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by Martin Van Creveld
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2009

At a time when unprecedented change in international affairs is forcing governments, citizens, and armed forces everywhere to re-assess the question of whether military solutions to political problems are possible any longer, Martin van Creveld has written an audacious searching examination of the...
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by James Davidson Hunter
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 1994

Addressing America's cultural conflict about such issues as abortion, homosexuality, and family values, the author presents a plan in which America can achieve a renewed democracy, despite these differences.
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by Vladimir Tismaneanu
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2000

Reinventing Politics gives an account of East European politics from the time of Soviet domination to the 1989-90 revolutions, and considers the effect of tyranny on East European culture and politics, the chances for successful and harmonious development in the region, and its relationship with the...
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by Brian Burrell
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2011

At one time, this nation held a profound and simple faith in the power of words. Today we have become so engulfed in public cynicism that the whole notion of "words to live by" seems to us impossibly naive. Brian Burrell's splendid collection shows that many of the phrases we once lived by...
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by Jehan Sadat
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2009

From the distinguished educator, international crusader for humanitarian causes, and widow of the Nobel Peace Prize-winner President Anwar Sadat comes a foolproof plan for peace in the Middle East. In 1979, the Camp David Accords, brokered by Jimmy Carter between Israeli Prime Minister Menachem...
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The Whale Warriors

The Battle at the Bottom of the World to Save the Planet's Largest Mammals

by Peter Heller
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2007

Author of the New York Times bestselling novel The Dog Stars For the crew of the eco-pirate ship the Farley Mowat, any day saving a whale is a good day to die. In The Whale Warriors, veteran adventure writer Peter Heller takes us on a hair-raising journey with a vigilante crew on their mission...
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by William C. Davis
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017

All Americans, not just Texans, remember the Alamo. But the siege and brief battle at that abandoned church in February and March 1836 were just one chapter in a much larger story -- larger even than the seven months of armed struggle that surrounded it. Indeed, three separate revolutionary traditions...
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A Season in Bethlehem

Unholy War in a Sacred Place

by Joshua Hammer
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2003

*Newsweek'*s Jerusalem bureau chief Joshua Hammer arrived in the West Bank in October 2000 -- just after Ariel Sharon made his inflammatory visit to the Haram al-Sharif, otherwise known as the Temple Mount. Sharon's trip ignited the worst violence the Middle East had seen in decades. Overnight, the...
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Indecent Secrets

The Infamous Murri Murder Affair

by Christina Vella
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2006

On a hot summer day in Italy in 1902, the brutally stabbed body of Count Francesco Bonmartini was discovered, by means of its decomposing stench, inside his locked apartment. He was a typical Italian provincial aristocrat in all but one way: he had married into a prominent but deeply troubled family....
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8 Men and a Duck

An Improbable Voyage by Reed Boat to Easter Island

by Nick Thorpe
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007

8 Men and a Duck charts the hilarious and unnerving Pacific voyage as it rolls between waves of high drama and high farce: from the five-day launch off a Chilean beach, to the bungled phone call that triggered a naval rescue alert, to the sad fate of Pedro the duck, to the constant race against the...
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by Gerald N. Grob
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 1994

In the first comprehensive one-volume history of the treatment of the mentally ill, the foremost historian in the field compellingly recounts our various attempts to solve this ever-present dilemma from colonial times to the present. Gerald Grob charts the growth of mental hospitals in response...
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Ask a Nurse

From Home Remedies to Hospital Care

by Amer Assoc of Colleges of Nurs
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2001

In the hospital or at the doctor's office, it's the nurses whom patients trust to answer their questions simply, directly, and understandably. So who better to provide inside information about how to manage common health conditions, apply simple home treatments, and make the most of the health care...
Cover of Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiat
by Michael Alan Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2010

The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry presents a new view of psychiatry, melding traditional biologic, neuro-, and descriptive psychiatry into a broad neuropsychiatric approach to diagnosis and treatment. The book relies on insights from basic neuroscience, neuropsychology, behavioral...
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The Mind-Beauty Connection

9 Days to Reverse Stress Aging and Reveal More Youthful, Beautiful Skin

by Dr. Amy Wechsler
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2008

**It's not your age that's causing half of those lines and crinkles. It's your life. Now, Amy Wechsler, MD shows you how to de-stress your skin and take years -- years -- off your face. In 9 days.** Liking the way you look is vital to your health and happiness. But that's not...
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