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A panel of expert contributors offers its views on the risks and rewards of the nuclear enterprise, focusing on issues of safety, regulation, and public perception. Contributors discuss specific experience and issues regarding the technical safety of weapons and power plants, management operations, regulatory measures, and the importance of accurate communication by the media.

Examines the importance of judicial nominations in current and future political campaigns - not just in campaigns for president but also for the senators who confirm the nominees and the governors who appoint state court judges. He offers his opinion of the framers' original intentions and provides both a historical perspective and a look at the courts' decisions on today's most contentious issues.

The events of the last several years on Wall Street make a compelling case for comprehensive, fundamental reform in the oversight of financial firms. In Bankruptcy Not Bailout, a group of expert contributors show why, if a new addition to the bankruptcy laws—Chapter 14—were implemented along with other genuine reforms, the changes could strengthen the US financial system and provide the impetus the US economy needs to thrive once again.

Today, American "rugged individualism” is in a fight for its life on two battlegrounds: in the policy realm and in the intellectual world of ideas that may lead to new policies. In this book, the authors look at the political context in which rugged individualism flourishes or declines and offer a balanced assessment of its future prospects.

Throughout the world today there are obvious trouble spots that have the potential to explode into serious conflicts at any time in the immediate or distant future. This study examines what history suggests about the future possibilities and characteristics of war and the place that thinking about conflict deserves in the formation of American strategy in coming decades. The author offers a historical perspective to show that armed conflict be...

Explores how US state laws and policies have stacked the deck against charter schools by limiting the number of charter schools allowed in a state, forbidding for-profit firms from holding charters, and forcing them to pay rent out of operating funds. They explain how these policies can be amended to level the playing field and give charter schools a fairer chance to succeed.

Reviews the evolution of Israeli policies through almost seven decades of war and conflict, showing the absence of a full-fledged grand strategy, the structural weakness of national security policy formulation by successive governments at the cabinet level, and the dominant role of the IDF. This state of affairs helps explain why and how Israel has responded to recent turmoil in a piecemeal fashion.

Are there proven ways to improve teacher quality? If so, what are they?

Examines three enemy combatant cases that represent the leading edge of US efforts to devise legal rules, consistent with American constitutional principles, for waging the global war on terror. The distinguished contributors analyse the crucial questions these cases raise about the balance between national security and civil liberties and call for a reexamination of the complex connections between the Constitution and international law.

This selection of Boris Pasternak's correspondence with his parents and sisters from 1921 to 1960 is an authoritative, indispensable introduction and guide to his life and work. His letters are accomplished literary works in their own right, on a par with his poetry in their intensity, frankness, and dazzling stylistic play. In addition, they offer a rare glimpse into his innermost self, significantly complementing the insights gained from his...

Argues that there is a failure to prepare today's young people to be responsible American citizens. It identifies the problems - the declines in civic purpose and patriotism, crises of faith, cynicism, self-absorption, ignorance, indifference to the common good - and shows that disregard of civic and moral virtue as an educational priority is having a tangible effect on the attitudes, understanding, and behaviour of large portions of youth today.

Public schools face the challenge of educating large numbers of students for whom learning does not come easily. They are institutions with long-established practices, often protected by politics and therefore highly resistant to change. The Best Teachers in the World explains why changing traditional approaches to improving our schools is critical and tells how to achieve such change.

What was life in the Soviet Union really like? Through a series of true stories, One Day We Will Live Without Fear describes what people's day-to-day life was like under the regime of the Soviet police state. Drawing on events from the 1930s through the 1970s, Mark Harrison shows how, by accident or design, people became entangled in the workings of Soviet rule.

It is becoming increasingly obvious that the United States needs reliable and inexpensive energy to propel the economy and protect national security interests. Game Changers presents five research and development efforts from American universities that offer a cheaper, cleaner, and more secure national energy system.

Offers a detailed examination of the speeches of the Obama administration on national security legal issues. Viewed together here for the first time, the authors lay out a broad array of legal and policy positions regarding a large number of principles currently contested at both the domestic and international levels.

Specialists reflect on the growth of the Korean economy and on resulting economic problems from the perspective of the American experience with economic reform.

What is to be America's peace? How is it to be won and preserved in our time? Angelo Codevilla notes that the US government's increasingly unlimited powers flow in part from an inability to stay out of wars or to win them, and that statesmen and academics have ceased to think about such things. The purpose of this book is to rekindle such thoughts.

What is to be America's peace? How is it to be won and preserved in our time? Angelo Codevilla notes that the US government's increasingly unlimited powers flow in part from an inability to stay out of wars or to win them, and that statesmen and academics have ceased to think about such things. The purpose of this book is to rekindle such thoughts.

The coming decade holds immense potential for dramatic improvement in US education and in the achievement of American children. In this volume, members of the Hoover Institution's Koret Task Force on K-12 Education examine both the potential gains and the pitfalls that lie ahead, informed by where US education has been, what changes have been made in recent years, and what's still required for the comprehensive overhaul that this vital enterpr...

Providing an often-overlooked historical perspective, Gordon Lloyd and David Davenport show how the New Deal of the 1930s established the framework for today's US domestic policy and the ongoing debate between progressives and conservatives. They examine the pivotal issues of the dispute, laying out the progressive-conservative arguments between Hoover and Roosevelt in the 1930s and illustrating how those issues remain current in public policy...