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Why Nation-Building Matters

Political Consolidation, Building Security Forces, and Economic Development in Failed and Fragile States

By: Keith W. Mines

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Why Nation-Building Matters

Political Consolidation, Building Security Forces, and Economic Development in Failed and Fragile States

By: Keith W. Mines

No one likes nation-building. The public dismisses it. Politicians criticize it. The traditional military disdains it, and civilian agencies lack the blueprint necessary to make it work. Yet functioning states play a foundational role in international security and stability. Left unattended, ungoverned spaces can produce crises from migration to economic collapse to terrorism. Keith W. Mines has taken part in nation-building efforts as a Special Forces officer, diplomat, occupation administrator, and United Nations official. In Why Nation-Building Matters he uses cases from his own career to argue that repairing failed states is a high-yield investment in our own nation's global future. Eyewitness accounts of eight projects--in Colombia, Grenada, El Salvador, Somalia, Haiti, Darfur, Afghanistan, and Iraq--inform Mines's in-depth analysis of how foreign interventions succeed and fail. Building on that analysis, he establishes a framework for nation-building in the core areas of building security forces, economic development, and political consolidation that blend soft and hard power into an effective package. Grounded in real-world experience, Why Nation-Building Matters is an informed and essential guide to meeting one of the foremost challenges of our foreign policy present and future.

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U of Nebraska Press

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1640123377

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9781640123373

Twice a Spy

By: Keith Thomson

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Twice a Spy

By: Keith Thomson

Twice the speed, twice the trouble, twice the fun—Charlie and Drummond Clark return in this riveting, fast-paced sequel to Once a Spy. Charlie and Drummond Clark are on the lam, hiding out in Switzerland near a clinic which is testing revolutionary treatments for Alzheimer's on Drummond. With them is NSA operative Alice Rutherford, who has been working to exonerate them, but before she can make any headway, she is kidnapped by a terrorist group. To get her back, Charlie and Drummond are forced to plumb Drummond's damaged memory for the location of a secret cache of weapons, then turn over the most lethal of the lot. At the same time, they must find a way to thwart the terrorists before they can use the weapon for unspeakable destruction. In the tradition of Robert Ludlum, with a witty twist, Thomson's second novel featuring a former spy and his son once again poses the question: What happens when a former CIA agent can no longer trust his own mind?

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449

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Anchor

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0307473155

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9780307473158

Teaching History from Primary Evidence (1993)

By: Keith Andreetti

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Teaching History from Primary Evidence (1993)

By: Keith Andreetti

Originally published in 1993, this volume will be of particular interest to primary school teachers who may never have taught history as a discreet subject before and who are worried by their negative memories of school history and lack confidence as to their own knowledge of the subject. The author provides a practical guide to the theory and rudiments of history with guidance on how to present it using primary evidence in an exciting way that makes sense in terms of primary practice.

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Routledge

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1351378937

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9781351378932

Neolithic Britain

The Transformation of Social Worlds

By: Keith W. Ray,Julian Thomas

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Neolithic Britain

The Transformation of Social Worlds

By: Keith W. Ray,Julian Thomas

Neolithic Britain is an up to date, concise introduction to the period of British prehistory from c. 4000-2200 BCE, covering key material and social developments, and reflecting on the nature of cultural practices, tradition, genealogy, and society across nearly two millennia.

