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The Black Panther Party: A Guide to an American Subculture - Hardcover

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by Jamie Wilson (Author)This compact volume offers a compelling introduction to a group once deemed the greatest threat to the internal security of the United States, the Black Panther Party. In a time when African Americans' widespread tactic of direct, nonviolent protest was seen as the most effective way to fight for racial justice, the Black Panthers' confrontational style and critiques of local law enforcement throughout the nation defied both civil rights orthodoxy and white authority. ...

Collaborative Grantseeking: A Guide to Designing Projects, Leading Partners, and Persuading Sponsors - Paperback

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by Jeremy Miner (Author), Lynn Miner (Author), Jerry Griffith (Author)This book offers a detailed analysis of the strategies and methodologies of successful collaborative grant writing, as well as practical guidance on the interpersonal leadership requirements of managing grantseeking projects. As it becomes increasingly difficult to obtain public or private funding, collaboration may become absolutely vital to some nonprofits' continued existence. Effective grant collaborations always compri...

Elderburbia: Aging with a Sense of Place in America - Hardcover

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by Philip Stafford (Author)An informed and often moving account of the crucial role of place in the lives of elders and what researchers and city planners are doing--and need to do--to make communities more age-friendly. Elderburbia: Aging with a Sense of Place in America argues that aging is not about time and the body, but about place and relationships. Drawing on the fascinating, multidisciplinary field of ethnography, it gives readers a deeper understanding of how the aging experience is ...

Public Administration Ethics for the 21st Century - Paperback

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by J. Martinez (Author)This volume establishes a foundation for a uniform code of professional ethics for public administrators in the United States. Public Administration Ethics for the 21st Century lays the ethical foundations for a uniform professional code of ethics for public administrators, civil servants, and non-profit administrators in the US. Martinez synthesizes five disparate schools of ethical thought as to how public administrators can come to know the good and behave in ways th...

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by Joyce A. Hanson (Author)This book offers a revealing look at Rosa Parks, whose role as an activist and struggle with racism began long before her historic 1955 Montgomery, Alabama, bus ride. Rosa Parks: A Biography captures the story of this remarkable woman like no other biography of her before it. It examines the entire scope of Rosa Parks's life, from her birth in 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama to her 1943 enrollment in the Montgomery NAACP to the dramatic events of the 1960s, and her contin...

Strategy and the National Security Professional: Strategic Thinking and Strategy Formulation in the 21st Century - Hardcover

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by Harry Yarger (Author)The twenty-first century security environment is both promising for and threatening to the national security interests of the nation state. Policymakers and professionals within governmental departments and agencies, both civilian and military, who are responsible for protecting and advancing the interests of the United States, are confronted with a strategic environment that is much more volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous than that faced by their twentieth-ce...

The Trauma of Psychological Torture - Hardcover

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by Almerindo Ojeda (Editor)It is, in some circles, called No-Touch Torture. Yet it brings pain and damage that can last a lifetime. Psychological torture techniques - which have a history of use by U.S. forces globally trailing far into the past beyond Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib - include a variety of methods from mock executions, severe humiliation, and mind-altering drugs, to forced self-induced pain, sensory disorientation including loud music and light control, and exploitation of personal...

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by Mark Paxton (Author)Ever since the Bill of Rights became the cornerstone on which individual Americans' rights and liberties rest, the practical realities of honoring the grand principles of the First Amendment have been hotly contested, and none more so than freedom of expression. From governmental limits on robust, even vicious, colonial- and Federal-era newspaper attacks to the USA PATRIOT Act to efforts to rein in the vast and anarchic Internet, the First Amendment protection of free e...

Encyclopedia of Cold War Espionage, Spies, and Secret Operations - Hardcover

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by Richard Trahair (Author)Everybody spied on everybody else during the Cold War. France had agents in the U.S., China had agents in East Germany, Poland had agents in Great Britain, and the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. had agents everywhere--in governments, in industry, in the military, and within each other's, and their own, intelligence agencies. A-Z entries provide a fascinating glimpse into the subterranean world, events, people and operations of the Cold War. Cold War espionage was a nightmare...

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by David S. Heidler (Author), Jeanne T. Heidler (Author)From Colonial times through the 19th century, European Americans advanced toward the west. This book explains the origins of territorial expansion and traces the course of Manifest Destiny to its culminating moment, the conquest of Mexico and the acquisition of the western territories. It also weighs major historical interpretations that have evolved over the years, from those praising expansionism to those condemning it as imperialistic...

