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by Michael Printy (Author) Number of Pages: 284 Dimensions: 0.69 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: December 05, 2024

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by Wilhelm Wundt (Author)Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Hesperides Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. Number of Pages: 208 Dimensions: 0.63 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: November 04, 2008

The State of Conservation: Rural America and the Conservation-Industrial Complex since 1920 - Paperback

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by Joshua Nygren (Author)In the twentieth century, natural resource conservation emerged as a vital force in US politics, laying the groundwork for present-day sustainability. Merging environmental, agricultural, and political history, Joshua Nygren examines the political economy and ecology of agricultural conservation through the lens of the "conservation-industrial complex." This evolving public-private network--which united the US Department of Agriculture, Congress, local and national or...

Making Men Moral: Civil Liberties and Public Morality - Paperback

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by Robert P. George (Author)Contemporary liberal thinkers commonly suppose that there is something in principle unjust about the legal prohibition of putatively victimless crimes. Here Robert P. George defends the traditional justification of morals legislation against criticisms advanced by leading liberal theorists. He argues that such legislation can play a legitimate role in maintaining a moral environment conducive to virtue and inhospitable to at least some forms of vice. Among the libe...

The Chinese Phantom: The Hunt for the World's Most Dangerous Arms Dealer - Paperback

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by Christoph Giesen (Author), Philipp Gr?ll (Author), Frederik Obermaier (Author)A gripping, real-life thriller following the authors' attempt to uncover the truth about one of the world's most wanted men. Karl Lee, alias Li Fangwei, plays a key role in the secret struggle between the world powers, bypassing Western sanctions to supply dictators with the weapons they need to wipe out their neighboring countries--or even to trigger a third world war. For almost two decades, intelligence agenci...

Policing White Supremacy: The Enemy Within - Hardcover

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by Mike German (Author), Beth Zasloff (Author)A former FBI agent's urgent call for law enforcement to prioritize far-right violence and end tolerance for police racism In Policing White Supremacy, former FBI agent Mike German, who worked undercover in white supremacist and militia groups, issues a wake-up call about law enforcement's dangerously lax approach to far-right violence.Despite over a hundred deadly acts by far-right militants since the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville...

No Right to an Honest Living (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize): The Struggles of Boston's Black Workers in the Civil War Era - Paperback

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by Jacqueline Jones (Author)WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY - A "sensitive, immersive, and exhaustive" portrait of Black workers and white hypocrisy in nineteenth-century Boston, from "a gifted practitioner of labor history and urban history" (Tiya Miles, National Book Award-winning author of All That She Carried) Impassioned antislavery rhetoric made antebellum Boston famous as the nation's hub of radical abolitionism. In fact, however, the city was far from a beacon of equality. I...

Euclid's Army: Preparing Land Forces for Warfare Today - Paperback

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by William F. Owen (Author)Rejecting much of the conventional wisdom to what makes up a modern Army, William F. Owen massacres fields of sacred cows to challenge many of the mainstream ideas about the future of land warfare and how it should be conducted. Based on his experience working with the British Army and industry, Owen draws the reader back to basics based on limited budgets, limited resources and an overall reduction in cost, weight and complexity to comprehensively understand how ar...

The Bond King: How One Man Made a Market, Built an Empire, and Lost It All - Paperback

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by Mary Childs (Author)From the host of NPR's Planet Money, the deeply-investigated story of how one visionary, dogged investor changed American finance forever. Before Bill Gross was known among investors as the Bond King, he was a gambler. In 1966, a fresh college grad, he went to Vegas armed with his net worth ($200) and a knack for counting cards. $10,000 and countless casino bans later, he was hooked: so he enrolled in business school. The Bond King is the story of how that whiz kid made...

Be Prepared: Doomsday Prepping in the United States - Paperback

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by Robert E. Kirsch (Author), Emily Ray (Author)Doomsday prepping has gone mainstream. Survivalists star in reality TV shows; celebrities hawk emergency gear; and ordinary people stockpile essentials in the hope that they can outlast a slew of threats, real and imagined. The ideology behind prepping, however, is no passing fad but a persistent feature of American life. Be Prepared reveals the surprising ways prepping is woven into the fabric of American institutions--and shows its significanc...

My Journey of Peace to Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Russia - Paperback

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by Tommy Koh (Author)The unexpected end of the Cold War in 1991 was marked by the dissolution of the Soviet Union into 15 free and independent states. Amid this newfound independence, these countries, which were once subject to Soviet control, were faced with the presence of Russian troops in their territories - some of which were still hosting Russian military bases. There was also a question about the future of Russian veterans and retirees living in some of the countries and who did not wa...

American Dreams: Restoring Economic Opportunity for Everyone - Paperback

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by Marco Rubio (Author)In 1956, Marco Rubio's parents came to America as poor immigrants with grade-school educations. They found a land of opportunity where anyone could work hard, play by the rules, and build a better future for themselves and their children. His family proved the reality of the American Dream, where the children of maids and bartenders could become doctors, lawyers, small business owners, and maybe even a U.S. senator. But now the American Dream is on life support. Years o...

