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The Seventies

The Great Shift in American culture, Society, and Politics

By: Bruce J. Schulman

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The Seventies

The Great Shift in American culture, Society, and Politics

By: Bruce J. Schulman

Most of us think of the 1970s as an "in-between" decade, the uninspiring years that happened to fall between the excitement of the 1960s and the Reagan Revolution. A kitschy period summed up as the "Me Decade," it was the time of Watergate and the end of Vietnam, of malaise and gas lines, but of nothing revolutionary, nothing with long-lasting significance. In the first full history of the period, Bruce Schulman, a rising young cultural and political historian, sweeps away misconception after misconception about the 1970s. In a fast-paced, wide-ranging, and brilliant reexamination of the decade's politics, culture, and social and religious upheaval, he argues that the Seventies were one of the most important of the postwar twentieth-century decades. The Seventies witnessed a profound shift in the balance of power in American politics, economics, and culture, all driven by the vast growth of the Sunbelt. Country music, a southern silent majority, a boom in "enthusiastic" religion, and southern California New Age movements were just a few of the products of the new demographics. Others were even more profound: among them, public life as we knew it died a swift death. The Seventies offers a masterly reconstruction of high and low culture, of public events and private lives, of Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Evel Knievel, est, Nixon, Carter, and Reagan. From The Godfather and Network to the Ramones and Jimmy Buffett; from Billie jean King and Bobby Riggs to Phyllis Schlafly and NOW; from Proposition 13 to the Energy Crisis; here are all the names, faces, and movements that once filled our airwaves, and now live again. The Seventies is powerfully argued, compulsively readable, and deeply provocative.

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Simon and Schuster

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0743219481

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9780743219488

Richard B. Cheney and the Rise of the Imperial Vice Presidency

By: Bruce P. Montgomery

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Richard B. Cheney and the Rise of the Imperial Vice Presidency

By: Bruce P. Montgomery

On taking office in 2001, Dick Cheney crowned himself the first imperial vice president in the nation's history, transforming a traditionally inconsequential office into a de facto fourth branch of government. Taking a less journalistic and personal approach to Cheney than previous biographers, this critical new biography shows exactly how Cheney engineered his arrogation of vast executive powers—and the dire consequences his power grab has had and will long continue to have for the office of the vice presidency, the balance of powers, the Constitution, geopolitics, and America's security, strength, and prestige. Taking advantage of the administration's global war on terrorism, a president inexperienced in matters of war and peace, and a Republican Congress that rated party power above institutional prerogatives, Vice President Cheney moved with astonishing speed and energy to assume a dominant role on the national and international stage as the effective president-in-proxy of the United States. Cheney asserted that all constitutional checks and balances and all individual liberties under the Bill of Rights are subservient to the president's powers as commander-in-chief in confronting international terrorism. Although former administrations had made power grabs in the past in times of national crisis, no president-and certainly no vice president-has ever exerted such sweeping claims of executive power on so many fronts in violation of the bedrock principles of the Constitution.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313356211

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Kings and Presidents

Saudi Arabia and the United States since FDR

By: Bruce Riedel

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Kings and Presidents

Saudi Arabia and the United States since FDR

By: Bruce Riedel

An insider's account of the often-fraught U.S.-Saudi relationship Saudi Arabia and the United States have been partners since 1943, when President Roosevelt met with two future Saudi monarchs. Subsequent U.S. presidents have had direct relationships with those kings and their successors—setting the tone for a special partnership between an absolute monarchy with a unique Islamic identity and the world's most powerful democracy. Although based in large part on economic interests, the U.S.-Saudi relationship has rarely been smooth. Differences over Israel have caused friction since the early days, and ambiguities about Saudi involvement—or lack of it—in the September 11 terrorist attacks against the United States continue to haunt the relationship. Now, both countries have new, still-to be-tested leaders in President Trump and King Salman. Bruce Riedel for decades has followed these kings and presidents during his career at the CIA, the White House, and Brookings. This book offers an insider's account of the U.S.-Saudi relationship, with unique insights. Using declassified documents, memoirs by both Saudis and Americans, and eyewitness accounts, this book takes the reader inside the royal palaces, the holy cities, and the White House to gain an understanding of this complex partnership.

