Cohen’s Handbook of Federal Indian Law: 2005 Edition with 2007 Supplement

Cohen’s Handbook of Federal Indian Law:  2005 Edition with 2007 Supplement, Nell Jessup Newton, et al., editors. LexisNexis.
 

Felix Cohen was the New Deal’s expert on relations between the federal government and the tribal governments.  He untangled a web of statutes, treaties, executive orders and “Indian agreements” (which were negotiated like treaties, but were adopted without [...]

Dodge, Yadolah. The Concise Encyclopedia of Statistics. New York: Springer, 2008.

The Concise Encyclopedia of Statisticsprovides definitions for the major concepts in the field of statistics, along with an overview of the “history, mathematical aspects, limitations . . . , examples, references, and relevant reading [vii]” pertinent to each concept. Biographical entries on widely known statisticians are also included.The work features more than 500 entries and [...]

American Speeches: Political Oratory from the Revolution to the Civil War (2006) & American Speeches: Political Oratory from Abraham Lincoln to Bill Clinton (2006)

These reference works collect many of the great American speeches, and, in so doing, provide a powerfully moving and eloquent commentary to American history.  Included in these volumes are Abraham Lincoln’s immortal address at Gettysburg (“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and [...]