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High-Performance Government

Structure, Leadership, Incentives

By: Robert Klitgaard,Paul C. Light,John Dumond

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High-Performance Government

Structure, Leadership, Incentives

By: Robert Klitgaard,Paul C. Light,John Dumond

In 2003, the National Commission on the Public Service, chaired by Paul Volcker, issued a report detailing problems within the federal government today and recommending changes in its organization, leadership, and operations. This book suggests practical ways to implement the recommendations and defines a research agenda for the future. Thirteen essays address the primary problem areas identified by the Volcker Commission, and the commission report itself is included.

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Rand Corporation

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0833040677

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The Presidency of George H. W. Bush

Second Edition, Revised

By: John Robert Greene

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The Presidency of George H. W. Bush

Second Edition, Revised

By: John Robert Greene

After George H. W. Bush lost his re-election bid to Bill Clinton in 1992, John Robert Greene's verdict on the 41st president of the United States was that he "brought no discredit to the office" and "was both patient and prudent. . . mak [ing] few mistakes." In the years since the release of Greene's profile of the senior Bush, deemed by Publishers Weekly, "the essential introduction to Bush's abbreviated, but still consequential, tenure in office," a wealth of materials about Bush's presidency has become available, even as distance has sharpened our perspective on the Bush years. In this significantly expanded second edition of The Presidency of George H. W. Bush, Greene takes full advantage of newly released documents to revisit Bush's term, to consider his post-presidency accomplishment, and to enhance and clarify our understanding of his place in history. Such milestones as the fall of the Berlin Wall, the reunification of Germany, the fall of the Soviet Union, the savings and loan crisis, and the transition to the Clinton administration receive renewed and far more detailed treatment here, as do the ramifications of George H. W. Bush's positions and policies. Greene also devotes ample attention to Bush's post-presidency, including his relationship with his son, President George W. Bush, as well as the development of his close friendship with Bill Clinton. The elder Bush emerges from this reappraisal as a considerably more activist president, with a more activist administration, than was previously assumed. Greene's concise and readable account drawing on the contents of the bush Library, the papers of James A. Baker III, and personal interviews, shows us the 41st president--and thus an important chapter in American history--in a new and more revealing light.

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University Press of Kansas

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0700620796

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Return to Cold War

By: Robert Legvold

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Return to Cold War

By: Robert Legvold

The 2014 crisis in Ukraine sent a tottering U.S.-Russian relationship over a cliff - a dangerous descent into deep mistrust, severed ties, and potential confrontation reminiscent of the Cold War period. In this incisive new analysis, leading expert on Soviet and Russian foreign policy, Robert Legvold, explores in detail this qualitatively new phase in a relationship that has alternated between hope and disappointment for much of the past two decades. Tracing the long and tortured path leading to this critical juncture, he contends that the recent deterioration of Russia-U.S. relations deserves to be understood as a return to cold war with great and lasting consequences. In drawing out the commonalities between the original cold war and the current confrontation, Return to Cold War brings a fresh perspective to what is happening between the two countries, its broader significance beyond the immediate issues of the day, and how political leaders in both countries might adjust their approaches in order, as the author urges, to make this new cold war "as short and shallow as possible.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1509501924

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9781509501922

Before Egypt

By: Robert Bloch

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Before Egypt

By: Robert Bloch

It was Mallison's strangest assignment. The weird little professor wanted to go to Egypt. That meant a trip back to Earth so far as Mallison was concerned. But the professor pointed to a distant star and Mallison wondered: "Who moved Egypt?

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eStar Books

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1612105068

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The Insurgency of the Spirit

Jesus's Liberation Animist Spirituality, Empire, and Creating Christian Protectors

By: Robert E. Shore-Goss

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The Insurgency of the Spirit

Jesus's Liberation Animist Spirituality, Empire, and Creating Christian Protectors

By: Robert E. Shore-Goss

The Insurgency of the Spirit taps mutli-disciplinary methodologies of post-colonial biblical scholarship and anthropology, liberation theologies, indigenous studies, grief/trauma research, and nature-meditation writings to shape a constructive retrieval of the animist Jesus. The vision that emerges is one that sets forward an Earth-loving Jesus who challenges Christians in particular to mobilize against the destructive relationship that exists between imperial religion and political systems.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1793623198

