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A Cruel and Shocking Act

The Secret History of the Kennedy Assassination

By: Philip Shenon

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A Cruel and Shocking Act

The Secret History of the Kennedy Assassination

By: Philip Shenon

Groundbreaking new history of the Kennedy assassination, investigative reporter and bestselling author Phil Shenon writes the ultimate inside account of what has become the most controversial murder investigation of the 20th century, the aftermath of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Based on groundbreaking research, deep reporting, and unprecedented access, the book is character driven, dialogue rich, with facts and incidents that will stun and surprise."--

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Macmillan

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0805094202

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Ethical Problems in the Practice of Law

By: Lisa G. Lerman,Philip G. Schrag,Robert Rubinson

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Ethical Problems in the Practice of Law

By: Lisa G. Lerman,Philip G. Schrag,Robert Rubinson

This problem-based book reflects the authors’ broad range of teaching, clinical, and policy-making experience. Ethical Problems in the Practice of Law’s carefully crafted ethical problems challenge students to engage in a deep analysis and participate in lively class discussion. New to the Fifth Edition: Comprehensive updates to reflect the many new developments in this fast-moving field. The authors carefully revised the entire text, adding six new problems and countless new case examples to illustrate the operation of “lawyer law.” Expanded coverage of ethics issues for arbitrators and mediators. Expanded coverage of the ethical challenges and pitfalls faced by lawyers in light of advancing technology. Deeper discussion of issues of diversity and discrimination in the legal profession. Updated and enhanced materials on innovations and transformations in the legal profession and the regulation of lawyers in the United States and abroad, including innovation in financing law practice and litigation, and offshoring legal work. Additional material on continuing efforts to address the unmet need for legal services, including licensing of nonlawyers to provide limited legal services. Professors and students will benefit from: Real-world problems, most based on actual cases, in which students are asked to step into the shoes of practicing lawyers to confront difficult ethical dilemmas that often arise in the early years of law practice. Problem-based approach, often based on real-life cases, offers students a practical way to test their understanding Problem method engages students and generates class discussion, because most problems present head-scratching dilemmas that students must puzzle through together Graphics (cartoons, tables, photos) throughout, which make the presentation lively and engaging Clear expositions of the law allow professors to devote the majority of class time to interactive discussion of the problems Transformation of a course from an often-boring upper-class requirement to a learning environment that is educationally rich, engaging and fun Shocking examples of recent lawyer misconduct maintain student interest A readable and enjoyable law school textbook

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Aspen Publishing

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1543817440

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The Unsteady March

The Rise and Decline of Racial Equality in America

By: Philip A. Klinkner,Rogers M. Smith

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The Unsteady March

The Rise and Decline of Racial Equality in America

By: Philip A. Klinkner,Rogers M. Smith

With its insights into contemporary racial politics, "The Unsteady March" offers a penetrating and controversial analysis of American race relations across two centuries.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226443418

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9780226443416

Undelivered

From the Great Postal Strike of 1970 to the Manufactured Crisis of the U.S. Postal Service

By: Philip F. Rubio

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Undelivered

From the Great Postal Strike of 1970 to the Manufactured Crisis of the U.S. Postal Service

By: Philip F. Rubio

For eight days in March 1970, over 200,000 postal workers staged an illegal "wildcat" strike--the largest in United States history--for better wages and working conditions. Picket lines started in New York and spread across the country like wildfire. Strikers defied court injunctions, threats of termination, and their own union leaders. In the negotiated aftermath, the U.S. Post Office became the U.S. Postal Service, and postal workers received full collective bargaining rights and wage increases, all the while continuing to fight for greater democracy within their unions. Using archives, periodicals, and oral histories, Philip Rubio shows how this strike, born of frustration and rising expectations and emerging as part of a larger 1960s-1970s global rank-and-file labor upsurge, transformed the post office and postal unions. It also led to fifty years of clashes between postal unions and management over wages, speedup, privatization, automation, and service. Rubio revives the 1970 strike story and connects it to today's postal financial crisis that threatens the future of a vital 245-year-old public communications institution and its labor unions.

