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Extinct Birds

By: Julian P. Hume

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A comprehensive review of the hundreds of bird species that have become extinct over the last 1,000 years of habitat degradation, over-hunting and rat introduction. Extinct Birds has become the standard text on this subject, covering both familiar icons of extinction as well as more obscure birds, some known from just one specimen or from travellers' tales. This second edition is expanded to include dozens of new species, as more are constantly added to the list, either through extinction or through new subfossil discoveries. The book is the result of decades of research into literature and museum drawers, as well as caves and subfossil deposits, which often reveal birds long-gone that disappeared without ever being recorded by scientists while they lived. From Great Auks, Carolina Parakeets and Dodos to the amazing yet almost completely vanished bird radiations of Hawaii and New Zealand via rafts of extinction in the Pacific and elsewhere, this book is both a sumptuous reference and astounding testament to humanity's devastating impact on wildlife.

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609

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1472937465

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9781472937469

Arsenal of Democracy

The Politics of National Security -- From World War II to the War on Terrorism

By: Julian E. Zelizer

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Arsenal of Democracy

The Politics of National Security -- From World War II to the War on Terrorism

By: Julian E. Zelizer

It has long been a truism that prior to George W. Bush, politics stopped at the water's edge -- that is, that partisanship had no place in national security. In Arsenal of Democracy, historian Julian E. Zelizer shows this to be demonstrably false: partisan fighting has always shaped American foreign policy and the issue of national security has always been part of our domestic conflicts. Based on original archival findings, Arsenal of Democracy offers new insights into nearly every major national security issue since the beginning of the cold war: from FDR's masterful management of World War II to the partisanship that scarred John F. Kennedy during the Cuban Missile Crisis, from Ronald Reagan’s fight against Communism to George W. Bushrues controversial War on Terror. A definitive account of the complex interaction between domestic politics and foreign affairs over the last six decades, Arsenal of Democracy is essential reading for anyone interested in the politics of national security.

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594

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Basic Books

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0465020860

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9780465020867

Key and Allied Families

By: Julian C. Lane

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Key and Allied Families

By: Julian C. Lane

This work concentrates upon families with a strong connection to Virginia and Kentucky, most of which are traced forward from the eighteenth, if not the seventeenth, century. The compiler makes ample use of published sources some extent original records, and the recollections of the oldest living members of a number of the families covered. Finally. The essays reflect a balanced mixture of genealogy and biography, which makes for interesting reading and a substantial number of linkages between as many as six generations of family members.

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498

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Genealogical Publishing Com

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0806349778

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9780806349770

Policing Empires

By: Julian Go

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Policing Empires

By: Julian Go

Policing Empires examines the militarization of the "civil police" in Britain and the United States. It tracks when, why and how British and US police departments have adopted military tactics, tools and technologies for domestic use. It reveals that police militarization has occurred since the very founding of modern policing in the nineteenth century and that militarization has long been an effect of the imperial boomerang. When militarizing their forces, police officials have drawn upon the tactics, tools and technologies associated with imperialism and colonial conquests. Using the tools of comparative and postcolonial historical sociology, the book further shows that there have been distinct waves of militarization in Britain and the United States since the nineteenth century and that each of these waves have been triggered by the racialization of crime and disorder. Police have typically brought the imperial boomerang home to militarize police in response to perceived racialized threats from minority and immigrant populations. Police militarization results from the imperial state domesticating the methods and tools of its armies abroad to herd, contain and thrash imagined barbarians who have dared flood through the gates of ostensible civilization"--

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393

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Oxford University Press

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0197621651

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9780197621653

The World Atlas of Horse Racing

By: Julian Bedford

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The World Atlas of Horse Racing

By: Julian Bedford

Filled with photographs of famous races, here is an overview of the sport that is chock-full of information: tracks, horses, famous races and racers. A stunning portrayal of The Sport of Kings.

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228

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BDD Promotional Books Company

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0792450183

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9780792450184

Book's by Julian M. Benson

Extinct Birds

Extinct Birds

Arsenal of Democracy

Arsenal of Democracy

Key and Allied Families

Key and Allied Families

Policing Empires

Policing Empires

The World Atlas of Horse Racing

The World Atlas of Horse Racing

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