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Lee's Young Artillerist

William R.J. Pegram

By: Peter S. Carmichael

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Lee's Young Artillerist

William R.J. Pegram

By: Peter S. Carmichael

Lee's Young Artillerist looks at Pegram as a case study to explore the worldview of slaveholders in the antebellum South.

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University of Virginia Press

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0813918286

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Pioneer Photographers of the Far West

A Biographical Dictionary, 1840-1865

By: Peter E. Palmquist,Thomas R. Kailbourn

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Pioneer Photographers of the Far West

A Biographical Dictionary, 1840-1865

By: Peter E. Palmquist,Thomas R. Kailbourn

This extraordinarily comprehensive, well-documented, biographical dictionary of some 1,500 photographers (and workers engaged in photographically related pursuits) active in western North America before 1865 is enriched by some 250 illustrations. Far from being simply a reference tool, the book provides a rich trove of fascinating narratives that cover both the professional and personal lives of a colorful cast of characters.

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Stanford University Press

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0804738831

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9780804738835

New School

By: Peter M. Rutkoff,William B. Scott

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New School

By: Peter M. Rutkoff,William B. Scott

The New School was a center for adult education established in 1918 in New York and was always open to and supported by Jews. Ch. 5 (pp. 84-106) describes the creation of a graduate faculty in 1933 by president Alvin Johnson. He brought twelve leading Jewish scholars from Germany, assisted by private Jewish contributions and by the Rockefeller Foundation which, however, disapproved of the Jewish and socialist background of these scholars and feared the disruption of the quota system. Ch. 6 (pp. 107-127) describes the refugees' studies on the nature of fascism and their gradual abandonment of socialism. Hans Staudinger, in particular, emphasized the crucial role of racism in the evolution of the Nazi state. With the outbreak of World War II, the New School tried to save more refugees but was obstructed by State Department officials. Also mentions the work of Hannah Arendt at the New School in the 1950s-60s.

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Simon and Schuster

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0684863715

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9780684863719

Eisenman Inside Out

Selected Writings, 1963-1988

By: Peter Eisenman,YALE UNIV PR

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Eisenman Inside Out

Selected Writings, 1963-1988

By: Peter Eisenman,YALE UNIV PR

Essais sur l'architecture par l'architecte Eisenman.

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Yale University Press

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0300090080

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9780300090086

Samuel Johnson

A Biography

By: Peter Martin

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Samuel Johnson

A Biography

By: Peter Martin

Benefiting from recent critical scholarship that has explored new attitudes toward Johnson, Martin's biography offers a human and sympathetic portrait of the literary and social icon.

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Harvard University Press

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0674031601

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9780674031609

Miracle

Bobby Allison and the Saga of the Alabama Gang

By: Peter Golenbock

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Miracle

Bobby Allison and the Saga of the Alabama Gang

By: Peter Golenbock

For the first time, the full story of NASCAR legend Bobby Allison and the Alabama gang is told in full--a story of heartbreak, drama, action, and, in the end, redemption.

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Macmillan

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0312340028

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9780312340025

Battling Siki

A Tale of Ring Fixes, Race, and Murder in the 1920s

By: Peter Benson

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Battling Siki

A Tale of Ring Fixes, Race, and Murder in the 1920s

By: Peter Benson

Battling Siki (1887–1925) was once one of the four or five most recognizable black men in the world and was written about by a host of great writers, including George Bernard Shaw, Ring Lardner, Damon Runyon, Janet Flanner, and Ernest Hemingway. Peter Benson’s lively biography of the first African to win a world championship in boxing delves into the complex world of sports, race, colonialism, and the cult of personality in the early twentieth century.

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University of Arkansas Press

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1557288887

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9781557288882

Leveraging the New Infrastructure

How Market Leaders Capitalize on Information Technology

By: Peter Weill,Marianne Broadbent

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Leveraging the New Infrastructure

How Market Leaders Capitalize on Information Technology

By: Peter Weill,Marianne Broadbent

One of the most important investments in an organization is its information technology (IT) infrastructure. Yet many managers are ill-prepared to make sound IT investment decisions. Drawing upon rigorous research with over 100 businesses in 75 firms in nine countries, the authors here present a wide range of IT possibilities, enabling managers to take control of decisions that many have relegated to technical staff or vendors.

