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Assholeology

The Science Behind Getting Your Way - and Getting Away with it

By: Steven B. Green,Dennis Lavalle,Chris Illuminati

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Assholeology

The Science Behind Getting Your Way - and Getting Away with it

By: Steven B. Green,Dennis Lavalle,Chris Illuminati

Getting one's way requires the perpetrator to be cocky yet quietly confident, snide as well as sincere, sneaky while abrupt. Better men than most have failed miserably. This guide is the first to walk readers through the tricks of the trade and the numerous benefits the attitude reaps.

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Simon and Schuster

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1598699105

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9781598699104

A Family Guide to Coping with Substance Use Disorders

By: Dennis C. Daley,Antoine Douaihy

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A Family Guide to Coping with Substance Use Disorders

By: Dennis C. Daley,Antoine Douaihy

The potentially devastating impact of substance use disorders (SUDs) on family and concerned significant others has been well-documented, but there is hope. Loved ones can learn strategies to help them cope with the impact of SUDs, and these strategies will in turn help them to support recovery efforts. Family-friendly and accessible, A Family Guide to Coping with Substance Use Disorders provides readers with important information on substance use, symptoms, causes, effects, and treatment. Written by experts in the field of addiction medicine, this book enables readers to understand substance use disorders from the perspective of their affected loved one, and provides a positive perspective emphasizing that recovery is certainly possible. Using real-world examples, the book illustrates how SUDs can impact family units and family members, including children, and then provides practical strategies for supporting a loved one with a SUD and for addressing its impact on readers' own thoughts, behaviors, and emotional states. Helpful resources and links are provided, enabling readers to gain access to information and organizations that support families in recovery.

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153

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Oxford University Press

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0190926643

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9780190926649

The Oligarchy and the Old Regime in Latin America, 1880-1970

By: Dennis Gilbert

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The Oligarchy and the Old Regime in Latin America, 1880-1970

By: Dennis Gilbert

In the last decades of the nineteenth century and early years of the twentieth, a new class—the oligarchy—consolidated its wealth and political power in Latin America. Its members were the sugar planters, coffee growers, cattle barons, and bankers who were growing rich in a rapidly expanding global economy. Examining these immensely powerful groups, Dennis Gilbert provides a systematic comparative history of the rise and ultimate demise of the oligarchies that dominated Latin America for nearly a century. He then sketches a fine-grained portrait of three prominent Peruvian families, providing a vivid window into the everyday exercise of power. Here we see the oligarchs arranging the deportation of “political undesirables,” controlling labor through means subtle and brutal, orchestrating press campaigns, extending credit on easy terms to rising military officers, and financing the overthrow of an unfriendly government. Gilbert concludes by answering three questions: What were the sources of oligarchic power? What were the forces that undermined it? Why did oligarchies persist longer in some countries than in others? His clear, comprehensible, and illuminating analysis will make this an invaluable book for all students of modern Latin America.

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304

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1442270918

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9781442270916

Gateway to Hell

By: Dennis Wheatley

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Gateway to Hell

By: Dennis Wheatley

The door was not locked, and opened easily. He switched on the light, and Richard followed him into the room. Nella lay on the bed. She had on the nightdress she had been lent, but the bedclothes had been pulled halfway down. Her head was twisted back grotesquely. Her mouth gaped open and her tongue had been cut out. It had been carefully placed in the valley between her naked breasts. The Duke de Richleau and his friends had faced many dangers in Russia, Spain and Nazi Germany. Now, a new and unexpected menace confronts them: the fourth member of their group, Rex van Ryn, is missing – and he has made off with more than a million dollars from the Buenos Aires branch of his family bank. Behind the conventional courtesy of Argentinian society lies a conspiracy of terror and silence – and a trail that leads straight to the Devil himself . . .

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341

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A&C Black

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1448212677

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9781448212675

Mexico's Middle Class in the Neoliberal Era

By: Dennis Gilbert

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Mexico's Middle Class in the Neoliberal Era

By: Dennis Gilbert

Mexico’s modern middle class emerged in the decades after World War II, a period of spectacular economic growth and social change. Though little studied, the middle class now accounts for one in five Mexican households. This path-breaking book explores the changing fortunes and political transformation of the middle class, especially during the last two decades, as Mexico has adopted new, market-oriented economic policies and has abandoned one-party rule. Blending the personal narratives of middle-class Mexicans with analyses of national surveys of households and voters, Dennis Gilbert traces the development of the middle class since the 1940s. He describes how middle-class Mexicans were affected by the economic upheavals of the 1980s and 1990s and examines their shifting relations with the ruling Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI). Long faithful to the PRI, the middle class gradually grew disenchanted. Gilbert examines middle-class reactions to the 1968 Tlatelolco massacre, the 1982 debt crisis, the government’s feeble response to the 1985 Mexico City earthquake, and its brazen manipulation of the vote count in the 1988 presidential election. Drawing on detailed interviews with Mexican families, he describes the effects of the 1994–95 peso crisis on middle-class households and their economic and political responses to it. His analysis of exit poll data from the 2000 elections shows that the lopsided middle-class vote in favor of opposition candidate Vicente Fox played a critical role in the election that drove the PRI from power after seven decades. The book closes with an epilogue on the middle class and the July 2006 presidential elections.

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University of Arizona Press

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0816550107

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9780816550104

Assholeology

The Science Behind Getting Your Way - and Getting Away with it

By: Steven B. Green,Dennis Lavalle,Chris Illuminati

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The Science Behind Getting Your Way - and Getting Away with it

By: Steven B. Green,Dennis Lavalle,Chris Illuminati

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Simon and Schuster

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Assholeology

Assholeology

A Family Guide to Coping with Substance Use Disorders

A Family Guide to Coping with Substance Use Disorders

The Oligarchy and the Old Regime in Latin America, 1880-1970

The Oligarchy and the Old Regime in Latin America, 1880-1970

Gateway to Hell

Gateway to Hell

Mexico's Middle Class in the Neoliberal Era

Mexico's Middle Class in the Neoliberal Era

Assholeology

Assholeology

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