NEW TITLE To Protect and Maintain Individual Rights A Citizen’s Guide to the Washington Constitution, Article I Jonathan Bechtle and Michael J. Reitz With a foreword by Justice Charles Johnson November 2011 Freedom Foundation $16.95 G paper G 130 pp G 6 x 9 G isbn 9780983544005 legal studies/political science In To Protect and Maintain Individual Rights, Bechtle and Reitz provide a section-by-section analysis of the Washington Constitution’s Declaration of Rights. The authors review the state’s 1889 constitutional debates, contem- porary accounts of the convention, and significant legal cases. Bechtle and Reitz urge citizens to become familiar with their state constitutions, as in- dividual rights are often afforded greater protection from state constitutions than from the U.S. Constitution: “When citizens are educated in the sourc- es of their freedoms, and familiar with attempts in history to limit these freedoms, they are better equipped to recognize new encroachments.” Jonathan Bechtle is CEO of the Freedom Foundation. He has testified before Congress as an expert on election law, and his research has been published and cited by the Washington Times, the Seattle Times, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, World Magazine, and numerous other media outlets. He earned his J.D. from Oak Brook College of Law, and is a member of the California and Washington bars. Michael J. Reitz is general counsel of the Freedom Foundation, and has rep- resented the Foundation and other clients in cases addressing election law, free speech rights, government accountability, and property rights. He is a member of the Washington and California bars and is admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. www.amppubgroup.com 1 NEW TITLE The State of Our Unions 2011 Navigating the Path to Parenthood Edited by W. Bradford Wilcox and Elizabeth Marquardt December 2011 Broadway Publications $10.00 G paper G 115 pp G 6 ½ x 10 G isbn 9781931764254 social science / family The State of Our Unions 2011: Navigating the Path to Parenthood identifies the key cultural and social factors that make the transition to parenthood successful. At a time when many media reports and academic studies stress the difficulties of combining marriage and parenthood, Navigating the Path to Parenthood presents scholarly evidence and analysis on how to combine them successfully. W. Bradford Wilcox is director of the National Marriage Project and associate professor of sociology at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Soft Patriarchs, New Men: How Christianity Shapes Fathers and Husbands. Elizabeth Marquardt is the director of the Center for Marriage and Families at the Insti- tute for American Values, and author of Between Two Worlds: The Inner Lives of Children of Divorce. 2 www.amppubgroup.com NEW TITLE Why Marriage Matters, Third Edition Twenty-Six Conclusions from the Social Sciences W. Bradford Wilcox October 2011 Broadway Publications $5.00 G paper G 44 pp G 6 ½ x 10 G isbn 9781931764247 social science / family Like previous editions, the third edition of Why Marriage Matters reviews the relevant research on family topics and comes to three fundamental con- clusions: marriage is an important social good, marriage is an important public good, and the benefits of marriage extend to poor and minority com- munities. The third edition pays particular attention to new research on the impact of cohabitation on children and families. It concludes with a “U.S. Marriage Index,” which compiles and presents the leading indicators of marital health in the United States. W. Bradford Wilcox is director of the National Marriage Project and associate professor of sociology at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Soft Pa- triarchs, New Men: How Christianity Shapes Fathers and Husbands. www.amppubgroup.com 3 NEW TITLES The Churchill Documents volumes 14–16 Edited by Sir Martin Gilbert Hillsdale College Press The three newest volumes of The Churchill Documents cover the start of World War II. As with previous volumes, they collect a remark- ably wide range of archives too voluminous to include in Randolph S. Churchill and Sir Martin Gilbert’s multivolume biography of Winston Churchill (see page 15). G volume 14 At the Admiralty September 1939–May 1940 $35.00 / cloth / 1,370 pp / isbn 9780916308322 G volume 15 Never Surrender May 1940–December 1940 $35.00 / cloth / 1,359 pp / isbn 9780916308339 G volume 16 The Ever-Widening War, 1941 $35.00 / cloth / 1,821 pp / isbn 9780916308346 4 www.amppubgroup.com ACTON INSTITUTE DVDS The Call of the Entrepreneur This film tells the stories of three individuals: a farmer in rural Michigan, a banker in New York, DVD: $20.00 G and a refugee from China. Why do their stories 60 mins. G matter? Because how we view entrepreneurs—as greedy or altruistic, as virtuous or vicious— isbn 9781880595503 shapes the destinies of individuals and nations. Study guide: $5.00 G Rev. Robert Sirico joins Michael Novak, George 35 pp G Gilder, and other experts in exploring how entre- isbn 9781880595249 preneurs shape our world. (Separate study guide also available.) 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