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Harvard Business Press

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0875848303

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Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness

Britain and the American Dream

By: Peter Moore

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Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness

Britain and the American Dream

By: Peter Moore

“Gripping . . . Vibrant . . . A wonderfully absorbing and stimulating book.” —Sarah Bakewell, NBCC Award–winning author of How to Live and Humanly Possible “[A] rollicking account . . . The book’s compulsive readability is a tribute to Moore’s skill at cracking open the pre-revolutionary period.” —Charles Arrowsmith, The Washington Post A spirited group biography that explores the origins of the most iconic words in American history, and the remarkable transatlantic context from which they emerged. The most famous phrase in American history once looked quite different. “The preservation of life, & liberty, & the pursuit of happiness” was how Thomas Jefferson put it in the first draft of the Declaration, before the first ampersand was scratched out, along with “the preservation of.” In a statement as pithy—and contested—as this, a small deletion matters. And indeed, that final, iconizing revision was the last in a long chain of revisions stretching across the Atlantic and back. The precise contours of these three rights have never been pinned down—and yet in making these words into rights, Jefferson reified the hopes (and debates) not only of a group of rebel-statesmen but also of an earlier generation of British thinkers who could barely imagine a country like the United States of America. Peter Moore’s Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness tells the true story of what may be the most successful import in US history: the “American dream.” Centered on the friendship between Benjamin Franklin and the British publisher William Strahan, and featuring figures including the cultural giant Samuel Johnson, the ground-breaking historian Catharine Macaulay, the firebrand politician John Wilkes, and revolutionary activist Thomas Paine, this book looks at the generation that preceded the Declaration in 1776. Everyone, it seemed, had “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” on their minds; Moore shows why, and reveals how these still-nascent ideals made their way across an ocean and started a revolution. Includes 16 pages of black-and-white images

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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0374600600

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9780374600600

The Dictionary Wars

The American Fight Over the English Language

By: Peter Martin

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The Dictionary Wars

The American Fight Over the English Language

By: Peter Martin

Peter Martin recounts the patriotic fervor in the early American republic to produce a definitive national dictionary that would rival Samuel Johnson's 1755 Dictionary of the English Language. But what began as a cultural war of independence from Britain devolved into a battle among lexicographers, authors, scholars, and publishers, all vying for dictionary supremacy and shattering forever the dream of a unified American language.

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Princeton University Press

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0691210179

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Incarceration Nation

By: Peter K. Enns

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Incarceration Nation

By: Peter K. Enns

Incarceration Nation demonstrates that the US public played a critical role in the rise of mass incarceration in this country.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107132886

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9781107132887

Edmond Malone, Shakespearean Scholar

A Literary Biography

By: Peter Martin

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Edmond Malone, Shakespearean Scholar

A Literary Biography

By: Peter Martin

First modern full-length biography of scholar and member of late eighteenth-century intellectual elite.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521460301

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Business and the Sustainability Challenge

An Integrated Perspective

By: Peter N. Nemetz

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Business and the Sustainability Challenge

An Integrated Perspective

By: Peter N. Nemetz

It is vitally important for businesses to have a holistic understanding of the many issues surrounding and shaping sustainability, from competitors to government and political factors, to economics and ecological science. This integrated textbook for MBA and senior-level undergraduates offers a comprehensive overview of the issues of sustainability as they relate to business and influence corporate strategy. It also features a wide range of cases and an extensive discussion of tools to incorporate sustainability issues into strategic decision making, helping instructors and students to build and then apply a solid understanding of sustainability in business.

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Routledge

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1136262180

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9781136262180

School Shooters

Understanding High School, College, and Adult Perpetrators

By: Peter Langman

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School Shooters

Understanding High School, College, and Adult Perpetrators

By: Peter Langman

School shootings scare everyone, even those not immediately affected. They make national and international news. They make parents afraid to send their children off to school. But they also lead to generalizations about those who perpetrate them. Most assumptions about the perpetrators are wrong and many of the warning signs are missed until it’s too late. Here, Peter Langman takes a look at 48 national and international cases of school shootings in order to dispel the myths, explore the motives, and expose the realities of preventing school shootings from happening in the future, including identifying at risk individuals and helping them to seek help before it’s too late.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1442233575

