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Explains how to locate a house to buy, negotiate an offer, get a mortgage, use the Internet to finance and sell one's home, increase resale value, and sell without a real estate agent.

Describes the social and cultural transformation of seventeenth-century China through the life and work of Li Yu

Taking a policy areas approach, this text brings American public policy to life through stimulating case studies, contemporary controversies, and thought-provoking opening vignettes. The authors focus on the influences of rationality, power, and ideology on contemporary public policy. The text provides unbiased coverage of both standard core policies and newer areas of controversy such as welfare and AIDS.

Booknews: This textbook on American government and politics seeks to encourage direct participation by citizens in the political process. Each chapter includes a discussion question on a controversial issue and an example of how the student can become actively involved in American politics. A sampling of topics includes the Constitution, federalism, civil rights, political parties, elections, Congress, the Presidency, bureaucracy, the Judiciary, domestic and economic policy, and foreign policy. Coverage extends to the results of the November 2000 presidential elections with an analysis of its implications for the future.