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California Votes: The 2010 Governor's Race
Ethan Rarick, editor | $24.95 | Order Now!
California voters went back to the future in 2010, picking Jerry Brown as their governor more than 35 years after they first elected him to the office. Brown's election to a third term capped an extraordinary career and life-son of a political dynasty, boy-wonder governor, three-time presidential candidate, volunteer for Mother Teresa, student of Zen Buddhism, radio talk-show host, big-city mayor, and then back to governor for another tenure, this time in his seventies.
Brown's victory also followed an extraordinary campaign. With a shoestring budget and a skeleton staff, the aging Democratic warhorse defeated a billionaire Republican opponent who poured $144 million of her own money into a year-long advertising blitz overseen by a vast army of well-heeled political consultants. Meg Whitman broke the American record for a self-funded political campaign, but ended up with less than 41 percent of the vote.
Here is the story of that extraordinary campaign-the backroom strategies, the outrageous scandals, the astonishing amounts of money. California Votes tells the tale through the words of the campaign managers who made the decisions, the political pros who followed the action, the pollsters who tracked voter moods, the journalists who wrote about it all, and the scholars who studied the outcome.
California voters made political history in 2010. California Votes is the inside story of how and why they did it.
The People’s University: A History of the California State University
Donald R. Gerth | $35 | Order now!
Since its founding as a single institution in San Francisco in the years after the Gold Rush, the California State University has grown into a system of 23 campuses that enroll more than 450,000 students. The People’s University is the story of that extraordinary growth. Today, the California State University is the state’s 1,000-mile campus. Its programs reach every corner of the state, and its mission of access, affordability, and quality touches countless people of all ages.
Negotiation Alchemy: Global Skills Inspiring & Transforming Diverging Worlds
Nancy Erbe | $29.95 | Order now!
Negotiation Alchemy is the result of the author's work with cross ethnic process around the world for over two decades. To date, Professor Erbe's clients, colleagues and students come from about eighty countries, including several war-torn nations. The book presents several case study examples of success using the tools and skills of integrative negotiation and facilitative mediation within multicultural process. Extended case studies are presented of negotiation, conflict resolution and peacebuilding in Cameroon, cross ethnic dialogue in the Balkans, court-mandated mediation in Nepal, and community mediation with minority communities in Ukraine.
Readers will be introduced to the power of negotiating parameters and process with all concerned in violent conflict and diversity's potential for critically needed innovation along with the negotiation specifics that facilitate such innovation. They will also learn the details required to effectively facilitate cross ethnic dialogue and negotiation in tough entrenched conflict like that faced in the regions and countries named above. These details begin the intimate descriptions of how communities around the world are using the tools and skills of integrative negotiation and facilitated, or mediated, negotiation to build democratic capacity. Students of negotiation with a global and cross cultural interest, as well as their teachers, will find many activities to help them develop the skills and awareness they need to join this exciting and rich global movement.
Professor Sozen, who commends the book, has worked with peacebuilding in Cyprus his whole career. He is a member of the one of the communities impacted by that tragic and tough conflict. Colonel Singh, who also recommends the book, has served twenty-one years of commissioned service in the Indian Army. He has closely seen insurgency in northeast India, Kashmir and Punjab.
California in the Balance: Why Budgets Matter
John Decker | $24.95 | Order now!
Why is California broke? California in the Balance offers a precise analysis of the Golden State's fiscal condition - from the process used to write the state budget to the reasons for chronic deficits to the possible paths to stability. Here are the details of California's financial woes, laid out step-by-step by one of the state's leading budgetary experts. In a book recommended by both Republicans and Democrats, John Decker makes plain his extraordinary knowledge of California's budget. With a foreword by California Treasurer Bill Lockyer.