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Brookings Institution Press

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0815737165

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The Inception of Modern Professional Education

C. C. Langdell, 1826-1906

By: Bruce A. Kimball

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The Inception of Modern Professional Education

C. C. Langdell, 1826-1906

By: Bruce A. Kimball

Christopher C. Langdell (1826-1906) is one of the most influential figures in the history of American professional education. As dean of Harvard Law School from 1870 to 1895, he conceived, designed, and built the educational model that leading professional schools in virtually all fields subsequently emulated. In this first full-length biography of the educator and jurist, Bruce Kimball explores Langdell's controversial role in modern professional education and in jurisprudence. Langdell founded his model on the idea of academic meritocracy. According to this principle, scholastic achievement should determine one's merit in professional life. Despite fierce opposition from students, faculty, alumni, and legal professionals, he designed and instituted a formal system of innovative policies based on meritocracy. This system's components included the admission requirement of a bachelor's degree, the sequenced curriculum and its extension to three years, the hurdle of annual examinations for continuation and graduation, the independent career track for professional faculty, the transformation of the professional library into a scholarly resource, the inductive pedagogy of teaching from cases, the organization of alumni to support the school, and a new, highly successful financial strategy. Langdell's model was subsequently adopted by leading law schools, medical schools, business schools, and the schools of other professions. By the time of his retirement as dean at Harvard, Langdell's reforms had shaped the future model for professional education throughout the United States.

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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0807889962

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9780807889961

A Planters' Republic

The Search for Economic Independence in Revolutionary Virginia

By: Bruce A. Ragsdale

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A Planters' Republic

The Search for Economic Independence in Revolutionary Virginia

By: Bruce A. Ragsdale

This exciting reinterpretation of the path to Revolution follows Virginia planters' attempts to break with England and shows how their grassroots effort at self-sufficiency solidified into political resistance, war, and independence.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0945612400

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9780945612407

Bluegrass Breaks: Guitar

23 Bluegrass Guitar Solos

By: Dix Bruce

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Bluegrass Breaks: Guitar

23 Bluegrass Guitar Solos

By: Dix Bruce

Welcome to Bluegrass Breaks: Guitar! This book is a collection of 23 guitar solos or breaks plus 16 introductions or kickoffs in a range of styles and levels of difficulty. The solos are aimed at advanced beginner to intermediate guitarists looking to expand their repertoire of lead guitar solos. All the solos are recorded in split-track format at two speeds and are available online. This book includes: Easy Carter-style solos with the melody played on the bass strings, punctuated by chord strums.More advanced Carter-style solos with hammer-ons, pull-offs, slides and more. Hot flatpicking solos with lots of eighth notes, played with up and down picking. Essential fiddle tunes for every modern bluegrass lead guitar player. Crosspicking solos played with two different crosspicking patterns. Solos using the real dropped D and the faux dropped D tunings.A variety of kickoffs, generic and for specific songs. Extensive notes on the breaks and the techniques used to play them.The breaks in this book are based on are some of the most performed bluegrass, old-time, and gospel songs - songs that you're sure to hear played at jam sessions, picking parties and on stage. Includes access to online audio

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Mel Bay Publications

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1619115344

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History, Mystery, and Hauntings of Southern Illinois

By: Bruce L. Cline,Lisa A. Cline

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History, Mystery, and Hauntings of Southern Illinois

By: Bruce L. Cline,Lisa A. Cline

At long last, the archives of the Little Egypt Ghost Society and the Gaslight Ghoul Club have been opened. Within these pages, uncover the secrets behind some of southern Illinois' most famous ghost stories and legends. Bruce and Lisa Cline expose the truth behind the Murphysboro Mud Monster, present evidence of paranormal activity at places such as the Rose Hotel, Oakland Cemetery, and Harrisburg's Cinema 4, and explain the history behind some of southern Illinois' most controversial and eccentric figures. From the Old Slavehouse, to the Rose Hotel, to the Woodlawn Sarcophagus and beyond, join the Little Egypt Ghost Society as they explore some of Illinois' oldest and most interesting places!

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BLACK OAK MEDIA INC

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0979040116

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The Mass Marketing of Politics

Democracy in an Age of Manufactured Images

By: Bruce I. Newman

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The Mass Marketing of Politics

