Category: Political Science
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#standwithwendy! Check out Filibustering in the U.S. Senate at #2013APSA!
Cambria Press Must Read for Political Scientists! FILIBUSTERING IN THE US SENATE! Senator Wendy Davis spent 10 hours speaking in a procedural tactic known as a filibuster to try and block a bill that could close almost all the abortion clinics in Texas. What is a #filibuster and how does it work? See http://wp.me/p1WqrY-r4! Be…
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Cambria Press Book Review: Congress and the Presidency praises Filibustering in the U.S. Senate for being of “great value to future researchers”!
Cambria Press congratulates Dr. Lauren Bell on the excellent review of her book Filibustering in the U.S. Senate by the journal Congress and the Presidency, which commends the book because “Bell’s exhaustive identification of all filibusters in Senate history, who led them, and the substantive issues they involved represents an invaluable contribution to our understanding of…
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Cambria Press New Book! Battle for Control: The Future of the Internet V by Janna Quitney Anderson and Lee Rainie
Cambria Press New Book! Battle for Control, the fifth book in The Future of the Internet series by Janna Quitney Anderson and Lee Rainie, is a comprehensive compilation of results from eight major research reports released in 2012 by the Pew Research Center and Elon University. Among the trends identified in the preface, Janna Quitney…
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Cambria Press Book Highlights: Highly Acclaimed Titles on Terrorism!
Cambria Press is proud to highlight the following highly acclaimed titles that both scholars and practitioners would find valuable for their research on terrorism. See what noted experts have to say and click on the titles for more reviews. As a special promotion, Cambria Press is offering each title for only $40 (the regular list price for each is…
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India Rapes Must Stop – CNN Interview with Padma Lakshmi
On the Cambria Press Facebook, we recently made a post about another kind of terrorism and this was the five-year-old child being raped and left to die in India. Why was this classified as terrorism? Because, according to Merriam Webster, terrorism is defined as the systematic use of terror especially as a means of coercion.…
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Cambria Press authors Dagney Faulk and Michael Hicks were ahead of the curve in calling for local government consolidation!
New and noteworthy books by Gavin Newsom and Cass Sunstein as reported in The Economist … See also an earlier book Local Government Consolidation in the United States by Dagney Faulk and Michael Hicks! Governor Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr. (Indiana) praises the book because “Dr. Faulk and Dr. Hicks have confirmed in scholarly data what common sense…
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ISA 2013 San Francisco – Another Great Conference for Cambria Press!
Cambria Press is pleased to report that the ISA 2013 annual conference in San Francisco was a great one! The Cambria Press booth was in a fantastic spot, right between Stanford University Press and Georgetown University Press. The new Cambria Press titles received much interest as well as the recently published Cambria Press titles with…