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Condition: Very Good. Signed Copy First edition copy. . Very Good dust jacket. Signed by author on title page.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. The author inscribed this 344 page novel on the title page. The author addressed the issues of romance, mental health and adolescence within the pages of the story presented. The boards covered in purple paper and have silver lettering on the spine. The edges of the leaves are toned, but the interior of the book is clean, bright and without marks. The dust jacket has a "Schneider Family Book Award" sticker affixed to the front cover, both in letters and brail. There is an area on the spine cover the dust jacket where it appears the top layer of the paper is missing and appears to have only effected a small section. of the logo of the publisher. This is a later printing of this title. Images of the book will be posted later. Inscribed by Author(s).

Condition: Fair. Signed Copy . Good dust jacket. Writing inside. Inscribed by author on title page. (politics and government, United States, 21st century ).

Condition: Good. Signed Copy . Good dust jacket. Inscribed by co-author Norman J. Ornstein on half title page. Slightly dampstained.

Condition: Very Good. 2022. First Published in Great Britain. 346 pages. Signed by the author. Illustrated paper cover with lettering. Signed by the author with dedication to Lainie on title page. Pages are bright and clear with no visible markings. Binding throughout remains firm. Paper covers have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and curling to corners. Lettering is clear.

Condition: Very Good. 2022. First Published in Great Britain. 346 pages. Signed by the author. Illustrated paper cover with lettering. Signed by the author with dedication to Raginaa on title page. Pages are bright and clear with no visible markings. Binding throughout remains firm. Paper covers have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and curling to corners. Lettering is clear.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Ralph Alswang (Mann photograph) and Peter Holden ( (illustrator). First edition. First printing [stated]. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. xiv, 226 p. Illustrations. Notes. Index. Signed by author. DJ flap creased. Inscription signed by Mann. Some page warping noted. Thomas E. Mann (born September 10, 1944) is the W. Averell Harriman Chair and a senior fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution, a non-partisan think tank based in Washington, D.C. He primarily studies and speaks on elections in the United States, campaign finance reform, Senate and filibuster reform, Congress, redistricting, and political polarization. Norman Jay Ornstein (born October 14, 1948) is an American political scientist and an emeritus scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), a Washington, D.C., conservative think tank. He is the co-author (along with Thomas E. Mann) of It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided With the New Politics of Extremism. Foreign Policy named Ornstein, along with Thomas E. Mann, one of its 2012 Top 100 Global Thinkers "for diagnosing America's political dysfunction". Acrimony and hyperpartisanship have seeped into every part of the political process. Congress is deadlocked and its approval ratings are at record lows. America's two main political parties have given up their traditions of compromise, endangering our very system of constitutional democracy. And one of these parties has taken on the role of insurgent outlier; the Republicans have become ideologically extreme, scornful of compromise, and ardently opposed to the established social and economic policy regime. In It's Even Worse Than It Looks, congressional scholars Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein identify two overriding problems that have led Congressand the United Statesto the brink of institutional collapse. The first is the serious mismatch between our political parties, which have become as vehemently adversarial as parliamentary parties, and a governing system that, unlike a parliamentary democracy, makes it extremely difficult for majorities to act. Second, while both parties participate in tribal warfare, both sides are not equally culpable. The political system faces what the authors call "asymmetric polarization," with the Republican Party implacably refusing to allow anything that might help the Democrats politically, no matter the cost. With dysfunction rooted in long-term political trends, a coarsened political culture and a new partisan media, the authors conclude that there is no "silver bullet" reform that can solve everything. But they offer a panoply of useful ideas and reforms, endorsing some solutions, like greater public participation and institutional restructuring of the House and Senate, while debunking others, like independent or third-party candidates. Above all, they call on the media as well as the public at large to focus on the true causes of dysfunction rather than just throwing the bums out every election cycle. Until voters learn to act strategically to reward problem solving and punish obstruction, American democracy will remain in serious danger. Derived from a Kirkus review: Two scholars examine how today's hyperpartisanship has crippled our government. In a country famous for its rough-and-tumble politics, are things really worse than they've ever been? Yes, wrote Brookings Institution senior fellow Mann and American Enterprise Institute resident scholar Ornstein. To explain the dynamics of the institutional dysfunction plaguing Congress, they begin with a chronicle of the 2011 fight over the debt limit. They trace the governmental breakdown to two sources: 1) the mismatch between our separation-of-powers government and an increasingly parliamentary-style of party politics that features rigid ideologies, a prioritizing of political strategies over national welfare, and an unwillingness to compromise; and 2) the asymmetric nature of the polarizationi.e., a wildly out-of-the-mainstream Republican Party. The authors offer their own proposals for fixing the parties and reforming our governmental institutions, most very loftyfew likely to be adopted. They reject the notion that we're merely passing through an unfortunate phase and insist that we're at an unprecedented impasse. They go on to criticize the mainstream media for its false sense of equivalence. The authors, who've collaborated before, style themselves as straight shooters, nonpartisan analysts who've worked for decades in Washington with members of both parties.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Ralph Alswang (Mann photograph) and Peter Holden ( (illustrator). Fifth printing [stated]. xiv, 226 pages. Notes. Index. Signed by Norm Ornstein on the title page. Thomas E. Mann (born September 10, 1944) is the W. Averell Harriman Chair and a senior fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution, a non-partisan think tank based in Washington, D.C. He primarily studies and speaks on elections in the United States, campaign finance reform, Senate and filibuster reform, Congress, redistricting, and political polarization. Norman Jay Ornstein (born October 14, 1948) is an American political scientist and an emeritus scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), a Washington, D.C., conservative think tank. He is the co-author (along with Thomas E. Mann) of It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided With the New Politics of Extremism. Foreign Policy named Ornstein, along with Thomas E. Mann, one of its 2012 Top 100 Global Thinkers "for diagnosing America's political dysfunction". Acrimony and hyperpartisanship have seeped into every part of the political process. Congress is deadlocked and its approval ratings are at record lows. America's two main political parties have given up their traditions of compromise, endangering our very system of constitutional democracy. And one of these parties has taken on the role of insurgent outlier; the Republicans have become ideologically extreme, scornful of compromise, and ardently opposed to the established social and economic policy regime. In It's Even Worse Than It Looks, congressional scholars Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein identify two overriding problems that have led Congressand the United Statesto the brink of institutional collapse. The first is the serious mismatch between our political parties, which have become as vehemently adversarial as parliamentary parties, and a governing system that, unlike a parliamentary democracy, makes it extremely difficult for majorities to act. Second, while both parties participate in tribal warfare, both sides are not equally culpable. The political system faces what the authors call "asymmetric polarization," with the Republican Party implacably refusing to allow anything that might help the Democrats politically, no matter the cost. With dysfunction rooted in long-term political trends, a coarsened political culture and a new partisan media, the authors conclude that there is no "silver bullet" reform that can solve everything. But they offer a panoply of useful ideas and reforms, endorsing some solutions, like greater public participation and institutional restructuring of the House and Senate, while debunking others, like independent or third-party candidates. Above all, they call on the media as well as the public at large to focus on the true causes of dysfunction rather than just throwing the bums out every election cycle. Until voters learn to act strategically to reward problem solving and punish obstruction, American democracy will remain in serious danger. Derived from a Kirkus review: Two scholars examine how today's hyperpartisanship has crippled our government. In a country famous for its rough-and-tumble politics, are things really worse than they've ever been? Yes, wrote Brookings Institution senior fellow Mann and American Enterprise Institute resident scholar Ornstein. To explain the dynamics of the institutional dysfunction plaguing Congress, they begin with a chronicle of the 2011 fight over the debt limit. They trace the governmental breakdown to two sources: 1) the mismatch between our separation-of-powers government and an increasingly parliamentary-style of party politics that features rigid ideologies, a prioritizing of political strategies over national welfare, and an unwillingness to compromise; and 2) the asymmetric nature of the polarizationi.e., a wildly out-of-the-mainstream Republican Party. The authors offer their own proposals for fixing the parties and reforming our governmental institutions, most very loftyfew likely to be adopted. They reject the notion that we're merely passing through an unfortunate phase and insist that we're at an unprecedented impasse. They go on to criticize the mainstream media for its false sense of equivalence. The authors, who've collaborated before, style themselves as straight shooters, nonpartisan analysts who've worked for decades in Washington with members of both parties.

