State Violence and the Execution of Law stages a provocative analysis of how the biopolitical divide between human and animal has played a fundamental role in enabling state violence, including tortur
State Violence and the Execution of Law examines how law plays a fundamental role in enabling state violence and, specifically, specifically, torture, secret imprisonment, and killing-at-a-distance. A
Prepares New York sixth graders to take the state Regents exam by providing an overview of the test, practice questions with answers, a review of the test's subject matter, and two full-length practic
Finding state-to-state relations to be a neglected topic in the literature on US federalism, Zimmerman (political science, State U. of New York at Albany) offers a review of how the US Constitution re
Poetry. A collection of Joseph Tusiani's latest poetry in English. As this book went to press, NY State governor Andrew Cuomo announced that Tusiani had been designated NY State Poet Emeritus.
This book explores recent calls to increase instruction of the Bible in American public schools. The work develops a distinctive philosophical and trans-Atlantic assessment of these proposals by criti
Relations between state governments and their respective local governments are of crucial importance, yet they have remained largely unexplored by scholars. This neglect is all the more surprising in
What causes a state to unify voluntarily with another state? If realists are right, voluntary union should never happen. In their view, states value their sovereignty above all else and would never g
A frequent writer on relations between governmental bodies, Zimmerman (State U. of New York at Albany) presents an overview of the role of Congress as it devolves powers to the states. In the first tw
