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The New Insurgencies

Anti-communist Guerrillas in the Third World

By: Michael Radu

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The New Insurgencies

Anti-communist Guerrillas in the Third World

By: Michael Radu

The appearance of ideologically motivated anti-communist insurgent groups in the Third World is an important new phenomenon that has received little serious attention. Analysis has focused on American attitudes, while the indigenous roots and motivations of such groups have remained largely unexplored. Michael Radu fills in the gap in The New Insurgencies, with case studies and contributions from Anthony Arnold, Paul Henze, Justus van de Kroef, and Jack Wheeler.As the authors show, more often than not, Third World anti-communist insurgencies express a general rejection of values and ideologies from outsiders. Many of these insurgencies reflect violent opposition to regimes installed by the Soviets during the 1970s, yet they only rarely articulate a struggle for liberal democracy. Nationalism, religion, or the preservation of traditional political and economic patterns are more often the true motivations. And while insurgents often apply military and occasionally political methods used by successful Marxist-Leninist insurgencies of this century, they tend to be rural based and close to the aspirations of the peasant masses rather than directed by the educated and urbanized elites.The New Insurgencies includes case studies of major anti-communist movements today, including those in Afghanistan, Cambodia, Ethiopia, Mozambique, Angola, and Nicaragua. It shows that in each, the role of local powers such as South Africa, Thailand, and Pakistan rather than direct U.S. support has been critical to the insurgents' effectiveness. In part this may be because the old bipartisan Washington consensus based on anti-communism has evaporated; and Radu explores why this has occurred.Regardless of Washington's support, the new insurgencies are likely to persist. Their impact on U.S., Soviet, and world policy will be profound. The New Insurgencies combines extensive use of firsthand data, including personal knowledge of some of the major personalities involved, with extensive bibliogra

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Routledge

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1351478664

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Socialist Planning

By: Michael Ellman

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Socialist Planning

By: Michael Ellman

First published as a second edition in 1989, Socialist Planning was the standard introductory text on the economics of socialist planning.

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CUP Archive

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0521358663

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Duality and Definability in First Order Logic

By: Michael Makkai

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Duality and Definability in First Order Logic

By: Michael Makkai

We develop a duality theory for small Boolean pretoposes in which the dual of the [italic capital]T is the groupoid of models of a Boolean pretopos [italic capital]T equipped with additional structure derived from ultraproducts. The duality theorem states that any small Boolean pretopos is canonically equivalent to its double dual. We use a strong version of the duality theorem to prove the so-called descent theorem for Boolean pretoposes which says that category of descent data derived from a conservative pretopos morphism between Boolean pretoposes is canonically equivalent to the domain-pretopos. The descent theorem contains the Beth definability theorem for classical first order logic. Moreover, it gives, via the standard translation from the language of categories to symbolic logic, a new definability theorem for classical first order logic concerning set-valued functors on models, expressible in purely syntactical (arithmetical) terms.

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American Mathematical Soc.

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0821825658

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9780821825655

Degrees and Pedigrees

The Education of America’s Top Executives

By: Michael T. Nietzel

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Degrees and Pedigrees

The Education of America’s Top Executives

By: Michael T. Nietzel

The book answers the questions of how and where America educates its leading chief executive officers. Where are America’s top executives educated? What do they study? Do they typically attend the nation’s most elite colleges? Or do they, like millions of other students, choose colleges because of reasons like proximity, cost, and state pride? How important are advanced degrees to their success? Is the MBA a prerequisite for becoming a CEO? I address these questions based on a study of 344 of the country’s highest profile CEOs selected to represent a wide range of organizations and businesses. The book will establish a theme that the majority of America's most high-powered CEOs did not attend elite colleges/universities or earn an MBA or graduate from highly selective institutions. Certainly, a significant number did so and were advantaged by the opportunity, but more often they were able to fashion for themselves a high-quality education at a rich array of institutions - public and private, regional and flagship, small and large, religious and secular. What proves more important than what colleges these leading executives attended, is the kinds of deep relationships and mentored experiences they developed. I illuminate these experiences through several vignettes in each chapter.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1475837097

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9781475837094

Bosonic Construction of Vertex Operator Para-Algebras from Symplectic Affine Kac-Moody Algebras

By: Michael David Weiner

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Bosonic Construction of Vertex Operator Para-Algebras from Symplectic Affine Kac-Moody Algebras

By: Michael David Weiner

Begins with the bosonic construction of four level -1/2 irreducible representations of the symplectic affine Kac-Moody Lie algebra Cl. The direct sum of two of these is given the structure of a vertex operator algebra (VOA), and the direct sum of the other two is given the structure of a twisted VOA-module. The dissertation includes the bosonic analog of the fermionic construction of a vertex operator superalgebra from the four level 1 irreducible modules of type Dl. No index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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American Mathematical Soc.

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0821808664

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Semistability of Amalgamated Products and HNN-Extensions

By: Michael L. Mihalik,Steven Thomas Tschantz

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Semistability of Amalgamated Products and HNN-Extensions

By: Michael L. Mihalik,Steven Thomas Tschantz

In this work, the authors show that amalgamated products and HNN-extensions of finitely presented semistable at infinity groups are also semistable at infinity. A major step toward determining whether all finitely presented groups are semistable at infinity, this result easily generalizes to finite graphs of groups. The theory of group actions on trees and techniques derived from the proof of Dunwoody's accessibility theorem are key ingredients in this work.

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Book's by Michael J. Hanlon

The New Insurgencies

The New Insurgencies

Socialist Planning

Socialist Planning

Duality and Definability in First Order Logic

Duality and Definability in First Order Logic

Degrees and Pedigrees

Degrees and Pedigrees

Bosonic Construction of Vertex Operator Para-Algebras from Symplectic Affine Kac-Moody Algebras

Bosonic Construction of Vertex Operator Para-Algebras from Symplectic Affine Kac-Moody Algebras

Semistability of Amalgamated Products and HNN-Extensions

Semistability of Amalgamated Products and HNN-Extensions

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