Democracy in an Age of Manufactured Images

By: Bruce I. Newman

Bruce I. Newman tells us briskly, firmly what our instincts also tell us: We are mass marketing images rather than providing real leadership. --Paul Simon, Former U.S. Senator, Public Policy Institute, Southern Illinois University "Gatorade and Coke do it, so do candidates for high office—they manufacture images and manipulate reality to win our favor. In this insightful and compelling study, Bruce I. Newman demonstrates what politicians and interest groups are doing to us and what we need to do to strengthen our democracy." --Dennis W. Johnson, Associate Dean, George Washington University "Bruce Newman has written an incisive account of the role that marketing plays in contemporary politics. He argues persuasively that mass marketing techniques are profoundly changing and corroding American politics. His book provides an enlightful analysis of the ways in which marketers have transformed the presidential election." --Richard M. Perloff, author of Political Communication: Politics, Press and Public in America "This book is a must read for anyone concerned about the growing trend of sound bite over substance, willful manipulation of the media over honest engagement of the American Public." --David Wilhelm, Former Chair of the Democratic National Committee "While marketing has led to better quality in most markets, we are beginning to have serious doubts about what is doing to the quality of political life. Bruce Newman raises serious questions about whether anyone of merit can get elected today without the support of expensive and sophisticated marketing machinery." --Philip Kotler, S.C. Johnson & Son Distinguished Professor of International Marketing, Northwestern University Marketing, not ideology, drives America′s contemporary political system, with an emphasis on image over substance, personality over issues, and 30-second sound bites over meaningful dialogue. Through the use of carefully crafted messages meant to manipulate voter thinking, the same marketing tactics used by Fortune 500 companies is shaping public opinion. The Mass Marketing of Politics details how marketing tactics are being used to determine public opinion, win votes, and shape public policy in the White House and Congress. The book points out the pitfalls of relying too heavily on marketing as a campaign and governance tool and offers solutions to fix our political system before it is too late. Bruce I. Newman is the author of The Marketing of the President (Sage, 1993) and the forthcoming Handbook of Political Marketing. He has served as a communication advisor to top White House officials and has written widely on the subject of political marketing in both scholarly and popular media. The Mass Marketing of Politics is provocative and essential reading for anyone interested in American politics, marketing, political communication, and media studies.

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SAGE Publications

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1452263647

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Conflict and the Practice of the Christian Faith

The Anglican Experiment

By: Bruce N Kaye

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Conflict and the Practice of the Christian Faith

The Anglican Experiment

By: Bruce N Kaye

Anglicans around the world have responded to the gospel in many different cultural contexts. This has produced different customs and different ways of thinking about church issues. In the process of enculturation Anglicans have found themselves encountering social and political realities as malign forces against which they have had to struggle. As a consequence, the personal and local dynamic in Anglicanism has created not just diversity of custom and mental habits, but it has done so at pointsthat have been vital to the way Anglicans have been committed to the gospel. Conflict and the Practice of Christian Faith looks at the process by which local traditions developed in Christianity and how these traditions have related to other sub-traditions of the universal church. It assesses some specifics of the Anglican experience and argues for a significant re-casting of some prominent elements of that tradition, at the same time clarifying some of the distinctive elements in the Anglican tradition. This leads to a more nuanced appreciation of the force of the social and political framework within which Anglicans have had to work out their salvation and of the different forms of secular society and different understandings of plurality and diversity. It also entails showing how the imperial route to catholicity took no firm root in Anglicanism. Going global has been a significant experiment in Anglican ecclesiology that is by no means over yet. The terms of that experiment lie atthe heart of the current Anglican debates. The book will be of interest to Christians generally who belong to faith traditions spread across different cultures. It is also a case study of the issues of global reach and local tradition.

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Lutterworth Press

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0718842839

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9780718842833

The Strategy of Campaigning

Lessons from Ronald Reagan and Boris Yeltsin

By: Kiron Skinner,Bruce Bueno de Mesquita,Serhiy Kudelia,Condoleezza Rice

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The Strategy of Campaigning

Lessons from Ronald Reagan and Boris Yeltsin

By: Kiron Skinner,Bruce Bueno de Mesquita,Serhiy Kudelia,Condoleezza Rice

The Strategy of Campaigning explores the political careers of Ronald Reagan and Boris Yeltsin, two of the most galvanizing and often controversial political figures of our time. Both men overcame defeat early in their political careers and rose to the highest elected offices in their respective countries. The authors demonstrate how and why Reagan and Yeltsin succeeded in their political aspirations, despite—or perhaps because of—their apparent “policy extremism”: that is, their advocacy of policy positions far from the mainstream. The book analyzes the viability of policy extremism as a political strategy that enables candidates to forge new coalitions and outflank conventional political allegiances. Kiron K. Skinner is Associate Professor of International Relations and Political Science at Carnegie Mellon University, a Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution, and a member of the Chief of Naval Operations Executive Panel and the National Security Education Board. Serhiy Kudelia is Lecturer of Politics at Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Ukraine and advisor to Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine. Bruce Bueno de Mesquita is Julius Silver Professor and Director of the Alexander Hamilton Center for Political Economy at New York University and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. Condoleezza Rice is on a leave of absence from Stanford University, where she was a Professor of Political Science and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. She is currently serving as U.S. Secretary of State.

