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I. Social Science Books of Applied Nonlinear Dynamical Systems

Serpents in the Sand
Serpents in the Sand: Essays on the Nonlinear Nature of Politics and Human Destiny
1995. Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Press. Reviewed in American Political Science Review, March 1997, 91: 165-6; also American Journal of Sociology, July 1996, 102: 286-8.
Ballots of Tumult
Ballots of Tumult: A Portrait of Volatility in American Voting
1991. Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Press. Reviewed in American Political Science Review, September 1992, 86: 794-5; also The Journal of Politics, August 1992, 54: 890-3.

II. Mathematics Books with an Applied Social Science Focus

Graph Algebra Graph Algebra: Mathematical Modeling with a Systems Approach
2008. Thousand Oaks, California: Sage Publications. Series: Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences, Number 151. Reviewed in Choice Magazine, March 2008.
Differential Equations Differential Equations: A Modeling Approach
2007. Thousand Oaks, California: Sage Publications. Series: Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences, Number 150. Reviewed in Choice Magazine, November 2007.
Chaos and Catastrophe Theories
Chaos and Catastrophe Theories
1995. Thousand Oaks, California: Sage Publications. Series: Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences, Volume number 107.

III. Culture Book

Politics In Music
Politics in Music: Music and Political Transformation from Beethoven to Hip-Hop
2008. Atlanta, Georgia: Farsight Press.

IV. Consciousness Studies and Physics Book

Remote Viewing by Courtney Brown
Remote Viewing: The Science and Theory of Nonphysical Perception
2006. Atlanta, Georgia: Farsight Press.

V. Articles

"Remote Viewing the Future with a Tasking Temporal Outbounder." Journal of Scientific Exploration, 26: 81-110, No. 1, Spring 2012

"Politics and the Environment: Nonlinear Instabilities Dominate." American Political Science Review, 88:292-303, No. 2, June 1994.

"Nonlinear Transformation in a Landslide: Johnson and Goldwater in 1964," American Journal of Political Science, 37:582-609, No. 2, May 1993.

"Mass Dynamics of U.S. Presidential Competitions, 1928-36." American Political Science Review, 82: 1153-1181, No.4, December 1988. (An expanded version of this article was recognized in the 1989 IBM Supercomputing Competition and printed in Keith R. Billingsley, Hilton U. Brown III, and Ed Derohanes, eds., Computer Assisted Modeling on the IBM 3090: The 1989 IBM Contest Prize Papers, Volume 2, pp. 749-97, Athens, Georgia: Baldwin Press, 1992.)

"On Political Context and Attitude Change," with Michael MacKuen. American Political Science Review, 81: 471-490, No.2, June 1987.

"Mobilization and Party Competition within a Volatile Electorate," American Sociological Review, 52: 59-72, No. 1, February 1987.

"The Nazi Vote: A National Ecological Study," American Political Science Review, 76: 285-302, No. 2, June 1982.

VI. Contributions to Edited Volumes

"Nonlinear Dynamics, Chaos, and Catastrophe Theory." 2008. In Handbook of Longitudinal Research: Design, Measurement, and Analysis. Edited by Scott Menard. San Diego, California: Elsevier, Chapter 38, pp. 653-664.

"Catastrophe Theory." 2003. In the Encyclopedia of Social Science Research Methods. Edited by Michael Lewis-Beck, Alan Bryman, and Tim Futing Liao. Thousand Oaks, California: Sage.

"Chaos Theory." 2003. In the Encyclopedia of Social Science Research Methods. Edited by Michael Lewis-Beck, Alan Bryman, and Tim Futing Liao. Thousand Oaks, California: Sage.

"Nonlinear Dynamics." 2003. In the Encyclopedia of Social Science Research Methods. Edited by Michael Lewis-Beck, Alan Bryman, and Tim Futing Liao. Thousand Oaks, California: Sage.

VII. Book Reviews

Book review of Chaos Theory in the Social Sciences: Foundations and Applications, by L. Douglas Kiel and Euel Elliot, eds. American Political Science Review, June 1997, 91: 436.

Book review of Conceptual Foundations for Multidisciplinary Thinking, by Stephen Jay Kline. American Political Science Review, June 1996, 90: 407.

Book review of The Dynamics of Ethnic Competition and Conflict, by Susan Olzak. American Political Science Review, June 1994, 88:483-4.