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The Campaign Manager

by  Catherine Shaw

"Practical, witty, and fact-packed, this is the Bible of campaign management."
- Les AuCoin, Former nine-term U.S. Congressman, Oregon

"Based on twenty years of experience, Shaw’s Campaign Manager is quite simply the best organizational tool for anyone seeking political office or working on an issue-based campaign."
- Mara Liasson, National Political Correspondent, NPR

Featuring invaluable insight from an expert author, The Campaign Manager offers the most comprehensive guide for organizing, funding, publicizing, and winning local political campaigns. Author Catherine Shaw draws on experience from her three terms as mayor of Ashland, Oregon, and dozens of campaigns to provide practical, proven advice. The fourth edition offers expanded coverage of key concepts, including targeting voters, evaluating media effectiveness, setting fundraising budgets, using and developing Internet resources, and organizing get-out-the-vote efforts, and a new appendix with a step-by-step guide to precinct analysis. ... More

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The United Nations and Changing World Politics

Sixth Edition by David P. Forsythe, Kelly-Kate Pease, Roger A. Coate, Thomas G Weiss

With updates throughout, this newly revised sixth edition serves as the definitive text for courses on the United Nations. Built around three critical themes in international relations—international ... More

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The Methodologies of Art

An Introduction, Second Edition by Laurie Schneider Adams

Since the nineteenth century, when art history became an established academic discipline, works of art have been “read” in a variety of ways. These different ways of describing and interpreting art ... More

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Green Planet Blues

Four Decades of Global Environmental Politics, Fouth Edition by Geoffrey Dabelko, Ken Conca

Revised and updated throughout, this unique anthology examines global environmental politics from a range of perspectives-contemporary and classic, activist and scholarly-and reflects voices of the ... More

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Global Environmental Politics

Fifth Edition by Janet Welsh Brown, Pamela Chasek, David L. Downie

Although discussions about the global environment are now a daily occurrence—from companies touting energy-saving products to politicians debating how to best address the issue of climate change and ... More

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Understanding Central America

Global Forces, Rebellion, and Change, Fifth Edition by John A Booth, Christine J. Wade, Thomas W. Walker

The fifth edition of Understanding Central America explains how domestic and global political and economic forces have shaped rebellion and regime change in Costa Rica, Nicaragua, El Salvador, ... More

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Privilege

A Reader, Second Edition by Michael Kimmel, Abby Ferber

Innovative and thought-provoking, this timely anthology expands the concept of privilege in America beyond the traditional limiters of being white and male. In addition to readings from well-known ... More

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