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Oxford University Press

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0198823894

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Detroit Country Music

Mountaineers, Cowboys, and Rockabillies

By: Craig Maki,Keith Cady

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Detroit Country Music

Mountaineers, Cowboys, and Rockabillies

By: Craig Maki,Keith Cady

The richness of Detroit’s music history has by now been well established. We know all about Motown, the MC5, and Iggy and the Stooges. We also know about the important part the Motor City has played in the history of jazz. But there are stories about the music of Detroit that remain untold. One of the lesser known but nonetheless fascinating histories is contained within Detroit’s country music roots. At last, Craig Maki and Keith Cady bring to light Detroit’s most important country and western and bluegrass stars, such as Chief Redbird, the York Brothers, and Roy Hall. Beyond the individuals, Maki and Cady also map out the labels, radio programs, and performance venues that sustained Detroit’s vibrant country and bluegrass music scene. In the process, Detroit Country Music examines how and why the city’s growth in the early twentieth century, particularly the southern migration tied to the auto industry, led to this vibrant roots music scene. This is the first book—the first resource of any kind—to tell the story of Detroit’s contributions to country music. Craig Maki and Keith Cady have spent two decades collecting music and images, and visiting veteran musicians to amass more than seventy interviews about country music in Detroit. Just as astounding as the book’s revelations are the photographs, most of which have never been published before. Detroit Country Music will be essential reading for music historians, record collectors, roots music fans, and Detroit music aficionados.

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University of Michigan Press

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0472052012

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9780472052011

Heart of the Tiger

By: William R. Forstchen,Andrew Keith

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Heart of the Tiger

By: William R. Forstchen,Andrew Keith

Humans are truly against the wall! Terran forces are pushed to a last stand by the ever-encroaching Kilrathi hordes. The end seems very near. It is time for desperation measures. Against overwhelming odds, the humans try to launch a last offensive against the Kilrathi homeworld. Once again, humanity’s last best hope is embodied in her flyers. Never before has so much been asked of so few—and now humanity’s existence itself is on the line! At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).

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Baen Books

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1625795521

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9781625795526

The Rocking T Rustlers

By: Keith R. Ostling

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The Rocking T Rustlers

By: Keith R. Ostling

The Rocking T Rustlers" is the third novel in a five-novel series featuring a character called Chancy Flint. Chancy is a young cowboy who's good with horses, cattle and guns. He figures out that someone is changing brands on Rocking T stock to the Circle Cross brand. He eventually figures out who's behind the rustling as well as a couple of murders. The local sheriff is on the rustler's payroll, so it falls to Chancy Flint to bring the rustler to justice. But the rustler is surrounded by hired gunmen. The odds are heavily against him, but he vows to do his best. He says he can do nothing more -- and he can do nothing less.

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Lulu.com

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1304901750

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9781304901750

The Guns of Jericho

By: Keith R. Ostling

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The Guns of Jericho

By: Keith R. Ostling

This book is the fourth in a five-novel series About Chancy Flint, a young man who is suddenly forced to face adult responsibilities and dangerous situations at a very young age. By age twenty Chancy had already faced more danger than many men face in a lifetime. He grew up straight and strong, tempered by adversity, not defeated by it. In this book Chancy travels to Colorado to find the woman he intends to marry. When she's not in Denver where she's supposed to be, he goes searching for her. He finds she suffers from amnesia and has been taken in by Jacob McCandless, a ruthless, dangerous man who refuses to let her leave. Chancy unexpectedly finds himself embroiled in a dangerous range war culminating in an all-out gun battle involving about twenty men in the street of the fictional Kansas town of Jericho.

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1312439386

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9781312439382

First Lady of Nowhere

By: Keith R. Ostling

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First Lady of Nowhere

By: Keith R. Ostling

This book is the first in a three-novel series featuring Dan Currie, a smart, loyal and successful gambler. Etta Lee, a beautiful young madam brought the first women into a booming gold mining town with the unlikely name of "Nowhere." Her parlor house was wildly successful and she quickly became Nowhere's most prominent figure, known far and wide as "The First Lady of Nowhere." Unfortunately, Etta was kidnapped at gunpoint by a vicious, dangerous renegade who intended to torture and murder her. She knew that to survive she'd have to escape. But how?

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1312459247

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9781312459243

Trail to the Palisades

By: Keith R. Ostling

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Trail to the Palisades

By: Keith R. Ostling

This is the second in a 3-novel series featuring Dan Currie, a gambler turned business man in an 1870s gold mining town high in the Colorado Rockies. Currie had always considered himself a lucky man. He'd won a non-producing gold mine in a poker game and soon hit one of the biggest strikes in Colorado. He and his wife, Etta, now owned several mines, a bank, a hotel, and a large ranch with thousands of cattle. But Currie's luck had suddenly turned bad. A huge explosion tore his highest producing gold mine apart. His bank was robbed. One of his young cowboys was brutally murdered when rustlers hit his ranch. Currie was shot off a cliff and nearly drowned. And now, someone had hired Sam Gash, a dangerous professional assassin to murder him. Lightening fast with a gun, Gash was also known to kill from ambush on occasion. One thing was certain. When Gash and Currie met, someone would surely die.