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University of Michigan Press

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0472025856

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9780472025855

Dora Marsden and Early Modernism

Gender, Individualism, Science

By: Bruce Clarke

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Dora Marsden and Early Modernism

Gender, Individualism, Science

By: Bruce Clarke

Arguing that Marsden's contributions have been neglected and misunderstood, Dora Marsden and Early Modernism seeks to restore Marsden to her proper status as one of the major influences on modern British and American literature, as well as the early literary sensibilities of D. H. Lawrence, Ezra Pound, and William Carlos Williams.

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0472106465

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Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport

By: Bruce A. Bleakley

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Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport

By: Bruce A. Bleakley

Encompassing 27 square miles, Dallas/Fort Worth International is one of the world's largest and busiest airports, accommodating more than 150,000 passengers each day. The 1974 opening of "D/FW" was preceded by nearly half a century of an often acrimonious aviation rivalry between Dallas and Fort Worth that featured a colorful cast of business leaders, municipal officials, and airline executives. Through its first 40 years, D/FW grew from a regional hub into a global crossroads for passenger and air cargo service. Bold, imaginative leadership sustained the airport through the failure of its largest tenant airline, the effects of 9/11, an air traffic controllers' strike, and more than one fuel crisis. An extraordinary economic engine for North Texas, D/FW stands poised to become home to the world's largest airline, validating the original planners' dream of a dynamic focal point for domestic and international commercial aviation.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1467130400

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9781467130400

Irish Migrants in the Canadas

A New Approach

By: Bruce S. Elliott

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Irish Migrants in the Canadas

A New Approach

By: Bruce S. Elliott

This new, expanded edition of Irish Migrants in the Canadas traces the genealogies, movements, landholding strategies, and economic lives of 775 families of Irish immigrants who came to Canada between 1815 and 1855. This study has important implications for our understanding of nineteenth-century society in Ireland, Canada, and the United States."--Jacket.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773523219

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9780773523210

Presidential Campaigns And American Self Images

By: Arthur H Miller,Bruce E Gronbeck

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Presidential Campaigns And American Self Images

By: Arthur H Miller,Bruce E Gronbeck

This volume explores a central political paradox: why American scholars, journalists, and citizens periodically question the viability of their presidential electoral system and yet believe that presidential elections are our best hope for tomorrow. The book argues that the key to understanding this paradox lies in the concept of "self-image," exploring relationships between campaign activities and political culture. After presenting an introduction to the history of presidential campaigning and a theory of political image, the book arranges essays in three parts: images centered on candidates, mass media, and the public. A final essay assesses explanations of the contrasts between the 1988 and 1992elections and suggests tomorrow's research agenda.

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Routledge

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1000308057

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9781000308051

Provocative Columns

A Liberal Rabbi Reflects on Beliefs, Israel & American Politics

By: Bruce Warshal

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Provocative Columns

A Liberal Rabbi Reflects on Beliefs, Israel & American Politics

By: Bruce Warshal

The Jewish Journal of South Florida is the largest Jewish newspaper in America. It boasts an open marketplace of ideas on its opinion-editorial pages, featuring columns from the left and the right on the political and religious continuums. Rabbi Bruce Warshal upholds the liberal tradition both in politics and religion on those pages.

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iUniverse

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1440133824

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9781440133824

Taiwan

The Threatened Democracy

By: Bruce Herschensohn

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Taiwan

The Threatened Democracy

By: Bruce Herschensohn

This book is admittedly biased in support of liberty. Taiwan: The Threatened Democracy focuses on U.S. relations with Taiwan and the People's Republic of China from the Mao Tse-tung era through the Cold War to the current day, and projects the island's possible future. Taiwan has long been a flashpoint in the struggle between the communist and free world. Yet even as the possibility of armed conflict between China and Taiwan increases - a conflict with great implications for the United States - a domestic war has sprung up between the Bush White House and its support of Taiwan, and State Department staffers who lean heavily to the side of the People's Republic of China. Key to the conflict are those who care more about making profit in China than they care about maintaining liberty in Taiwan.

