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Fire Fighters: Stories of Survival from the Front Lines of FirefightingFirefighters have long been among the most admired men and women in our culture, and recent events have shown how well-placed that admiration isadding fuel to our innate fascination with stories about fire and the people who risk their lives to fight it. Some...
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Left Hooks, Right Crosses: Highlights from a Decade of Political BrawlingChristopher Hitchens, provocateur and contrarian on the Left, makes the news as often as he reports it, and writes about the most controversial news and current events. Christopher Caldwell is a fresh and objective columnist in the opposite camp. Together, they present the best...
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Mad Forest: A Play from RomaniaBristles with the intelligence and insight of a major writer. -Financial Times Brilliantly ... evoke[s] the mood of a country through snapshot images. -Guardian An act of moral commitment as well as theatrical virtuosity. -London Sunday Times Mad Forest explores the reactions of ordinary...
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Modern IranCovering the period from the early nineteenth century to the present day, Modern Iran: A History in Documents brings together primary sources in translation that shed light on aspects of the political, social, cultural, and intellectual history of modern Iran. It makes use of...
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American Colonialism in Puerto Rico: The Judicial and Social Legacy"This is a brilliant and outstanding book, quite persuasive in the way it interrogates history. Dr. Rivera Ramos performs the immense service of providing a serious discussion of the complexity of Puerto Rican history and political culture as well as a provocative rethinking of...
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The Dominican PeopleThe vanquished Ta no Indians, the Spanish conquistadors, rebellious slaves, common folk, foreign invaders, bloody dictators, gallant heroes, charismatic politicians, and committed rebels -- all have left their distinct imprint on Dominican society and left behind printed records. Nevertheless, the five-hundred-year history of the...
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Abolitionist Politics and the Coming of the Civil WarBefore the Civil War, slaveholders made themselves into the most powerful, most deeply rooted, and best organized private interest group within the United States. Not only did slavery represent the national economy's second largest capital investment, exceeded only by investment in real estate, but...
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Imperial Brotherhood: Gender and the Making of Cold War Foreign PolicyThis provocative book begins with a question about the Vietnam War. How is it, asks Robert D. Dean, that American policymakers-men who prided themselves on "hardheaded pragmatism" and shunned "fuzzy idealism"-could have committed the nation to such a ruinous, costly, and protracted war? The...
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A Modern Arcadia: Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. and the Plan for Forest Hills GardensDesigned to apply the new science of city planning to a suburban setting, Forest Hill Gardens was created to provide housing for commuters to New York City. This history chronicles the creation of the 142-acre development from its inception in 1909 through its first...
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Rethinking the Oceans: Towards the Blue EconomyThe world has come to a crossroads. By the end of this century the total population is expected to exceed ten billion, but the area of land to support this is finite. Indeed, with climate change, some of the most valuable land areas will...
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Shelved: A Memoir of Aging in AmericaSue Petrovski has always been capable, thoughtful, and productive. After retiring from a long and successful career in education, she published two books, ran an antiques business, and volunteered in her community. When her mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease and until her death...
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Titan II: A History of a Cold War Missile ProgramThe Titan II ICBM (intercontinental ballistic missile) program was developed by the United States military to bolster the size, strength, and speed of the nation's strategic weapons arsenal in the 1950s and 1960s. Each missile carried a single warhead--the largest in U.S. inventory--used liquid...
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The New Ministry of Truth: Combat Advisors in Afghanistan and America's Great BetrayalThis is not a book about epic firefights. It's not about battlefield heroics. No one will extract a blockbuster movie from these words. Rather, the purpose of this book is to use the story of a combat advisor's deployment to Afghanistan to illustrate one...
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Standing Tall: My JourneySpencer West is many things. Accomplished speaker. University graduate. Natural prankster. Former cheerleader. And a young man without legs something that has never held him back. Spencer was born without the use of his legs. When he was five, doctors decided to amputate below...
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Oka: A Political Crisis and Its LegacyAuthor: Harry SwainPublisher: Douglas & McIntyrePublished: 08/23/2011Pages: 250Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.25lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.10w x 1.10dISBN: 9781553654292About the AuthorHarry Swain worked in nine federal departments between 1971 and 1995, serving as deputy minister of Indian and Northern Affairs from 1987 to 1992. He is...
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Comparing Federal SystemsAt present there are 24 federations in the world composing a variety of forms and variations, this text provides an analysis of the design and operation of a sample of federations, including the U.S., Australia, Germany, India and Spain.Author: Ronald L. WattsPublisher: School of...
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Sustainable Livelihoods and Rural DevelopmentThe message of Sustainable Livelihoods and Rural Development is clear: livelihood approaches are an essential lens to view questions of rural development, but these questions need to be situated in a better understanding of political economy. Ian Scoones delves into the history of livelihoods...
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Canada in Africa: 300 Years of Aid and ExploitationYves Engler continues his groundbreaking analyses of past and present Canadian foreign policy. The author of The Black Book of Canadian Foreign Policy, and other works that challenge the myth of Canadian benevolence, documents Canadian involvement in the transatlantic slave trade, the "scramble for...
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Anarchism Volume Two: A Documentary History of Libertarian Ideas, Volume Two - The Emergence of a New AnarchismThis collection provides an overview of the thought of the foremost social theorist and political philosopher of the libertarian left today. Best known for introducing ecology as a concept relevant to radical political thought in the early 1960s, Murray Bookchin was the first to...
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Anarchism Volume Three: A Documentary History of Libertarian Ideas, Volume Three - The New AnarchismRobert Graham's trilogy ends with The New Anarchism, which deals with the exciting developments in anarchist theory since the reemergence of social movements in the 1960s and 1970s. In his afterword, Graham surveys the many different currents in anarchist thought documented in all three...
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