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9781442233577

John F. Kennedy

By: Peter J. Ling

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John F. Kennedy

By: Peter J. Ling

A lively, concise and cutting-edge biography of one of the towering figures of 20th-century history. Of all the US presidents of the post-Second World War period, John F. Kennedy is the most clearly idolized. There is a well-documented gulf between the public’s largely positive appraisal of this glamorous historical figure and professional historians’ skeptical and mixed evaluation of a president who had only a foreshortened single term in which to make his mark. What made JFK the man he was? How does he fit into the politics of his time? What were his policy goals, how did they shift, and how far did he manage to advance them? What was the Kennedy style of governance? Why was he killed and how can we explain the unprecedented outpouring of grief that his death elicited? How has his memory evolved since 1963? Acclaimed biographer Peter J. Ling explores all these important questions, sifting and synthesizing the prodigious mass of Kennedy scholarship to provide readers with a fresh and strongly contextualized portrait of the man and his presidency. John F. Kennedy will be essential reading for students of modern American history and anyone else seeking to understand the political and private life of America’s best known president.

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Routledge

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1134713320

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9781134713325

Crisis Communication

Practical PR Strategies for Reputation Management & Company Survival

By: Peter Anthonissen

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Crisis Communication

Practical PR Strategies for Reputation Management & Company Survival

By: Peter Anthonissen

Senior management and leaders within companies embroiled in crisis, have learned the hard way what happens when the unthinkable becomes a reality - an accident results in death or injury; a failed company takeover causes share prices to plummet; or toxic food, medicines and drinks leads to mass hysteria. All attention focuses on the guilty parties - and the media can be expected to make this crisis headline news within a matter of hours. No company or organisation is immune to crisis. Everyday, organisations run the risk of being affected. However, a crisis does not necessarily have to turn into a disaster for the business or organisation involved. Crisis Communication provides readers with advice on how to limit damage effectively by acting quickly and positively. Moreover, it explains how to turn a crisis into an opportunity by communicating efficiently, through the use of successful public relations strategies. Providing information on accountability; crisis communication planning; building your corporate image; natural disasters; accidents; financial crises; legal issues; corporate re-organisation; food crises; dealing with negative press; media training; and risk managers, Crisis Communication is a thorough guide to help prepare your organisation for any future calamities. Including international case studies, crisis communication checklists and sample crisis preparation documents, this book ensures that you are fully prepared for the absolute necessity of proactive crisis communication and proper planning, should you be confronted with a crisis.

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Kogan Page Publishers

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0749455535

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9780749455538

Getting the Holy Ghost

Urban Ethnography in a Brooklyn Pentecostal Tongue-Speaking Church

By: Peter Marina

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Getting the Holy Ghost

Urban Ethnography in a Brooklyn Pentecostal Tongue-Speaking Church

By: Peter Marina

This book carries an ethnographic signature in approach and style, and is an examination of a small Brooklyn, New York, African-American, Pentecostal church congregation and is based on ethnographic notes taken over the course of four years. The Pentecostal Church is known to outsiders almost exclusively for its members’ “bizarre” habit of speaking in tongues. This ethnography, however, puts those outsiders inside the church pews, as it paints a portrait of piety, compassion, caring, love—all embraced through an embodiment perspective, as the church’s members experience these forces in the most personal ways through religious conversion. Central themes include concerns with the notion of “spectacle” because of the grand bodily display that is highlighted by spiritual struggle, social aspiration, punishment and spontaneous explosions of a variety of emotions in the public sphere. The approach to sociology throughout this work incorporates the striking dialectic of history and biography to penetrate and interact with religiously inspired residents of the inner-city in a quest to make sense both empirically and theoretically of this rapidly changing, surprising and highly contradictory late-modern church scene. The focus on the individual process of becoming Pentecostal provides a road map into the church and canvasses an intimate view into the lives of its members, capturing their stories as they proceed in their Pentecostal careers. This book challenges important sociological concepts like crisis to explain religious seekership and conversion, while developing new concepts such as “God Hunting” and “Holy Ghost Capital” to explain the process through which individuals become tongue-speaking Pentecostals. Church members acquire “Holy Ghost Capital” and construct a Pentecostal identity through a relationship narrative to establish personal status and power through conflicting tongue-speaking ideas. Finally, this book examines the futures of the small and large, institutionally affiliated Pentecostal Church and argues that the small Pentecostal Church is better able to resist modern rationalizing forces, retaining the charisma that sparked the initial religious movement. The power of charisma in the small church has far-reaching consequences and implications for the future of Pentecostalism and its followers.