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WND Books

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0977898423

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What We Won

America's Secret War in Afghanistan, 1979?89

By: Bruce Riedel

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What We Won

America's Secret War in Afghanistan, 1979?89

By: Bruce Riedel

In February 1989, the CIA's chief in Islamabad famously cabled headquarters a simple message: "We Won." It was an understated coda to the most successful covert intelligence operation in American history. In What We Won, CIA and National Security Council veteran Bruce Riedel tells the story of America's secret war in Afghanistan and the defeat of the Soviet 40th Red Army in the war that proved to be the final battle of the cold war. He seeks to answer one simple question—why did this intelligence operation succeed so brilliantly? Riedel has the vantage point few others can offer: He was ensconced in the CIA's Operations Center when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan on Christmas Eve 1979. The invasion took the intelligence community by surprise. But the response, initiated by Jimmy Carter and accelerated by Ronald Reagan, was a masterful intelligence enterprise. Many books have been written about intelligence failures—from Pearl Harbor to 9/11. Much less has been written about how and why intelligence operations succeed. The answer is complex. It involves both the weaknesses and mistakes of America's enemies, as well as good judgment and strengths of the United States. Riedel introduces and explores the complex personalities pitted in the war—the Afghan communists, the Russians, the Afghan mujahedin, the Saudis, and the Pakistanis. And then there are the Americans—in this war, no Americans fought on the battlefield. The CIA did not send officers into Afghanistan to fight or even to train. In 1989, victory for the American side of the cold war seemed complete. Now we can see that a new era was also beginning in the Afghan war in the 1980s, the era of the global jihad. This book examines the lessons we can learn from this intelligence operation for the future and makes some observations on what came next in Afghanistan—and what is likely yet to come.

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Brookings Institution Press

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081572585X

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Avoiding Armageddon

America, India, and Pakistan to the Brink and Back

By: Bruce Riedel

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Avoiding Armageddon

America, India, and Pakistan to the Brink and Back

By: Bruce Riedel

India and Pakistan will be among the most important countries in the twenty-first century. In Avoiding Armageddon, Bruce Riedel clearly explains the challenge and the importance of successfully managing America's affairs with these two emerging powers and their toxic relationship. Born from the British Raj, the two nations share a common heritage, but they are different in many important ways. India is already the world's largest democracy and will soon become the planet's most populous nation. Pakistan, soon to be the fifth most populous country, has a troubled history of military coups, dictators, and harboring terrorists such as Osama bin Laden. The longtime rivals are nuclear powers, with tested weapons. They have fought four wars with each other and have gone to the brink of war several times. Meanwhile, U.S. presidents since Franklin Roosevelt have been increasingly involved in the region's affairs. In the past two decades alone, the White House has intervened several times to prevent nuclear confrontation on the subcontinent. South Asia clearly is critical to American national security, and the volatile relationship between India and Pakistan is the crucial factor determining whether the region can ever be safe and stable. Based on extensive research and Riedel's role in advising four U.S. presidents on the region, Avoiding Armageddon reviews the history of American diplomacy in South Asia, the crises that have flared in recent years, and the prospects for future crisis. Riedel provides an in-depth look at the Mumbai terrorist attack in 2008, the worst terrorist outrage since 9/11, and he concludes with authoritative analysis on what the future is likely to hold for America and the South Asia puzzle as well as recommendations on how Washington should proceed.

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0815724098

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Addiction Intervention

Strategies to Motivate Treatment-Seeking Behavior

By: Bruce Carruth,Deborah G Wright,Robert K White

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Addiction Intervention

Strategies to Motivate Treatment-Seeking Behavior

By: Bruce Carruth,Deborah G Wright,Robert K White

Addiction Intervention: Strategies to Motivate Treatment-Seeking Behavior shows you how to use the tools of intervention--the words, the steps, and the strategies--to be a change agent in the lives of individuals with alcohol and drug addictions. It is full of effective strategies and case studies coming from widely respected specialists across several disciplines. You'll learn how you can get people to seek help for their chemical dependence, resolving the cause of their problems rather than temporarily fixing the symptoms or side effects of their addictions.Whether you're an alcohol and drug educator, intervention trainer, physician, nurse, social worker, employer, lawyer, judge, or counselor, Addiction Intervention will help you find ways to confront chemically dependent people and motivate them to change their lives. You will find the tools of intervention easier to wield than you might otherwise think as you read about: how physicians can assess symptoms using various diagnostic tools, initiate conversation with a patient, and overcome resistance to referral how clinical therapists can develop response-specific intervention strategies that are appropriate to clients’behavior pathology conducting effective performance-related workplace interventions the development and design of impaired professional committees alternative models for peer and administrative interventions the methodologies of student assistance programs and teams brief, structured therapy for the family of an addicted person recent changes in the criminal justice system that have encouraged judges to refer individuals to treatment the One-Stop Re-Employment Social Services Center Addiction Intervention brings within your reach results-oriented intervention. Don't continue to offer band-aid solutions or skirt around the real problem of addiction. This book will help you help people get their lives back on track permanently.

