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Where Have All the Nurses Gone?: The Impact of the Nursing Shortage on American HealthcareAt 6:30 A.M. a head nurse reviews room assignments and the day's challenges ahead: twenty-nine patients, most of them seriously ill, and four nurses to care for them. That means a barely manageable and potentially risky patient-nurse ratio of seven to one, with one...
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Food for Thought: The Debate Over Eating MeatFor anyone who has ever wondered about the ethics of killing animals for food, this is the definitive collection of essays on the ethical debate. Written by internationally recognized scholars on both sides of the debate, the provocative articles here compiled will give vegetarians...
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Horrors of War: Historical Reality and PhilosophyFrom one of the most prominent nationalist voices in late twentieth-century Europe comes this controversial volume on the persistence of violence from past eras into present-day. Franjo Tudjman was once the face of Croatian democracy and sovereignty-a position complicated by his roles as general,...
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The Pueblo Surrender: A Covert Action by the National Security AgencyIn this fascinating, exhaustively researched reexamination of the 'Pueblo Incident, ' Robert Liston comes to a remarkable conclusion: the Pueblo was purposely surrendered in a secret mission planned by the National Security Agency. The operation was the subject of a total cover-up-from the White...
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Running for Office: The Strategies, Techniques and Messages Modern Political Candidates Need To Win ElectionsThis is your first and last stop for everything you need to know about winning the political game in the modern world of expensive, competitive campaigning.Author: Ronald A. FaucheuxPublisher: M. Evans and CompanyPublished: 05/22/2002Pages: 224Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.95lbsSize: 9.28h x 6.32w x 0.84dISBN: 9781590770108
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The Lifelong Activist: How to Change the World Without Losing Your WayThe Lifelong Activist is a guide to living a joyful and productive life that includes a strong progressive mission. It offers simple and clear instructions that help you figure out the form your authentic life should take, and live that life with a maximum...
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The Shipwrecked Mind: On Political ReactionWe don't understand the reactionary mind. As a result, argues Mark Lilla in this timely book, the ideas and passions that shape today's political dramas are unintelligible to us. The reactionary is anything but a conservative. He is as radical and modern a figure...
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The Hall of Uselessness: Collected EssaysAn NYRB Classics Original Simon Leys is a Renaissance man for the era of globalization. A distinguished scholar of classical Chinese art and literature and one of the first Westerners to recognize the appalling toll of Mao's Cultural Revolution, Leys also writes with unfailing...
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V. I. Lenin On Utopian and Scientific Socialism: Articles and SpeechesAuthor: Vladimir Il'ich LeninPublisher: Fredonia Books (NL)Published: 07/27/2002Pages: 252Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.63dISBN: 9781589639348This title is not returnable
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Cyberspace and National Security: Threats, Opportunities, and Power in a Virtual WorldIn its short history, individuals and companies have harnessed cyberspace to create new industries, a vibrant social space, and a new economic sphere that are intertwined with our everyday lives. At the same time, cyberspace is a somewhat anarchic domain where individuals, sub-national groups,...
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Intelligence and Surprise Attack: Failure and Success from Pearl Harbor to 9/11 and BeyondWhy do surprise attacks-whether from terrorists or from conventional enemies-succeed even when some advance warning frequently seems clear in hindsight? Ever since Pearl Harbor the conventional wisdom has been that surprise attacks succeed because intelligence and national security officials lack the imagination or capacity...
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Intelligence Elsewhere: Spies and Espionage Outside the AnglosphereIntelligence Elsewhere is the first scholarly volume to deal exclusively with the comparative study of national intelligence outside of the Anglosphere and great-power European mainstream. Much of the existing literature on intelligence is heavily focused on the traditional intelligence powers of the ABCA (America-Britain-Canada-Australia)...
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Why Peace Fails: The Causes and Prevention of Civil War RecurrenceWhy does peace after civil war, once it is widely seen as consolidated, often fail to hold? What explains why peace "sticks" after some conflicts while others reignite? This is an important topic because civil wars have resulted in more deaths worldwide than any...
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Learning from the Secret Past: Cases in British Intelligence HistoryIdentifying "lessons learned" is not new--the military has been doing it for decades. However, members of the worldwide intelligence community have been slow to extract wider lessons gathered from the past and apply them to contemporary challenges. Learning from the Secret Past is a...
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The American Revolution: A World WarA new look at the American Revolution: more than the David-versus-Goliath portrayal, it was the very first world war The American Revolutionary War stands as a monument to freedom and democracy the world over. The American Revolution: A World War provides a fuller story...
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The Viet ArcaneThe Viet Arcane is a poetic vision of the Viet Nam War written in the early 1970's. It was inspired by a book by Ren Depestre, A Rainbow for the Christian West, in which a series of poems enacts an invasion by the Vodou...
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Weapon: Mouth Adventures in the Free Speech ZoneWeapon: Mouth Adventures in the Free Speech Zone is a must read for those who enjoy the nonfiction genre of political satire. This is a unique look at the life and times of one of America's last open air speakers, Stoney Burke. Not quite...
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California Norml Guide to Drug TestingCalifornia NORML Guide to Drug Testing is the authorative and indispensable guide to: dealing with drug testing on short notice; drug test detection times; medical marijuana and drug tests; drug tests and DUI, and what's wrong with drug testing. Paul Armentano, deputy director of...
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Forbidden Citizens: Chinese Exclusion and the U.S. Congress: A Legislative History" A]n exemplary subject reference." -- Library Journal "Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates though faculty." -- CHOICE A whole class of people, forbidden from ever becoming citizens . . . forbidden from even entering the country-their rights torn up and trampled on, left with no...
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Understanding America: The Anatomy of an Exceptional NationWhat is America? Is it a hegemonic superpower, composed of ruthlessly selfish capitalists? Or is it a land of hope and glory, a shelter for the huddled masses, and a beacon of freedom and enlightenment? The definition of this complex nation has been debated...
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