Passion, Politics, and Philosophie: Rediscovering J.-P. Brissot - Hardcover

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by Leonore Loft (Author)Jacques-Pierre Brissot was among the major architects of the French Revolution, yet history has vilified and then dismissed him. His early intellectual development was strongly influenced by Enlightenment ideas and aspirations. However, his own remarkable construct of a just, democratic society, universal suffrage, and a renewed humanity living in moral and political freedom foreshadowed many present-day ideologies. The prevailing view of Brissot has pigeonholed him as...

Civilian Conservation Corps: A Selectively Annotated Bibliography - Hardcover

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by Larry Sypolt (Author)Sypolt has compiled the first comprehensive national bibliography since 1943 of the Civilian Conservation Corps-- of which he himself is a former member. Over 2,000 sources are meticulously cited, making this work an essential one-stop reference guide for those interested in learning more about the institution which has, since its humble 1933 inception, provided jobs for many unemployed youth, planted billions of trees, built many miles of trails, and created numerous ...

From Cold War to New World Order: The Foreign Policy of George H. W. Bush - Hardcover

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by Meenekshi Bose (Author), Meena Bose (Editor), Rosanna Perotti (Editor)One of the most significant areas of activity in the George Bush administration was foreign affairs. Drawing together participants as well as foreign policy scholars and journalists, Hofstra Universtiy organized the 1997 Conference on the Presidency of George Bush. This volume covers the key foreign affairs activities of the administration. The essays examine major areas of the Bush foreign policy record. Included are pa...

Presidents from Reagan through Clinton, 1981-2001: Debating the Issues in Pro and Con Primary Documents - Hardcover

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by Lane Crothers (Author), Nancy Lind (Author)This one-stop resource for debating the central issues that shaped the Reagan, Bush, and Clinton presidencies provides the text of pro and con primary documents from the presidents and their opponents, plus helpful analysis to put the issues in context. With this work, students will be able to debate the issues and apply critical thinking skills to their understanding of contemporary American politics and government. The work examines a set of iss...

Federalism: A Reference Guide to the United States Constitution - Hardcover

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by Vicki C. Jackson (Author), Elaine J. Combs (Author), Susan Low Bloch (Author)This book analyzes the structure of our constitutional system of government, providing an overview of the constitutional history of American federalism as it has been developed in decisions of the United States Supreme Court. Federalism: A Reference Guide to the United States Constitution provides a thorough examination of this significant and distinctive part of the U.S. constitutional system, documenting its rol...

Endangered Peoples of Europe: Struggles to Survive and Thrive - Hardcover

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by Jean Forward (Author)The European continent is the homeland for many diverse cultures struggling to maintain their ways of life and thrive or even to survive in the 21st century. Endangered Peoples of Europe: Struggles to Survive and Thrive profiles more than 12 endangered peoples, ranging from the Scottish Highlanders, the Basques in Spain, the former Yugoslavians, to the Cypriots. Their cultural identity, stemming from ancient times yet ever changing, is perhaps more at risk than at any ...

Ethnic Cleansing in the USSR, 1937-1949 - Hardcover

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by J. Otto Pohl (Author)Between 1937 and 1949, Joseph Stalin deported more than two million people of 13 nationalities from their homelands to remote areas of the U.S.S.R. His regime perfected the crime of ethnic cleansing as an adjunct to its security policy during those decades. Based upon material recently released from Soviet archives, this study describes the mass deportation of these minorities, their conditions in exile, and their eventual release. It includes a large amount of statist...

Roman Catholicism and Political Form - Hardcover

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by G. Ulmen (Author)The relationship between economic and political thinking has reached a crisis at the end of the 20th century. Already at the beginning of this century, in Roman Catholicism and Political Form, Carl Schmitt juxtaposed a juridical interpretation of religion oriented to the political sphere to Max Weber's sociological interpretation oriented to the economic sphere in The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. According to G. L. Ulmen, translator of Roman Catholicism a...

Historical Dictionary of Law Enforcement - Hardcover

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by Mitchel P. Roth (Author)Viewing policing from an international perspective, this volume covers the history of law enforcement from early accounts of policing under Caesar Augustus to such present-day events as Rodney King and the LAPD. American policing dominates the book, but it also covers such items as the 1829 London Metropolitan police model and Continental innovations stemming from Napoleonic France. While including such well-known Americans as Police Commissioner Theodore Roosevelt,...

Freedom Over Servitude: Montaigne, La Bo Degreesd'etie, and Degreesion Voluntary Servitude Degreesr - Hardcover

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by David Lewis Schaefer (Editor), Michael P. Platt (Author)This volume contains five articles by prominent scholars of French literature and political philosophy that examine the relation between Montaigne's Essays, one of the classic works of the French philosophical and literary traditions, and the writings attributed by Montaigne to his friend, the French humanist Etienne de La Boétie's. Three contributors to the volume suggest that Montaigne was the real author of the revolutionary tract ...