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1317826663

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The Retirement Reformation

Finding Freedom with Faith.... a Better Way to Experience the Final (And Best) Decades of Your Life

By: Bruce Bruinsma

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The Retirement Reformation

Finding Freedom with Faith.... a Better Way to Experience the Final (And Best) Decades of Your Life

By: Bruce Bruinsma

The Retirement Reformation will change the way we think about what our culture calls retirement. While acknowledging the reality of longevity, Bruce Bruinsma challenges both individuals and faith-based organizations to reexamine, reshape, reform, and revitalize the fastest-growing segment of our society. God has a unique call for each of our lives, and it does not stop at sixty-five or seventy.

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WestBow Press

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1973661748

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The Hope of the South

An SPU Adventure

By: Bruce Thomas

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The Hope of the South

An SPU Adventure

By: Bruce Thomas

It's 1865, and the writing is on the wall: the end of the Civil War is coming, and the South will not win this fight. A group of Confederate officers have acquired some serious spoils of war, and they decide to hide it. Together, they will one day rebuild the South... Almost a century and a half later, the Special Projects Unit is hunting down a terrorist mastermind planning a widespread attack on American cities. The SPU must work to stop the madman from activating another 9/11 type of attack. When a letter addressed to the President of the United States from over 100 years ago is found, the team embarks on a present-day treasure hunt. These two events are woven together into a captivating read. Author Bruce Thomas, a retired military fighter pilot and current commercial airlines pilot, has written a page-turner of a historical mystery. Readers will delight in the fact-based story that also takes them on an escapist journey of codes, riddles, and a treasure hunt that has become a true matter of life and death.

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1977225209

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All-Time Favorite Parking Lot Picker's Guitar Solos

By: Dix Bruce

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All-Time Favorite Parking Lot Picker's Guitar Solos

By: Dix Bruce

Aimed at beginning and intermediate guitarists, this book is packed with songs, solos, and techniques that every guitar player should know. The material includes melodies, tablature, chords, and all the solos are recorded at both slow and regular speeds on the accompanying audio. Solos include easy open string solos, closed position moveable and transposable solos, double stops, solos with abluesy sound, crosspicking solos, and backup guitar parts. Additional tunes are available for free in the Downloads tab

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1619114135

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Jolly Good Detecting

Humor in English Crime Fiction of the Golden Age

By: Bruce Shaw

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Jolly Good Detecting

Humor in English Crime Fiction of the Golden Age

By: Bruce Shaw

This book is an appreciation of selected authors who make extensive use of humor in English detective/crime fiction. Works using humor as an amelioration of the serious have their heyday in the Golden Age of crime writing but they belong also to a long tradition. There is an identifiable lineage of humorous writing in crime fiction that ranges from mild wit to outright farce, burlesque, even slapstick. A mix of entertainment with instruction is a tradition in English letters. English crime fiction writers of the era circa 1913 to 1940 were raised in the mainstream literary tradition but turned their skills to detective fiction. And they are the humorists of the genre. This book is not an exhaustive study but an introduction into the best produced by the most capable and enjoyable authors. What the humorists seek is to surprise the reader by overturning their expectations using a repertoire of stylistic conceits and motifs (recurring incidents, devices, references). Humor has a liberating effect but is concerned too with "comic contrast" through ugliness and caricature. In crime fiction one effect is intellectual pleasure at solving (or attempting to solve) a puzzle. Another is entertainment but with serious undertones.

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1476613966

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The Best Transportation System in the World

Railroads, Trucks, Airlines, and American Public Policy in the Twentieth Century

By: Mark H. Rose,Bruce E. Seely,Paul F. Barrett

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The Best Transportation System in the World

Railroads, Trucks, Airlines, and American Public Policy in the Twentieth Century

By: Mark H. Rose,Bruce E. Seely,Paul F. Barrett

This book focuses on the role of government in organizing the nation's transportation industries. As the authors show, over the course of the twentieth century transportation in the United States was as much a product of hard-fought politics, lobbying, and litigation as it was a naturally evolving system of engineering and available technology.

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0812221168

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Skeletal Tissue Mechanics

By: R. Bruce Martin,David B. Burr,Neil A. Sharkey

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Skeletal Tissue Mechanics

By: R. Bruce Martin,David B. Burr,Neil A. Sharkey

Knowledge of the mechanical properties of the skeletal system is important to understanding how our body works and how to repair it when it is damaged. This text describes the biomechanics of bone, cartilage, tendons and ligaments. It does not require mathematics beyond calculus or neglecting the biological properties of skeletal tissue.

