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This document contains a selection of the records of the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I. The documents contained within this volume were selected to show the development of policy in General Headquarters, A.E.F., as the operations of American troops abroad made necessary...

A compilation of selected documents of the records of the American Expeditionary Forces believed to be essential to a critical study of their operations during World War I.Author: Department of the ArmyISBN-10: 1288234821ISBN-13: 9781288234820Publisher: BibliogovLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/31/2012Pages: 90Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.39lbsSize: 9.69h x 7.44w x...

The United States Government Printing Office (GPO) was created in June 1860, and is an agency of 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 Office...

The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) is a federal freedom of information law that allows for the full or partial disclosure of previously unreleased information and documents controlled by the United States government. The Act defines agency records subject to disclosure, outlines mandatory disclosure...

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 is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

The United States Geological Survey (USGS) is a scientific organization created in 1879, and is part of the U.S. government. Their scientists explore our environment and ecosystems, to determine the natural dangers we are facing. The agency has over 10,000 employees that collect, monitor,...

The purpose of this volume is to examine the effects of spaceflight on society through scholarly research, making use especially of the tools of the historian and the broader social sciences and humanities. Has the Space Age indeed had a significant effect on society?...

The National Park Service (NPS) was formed on August 25, 1916, and is the U.S. federal agency that manages all national parks, many national monuments, and other conservation and historical properties with various title designations. The National Park Service publishes various reports and documents...

The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) is an office that is part of the Cabinet departments and independent agencies of the United States federal government as well as some state and local governments. Each office includes an Inspector General and employees charged with...

The United States Air Force (USAF) is the aerial warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces. The USAF was initially a part of the U.S. Army, but was formed as a separate branch of the military in 1947 under the National Security...

This book aims to extend and deepen conversations among scholars, policymakers, and practitioners about the role of sport in relation to contexts and issues of forced migration. The chapters in this volume critically analyse and interrogate the implications of existing approaches, practices, and research...

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...

Academic Paper from the year 2022 in the subject Politics - Region: Southeastern Europe, grade: v, course: Policy, language: English, abstract: The role of the international community in the Kosovo-Serbia dialogue, before the meeting in the USA between Kosovo and Serbia, was evaluated as...

The book brings academic work on Special Olympics and social inclusion of people with intellectual disabilities, through empirical research and theoretically informed papers. It contributes to participatory approaches to research.Author: Florian KiuppisISBN-10: 1032529555ISBN-13: 9781032529554Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/07/2023Pages: 102Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 9.61h x 6.69w x...

Social scientists have identified a need to move beyond the analysis of correlation among variables to the study of causal mechanisms that link them. Nicholas Weller and Jeb Barnes propose that a solution lies in 'pathway analysis', the use of case studies to explore...

The book is intended to describe America's longing for a more perfect union and its frustration in achieving the metaphorical level playing field where no external influence affects the ability of the players to compete fairly and where all players play by the same...

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the boundaries of the United States and its territories, as well as a detailed outline of the historical changes that affected them. Written by renowned geographer Henry Gannett, with contributions from the United States Geological Survey, this...

The radical interdependence between humans who live together makes virtually all human behavior conditional. The behavior of individuals is conditional upon the expectations of those around them, and those expectations are conditional upon the rules (institutions) and norms (culture) constructed to monitor, reward, and...

This text provides a comprehensive overview of American civics for high school students, academies, and normal schools. It covers a wide range of topics, including the founding principles of the United States, the American legal system, and the structure of government. Samuel Eagle Forman...

The real 'enemies of the innocent' (the vulnerable in society) are the visionaries: those intellectuals, idealists, philosophers and social engineers aiming to destroy traditional values under the guise of an idealogical social justice theory. This penetrating book explores the critical challenges to our society...

Meet 100 of the most powerful and interesting women to lead nations and peoples from around the world. They come from all walks of life as teachers, doctors, lawyers, scientists, biologists, police officers, soccer players and revolutionaries. Many have overcome adversity and all are...

What Dr. Riyad Asvat's book, Sufism, The Living Tradition, did in revealing Shaykh Abdalqadir as-Sufi's paramount influence on the intellectual life of contemporary Islam, his new work, The Political Teachings of Shaykh Dr. Abdalqadir as-Sufi, does in uncovering his perhaps even more important role...

Author: Walter Millis, UnknownISBN-10: 0837157951ISBN-13: 9780837157955Publisher: PraegerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/19/1971Pages: 384Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.55lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.88d

New York Daily News reporter Juan Gonzalez takes as his beat the streets and projects of America's inner cities and the barrios across its southern borders. In these vivid dispatches he reports from the frontline of a social crisis--inside New York and Los Angeles,...

A surprising exploration of the relationship between these two twentieth-century thinkers The transgressive writing of Georges Bataille (1897-1962) and the rigorous ethical philosophy of social activist and Christian mystic Simone Weil (1909-1943) seem to belong to different worlds. Yet in the political ferment of...

This engaging reassessment of postcolonial Kenya argues that the country's political turmoil over the last fifteen years is a continuation of repeating patterns of political contestation and conflict across Kenya's history.When Kibaki stole the 2007 presidential election, leading to a spiral of violence that...

