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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you...

Debra Rog and John Buckner report that since the mid-1990s, there has been continued research and policy interest in understanding the characteristics and needs of families and children who become homeless, especially in understanding the heterogeneity within the population and whether a "typology" of...

This monograph presents the complex story of Army transportation in a theater environment for the use of the Transportation Corps in planning future operations, procurement, and training, and for the general information of military authorities. It details the transportation in the theater and its...

This monograph presents the complex story of Army transportation in a theater environment for the use of the Transportation Corps in planning future operations, procurement, and training, and for the general information of military authorities. It details the transportation in the theater and its...

Fishery policy, guided by the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (MSFCMA), originally focused on mandates to identify fisheries, encourage underdeveloped fisheries, and establish databases for socioeconomic variables. Since that time, new issues have emerged, including a recognition of the need to identify, measure,...

The following report covers Japanese land operations during the first 6 months of the war and was written by a military observer at the American Embassy in Tokyo. This information is culled from official Japanese sources; official bulletins, news reports, speeches, radio, magazines, and...

The following report covers Japanese land operations during the first 6 months of the war and was written by a military observer at the American Embassy in Tokyo. This information is culled from official Japanese sources; official bulletins, news reports, speeches, radio, magazines, and...

The Naval War College Review was established in 1948 and is a forum for discussion of public policy matters of interest to the maritime services. The forthright and candid views of the authors are presented for the professional education of the readers. Articles published...

This study covers the pursuit of the defeated Turks after the battle, and was it conducted in accordance with accepted methods and principles of a pursuit and what was accomplished by the pursuit.Author: Clark KittrellISBN-10: 1288297122ISBN-13: 9781288297122Publisher: BibliogovLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/13/2012Pages: 30Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.16lbsSize: 9.69h...

The United States Government Printing Office (GPO) was created in June 1860, and is an agency of the the U.S. federal government based in Washington D.C. The office prints documents produced by and for the federal government, including Congress, the Supreme Court, the Executive...

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was introduced on December 2, 1970 by President Richard Nixon. The agency is charged with protecting human health and the environment, by writing and enforcing regulations based on laws passed by Congress. The EPA's struggle to protect health...

The BiblioGov Project is an effort to expand awareness of the public documents and records of the U.S. Government via print publications. In broadening the public understanding of government and its work, an enlightened democracy can grow and prosper. Ranging from historic Congressional Bills...

The BiblioGov Project is an effort to expand awareness of the public documents and records of the U.S. Government via print publications. In broadening the public understanding of government and its work, an enlightened democracy can grow and prosper. Ranging from historic Congressional Bills...

The BiblioGov Project is an effort to expand awareness of the public documents and records of the U.S. Government via print publications. In broadening the public understanding of government and its work, an enlightened democracy can grow and prosper. Ranging from historic Congressional Bills...

The BiblioGov Project is an effort to expand awareness of the public documents and records of the U.S. Government via print publications. In broadening the public understanding of government and its work, an enlightened democracy can grow and prosper. Ranging from historic Congressional Bills...

The Kingship Of Mt. Lassen is a book written by Mrs. Frederick H. Colburn and published in 1922. It is a historical account of the region around Mt. Lassen, a volcanic peak located in Northern California. The book covers the natural history of the...

An old social phenomenon known today as "cancel culture" is largely responsible for America's incessantly high crime, incarceration, and recidivism rates. It began with the unreasonable discrimination and disenfranchisement of virtually all ex-prisoners being enshrined into national law by the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth...

Nearly two centuries after his death, Thomas Jefferson continues to be the subject of competing claims about his public policy and his private beliefs.In Getting Jefferson Right: Fact Checking Claims About Thomas Jefferson, two conservative scholars examine key claims frequently made by religious conservatives...

John Kiyaga-Nsubuga focuses on Yoweri Museveni and his National Resistance Movement regime's attempt to bring peace to Uganda. John Prendergast and Mark Duffield look at Ethiopia's long civil war and the role of liberation politics and external engagement. Bruce Jones studies the ethnic roots...

Is Habermas's concept of the public sphere still relevant in an age of globalization, when the transnational flows of people and information have become increasingly intensive and when the nation-state can no longer be taken granted as the natural frame for social and political...

The Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States guarantees that all citizens have the right to vote without regard to their "race, color, or previous condition of servitude." For almost a century the Fifteenth Amendment was a dead letter. Throughout the South...

This book explains how postwar Japan managed to achieve a highly egalitarian form of capitalism despite meager social spending. Estevez-Abe develops an institutional, rational-choice model to solve this puzzle. She shows how Japan's electoral system generated incentives that led political actors to protect, if...

Attempts to construct resilient democracies have been as pervasive as reversals have been cruel in Latin America. Based on a wealth of original historical documents and contemporary interviews, this volume analyzes five centuries of political history through paradigmatic examples of outstanding democratic success and...

This comprehensive overview of the political role of the Russian military (from Peter the Great's time in 1689 to the present) reveals why Russia has not experienced a successful military coup in over two centuries. Including materials from archives and interviews, the book covers...

The authors examine the emergence of nationalism among the Egyptian middle class during the l930s and l940s, and its growing awareness of an Arab and Muslim identity. The authors demonstrate how the growth of an urban middle class, combined with economic and political failures...

The "Gorbachev phenomenon" is seen as the product of complex developments during the last seventy years-developments that changed the Soviet Union from a primarily agrarian society into an urban, industrial one. Here, for the first time, a noted authority on Soviet society identifies the...