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9781793623195

Russian Civil-Military Relations

By: Robert Brannon

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Russian Civil-Military Relations

By: Robert Brannon

Putin's style of leadership has transitioned into another era but there is much still inherited from the past. In the often anarchic environment of the 1990s, the nascent Russian Federation experienced misunderstandings and mis-steps in civil-military relations. Under Boris Yeltsin it has been questioned whether the military obeyed orders from civilian authorities or merely gave lip service to those it served to protect while implementing its own policies and courses of action. Robert Brannon sets forth the circumstances under which the military instrument of Russia's power and influence could be called upon to exert force. Deriving in part from its Soviet past, the author examines how Russia's military doctrine represents more than just a road map of how to fight the nation's wars; it also specifies threats to national interests, in this case the United States, NATO and international terrorism. Against this background of politics and power, the military's influence may reveal as much about politics as it does the military.

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Routledge

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1317060423

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A Catholic Reading Guide to Universalism

By: Robert Wild

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A Catholic Reading Guide to Universalism

By: Robert Wild

This reading guide to some of the philosophical and theological literature on universalism offers practical help in providing informed material on a topic that is often treated in a superficial and unenlightened manner. The reader may be surprised to learn that universalism was the predominant belief in the early centuries, and that it has always been present in the Christian tradition. Spurred on by Von Balthasar's book, Dare We Hope That All Men Be Saved? Robert Wild's guide provides current studies that support Von Balthasar's arguments that universalism is a legitimate hope for the Christian.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1498223184

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Trudeau’s World

Insiders Reflect on Foreign Policy, Trade, and Defence, 1968-84

By: Robert Bothwell,J.L. Granatstein

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Trudeau’s World

Insiders Reflect on Foreign Policy, Trade, and Defence, 1968-84

By: Robert Bothwell,J.L. Granatstein

Pierre Trudeau and most of his contemporaries at home and abroad are now dead. This book offers reflections on Canadian foreign, trade, and defence policies from interviews conducted more than three decades ago with key policy makers, diplomats, and military officers in the Trudeau government and of that era. The interviews are informative and revealingly frank. There is much on the enormous difficulties in dealing with the United States, Europe, NATO, the Soviet Union, and Communist China in an era dominated by the Cold War. There are also personal insights into Trudeau himself – a man of great “esprit,” who initially seemed destined to change Canadian policy in a dramatic fashion. Over time, however, this was not to be, and his government policies reverted towards the norm. A unique resource, Trudeau’s World adds immeasurably to our understanding of the Trudeau era. It also has much to tell us about Canada and the world from 1968 to 1984.

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UBC Press

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0774836407

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Health Care Politics, Policy and Services

A Social Justice Analysis, Second Edition

By: Gunnar Robert Almgren

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Health Care Politics, Policy and Services

A Social Justice Analysis, Second Edition

By: Gunnar Robert Almgren

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Springer Publishing Company

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0826108873

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Drug-impaired Professionals

By: Robert H. Coombs

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Drug-impaired Professionals

By: Robert H. Coombs

Drawing on more than 120 personal interveiws with addicted physicians, dentists, nurses, pharmacists, attorneys, and airline pilots and those who treat them, Professor of Biobehavioral Sciences Robert Coombs gives us a startling picture of drug abuse among "pedestal professionals" unveiling a problem that affects nearly every family in America.

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Harvard University Press

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0674001745

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Overcoming Secondary Stress in Medical and Nursing Practice

A Guide to Professional Resilience and Personal Well-Being

By: Robert J. Wicks

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Overcoming Secondary Stress in Medical and Nursing Practice

A Guide to Professional Resilience and Personal Well-Being

By: Robert J. Wicks

This book is a concise guide for physicians, nurses, and allied health professionals on understanding acute and chronic secondary stress, developing a personally designed self-care protocol, and strengthening one's inner life. It features a newly developed "Medical-Nursing Professional Secondary Stress Self-Awareness Questionnaire" that can be self-administered.

