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Blood of Brothers: Life and War in Nicaragua, with New AfterwordIn 1976, at age twenty-five, Stephen Kinzer arrived in Nicaragua as a freelance journalist--and became a witness to history. He returned many times during the years that followed, becoming Latin America correspondent for the Boston Globe in 1981 and joining the foreign staff of...
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From the Puritans to the Projects: Public Housing and Public NeighborsFrom the almshouses of seventeenth-century Puritans to the massive housing projects of the mid-twentieth century, the struggle over housing assistance in the United States has exposed a deep-seated ambivalence about the place of the urban poor. Lawrence J. Vale's groundbreaking book is both a...
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New Deal for the World: America's Vision for Human RightsIn a work of sweeping scope and luminous detail, Elizabeth Borgwardt describes how a cadre of World War II American planners inaugurated the ideas and institutions that underlie our modern international human rights regime. Borgwardt finds the key in the 1941 Atlantic Charter and...
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Ruptured Histories: War, Memory, and the Post-Cold War in AsiaWhat has the end of the Cold War meant for East Asia, and for how its people understand their recent history? These thought-provoking essays explore a vigorously contested area in public culture, the wars of the modern era. All the major East Asian states...
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Time, Space, and Motion in the Age of ShakespeareTheirs was a world of exploration and experimentation, of movement and growth--and in this, the thinkers of the Renaissance, poets and scientists alike, followed their countrymen into uncharted territory and unthought space. A book that takes us to the very heart of the enterprise...
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The Union Divided: Party Conflict in the Civil War NorthIn 1863, Union soldiers from Illinois threatened to march from the battlefield to their state capital. Springfield had not been seized by the Rebels--but the state government was in danger of being captured by the Democrats. In The Union Divided, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Mark...
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Separation of Church and State (Revised)In a powerful challenge to conventional wisdom, Philip Hamburger argues that the separation of church and state has no historical foundation in the First Amendment. The detailed evidence assembled here shows that eighteenth-century Americans almost never invoked this principle. Although Thomas Jefferson and others...
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Cold War and the Color Line: American Race Relations in the Global Arena (Revised)After World War II the United States faced two preeminent challenges: how to administer its responsibilities abroad as the world's strongest power, and how to manage the rising movement at home for racial justice and civil rights. The effort to contain the growing influence...
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The Grabbing Hand: Government Pathologies and Their CuresIn many countries, public sector institutions impose heavy burdens on economic life: heavy and arbitrary taxes retard investment, regulations enrich corrupt bureaucrats, state firms consume national wealth, and the most talented people turn to rent-seeking rather than productive activities. As a consequence of such...
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Rethinking the 1898 Reform Period: Political and Cultural Change in Late Qing ChinaThe nine essays in this volume reexamine the "hundred days" in 1898 and focus particularly on the aftermath of this reform movement. Their collective goal is to rethink the reforms not as a failed attempt at modernizing China but as a period in which...
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Progressive Assault on Laissez Faire: Robert Hale and the First Law and Economics MovementLaw and economics is the leading intellectual movement in law today. This book examines the first great law and economics movement in the early part of the twentieth century through the work of one of its most original thinkers, Robert Hale. Beginning in the...
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Equality of OpportunityJohn Roemer points out that there are two views of equality of opportunity that are widely held today. The first, which he calls the nondiscrimination principle, states that in the competition for positions in society, individuals should be judged only on attributes relevant to...
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ChutzpahThe acclaimed #1 New York Times bestseller, written by a brilliant legal mind, on what it means to be a Jew in America today. Alan Dershowitz discusses the changes they've witnessed, changes they've created, and the changes that must still take place. He examines...
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Ancient Greek DemocracyThis book invites readers to join in a fresh and extensive investigation of one of Ancient Greece's greatest inventions: democratic government. Provides an accessible, up-to-date survey of vital issues in Greek democracy. Covers democracy's origins, growth and essential nature. Raises questions of continuing interest....
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Secret Revolution: Memoirs Of A Spy BossIn the murky world of espionage few rules apply. Everything is permitted in the name of state security - even talking to the country's Enemy No. 1. This is exactly what Ni l Barnard, then head of the National Intelligence Service (NIS), did in...
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A Dictionary of Marxist ThoughtPart dictionary and part encyclopedia, this book has become the standard reference work on the concepts of Marxism and the individuals and schools of thought that have subsequently contributed to the body of Marxist ideas.Author: Tom BottomorePublisher: Wiley-BlackwellPublished: 10/09/1991Pages: 672Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 2.07lbsSize: 9.03h...
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The Last Afrikaner Leaders: A Supreme Test of PowerRespected historian Hermann Giliomee takes a fresh, incisive look at the five last Afrikaner leaders - and how and why their best laid plans went tragically and horrifically wrong.Interviews with ageing former leaders have brought much new information to light. Unexpected and gripping, with...
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China Shakes the World: A Titan's Rise and Troubled Future--And the Challenge for America"Let China sleep, for when she wakes, she will shake the world." Napoleon's words seem eerily prescient today, as the shock waves from China's awakening reverberate around the globe. Award-winning journalist James Kynge takes measure of the tremors made as China's ravenous hunger for...
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Free People from Mental Slavery (Vol. 1)This book is based on a true story experienced by the author in his life. Paseka was apprehended and sentenced to three years' imprisonment for a crime he did not commit. His legal proceeding was unfairly litigated. He was not assumed to be innocent...
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Why Your Father's a Republican: ...And You Should Be Too!For the most part our children spend the entire school day being taught by liberal leaning educators. We want them to believe what they are taught about math and science but do we want them to believe revisionist history or slanted beliefs on social...
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