This book is the ideal reference source for all readers who want to better understand the role of state government: its organization, procedures, history, and current facts and figures. The easy-to-understand question-and-answer format of this book covers more than 500 questions students and citizens are likely to ask about state government.

Which president was wounded during the Revolutionary War? What is an executive order? How many bills did each president veto? Which president's wife was the first to be called the first lady? These are just a few of the many questions answered in CQ's Desk Reference on the Presidency.

This ready-reference offers a wealth of information on the presidency. The 500-plus questions have been selected to provide an uncomplicated look at the American presidency, its organization, procedures, and history, as well as the presidents themselves and their families. Chapters include president's powers...

Provides answers to some of the most frequently asked questions about various aspects of US government, including elections, Congress, the presidency, and the Supreme Court. This title also includes many questions such as: What was the Teapot Dome scandal? What are the requirements for being a senator? How did the two-party system develop?

Clay Cantrell and his partner Mac Harper are restoring a 200-year-old mansion when they uncover a dusty old journal, a Confederate captain's diary that points the way to a horde of Confederate gold coins locked in three strongboxes. Coins that today will be worth millions, if the horde can be found. The son of well-to-do parents, Clay Cantrell is not your ordinary contractor. An ex-Army Ranger who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, he has settled back into everyday civilian life in his hometown of Staunton, Virginia. He restores old houses there for a living, but can't quite shake a nagging itch...

The Veil of Mist Shrouds a Deadly Conspiracy

Can Killer Fog's hero, Clay Cantrell, uncover the treacherous scheme hidden in a fog of lies and deceit, before the conspirators turn on him? Bruce Wetterau's new mystery thriller pits Clay against cold-blooded killers who will stop at nothing to steal a world-changing scientific discovery destined to flood the world with cheap, clean energy. But Clay doesn't know who they are, or even what they are up to, only that somehow he's become involved. Good luck. His search for the truth about that evil conspiracy...

Prof. Willard Wentworth, an American scientist, is about to realize his ambition of making a world-changing discovery. His Low Energy Nuclear Reaction (LENR) device, when perfected, will flood the world with cheap, clean energy--and end our addiction to oil. Homeland Security has just posted a nationwide warning that a terrorist attack is imminent. The target is unknown. A devious scheme links these two seemingly unrelated events in Bruce Wetterau's new mystery thriller, Killer Fog. Be warned, finding the truth in the fog of lies and deceit shrouding that plot is like opening up a set of...