"The Human Blueprint is an exciting and readable description of one of the greatest scientific enterprises of all time, the sequencing of the human genome. Robert Shapiro authoritatively tells us both what scientists are doing and some of the likely social implications of their work. His book will be of great interest to anyone who wishes to know about the shape of things to come," Gerald Feinberg, Columbia University, Professor of Physics.

This monumental study is a comprehensive critical survey of the policy preferences of the American public, and will be the definitive work on American public opinion for some time to come. Drawing on an enormous body of public opinion data, Benjamin I. Page and Robert Y. Shapiro provide the richest available portrait of the political views of Americans, from the 1930's to 1990. They not only cover all types of domestic and foreign policy issues, but...

While we have long known that the strategies of terrorism rely heavily on media coverage of attacks, this is a look at the role played by media in counterterrorism, and the ways that, in the wake of 9/11, the Bush administration manipulated coverage to maintain a climate of fear. Drawing on in-depth analysis of counterterrorism in the years after 9/11, including the issuance of terror alerts and the decision to invade Iraq, the authors present a compelling...