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Intro -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Chapter One: The Barre -- Chapter Two: On the Mag -- Chapter Three: Pas de Hell Nah -- Chapter Four: Magic -- Chapter Five: Deal -- Chapter Six: Hail of Genie -- Chapter Seven: Accidents Happen -- Chapter Eight: Stuck -- Chapter Nine: More Than Dance -- Chapter Ten: Lucky Me -- Chapter Eleven: Daddy -- Chapter Twelve: I Feel -- Chapter Thirteen: Jesus, Genie -- Chapter Fourteen: The Floor -- Chapter Fifteen: Banana Splits -- Chapter Sixteen: As You Wish -- Chapter Seventeen: Protecting -- Chapter Eighteen: The Other Genie -- Chapter Nineteen: Tricks -- Chapter Twenty: Back to the Barre -- Chapter Twenty-One: Everyone's Magic -- Chapter Twenty-Two: Gentle Genie -- Chapter Twenty-Three: Selfish -- Chapter Twenty-Four: Magic Wanted -- Chapter Twenty-Five: Cygnets -- Chapter Twenty-Six: I'm So Sorry -- Chapter Twenty-Seven: Music Box -- Chapter Twenty-Eight: Black Swan -- Chapter Twenty-Nine: Nightmares Sleep -- Chapter Thirty: I, Genie Davis -- Chapter Thirty-One: Finale -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author -- Copyright.

"Saints, Sinners, and Sovereign Citizens explores the history of grazing rights on the West's lucrative public lands and the battles between the Bureau of Land Management and ranchers for their use. The April 2014 armed standoff between Bunkerville rancher Cliven Bundy and armed militia allies against federal officers serves as the backdrop to the story of a conservative political movement and the resurgence of the radical right in the American West"--

"The Westside Slugger tells the story of Joe Neal, who rose from the sharecropped fields of Madison Parish, Louisiana during the Great Depression to become a history-making state lawmaker in Nevada, once known derisively as "the Mississippi of the West." Neal was part of a group that worked courageously to register the first black voters in Madison Parish history, and he battled for equal rights against long odds on the floor of the Nevada Legislature for more than three decades."--Provided by publisher

Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- 1. From Louisiana Soil -- 2. Welcome to "the Mississippi of the West" -- 3. Full Service, Full Citizenship -- 4. From Photo Opportunities to Real Opportunities -- 5. Meet the New Boss -- 6. Breaking Into the System -- 7. Interrupting the Party -- 8. Poetry, Prose, and Pay Toilets -- 9. Showdowns, Putdowns, and Letdowns -- 10. The Measure of the Law, Tested by Fire -- Photo Gallery -- 11. Fighting Apartheid in the Silver State -- 12. Death and Life in the '80s -- 13. Causes, Crotchets and Column Inches -- 14. A Day for Dr. King, Years in the Making -- 15. Standing on Shaky Ground -- 16. Open Doors and Open Books -- 17. Radioactive Politics -- 18. The Death of Charles Bush -- 19. Smoke, and Fire, and Rodney King -- 20. Battling Artful Tax-Dodgers, and Raising the Stakes -- 21. A Fly in the 'Anointment' -- 22. In the Good Fight, Until the Final Bell -- Epilogue: Wins and Losses, and a Legacy -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Sources -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author

Cover -- Epigraph -- 1. Why Cities? -- 2. City Life, Past and Present -- 3. How to Dig an Ancient City -- 4. Before Cities, There Was . . . -- 5. Urban Building Blocks -- 6. Infrastructure Holds Things Up -- 7. The Harmony of Consumption -- 8. The Mojo of The Middle Class -- 9. Anxiety, Risk, and Middle-Class Life -- 10. A World of Cities -- 11. The Next 6,000 Years -- Acknowledgments -- About Monica L. Smith -- Notes -- Index -- Copyright.

Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Praise for A Life of Experimental Economics, Volume II -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Part III East, Southwest, East Again -- 13 Yankee Land -- 14 West with the Night -- 15 Arizona and E-Commerce in the Laboratory -- Some Early Intellectual History -- 16 My Friends Were Finally Right -- 17 Wives, Daughters, and Sons -- Part IV Rethinking Recessions, Markets, Adam Smith and Religion -- 18 Home Again: Chapman University -- 19 Economic Collapse 2007-2008: Would 1929 Be Reborn in Anemic Growth? -- Proposition 1: Severe Economic Recessions Have Their Origin in Household and Bank Balance Sheet Crises -- Proposition 2: Standard Economic Models Do Not Contain Balance Sheets -- Proposition 3: The Great Recession-A Balance Sheet Crisis -- Proposition 4: The Depression-A Balance Sheet Crisis? -- Proposition 5: Policy Experts, Economists, Consumers, and Businesses Were Blindsided by the Great Recession -- Proposition 6: Bernanke's 14 Months of "Liquidity Enhancement"-A Test of the Friedman-Schwartz Hypothesis that Liquidity Expansion Can Prevent Depression-Like Episodes? -- Proposition 7: Monetary Policy Is Ineffective in a Balance Sheet Crisis -- Proposition 8: When Monetary Policy Is an Ineffective Economic Stimulant, So Is Government Deficit Spending, and for the Same Reason -- Proposition 9: Housing Expenditures Are a Leading Indicator of Most Economic Recessions -- in Only the Depression and Great Recession Was the End of the Recession Not Accompanied by a Housing Recovery -- Instead, We Remained Stuck in Low Growth -- Proposition 10: Stock Market Crashes Do Not Impact Household and Bank Balance Sheets the Way Housing-Mortgage Market Crashes Do -- Consequently, Loss in Stock Market Value Is Not a Good Indicator of Potential Damage to the Economy from Losses in Housing Val.