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Lifetime Fitness and Wellness

A Personal Choice

By: Melvin H. Williams

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As our nation focuses more on health, wellness, and the behaviors that contribute to a happier, more positive lifestyle, you and your students will probably find you need some assistance wading through the glut of information. Dr. Melvin Williams brings you the text to help you clearly understand the science behind the many aspects of fitness and wellness in Lifetime Fitness and Wellness: A Personal Choice, Fourth Edition.

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0697013367

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National Insecurity

The Cost of American Militarism

By: Melvin A. Goodman

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National Insecurity

The Cost of American Militarism

By: Melvin A. Goodman

Mel Goodman has spent the last few decades telling us what's gone wrong with American intelligence and the American military, and now, in National Insecurity, he tells us what we must do to change the way the system works, and how to fix it. Goodman is not only telling us how to save wasted billions—he is also telling us how to save ourselves."—Seymour M. Hersh, The New Yorker Upon leaving the White House in 1961, President Eisenhower famously warned Americans about the dangers of a "military industrial complex," and was clearly worried about the destabilizing effects of a national economy based on outsized investments in military spending. As more and more Americans fall into poverty and the global economy spirals downward, the United States is spending more on the military than ever before. What are the consequences and what can be done? Melvin A. Goodman, a twenty-four-year veteran of the CIA, brings peerless authority to his argument that US military spending is indeed making Americans poorer and less secure while undermining our political standing in the world. Drawing from his firsthand experience with war planners and intelligence strategists, Goodman offers an insider's critique of the US military economy from President's Eisenhower's farewell warning to Barack Obama's expansion of the military's power. He outlines a much needed vision for how to alter our military policy, practices and spending in order to better position the United States globally and enhance prosperity and security at home. Melvin A. Goodman is the Director of the National Security Project at the Center for International Policy. A former professor of international security at the National War College and an intelligence adviser to strategic disarmament talks in the 1970s, he is the author of several books, including the critically acclaimed The Failure of Intelligence.

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City Lights Books

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0872865959

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Bush League Diplomacy

How the Neoconservatives Are Putting the World at Risk

By: Craig R. Eisendrath,Melvin A. Goodman

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Bush League Diplomacy

How the Neoconservatives Are Putting the World at Risk

By: Craig R. Eisendrath,Melvin A. Goodman

Fifty years ago, the United States founded the United Nations, promoted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, used economic aid as a tool for creating stability, and viewed collective agreements and cooperation as the principal methods of sharing the costs and the risks of security. Today, under the leadership of George W. Bush, the main tool of foreign policy is military force, not diplomacy. America is going it alone, and paying the price, both abroad and at home.In this comprehensive critique of the Bush administration's handling of international relations, Craig R. Eisendrath and Melvin A. Goodman, both senior fellows at the Center for International Policy, demonstrate the folly and the dangers of abandoning diplomacy and relying on military force as the chief means of conducting U.S. foreign policy. The authors argue that a policy of bullying will sow seeds of resentment and mistrust among our potential allies and encourage nations hostile to our interests to seek nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction as a last-resort method of protecting themselves against a belligerent world power. Eisendrath and Goodman foresee the international community becoming dangerously unstable, not more secure, under a Pax Americana maintained by military might.On the domestic front, the authors warn that a policy emphasizing the power of the executive branch at the expense of Congress, and suspending long-standing civil rights under the pretext of national security, threatens the Constitution. Finally, the economic effect of huge military expenditures financed by deficit spending has the potential of eroding domestic tranquility for decades.This trenchant review by two experienced foreign policy analysts will serve as a wake-up call to the dangerous militarism at the heart of the Bush agenda.Craig Eisendrath (Philadelphia, PA), a former diplomat, is a senior fellow at the Center for International Policy in Washington, D.C.; an adjunct professor a Temple University; the author (with Melvin A. Goodman and Gerald E. Marsh) of The Phantom Defense: America's Pursuit of the Star Wars Illusion, among other books; and the editor of National Insecurity: U.S. Intelligence After the Cold War.Melvin A. Goodman (Washington, D.C.), a former CIA official, is a senior fellow at the Center for International Policy; chairman of the International Relations Department at the National War College; and an author of books on defense and international relations.

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Prometheus Books

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1616140003

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China's Security

The New Roles of the Military

By: Melvin Gurtov,Byong-Moo Hwang

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China's Security

The New Roles of the Military

By: Melvin Gurtov,Byong-Moo Hwang

Showing how economic, technological, and bureaucratic factors have reshaped Chinese military thinking and behaviour, this text questions the perception of a China threat and provides an appraisal of the Chinese military establishment, emphasizing the interplay of domestic and external forces.

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Lynne Rienner Publishers

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1555874347

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Ladies, Front & Center! Elevate Humanity Through Self Discovery

By: Melvin Anderson

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Ladies, Front & Center! Elevate Humanity Through Self Discovery

By: Melvin Anderson

Ladies, Front & Center! is based primarily on an idea. The idea of all women elevating humanity through self discovery. Ladies, Front & Center! presents a wealth of information touching upon a number of subjects such as inner growth, critical thinking, the history of marriage, and ending with "Men Are Idiots!

