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Advancing Time - "Bringing Into Perspective and Focus the Quickening Pace of Change"Advancing time focuses on how the ever quickening pace of change impacts today's society and the massive challenges it creates. Never before has our world changed so rapidly, it is crucial we understand that we are living in a unique era the likes never...
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The Enterprise of Law: Justice Without the StateIn the minds of many, the provision of justice and security has long been linked to the state. To ask whether non-state institutions could deliver those services on their own, without the aid of coercive taxation and a monopoly franchise, runs the risk of...
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The Voluntary City: Choice, Community, and Civil SocietyAssembling a rich history and analysis of large-scale, private and voluntary, community-based provision of social services, urban infrastructure, and community governance, this book provides suggestions on how to restore the vitality of city life. Historically, the city was considered a center of commerce, knowledge,...
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Strategic Thinking in 3D: A Guide for National Security, Foreign Policy, and Business ProfessionalsEffective strategic thinking requires a clear understanding of one's external environment. Each organization has a unique environment, but as Ross Harrison explains in Strategic Thinking in 3D, any environment--whether in the fields of national security, foreign policy, or business--has three dimensions: systems, opponents, and...
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Imperial Hubris: Why the West Is Losing the War on TerrorAccess a Comprehensive Bibliography Though U.S. leaders try to convince the world of their success in fighting al Qaeda, one member of the U.S. intelligence community would like to inform the public that we are, in fact, losing the war on terror. Further, until...
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Terrorism: The Newest Face of WarfareTerrorism is often depicted as something new and totally alien, a phantom enemy that cannot be understood. But by employing a sophisticated analysis soundly based on an encyclopedic knowledge of military history, Donald J. Hanle shows that three major forms of terrorism--military, revolutionary, and...
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After the Taliban: Nation-Building in AfghanistanIn October 2001, the Bush administration sent Amb. James F. Dobbins, who had overseen nation-building efforts in Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia, and Kosovo, to war-torn Afghanistan to help the Afghans assemble a successor government to the Taliban. From warlords to exiled royalty, from turbaned tribal...
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Red Hot Lies: How Global Warming Alarmists Use Threats, Fraud, and Deception to Keep You MisinformedLiars--Al Gore, the United Nations, the New York Times. The global warming lobby, relentless in its push for bigger government, more spending, and more regulation, will use any means necessary to scare you out of your wits--as well as your tax dollars and your...
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Historic Photos of Oklahoma LawmenOklahoma has a famously violent past and equally famous lawmen who brought peace and order to this once lawless land. Thanks to Oklahoma's relative youth the exploits of many of these lawmen were caught on camera. Historic Photos of Oklahoma Lawmen presents the many...
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The Economic Consequences of Peace"The power to become habituated to his surroundings is a marked characteristic of mankind. Very few of us realise with conviction the intensely unusual, unstable, complicated, unreliable, temporary nature of the economic organisation by which Western Europe has lived for the last half century."...
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Blue Future: Protecting Water for People and the Planet ForeverWater is a human right: "A rousing case for what will be one of the key environmental challenges of the twenty-first century." --Booklist The United Nations has recognized access to water as a basic human right--but there is still much work to be done...
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Iraq and the Lessons of Vietnam: Or, How Not to Learn from the PastEssays by Christian G. Appy, Andrew J. Bacevich, John Prados, and others offer "history at its best, meaning, at its most useful." --Howard Zinn From the launch of the "Shock and Awe" invasion in March 2003 through President George W. Bush's declaration of "Mission...
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Myths of Free Trade: Why American Trade Policy Has FailedThe subject of widespread attention when first released, including the pages of the New York Times Book Review, Myths of Free Trade provides a front-row seat to the Washington spectacle of corporate lobbying and political intimidation that keeps the free-trade mantra alive as American...
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Gun Show Nation: Gun Culture and American DemocracyOn progressive websites and in newspaper columns Gun Show Nation has become part of a lively debate on guns and democracy in America. Burbick gets it, Buzzflash says, she cuts through to the heart of the psychology of guns.Cultural historian, critic, and gun owner...
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Iran: A People InterruptedPraised by leading academics in the field as extraordinary, a brilliant analysis, fresh, provocative and iconoclastic, Iran: A People Interrupted has distinguished itself as a major work that has single-;handedly effected a revolution in the field of Iranian studies. In this provocative and unprecedented...
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Putin on the March: The Russian President's Unchecked Global AdvanceIn his 2016 book coauthored with Evan Roth Smith, Putin's Master Plan, Doug Schoen warned of the Russian president's grand vision to expand his country's influence around the world, especially in Eastern Europe, while destabilizing the Western alliance and delegitimizing the very principles of...
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The People V. the Democratic PartySince the day Aaron Burr, the sitting vice president of the United States, shot and killed Alexander Hamilton, one of the Founding Fathers, the Democratic Party has been at war with America. With a history that includes murder, treason, slavery, segregation, sedition, bribery, and...
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The Unmaking of a MayorJohn V. Lindsay was elected mayor of New York City in 1965. But that year's mayoral campaign will forever be known as the Buckley campaign. "As a candidate," Joseph Alsop conceded, "Buckley was cleverer and livelier than either of his rivals." And Murray Kempton...
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The New Totalitarian Temptation: Global Governance and the Crisis of Democracy in EuropeWhat caused the eurozone debacle and the chaos in Greece? Why has Europe's migrant crisis spun out of control, over the heads of national governments? Why is Great Britain calling a vote on whether to leave the European Union? Why are established political parties...
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Sovereignty or Submission: Will Americans Rule Themselves or Be Ruled by Others?The International Criminal Court claims authority over Americans for actions that the United States does not define as "crimes." In short, the Twenty-First Century is witnessing an epic struggle between the forces of global governance and American constitutional democracy. Transnational progressives and transnational pragmatists...
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