* The only long-established American government text under 350 pages, Basics provides a brief, current, easily-understood introduction to American politics and government for beginning college and community college students. * With simple, focused chapters of under 30 pages on the key political players, teachers gain confidence that their assignments using this accessible, inexpensive, long-time student favorite will be bought and read. * A comprehensive yet compact set of features-including "Spotlight On," "A Closer Look," and "Case Study" boxes; chapter wrap-ups, Thought Questions, Learn the Terms glossary entries, and Suggested Readings-keep students engaged and offer professors easy "launching pads" into timely topics beyond the basic text. New to the 17th Edition Discusses student activism in the context of climate change. Covers the personalities and actions of the new Biden administration, as well as wrapping up President Trump's tumultuous final year in office (two impeachments, COVID, the Capitol Insurrection). Updated to reflect the results of the 2022 midterm elections, and the impact of reapportionment and gerrymandering (based on the 2020 Census). Presents recent and ongoing developments on the Supreme Court including appointment of two new justices and major decisions including those pertaining to abortion, voting rights and access, and LGBT rights. Reflects changes in voting behavior in the 2020 and 2022 elections, as well as developments regarding both voting rights and voter suppression. Explores the ongoing crisis of misinformation and disinformation on the Internet and in social media in particular. Expands the discussion of tribal politics, threats to democracy, and economics.

* The only long-established American government text under 350 pages, Basics provides a brief, current, easily-understood introduction to American politics and government for beginning college and community college students. * With simple, focused chapters of under 30 pages on the key political players, teachers gain confidence that their assignments using this accessible, inexpensive, long-time student favorite will be bought and read. * A comprehensive yet compact set of features-including "Spotlight On," "A Closer Look," and "Case Study" boxes; chapter wrap-ups, Thought Questions, Learn the Terms glossary entries, and Suggested Readings-keep students engaged and offer professors easy "launching pads" into timely topics beyond the basic text. New to the 17th Edition Discusses student activism in the context of climate change. Covers the personalities and actions of the new Biden administration, as well as wrapping up President Trump's tumultuous final year in office (two impeachments, COVID, the Capitol Insurrection). Updated to reflect the results of the 2022 midterm elections, and the impact of reapportionment and gerrymandering (based on the 2020 Census). Presents recent and ongoing developments on the Supreme Court including appointment of two new justices and major decisions including those pertaining to abortion, voting rights and access, and LGBT rights. Reflects changes in voting behavior in the 2020 and 2022 elections, as well as developments regarding both voting rights and voter suppression. Explores the ongoing crisis of misinformation and disinformation on the Internet and in social media in particular. Expands the discussion of tribal politics, threats to democracy, and economics.

Reliability Verification, Testing, and Analysis in Engineering Design discusses modern design reliability principles, techniques, and terms applications of Microsoftr Excel Tool Solver and Goal Seek nonlinear search procedures for developing Fisher matrices and likelihood ratio confidence intervals table generation on median ranks, beta-binomial bounds, and standard percents Mechanical Reliability Improvement and Reliability Verification, Testing, and Analysis in Engineering Design are excellent texts for junior and senior engineering students and useful and references for mechanical, materials, test, and reliability engineers; computer programmers; physical and mechanical metallurgists; and design, industrial, quality control, civil, and aeronautical engineers.

Decolonization in the Third World has most often been approached by tracing the ties of nationalist movements to the attainment of independence. This book attempts to revise the perspective. It presents a model of decolonization centring on the idea that the process was shaped by the reaction of colonial interests to the ascendancy of a nationalist elite. Rather than tracing the upward development of a nationalist movement, it traces the downward manipulation of that movement into a colonial system. The study concludes that instead of being a separating step to remove colonial influence, decolonization in more important respects ensured the continuity of the colonial political economy. The book is of interest to scholars, students and others interested in decolonization, white settles, East African affairs and land reform, as well as the general reader following current events in Africa.