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by Harold D. Moser (Author)At a crucial time in American history, John Tyler--elected vice president on the Whig ticket--became president upon the death of William Henry Harrison. The nation, after expanding across the continent, was suffering from sectional tensions, Indian conflicts, issues over slavery, and economic problems. Tyler's becoming president created a crisis for Whigs, who questioned his intentions, his past record, and his irregular political alliances. Soon, the course he set ...

Dictionary of American Diplomatic History: Second Edition, Revised and Expanded - Hardcover

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by John E. Findling (Author)Overall this is an outstanding compilation and one likely to be frequently consulted by students of American diplomacy. Booklist It is refreshing to find a work that really is revised' and expanded.' Findling has made a good reference work better by adding nearly 100 new entries to the first edition to cover the last years of the Carter presidency and most of the Reagan years. The strength of this work is Findling's treatment of personages, events, and organizati...

The Quest for a Living Wage: The History of the Federal Minimum Wage Program - Hardcover

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by Willis Nordlund (Author)The wages of workers are a primary determinant of a worker's standard of living. There has been a long history of governmental action attempting to construct a fair and equitable method of ensuring a living wage to the worker. This book traces the historical developmental process, examining the theory behind minimum wage programs and the first 50 years of the operation of the American Fair Labor Standards Act. Here are gathered key data and information that explain ...

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by Gary Brent Madison (Author), G. B. Madison (Author)Political liberalism has increasingly come under fire from both the right and the left, in politics as well as in philosophy. In this new study, G.B. Madison offers a systematic rebuttal to these contemporary critics, attempting to demonstrate that the basic principles of classical liberal philosophy are not only internally valid and coherent but also directly relevant to the problems faced by society in the post-industrial age. Building o...

Puerto Rican Politics in Urban America - Hardcover

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by James Jennings (Editor), Monte Rivera (Editor), James Jennings (Other)Author Biographynnings /f James /r ed. era /f Monte /r ed. Number of Pages: 180 Dimensions: 0.56 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: April 10, 1984

Creating the Entangling Alliance: The Origins of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization - Hardcover

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by Timothy P. Ireland (Author)Author Biographyeland /f Timothy /i P. Number of Pages: 258 Dimensions: 1.03 x 8.5 x 5.54 IN Publication Date: February 10, 1981

Sobering Up: From Temperance to Prohibition in Antebellum America, 1800-1860 - Hardcover

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by Ian Tyrrell (Author) Number of Pages: 350 Dimensions: 0.81 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: October 26, 1979

Korea: A Study of U.S. Policy in the United Nations - Hardcover

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by Leland M. Goodrich (Author), Unknown (Author)The author looks at the first occasion on which the United States became involved in war while fulfilling its obligations under the United Nations Charter: the Korean episode. This book is concerned principally with the interrelation of United States policies and those of the United Nations as they developed in Korea. It attempts to explain in what fashion and to what extent American policies with respect to Korea were modified by membership in ...

Negotiating Hostage Crises with the New Terrorists - Hardcover

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by Adam Dolnik (Author), Keith M. Fitzgerald (Author), Gary Noesner (Foreword by)This book is about the role of negotiation in resolving terrorist barricade hostage crises. What lessons can be learned from past deadly incidents so that crisis negotiators and decision makers can act with greater effectiveness in the future? What are the lessons the terrorists are learning and how will they affect the dynamics of future incidents? What can we learn about the terrorist threat, and about preventi...

Intelligence and National Security: A Reference Handbook - Hardcover

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by John Clark (Author)Clark presents a brief history of the creation and development of the intelligence services in the United States. He centers his examination on the two main constants in the American way of gathering, processing, analyzing, and using intelligence; change and a concern for the impact of secret activities on democratic government. Resolving the ever-growing need for informed decision making continues to put pressure on the country's ability to manage and provide oversight ...

Keeping Us Safe: Secret Intelligence and Homeland Security - Hardcover

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by Arthur S. Hulnick (Author)How can the United States guard against a clever unknown enemy while still preserving the freedoms it holds dear? Hulnick explains the need to revamp U.S. intelligence operations from a system focused on a single Cold War enemy to one offering more flexibility in combating non-state actors (including terrorists, spies, and criminals) like those responsible for the attacks of September 11, 2001. Offering possible solutions not to be found in the federal commission'...

Politics and Society in Ancient Greece - Hardcover

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by Nicholas F. Jones (Author)Western democracies often trace their political roots back to Ancient Greece. While politics today may seem the dusty domain of lawmakers and pundits, in the classical era virtually no aspect of life was beyond its reach. Political life was not limited to acts of a legislature, magistrates, and the courts but routinely included the activities of social clubs, the patronage system, and expression through literature, art, and architecture. Through these varied means...