The basic motivation for this book is my lifelong interest in the relationship between political processes and macroeconomic outcomes, especially in the area of monetary policy. Monetary policy is an area where political considerations regularly impact upon economic results. When my fascination with this...

Richard II (1377-1399) was deposed and probably murdered at the end of a dramatic kingship characterized by the struggle between royal authority and the power of the great magnates of the land. Richard faced down the leaders of the Peasant Revolt of 1381 when...

Local Government Administration in Small Town America devotes some overdue scholarly attention to the governance and administration of public programs in small towns and rural communities in the United States.Author: James C. ClingerISBN-10: 1032263288ISBN-13: 9781032263281Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/12/2023Pages: 368Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.15lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w...

Author: Macartan Humphreys, Alan M. JacobsISBN-10: 1316620662ISBN-13: 9781316620663Publisher: Cambridge University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/30/2023Pages: 300Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.52lbsSize: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.89d

Equal opportunity is a widely shared ideal. As Joe Biden put it in his first executive order as president, "equal opportunity is the bedrock of American democracy."But is equal opportunity enough? Does it truly capture the meaning of equality? In a neoliberal age that...

The gangland style slaying if State Senator Warren G. Hooper on January 11, 1945, three days before he was to testify before a grand jury investigating alleged corruption in the Michigan legislature, forced coverage of Allied war triumphs from the state's newspaper headlines. National...

Injustice of the Predatory World: A Book of Essays Ch. 1. The Caste System in America Ch. 2. Broadway musical, EvitaCh. 3. Armenian genocideCh. 4. Genocides of: Yazidi (Iraq); Rohingya (Myanmar); Uighur (China); Tutsi (Rwanda)Ch. 5. Psychodiagnostic Excavation of Donald J. Trump by Henry...

In the four and a half centuries since Machiavelli's death, no single and unanimously accepted interpretation of his ideas has succeeded in imposing itself upon the lively debate over the meaning of his works. Yet there has never been any doubt about the fundamental...

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...

Seminar paper from the year 2020 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Miscellaneous, grade: 1,7, University of Potsdam, language: English, abstract: This paper aims to provide an insight into the current state of the municipal level in Hungary. The Eastern European...

Essay from the year 2017 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Miscellaneous, grade: 1,7, University of Passau, language: English, abstract: Nowadays government administration has become outdated. The paper based administration has become too slow for nowadays speed of services and shows...

Thailand is often called the "Land of Smiles", a nickname which sounds at once pleasant and mysterious. It is said that the Thais have a smile for every emotion, and with so many nuances of smiling, the smile often hides more than it reveals....

This volume works explores a transferable theory of a specific social-psychological infrastructure, based on the work of Dr. Daniel Bar-Tal, that develops from cultures immersed in intractable conflicts. The book's approach to this issue is different from approaches that are predominant in social psychology....

The past 25 years has seen an extraordinary boom in a new kind of cultural complex: the memorial museum. These seek to research, represent, commemorate and teach on the subject of dreadful, violent histories. With World War and Holocaust memorials as precursors, the kinds...

Chesterton's diverse writings include poetry, philosophy, journalism, fantasy, biographies and Christian apologetics. Chesterton was a master of the play on words. The Utopia of Usurers section includes nine essays with topics including labor, advertisement, prisons, a war on Holidays and others. The second section...

In the latter half of the 1970s, the French intellectual Left denounced communism, Marxism, and revolutionary politics through a critique of left-wing totalitarianism that paved the way for today's postmodern, liberal, and moderate republican political options. Contrary to the dominant understanding of the critique...

Bireley explores the anti-Machavellian tradition of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe and the writers who cultivated it, including Giovanni Botero and Justus Lipsius. The tradition produced an international political literature that is immensely important for understanding the Counter-Reformation, Baroque culture, and early modern politics and...

Near the turn of the twentieth century, the territorial government of Alaska put its support behind a project led by Christian missionaries to convert Alaska Native peoples--and, along the way, bring them into "civilized" American citizenship. Establishing missions in a number of areas inhabited...

Walter Lippmann has been widely misrepresented in media and communication scholarship. Classified as a utilitarian and characterized as an antidemocratic adversary of philosopher John Dewey in a legendary debate in the 1920s about the role of the public in modern democracies, Lippmann has been...

Essay from the year 2021 in the subject Politics - Region: Eastern Europe, grade: 1,0, University of Marburg (Institut f? Politikwissenschaft), course: What is Emancipation? Theoretical and Practical Alternatives in Comparative Perspective, language: English, abstract: This essay addresses why Belarusian youth protest against the...

This contributed volume identifies how the information processes of public institutions and citizens have changed throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, within a new context that emerged: the infodemic disorder. Public debate is largely characterized today by a crisis of the legitimacy of institutions, accompanied by...

Seminar paper from the year 2020 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: European Union, grade: 2,0, Helmut Schmidt University - University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg (Politikwissenschaft), course: Political Systems of Central and Eastern Europe, language: English, abstract: The term...

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...

Author: Macartan Humphreys, Alan M. JacobsISBN-10: 1107169623ISBN-13: 9781107169623Publisher: Cambridge University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/30/2023Pages: 300Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.96lbsSize: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.94d