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Oxford University Press

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019517223X

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Tchaikovsky 19, a Diplomatic Life Behind the Iron Curtain

By: Robert F. Ober Jr

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Tchaikovsky 19, a Diplomatic Life Behind the Iron Curtain

By: Robert F. Ober Jr

Readers will discover the failures of Kissingers policy of detente in the early 1970s, the mistaken departure from Carters balanced policy toward China and the USSR, and the near-collapse of the embassy due to intelligence failures"-Foreign Service Journal. "Obers book recounts it all, along with the personalities and events of the time now mostly forgotten: dissidents and refuseniks, Victor and Jennifer Louis, Nina and Ed Stevens, U.S.-Soviet summits, microwaves, bugged buildings and typewriters, fires, spy dust and spy mania . . . Its all there, the pageant of U.S. Embassy Moscow 1970-90, a place so unlike todays walled air-conditioned, high-rise embassy fortress a block away as to beggar the imagination."-Richard Gilbert, AmericanDiplomacy.org "You have wonderfully captured the way things were in the Soviet Union in the 1970s and 80s. I dont know anyone who has done it better."-Donald Connery, former Time-Life correspondent, Moscow. "Together with much wisdom about American diplomacy, this rich memoir provides keen insight into Russian thinking and behavior"-George Feifer, "The Girl from Petrovka".

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Xlibris Corporation

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145351791X

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On the Wings of Modernism

The United States Air Force Academy

By: Robert Allen Nauman

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On the Wings of Modernism

The United States Air Force Academy

By: Robert Allen Nauman

Nauman argues that contrary to the technological and teleological interpretations presented by the polemicists of "international style" modernism, the academy's actual production was squarely grounded in bureaucratic and political processes. He demonstrates that selection of both the site and the design firm was the result of political maneuverings involving the U.S. military leadership."--BOOK JACKET.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252028910

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Parker's Wine Buyer's Guide, 7th Edition

The Complete, Easy-to-Use Reference on Recent Vintages, Prices, and Ratings for More than 8,000 Wines from All the Major Wine Regions

By: Robert M. Parker

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Parker's Wine Buyer's Guide, 7th Edition

The Complete, Easy-to-Use Reference on Recent Vintages, Prices, and Ratings for More than 8,000 Wines from All the Major Wine Regions

By: Robert M. Parker

Featuring a fresh layout, revised maps, and more detail than ever before, the seventh edition of Parker's Wine Buyer's Guide offers collectors and amateurs alike the ultimate resource to the world's best wines. Understanding that buyers on every level appreciate a good deal, Parker separates overvalued bottles from undervalued, with wine prices instantly shifting according to his evaluations. Indifferent to the wine's pedigree, Parker's eminent 100-point rating system allows for independent, consumer-oriented, inside information. The latest edition of Parker's Wine Buyer's Guide includes expanded information on Spain, Portugal, Germany, Australia, Argentina, and Chile, as well as new sections on Israel and Central Europe. As in his previous editions, Parker provides the reassurance of a simple number rating, predictions for future buying potential, and practical overviews of regions and grapes. Altogether, an indispensable resource from the man the Los Angeles Times calls “the most powerful critic of any kind.”

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Simon and Schuster

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1439139970

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9781439139974

Has Medicine Lost Its Mind?

Why Our Mental Health System Is Failing Us and What Should Be Done to Cure It

By: Robert C. Smith

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Has Medicine Lost Its Mind?

Why Our Mental Health System Is Failing Us and What Should Be Done to Cure It

By: Robert C. Smith

One in four Americans suffer from mental illness, yet 75% receive no treatment at all - discover why our healthcare system is failing millions and learn how we can fix it. In this groundbreaking examination of America's mental health crisis, internationally recognized physician Dr. Robert C. Smith exposes the devastating gap between physical and mental health treatment. Drawing on decades of clinical experience and evidence-based research, he reveals how the historical mind-body split in medicine has created a two-tier system of care with catastrophic consequences. Key revelations include: Why medical schools fail to properly train physicians in mental health care How untreated mental illness costs society hundreds of billions in preventable healthcare expenses The hidden toll on families and communities when depression, anxiety, and substance abuse go untreated A practical roadmap for reform that puts mental health care on equal footing with physical medicine Written with both scientific rigor and compassionate insight, this urgent call to action provides policymakers, healthcare leaders, and concerned citizens with a clear path forward. Dr. Smith, recipient of the George Engel Award and Career Teaching Achievement Award, brings unparalleled expertise to this critical examination of how we can transform mental healthcare in America.