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UNC Press Books

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1469655470

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Labor's Story in the United States

By: Philip Yale Nicholson

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Labor's Story in the United States

By: Philip Yale Nicholson

In this, the first broad historical overview of labor in the United States in twenty years, Philip Nicholson examines anew the questions, the villains, the heroes, and the issues of work in America. Unlike recent books that have covered labor in the twentieth century,Labor's Story in the United Stateslooks at the broad landscape of labor since before the Revolution. In clear, unpretentious language, Philip Yale Nicholson considers American labor history from the perspective of institutions and people: the rise of unions, the struggles over slavery, wages, and child labor, public and private responses to union organizing. Throughout, the book focuses on the integral relationship between the strength of labor and the growth of democracy, painting a vivid picture of the strength of labor movements and how they helped make the United States what it is today.Labor's Story in the United Stateswill become an indispensable source for scholars and students. Author note:Philip Yale Nicholsonis Professor of History at Nassau Community College and Adjunct Professor at the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Long Island Extension. He is the author ofWho Do We Think We Are? Race and Nation in the Modern World.

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Temple University Press

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1592132391

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In the Nation’s Service

The Life and Times of George P. Shultz

By: Philip Taubman

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In the Nation’s Service

The Life and Times of George P. Shultz

By: Philip Taubman

The definitive biography of a distinguished public servant, who as US Secretary of Labor, Secretary of the Treasury, and Secretary of State, was pivotal in steering the great powers toward the end of the Cold War. Deftly solving critical but intractable national and global problems was the leitmotif of George Pratt Shultz's life. No one at the highest levels of the United States government did it better or with greater consequence in the last half of the 20th century, often against withering resistance. His quiet, effective leadership altered the arc of history. While political, social, and cultural dynamics have changed profoundly since Shultz served at the commanding heights of American power in the 1970s and 1980s, his legacy and the lessons of his career have even greater meaning now that the Shultz brand of conservatism has been almost erased in the modern Republican Party. This book, from longtime New York Times Washington reporter Philip Taubman, restores the modest Shultz to his central place in American history. Taubman reveals Shultz's gift for forging relationships with people and then harnessing the rapport to address national and international challenges, under his motto "trust is the coin of the realm"—as well as his difficulty standing up for his principles, motivated by a powerful sense of loyalty that often trapped him in inaction. Based on exclusive access to Shultz's personal papers, housed in a sealed archive at the Hoover Institution, In the Nation's Service offers a remarkable insider account of the behind-the-scenes struggles of the statesman who played a pivotal role in unwinding the Cold War.

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Stanford University Press

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1503633667

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Late Thoughts on an Old War

The Legacy of Vietnam

By: Philip D. Beidler

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Late Thoughts on an Old War

The Legacy of Vietnam

By: Philip D. Beidler

Philip D. Beidler, who served as an armored cavalry platoon leader in Vietnam, sees less and less of the hard-won perspective of the common soldier in what America has made of that war. Each passing year, he says, dulls our sense of immediacy about Vietnam’s costs, opening wider the temptation to make it something more necessary, neatly contained, and justifiable than it should ever become. Here Beidler draws on deeply personal memories to reflect on the war’s lingering aftereffects and the shallow, evasive ways we deal with them. Beidler brings back the war he knew in chapters on its vocabulary, music, literature, and film. His catalog of soldier slang reveals how finely a tour of Vietnam could hone one’s sense of absurdity. His survey of the war’s pop hits looks for meaning in the soundtrack many veterans still hear in their heads. Beidler also explains how “Viet Pulp” literature about snipers, tunnel rats, and other hard-core types has pushed aside masterpieces like Duong Thu Huong’sNovel without a Name. Likewise we learn why the movieThe Deer Hunterdoesn’t “get it” about Vietnam but whyPlatoonandWe Were Soldierssometimes nearly do. As Beidler takes measure of his own wartime politics and morals, he ponders the divergent careers of such figures as William Calley, the army lieutenant whose name is synonymous with the civilian massacre at My Lai, and an old friend, poet John Balaban, a conscientious objector who performed alternative duty in Vietnam as a schoolteacher and hospital worker. Beidler also looks at Vietnam alongside other conflicts—including the war on international terrorism. He once hoped, he says, that Vietnam had fractured our sense of providential destiny and geopolitical invincibility but now realizes, with dismay, that those myths are still with us. “Americans have always wanted their apocalypses,” writes Beidler, “and they have always wanted them now.”

