The book shows with stark clarity the extent to which Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland tend to live, to study, to work and to play apart. But it also shows that many parents want their children to go to shared schools, despite some church opposition, and that opinion polls indicate a higher level of willingness to compromise than is shown by elected political leaders. Should the British and Irish governments commit themselves to encouraging greater contact between the communities and seek to build a settlement on the middle ground? Or should they reluctantly accept a policy of communal separation and provide structures that allow Catholics and Protestants to govern themselves with minimal need for contact and co-operation?

Northern Ireland: The Choice

History

Boyle, Kevin

Hadden, Tom

Europe

Penguin??Books

Describes the social and political situation in Northern Ireland and suggests a detailed, practical solution for ending the violence there

Ireland: A Positive Proposal (Penguin Books)

Puffin

The Shattering: America in the 1960s

Product Description 
A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year From the National Book Award winner, a masterful history of the decade whose conflicts shattered America’s postwar order and divide us still. 
On July 4, 1961, the rising middle-class families of a Chicago neighborhood gathered before their flag-bedecked houses, a confident vision of the American Dream. That vision was shattered over the following decade, its inequities at home and arrogance abroad challenged by powerful civil rights and antiwar movements. Assassinations, social violence, and the blowback of a “silent majority” shredded the American fabric. 
Covering the late 1950s through the early 1970s, The Shattering focuses on the period’s fierce conflicts over race, sex, and war. The civil rights movement develops from the grassroots activism of Montgomery and the sit-ins, through the violence of Birmingham and the Edmund Pettus Bridge, to the frustrations of King’s Chicago campaign, a rising Black nationalism, and the Nixon-era politics of busing and the Supreme Court. The Vietnam war unfolds as Cold War policy, high-stakes politics buffeted by powerful popular movements, and searing in-country experience. Americans’ challenges to government regulation of sexuality yield landmark decisions on privacy rights, gay rights, contraception, and abortion. 
Kevin Boyle captures the inspiring and brutal events of this passionate time with a remarkable empathy that restores the humanity of those making this history. Often they are everyday people like Elizabeth Eckford, enduring a hostile crowd outside her newly integrated high school in Little Rock, or Estelle Griswold, welcoming her arrest for dispensing birth control information in a Connecticut town. Political leaders also emerge in revealing detail: we track Richard Nixon’s inheritances from Eisenhower and his debt to George Wallace, who forged a message of racism mixed with blue-collar grievance that Nixon imported into Republicanism. 
The Shattering illuminates currents that still run through our politics. It is a history for our times. 25 illustrations 
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"[A] rich, layered account of the 1960s." 
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Jennifer Szalai, New York Times\n"[A] luminous guide to a tumultuous decade…Boyle elegantly narrates the ‘60s through his three lenses―race, militarism, and sexuality―and grounds his narrative with individuals caught in the whirlwind." 
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James A. Morone, New York Times Book Review\n"A lively popular history of the 1960s…Boyle enlivens his narrative with emblematic vignettes." 
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Glenn C. Altschuler, Minneapolis Star Tribune\n"We live in eventful times, but they can’t compare to the 1960s. Kevin Boyle has masterfully given sense and shape to a chaotic decade. 
The Shattering is panoramic, astute, and compellingly readable." 
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Nicholas Lemann, author of Transaction Man\n" 
The Shattering is history at its absolute best. Boyle is such a gifted storyteller―I found myself riveted by this captivating portrait of a time when America exhibited its best and its worst natures side by side." 
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Alex Kotlowitz, author of An American Summer\n" 
The Shattering is an epic history of the 1960s for a new generation. This passionately narrated, luminously written account of the decade that forever transformed America brilliantly recounts how that era’s struggle for social justice and radical democracy continues to shape our own." 
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Peniel E. Joseph, author of The Sword and the Shield\n"Gripping…Kevin Boyle gives us a fresh perspective on the central debates of the decade that will help readers understand the era in an entirely new light." 
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Elizabeth Hinton, author of America on Fire\n" 
The Shattering is a magnificent book, immensely rewarding on many levels. With elegant fluency and quiet command, Kevin Boyle probes deeply into the intertwined struggles of the 'long Sixties' and their meaning for us today." 
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Fredrik Logevall, author of JFK\n"In his beautifully rendered 
The Shattering, Kevin Boyle returns

Americas

W.W.Norton&Company

Practical, concise and complete reference for the basics of modern antenna design Antennas: from Theory to Practice discusses the basics of modern antenna design and theory. Developed specifically for engineers and designers who work with radio communications, radar and RF engineering, this book offers practical and hands-on treatment of antenna theory and techniques, and provides its readers the skills to analyse, design and measure various antennas. Key features: <ul>
<li>Provides thorough coverage on the basics of transmission lines, radio waves and propagation, and antenna analysis and design</li> <li>Discusses industrial standard design software tools, and antenna measurement equipment, facilities and techniques</li> <li>Covers electrically small antennas, mobile antennas, UWB antennas and new materials for antennas</li> <li>Also discusses reconfigurable antennas, RFID antennas, Wide-band and multi-band antennas, radar antennas, and MIMO antennas</li> <li>Design examples of various antennas are provided</li> <li>Written in a practical and concise manner by authors who are experts in antenna design, with experience from both academia and industry</li> </ul>
This book will be an invaluable resource for engineers and designers working in RF engineering, radar and radio communications, seeking a comprehensive and practical introduction to the basics of antenna design. The book can also be used as a textbook for advanced students entering a profession in this field.