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Lexington Books

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0739170740

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9780739170748

John F. Kennedy

By: Peter J. Ling

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John F. Kennedy

By: Peter J. Ling

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1134713258

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The Icarus Syndrome

A History of American Hubris

By: Peter Beinart

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The Icarus Syndrome

A History of American Hubris

By: Peter Beinart

In The Icarus Syndrome, Peter Beinart tells a tale as old as the Greeks - a story about the seductions of success. Beinart describes Washington on the eve of three wars - World War I, Vietnam and Iraq - three moments when American leaders decided they could remake the world in their image. Each time, leading intellectuals declared that history was over, and the spread of democracy was inevitable. Each time, a president held the nation in the palm of his hand. And each time, a war conceived in arrogance brought untold tragedy. In dazzling colour, Beinart portrays three extraordinary generations: the progressives who took America into World War I, led by Woodrow Wilson, the lonely preacher's son who became the closest thing to a political messiah the world had ever seen. The Camelot intellectuals who took America into Vietnam, led by Lyndon Johnson, who lay awake night after night shaking with fear that his countrymen considered him weak. And George W. Bush and the post-cold war neoconservatives, the romantic bullies who believed they could bludgeon the Middle East and liberate it at the same time. Like Icarus, each of these generations crafted 'wings' - a theory about America's relationship to the world. They flapped carefully at first, but gradually lost their inhibitions until, giddy with success, they flew into the sun. But every era also brought new leaders and thinkers who found wisdom in pain. They reconciled American optimism - our belief that anything is possible - with the realities of a world that will never fully bend to our will. In their struggles lie the seeds of American renewal today. Based on years of research, The Icarus Syndrome is a provocative and strikingly original account of hubris in the American century - and how we learn from the tragedies that result.

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Melbourne Univ. Publishing

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052285804X

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9780522858044

All the Money in the World

How the Forbes 400 Make--and Spend--Their Fortunes

By: Peter W. Bernstein,Annalyn Swan

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All the Money in the World

How the Forbes 400 Make--and Spend--Their Fortunes

By: Peter W. Bernstein,Annalyn Swan

From Wall Street to the West Coast, from blue-collar billionaires to blue-blood fortunes, from the Google guys to hedge-fund honchos, this compulsively readable book gives us the lowdown on today richest Americans. Veteran journalists Peter W. Bernstein and Annalyn Swan delve into who made and lost the most money in the past twenty-five years, the fields and industries that have produced the greatest wealth, the biggest risk takers, the most competitive players, the most wasteful family feuds, the trophy wives, the most conspicuous consumers, the biggest art collectors, and the most and least generous philanthropists. Incorporating exclusive, never-before-published data from Forbes magazine, All the Money in the World is a vastly entertaining, behind-the-scenes look at today's Big Rich.

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Vintage

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030727876X

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9780307278760

I Have Seen the Future

A Life of Lincoln Steffens

By: Peter Hartshorn

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I Have Seen the Future

A Life of Lincoln Steffens

By: Peter Hartshorn

At the dawn of the twentieth century, Lincoln Steffens, an internationally known and respected political insider, went rogue to work for McClure's Magazine. Credited as the proverbial father of muckraking reporting, Steffens quickly rose to the top of McClure's team of investigative journalists, earning him the attention of many powerful politicians who utilized his knack for tireless probing to battle government corruption and greedy politicians. A mentor of Walter Lippmann, friend of Theodore Roosevelt, and advisor of Woodrow Wilson, Steffens is best known for bringing to light the Mexican Revolution, the 1910 bombing of the Los Angeles Times, and the Versailles peace talks. Now, with print journalism and investigative reporters on the decline, Lincoln Steffens' biography serves as a necessary call to arms for the newspaper industry. Hartshorn's extensive research captures each detail of Steffens' life—from his private letters to friends to his long and colorful career—and delves into the ongoing internal struggle between his personal life and his overpowering devotion to the "cause.

