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Lean Logic: A Dictionary for the Future and How to Survive ItLean Logic is David Fleming's masterpiece, the product of more than thirty years' work and a testament to the creative brilliance of one of Britain's most important intellectuals. A dictionary unlike any other, it leads readers through Fleming's stimulating exploration of fields as diverse...
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What We Think about When We Try Not to Think about Global Warming: Toward a New Psychology of Climate ActionWhy does knowing more mean believing--and doing--less? A prescription for change The more facts that pile up about global warming, the greater the resistance to them grows, making it harder to enact measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and prepare communities for the inevitable...
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The Austin-Boston Connection: Five Decades of House Democratic Leadership, 1937-1989For the more than fifty years that Democrats controlled the U.S. House of Representatives, leadership was divided between Massachusetts and Texas. When the Speaker was from Texas (or nearby Oklahoma), the Majority Leader was from the Boston area, and when the Speaker was from...
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The Crime of the Congo by Arthur Conan Doyle, History, AfricaSir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote many more novels, stories and works of nonfiction than the immortal tales of Sherlock Holmes. His interests, also, were broad-ranging. Conan Doyle became outraged upon learning of the abuses of human life that were committed as a result of...
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Family Politics: The Idea of Marriage in Modern Political ThoughtWith crisp prose and intellectual fairness, Family Politics traces the treatment of the family in the philosophies of leading political thinkers of the modern world. What is family? What is marriage? In an effort to address contemporary society's disputes over the meanings of these...
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The Constitution of Religious Freedom: God, Politics, and the First AmendmentIn a time when the question of American religious identity underlies much political conversation that fills the public square, Dennis Goldford directs his readers to consider the First Amendment. The founding fathers' words, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or...
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Religion and Foreign Affairs: Essential ReadingsThe role of religion in foreign policy debates, while never absent, has often been sidelined by popular prejudices and secular demands. The religious resurgence in America and the threat of extremist terrorism abroad have paved the way for a renewed recognition of the necessity...
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The Ethics of Citizenship: Liberal Democracy and Religious ConvictionsOffering the most significant contributions on the topic from leading contemporary scholars, J. Caleb Stanton's carefully edited and organized The Ethics of Citizenship seeks to answer one of the most salient and hotly debated questions of the day: What role, if any, should religion...
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International Religious Freedom Advocacy: A Guide to Organizations, Law, and NGOsThe first resource of its kind, International Religious Freedom Advocacy equips activists and policymakers with an intimate knowledge of the governmental institutions, NGOs, and laws that work to safeguard religious liberties across the world. Beginning with an overview of the international legal protections, these...
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The Tangled Web: The Life and Death of Richard Cain - Chicago Cop and Mafia Hit ManAuthor: Michael J. CainPublisher: Skyhorse PublishingPublished: 04/17/2007Pages: 240Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.03lbsSize: 9.10h x 6.40w x 0.88dISBN: 9781602390447Review Citation(s): Publishers Weekly 03/12/2007 pg. 51Booklist 04/15/2007 pg. 7This title is only available via back order
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Lincoln Speaks to Leaders: 20 Powerful Lessons for Today's Leaders from America's 16th PresidentWhat if you could get leadership advice directly from the man universally recognized as one of America's most admired presidents, Abraham Lincoln himself? And then what if you could hear from a well-known contemporary marketplace leader about functional ways to apply those lessons today?...
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The World As I See ItTo the majority of people Einstein's theory is a complete mystery. Their attitude towards Einstein is like that of Mark Twain towards the writer of a work on mathematics: here was a man who had written an entire book of which Mark could not...
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Two Treatises of GovernmentTwo Treatises of Government is a influential work of political philosophy originally published in 1689 by English philosopher John Locke. This treatise is an attack on patriarchalism and is a sentence-by-sentence refutation of Patriarcha by Robert Filmer. The second treatise outlines the theory of...
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Revolution as Development: The Karen Self-Determination Struggle Against Ethnocracy (1949 - 2004)The Karen Revolution for self-determination has the distinction of being one of the world's longest-running struggles for freedom, having begun in 1949 and continuing to this very moment. This sociological work makes visible how ethnopolitical, petropolitical, geopolitical, and ecosystemic issues affect the political economy...
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Letters from Leaders: Personal Advice for Tomorrow's Leaders from the World's Most Influential PeoplePossibly no one on Earth personally knows as many people at the helms of nations, businesses, religions, charitable organizations, and institutes of learning as Henry O. Dormann--founder, chairman, and editor-in-chief of LEADERS magazine, whose circulation is limited to such leading figures. Here, he brings...
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The Craft of Political Analysis for DiplomatsUntil the recent unauthorized release of thousands of classified State Department cables, public attention was rarely drawn to the frequently outstanding political analysis done by American diplomats abroad. The existing literature on diplomacy has heretofore been limited to memoirs of former diplomats and analyses...
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Iran's Revolutionary Guard: The Threat That Grows While America SleepsSince the Iranian Revolution more than thirty years ago, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), also known as the Revolutionary Guard, has conducted covert and overt military operations, built an economic empire, and trained, financed, and guided terrorists to pursue one goal--the preservation and...
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Rabbi Outcast: Elmer Berger and American Jewish Anti-ZionismDramatic changes have taken place in the last decade with respect to the views of the American Jewish community toward Israel and Zionism. Since the beginning of the Second Intifada in 2000, the involvement of the Israel lobby in precipitating the Iraq War and...
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Jihad Joe: Americans Who Go to War in the Name of IslamThey are Americans, and they are mujahideen. Hundreds of men from every imaginable background have walked away from the traditional American dream to volunteer for battle in the name of Islam. Some have taken part in foreign wars that aligned with U.S. interests, while...
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Saudi Arabia on the Edge: The Uncertain Future of an American AllyOf all the countries in the world that are vital to the strategic and economic interests of the United States, Saudi Arabia is the least understood by the American people. Saudi Arabia's unique place in Islam makes it indispensable to a constructive relationship between...
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