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Most Americans live in major metropolitan areas, but they don't necessarily enjoy it. Polls consistently find that a majority of U.S. residents would prefer to live in communities that are smaller than the ones they call home. This book by G. Scott Thomas focuses on the places that fit that bill - the nation's 551 micropolitan areas, small cities that are outside the metropolitan orbit.

Micropolitan America: A Statistical Guide to Small Cities Across the Nation features a full-page profile of each micro, including an array of 75 statistics and 10 ratings. The latter...

The same skills and strategies can propel an aspiring executive to the top of any organization, be it the Podunk High School Student Council, the Acme Xylophone Corporation, or the government of the United States of America. The student council president may be an unpaid volunteer, and the Acme CEO may bark out orders in an office that is rectangular, not oval. But the paths that lead to those positions are remarkably similar to the trail that ends so gloriously at the front door of the White House. Author G. Scott Thomas spent two years examining the lives of nearly two hundred...

G. Scott Thomas offers a complete statistical and descriptive guide to the fifty American presidential elections that were held between 1789 and 1984. The book is divided into two major sections, the first dealing with the elections as such and the second with the participation of the candidates, parties, and states. The Pursuit of the White House incorporates more than 450 charts as well as concise summaries supplying comprehensive data on all aspects of presidential elections.

This collection of fifty-nine primary documents presents multiple viewpoints on more than four centuries of growth, conflict, and change in Georgia. The selections range from a captive's account of a 1597 Indian revolt against Spanish missionaries on the Georgia coast to an impassioned debate in 1992 between county commissioners and environmental activists over a proposed hazardous waste facility in Taylor County. Drawn from such sources as government records, newspapers, oral histories, personal diaries, and letters, the documents give a voice to the concerns and experiences of men and...

"Counting the Votes: A New Way to Analyze America's Presidential Elections" isn't your typical history book about presidential elections. Nor is it like most statistical analyses of election results. What this unusual book does offer is an array of innovative statistics--campaign score (CS), potential index (PI), return on potential (ROP), and equalized vote totals (EV*EQ), among others--that provides a provocative, intriguing, and fresh perspective on past presidential candidates and campaigns.

Presenting information that has never been compiled and presented before, author G. Scott...