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See It Through Publishing

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0615465927

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Our Precarious Habitat ... It's In Your Hands

By: Melvin A. Benarde

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Our Precarious Habitat ... It's In Your Hands

By: Melvin A. Benarde

This new and expanded Fourth Edition of Dr. Benarde's myth-defying book uses an evidence-based approach to refute today's pervasive, environmental doomsday hype. With up-to-date information consolidated from authoritative scientific journals and presented in highly readable form, Our Precarious Habitat . . . It's In Your Hands: covers hot-button issues like global warming, nuclear energy, electromagnetic fields, alternative health practices, and more; covers illnesses such as SARS, avian flu, West Nile virus, and prion diseases like mad cow; and includes facts, figures, tables, and charts derived from respected scientific sources and presented in easy-to-understand terms. New to this edition are sections on alternative energy sources, climate change, and creationism vs. evolution, plus expanded information on food safety that covers genetically modified foods, organic foods, free-radicals and antioxidants, and dietary supplements. This book is a great resource for environmental science professionals and a thought-provoking textbook for students in medicine and public health, the social sciences, earth science, and other areas. Most of all, it's an eye-opening reference for concerned officials and citizens who want a clear, unbiased perspective on environmental issues in order to separate scientific fact from alarmist propaganda.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470099690

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9780470099698

Pacific Asia?

Prospects for Security and Cooperation in East Asia

By: Melvin Gurtov

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Pacific Asia?

Prospects for Security and Cooperation in East Asia

By: Melvin Gurtov

Most studies of Asia-Pacific security are marked by pessimism and continuing belief in the virtues of a balance of power. Pacific Asia? goes against the grain by pointing to a number of positive developments--especially economic--in regional relationships, the absence of an arms race, the growth of multilateral groups, and an emerging consensus on the importance of nonmilitary paths to national security. Above all, Mel Gurtov stresses a definition of security that focuses on basic human needs, social justice, and environmental protection. The author disagrees with proponents of a China threat, criticizes U.S. Cold War notions of security through forward-based power, and argues for new efforts at regional dialogue based on multilateral cooperation, sensitivity to Asian nationalism, and a role for Japan as a 'global civilian power.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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074250851X

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Youth-led Health Promotion in Urban Communities

A Community Capacity-enhancement Perspective

By: Melvin Delgado,Huiquan Zhou

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Youth-led Health Promotion in Urban Communities

A Community Capacity-enhancement Perspective

By: Melvin Delgado,Huiquan Zhou

The introduction of innovative social paradigms that stress community-participation, community-focused empowerment, assets, social and economic justice themes, and in the case of youth, civic participation, represents one of the outcomes of this questioning and bodes well for current and future generations. The subject of how best to address the current and future health needs of this country's urban marginalized comunities is one that has also received considerable attention in academic, policy, and practice arenas in the past decade. A variety of models have been put forth to achieve the goal of health in these communities. One of the most promising recommendations has been the use of health promotion as a vehicle for reaching and empowering communities of color in both rural and urban America. The youth-led environmental justice movement, as it will be addressed in various sections of this book, is one of the latest and most promising approaches towards health promotion that is grass-roots and community participatory based. Youth-led health promotion represents an emerging field with tremendous implications for addressing the health needs of marginalized urban youth of color in the United States.

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0742561143

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Designs and Methods for Youth-Led Research

By: Melvin Delgado

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Designs and Methods for Youth-Led Research

By: Melvin Delgado

Youth-led research is increasing in popularity around the globe and empowers today's youth to help shape social interventions seeking to reach this population group. Designs and Methods for Youth-Led Research provides a foundation from which to plan and implement social research and program evaluation projects that place youth in central roles. In this text, author Melvin Delgado emphasizes how youth-led research represents a profound political and social statement about making relevant research result in significant changes to programs in the field of youth services. Key Features: Brings together the worlds of practice and academia by providing numerous examples of field-based youth-led research projects Encourages a partnership between youth and adults to facilitate mutual respect and give young people the opportunity to make significant and lasting contributions to the creation of solutions to many of their concerns and needs Examines future challenges in the field to help develop programs that will enrich tomorrow's youth Designs and Methods for Youth-Led Research is an excellent textbook for advanced undergraduate and graduate students studying youth development in a variety of Social Work, Psychology, Education, and Social Research courses. It is also a valuable resource for practitioners in the fields of youth development and youth services.

