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Religion and Violence

An Encyclopedia of Faith and Conflict from Antiquity to the Present

By: Jeffrey Ian Ross

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Religion and Violence

An Encyclopedia of Faith and Conflict from Antiquity to the Present

By: Jeffrey Ian Ross

First Published in 2015. Daily newspaper headlines, talk radio and cable television broadcasts, and Internet news web sites continuously highlight the relationship between religion and violence. These media contain stories about such diverse incidents as suicide attacks by Islamic fundamentalists in Afghanistan, Iraq, Israel, Pakistan, and elsewhere, and assassinations of doctors who perform abortions by white American Christian true believers in the United States. How does one make sense of the role of religion in violence, and of perpetrators of violence who cite religion as a motivation? This encyclopedia includes a wide range of entries: biographies of key figures, historical events, religious groups, countries and regions where religion and violence have intersected, and practices, rituals, and processes of religious violence.

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Routledge

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1317461096

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Homegrown

Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism

By: Jeffrey Toobin

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Homegrown

Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism

By: Jeffrey Toobin

The definitive account of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and the enduring legacy of Timothy McVeigh, leading to the January 6 insurrection—from acclaimed journalist Jeffrey Toobin. Timothy McVeigh wanted to start a movement. Speaking to his lawyers days after the Oklahoma City bombing, the Gulf War veteran expressed no regrets: killing 168 people was his patriotic duty. He cited the Declaration of Independence from memory: “Whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it.” He had obsessively followed the siege of Waco and seethed at the imposition of President Bill Clinton’s assault weapons ban. A self-proclaimed white separatist, he abhorred immigration and wanted women to return to traditional roles. As he watched the industrial decline of his native Buffalo, McVeigh longed for when America was great. New York Times bestselling author Jeffrey Toobin traces the dramatic history and profound legacy of Timothy McVeigh, who once declared, “I believe there is an army out there, ready to rise up, even though I never found it.” But that doesn’t mean his army wasn’t there. With news-breaking reportage, Toobin details how McVeigh’s principles and tactics have flourished in the decades since his death in 2001, reaching an apotheosis on January 6 when hundreds of rioters stormed the Capitol. Based on nearly a million previously unreleased tapes, photographs, and documents, including detailed communications between McVeigh and his lawyers, as well as interviews with such key figures as Bill Clinton, Homegrown reveals how the story of Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City bombing is not only a powerful retelling of one of the great outrages of our time, but a warning for our future.

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Simon and Schuster

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1668013584

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Design in the USA

By: Jeffrey L. Meikle

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Design in the USA

By: Jeffrey L. Meikle

From the Cadillac to the Apple Mac, the skyscraper to the Tiffany lampshade, the world in which we live has been profoundly influenced for over a century by the work of American designers. But the product is only the end of a story that is full of fascinating questions. What has been the social and cultural role of design in American society? To produce useful things that consumers need? Or to persuade them to buy things that they don't need? Where does the designer stand in all this? And how has the role of design in America changed over time, since the early days of the young Republic? Jeffrey Meikle explores the social and cultural history of American design spanning over two centuries, from the hand-crafted furniture and objects of the early nineteenth century, through the era of industrialization and the mass production of the machine age, to the information-based society of the present, covering everything from the Arts and Crafts movement to Art Deco, modernism to post-modernism, MOMA to the Tupperware bowl.

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OUP USA

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0191518026

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Gettysburg’s Lost Love Story: The Ill-Fated Romance of General John Reynolds and Kate Hewitt

By: Jeffrey J. Harding

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Gettysburg’s Lost Love Story: The Ill-Fated Romance of General John Reynolds and Kate Hewitt

