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Undoing the Damage: Repairing a Broken School District is a book that portrays the struggles of public education in the US by telling the story of a small urban public school district facing closure by the state's Department of Education based on its academic...

"American Army Doctrine for the Post-Cold War"is an important record of how the Army and its Training and Doctrine Command developed the post-Cold War military operational doctrine in response to the geopolitical shift that introduced a new strategic era. John L. Romjue methodically details...

Imad Mughniyeh was born in 1962 in the Lebanese Shi'ite village of Tayr Dibba to a poor family of olive and lemon harvesters. He moved to Beirut as a child and despite his religious affiliation, he became active in the predominantly Sunni Palestinian al-Fatah...

This book is a good historical reference to electrical design. The book contains illustrations and may have some typos.Author: William Henry MeadowcroftISBN-10: 1522950923ISBN-13: 9781522950929Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/28/2015Pages: 74Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.24lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.15d

"The Way We Civilise" from Carl Adolf Feilberg. Political commentator and newspaper editor in Queensland in his time (1844-1887).Author: The Perfect Library, Carl Adolf FeilbergISBN-10: 1522828591ISBN-13: 9781522828594Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/18/2015Pages: 100Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.32lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.21d

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Author: Joseph ZompettiISBN-10: 1516554396ISBN-13: 9781516554393Publisher: Cognella Academic PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/14/2017Pages: 464Format: HardcoverWeight: 2.24lbsSize: 10.00h x 7.00w x 1.00d

"The Right to Privacy" from Louis Brandeis. Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (1856-1941).Author: The Perfect Library, Louis BrandeisISBN-10: 1515042375ISBN-13: 9781515042372Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/11/2015Pages: 34Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.13lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.07d

Author: Mehran RiazatyISBN-10: 1514470322ISBN-13: 9781514470329Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/11/2016Pages: 600Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.91lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.33d

"Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin Written by Himself - Volume II" from Benjamin Franklin. Author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat (1706-1790).Author: The Perfect Library, Benjamin FranklinISBN-10: 1512033251ISBN-13: 9781512033250Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/04/2015Pages: 186Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.56lbsSize: 9.02h...

"Personal Memoirs of Grant" from Ulysses Grant. 18th President of the United States (1822-1885).Author: The Perfect Library, Ulysses GrantISBN-10: 1511741341ISBN-13: 9781511741347Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/14/2015Pages: 556Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.62lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 1.13d

"The Duke of Stockbridge" from Edward Bellamy. American author and socialist (1850-1898).Author: The Perfect Library, Edward BellamyISBN-10: 1511666277ISBN-13: 9781511666275Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/09/2015Pages: 254Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.76lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.53d

Various carbon products are traded in the United States, but volumes have been small compared to other commodity markets. The products traded include carbon allowances, which entitle the holder to emit a specific amount of a greenhouse gas, and carbon offsets, which are measurable...

Author: Vladimir Il'ich LeninISBN-10: 1589639340ISBN-13: 9781589639348Publisher: Fredonia Books (NL)Language: EnglishPublished: 07/27/2002Pages: 252Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.63d

Author: Calvin CoolidgeISBN-10: 1589635388ISBN-13: 9781589635388Publisher: Fredonia Books (NL)Language: EnglishPublished: 09/01/2001Pages: 432Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.95lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 1.10d

Essays describing the legal profession in the common law world.Author: Richard L. AbelISBN-10: 1587982641ISBN-13: 9781587982644Publisher: Beard BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/1988Pages: 420Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.35lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.93d

At the dawn of the twenty-first century, three ideas dominate the world: peace as the preferred basis for relations between and among different countries, democracy as the optimal way to organize political life, and free markets as the indispensable vehicle for the creation of...

Patriotic Texans have long sung the praises of their revolutionary heroes, such as Stephen F. Austin and Sam Houston. Some historians have even contributed their own encomiums, while others have cast a less romantic gaze upon Texas' past. But a complete, scholarly analysis of...

The most advanced and celebrated mind of the 20th Century, without a doubt, is attributed to Albert Einstein. Instead of his hard science and advanced mathematical theories, which often go far beyond the minds of average people, this book allows us to meet him...

Walter Laqueur has been writing and teaching for over six decades, primarily in the fields of twentieth century history and politics, always as a shrewd and thoughtful generalist in an age of specialization. In this engaging memoir, Laqueur focuses on the political and historical...

Winner of the first Paul A. Baran-Paul M. Sweezy Memorial Award for an original monograph concerned with the political economy of imperialism, John Smith's Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century is a seminal examination of the relationship between the core capitalist countries and the rest...

Your Time Is Done Now tells the story of the Maroons (runaways slaves) of Dominica and their allies through the transcripts of trials held in 1813 and 1814 during the Second Maroon War. Using the evidence to explain how the Maroons waged war against...

"Globalization," surely one of the most used and abused buzzwordsof recent decades, describes a phenomenon that is typicallyconsidered to be a neutral and inevitable expansion of marketforces across the planet. Nearly all economists, politicians, businessleaders, and mainstream journalists view globalization as thenatural result of...

America's latest war, according to renowned social critic Henry Giroux, is a war on youth. While this may seem counterintuitive in our youth-obsessed culture, Giroux lays bare the grim reality of how our educational, social, and economic institutions continually fail young people. Their systemic...

America's latest war, according to renowned social critic Henry Giroux, is a war on youth. While this may seem counterintuitive in our youth-obsessed culture, Giroux lays bare the grim reality of how our educational, social, and economic institutions continually fail young people. Their systemic...