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0761930442

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Israel on the Appomattox

A Southern Experiment in Black Freedom from the 1790s Through the Civil War

By: Melvin Patrick Ely

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Israel on the Appomattox

A Southern Experiment in Black Freedom from the 1790s Through the Civil War

By: Melvin Patrick Ely

WINNER OF THE BANCROFT PRIZEA New York Times Book Review and Atlantic Monthly Editors' ChoiceThomas Jefferson denied that whites and freed blacks could live together in harmony. His cousin, Richard Randolph, not only disagreed, but made it possible for ninety African Americans to prove Jefferson wrong. Israel on the Appomattox tells the story of these liberated blacks and the community they formed, called Israel Hill, in Prince Edward County, Virginia. There, ex-slaves established farms, navigated the Appomattox River, and became entrepreneurs. Free blacks and whites did business with one another, sued each other, worked side by side for equal wages, joined forces to found a Baptist congregation, moved west together, and occasionally settled down as man and wife. Slavery cast its grim shadow, even over the lives of the free, yet on Israel Hill we discover a moving story of hardship and hope that defies our expectations of the Old South.

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Social Justice and the Urban Obesity Crisis

Implications for Social Work

By: Melvin Delgado

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Social Justice and the Urban Obesity Crisis

Implications for Social Work

By: Melvin Delgado

Melvin Delgado focuses on urban obesity in populations of colour, dissecting the issue from individual, family, group, community, and policy perspectives. After syrveying the history of urban obesity, anti-obesity policies and programs, and the role of social work in addressing this threat, Delgado moves through social, ecological, environmental, and spatial aggravators, such as the food industry's nefarious advertising strategies.

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Columbia University Press

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0231160097

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Social Work Practice in Nontraditional Urban Settings

By: Melvin Delgado

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Social Work Practice in Nontraditional Urban Settings

By: Melvin Delgado

The author suggests that many communities can be best served through their own, already-established recreational, social, and cultural centres, and shows how professional social workers can use these non-traditional settings - bars, beauty shops, and bathhouses - to reach out to the communities they are trying to help.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195112482

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Basic Media Writing

By: Melvin Mencher

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Basic Media Writing

By: Melvin Mencher

The new sixth edition reflects the rapidly increasing use of computers in journalism, discussing their uses and effects throughout the text. Mencher offers a unique insider's look at an array of media from newspapers, magazines, and photojournalism to advertising, public relations, and broadcasting. His numerous, gritty photographs and vibrant examples highlight the world of journalism in a way no other book does.

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Intellectual Property in the Global Marketplace, Valuation, Protection, Exploitation, and Electronic Commerce

By: Melvin Simensky,Lanning G. Bryer,Neil J. Wilkof

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Intellectual Property in the Global Marketplace, Valuation, Protection, Exploitation, and Electronic Commerce

By: Melvin Simensky,Lanning G. Bryer,Neil J. Wilkof

Die Verwertung geistigen Eigentums ist ein heiß diskutiertes Thema im internationalen Marktgeschehen. Die Kosten und Probleme in Verbindung mit einer Produkteinführung am Markt veranlaßt Unternehmen, bestehendes geistiges Eigentum (Patente, Warenzeichen, Technologie und Urheberrechte) besser zu nutzen. Band 1 (Electronic Commerce, Valuation and Protection) des 2-bändigen Werks beschäftigt sich in der 2. Auflage ausführlich mit dem Thema elektronischer Handel, Bewertung und Schutz geistigen Eigentums. Sie erfahren alles über aktuelle Trends im Bereich Bewertung, Nutzung und Schutz von geistigem Eigentum. Die Themen werden von allen Seiten (z.B. juristisch, finanziell und wirtschaftlich) beleuchtet. Enthalten sind umfangreiche Checklisten, Definitionen wichtiger Verhandlungstermini, Auszüge aus wichtigen US-amerikanischen und internationalen Gesetzen und Verfahren sowie ausführliche Fallbeispiele. Beide Bände werden jährlich ergänzt und aktualisiert, um aktuellen Trends und Entwicklungen auf diesem Gebiet Rechnung zu tragen. (09/99)

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Lifetime Fitness and Wellness

Lifetime Fitness and Wellness

National Insecurity

National Insecurity

Bush League Diplomacy

Bush League Diplomacy

China's Security

China's Security

Ladies, Front & Center! Elevate Humanity Through Self Discovery

Ladies, Front & Center! Elevate Humanity Through Self Discovery

Our Precarious Habitat ... It's In Your Hands

Our Precarious Habitat ... It's In Your Hands

Pacific Asia?

Pacific Asia?

Youth-led Health Promotion in Urban Communities

Youth-led Health Promotion in Urban Communities

Designs and Methods for Youth-Led Research

Designs and Methods for Youth-Led Research

Israel on the Appomattox

Israel on the Appomattox

Social Justice and the Urban Obesity Crisis

Social Justice and the Urban Obesity Crisis

Social Work Practice in Nontraditional Urban Settings

Social Work Practice in Nontraditional Urban Settings

Basic Media Writing

Basic Media Writing

Intellectual Property in the Global Marketplace, Valuation, Protection, Exploitation, and Electronic Commerce

Intellectual Property in the Global Marketplace, Valuation, Protection, Exploitation, and Electronic Commerce

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