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1493087665

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Deadly Dozen

Forgotten Gunfighters of the Old West

By: Robert K. DeArment

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Deadly Dozen

Forgotten Gunfighters of the Old West

By: Robert K. DeArment

Think gunfighter, and Wyatt Earp or Billy the Kid may come to mind, but what of Jim Moon? Joel Fowler? Zack Light? A host of other figures helped forge the gunfighter persona, but their stories have been lost to time. In a sequel to his Deadly Dozen, celebrated western historian Robert K. DeArment now offers more biographical portraits of lesser-known gunfighters—men who perhaps weren’t glorified in legend or song, but who were rightfully notorious in their day. DeArment has tracked down stories of gunmen from throughout the West—characters you won’t find in any of today’s western history encyclopedias but whose careers are colorfully described here. Photos of the men and telling quotations from primary sources make these characters come alive. In giving these men their due, DeArment takes readers back to the gunfighter culture spawned in part by the upheavals of the Civil War, to a time when deadly duels were part of the social fabric of frontier towns and the Code of the West was real. His vignettes offer telling insights into conditions on the frontier that created the gunfighters of legend. These overlooked shooters never won national headlines but made their own contributions to the blood and thunder of the Old West: people less than legends, but all the more fascinating because they were real. Readers who enjoyed DeArment’s Deadly Dozen will find this book equally captivating—as gripping as a showdown, twelve times over.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806182652

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Addiction Counseling Review

Preparing for Comprehensive, Certification, and Licensing Examinations

By: Robert Holman Coombs

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Addiction Counseling Review

Preparing for Comprehensive, Certification, and Licensing Examinations

By: Robert Holman Coombs

Addiction Counseling Review: Preparing for Comprehensive, Certification, and Licensing Examinations offers a clear, readable overview of the knowledge and skills those training as alcohol or other drug counselors need to pass their final degree program, certification, and licensing examinations. It is organized into six sections: Addiction Basics, Personality Development and Drugs, Common Client Problems, Counseling Theories and Skills, Treatment Resources, and Career Issues. Each chapter includes challenging study questions that enable readers to assess their own level of understanding, including true/false, multiple choice, and provocative discussion questions. Each chapter also provides a glossary of key terms and, in addition to references, annotated suggestions for further reading and Web site exploration. This book will be a resource to which students and trainees will go on referring to long after it has helped them through their examinations. In addition, faculty and established professionals will find it a useful one-stop summary of current thinking about best practice.

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Routledge

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1135631352

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Bill Clinton

The Inside Story

By: Robert E. Levin

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Bill Clinton

The Inside Story

By: Robert E. Levin

Exactly who is Bill Clinton? Is he a man who can effectively lead America, or is he a political flash-in-the-pan? Covering all aspects of the numerous controversies surrounding the President, Robert Levin offers a major biography featuring interviews with Clinton's political friends and foes.

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SP Books

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1561711772

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A Catholic Reading Guide to Conditional Immortality

The Third Alternative to Hell and Universalism

By: Robert Wild

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A Catholic Reading Guide to Conditional Immortality

The Third Alternative to Hell and Universalism

By: Robert Wild

Like many other people, the long tradition about hell has been a source of serious confusion and distress for me. Over the past six years or so I was relieved to discover two other alternatives that are also part of the Christian tradition, though less prominent--universalism and the subject of the present book, conditional immortality. Universalism--that everyone would eventually be saved--did not, in the final analysis, seem to really come to grips with the overwhelming scriptural testimony that some kind of radical fateful decision is possible to people. Conditional immortality--that people who absolutely refuse God's plan for them will be taken out of existence--seems to me the best scriptural understanding of what the Lord meant by "losing one's soul"--not everlasting punishment but the withdrawal of existence. This book is an attempt to explain this theological theory. It is not presented as a definite dogma or teaching of the church, but as one of the possible results of a persistent and irrevocable decision against God.