By: Jeffrey J. Harding

Union general John Reynolds was one of the most beloved and respected military leaders of the Civil War, yet beyond the battlefield, the captivating true story of his secret romance with Catherine "Kate" Mary Hewitt remains etched into his legacy. Clandestinely engaged before John marched off to war, the couple's love remained a secret. Kate made a poignant "last promise," a commitment to enter into a religious life if her beloved were to be killed. Tragically, Reynolds lost his life leading troops into action during the opening phases of the Battle of Gettysburg. Within days Kate was embraced by the Reynolds family and soon began to honor her promise of a religious life. Yet a few years later she seemed to disappear. Author Jeffrey J. Harding unveils new findings on Kate's life before and after John's death as he recounts Gettysburg's saga of star-crossed love.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1467151599

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9781467151597

The Lost Worlds of John Ford

Beyond the Western

By: Jeffrey Richards

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The Lost Worlds of John Ford

Beyond the Western

By: Jeffrey Richards

The great director John Ford (1894-1973) is best known for classic westerns, but his body of work encompasses much more than this single genre. Jeffrey Richards develops and broadens our understanding of Ford's film-making oeuvre by studying his non-Western films through the lens of Ford's life and abiding preoccupations. Ford's other cinematic worlds included Ireland, the Family, Catholicism, War and the Sea, which share with his westerns the recurrent themes of memory and loss, the plight of outsiders and the tragedy of family breakup. Richards' revisionist study both provides new insights into familiar films such as The Fugitive (1947); The Quiet Man (1952), Gideon's Way and The Informer (1935) and reclaims neglected masterpieces, among them Wee Willie Winkie (1937) and the extraordinary The Long Voyage Home. (1940).

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350114685

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Traveling India in the Age of Gandhi

By: Jeffrey N. Dupée

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Traveling India in the Age of Gandhi

By: Jeffrey N. Dupée

Traveling India in the Age of Gandhi is a study of "armchair" travel writers who journeyed to India during what has often been termed the "Age of Gandhi," placed between 1914–1948. Most of the travel writers surveyed understood this era to be a unique time in world history—in India and elsewhere on the globe. The lingering trauma of World War I, the rise of radical state ideologies in Russia, Italy, Japan, and Germany, world-wide depression in the 1930s along with a host of other unsettling political, cultural, and technological realities revealed a world of bewildering complexity and uncertainty. For many of the travel writers surveyed in this work, India was the main drama in a shifting global landscape. Moreover, many viewed it as the ultimate travel experience, a journey that tested one's capacity to fully engage the earth's most compelling forms of human diversity and suffering. Although a few notable figures are included, most of the authors in the study constitute a breed of largely forgotten travel writers. This work is an attempt to extract the core of their observations, impressions, and conclusions concerning what they saw and experienced, particularly concerning Indian aspirations for independence and India as the world's most exotic human landscape.

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University Press of America

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146169311X

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The Reptilian Humanoid Elites Among Us

The Greatest Conspiracy in the World

By: Jeffrey Clarke Lion

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The Reptilian Humanoid Elites Among Us

The Greatest Conspiracy in the World

By: Jeffrey Clarke Lion

The book that follows may seem outlandish but then that's the whole point of the conspiracy. Those who seek to suppress the truth trade on the fact that the true reality of the world would seem like fanciful science fiction to the general public. The reptile humanoid conspiracy is by no means new. It was around long before David Icke traded in his BBC Sportsnight blazer for a turquoise tracksuit and started writing books about the Royal Family being ten foot shapeshifting lizards from the constellation Draco. However, the fine details of this conspiracy have never been revealed before. The book that follows will tell who exactly these reptiles are and what they really want with our planet. Get ready to learn about the biggest conspiracy in the world.