Making the American Century: Essays on the Political Culture of Twentieth Century America - Paperback

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by Bruce J. Schulman (Author)The twentieth century has been popularly seen as "the American Century," a long period in which the United States had amassed the economic resources, the political and military strength, and the moral prestige to assume global leadership. By century's end, the trajectory of American politics, the sense of ever waxing federal power, and the nation's place in the world seemed less assured. Americans of many stripes came to contest the standard narratives of nation b...

Inside the Jihad: My Life with Al Qaeda - Paperback

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by Omar Nasiri (Author)From Europe's burgeoning terrorist underground, to the training camps of Afghanistan, to the radical mosques of London, this is a unique and chilling insider's story of the rise of Al Qaeda and the intelligence services that struggle to contain it. Between 1994 and 2000, Omar Nasiri worked as a secret agent for Europe's top foreign intelligence services -- including France's DGSE (Direction G (c)rale de la S (c)rit (c)xt (c)eure), and Britain's MI5 and MI6. From the ne...

The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism (Pulitzer Prize Winner) - Paperback

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by Tina Rosenberg (Author)As told by MacArthur Fellowship-winning journalist Tina Rosenberg, this "definitive account of what the transition away from communism in Eastern Europe has meant in moral terms" (David Rieff, Los Angeles Times Book Review) make up the final chapter in the greatest moral drama of our time. "Provocative and serious . . . original and useful".--New York Times Book Review. A National Book Award winner.Front JacketThe Pulitzer Prize-winning look at the collapse of Commun...

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by Steve A. Yetiv (Author)"The real story of global oil over the past twenty-five years is not about the spillover effects of Palestinians fighting Israelis, or terrorist attacks on U.S. forces in Saudi Arabia and Yemen, or Iraq's stormy relationship with Kuwait. It is not even about periodic small- and large-scale U.S. attacks on Iraq. Rather, the real story is about longer-term developments that have changed the international relations of the Middle East, politics at the global level, and w...

The Deepest Wounds: A Labor and Environmental History of Sugar in Northeast Brazil - Paperback

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by Thomas D. Rogers (Author)In The Deepest Wounds, Thomas D. Rogers traces social and environmental changes over four centuries in Pernambuco, Brazil's key northeastern sugar-growing state. Focusing particularly on the period from the end of slavery in 1888 to the late twentieth century, when human impact on the environment reached critical new levels, Rogers confronts the day-to-day world of farming--the complex, fraught, and occasionally poetic business of making sugarcane grow.Renowned Bra...

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by Tom Pauken (Author), Thomas W. Pauken (Author)How did the Bush administration squander the political capital that Goldwater-Reagan conservatives took more than three decades to build? How did America go from having the strongest economy in the world to facing our most serious economic crisis since the Great Depression? What became of an American culture that once was guided by the principles of Christianity? Bringing America Home not only explains how we lost our way, but shows how our fou...

Economic Sanctions vs. Soft Power: Lessons from North Korea, Myanmar, and the Middle East - Hardcover

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by N. Anguelov (Author)The book examines the industrial growth of sanctioned nations in terms of their ability to foster trade partnerships with countries that choose to evade or not comply with sanctions. When those "black knight" nations find strong local market competitive advantages in the absence of firms from sender nations, incentives develop to support local political status quos. For those reasons, the political resilience of rogue and repressive regimes is analyzed in terms of their...

Implementation of the ''Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act of 2004'' (Pub. L. No. 108-277) and Additional Legislative Efforts Aimed at Expanding the - Paperback

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by United States Congress House of Represen (Created by)The BiblioGov Project is an effort to expand awareness of the public documents and records of the U.S. Government via print publications. In broadening the public understanding of government and its work, an enlightened democracy can grow and prosper. Ranging from historic Congressional Bills to the most recent Budget of the United States Government, the BiblioGov Project spans a wealth of government information. These works are now made...

West Africa, Islam, and the Arab World: Studies in Honor of Basil Davidson - Paperback

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by John O. Hunwick (Author)West Africa is defined as the area south of the Sahara between the Atlantic and Lake Chad, encompassing the Sahel zone, tropical forests, and pasturelands. West Africans speak languages belonging to three major families: Niger-Congo, Nilo-Saharan, and Afro-Asiatic, as well as the official languages, French and English, introduced in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The language of scholarship and learning has been Arabic since the seventh century, when Arab m...

Best Editorial Cartoons of the Year: 1975 Edition - Paperback

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by Charles Brooks (Editor), Hubert Humphrey (Foreword by), Barry Goldwater (Foreword by)The third volume of this acclaimed series offers a sobering look back at the history-making events of 1974. Often humorous, sometimes poignant, and always interesting, these cartoons are guaranteed to tickle your funny bone and tug at your heartstrings as you turn the pages.The energy crisis, Watergate, and rampant inflation combined to create hard times for the average American, but a wealth of material f...

