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Trusting Appearances

Things Are Not Always as They Seem

By: Ned Ricks

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Trusting Appearances

Things Are Not Always as They Seem

By: Ned Ricks

Ricks gives us an 'Everyman' who takes the reader on an intriguing life's ride full of action and mystery. All the while in the military thanks to a 'join the military or go to jail' choice, on active duty in Vietnam, the States, or Reserve duty while a successful businessman, life-threatening danger follows just in the shadows." Ross A. Rainwater, Lieutenant Colonel, Aviation, US Army (Ret) "Mrs. Blanchard," he started patiently, "I am an officer in the US Army Reserves, and it's actually called Annual Training, not 'summer camp' like the Boy Scouts." . "You told me that you were in the 'real Army', weren't you?" "Yes, Mrs. Blanchard, I was. But that was a long time ago." "And were you in the war, the Vietnam War?" "Uh huh. I went to Vietnam, ... twice." She gestured at her own cheek mildly with the tips of her pale trembling fingers "Wasn't that where you got the ... uh, oh my..." her resolve ran out. Frank absently touched his face. He was able to put his fingers right on the line without looking. "The scar?" She nodded, apparently embarrassed now. "No, Mrs. Blanchard, that was after.

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0595484352

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Revelation

A Novel of the Vietnam War

By: Ned Ricks

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Revelation

A Novel of the Vietnam War

By: Ned Ricks

After a long hospital stay for wounds received, U.S. Army Captain Davis arrives at his first command in Vietnam and receives the shocking news that his predecessor was murdered by soldiers of the troop, and still at large. Now he is surrounded by over a hundred armed men, at least one of whom is a murderer.--Book Jacket

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0595339875

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Muddy Thinking in the Mississippi River Delta

A Call for Reclamation

By: Ned Randolph

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Muddy Thinking in the Mississippi River Delta

A Call for Reclamation

By: Ned Randolph

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Muddy Thinking in the Mississippi River Delta uses the story of mud to answer a deceptively simple question: How can a place uniquely vulnerable to sea level rise be one of the nation's most promiscuous producers and consumers of fossil fuels? Organized around New Orleans and South Louisiana as a case study, this book examines how the unruly Mississippi River and its muddy delta shaped the people, culture, and governance of the region. It proposes a framework of "muddy thinking" to gum the wheels of extractive capitalism and pollution that have brought us to the precipice of planetary collapse. Muddy Thinking calls upon our dirty, shared histories to address urgent questions of mutual survival and care in a rapidly changing world.

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Univ of California Press

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0520397215

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9780520397217

Principles of Principled Life Insurance Selling

By: Ned B. Ricks

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Principles of Principled Life Insurance Selling

By: Ned B. Ricks

A handbook for life insurance sales professionals who want to make or keep their business practices client-centered. An insurance consultant and trainer of over 25 years experience shares skills in marketing , prospecting, discovery, closing, handling client concerns and delivery. Includes Four Pillars of success.

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110

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1469713276

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9781469713274

Ethics and International Relations

A Tragic Perspective

By: Richard Ned Lebow

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Ethics and International Relations

A Tragic Perspective

By: Richard Ned Lebow

Lebow shows how and why foreign policies consistent with ethical norms are more likely to succeed, and those at odds with them to fail.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108843468

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A Democratic Foreign Policy

Regaining American Influence Abroad

By: Richard Ned Lebow

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A Democratic Foreign Policy

Regaining American Influence Abroad

By: Richard Ned Lebow

In 2020, America will elect a president, deciding not just the trajectory of its national politics but the future of American foreign policy. Will the Alt-Right, nationalist, and mercantilist approaches to international trade that characterized Donald Trump’s rise to power maintain its hold? Or will the “national security establishment” ultimately prevail, continuing the illusion of the indispensable nation? In A Democratic Foreign Policy, renowned IR scholar Ned Lebow draws upon decades of research and government experience to reject both options and set forth an alternative vision of American foreign policy, one based on a tragic understanding of life and politics. Lebow challenges the assumptions of establishment voices on both sides of the aisle, and offers a probing rethinking of America’s role in the world to disrupt the inertia of a bipartisan ideology that has dominated foreign policymaking since the days of Truman. Emphasizing the importance of America’s core values for shaping domestic and foreign policies, A Democratic Foreign Policy provides a vision and blueprint for a new congress and president to reorient America’s relationship with the world