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1312463023

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Bound to Respect

Antebellum Narratives of Black Imprisonment, Servitude, and Bondage, 1816–1861

By: Keith Michael Green

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Bound to Respect

Antebellum Narratives of Black Imprisonment, Servitude, and Bondage, 1816–1861

By: Keith Michael Green

Challenges the commonplace narrative that the African American experience of captivity in the United States is reducible to the legal institution of slavery, a status remedied through emancipation

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University of Alabama Press

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0817318836

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9780817318833

The St. Elmo Murders

By: Keith R. Ostling

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The St. Elmo Murders

By: Keith R. Ostling

This is the third in a three-novel series featuring Dan and Etta Currie. A mysterious telegram from Matt Halliday, an old friend, led Dan Currie to travel to 1880s St. Elmo, a gold mining boom town high in the Colorado Rockies. When he arrived, his friend lay mortally wounded. Halliday died in Currie's arms. Currie vowed he would not leave St. Elmo until Halliday's murderer was captured. Dan's investigation led him to try to unravel the complex web of alliances and animosities that were the seamy underbelly of St. Elmo. With the help of a newspaper publisher and another old friend, Currie was slowly but surely sorting out the players. The murderer, apparently worried that Currie was getting too close, made several unsuccessful attempts on Currie's life. Would Currie figure it out before they killed him?

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1312466529

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9781312466524

The Lake County War

By: Keith R. Ostling

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The Lake County War

By: Keith R. Ostling

Between June, 1874 and October, 1881 the residents of what is now Chaffee County, Colorado endured a prolonged period of the most extreme violence ever to occur in Colorado. In 1874, the area was part of Lake County, thus the name ""The Lake County War."" During this bloody conflict it is said more than 100 men were murdered including a judge sitting in his courtroom. Vigilantes forced many families to leave their homes and property to avoid being murdered. This book, though fictionalized somewhat to make it more readable, tells the true story of what happened. It is the fifth in a five-novel series featuring Chancy Flint, a smart, tough, highly principled young cowboy who is chained lightening with a gun. He's not a gunfighter. He's the type of man gunfighters stay away from if they're smart.

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1312445041

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9781312445048

100 Documentary Films

By: Barry Keith Grant,Jim Hillier

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100 Documentary Films

By: Barry Keith Grant,Jim Hillier

Documentary films constitute a major part of film history. Cinema's origins lie, arguably, more in non-fiction than fiction, and documentary represents the other - often submerged and barely visible - 'half' of cinema history. Historically, documentary cinema has always been an important point of reference for fiction cinema, and the two have often overlapped. Over the last two decades, documentary cinema has enjoyed a revival in critical and commercial success. 100 Documentary Films is the first book to offer concise and authoritative individual critical commentaries on some of the key documentary films - from the Lumière brothers and the beginnings of cinema through to recent films such as Bowling for Columbine and When the Levees Broke - and is global in perspective. Many different types of documentary are discussed, as well as films by major documentary directors, including Robert Flaherty, Humphrey Jennings, Jean Rouch, Dziga Vertov, Errol Morris, Nick Broomfield and Michael Moore. Each entry provides concise critical analysis, while frequent cross reference to other films featured helps to place films in their historical and aesthetic contexts. Barry Keith Grant is Professor of Film Studies and Popular Culture at Brock University, Ontario, Canada. He is the author of Film Genre: From Iconography to Ideology (2007), Voyages of Discovery: The Cinema of Frederick Wiseman (1992) and co-author, with Steve Blandford and Jim Hillier, of The Film Studies Dictionary (2001). Jim Hillier is Visiting Lecturer in Film at the University of Reading. He is the author of The New Hollywood (1993), the co-author of The Film Studies Dictionary (2001) and, with Alan Lovell, of Studies in Documentary (1972). His edited books include American Independent Cinema (2001) and two volumes of the English translation of the selected Cahiers du cinema (1985, 1986).

