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Featuring 113 primary source documents, The U.S. Constitution: A Reader was developed for teaching the core course on the Constitution at Hillsdale College. Divided into eleven sections, and with introductions by faculty from Hillsdale’s Department of Politics, readings cover the principles of the American founding; the framing and structure of the Constitution; the secession crisis and the Civil War; the Progressive rejection of the Constitution; and the building of the administrative state based on Progressive principles.

Distinguished as “The Father of Supply-Side Economics” for his economic acu­men and influence in triggering a worldwide tax-cutting movement in the 1980s, Arthur Laffer was a member of President Ronald Reagan’s Economic Policy Ad­visory Board during both of Reagan’s terms. Laffer served as a distinguished professor at the University of Southern California and at Pepperdine University, and was also a member of the board of directors at Pepperdine. Previously, he was a professor at the University of Chicago and a consultant to Treasury Secretary William Simon, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, and Treasury Secretary George Shultz, under whom he was named the first-ever Chief Economist at the Office of Management and Budget. He received his B.A. from Yale University and his M.B.A. and Ph.D. from Stanford University, all in economics.

What They Are Saying:

“California is in great need of fresh and creative thinking if we are to fix its economic and fiscal problems and recreate the sense of optimism and opportunity this state has always embodied. Eureka! Is chock full of interesting ideas and insights that should help start a badly needed conversation about how to put the gold back into the Golden State. It is a straightforward, timely, and valuable reading for anyone interested in the role of taxes and fiscal policy in one of the world’s largest and most innovative economies.” — Charles Schwab, founder and chairman, Charles Schwab Corporation

“Those who think of economics as ‘the dismal science’ will stand up and cheer after reading this book. Dr. Laffer is optimistic about California’s future, and with good cause: if we follow his sound advice, the state’s future will indeed be golden once again.” — Christopher C. Cox, former U.S. House leader (R-CA) and chairman, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

“Dr. Arthur Laffer provides a clear-headed diagnosis of how California ruined its prosperity and writes a realistic prescription to recover its future. Eureka! How to Fix California offers a glimmer of hope for every Californian and a cautionary tale for every American.” — Tom McClintock, member of Congress (R-CA)

“Art Laffer’s unprecedented analysis of California’s fiscal and economic policies show without a doubt that the most effective fix to the state’s problems is a low flat tax. Eureka! is a wake-up call to all Californians that we need another Prop. 13-style revolution if we are to turn around the state.” — Jon Coupal, president, Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association

“The Golden State has become the Golden Bust thanks to dysfunctional policies in Sacramento. Arthur Laffer provides a policy roadmap for how to fix what has gone terribly wrong in a state that was once America’s richest, most dynamic and most desirable place to raise a family and grow a business. Every citizen and every politician who cares about California’s future should read this book.” — Steve Moore, editorial writer, Wall Street Journal

COMING IN APRIL 2012

Obama: The Dream and the Reality collects the National Review writings of one of today’s most provocative political commentators: Victor Davis Hanson. In pungent prose, Hanson skewers modern pieties with the eye of a realist who is deeply grounded in wide knowledge of human history — and human nature.

Victor Davis Hanson is the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow in Residence in classics and military history at the Hoover Institution; a professor of classics emeritus at California State University, Fresno; and a nationally syndicated columnist. He was awarded the National Humanities Medal in 2007 and the Bradley Prize in 2008. Hanson has written or edited seventeen books, including The Western Way of War, The Wars of the Ancient Greeks, The Soul of Battle, Carnage and Culture, Mexifornia: A State of Becoming, and his new novel, The End of Sparta. The National Review Online columnist lives on a forty-acre tree-and-vine farm near Selma, California, where he was born in 1953.

Why Thrift Matters outlines twenty well-researched propositions for why thrift matters for families, neighborhoods, the economy, and the planet. It also includes a list of ways that readers can get involved in the new “thrift movement.” This report, issued by the Institute for American Values, presents the rationale for the growing thrift movement, publishes new research findings on American thrift, and examines innovative ideas from grassroots leaders.