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epubli

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3754954083

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The Intellectual Property Holding Company

Tax Use and Abuse from Victoria's Secret to Apple

By: Jeffrey A. Maine,Xuan-Thao Nguyen

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The Intellectual Property Holding Company

Tax Use and Abuse from Victoria's Secret to Apple

By: Jeffrey A. Maine,Xuan-Thao Nguyen

Many companies that have become household names have avoided billions in taxes by 'parking' their valuable intellectual property (IP) assets in holding companies located in tax-favored jurisdictions. In the United States, for example, many domestic companies have moved their IP to tax-favored states such as Delaware or Nevada, while multinational companies have done the same by setting up foreign subsidiaries in Ireland, Singapore, Switzerland, and the Netherlands. In this illuminating work, tax scholar Jeffrey A. Maine teams up with IP expert Xuan-Thao Nguyen to explain how the use of these IP holding companies has become economically unjustified and socially unacceptable, and how numerous calls for change have been made. This book should be read by anyone interested in how corporations - including Gore-Tex, Victoria's Secret, Sherwin-Williams, Toys-R-Us, Apple, Microsoft, and Uber - have avoided tax liability with IP holding companies and how different constituencies are working to stop them.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108325920

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Something Wonderful Right Away

The Birth of Second City—America's Greatest Comedy Theater

By: Jeffrey Sweet

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Something Wonderful Right Away

The Birth of Second City—America's Greatest Comedy Theater

By: Jeffrey Sweet

Discover the behind-the-scenes story of how The Second City theater created a generation of world class great actors, directors, and writers. In the late Fifties and Sixties, iconoclastic young rebels in Chicago opened two tiny theaters—The Compass and The Second City—where they satirized politics, religion, and sex. Building scenes by improvising based on audience suggestions turned out to be a fine way to develop great actors, directors, and writers. Alumni went on to create such groundbreaking works as The Graduate, Groundhog Day, and Don’t Look Up. Many of them also became stars on Saturday Night Live. Something Wonderful Right Away features the pioneers of the empire that transformed American comedy. This new edition tells even more of the story. Included for the first time is an interview with Viola Spolin, the genius who invented theater games that were the foundation of improvisational theater. Also included are dozens of follow-up stories about Mike Nichols, Barbara Harris, Del Close, Joan Rivers, Alan Arkin, and Gilda Radner, plus “You Only Shoot the Ones You Love,” the story of how this book’s author, playwright Jeffrey Sweet, became so involved in the community he covered that he was captured by it.

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Simon and Schuster

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1621538257

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The Unified Operations of the Human Soul

Jonathan Edwards’s Theological Anthropology and Apologetic

By: Jeffrey C. Waddington

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The Unified Operations of the Human Soul

Jonathan Edwards’s Theological Anthropology and Apologetic

By: Jeffrey C. Waddington

This book endeavors to examine and critically assess the theological anthropology of Jonathan Edwards with a view to considering how this anthropology coheres with his apologetic methodology. Specifically, the question has been raised whether Edwards' doctrine of man is consistent with the picture painted of Jonathan Edwards by John Gerstner that he was the epitome of the classical apologist. It is argued that Edwards practiced an eclectic apologetic sans apologetic self-awareness. In other words, Edwards was a child of his training and time.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1498271545

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American Documentary Film

Projecting the Nation

By: Jeffrey Geiger

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American Documentary Film

Projecting the Nation

By: Jeffrey Geiger

Richard Wall Memorial Award 2012 - Finalist. What key concerns are reflected in documentaries produced in and about the United States? How have documentaries engaged with competing visions of US history, culture, politics, and national identity? This book examines how documentary films have contributed to the American public sphere - creating a kind of public space, serving as sites for community-building, public expression, and social innovation. Geiger focuses on how documentaries have been significant in forming ideas of the nation, both as an imagined space and a real place. Moving from the dawn of cinema to the present day, this is the first full-length study to focus on the extensive range and history of American non-fiction filmmaking. Combining comprehensive overviews with in-depth case studies, Geiger maps American documentary's intricate histories, examining the impact of pre- and early cinema, travelogues, the avant-garde, 1930s social documentary, propaganda, direct cinema, postmodernism, and 'new' documentary. Offering detailed close analyses and fresh insights, this book provides students and scholars with a stimulating guide to American documentary, reminding us of its important place in cinema history.