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Catapult

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1582438072

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9781582438078

Federal Anti-Indian Law

The Legal Entrapment of Indigenous Peoples

By: Peter P. d'Errico

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Federal Anti-Indian Law

The Legal Entrapment of Indigenous Peoples

By: Peter P. d'Errico

Telling the crucial and under-studied story of the U.S. legal doctrines that underpin the dispossession and domination of Indigenous peoples, this book enhances global Indigenous movements for self-determination. In this wide-ranging historical study of federal Indian law-the field of U.S. law related to Native peoples-attorney and educator Peter P. d'Errico argues that the U.S. government's assertion of absolute prerogative and unlimited authority over Native peoples and their lands is actually a suspension of law. Combining a deep theoretical analysis of the law with a historical examination of its roots in Christian civilization, d'Errico presents a close reading of foundational legal cases and raises the possibility of revoking the doctrine of domination. The book's larger context is the increasing frequency of Indigenous conflicts with nation-states around the world as ecological crises caused by industrial extraction impinge drastically on Indigenous peoples' existences. D'Errico rethinks the role of law in the global order-imagining an Indigenous nomos of the earth, an order arising from peoples and places rather than the existing hegemony of states.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1440879222

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The Canadian Iroquois and the Seven Years' War

By: D. Peter MacLeod,Canadian War Museum

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The Canadian Iroquois and the Seven Years' War

By: D. Peter MacLeod,Canadian War Museum

The participation of the Iroquois of Akwasasne, Kanesetake (Oka), Kahnawake and Oswegatchie in the Seven Years' War is a long neglected topic. The consequences of this struggle still shape Canadian history. The book looks at the social and economic impact of the war on both men and women in Canadian Iroquois communities.The Canadian Iroquois provides an enhanced appreciation both of the role of Amerindians in the war itself and of their difficult struggle to lead their lives within the unstable geopolitical environment created by European invasion and settlement.

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Dundurn

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1459700899

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9781459700895

An Informed Cosmos

Essays on Intelligent Design Theory

By: Peter S. Williams

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An Informed Cosmos

Essays on Intelligent Design Theory

By: Peter S. Williams

After a substantial author's preface recounting the author's life-journey with the question of science and design in nature, An Informed Cosmos pulls together essays that jointly cover the core arguments for a scientific theory of intelligent design. Along with a foreword by philosopher of science and leading design theorist Stephen C. Meyer, and a wide range of recommended resources, An Informed Cosmos offers an informed overview of the contemporary case for intelligent design.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1666702978

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American Nero

The History of the Destruction of the Rule of Law, and Why Trump Is the Worst Offender

By: Richard Painter,Peter Golenbock

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American Nero

The History of the Destruction of the Rule of Law, and Why Trump Is the Worst Offender

By: Richard Painter,Peter Golenbock

Donald Trump is eroding the rule of law! We've heard it said many times, and we can feel it in our guts. But what does "rule of law" really mean? And what happens when it breaks down? From Richard Painter, a senate candidate and law professor who served as White House chief ethics counsel under President George W. Bush, and New York Times bestselling author Peter Golenbock, American Nero is an in-depth exploration the rule of law—the legal bedrock on which this country was founded. Painter and Golenbock present a clear description of rule of law—arguably the single most important principle underlying our civilization. They also describe the abuses of power that have occurred throughout our nation's history. Beginning in Puritan New England with the infamous Salem Witch Trials, American Nero makes vivid stops at The Red Scare of the 1920s, Japanese-American internment, the McCarthy Era, and, much more recently, President Trump's attempt to violate the First Amendment by banning Muslims from entering the US. While Trump is not the first offender, he is arguably the most blatant, and this unflinchingly honest and insightful work presents in devastating detail the ways in which our current president has trampled the rule of law with his attacks on the freedom of the press, the independence of the judiciary, and the autonomy of the justice department. This is not a book about right vs. left —instead, it is about the rule of law, a principle that transcends partisan politics, and how vital it is to the survival of our country. This book serves as a call-to-action, looking ahead to a brighter future for our country, one where citizens and officials alike protect our rights and honor their responsibilities. Timely and revealing, American Nero shares the lessons of history and lays the framework for returning to a society that respects the rule of law—an America that is consistent with our Founding Fathers' vision of a genuinely free nation.

