Presidential Appointments: Political Control and
Bureaucratic Performance
David E. Lewis, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Politics
and Public Affairs, Princeton University
Desperate Passage: The Donner Party's Perilous
Journey West
Ethan Rarick, Journalist; Acting Director of the Center
on Politics, and Acting Director of Publications for the
Institute of Governmental Studies at the University of
California, Berkeley
Your Symptoms Are Real: What To Do When Your
Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong
Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Professor of Neurosciences
at New Jersey Medical School, Co-Director of the Pain
and Fatigue Study Center, and Director of the Chronic
Fatigue Syndrome/Fibromyalgia Center
"Global Africa: Whence its Past? Whither its Future?"
Michael A. Gomez, Professor of History, Middle Eastern
and Islamic Studies at New York University
Current Events in Indonesia
Brad Simpson, Professor of at the University of
Maryland, Baltimore County
"Biofuels and the World Food Situation"
Joachim von Braun, Director General of the Consultative
Group on International Agricultural Research of the
International Food Policy Research Istitute, Washington,
D.C.
Personal Finance
David Sinow, Clinical Professor of Finance in the
College of Business at the University of Illinois
Arsenals Of Folly: The Making Of The Nuclear Arms
Race
Richard Rhodes, Award-Winning Writer and an Affiliate of
Stanford University's Center for International Security
and Cooperation