Cross-train your brain. All it takes is ten to fifteen minutes a day of playing the right games. (It’s fun.)Exercising your brain is like exercising your body—with the right program, you can keep your brain young, strong, agile, and adaptable. Organized on an increasing scale of difficulty from “Warm-up” to “Merciless,” here are 399 puzzles, trivia quizzes, brainteasers, and word game that are both fun and engaging to play, and are expertly designed to give your br...

Give your brain a healthy workout—Anytime, Anywhere.Not just any book of games, this collection by the bestselling author of ***399 Games, Puzzles & Trivia******Challenges Specially Designed to Keep Your Brain Young***is expertly created to keep your brain in tip-top shape—even while you’re on the go. With its shorter puzzles and portable size, it’s perfect for getting your cognitive exercise in while waiting at the dentist’s office, traveling, or whenever you have...

Historic Houses in Door County, WI: A Journey Through TimeDiscover the Stories Behind Door County's Most Remarkable Historic HomesStep into the past as you explore the extraordinary homes that shaped one of America's most enchanting peninsulas. Historic Houses in Door County, Wisconsin and Their Occupants takes you on an intimate journey through twelve distinctive residential landscapes, each revealing the dreams, struggles, and triumphs of the families who built t...

What are the real differences between the Democrats and the Republicans on major economic issues that influence the character and vitality of the American economy? This volume answers this question in a thorough, nonpartisan, and evenhanded fashion.Both the Democratic and Republican parties proclaim that they have the best interests of the nation and its people at heart. Both are also adamant that they have the best proposals and positions on economic policies, inc...

How is American government being reconfigured when public authority is exercised through code, platforms, and data systems as much as through statutes, agencies, and courts? Algorithmic Governance and Power: How AI is Reshaping American Democracy shows how decisions about speech, benefits, policing, immigration, and elections are increasingly shaped by technological infrastructure and private governance operating alongside - and often inside - the state.Nancy S. Lind argue...

A collection of expert essays examines the privacy rights that have been lost in the post-9/11 era—giving students and others the knowledge they need to take back their constitutional protections.This timely two-volume collection shares information every citizen should have, tackling the erosion of privacy rights engendered by the ability of digital technology to intercept, mine, and store personal data, most often without the knowledge of those being monitored. Ex...

Political movements and citizens across the globe are increasingly challenging the traditional ways in which political authorities and governing bodies establish and maintain social control. This edited collection examines the intersections of social control, political authority and public policy.Each chapter provides an important insight into the key elements needed to understand the role of governance in establishing and maintaining social control through law and public policymak...

In The Texas Right: The Radical Roots of Lone Star Conservatism, some of our most accomplished and readable historians push the origins of present-day Texas conservatism back to the decade preceding the twentieth century. They illuminate the initial factors that began moving Texas to the far right, even before the arrival of the New Deal.By demonstrating that Texas politics foreshadowed the partisan realignment of the erstwhile Solid South, the studies in this book challen...

From Nancy Linde's bestselling puzzle series, this book features 440 all-new exercises to challenge—and improve—your brain’s long-term memory, working memory, processing speed, executive function, attention to detail, multitasking skills.Achieving and maintaining a higher level of mental fitness every day can be surprisingly fun—and to your brain, it’s healthy exercise. In this next exciting entry in her bestselling games series (including 399 Games, Puzzle & T...

Claire leaves her pretentious and arty husband because he declared that her dream journal did not have enough Freudian imagery. Claire realizes that her dream is actually to spend some time alone on her personal and artistic development as a novelist. She rents an apartment above a bistro in New York City's Greenwich Village. Claire pours all of her pain and doubt into a first novel featuring an unconventional heroine named Nevada whose trials mirror Claire's own. As the novel progresses a...

This two-volume work addresses every key, cutting-edge issue regarding the First Amendment, including subjects such as freedom of religion, freedom of press, freedom of speech, and freedom of organization.First Amendment Rights: An Encyclopedia provides both historical information and current, 21st-century topics in First Amendment issues. Volume 1 addresses the subject through the lens of past decisions and precedent, updated to include controversies betw...

Over the past four decades, extreme wealth concentration has reshaped democratic societies, amplifying private power even as democratic institutions struggle to respond. This book offers a bold new framework for governing concentrated wealth - not as untouchable private property, but as a form of power that must be held accountable in the public interest.In Democratic Wealth Stewardship, Nancy S. Lind brings together insights from political theory, economics, law, and comp...