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University of Georgia Press

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0820336521

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9780820336527

I Married a Communist

By: Philip Roth

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I Married a Communist

By: Philip Roth

Radio actor Iron Rinn (born Ira Ringold) is a big Newark roughneck blighted by a brutal personal secret from which he is perpetually in flight. An idealistic Communist, a self-educated ditchdigger turned popular performer, a six-foot six-inch Abe Lincoln look-alike, he marries the nation's reigning radio actress and beloved silent-film star, the exquisite Eve Frame (born Chava Fromkin). Their marriage evolves from a glamorous, romantic idyll into a dispiriting soap opera of tears and treachery. And with Eve's dramatic revelation to the gossip columnist Bryden Grant of her husband's life of "espionage" for the Soviet Union, the relationship enlarges from private drama into national scandal. Set in the heart of the McCarthy era, the story of Iron Rinn's denunciation and disgrace brings to harrowing life the human drama that was central to the nation's political tribulations in the dark years of betrayal, the blacklist, and naming names. I Married a Communist is an American tragedy as only Philip Roth could write it.

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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0395933463

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9780395933466

Climate Change and Post-Political Communication

Media, Emotion and Environmental Advocacy

By: Philip Hammond

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Climate Change and Post-Political Communication

Media, Emotion and Environmental Advocacy

By: Philip Hammond

For many years, the objective of environmental campaigners was to push climate change on to the agenda of political leaders and to encourage media attention to the issue. By the first decade of the twenty-first century, it appeared that their efforts had been spectacularly successful. Yet just at the moment when the campaigners’ goals were being achieved, it seemed that the idea of getting the issue into mainstream discussion had been mistaken all along; that the consensus-building approach produced little or no meaningful action. That is the problem of climate change as a ‘post-political’ issue, which is the subject of this book. Examining how climate change is communicated in politics, news media and celebrity culture, Climate Change and Post-Political Communication explores how the issue has been taken up by elites as potentially offering a sense of purpose or mission in the absence of political visions of the future, and considers the ways in which it provides a focus for much broader anxieties about a loss of modernist political agency and meaning. Drawing on a wide range of literature and case studies, and taking a critical and contextual approach to the analysis of climate change communication, this book will be a valuable resource for students and scholars of environmental studies, communication studies, and media and film studies.

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Routledge

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1317678885

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Philip Guston

Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations

By: Philip Guston

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Philip Guston

Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations

By: Philip Guston

This is the premier collection of dialogues, talks, and writings by Philip Guston (1913–1980), one of the most intellectually adventurous and poetically gifted of modern painters. Over the course of his life, Guston’s wide reading in literature and philosophy deepened his commitment to his art—from his early Abstract Expressionist paintings to his later gritty, intense figurative works. This collection, with many pieces appearing in print for the first time, lets us hear Guston’s voice—as the artist delivers a lecture on Renaissance painting, instructs students in a classroom setting, and discusses such artists and writers as Piero della Francesca, de Chirico, Picasso, Kafka, Beckett, and Gogol.

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University of California Press

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0520257162

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9780520257160

Marshall McLuhan

The Medium and the Messenger : a Biography

By: Philip Marchand

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Marshall McLuhan

The Medium and the Messenger : a Biography

By: Philip Marchand

A new look at the man who gave us ideas "the medium is the message" and "global village".

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MIT Press

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0262631865

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9780262631860

Strong Presidents

A Theory of Leadership

By: Philip Abbott

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Strong Presidents

A Theory of Leadership

By: Philip Abbott

In Strong Presidents, Philip Abbott offers a highly provocative and original perspective on presidential leadership.

