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Wanting War

Why the Bush Administration Invaded Iraq

By: Jeffrey Record

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Wanting War

Why the Bush Administration Invaded Iraq

By: Jeffrey Record

Wanting War is the first comprehensive analysis of the often contradictory reasons why President George W. Bush went to war in Iraq and of the war's impact on future U.S. armed intervention abroad. Though the White House sold the war as a necessity to eliminate an alleged Iraqi threat, other agendas were at play. Drawing on new assessments of George W. Bush's presidency, recent memoirs by key administration decision makers, and Jeffrey Record's own expertise on U.S. military interventions since World War II, Wanting War contends that Bush's invasion of Iraq was more about the arrogance of post–Cold War American power than it was about Saddam Hussein. Ultimately, Iraq was selected not because it posed a convincing security threat but because Baghdad was militarily helpless. Operation Iraqi Freedom was a demonstration of American power, especially the will to use it. Ironically, as Record points out, a war launched to advertise American combativeness is likely to lead U.S. foreign policymakers and military leaders to be averse to using force in all but the most favorable circumstances. But this new respect for the limits of America's conventional military power, especially as an instrument of ffecting political change in foreign cultures, and for the inherent risks and uncertainties of war, may prove to be one of the Iraq War's few positive legacies. Record argues that the American experience in Iraq ought to be a cautionary tale for those who advocate for further U.S. military action.

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Potomac Books, Inc.

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1597974374

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9781597974370

The Columnist

By: Jeffrey Frank

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The Columnist

By: Jeffrey Frank

Years of backstabbing and betrayal start to catch up with one of Washington’s elite opinion writers, “a character that deserves to jump outside the Beltway and enter the language like ‘Uncle Tom,’ ‘Peter Pan,’ or ‘Scrooge.’” (Ron Charles, Christian Science Monitor). During a cocktail party, George H. W. Bush encourages Brandon Sladder, the prominent Washington columnist, to write his memoirs. Sladder has, after all, known just about everyone of importance. From talking on intimate terms with world leaders, being a witness to enormous change, and expressing his weighty opinions on matters of state, he believes that his own story could add so much more than a footnote to our age. But what is meant to be a look back at his life and our times turns out to be far more revealing. The Columnist is Sladder’s attempt to burnish his image for posterity. What emerges is something else: the misadventures of an irresistibly loathsome man—self-important, social climbing, dangerously oblivious, “an unforgettable character who is lovably hateable” (Susan Orlean, author of The Library Book) and one of the most memorable rogues in contemporary fiction. The Columnist is a dead-on, elegantly written portrait of the media and politics of the second half of the twentieth century—“It’s Balzac as word-processed by Philip Roth, only, for my two cents…funnier…[A] great American novel” (Christopher Buckley, author of Thank You for Smoking).

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240

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Simon & Schuster

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ISBN 10

1982138963

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9781982138967

Radical Democracy and Political Theology

By: Jeffrey W. Robbins

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Radical Democracy and Political Theology

By: Jeffrey W. Robbins

Alexis de Tocqueville once wrote that "the people reign over the American political world like God over the universe," unwittingly casting democracy as the political instantiation of the death of God. According to Jeffrey W. Robbins, Tocqueville's assessment remains an apt observation of modern democratic power, which does not rest with a sovereign authority but operates as a diffuse social force. By linking radical democratic theory to a contemporary fascination with political theology, Robbins envisions the modern experience of democracy as a social, cultural, and political force transforming the nature of sovereign power and political authority. Robbins joins his work with Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri's radical conception of "network power," as well as Sheldon Wolin's notion of "fugitive democracy," to fashion a political theology that captures modern democracy's social and cultural torment. This approach has profound implications not only for the nature of contemporary religious belief and practice but also for the reconceptualization of the proper relationship between religion and politics. Challenging the modern, liberal, and secular assumption of a neutral public space, Robbins conceives of a postsecular politics for contemporary society that inextricably links religion to the political. While effectively recasting the tradition of radical theology as a political theology, this book also develops a comprehensive critique of the political theology bequeathed by Carl Schmitt. It marks an original and visionary achievement by the scholar the Journal of the American Academy of Religion hailed "one of the best commentators on religion and postmodernism.