Reclaiming the Ivory Tower examines the situation of adjunct professors in U.S. higher education today, describes the process of organizing them to improve their conditions of work, and puts forward an agenda around which adjunct labor can mobilize and transform the universities.In the last...

"Césaire's essay stands as an important document in the development ofthird world consciousness--a process in which [he] played a prominentrole." --Library Journal This classic work, firstpublished in France in 1955, profoundly influenced the generation ofscholars and activists at the forefront of liberation struggles inAfrica,...

SECDEF offers an expert's insights into one of the most difficult jobs in Washington. Of the twenty-one men who have held the post of secretary of defense since it was created in 1947, only half served more than eighteen months. The first, James Forrestal,...

Winner of the Crader Family Book Prize, 2016. Winner of the Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Award, 2014 Selected by General Raymond Odierno, 38th Army Chief of Staff, for the U.S. Army Chief of Staff's Professional Reading List, February 2014.Pacific Blitzkrieg closely examines the...

With a journalist's eye for revealing detail, Robert Shogan traces the 1954 Army-McCarthy Senate hearings and analyzes television's impact on government. Despite McCarthy's fall, Mr. Shogan points out, the hearings left a major item of unfinished business--the issue of McCarthyism, the strategy based on...

First Published in 1994. Writing as a unified team, the authors, three French economists--they insist they are economists, not economic historians, though they are steeped in the monetary, financial, economic, social, and political history of Europe in the sixteenth century--have written a fascinating account...

Underlying current controversies about environmental regulation are shared concerns, divided interests and different ways of thinking about the earth and our proper relationship to it. This book brings together writings on nature and environment that illuminate thought and action in this realm.Author: Victor ZaslavskyISBN-10:...

Alfred Crosby almost alone redirected the attention of historians to ecological issues that were important precisely because they were global. In doing so, he answered those who believed that world history had become impossible as a consequence of the post-war proliferation of new historical...

The Islamic state is not a dream, nor is it a figment of the imagination, for it had dominated and influenced history for more than thirteen hundred years. It was indeed a reality which provided the most successful system for society - political, economic,...

The second edition of this book has added content on leadership. Specifically, the leadership tactics of one of the worlds most powerful and dangerous cult leaders, Charles Manson. This book deals with the art and science of protecting and promoting your own interests. It...

How can we agree to disagree in today's pluralistic society, one in which individuals and groups are becoming increasingly polarized by fierce convictions that are often at odds with the ideas of others? Civil Disagreement: Personal Integrity in a Pluralistic Society shows how we...

In the vast literature on the Vietnam War, much has been written about the antiwar movement and its influence on U.S. policy and politics. In this book, Sandra Scanlon shifts attention to those Americans who supported the war and explores the war's impact on...

American President James Madison warned: "History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, deceit and violent means possible to maintain their control over government by controlling money and its issuance." Few people are aware of how the money system is...

In the 21st century, amid converging global political, social, and economic forces we are questioning the fundamental values we hold true, driven by an antagonism between different schools of philosophy--between left- and right-wing politics. This book provides a comprehensive analysis of western political philosophy...

According to international statistics, the world is currently undergoing one of the largest refugee catastrophes in modern history. This humanitarian crisis has stimulated the mobilization of countless private and public rescue and relief efforts. Yet, deep-seated concerns over potential breaches of national security and...

At present the battle over who defines our future is being waged most publicly by secular and religious fundamentalists. Hope and the Longing for Utopia offers an alternative position, disclosing a conceptual path toward potential worlds that resist a limited view of human potential...

David Hume (born David Home; 7 May 1711 NS (26 April 1711 OS) - 25 August 1776) was a Scottish Enlightenment philosopher, historian, economist, and essayist, who is best known today for his highly influential system of philosophical empiricism, scepticism, and naturalism. Hume's empiricist...

The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919) is a book published by John Maynard Keynes. Keynes attended the Versailles Conference as a delegate of the British Treasury and argued for a much more generous peace. It was a best seller throughout the world and...

Natural Law in the Spiritual World is a collection of essays not originally intended for publication but rather to help the writer get things clear in his own mind.Although written from the point of view of someone in the pay of a Scottish Presbyterian...

Natural Law in the Spiritual World is a collection of essays not originally intended for publication but rather to help the writer get things clear in his own mind.Although written from the point of view of someone in the pay of a Scottish Presbyterian...

The Roswell Report: Fact Versus Fiction in the New Mexico Desert is the first of two reports discussing the supposed crash landing of an alien aircraft in Roswell, New Mexico, in the summer of 1947. Colonel Richard L. Weaver and First Lieutenant James McAndrew,...

By the early 1900s, the Ottoman Empire was beginning to dissolve. Upon seeing this weakness, Germany set its own plans into action in the capital of Constantinople-to bring the vast Turkish Empire under its control. In this book, American statesman HENRY MORGENTHAU SR. (1856-1946)...

by the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking and Currency It reads like a news report from 2009, not 1929: investment practices that favored rich insiders, collusion between Wall Street and Washington DC, the repackaging of bad loans to get them off the books of...

This book is about Nature, Man and Life; about wisdom of Nature and arrogance of Man pretending to be wiser than Nature; about Life-faking fantasies of Man called socialism; and about socialist ideals of economic equality, altruism and "rejuvenation" of human nature. This book...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the...