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0387984747

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Switch Pitcher

How One Man Changed the NationaEUR(tm)s Pastime from Both Sides of the Mound!

By: R. Bruce Stock

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Switch Pitcher

How One Man Changed the NationaEUR(tm)s Pastime from Both Sides of the Mound!

By: R. Bruce Stock

When Carter Browne makes his mid-season MBL debut as an ambidextrous reliever for the New York Americans in the ninth, and the batters can't hit him, the die is cast, as he takes his team from fifteen games out of first place to the postseason. But rather than describe the rest of the plot and its unexpected twists and turns, some of which are life-threatening, let's hear from those most involved, the players--those with him or against him. Visitors He's hard to figger, and he keeps you guessin' as you burn up the strikes. --Roy Higgins, Boston Blue Sox I heard so much about this kid. I just wanted to watch him throw. Then I was out. --Johnny Barilko, Baltimore Eagles What the hell is he trying to do, change the game? We don't need something we've never seen before to make this game innerestin'. --Bobby Valentino, Manager, Boston Blue Sox Home You gotta love him. Never misses a sign, intimidates the batters, and always throws strikes. --Tommy Sarbrucken, catcher, The New York Americans We think he's champion even if he's always reducing our workload. Beauty! --Bill Boyd, relief pitcher, The New York Americans If you think he's dangerous as a pitcher, wait till you see him hitting. The ball doesn't have a snowball's chance of seeing the catcher's glove! --Benny Wilder, hitting coach, The New York Americans

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Applied Anatomy and Biomechanics in Sport

By: Timothy R. Ackland,Bruce Elliott,John Bloomfield

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Applied Anatomy and Biomechanics in Sport

By: Timothy R. Ackland,Bruce Elliott,John Bloomfield

Applied Anatomy and Biomechanics in Sport, Second Edition, offers a variety of information for coaches and sport scientists that can be integrated and applied to the elements of body structure, body composition, assessment, physiology, and biomechanics.

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0736063382

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On the Origin of Spin

(Or how Hollywood, the Ad Men and the World Wide Web became the Fifth Estate and created our images of power)

By: Brendan Bruce

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On the Origin of Spin

(Or how Hollywood, the Ad Men and the World Wide Web became the Fifth Estate and created our images of power)

By: Brendan Bruce

This book was written to try and answer the question: ‘where and when did political spin originate?’ It deals with the techniques of news management developed and used in those advanced democracies who have laws to protect a free press. such as the United States of America, and to a lesser extent its first cousin, several times removed, the United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland, or to be more precise, England, who in 1695 became the first country in the world to enshrine a free press into their constitutional law. This joint history of legal protections of press freedom; governmental toleration of free speech; progressive legislation to widen the franchise; vigorous growth in political parties; pluralism and its consequence, the peaceful coexistence of different interests, convictions and lifestyles; a healthy adherence to Burkean ‘little platoons’ of volunteers; and, most of all, sophisticated developments in mass media technologies and consumer marketing techniques; all of which means that the Anglo-Saxon cousins are, and have always been, in the vanguard of news management. Government and media have been at war from the very beginning. Au fond this is a struggle for allegiance. The media want the allegiance of their readers and viewers, because this brings them the profits they need to remain in business. As Patrick Le Lay, then CEO of the main French private channel TF1 put it: "There are many ways to speak about TV, but in a business perspective, let's be realistic: TF1's job is to help Coca-Cola sell its product. What we sell to Coca-Cola is available human brain time." Government on the other hand wants the allegiance of the voter, to acquire or retain power. The famous Victorian editor of 'The Times', Thomas Barnes, once said that the "newspaper is not an organ through which Government can influence people, but through which people can influence the Government." Politicians would reverse the dictum. And therein lies the causus belli. The politician's strategy for winning this war was stated most succinctly by that arch media manipulator, David Lloyd George: "what you can't square, you squash; and what you can't squash, you square." The media for their part, are determined to be neither squashed nor squared. From 1800 in the US and 1832 in Britain (when Germany and Italy were just a glint in the eye of some petty princes; and France was recovering from yet another pointless 'revolution' leaving behind yet another example of Kafka's bureaucratic slime); competitive, party based elections produced extraordinary outbursts of creativity. Politicians learned that the art of politics is about making and then winning arguments. As each successive cutting edge novelty arrived, the spin doctors quickly adapted and improved their techniques by adroitly exploiting the new medium’s benefits. For two centuries (and even before) the ‘Anglo-Saxons’ have led the world in spin: this is the history of that journey.