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234

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Columbia University Press

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0231156375

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9780231156370

Scoundrels, Cads, and Other Great Artists

By: Jeffrey K. Smith

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Scoundrels, Cads, and Other Great Artists

By: Jeffrey K. Smith

Just because the art is beautiful doesn't mean the artist was a saint . . . Scoundrels, Cads, and Other Great Artists examines the lives of nine great artists who were less than exemplary human beings in their lives outside of their art. It explores the question, “Why do we like magnificent art from artists who were awful human beings?” For example, the great Baroque painter, Caravaggio, who developed the chiaroscuro style of painting, was in constant trouble with the law, even having killed a man in a duel. Frederick Remington, the great painter of the American West, was an incredible racist and bigot. His evocative paintings of Native Americans on the trail on horseback give no hint of Remington’s enmity toward them and other ethnic groups in America. Jackson Pollock? His irascibility and petulance were compounded by a lifelong battle with alcoholism, ultimately leading to a fatal automobile accident. Whistler and Courbet were philanderers and libertines. Scoundrels introduces people to great art by showing the more salacious side of the personal lives of great artists over time. This book not only tells the stories of a dozen artists, but explores how to look at art and the separation between art and artist. This lively narrative is enhanced by over 100 full-color reproductions of great paintings and details from them.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1538126788

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9781538126783

The Emergence of a Euro-American Radical Right

By: Jeffrey Kaplan,Leonard Weinberg

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The Emergence of a Euro-American Radical Right

By: Jeffrey Kaplan,Leonard Weinberg

An overview of the social and economic forces at work in the US and Europe that are promoting the formation of the Euro-American radical right is followed by a more detailed examination of the Euro-American right wing movement from Sweden to New York City. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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Rutgers University Press

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0813525640

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9780813525648

Atlas of Forensic Pathology: A Pattern Based Approach

By: Walter L Kemp

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Atlas of Forensic Pathology: A Pattern Based Approach

By: Walter L Kemp

Atlas of Forensic Pathology: A Pattern-Based Approach, by Dr. Walter L. Kemp (Montana State Medical Examiner), Dr. Rhome L. Hughes, and Dr. Jeffrey J. Barnard (Dallas County Chief Medical Examiner) provides a highly illustrated succinct “day-to-day” educational guide to the interpretation of patterns of findings at forensic autopsy to best allow for an accurate determination of cause and manner of death. The format of the book will also guide a pathologist in how to identify pertinent information (i.e., how to search for the patterns) and assemble a thorough and streamlined autopsy report.

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1347

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1975222512

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9781975222512

Marketing Encyclopedia

Issues and Trends Shaping the Future

By: Jeffrey Heilbrunn,American Marketing Association

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Marketing Encyclopedia

Issues and Trends Shaping the Future

By: Jeffrey Heilbrunn,American Marketing Association

New products and services; Creative communications; Customer service strategies; Marketing channels and selling systems; Strategic marketing management; Micromarkets and micromarketing; Information collection and analysis; Total quality management and the future of marketing.

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Contemporary Books

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0844235938

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9780844235936

Josef Albers, Late Modernism, and Pedagogic Form

By: Jeffrey Saletnik

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Josef Albers, Late Modernism, and Pedagogic Form

By: Jeffrey Saletnik

An incisive analysis of the pedagogy of influential artist and teacher Josef Albers. An extraordinary teacher whose influence continues today, Josef Albers helped shape the Bauhaus school in Germany and established the art and design programs at Black Mountain College in North Carolina and Yale University. His books about color theory have informed generations, and his artworks are included in the canon of high-modernist non-representational art. The pedagogy Albers developed was a dynamic approach to teaching that transcended the modernist agendas and cultivated a material way of thinking among his students. With this book, Jeffrey Saletnik explores the origins of Albers’s teaching practices and their significance in conveying attitudes about form, material, and sensory understanding to artists Eva Hesse and Richard Serra. He demonstrates how pedagogy is a framework that establishes the possibility for artistic discourse and how the methods through which artists learn are manifested in their individual practices. Tracing through lines from Albers’s training in German educational traditions to his influence on American postwar art, Josef Albers, Late Modernism, and Pedagogic Form positions Albers’s pedagogy as central to the life of modernism.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226819396

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9780226819396

Marketing Encyclopedia

Issues and Trends Shaping the Future

By: Jeffrey Heilbrunn,American Marketing Association

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Marketing Encyclopedia

Issues and Trends Shaping the Future

By: Jeffrey Heilbrunn,American Marketing Association

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Wanting War

Wanting War

The Columnist

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Radical Democracy and Political Theology

Radical Democracy and Political Theology

Scoundrels, Cads, and Other Great Artists

Scoundrels, Cads, and Other Great Artists

The Emergence of a Euro-American Radical Right

The Emergence of a Euro-American Radical Right

Atlas of Forensic Pathology: A Pattern Based Approach

Atlas of Forensic Pathology: A Pattern Based Approach

Marketing Encyclopedia

Marketing Encyclopedia

Josef Albers, Late Modernism, and Pedagogic Form

Josef Albers, Late Modernism, and Pedagogic Form

Marketing Encyclopedia

Marketing Encyclopedia

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