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Springer

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3030215199

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9783030215194

On the Road Bike

The Search For a Nation’s Cycling Soul

By: Ned Boulting

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On the Road Bike

The Search For a Nation’s Cycling Soul

By: Ned Boulting

‘British cyclist. It used to be an oxymoron, a sort of silliness. Like French Cricket’ Ned Boulting has noticed something. It’s to do with bikes. They’re everywhere. And so are their riders. Some of these riders seem to be sporting sideburns and a few of them are winning things. Big things. Now Ned wants to know how on earth it came to this. And what, exactly is 'this'. In On the Road Bike, Ned Boulting asks how Britain became so obsessed with cycling. His journey takes him from the velodrome at Herne Hill to the Tour of Britain at Stoke-on-Trent via Bradley Wiggins, Chris Boardman, David Millar (and David’s mum), Ken Livingstone, both Tommy Godwins, Gary Kemp (yes, him from Spandau Ballet) and many, many more. The result is an amusing and personal exploration of the austere, nutty soul of British cycling.

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Random House

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1448161096

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Ethics, Security, and the War-Machine

The True Cost of the Military

By: Ned Dobos

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Ethics, Security, and the War-Machine

The True Cost of the Military

By: Ned Dobos

This book addresses the question of when (if ever) and why (if at all) it is justifiable for a polity to prepare for war by militarizing. In doing so it highlights the ways in which a civilian population compromises its own security in maintaining a permanent military establishment, and explores the moral and social costs of militarization.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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019886051X

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9780198860518

A Cultural Theory of International Relations

By: Richard Ned Lebow

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A Cultural Theory of International Relations

By: Richard Ned Lebow

An original theory of politics and international relations based on ancient Greek ideas of human motivation.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521871360

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9780521871365

Reason and Cause

Social Science and the Social World

By: Richard Ned Lebow

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Reason and Cause

Social Science and the Social World

By: Richard Ned Lebow

Philosophy and social science assume that reason and cause are objective and universally applicable concepts. Through close readings of ancient and modern philosophy, history and literature, Richard Ned Lebow demonstrates that these concepts are actually specific to time and place. He traces their parallel evolution by focusing on classical Athens, the Enlightenment through Victorian England, and the early twentieth century. This important book shows how and why understandings of reason and cause have developed and evolved, in response to what kind of stimuli, and what this says about the relationship between social science and the social world in which it is conducted. Lebow argues that authors reflecting on their own social context use specific constructions of these categories as central arguments about the human condition. This highly original study will make an immediate impact across a number of fields with its rigorous research and the development of an innovative historicised epistemology.

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Cambridge University Press

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110880814X

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9781108808149

Crossroads of Empire

The Middle Colonies in British North America

By: Ned C. Landsman

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Crossroads of Empire

The Middle Colonies in British North America

By: Ned C. Landsman

This work examines colonial New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania as central to both warfare and the emerging British-Atlantic world of culture and trade. In this probing history, Ned C. Landsman demonstrates how the Middle Colonies came to function as a distinct region. He argues that while each territory possessed varying social, religious, and political cultures, the collective lands of New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania were unified in their particular history and place in the imperial and Atlantic worlds. Landsman shows that the societal cohesiveness of the three colonies originated in the commercial and military rivalries among Native nations and developed further with the competing involvement of the European powers. They eventually emerged as the focal point in the contest for dominion over North America. In relating this progression, Landsman discusses various factors in the region’s development, including the Enlightenment, evangelical religion, factional politics, religious and ethnic diversity, and distinct systems of Protestant pluralism. Ultimately, he argues, it was within the Middle Colonies that the question was first posed, What is the American?

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JHU Press

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0801899702

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9780801899706

Between Peace and War

40th Anniversary Revised Edition

By: Richard Ned Lebow

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Between Peace and War

40th Anniversary Revised Edition

By: Richard Ned Lebow

This is an updated edition of the now-classic original of the same title. It has three new substantial chapters: a prologue, a chapter on new evidence on World War I, and an epilogue. The updated edition contains the now-famous typology of international crisis, the original critique of deterrence, the emphasis on agency, and the turn to political psychology to explain sharp departures from rational policy-making. The new chapters update and reevaluate these arguments and approach a critical hindsight assessment in light of post-Cold War developments.