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Edinburgh University Press

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0748629467

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9780748629466

A Nation of Realtors®

A Cultural History of the Twentieth-Century American Middle Class

By: Jeffrey M. Hornstein

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A Nation of Realtors®

A Cultural History of the Twentieth-Century American Middle Class

By: Jeffrey M. Hornstein

How is it that in the twentieth century virtually all Americans came to think of themselves as “middle class”? In this cultural history of real estate brokerage, Jeffrey M. Hornstein argues that the rise of the Realtors as dealers in both domestic space and the ideology of home ownership provides tremendous insight into this critical question. At the dawn of the twentieth century, a group of prominent real estate brokers attempted to transform their occupation into a profession. Drawing on traditional notions of the learned professions, they developed a new identity—the professional entrepreneur—and a brand name, “Realtor.” The Realtors worked doggedly to make home ownership a central element of what became known as the “American dream.” Hornstein analyzes the internal evolution of the occupation, particularly the gender dynamics culminating in the rise of women brokers to predominance after the Second World War. At the same time, he examines the ways organized real estate brokers influenced American housing policy throughout the century. Hornstein draws on trade journals, government documents on housing policy, material from the archives of the National Association of Realtors and local real estate boards, demographic data, and fictional accounts of real estate agents. He chronicles the early efforts of real estate brokers to establish their profession by creating local and national boards, business practices, ethical codes, and educational programs and by working to influence laws from local zoning ordinances to national housing policy. A rich and original work of American history, A Nation of Realtors® illuminates class, gender, and business through a look at the development of a profession and its enormously successful effort to make the owner-occupied, single-family home a key element of twentieth-century American identity.

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Duke University Press

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0822386607

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Linguistic Landscapes

A Sociolinguistic Approach

By: Jeffrey L. Kallen

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Linguistic Landscapes

A Sociolinguistic Approach

By: Jeffrey L. Kallen

Visible language is widespread and familiar in everyday life. We find it in shop signs, advertising billboards, street and place name signs, commercial logos and slogans, and visual arts. The field of linguistic landscapes draws on insights from sociolinguistics, language policy and semiotics to show how these public forms of language relate to multiple issues in language policy, language rights, language and education, language and culture, and globalization. Stretching from the earliest stone inscriptions, to posters and street signs, and to today's electronic media, linguistic landscapes sit at the crossroads of language, society, geography, and visual communication. Written by one of the pioneers of the field, this is the first book-length synthesis of this exciting, rapidly-developing field. Using photographic evidence from across three continents, it demonstrates the methodology and approaches used, and summarises its findings and developments so far. It also seeks to answer common questions from its critics, and to suggest new directions for further study.

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Cambridge University Press

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1316827747

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Moon Hunters

NASA's Remarkable Expeditions to the Ends of the Solar System

By: Jeffrey Kluger

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Moon Hunters

NASA's Remarkable Expeditions to the Ends of the Solar System

By: Jeffrey Kluger

In this book, the author tells the story of some of the most remarkable heavenly bodies known - the solar system's sixty-five moons - and the extraordinary people who have explored them. -- Description from back cover.

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Simon and Schuster

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0684865599

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Four Guardians

A Principled Agent View of American Civil-Military Relations

By: Jeffrey W. Donnithorne

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Four Guardians

A Principled Agent View of American Civil-Military Relations

By: Jeffrey W. Donnithorne

This timely work brings a new appreciation for the American military, the complex dynamics of civilian control, and the principled ways in which the four guardian services defend their nation.

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Johns Hopkins University Press

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1421439921

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StarTalk

Everything You Ever Need to Know About Space Travel, Sci-Fi, the Human Race, the Universe, and Beyond

By: Neil deGrasse Tyson,Jeffrey Simons,Charles Liu

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StarTalk

Everything You Ever Need to Know About Space Travel, Sci-Fi, the Human Race, the Universe, and Beyond

By: Neil deGrasse Tyson,Jeffrey Simons,Charles Liu

This illustrated companion to the popular podcast and National Geographic Channel show is an eye-opening journey for anyone curious about our universe, space, astronomy and the complexities of the cosmos. For decades, beloved astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has interpreted science with a combination of brainpower and charm that resonates with fans everywhere. This pioneering, provocative book brings together the best of StarTalk, his beloved podcast and television show devoted to solving the most confounding mysteries of Earth, space, and what it means to be human. Filled with brilliant sidebars, vivid photography, and unforgettable quotes from Tyson and his brilliant cohort of science and entertainment luminaries, StarTalk will help answer all of your most pressing questions about our world—from how the brain works to the physics of comic book superheroes. Fun, smart, and laugh-out-loud funny, this book is the perfect guide to everything you ever wanted to know about the universe—and beyond.