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VNR AG

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0870499319

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9780870499319

The Challenge of the American Presidency

Washington to Obama

By: Philip Abbott

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The Challenge of the American Presidency

Washington to Obama

By: Philip Abbott

We are a culture of surfers; whether we're changing channels, browsing web sites, or skimming glossy pages, we are constantly sampling the dreams and experiences of others, to try to make sense of--or distract us from--our own. As the bestseller lists indicate, we are also engaged in a search for our souls, attempting to reclaim that mysterious, sacred uniqueness that entitles us to the joy and freedom that we sense are missing from our lives. Soul Surfing combines these two popular notions into a powerful prescription for spiritual development: a ten-step program that tells readers how to achieve real-world benefits by connecting with their soul work with the same intensity and intimacy that they bring to the movies, music and media that dominate our culture. An intuitive counselor with a thriving private practice, Dawnea Adams goes beyond tales of her psychic prowess to offer techniques that readers can perform independently: a series of ten visualization-based spiritual steps, called "phases," that help readers accomplish the precise spiritual healing and growth they need to move ahead. As soul surfers, we are taught to scan our memories and dreams and lock in to the sources of our pain. In terms that the media-distracted masses can understand, each phase then guides us through the creation of a movie of the mind in which we visualize the healing we need; ranging from scenes recalled from our past to those imagined in our future, these visualizations help us replace toxic mental reruns with empowering visions of liberation and possibility. Each phase is accompanied by inspiring case histories from Adams' years of private practice, recommended video viewing, and revealing personal stories that illustrate the powerful role that phasing work has played in Adams' own spiritual journey. A uniquely accessible and practical addition to the current literature of the soul, from a down-to-earth, charismatic psychic determined to use her gifts to help others, Soul Surfing is a self-help book for the media-saturated millennium.

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Lexington Books

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0739166662

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9780739166666

Richard B. Morris and American History in the Twentieth Century

By: Philip Ranlet

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Richard B. Morris and American History in the Twentieth Century

By: Philip Ranlet

Richard B. Morris, an internationally known early American scholar, was a historian at both City College of New York and Columbia University. His dissertation, Studies in the History of American Law, helped establish American legal history as a field. This biography is based primarily upon Morris' extensive papers and the recollections of historians who knew him well.

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University Press of America

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0761829172

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9780761829171

Presidential Profiles

From George Washington to G. W. Bush

By: Philip Secor

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Presidential Profiles

From George Washington to G. W. Bush

By: Philip Secor

Presidential Profiles is a book that displays bright and colorful verbal pictures of the forty-two men who have led our country from George Washington to George W. Bush. Unlike many works about the presidents, this one is neither a large tome nor a complex study of presidential policies or historical themes arranged by more or less useful analytical categories. Philip Secor, and acclaimed author and historian, has provided here a useful comparative reference for the beginning student and, at the same time, a "good read" for the history buff. Although there are few footnotes and no extensive bibliography, there are a few books suggested for further reading on each president. Each profile seeks to answer four general questions: (1)What kind of person was (is) he in terms of appearance, temperament, personal habits and idiosyncracies? (2) What was his childhood and early life like and what did he do before becoming president? (3) What did he accomplish as president? (4) What did he do after leaving office and what was the manner of his death? Throughout, special emphasis is placed on personal and social relationships.

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iUniverse

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0595535119

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9780595535118

Benjamin's Treatise on the Law of Sale of Personal Property with References to the American Decisions

Vol. II

By: Judah Philip Benjamin,Arthur Beilby Pearson,Hugh Fenwick Boyd,Charles Lyon Corbin

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Benjamin's Treatise on the Law of Sale of Personal Property with References to the American Decisions

Vol. II

By: Judah Philip Benjamin,Arthur Beilby Pearson,Hugh Fenwick Boyd,Charles Lyon Corbin

Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3385312663

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9783385312661

Puppetmasters

The Political Use of Terrorism in Italy

By: Philip Willan

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Puppetmasters

The Political Use of Terrorism in Italy

By: Philip Willan

The CIA has been accused of a massive intelligence failure in the run-up to the 9/11 attacks -- the result, it is said, of a moralistic and bureaucratic approach to information-gathering. But the CIA's spies had few qualms when it came to cultivating terrorist organisations and interfering in the internal politics of Cold War Italy. Puppetmasters reveals how US intelligence services exploited the P2 masonic lodge to prop up friendly Christian Democrat-dominated governments and counter the growing political influence of the Italian Communist Party. It was a ruthless strategy involving coup plots, right wing terrorist bombings and the manipulation of the Red Brigades. And it gave Italy one of the bloodiest and most protracted periods of terrorist violence ever seen in a modern, industrialised society.

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0595246974

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9780595246977

Surviving Vietnam

Psychological Consequences of the War for U.S. Veterans

By: Bruce Philip Dohrenwend,Nick Turse,Thomas J. Yager,Melanie M. Wall

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Surviving Vietnam

Psychological Consequences of the War for U.S. Veterans

By: Bruce Philip Dohrenwend,Nick Turse,Thomas J. Yager,Melanie M. Wall

Uniquely using historical material and military records as well as personal interviews and clinical diagnoses, Surviving Vietnam focuses on veterans' war-zone experiences and the development in some of PTSD. It addresses controversies regarding reported rates of PTSD and the importance of exposure to traumatic events compared with pre-war personal vulnerability.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0190904445

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Catholicism and Health-Care Justice

Problems, Potential and Solutions

By: Philip S. Keane

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Catholicism and Health-Care Justice

Problems, Potential and Solutions

By: Philip S. Keane

Of Catholic principles for health-care justice -- Managed care : definition, history, and moral successes -- Managed care : problems and potential solutions -- Ethics of mergers, joint ventures, and other reconfigurations -- Public policy and contemporary health care -- Some particular problems in health-care justice -- Toward some overall conclusions about health-care justice today.

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Paulist Press

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0809140594

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9780809140596

Politics USA

By: Robert J. McKeever,Philip Davies

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Politics USA

By: Robert J. McKeever,Philip Davies

Politics USA is a lively and authoritative introduction to American politics, giving students a rich and varied resource for all aspects of their course. The book provides expert and comprehensive analysis of US politics and government, including in-depth coverage of the presidency, the Congress, the Supreme Court and American foreign policy. This third edition of Politics USA has been thoroughly updated to include analysis of Challenges and policies of the first Obama administration Recent results and developments in US elections Latest major decisions of the US Supreme Court Contemporary American Foreign Policy This is an ideal introduction for students of US politics as well as anyone seeking to understand any or all aspects of politics in one of the world’s most powerful and globally influential countries.

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Routledge

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1317863119

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9781317863113

Campaigns and Conscience

The Ethics of Political Journalism

By: Philip Seib

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Campaigns and Conscience

The Ethics of Political Journalism

By: Philip Seib

Seib examines the ethical issues underlying the volatile relationship between journalists and politicians. It provides an inside look at how reporters and candidates do their jobs. From the screening process news organizations use to decide which candidates to cover, to the truth-testing of political ads, to the controversies surrounding election night projections, this work articulates crucial ethical questions and helps readers in their search for answers. As a political communications text, Campaigns and Conscience looks at the many facets of political journalism: what reporters need to know before covering a campaign; how to approach the character issue; how to keep up with the frantic pace of a campaign; why campaign ads should be covered as news; the allure and dangers of polls, projections, and endorsements; and the responsibility of the press to cover one of the most powerful quasi-political institutions--the press itself.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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031338987X

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9780313389870

Mao

A Life

By: Philip Short

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Mao

A Life

By: Philip Short

Short's masterful assessment--informed by secret documents recently found in China--provides an up-close look at Mao Tse-tung, the colossal figure whose shadow will dominate into the 21st century. of photos. 4 maps.