Helsing provides a unique perspective on the escalation of the Vietnam War. He examines what many analysts and former policymakers in the Johnson administration have acknowledged as a crucial factor in the way the United States escalated in Vietnam: Johnson's desire for both guns...

Throughout the Middle East, Islamist charities and social welfare organizations play a major role in addressing the socioeconomic needs of Muslim societies, independently of the state. Through case studies of Islamic medical clinics in Egypt, the Islamic Center Charity Society in Jordan, and the...

When news of the O. J. Simpson verdict swept across the United States, a nation stood divided as blacks and whites reacted differently to the decision. Seldom has the racial division that permeates our society come so clearly and prominently into view. Divided by...

How partisan politics lead to the Civil War What brought about the Civil War? Leading historian Michael F. Holt convincingly offers a disturbingly contemporary answer: partisan politics. In this brilliant and succinct book, Holt distills a lifetime of scholarship to demonstrate that secession and...

Bringing together political, diplomatic, economic, cultural, and contemporary history, this book explores why and how European integration came to pass. It tells a fascinating story of ideals and realpolitik, political dreams and geographical realities, and planning and chaos. Mathieu Segers reveals that the roots...

Bunyan Bryant grew up in a poor neighborhood in Little Rock, Arkansas, where the streets were unpaved and where Blacks like him had to step aside when a white person walked by. By the time he was in high school, his family had moved...

"How are things here, you ask. Things here are past insane." In The End of Israel, acclaimed journalist Bradley Burston's dispatches for Haaretz newspaper trace the deep roots of the horrific Israel-Hamas war, exploring how the country could have chosen a different path, and...

A net exodus of Americans from blue to red states has been in progress for several years now. This is largely a southbound movement, and perhaps some migrants are "running from the cold up in New England," as the song goes. But mostly they...

This groundbreaking research delves into the intricate relationship between ethnic diaspora communities and traumatic events in their homelands, exploring how these events serve as catalysts for mobilization in support of co-ethnic separatist movements. The study aims to unravel the nuanced perceptions and responses within...

This collection brings together innovative historical work on race and national identity in Latin America and the Caribbean and places this scholarship in the context of interdisciplinary and transnational discussions regarding race and nation in the Americas. Moving beyond debates about whether ideologies of...

This book, originally published in 1982, is an examination of antebellum abolitionism in the United States. Professor Friedman studies the abolitionists as individuals, delving into the psychology, sociology and group dynamics of the movement. He examines those 'immediatists' who, in contrast to gradualist circles...

This book ties together the current revolutionary American motion, which is sweeping the country, with the events of Russia, immediately before the Russian Revolution of November 7, 1917. The Russian insurrection is covered, in which the working people were first made aware of themselves...

Racism is generally defined as a person of one race exhibiting superiority over a person of another race. The fallout of such behavior can range from disrespect to intimidation to outright violence. Why does this happen, and what would it take to prevent and...

The second in a series of books standing against Trump, Trumpism, Trumpsters, Republicans, traitors, fascists and all configurations of the aforementioned.Author: Richard Neil GrahamISBN-10: 0983406073ISBN-13: 9780983406075Publisher: R. R. BowkerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/14/2020Pages: 208Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.63lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.44d

Exchanges from the early 1960s and from today on the relevance of the political and economic perspectives defended by Ernesto Che Guevara.Author: Carlos Rafael Rodriguez, Ernesto Che Guevara, Mary-Alice WatersISBN-10: 0873486439ISBN-13: 9780873486439Publisher: New InternationalLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/1991Pages: 271Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.54lbsSize: 8.29h x 5.29w x 0.55d

Following from Fish for Life - Interactive Governance for Fisheries (Kooiman et al., 2005), which presents an interdisciplinary and intersectoral approach to the governance of capture and aquaculture fisheries, this volume pursues what interactive governance theory and the governability perspective contribute to the resolution...

Charles Dickens' brilliant comic adventure of a lamplighter, Tom Grig, who is called into the house of an eccentric astronomer who is searching for the philosopher's stone. He declares that the stars have foretold that Tom will marry the astronomer's niece and inherit the...

Is this book science fiction, prophecy, or a real practical plan for a wonderful new future? Whatever it is it's a profound and revolutionary new vision of an ideal Earth, and how it might actually be achieved. The Smart Planet reveals a detailed plan...

"Criminal Sociology" from Enrico Ferri. Enrico Ferri (1856-1929) was an Italian criminologist, socialist and student of Cesare Lombroso, the founder of the Italian school of criminology.Author: The Perfect Library, Enrico FerriISBN-10: 1514206064ISBN-13: 9781514206065Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/03/2015Pages: 172Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.52lbsSize: 9.02h x...

This dictionary will help citizens understand politicians and others who speak a language similar to English but with different meanings for the words and phrases. The book is both entertaining and informative.Do you think your representative or senator speaks English? Nope. What he speaks...

The State of the Union is the annual address presented by the President of the United States to the United States Congress. The address not only reports on the condition of the nation but also allows presidents to outline their legislative agenda (for which...

Introduction. 1. Cultural, Political and Geographical Context. 2. Women Seeking Asylum. 3. Human Trafficking. 4. Women and Global Labour Mobility. 5. Cultures of Border Policing Agencies. 6. States, the Law and Social Control. Conclusion.Author: Sharon PickeringISBN-10: 1441902708ISBN-13: 9781441902702Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/21/2010Pages: 133Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.88lbsSize:...