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National Geographic Books

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1426220502

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McClellan and the Union High Command, 1861-1863

Leadership Gaps That Cost a Timely Victory

By: Jeffrey W. Green

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McClellan and the Union High Command, 1861-1863

Leadership Gaps That Cost a Timely Victory

By: Jeffrey W. Green

With Washington's proximity to the Confederate capital of Richmond, Union military operations in the first two years of the Civil War focused mainly on the Eastern Theater, where General McClellan commanded the Army of the Potomac. McClellan's "On to Richmond" battle cry dominated strategic thinking in the high command. When he failed and was sacked by President Lincoln, a coterie of senior officers sought his return. This re-examination of the high command and McClellan's war in the East provides a broader understanding of the Union's inability to achieve victory in the first two years, and takes the debate about the Union's leadership into new areas.

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McFarland

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1476665737

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9781476665733

The Corpse Hits Cleanup

By: Jeffrey McGraw

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The Corpse Hits Cleanup

By: Jeffrey McGraw

Caught in a horrific midtown ambush, the partner of NYPD cop Ray Nichols is gunned down right before his eyes. Another brutal murder soon leaves Ray the sole surviving eyewitness. A partner from his past returns as terror strikes again with deadly consequences. The minor league baseball team his father owns is set to battle Cuban all-stars while his father must face cancer. Ray returns to his hometown as the killers close in with fanatic desperation. Ray’s new love has secrets of her own. She is now a prime suspect when one of the Cuban ballplayers is murdered. While trying to clear her, Ray is in the crosshairs of the shooters who have vowed to bury him. If he didn’t know better, Ray Nichols would think he was cursed. Maybe he’s right. From Jeffrey McGraw, creator of the Ross Malone thrillers, catch the page turning, explosive action in The Corpse Hits Cleanup, where you’ll need a coroner to keep score.

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iUniverse

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059519043X

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Nine from Aberdeen

By: Jeffrey M. Leatherwood

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Nine from Aberdeen

By: Jeffrey M. Leatherwood

In Tunisia with II Corps, Lt. John Randall locates a downed German plane and demolishes two live bombs still mounted on the wreckage … In Italy, Capt. Ronald Felton’s team contends with dreaded “Butterfly Bombs” left behind to menace the US 5th Army … Landing with the 6th US Special Engineers Brigade, Capt. Jesse Donovan’s squad braves deadly 88mm shells in pursuit of enemy rockets on Utah Beach … Serving with the 9th Army Air Force in France, Capt. Thomas Reece survives a close encounter with a German landmine … Capt. Joseph Pilcher joins in the 78th Infantry’s final assault on a dam guarding the approaches to Germany … Sweeping the 11th Airborne Division’s trail on Luzon, Lt. Carl Cirocco’s team is ambushed by the Japanese … Capt. Richard Metress is dispatched to tackle enemy depth charges for the 19th Infantry Regiment on Mandog Hill … Capt. Clifford Sarauw covers the US 10th Army’s fateful landing on Okinawa … These aforementioned exploits are among the notable events contained in Nine from Aberdeen, the first academic history solely devoted to the US Army’s Ordnance Bomb Disposal Branch from World War II. Shortly after Pearl Harbor, nine US Army officers and sergeants were sent from Aberdeen Proving Ground to war-torn England in order to learn the invaluable technical skills pioneered by the British Royal Engineers. Led by the colorful Thomas J. Kane, these nine men inaugurated the new Ordnance Bomb Disposal School. Conceived initially for homeland defense, Col. Kane’s branch eventually fielded over two hundred Army and Air Force bomb squads for overseas service. These courageous officers and men were forerunners of today’s Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) specialists, responsible for supporting the US military during combat operations and for preserving the lives of noncombatants at all other times. Using documents and photographs – many from personal collections – as well as oral interviews, this work presents a cross-section of US Army and Air Force operations spanning three major theaters: Mediterranean, European, and the Pacific. Special emphasis is given to the European Theater, where Col. Kane served as Gen. Eisenhower’s chief ETO bomb disposal officer. Nine from Aberdeen also contains charts detailing campaign participations, ordnance statistics, and other significant data. Command Sergeant Major James H. Clifford (Retired), military consultant for the award-winning film, The Hurt Locker, provides an afterword on the continuity of modern EOD.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1443838381

