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U.S. exceptionalism, the idea that the United States of America is superior to other nations, is no more fact-based and no less harmful than racism, sexism, and other forms of bigotry. This book examines how the United States compares with other countries, how people think about that, what damage that thinking does, and what we might change.

Daybreak is a thorough investigation of how Bush/Cheney altered the way American government works and deteriorated the Constitution and Bill of Rights. It includes clear plans for how we may reclaim democracy, declare our rights, and truly set out for a new America. Shocking and inspirational, Daybreak provides a clear breakdown of all that we have lost, and all that we have to gain.

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Offers coverage of audio engineering, transducers, and sensor networking technology. This book includes chapters on digital audio processing, as well as acoustics and vibrations transducers. It addresses the use of meta-data architectures using XML and agent-based automated data mining and control.

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This book presents what numerous reviewers have called the best existing argument for the abolition of war, demonstating that war can be ended, war should be ended, war is not ending on its own, and that we must end war.

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You were created to live foreverDeath. Everyone fears it. No one can escape it. But, thankfully, God has a plan--an indescribable, eternal life waiting for you. Hopeful, biblical, and filled with encouragement, Everlasting Life shines a light on death and the afterlife that will bring comfort and peace to those who are facing it or to those who want to be ready for it when it does come. David Swanson shares the simple truth that you are immort...

In  provocative terms that  push the envelope of technical, administrative, and legal capabilities, Swanson and Walashek  propose a re-vamped US census  based neither on the current system, self-enumeration, nor its predecessor, door-to-door canvassing.  Instead, they propose that it be built on a combination of four elements: (1) administrative records, (2) the continuously updated Master Address File, (3) survey data, and (4) modeling and im...

Applied demography continues its rapid pace of evolution in concert with the emerging trends of the 21st century.  One significant area of change is the extension of applied demography beyond the United States, this book includes material dealing with applied demography in Australia, Canada, Estonia, and Mexico. Opportunities and Challenges for Applied Demography in the 21st Century presents a score of selected papers from the second post-2000...

This book is the most comprehensive collection available explaining what the military industrial complex (MIC) is, where it comes from, what damage it does, what further destruction it threatens, and what can be done and is being done to chart a different course.

This brief represents a comprehensive review of methods for estimating characteristics of the foreign-born population in the United States, specifically oriented toward characteristics by legal status.  A variety of methods have been proffered over the past many decades, in a large variety of venues, this work brings them together, attempts to impart some order on the definition of “legal status, ” and describes strengths and deficiencies both...

This is a masterful account of how people in the United States and around the world worked to abolish war as a legitimate act of state policy and won in 1928, outlawing war with a treaty that is still on the books. Swanson's account of the successful work of those who came before us to insist that war be outlawed points us toward new ways of thinking about both war and political activism.

Learning Statistics: A Manual for Sociology Students helps students learn and retain important statistical concepts. New graduates face numerous challenges when applying statistics in the workplace. This text presents a unique and class-tested set of pedagogical tools that increase learning and retention, and prepare students for real-world application.In the real world decisions are often made in conditions of uncertainty. Decision makers exa...

A collection of new essays from David Swanson, author of War Is A Lie, covering topics including war, peace, the earth, justice, and activism.

Providing a unified and comprehensive treatment of the theory and techniques of sub-national population estimation, this much-needed publication does more than collate disparate source material. It examines hitherto unexplored methodological links between differing types of estimation from both the demographic and sample-survey traditions and is a self-contained primer that combines academic rigor with a wealth of real-world examples that are ...

There is a pressing need for developing and testing a general set of theories in order to provide a confident basis for prediction of multiple stressor effects. Confident prediction is central to confident decision making in water pollution control. Consequently, WERF commissioned this study, which has as its goal to provide a study design based on good science that helps establish a general, conceptual approach to multiple stressors. The obje...

A vivid imagination becomes the backdrop for a collection of essays Swanson has written that chronicle his childhood growing up in a tiny mountain town in the 1970s. Silverton Style contains twenty-four writings, most of them describing some aspect of his developmental years and the corresponding outrageous adventures he lived through in the small southwest Colorado mountain town of Silverton. Never dull, and always more than a bit satiric...

War Is A Lie is a thorough refutation of every major argument used to justify wars, drawing on evidence from numerous past wars, with a focus on those that have been most widely defended as just and good. This is a handbook of sorts, an engaging, always informative manual that can be used to debunk future lies before the wars they're deployed to justify have any chance to begin. Veteran antiwar activist Daniel Ellsberg calls War Is A Lie "a te...