Best Editorial Cartoons of the Year - Paperback

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by Charles Brooks (Editor), Draper Hill (Foreword by)This volume highlights such newsworthy events as the presidential election, the Bicentennial celebration, the Olympics in Montreal, the Wayne Hays scandal, swine flu, and the energy crisis.ABOUT THE EDITOREditor Charles Brooks is past president of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists and for 38 years was a cartoonist for the Birmingham News. He has been the recipient of 13 Freedom Foundation Awards, a national VFW Award, two Vi...

Common Sense: Addressed to the Inhabitants of America - Paperback

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by Thomas Paine (Author)Society in every state is a blessing, but government even, in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one; for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries by a government, which we might expect in a country without government, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer. Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of...

Terror on the Tube: Behind the Veil of 7/7, an Investigation - 3rd Ed. - Paperback

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by Nick Kollerstrom (Author)Now in an updated edition with a critique of the official 7/7 Inquest of Winter 2010-2011, Terror on the Tube remains the only book with the glaring evidence that all four Muslim scapegoats were innocent. 7/7 is Bliar's Big Lie and Reichstag Fire, False Flag Terror as pretext for war and an Orwellian, neo-fascist British police state. If 9/11 was the great pretext for war and fascism in the USA, London's 7/7 bombings brought Britain quickly closer to an Orwellian p...

Axis of Resistance: Asymmetric Deterrence and Rules of the Game in Contemporary Middle East Conflicts - Paperback

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by Daniel Sobelman (Author)An in-depth analysis of the primary conflicts animating the contemporary struggle over the regional order of the Middle East.From the conflict between the United States and the Iranian-backed militias in Iraq and Syria to the recent Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip, events in today's Middle East reflect the emergence of what has come to be known as an Iran-led "axis of resistance." A geopolitical network of state- and nonstate actors seeking to promote a new regio...

Spring Training for the Major Leagues of Government - Paperback

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by Frank McDonough (Author)"Frank McDonough has been on both sides of the table; he has been there and done that." -Tom Rolston, Former IBM executive and author of two books, Fifty Years before Crack, and Faith or Duty?The White House has approved Brian's selection for a high-level job in the government. After the initial excitement, he realizes there is a lot he does not know. He tells a friend, I need a mentor, someone who has been through what I am going to experience.Spring Training for t...

The World Is Not for Sale: Farmers Against Junk Food - Paperback

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by Jose Bove (Author), Francois Dufour (Author), Anna de Casparis (Translator)In this lively and hard-hitting book Jose Bove and Francois Dufour recount the dramatic events of their famous demonstration against McDonald's and examine the issues behind the resulting campaign, which has now stretched from France and Seattle around the world.Author BiographyNaomi Klein is an award-winning journalist, syndicated columnist, fellow at the Nation Institute and author of The Shock Doctrine. Number of...

Liberty, Equality, Consensus and All That Jazz at the Del Rio Bar - Paperback

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by Ernie Harburg (Author), Eve Silberman (Author), Larry Behnke (Author)Every revolution needs a good bar. In Ann Arbor, Michigan that bar was the Del Rio. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Ann Arbor morphed from a quiet Republican university town to an epicenter of the "counterculture" and liberal-left politics. And the new Del Rio Bar became the hangout for the newly Democratic City Council members; the anti-Vietnam-War activists, including the vocal Women's Strike for Peace, and the SDS; ...

Discourse on the Origin of Inequality - Paperback

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by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Author)Rousseau first exposes in Discourse on the Origin of Inequality his conception of a human state of nature, presented as a philosophical fiction and of human perfectibility, an early idea of progress. He then explains the way, according to him, people may have established civil society, which leads him to present private property as the original source and basis of all inequality. Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712 - 1778) was a Genevan philosopher, writer, and compos...

Frontier Encounters: Knowledge and Practice at the Russian, Chinese and Mongolian Border - Paperback

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by Grégory Delaplace (Author), Franck Billé (Author), Caroline Humphrey (Author)China and Russia are rising economic and political powers that share thousands of miles of border. Yet, despite their proximity, their practical, local interactions with each other and with their third neighbour Mongolia are rarely discussed. The three countries share a boundary, but their traditions, languages and worldviews are remarkably different. Frontier Encounters presents a wide range of views on how t...

Last Flights of Malaysian Airlines Mh370 and Mh17, The: A Firsthand-Look - Paperback

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by Azharuddin Abdul Rahman (Author)Having always been in love with all things related to aviation since childhood, Azharuddin Abdul Rahman's dream came true when he was given a chance to enter the field of aircraft engineering. Serving as Director-General for eleven years with the Department of Civil Aviation (DCA), he had had many valuable experiences.However, the two biggest tragedies that occurred in 2014, that of MH370 and MH17, had the greatest impact on his life, and affected not just t...