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From Kinshasa to Kandahar
Canada and Fragile States in Historical Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
Failed or fragile states are those that are unable or unwilling to provide a socio-political framework for citizens and meet their basic needs. They are a source of terrorism and international crime, as well as incubators of infectious disease, environmental degradation, and unregulated mass migration....
Generals of the Army
Marshall, MacArthur, Eisenhower, Arnold, Bradley
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Formally titled "General of the Army," the five-star general is the highest possible rank awarded in the U.S. Army in modern times and has been awarded to only five men in the nation's history: George C. Marshall, Douglas MacArthur, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Henry H. Arnold, and Omar N. Bradley....
The Complete Immortals Series Boxset
The Immortals Series
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
All four books of The Immortals series in one boxset!
Book One: The Immortals
When demons refuse to play by the rules, all Hell will break loose.
Colin and Anna are sent to Baton Rouge by the Angel with only one directive: keep their past a secret, including their relationship....
Tohopeka
Rethinking the Creek War and the War of 1812
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2012
Tohopeka contains a variety of perspectives and uses a wide array of evidence and approaches, from scrutiny of cultural and religious practices to literary and linguistic analysis, to illuminate this troubled period.
Almost two hundred years ago, the territory that would become Alabama...
by S. M. Dubnow
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The Preface begins: "The author of the present essay, S. M. Dubnow, occupies a well-nigh dominating position in Russian-Jewish literature as an historian and an acute critic. His investigations into the history of the Polish-Russian Jews, especially his achievements in the history of Chassidism, have...
Ethics of Spying
A Reader for the Intelligence Professional
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2005
Intelligence professionals are employees of the government working in a business that some would consider unethical_the business of spying. This book looks at the dilemmas that exist when one is asked to perform a civil service that is in conflict with what that individual believes to be 'ethical.'...
by S. C. M. Paine
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2012
The Wars for Asia, 1911–1949 shows that the Western treatment of World War II, the Second Sino-Japanese War and the Chinese Civil War as separate events misrepresents their overlapping connections and causes. The Chinese Civil War precipitated a long regional war between China and Japan that went...
by Joni Eareckson Tada, Nigel M. de S. Cameron
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2009
Stem-cell research. Cloning. Genetic engineering. Today, discoveries in biotechnology are occurring so rapidly that we can barely begin to address one ethical debate before another looms overhead. This brave new world we’ve entered is a daunting one as well, with disturbing implications for the...
Free Speech On Trial
Communication Perspectives on Landmark Supreme Court Decisions
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2011
Describes landmark free speech decisions of the Supreme Court while highlighting the issues of language, rhetoric, and communication that underlie them.
At the intersection of communication and First Amendment law reside two significant questions: What is the speech we ought to protect, and...
A Place Apart
Monastic Prayer and Practice for Everyone
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 1998
This book demonstrates how the peace and serenity found inside an abbey can be achieved despite the hustle and bustle of today's outside world. A leading American spiritual writer and Trappist monk, Father M. Basil Pennington shows how, step by step, the spirituality of monasticism can be adapted for use in daily life.
by Dave Baxter M.A.S.C.(Life Coach)
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2011
A short and personal look into my work as a Life Coach
Pannonia and Upper Moesia (Routledge Revivals)
A History of the Middle Danube Provinces of the Roman Empire
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
In Pannonia and Upper Moesia, first published1974, András Mócsy surveys the Middle Danube Provinces from the latest pre-Roman Iron Age up to the beginning of the Great Migrations. His primary concern is to develop a general synthesis of the archaeological and historical researches in the Danube...
Explaining Civil Society Development
A Social Origins Approach
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
The civil society sector—made up of millions of nonprofit organizations, associations, charitable institutions, and the volunteers and resources they mobilize—has long been the invisible subcontinent on the landscape of contemporary society. For the past twenty years, however, scholars under the...
by Kenneth S. Rogoff, Carmen M. Reinhart
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 29, 2010
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 29, 2010
«Semplicemente IL libro sulle crisi finanziarie.» Washington Post«Un capolavoro.» Financial Times «Il più importante libro di economia dell’anno.» Wall Street JournalNel corso della Storia, paesi ricchi e paesi poveri hanno contratto debiti e crediti, hanno subìto tracolli e vissuto momenti...