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1498297277

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Cattle Annie and Little Britches

By: Robert Ward

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Cattle Annie and Little Britches

By: Robert Ward

Based on the lives of two adolescent girls in the late 19th century who became infatuated with the Western outlaw heroes they had read about in Ned Buntline's stories and left their homes to join them. The outlaws the girls find are the demoralised remnants of the Doolin-Dalton gang, led by the aging Bill Doolin. Annie shames, and inspires the men, to become what she had imagined them to be. The younger sister Jenny finds a father figure in Doolin, who calls her Little Britches. Doolin's efforts to live up to the girls' vision of him lead him to be carted off in a cage to an Oklahoma jail where he waits to be hanged.

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Simon and Schuster

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1440533857

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"An Arch Rebel Like Myself"

Dan Showalter and the Civil War in California and Texas

By: Gene C. Armistead,Robert D. Arconti

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"An Arch Rebel Like Myself"

Dan Showalter and the Civil War in California and Texas

By: Gene C. Armistead,Robert D. Arconti

Dan Showalter was Speaker Pro Tem of the California State Assembly at the outbreak of the Civil War and the exemplar of treason in the Far West among the pro-Union press. He gained notoriety as the survivor of California's last political (and actual, fatal) duel, for his role in the display of a Confederate flag in Sacramento, and for his imprisonment after an armed confrontation with Union troops. Escaping to Texas, he distinguished himself in the Confederate service in naval battles and in pursuit of Comanche raiders. As commander of the 4th Arizona Cavalry, he helped recapture the Rio Grande Valley from the Union and defended Brownsville against a combined Union and Mexican force. Refusing to surrender at war's end, he fled to Mexico, where he died of a wound sustained in a drunken bar fight at age 35.

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McFarland

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1476674612

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American Diplomacy and the End of the Cold War

An Insider's Account of US Diplomacy in Europe, 1989-1992

By: Robert L. Hutchings

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American Diplomacy and the End of the Cold War

An Insider's Account of US Diplomacy in Europe, 1989-1992

By: Robert L. Hutchings

Hutchings adds a scholar's balanced judgment and historical perspective to his insider's view from the White House as he reconstructs how things looked to policymakers in the United States and in Europe, describes how and why decisions were made, and critically examines those decisions in the light of what can now be known.

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Woodrow Wilson Center Press

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0801856213

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Last of the Cowboy Heroes

The Westerns of Randolph Scott, Joel McCrea, and Audie Murphy

By: Robert Nott

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Last of the Cowboy Heroes

The Westerns of Randolph Scott, Joel McCrea, and Audie Murphy

By: Robert Nott

In the world of Western films, Randolph Scott, Joel McCrea, and Audie Murphy have frequently been overlooked in favor of names like Roy Rogers and John Wayne. Yet these three actors played a crucial role in the changing environment of the post-World War II Western, and, in the process, made many excellent middle-budget films that are still a pleasure to watch. This account of these three Western stars' careers begins in 1946, when Scott and McCrea committed themselves to the Western roles they would play for nearly twenty years. Murphy, who also joined them in 1946, would continue his Western career for a few years after his cohorts rode into the film sunset. Arranged chronologically, and balanced among the three actors, the text concludes with Audie Murphy's last Western in 1967. Covering both the personal and professional lives of these three Hollywood cowboys, the book provides both their stories and the story of a Hollywood whose attitude toward the Western was in a time of transition and transformation. The text is complemented by 60 photographs and a filmography for each of the three.

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1476613729

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Making Modern Medical Ethics

How African Americans, Anti-Nazis, Bureaucrats, Feminists, Veterans, and Whistleblowing Moralists Created Bioethics

By: Robert Baker

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Making Modern Medical Ethics

How African Americans, Anti-Nazis, Bureaucrats, Feminists, Veterans, and Whistleblowing Moralists Created Bioethics