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BenBella Books

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1950665275

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9781950665273

The Action Plan for Australian Mammals 2012

By: Andrew Burbidge,Peter Harrison,John Woinarski

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The Action Plan for Australian Mammals 2012

By: Andrew Burbidge,Peter Harrison,John Woinarski

The Action Plan for Australian Mammals 2012 is the first review to assess the conservation status of all Australian mammals. It complements The Action Plan for Australian Birds 2010 (Garnett et al. 2011, CSIRO Publishing), and although the number of Australian mammal taxa is marginally fewer than for birds, the proportion of endemic, extinct and threatened mammal taxa is far greater. These authoritative reviews represent an important foundation for understanding the current status, fate and future of the nature of Australia. This book considers all species and subspecies of Australian mammals, including those of external territories and territorial seas. For all the mammal taxa (about 300 species and subspecies) considered Extinct, Threatened, Near Threatened or Data Deficient, the size and trend of their population is presented along with information on geographic range and trend, and relevant biological and ecological data. The book also presents the current conservation status of each taxon under Australian legislation, what additional information is needed for managers, and the required management actions. Recovery plans, where they exist, are evaluated. The voluntary participation of more than 200 mammal experts has ensured that the conservation status and information are as accurate as possible, and allowed considerable unpublished data to be included. All accounts include maps based on the latest data from Australian state and territory agencies, from published scientific literature and other sources. The Action Plan concludes that 29 Australian mammal species have become extinct and 63 species are threatened and require urgent conservation action. However, it also shows that, where guided by sound knowledge, management capability and resourcing, and longer-term commitment, there have been some notable conservation success stories, and the conservation status of some species has greatly improved over the past few decades. The Action Plan for Australian Mammals 2012 makes a major contribution to the conservation of a wonderful legacy that is a significant part of Australia’s heritage. For such a legacy to endure, our society must be more aware of and empathetic with our distinctively Australian environment, and particularly its marvellous mammal fauna; relevant information must be readily accessible; environmental policy and law must be based on sound evidence; those with responsibility for environmental management must be aware of what priority actions they should take; the urgency for action (and consequences of inaction) must be clear; and the opportunity for hope and success must be recognised. It is in this spirit that this account is offered.

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0643108750

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9780643108752

The Death and Life of Malcolm X

By: Peter Goldman

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The Death and Life of Malcolm X

By: Peter Goldman

The Death and Life of Malcolm X provides a dramatic portrait of one of the most important black leaders of the twentieth century. Focusing on Malcolm X's rise to prominence and the final year of his life, the book details his rift with the Nation of Islam and its leader, Elijah Muhammad, leading to death threats and eventually assassination at the hands of a death squad. In a new preface for this edition, Peter Goldman reflects on the forty years since the book's first publication and considers new information based on FBI surveillance that has since come to light.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252047044

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Military Realism

The Logic and Limits of Force and Innovation in the U.S. Army

By: Peter Campbell

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Military Realism

The Logic and Limits of Force and Innovation in the U.S. Army

By: Peter Campbell

After the Vietnam War, the U.S. Army considered counterinsurgency (COIN) a mistake to be avoided. Many found it surprising, then, when setbacks in recent conflicts led the same army to adopt a COIN doctrine. Scholarly debates have primarily employed existing theories of military bureaucracy or culture to explain the army’s re-embrace of COIN, but Peter Campbell advances a unique argument centering on military realism to explain the complex evolution of army doctrinal thinking from 1960 to 2008. In five case studies of U.S. Army doctrine, Campbell pits military realism against bureaucratic and cultural perspectives in three key areas—nuclear versus conventional warfare, preferences for offense versus defense, and COIN missions—and finds that the army has been more doctrinally flexible than those perspectives would predict. He demonstrates that decision makers, while vowing in the wake of Vietnam to avoid (COIN) missions, nonetheless found themselves adapting to the geopolitical realities of fighting “low intensity” conflicts. In essence, he demonstrates that pragmatism has won out over dogmatism. At a time when American policymakers remain similarly conflicted about future defense strategies, Campbell’s work will undoubtedly shape and guide the debate.