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Emancipating Slaves, Enslaving Free Men

A History of the American Civil War

By: Jeffrey Hummel

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Emancipating Slaves, Enslaving Free Men

A History of the American Civil War

By: Jeffrey Hummel

This book combines a sweeping narrative of the Civil War with a bold new look at the war’s significance for American society. Professor Hummel sees the Civil War as America’s turning point: simultaneously the culmination and repudiation of the American revolution. While the chapters tell the story of the Civil War and discuss the issues raised in readable prose, each chapter is followed by a detailed bibliographical essay, looking at all the different major works on the subject, with their varying ideological viewpoints and conclusions. In his economic analysis of slavery, Professor Hummel takes a different view than the two major poles which have determined past discussions of the topic. While some writers claim that slavery was unprofitable and harmful to the Southern economy, and others maintain it was profitable and efficient for the South, Hummel uses the economic concept of Deadweight Loss to show that slavery was both highly profitable for slave owners and harmful to Southern economic development. While highly critical of Confederate policy, Hummel argues that the war was fought to prevent secession, not to end slavery, and that preservation of the Union was not necessary to end slavery: the North could have let the South secede peacefully, and slavery would still have been quickly terminated. Part of Hummel’s argument is that the South crucially relied on the Northern states to return runaway slaves to their owners. This new edition has a substantial new introduction by the author, correcting and supplementing the account given in the first edition (the major revision is an increase in the estimate of total casualties) and a foreword by John Majewski, a rising star of Civil War studies.

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Open Court

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0812698444

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An American Family

A Televised Life

By: Jeffrey Ruoff

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An American Family

A Televised Life

By: Jeffrey Ruoff

Before 1973, the Loud family of Santa Barbara, California, lived in the privacy of their own home. With the airing of the documentary An American Family, that "privacy" extended to every American home with a television. This book is the first to offer a close look at An American Family -- the documentary that blurred conventions, stirred passions, revised impressions of family life and definitions of private and public, and began the breakdown of distinctions between reality and spectacle that culminated in cultural phenomena from The Oprah Winfrey Show to Survivor.

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U of Minnesota Press

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0816635609

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The Shadow of Unfairness

A Plebeian Theory of Liberal Democracy

By: Jeffrey Edward Green

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The Shadow of Unfairness

A Plebeian Theory of Liberal Democracy

By: Jeffrey Edward Green

In this sequel to his prize-winning book, The Eyes of the People, Jeffrey Edward Green draws on philosophy, history, social science, and literature to ask what democracy can mean in a world where it is understood that socioeconomic status to some degree will always determine opportunities for civic engagement and career advancement. Under this shadow of unfairness, Green argues that the most advantaged class are rightly subjected to compulsory public burdens. And just as provocatively, he urges ordinary citizens living in polities permanently darkened by plutocracy to acknowledge their second-class status and the uncomfortable civic ethics that come with it -- specifically an ethics whereby the pursuit of egalitarianism is informed, at least in part, by indignation, envy, uncivil modes of discourse, and even the occasional suspension of political care. Deeply engaged in the history of political thought, The Shadow of Unfairness is still first and foremost an effort to illuminate present-day politics. With the plebeians of ancient Rome as his muse, Green develops a plebeian conception of contemporary liberal democracy, at once disenchanted yet idealistic in its insistence that the Few-Many distinction might be enlisted for progressive purpose. Green's analysis is likely to unsettle all sides of the political spectrum, but its focus looks beyond narrow partisan concerns and aims instead to understand what the ongoing quest for free and equal citizenship might require once it is accepted that our political and educational systems will always be tainted by socioeconomic inequality.