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Springer Nature

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3030434435

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9783030434434

DK Eyewitness Books: Farm

Discover the Story of Farming—Plowing, Sowing, Harvesting, and Rearing Livestock

By: Ned Halley

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DK Eyewitness Books: Farm

Discover the Story of Farming—Plowing, Sowing, Harvesting, and Rearing Livestock

By: Ned Halley

Farming is an integral part of life that has become one of the most valuable and relied upon resources ever. Discover its historical roots and learn about the future of farming in this comprehensive guide. Superb color photographs give the reader a unique "eyewitness" view of farm animals, crops, machines, harvesting, and every other aspect of farming. See all kinds of farm animals, both new breeds and old, a seed drill and a steam threshing machine,a sheep being shorn, an early tractor, a reaper-binder in action, a massive combine harvester, and horses at work. Learn how a cornstack is built, how wheat is separated from chaff, how genetic engineering affects farm animals, when the first plows were made, and what organic farmers do. Discover what silage is, who grew potatoes first, the inventions of the Egyptians, why dibblers walk backward, where corn is stored, what different animals eat, and much, much more! Discover the story of farming plowing, sowing, harvesting and rearing livestock.

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Penguin

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0756668077

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9780756668075

Hatcher's Notebook

A Standard Reference for Shooters, Gunsmiths, Ballisticians, Historians, Hunters and Collectors

By: Julian S. Hatcher,Ned Schwing

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Hatcher's Notebook

A Standard Reference for Shooters, Gunsmiths, Ballisticians, Historians, Hunters and Collectors

By: Julian S. Hatcher,Ned Schwing

Classic reference by a renowned expert. Invaluable information for shooters, gunsmiths, collectors, ballisticians, and hunters. Includes new foreword.

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Stackpole Books

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0811749177

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9780811749176

Trusting Appearances

Things Are Not Always as They Seem

By: Ned B. Ricks

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Things Are Not Always as They Seem

By: Ned B. Ricks

Ricks gives us an 'Everyman' who takes the reader on an intriguing life's ride full of action and mystery. All the while in the military thanks to a 'join the military or go to jail' choice, on active duty in Vietnam, the States, or Reserve duty while a successful businessman, life-threatening danger follows just in the shadows." Ross A. Rainwater, Lieutenant Colonel, Aviation, US Army (Ret) "Mrs. Blanchard," he started patiently, "I am an officer in the US Army Reserves, and it's actually called Annual Training, not 'summer camp' like the Boy Scouts." "You told me that you were in the 'real Army', weren't you?" "Yes, Mrs. Blanchard, I was. But that was a long time ago." "And were you in the war, the Vietnam War?" "Uh huh. I went to Vietnam, ... twice." She gestured at her own cheek mildly with the tips of her pale trembling fingers "Wasn't that were you got the ... uh, oh my..." her resolve ran out. Frank absently touched his face. He was able to put his fingers right on the line without looking. "The scar?" She nodded, apparently embarrassed now. "No, Mrs. Blanchard, that was after.

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0595605311

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Revelation

A Novel of the Vietnam War

By: Ned Ricks

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Revelation

A Novel of the Vietnam War

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Ricks captures Vietnam's dust, heat, and 'fog of war' as only someone who was there can do. His book took me back in a heartbeat: It was so vivid I could almost SMELL it again!"-Ross Rainwater, LTC, Aviation, USA (Retired), 1st Cavalry Division, 197071 Set in the dust, heat, forests and mud of Vietnam's Central Highlands, Revelation is a story drawn from actual historical events. The conflict, the action is real. When Army Captain John Davis gets the chance at his own command during the latter days of the Vietnam War, he eagerly accepts the job. Unknown to him, the men of his new unit murdered the officer who had the command before him. These killers have not been identified or caught. Davis' new boss never even told him of the crime. Dealing with internal unit conflicts, external bureaucratic indifference and his own fears and weaknesses, he must still carry on with the assigned mission. In a series of dangerous situations, Davis is at risk, but are these the hazards of war or more murder attempts? Will he ever be reunited with the woman he loves?

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0595787738

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Trusting Appearances

Trusting Appearances

Revelation

Revelation

Muddy Thinking in the Mississippi River Delta

Muddy Thinking in the Mississippi River Delta

Principles of Principled Life Insurance Selling

Principles of Principled Life Insurance Selling

Ethics and International Relations

Ethics and International Relations

A Democratic Foreign Policy

A Democratic Foreign Policy

On the Road Bike

On the Road Bike

Ethics, Security, and the War-Machine

Ethics, Security, and the War-Machine

A Cultural Theory of International Relations

A Cultural Theory of International Relations

Reason and Cause

Reason and Cause

Crossroads of Empire

Crossroads of Empire

Between Peace and War

Between Peace and War

DK Eyewitness Books: Farm

DK Eyewitness Books: Farm

Hatcher's Notebook

Hatcher's Notebook

Trusting Appearances

Trusting Appearances

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