Pictorial Wraps. Condition: Fine. First Edition. SIGNED in full by author Barry Dickins in black ink on title page. Stories by Australian author, poet, playwrite, journalist, artist, & funny man Barry Dickins. With an introduction by the author. Illustrated with 28 full-page b&w drawings by Barry Dickins (basically one drawing for each section). Wraparound colour cover illustration by Barry Dickins. "Miniatures is a series of biographical sketches that give the reader a brief glimpse into the characters and lives of people with whom the writer has 'collided' over the course of his life: teachers, drinking mates, fellow writers, neighbours, friends, celebrities, survivors of concentration camps - the living and the now-dead - miniature biographical sketches." From rear cover: "I have always loved people, and really they are the subject in this collection of souls. My long and short life has been shared with ghastly and frightening and witty others. Many have come unbidden, floating like splendid phantoms out of the chasm and drain, desk and chair, public transport, Heaven and Hell. Executioners on cheap flights to Israel. Raconteurs who've doubled as hit men. Fast ladies who have loved me and loathed me. Church ministers who've longed to become pedophiles, and tennis coaches who wished they weren't. I have chuckled with Johnny Cash. They're all here, ready to spring. You'll meet them in this book: the more-than-believable, the bizarre. As Fats Waller once wrote: 'You meet the nicest people in your dreams'." Published by Flat Chat Press, Northern Melbourne Institute of TAFE (NMIT). Printed in Australia. A very nice clean tight solid softcover copy. 158pp. Uncommon title, scarce signed copy. SB-29. Signed by Author(s).