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1490571353

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The Dragon and the Snake

An American Account of the Turmoil in China, 1976-1977

By: Millicent Anne Gates,E. Bruce Geelhoed

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The Dragon and the Snake

An American Account of the Turmoil in China, 1976-1977

By: Millicent Anne Gates,E. Bruce Geelhoed

The United States Liaison Office (USLO) served as the diplomatic contact for Sino-American relations between the time of the Nixon-Kissinger opening of China in 1971-1972 and the achievement of full normalization in 1979. This book presents the importance of the USLO to American foreign policy in the 1970s.

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1512802239

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Governor's Houses and State Houses of British Colonial America, 1607-1783

An Historical, Architectural and Archaeological Survey

By: Hoke P. Kimball,Bruce Henson

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Governor's Houses and State Houses of British Colonial America, 1607-1783

An Historical, Architectural and Archaeological Survey

By: Hoke P. Kimball,Bruce Henson

This comprehensive survey of British colonial governors' houses and buildings used as state houses or capitols in the North American colonies begins with the founding of the Virginia Colony and ends with American independence. In addition to the 13 colonies that became the United States in 1783, the study includes three colonies in present-day Florida and Canada--East Florida, West Florida and the Province of Quebec--obtained by Great Britain after the French and Indian War.

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McFarland

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147662593X

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5-Star Baby Name Advisor

By: Bruce Lansky

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5-Star Baby Name Advisor

By: Bruce Lansky

Five-Star Baby Name Advisor is a unique and invaluable book for parents who want to select a name that will give their child a head start in life. It contains more helpful information about each name than any other book--starting with star ratings (like the ones used to rate movies, hotels, and mutual funds). Most name books are basically lists of names that include origin and meaning. This unique book gives parents lots of help in deciding which name to choose for their baby. Here is a list of all the features you'll find in the book. Notice that most of the features (marked with an asterisk) can't be found in any other book; and two features marked with asterisks can only be found in name books by Bruce Lansky: -Star rating* -Origin -Meaning -Gender usage** (showing whether names are used primarily for boys, primarily for girls, or equally for both) -First impressions** (what images come to mind when names are called in school or seen on job applications) -Popularity rankings and recent trends* -Spelling difficulty* -Pronunciation difficulty* -Versatility* (availability of versions of the name for informal and formal social occasions) -The most famous namesakes -Common nicknames -Common variations -Final considerations* (pros and cons) Mother's Choice Awards 2009 Silver Award: Pregnancy & Childbirth

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1451620233

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King Energy

The Rise and Fall of an Industrial Empire Gone Awry

By: Bruce Raphael

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King Energy

The Rise and Fall of an Industrial Empire Gone Awry

By: Bruce Raphael

The modern energy industry grew out of the rubble of the Middle Ages and the American Civil War. It quickly grew into a bewildering assemblage not only of mines, fields, pipelines, utilities and their overlapping directorates but of public and private policies and intrigues throughout the world, one broad enough in scale to rival the most powerful democracies in determining the ultimate fates of nations. Its priorities set the stage for the Cold War and the nuclear arms race. If the industrys rise to power was unexpected by the traditional establishments of nation and state, its crash was equally breathtaking, involving actors and players in unexpected locales and venues, from backyard inventors to the concrete canyons of Wall Street. King Energy is the story of the companies and personalities that defined the 20th Century and set the stage for the economic, political and social agendas leading up to the new millennium.

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059500427X

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The Policy Partnership

Presidential Elections and American Democracy

By: Bruce Buchanan

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The Policy Partnership

Presidential Elections and American Democracy

By: Bruce Buchanan

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Psychology Press

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041594760X

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Uss Coral Sea Cv-42 Cvb-43 Cva-43 and Cv-43 History and Those Aircraft Carriers Operating with Coral Sea During Her Tour of Service and a Tour of Duty in the U. S. Navy (August 1977 to February 198

By: Bruce Wayne Henion

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Uss Coral Sea Cv-42 Cvb-43 Cva-43 and Cv-43 History and Those Aircraft Carriers Operating with Coral Sea During Her Tour of Service and a Tour of Duty in the U. S. Navy (August 1977 to February 198

By: Bruce Wayne Henion

Narrative summary of the USS CORAL SEA CV-42, CVA-43, CVB-43 and CV-43 history and a tour of duty of a young sailor serving as the Operations Departmental Yeoman onboard Cv-43 for 3-years (August 1977-February 1983) CONSTRUCTION to LAUNCHING and EARLY JET AIRCRAFT DEVELOPMENT (10 July 1944-2 April 1946).

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