David Johan Samuel

Memory: How We Use It, Lose It, and Can Improve It

Understanding Whitetails

Understanding Whitetails

Aging of the Brain

La Memoria / The Memory: Como la Usamos, la Perdemos y Podemos Mejorarla / How to we use it, lose it and can improve it

Presidents, Parties, and Prime Ministers: How the Separation of Powers Affects Party Organization and Behavior

This book provides a framework for analyzing the impact of the separation of powers on party politics. Conventional political science wisdom assumes that democracy is impossible without political parties, because parties fulfill all the key functions of democratic governance. They nominate candidate...

Only Love Can Break Your Heart

Writing for Harper’s and the New Yorker over the last decade, David Samuels has penned a disillusioned love song to the often amusing and sometimes fatal American habit of self-delusion, reporting from a landscape peopled by salesmen, dreamers, radical environmentalists, suburban hip-hop stars, dem...

The Runner: A True Account of the Amazing Lies and Fantastical Adventures of the Ivy League Impostor James Hogue

The Runner tells the remarkable true story of a teenage drifter and petty thief named James Hogue who woke up one cold winter morning in a storage shed in Utah and decided to start his life anew. Re-imagining himself as a self-educated ranch hand named Alexi Indris-Santana who read Plato under the s...

IN NATURA: a science fiction novel (ARZAT SERIES Book 2)

When paleontologist Alexandra Moss, her husband Tom and their two amazing reptilian Arzat companions Mot and Ara awaken from a 10,000 year cryogenic sleep that began in the twenty-first century, they escape their underground sanctuary and happily discover a world that has transformed itself back int...

Shadal on Exodus: Samuel David Luzzatto's Interpretation of the Book of Shemot

Samuel David Luzzatto (1800-1865), known by his Hebrew acronym Shadal, was the leading Italian Jewish scholar of the 19th century. A linguist, educator, and religious thinker, he devoted his talents above all to the interpretation of the Bible. As a master of Hebrew grammar and usage, he focused o...

Inequality and Democratization: An Elite-Competition Approach (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)

Research on the economic origins of democracy and dictatorship has shifted away from the impact of growth and turned toward the question of how different patterns of growth - equal or unequal - shape regime change. This book offers a new theory of the historical relationship between economic moderni...

Case Studies in Comparative Politics

Debuting in its first edition and written by a new generation of area studies experts, Case Studies in Comparative Politics follows a questions-based approach that helps readers understand different countries’ political histories, institutions, identities, and interests and why each country is polit...

Comparative Politics

Debuting in its first edition and driven by a question-based approach, Comparative Politics shows readers how to do real comparative analysis while introducing them to political institutions, identities, and interests. This thematic survey uniquely balances the how–analytical knowledge–and the what–...