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Oxford University Press

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0190611367

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Business Law

In the News

By: Jeffrey F. Beatty,Susan S. Samuelson

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Business Law

In the News

By: Jeffrey F. Beatty,Susan S. Samuelson

A compilation of newspaper and magazine articles illustrating the far-reaching scope of the law.

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Aspen Publishers

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0316771104

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Somerset Maugham

A Life

By: Jeffrey Meyers

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Somerset Maugham

A Life

By: Jeffrey Meyers

An instinctive and magnificent storyteller, Somerset Maugham was one of the most popular and successful writers of his time. He published seventy-eight books -- including the undisputed classics Of Human Bondage and The Razor’s Edge -- which sold over 40 million copies in his lifetime. Born in Paris to sophisticated parents, Willie Maugham was orphaned at the age of ten and brought up in a small English coastal town by narrow-minded relatives. He was trained as a doctor, but never practiced medicine. His novel Ashenden, based on his own espionage for Britain in World War I, influenced writers from Eric Ambler to John le Carr?. After a failed affair with an actress, he married another man’s mistress, but reserved his greatest love for a man who shared his life for nearly thirty years. He traveled the world and spoke several languages. Despite a debilitating stutter, and an acerbic and formal manner, he entertained literary celebrities and royalty at his villa in the south of France. He made a fortune from his writing--the short story “Rain” alone earned him a million dollars–yet true critical recognition, and the esteem of his literary peers, eluded him. The life of Somerset Maugham, as told by acclaimed biographer Jeffrey Meyers, is an intriguing, glamorous, complex, and extraordinary account of one of the twentieth century’s most enduring writers. From the Trade Paperback edition.

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The Legend of Rowan

By: Jeffrey L. Rodengen

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The Legend of Rowan

By: Jeffrey L. Rodengen

Rowan Companies grew from the dreams of two Texas brothers, Charles and Archibald Rowan, and their $16,000 oil rig. The two men started out as roughnecks, and founded the company in 1923. The men formed a lifelong partnership based on hard work, loyalty to their workers and cost-conscious business sense. Rowan Companies today builds and operates huge offshore drilling rigs and owns a fleet of helicopters and airplanes that provide services as varied as medical flights and Alaskan sightseeing tours. Relive the struggles and stories in the pages of The Legend of Rowan. Individually boxed.

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Write Stuff Syndicate

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0945903456

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Getting Started in Metals

By: Jeffrey Nichols

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Getting Started in Metals

By: Jeffrey Nichols

When Jeffrey Nichols talks, metals investors on five continents listen. One of the world's most respected and most quoted experts in the economics of the gold, silver, and platinum markets, Jeff knows more about investing in metals than just about anybody today. Now, in this complete guide to getting started in today's metals markets, metals maven Jeffrey Nichols tells serious investors what they need to know to profit in today's precious, industrial base, and strategic metals markets. Following the critically acclaimed Getting Started in series format, and featuring the clarity, practicality, and timeliness that have made all the books in the series such a huge hit with investors everywhere, Getting Started in Metals gives you: Accessible information on how metals are packaged, and how to invest in them, both through mutual funds and direct bullion purchases The essentials of investing in mining and metals equities, options, and futures Expert advice on how strong a role metals should play in a well-rounded portfolio Lots of real-life examples, definitions, convenient sidebar information, filled with charts, graphs, and illustrations A working glossary for metals investors and a comprehensive listing of contact information

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