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University of Missouri Press

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0826274269

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An abridgment of the Indian affairs

By: C.H. McIlwain,Peter Wraxall

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An abridgment of the Indian affairs

By: C.H. McIlwain,Peter Wraxall

Harvard historical studies. Published under the direction of the department of history from the income of the Henry Warren Torrey Fund. Volume 11. An abridgment of the Indian affairs contained in four folio volumes, transacted in the colony of New York, from the year 1678 to the year 1751.

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Рипол Классик

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5877084372

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Recording History

The British Record Industry, 1888-1931

By: Peter Martland

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Recording History

The British Record Industry, 1888-1931

By: Peter Martland

In Recording History, Peter Martland uses a range of archival sources to trace the genesis and early development of the British record industry from1888 to 1931. A work of economic and cultural history that draws on a vast range of quantitative data, it surveys the commercial and business activities of the British record industry like no other work of recording history has before. Martland's study charts the successes and failures of this industry and its impact on domestic entertainment. Showcasing its many colorful pioneers from both sides of the Atlantic, Recording History is first and foremost an account of The Gramophone Company Ltd, a precursor to today's recording giant EMI, and then the most important British record company active from the late 19th century until the end of the second decade of the twentieth century. Martland's history spans the years from the original inventors through industrial and market formation and final take-off--including the riveting battle in recording formats. Special attention is given to the impact of the First World War and the that followed in its wake. Scholars of recording history will find in Martland's study the story of the development of the recording studio, of the artists who made the first records (from which some like Italian opera tenor Enrico Caruso earned a fortune), and the change records wrought in the relationship between performer and audience, transforming the reception and appreciation of musical culture. Filling a much-needed gap in scholarship, Recording History documents the beginnings of the end of the contemporary international record industry.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0810882523

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Marketing

Essential Principles, New Realities

By: Jon Groucutt,Peter Leadley,Patrick Forsyth

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Marketing

Essential Principles, New Realities

By: Jon Groucutt,Peter Leadley,Patrick Forsyth

Marketing: Essential principles, new realities has been researched, developed and written primarily with the undergraduate and diploma-level student in mind. This student-oriented text, with its relaxed and free flowing language, provides the reader with material of a rigorous academic standard. Each chapter follows a set structure that has been designed to encourage discussion and raise issues for consideration and research:introduction;learning objectives;chapter sub headings - key issues;chapter summary;exercises and questions for review and critical thinking.At the end of the book there are additional notes and references to support student learning.Written by authors from both an academic and practitioner background, this new textbook offers an excellent introduction to the subject for the next generation of marketers and business people.FREE CD ROM FOR LECTURERSThe authors have created a unique CD ROM containing both lecture presentation slides and essay questions. This is available on request from the publisher.CONTENTSIntroductionWhat is marketing?The business and marketing environmentEthical marketing and social responsibilityBuyer behaviourSegmenting, positioning and targetingMarketing researchMarketing and strategyProducts and brandsPrice and pricing strategiesPromotion part 1Promotion part 2People, physical evidence and processPlacement, distribution and logisticsMarketing across borders: the international dimensionApplication: bringing the elements togetherNotesReferenceIndexPlease view more information on this book, including a sample chapter and detailed, full contents at http://www.kogan-page.co.uk/groucutt

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Kogan Page Publishers

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0749441143

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Backcountry Adventures Utah

The Ultimate Guide to the Utah Backcountry for Anyone with a Sport Utility Vehicle

By: Peter Massey,Jeanne Wilson

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Backcountry Adventures Utah

The Ultimate Guide to the Utah Backcountry for Anyone with a Sport Utility Vehicle

By: Peter Massey,Jeanne Wilson

Backcountry Adventures: Utah provides detailed directions for 175 backcountry roads throughout Utah, all suitable for stock sport utility vehicles. All you need is an SUV, a sense of adventure, and your copy of Backcountry Adventures: Utah. Book jacket.

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Adler Publishing

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1930193270

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Diné

A History of the Navajos

By: Peter Iverson

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A History of the Navajos

By: Peter Iverson

The most complete and current history of the largest American Indian nation in the U.S., based on extensive new archival research, traditional histories, interviews, and personal observation.

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UNM Press

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082632715X

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9780826327154

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