COMING IN JUNE 2012

How would a historical narrative read if the author began with the first principles that truth exists and the Incarnation happened? The long-awaited sixth and final volume to the late Warren Carroll’s highly regarded history of Christendom covers the years 1815 through 2005. This series is the only in-print, comprehensive narration of Western history written from an orthodox Catholic perspective.

Warren Carroll (1932–2011) was founder of Christendom College, serving as president from 1977–85, and as chairman of the Department of History from 1985–2002. Carroll earned an M.A. and Ph.D. in history from Columbia Uni­versity. The author of numerous books, he has won a well-deserved reputation as one of the foremost Catholic historians of our time. Anne Carroll is the widow of Warren and a well-respected author in her own right. Her books include Christ the King, Lord of History and Christ and the Americas. She is also the founder of Seton Home Study School and Seton School in Manassas, Virginia.

This leatherette-bound edition of the Washington Constitution begins with a foreword by Chief Justice Barbara Madsen of the Washington State Supreme Court. Madsen explains the importance of the state constitution and why its protections of individual rights and liberty are more important today than ever before. Also included are an introduction and history of the document and the delegates who authored it, as well as the full text of the United States Constitution.

The Freedom Foundation seeks to promote individual liberty and accountable government. In addition to constitutional law, the Freedom Foundation focuses on budget and taxes, business and labor, education, election integrity, property rights, and first principles. The Freedom Foundation envisions a day when opportunity, responsible self-governance, and free markets flourish in Washington because its citizens understand and cherish the principles from which they were derived.

Originally published as a doctoral dissertation, Daniel A. Cronin’s survey of moral theology on the topic of ordinary and extraordinary means remains the standard reference work on this critically important distinction for end-of-life decision-making. Cronin examines the major authors from the Catholic historical tradition on this important distinction, showing how the difference between “ordinary” and “extraordinary” has developed with the progress of medical science. Continuously cited since its first publication, this revised edition brings the classic text back into print.

Collected here for the first time is a history of images of Oman, one of the most developed and stable countries in the Arab world and among the earliest adherents to Islam. A sultanate, the country sits along the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. From early days of world trade through the port of Muscat to contemporary engagement with international diplomacy and the West, Oman has always evoked beauty and mystery in equal measure. This art-house quality volume reveals an intimate picture of the country as its contours emerged over the last 80 years in the eyes of the West, as captured in images by English explorer Wilfred Thesiger in the 1940s and ‘50s, British Army major Charles Butt in the 1960s, and award-winning American documentary photographer Edward Grazda in the first decade of this new century.

Sir Wilfred Patrick Thesiger (1910–2003) was a British explorer and travel writer born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Thesiger is best known for two travel books, Arabian Sands, which recounts his travels in Arabia and describes the vanishing way of life of the Bedouins; and The Marsh Arabs (1964), an account of the Madan, an indigenous people of southern Iraq. Thesiger took many photographs during his travels and donated his vast collection of 23,000 negatives to the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford.

Charles Butt served as a major in the Sultan’s Armed Forces from 1966 until 1978. A keen amateur photographer (and member of the Royal Photographic Society), Butt took over 10,000 cover photographs while living and serving in the Middle East.  These photos now form part of the Charles Butt Photographic Collection.

Edward Grazda studied photography at the Rhode Island School of Design and has shot extensively throughout Latin America and Asia. Grazda’s work has been collected by New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art and Museum of Modern Art, the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C., and the San Francisco Museum of Art, among others. Grazda teaches photography at Harvard University and the International Center of Photography in New York.

Raina Sacks Blankenhorn is the executive vice president of the Institute for American Values and the founder of the Institute’s Center for Global Engagement, where she serves as an editor of IjtihadReason.org, an online journal published in Arabic and English.

What They Are Saying:

“Three Views of Oman is a great example of the dialogue of cultures. Rather than repeating the Orientalist approach that has weakened so many Western studies of Arabic societies, this book builds a new bridge between two civilizations with different histories but shared values.” — Radwan Ziadeh, George Washington University

“This album illustrates that photography does more than capture moments of physical reality on paper. It is a medium between the contemplator and our widely strange and unknown world. Through the camera eye a window stays open, transferring moments from the past into the future, letting us participate again and again in something that has been, in a sense, lost. Three Views of Oman is a wonderful experience.” — Michael R.N. Jansen, Aachen University