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Macmillan

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0805066381

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9780805066388

Democracy and Peace Making

Negotiations and Debates 1815-1973

By: Philip Towle

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Democracy and Peace Making

Negotiations and Debates 1815-1973

By: Philip Towle

Democracy and Peace Making is an invaluable and up-to-date account of the process of peace making, which draws on the most recent historical thinking. It surveys the post-war peace settlements of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including: * the Vienna congress of 1815 * the Treaty of Versailles * the peace settlements of the Second World War * peace talks after the Korean War * the Paris Peace Accords of 1973.

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Routledge

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1134610165

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Was It Murder?

Surprising Facts About 22 Famous Deaths

By: Philip L. Rife

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Was It Murder?

Surprising Facts About 22 Famous Deaths

By: Philip L. Rife

How did these famous people REALLY die? * Princess Diana * Napoleon Bonaparte * Glenn Miller * Lawrence of Arabia * General George Patton * President Warren Harding * The popular gossip columnist who planned to "blow the lid off" the JFK assassination * nuclear whistleblower Karen Silkwood * TV's Superman * Marilyn Monroe * presidential advisor Vince Foster * The European prince whose romantic "suicide" has been immortalized in books, plays and movies * The woman in Ted Kennedy's car at Chappaquiddick * John F. Kennedy, Jr. WHAT THIS BOOK SAYS ABOUT THE DEATH OF THESE AND MANY OTHER FAMOUS PEOPLE WILL SURPRISE YOU!

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0595247504

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9780595247509

Vice Presidential Profiles

Our Forgotten Leaders

By: Philip Secor

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Vice Presidential Profiles

Our Forgotten Leaders

By: Philip Secor

This book is a companion to my Presidential Profiles, published in 2008. It provides short bigraphies on each of the thirty-three vice presidents who never bcame president. Most readers are familiar with those like John Adams and Thomas Jefferson who did rise to the presidency and so I have decided to write about those less well known. Because most of these vice presidents are virtually forgotten today and yet were very prominent and important figures in their time, I have subtitled the book: Our Forgotten Leaders. In each biographical sketch, the reader will learn about the childhood and youth of the subject, his educational background, his marraige and family life, his career before becoming vice president, his vicepresidency and his life after leaving office.

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147598555X

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9781475985559

The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Political and Legal History

By: Donald T. Critchlow,Philip R. VanderMeer

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The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Political and Legal History

By: Donald T. Critchlow,Philip R. VanderMeer

The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Political and Legal History brings together an unparalleled wealth of information about the laws, institutions, and actors that have governed America throughout its history. Entries key political figures, important legislation and governmental institutions, broad political trends relating to elections, voting behavior, and party development, as well as key court cases, legal theories, constitutional interpretations, Supreme Court justices, and other major legal figures. Emphasizing the interconnectedness of politics and law, the more than 430 expertly written entries in the Encyclopedia provide an invaluable and in-depth overview of the development of America's political and legal frameworks.

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0199754616

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Intelligence and Government in Britain and the United States

A Comparative Perspective [2 volumes]

By: Philip H.J. Davies

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Intelligence and Government in Britain and the United States

A Comparative Perspective [2 volumes]

By: Philip H.J. Davies

Bringing a dose of reality to the stuff of literary thrillers, this masterful study is the first closely detailed, comparative analysis of the evolution of the modern British and American intelligence communities. Intelligence and Government in Britain and the United States: A Comparative Perspective is an intensive, comparative exploration of the role of organizational and political culture in the development of the intelligence communities of America and her long-time ally. Each national system is examined as a detailed case study set in a common conceptual and theoretical framework. The first volume lays out that framework and examines the U.S. intelligence community. The second volume offers the U.K. case study as well as overall conclusions. Particular attention is paid here to the fundamentally different concepts of what "intelligence" entails in the United States and United Kingdom, as well as to the nations' different approaches to managing change- and information-intensive activities. The impact of these differences is demonstrated by examining the evolution of the two intelligence communities from their inceptions prior to World War II through their development during the Cold War and the transformations that have taken place since, especially in the wake of the September 2001 terrorist attacks and 2003 invasion of Iraq.

