May 6, 2008 

Dave Dempsey, author of Great Lakes for Sale: From Whitecaps to Bottlecaps

Renowned environmental writer Dave Dempsey is the author of Great Lakes for Sale: From Whitecaps to Bottlecaps, a must-read book about water, one of the most—perhaps the most—precious natural resources.

This is a book for anyone interested in saving the Great Lakes, a huge fresh-water system that contains about 25 percent of the world's fresh surface water. The book asks—and answers—important questions about the export and diversion of Great Lakes water. Not only does Great Lakes for Sale examine past and present water-diversion practices; it also shows readers what they can do to save this natural resource.

6 MB | 15:34 minutes

April 17, 2008

Michael S. Lewis-Beck, co-author of The American Voter Revisited

Recreates the outstanding 1960 classic The American Voter—which was based on the presidential elections of 1952 and 1956—following the same format, theory, and mode of analysis as the original. In this new volume, the authors test the ideas and methods of the original against presidential election surveys from 2000 and 2004. Surprisingly, the contemporary American voter is found to behave politically much like voters of the 1950s.

7 MB | 18:10 minutes

March 18, 2008

Michael Musheno and Susan M. Ross, authors of Deployed: How Reservists Bear the Burden of Iraq

The stories of the citizen soldiers of an Army Reserve unit who were among the first wave of reservists mobilized after September 11.

36 MB | 38:58 minutes

February 18, 2008

Nancy Goldstein, author of Jackie Ormes: The First African American Woman Cartoonist

A richly illustrated biography of a pioneering woman artist and the characters she created.

36 MB | 38:49 minutes