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1838714014

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9781838714017

Our Social World

Introduction to Sociology

By: Jeanne H. Ballantine,Keith A. Roberts,Kathleen Odell Korgen

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Our Social World

Introduction to Sociology

By: Jeanne H. Ballantine,Keith A. Roberts,Kathleen Odell Korgen

Our Social World: Introduction to Sociology inspires students to develop their sociological imaginations, to see the world and personal events from a new perspective, and to confront sociological issues on a day-to-day basis. Organized around the "Social World" model, a conceptual framework that demonstrates the relationships among individuals (the micro level); organizations, institutions, and subcultures (the meso level); and societies and global structures (the macro level), Jeanne H. Ballantine, Keith A. Roberts, and Kathleen Odell Korgen use this framework to help students develop the practice of using three levels of analysis, and to view sociology as an integrated whole, rather than a set of discrete subjects. The Seventh Edition includes new coverage of climate change, the influence of robots and artificial intelligence on workers, race relations in the Trump era, issues related to transgender identity and gender fluidity, sexual harassment in the workplace and the #MeToo movement, declining marriage rates, the impact of tracking for students at all academic achievement levels, smoking as an example of health and inequality in the US, gun violence and the student movement to control access to guns, social media, and Russian interference in the 2016 election.

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SAGE Publications

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154435780X

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9781544357805

Advanced Physics for You

By: Keith Johnson,Simmone Hewett,Sue Holt,John Miller

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Advanced Physics for You

By: Keith Johnson,Simmone Hewett,Sue Holt,John Miller

Designed to be motivating to the student, this title includes features that are suitable for individual learning. It covers the AS-Level and core topics of almost all A2 specifications.

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Nelson Thornes

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074875296X

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Our Social World: Condensed

An Introduction to Sociology

By: Jeanne H. Ballantine,Keith A. Roberts,Kathleen Odell Korgen

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Our Social World: Condensed

An Introduction to Sociology

By: Jeanne H. Ballantine,Keith A. Roberts,Kathleen Odell Korgen

The authors are proud sponsors of the 2020 SAGE Keith Roberts Teaching Innovations Award—enabling graduate students and early career faculty to attend the annual ASA pre-conference teaching and learning workshop. Our Social World: Condensed inspires students to develop their sociological imaginations, to see the world and personal events from a new perspective, and to confront sociological issues on a day-to-day basis. The award-winning author team organizes the text around the "Social World" model, a conceptual framework that demonstrates the relationships among individuals (the micro level); organizations, institutions, and subcultures (the meso level); and societies and global structures (the macro level). The use of the Social World Model across chapters (represented in a visual diagram in the chapter openers) helps students develop the practice of using three levels of analysis, and to view sociology as an integrated whole, rather than a set of discrete subjects. The Condensed version is adapted from Our Social World: Introduction to Sociology. The Sixth Edition of the Condensed version is made approximately 30% shorter than the full edition by removing selected boxes, editing the main narrative, and combining four chapters into two (Family/Education, and Politics/Economics). A Complete Teaching & Learning Package SAGE Premium Video Included in the interactive eBook! SAGE Premium Video tools and resources boost comprehension and bolster analysis. Learn more. Interactive eBook Includes access to SAGE Premium Video, multimedia tools, and much more! Save when you bundle the interactive eBook with the new edition. Order using bundle ISBN: 978-1-5443-8830-4. Learn more. SAGE coursepacks FREE! Easily import our quality instructor and student resource content into your school’s learning management system (LMS) and save time. Learn more. SAGE edge FREE online resources for students that make learning easier. See how your students benefit. SAGE course outcomes: Measure Results, Track Success Outlined in your text and mapped to chapter learning objectives, SAGE course outcomes are crafted with specific course outcomes in mind and vetted by advisors in the field. See how SAGE course outcomes tie in with this book’s chapter-level objectives at edge.sagepub.com/ballantinecondensed6e.

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