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A History of Pennsylvania

By: Philip Shriver Klein,Ari Arthur Hoogenboom

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A History of Pennsylvania

By: Philip Shriver Klein,Ari Arthur Hoogenboom

Acclaimed as the standard history of the Keystone State, this book has been updated to cover the 1978 gubernatorial election as well as other developments&—political, economic, social, and cultural&—during the six years since publication of the original edition. Dozens of new illustrations have been added throughout the book, and both the text and the chapter-end bibliographies take account of significant recent scholarship.

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Penn State Press

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0271002166

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9780271002163

The Losing Parties

Out-Party National Committees, 1956-1993

By: Philip A. Klinkner

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The Losing Parties

Out-Party National Committees, 1956-1993

By: Philip A. Klinkner

How do Democratic and Republican party leaders react after their party has lost a presidential election? Is there a pattern of response to defeat that reflects the distinctive cultures of the two parties? This book answers these questions by examining how the two national party organizations have responded to presidential election defeats between 1956 and 1993. Drawing on party documents, interviews with party officials, and contemporary accounts, Philip Klinkner provides detailed case studies of opposition party politics. He shows that Republican national committees have reacted to losses by making organizational changes to improve campaign technology and fundraising and that losing Democrats have sought to refine or make more democratic their internal procedures for selecting delegates to the national convention or for choosing presidential candidates. Klinkner suggests that the reasons for these reactions stem from the historical development of the parties. The organizational response of the Republican party is the result of its long-term relationship with business, its homogeneity and hierarchical structure, and its minority party experience. The Democrats' emphasis on participation and representation for its constituent elements is based on its characteristic composition of social and economic out-groups, its heterogeneity and decentralization, and its tradition as the majority party.

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Yale University Press

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0300163363

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9780300163360

Media Law for Producers

By: Philip Miller

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Media Law for Producers

By: Philip Miller

Media Law for Producers is a comprehensive handbook that explains, in lay terms, the myriad legal issues that the producer will face on a regular basis - contracts, permits, defamation, patents, releases and insurance, libel, royalties and residuals, as well as protecting the finished production. This revised and expanded edition includes such Internet-related topics as Internet music law, online registration, and online privacy. Other new topics covered include: · Implied and express contracts in the project/idea submission process · Assignment/transfer of copyright · Music clip licensing · Use of other people's trademarks in media production · Parody as a defense to copyright infringement Clear explanations examine the how and why of different types of production contracts, and checklists provide a quick means for producers to determine when their productions might be at greatest risk to legal challenges. Media Law for Producers also examines the substantial changes in copyright term resulting from recent copyright legislation. Legal problems can be very costly to media producers. Lawyers and court fees, coupled with the loss of work time, can lead to bankruptcy. Media Law for Producers cuts through the legalese and illustrates legal issues to help producers recognize the legal questions that can arise during production.

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Taylor & Francis

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1136046011

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9781136046018

100 Greatest Western Movies of All Time

Including Five You’ve Never Heard Of

By: Philip Armour

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100 Greatest Western Movies of All Time

Including Five You’ve Never Heard Of

By: Philip Armour

A fun, opinionated, illustrated look at Westerns—with great photographs from great movies This unique compendium of short essays about, and evocative photos from, the 100 greatest Western movies of all time is the authoritative new resource on the subject—and the ideal illustrated gift book for all cowboy enthusiasts and cinema fans. Beyond being eminently browseable and lavishly illustrated, the book—compiled by the editors of the popular Western magazine American Cowboy—is sure to generate hot debate over its “top 100” list, and it covers plenty of movies that appeal to a wide variety of ages and tastes—from The Ox-Bow Incident, High Noon, and Shane to The Wild Bunch, High Plains Drifter, and Unforgiven. Each essay makes the case for why the selected movie belongs in the top 100—and included are five movies you’ve never heard of but should immediately put high on your list. The introduction sets forth the criteria for the selections while also presenting a short history of the genre.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0762769378

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9780762769377

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