Antennas: From Theory to Practice

Engineering & Transportation

Huang, Yi

Engineering

wiley

Introducing Democracy: 80 Questions and Answers

This textbook, specially commissioned by UNESCO, addresses eighty of the most pressing questions about democracy today.

Politics & Social Sciences

Beetham, David

Politics & Government

Polity

What is democracy? Why should we value it? What is the relation between democracy and individual rights? Is majority rule always democratic? Why do we have political parties? Are some electoral systems more democratic than others? What is the relation between nationalism and democracy, or democracy and a market economy? How can democracy be maintained and improved? What difference does it make to ordinary people? What is its future?

A Choice Magazine "Outstanding Academic Book for 1996"
"Kevin Boyle has done a masterful job of identifying the unique contribution of the UAW, not only to American Liberalism, but also to the nation and to all people. As contemporary labor and society at large search for new directions, this book should be required reading."―Victor G. Reuther
"One of the many virtues of Kevin Boyle's brilliant and important history, The UAW and the Heyday of American Liberalism, is that it provides a clear picture of the road not taken."―The American Prospect
"Intelligent, well written, and exhaustively researched,... Boyle's work... is part of an important and increasingly favorable reevaluation of the character of late New Deal social democracy."―Journal of American History
"[Boyle's] book presents, with a remarkably assured tone and a mastery of materials, a persuasive narrative of the shortcomings of postwar liberalism from the labor perspective that was so important then and is so often ignored today."―American Political Science Review

The UAW and the Heyday of American Liberalism, 1945–1968

Business & Money

Economics

Cornell University Press

Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age

An electrifying story of the sensational murder trial that divided a city and ignited the civil rights struggle In 1925, Detroit was a smoky swirl of jazz and speakeasies, assembly lines and fistfights. The advent of automobiles had brought workers from around the globe to compete for manufacturing jobs, and tensions often flared with the KKK in ascendance and violence rising. Ossian Sweet, a proud Negro doctor-grandson of a slave-had made the long climb from the ghetto to a home of his own in a previously all-white neighborhood. Yet just after his arrival, a mob gathered outside his house; suddenly, shots rang out: Sweet, or one of his defenders, had accidentally killed one of the whites threatening their lives and homes. And so it began-a chain of events that brought America's greatest attorney, Clarence Darrow, into the fray and transformed Sweet into a controversial symbol of equality. Historian Kevin Boyle weaves the police investigation and courtroom drama of Sweet's murder trial into an unforgettable tapestry of narrative history that documents the volatile America of the 1920s and movingly re-creates the Sweet family's journey from slavery through the Great Migration to the middle class. Ossian Sweet's story, so richly and poignantly captured here, is an epic tale of one man trapped by the battles of his era's changing times. Arc of Justice is the winner of the 2004 National Book Award for Nonfiction.

Henry Holt and Co.

An electrifying story of the sensational murder trial that divided a city and ignited the civil rights struggle
In 1925, Detroit was a smoky swirl of jazz and speakeasies, assembly lines and fistfights. The advent of automobiles had brought workers from around the globe to compete for manufacturing jobs, and tensions often flared with the KKK in ascendance and violence rising. Ossian Sweet, a proud Negro doctor-grandson of a slave-had made the long climb from the ghetto to a home of his own in a previously all-white neighborhood. Yet just after his arrival, a mob gathered outside his house; suddenly, shots rang out: Sweet, or one of his defenders, had accidentally killed one of the whites threatening their lives and homes. 
And so it began-a chain of events that brought America's greatest attorney, Clarence Darrow, into the fray and transformed Sweet into a controversial symbol of equality. Historian Kevin Boyle weaves the police investigation and courtroom drama of Sweet's murder trial into an unforgettable tapestry of narrative history that documents the volatile America of the 1920s and movingly re-creates the Sweet family's journey from slavery through the Great Migration to the middle class. Ossian Sweet's story, so richly and poignantly captured here, is an epic tale of one man trapped by the battles of his era's changing times.
Arc of Justice is the winner of the 2004 National Book Award for Nonfiction.

Holt Paperbacks

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Northern Ireland: The Choice

Ireland: A Positive Proposal (Penguin Books)

The Shattering: America in the 1960s

Antennas: From Theory to Practice

Introducing Democracy: 80 Questions and Answers

Introducing Democracy: 80 Questions and Answers

The UAW and the Heyday of American Liberalism, 1945–1968

The UAW and the Heyday of American Liberalism, 1945–1968

Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age

Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age