New Jersey Political Almanac, 1998-1999 -- Our bright, readable legislative guide. The information you need about the Legislature, including photos, biographies, addresses and phone numbers, leadership and committee assignments, district boundaries, election results and the most expensive races. With photos and contact information on New Jersey's congressional delegation and the Whitman Administration's top staffers and Cabinet. (Princeton: Center for Analysis of Public Issues, February 1998, 104 pages, $19.95) click here to order your copy today. The New Jersey Almanac, 1998-1999 -- The most comprehensive reference book devoted to New Jersey statistics and trends. Provides overviews, facts and statistics on population, the economy, taxes, money and income, state and local government, education, real estate and construction, environment, health and human services, crime and corrections, energy and transportation. Statistics by county and municipality, and rankings comparing New Jersey with other states. (Princeton: Public Affairs Research Institute of New Jersey, August 1998, 364 pages, $85.00. For both the book and the Almanac-on-diskette, the cost is $295.00) click here to order your copy today. The New Jersey Directory: The Insider Guide to New Jersey Leaders, 1998-1999 -- The one-stop guide to the New Jersey establishment features 2,000 biographical sketches on the leading people, companies, agencies and organizations. Shows key relationships among New Jersey's public, private and non-profit sector leaders. Includes available web site and E-mail addresses, fax and phone numbers. (Princeton: Public Affairs Research Institute of New Jersey, August 1998, 570 pages, $86.00. For the book, the Directory-on-diskette, and the Insider Guide's 5,000-name contact list on diskette, the cost is $395.00) click here to order your copy today. Multiple Municipal Madness -- Alan Karcher, a former New Jersey Assembly speaker, examines the petty conflicts -- from location of railroad stations to capture of existing ratables to the battles of "wets" vs. "drys" -- that led to the creation of 566 separate municipalities in a state with just 7,493 square miles. Karcher tells how "the incredible shrinking Shrewsbury Township" went from covering most of Monmouth and Ocean counties to just one-tenth of a square mile and how you have to be a member of the country club just to enter Pine Valley, whose population of 19 resides on the golf course grounds. A longtime student of public policy, Karcher concludes by urging the Legislature to pass a mandatory consolidation program that would require 461 municipalities to find partners for merger within 10 years. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, November 1998, 238 pages. $49 hardcover, $22 softbound) click here to order your copy today. Hitting Below the Beltway: The Best of Margulies -- Published in 1998, this collection of the best political cartoons of Jimmy Margulies is the perfect stocking-stuffer or holiday gift for any political junkie. Margulies, a syndicated cartoonist for The Record of Hackensack since 1990 and a regular contributor to New Jersey Reporter magazine, lampoons Whitman and Florio, Clinton and Dole, Bradley and Gingrich, the tobacco industry, the DEP and everyone's favorite punching bag, the DMV. Enjoy the wit that won the 1996 National Headliner Award for Editorial Cartooning. (Gretna, La.: Pelican Publishing Company, 1998, 160 pages, $6.95). click here to order your copy today. Juries, Jails, and Justice: The Sheriff's Office in New Jersey since the Seventeenth Century -- Until the 1900's, the man with the sheriff's badge was the most powerful official in New Jersey's county government. Today, the badge and the office remain, but decades of attacks by government officials and reformers have so eroded the sheriff's powers that the office may no longer be necessary, concludes Harris I. Effross, research professor at the Center for Government Services at Rutgers University's Bloustein School. Effross traces the history of the sheriff's office, the reform efforts of Governor Woodrow Wilson, and how the New Jersey State Police was created to take away the responsibility for apprehending criminals from county sheriffs. He recommends that a commission be set up to examine whether New Jersey will need sheriffs in the 21st Century. (Metuchen: Upland Press, 1998: 367 pages, $17) click here to order your copy today. If you are interested in ordering any of these books please click here to go to our order form.