust, have colored American foreign policy-making after 9/11. In particular, this book highlights how influential neoconservatives inside and outside the Bush administration used analogies of the "Good War" to reinterpret domestic and international events, often with disastrous consequences. On the surface, World War II promotes a sim...

Extinction is a natural process. In geological time there have been several periods of mass extinction. One of these periods is unfolding right now but all the evidence suggests that current extinction rates are between a hundred and a thousand times greater than the background rate. To put this in to context, a quarter of all known mammalian species is at risk. The current extinction crisis is unique, because it is caused by the impact of one species, humans, on all others. This accelerat...

This book is about you. This would appear on face value to make no sense, we have never met and probably never will. However I wanted to know more about why we do what we do in our everyday life and I realised that we have emotional DNA as well as physiological DNA. When you identify your emotional DNA then you open your persona, you can then understand your behaviour and learn to modify it, I would love to claim that by reading this book I can change your life. Truth is I can't but perhap...