BROOKINGS INSTITUTION PRESS
Restoring Fiscal Sanity 2005: Meeting the Long-Run Challenge (Mar., $22.95), edited by Alice M. Rivlin and Isabel Sawhill, addresses the huge U.S. deficit.
CAVEAT PRESS
As If We Were Grownups: A Collection of "Suicidal" Political Speeches That Aren't (Mar., $12) by Jeff Golden considers Americans' response if politicians talked to us like adults.
New York Review Books
America Goes Backward (Mar., $8.95) by Stanley Hoffman backs swapping our new policy of unilateralism for international cooperation in Iraq.
ONEWORLD
Terrorism: A Beginner's Guide (Apr., $14.95) by Leonard Weinberg explains what can be done to thwart terrorists.
Why They Don't Hate Us: Lifting the Veil on the "Axis of Evil" (June, $19.95) by Mark LeVine rethinks the relationship between the Middle East and the West.
PLUTO PRESS
Devastating Society: The Neo-Conservative Assault on Democracy and Justice (Mar., $27.95), edited by Bernd Hamm, includes essays on the U.S. economy, corporate crime and antienvironmentalism.
LYNNE RIENNER
Authoritarianism in the Middle East: Regimes and Resistance (Aug., $22.50), edited by Marsha Pripstein Posusney and Michele Penner Angrist, considers why authoritarian rulers prevail in the Middle East while democratic transitions occur elsewhere.
ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD
Capitalists and Conquerors: Critical Pedagogy Against Empire (Apr.; $26.95, cloth $80) by Peter McLaren addresses such issues as America's drive toward world domination and the ravages of empire building.
UNIV. PRESS OF KANSAS
Environment, Inc.: From Grassroots to Beltway (Mar., $15.95) by Christopher J. Bosso traces the evolution of national environmental organizations.
VERSO
Redesigning Distribution: Grants as Alternative Cornerstones for a More Egalitarian Capitalism (July, $25) by Erik Olin Wright et al. ponders the results if citizens were given capital grants to achieve equal opportunities.
YALE UNIV. PRESS
America's Inadvertent Empire (Apr., $18) by William E. Odom and Robert Dujarric argues that the major threat to the U.S.'s unprecedented power is not an outside rival but ineffective U.S. leadership.