By: Robert Baker

The little-known stories of the people responsible for what we know today as modern medical ethics. In Making Modern Medical Ethics, Robert Baker tells the counter history of the birth of bioethics, bringing to the fore the stories of the dissenters and whistleblowers who challenged the establishment. Drawing on his earlier work on moral revolutions and the history of medical ethics, Robert Baker traces the history of modern medical ethics and its bioethical turn to the moral insurrections incited by the many unsung dissenters and whistleblowers: African American civil rights leaders, Jewish Americans harboring Holocaust memories, feminists, women, and Anglo-American physicians and healthcare professionals who were veterans of the World Wars, the Cold War, and the Vietnam War. The standard narrative for bioethics typically emphasizes the morally disruptive medical technologies of the latter part of the twentieth century, such as the dialysis machine, the electroencephalograph, and the ventilator, as they created the need to reconsider traditional notions of medical ethics. Baker, however, tells a fresh narrative, one that has historically been neglected (e.g., the story of the medical veterans who founded an international medical organization to rescue medicine and biomedical research from the scandal of Nazi medicine), and also reveals the penalties that moral change agents paid (e.g., the stubborn bureaucrat who was demoted for her insistence on requiring and enforcing research subjects’ informed consent). Analyzing major statements of modern medical ethics from the 1946–1947 Nuremberg Doctors Trials and Nuremberg Code to A Patient’s Bill of Rights, Making Modern Medical Ethics is a winning history of just how respect and autonomy for patients and research subjects came to be codified.

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MIT Press

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0262377403

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God Gametes 2 - Dark DNA and Parallels Between Gender-based Reproduction and Ancient Theology

By: Robert Jameson

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God Gametes 2 - Dark DNA and Parallels Between Gender-based Reproduction and Ancient Theology

By: Robert Jameson

The God Gametes theory argues that we have been created by an external gender-based species for the purpose of reproduction, and the way we reproduce has been modelled on the way they reproduce. And for thousands of years, we believe, our ancestors subconsciously understood our role in that process. This is why they conceptualised a variety of Fertility Gods that were gender-based, that reproduced - and why phallic imagery, and lancet shaped doors, have been incorporated into places of worship.

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1326055046

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The Ecole Normale Supérieure and the Third Republic

By: Robert J. Smith

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The Ecole Normale Supérieure and the Third Republic

By: Robert J. Smith

The Ecole Normale Supérieure was founded during the Revolutionary era to dominate the educational structure of France. During the Third Republic, the French academic elite trained at the Ecole Normale Supérieure greatly expanded its national role and enhanced its prestige and influence. In this book, the first full treatment of the social and political history of the Ecole Normale Supérieure in recent times, Robert J. Smith has examined the changing world of the normaliens under the Third Republic and their new, but temporary, cultural and political importance. His comparative study of the social origins, education, political ideas, and careers of the normaliens and students of other grandes écoles documents the segmented character of French elites and indicates the evolution of French society during this period.

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143842034X

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Enola Gay and the Court of History

By: Robert P. Newman

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Enola Gay and the Court of History

By: Robert P. Newman

In this hard-hitting, thoroughly researched, and crisply argued book, award-winning historian Robert P. Newman offers a fresh perspective on the dispute over President Truman's decision to drop the atomic bomb on Japan in World War II. Newman's argument centers on the controversy that erupted around the National Air and Space Museum's (NASM) exhibit of Enola Gay in 1995. Newman explores the tremendous challenges that NASM faced when trying to construct a narrative that would satisfy American veterans and the Japanese, as well as accurately reflect the current historical research on both the period and the bomb. His full-scale investigation of the historical dispute results in a compelling story of how and why our views about the bombing of Japan have evolved since its occurrence. Enola Gay and the Court of History is compulsory reading for all those interested in the history of the Pacific war, the morality of war, and the failed NASM exhibition. The book offers the final word on the debate over Truman's decision to drop the bomb.

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0820470716

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Double Ace

The Life of Robert Lee Scott Jr., Pilot, Hero, and Teller of Tall Tales

By: Robert Coram

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The Life of Robert Lee Scott Jr., Pilot, Hero, and Teller of Tall Tales

By: Robert Coram

Recounts the storied life and military career of the American flying Ace who flew missions in China alongside the "Flying Tigers" during World War II and helped found Georgia's Museum of Aviation, "--NoveList.

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Macmillan

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ISBN 10

1250040183

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