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Reducere. Winner of the 2001 Gustavus Myers Program Book Award. Contrary to simple textbook tales, the civil rights movement did not arise spontaneously in 1...

DescriptionOver the last twenty-five years, a dramatic transformation in the American public's view of homosexuality has occurred, symbolized best ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: John J. MearsheimerFor more than two decades, John J. Mearsheimer has been regarded as one of the foremost realist thinkers...

DescriptionOn March 16, 2018, just twenty-six hours before his scheduled retirement from the organization he had served with distinction for more t...

DescriptionA new edition of the bestselling classic - published with a special introduction to mark its 10th anniversary This pioneering account se...

Reducere. Description"We had much rather be all alone in the right than with the whole world in the wrong." So wrote Jeremiah Hacker in 1862. He was the main...

DescriptionThe state of emergency, according to thinkers such as Carl Schmidt, Walter Benjamin, and Giorgio Agamben, is at the heart of any theory ...

Reducere. How a modern-day mine disaster has turned a Pennsylvania community into a ghost town * For much of its history, Centralia, Pennsylvania, had a popu...

Reducere. Such was the revulsion in the United States over the purported murder of William Morgan, an upstate New Yorker who in 1826 disappeared after threat...

This book consists of two parts: "The Law of Peoples, " a major reworking of a much shorter article by the same name published in 1993, and the ess...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: H. L. a. HartThis incisive book deals with the use of the criminal law to enforce morality, in particular sexual morality, ...

Reducere. DescriptionBuilt on the bones of an ancient city, modern-day Everstrand is where master mage, Rowan, has set up his enchantment shop. When not hang...

Dinah is a prostitute who lives with a Rastafarian fisherman on the Dungle, the rubbish heap where the very poorist squat. She refuses to accept hi...

Reducere. DescriptionThis text serves as an accessible introduction to the law of contract. The headings chosen for examination track the main points in the ...

Reducere. DescriptionCabeza de Vaca came to the New world in 1527 as part of a Spanish expedition to conquer the region north of the Gulf of Mexico. His expl...

Reducere. DescriptionWhat could be more innocent than a crossword puzzle? A game to while away an idle hour, a diversion for the lonely. And yet its cunning ...

Reducere. Is your toddler going through the "whacky one's, " "terrible two's, " "troublesome three's, " or "fudgesicle four's/five's?" Or could their behavio...

Have you been striving for more in your spiritual journey? What if everything you could ever hope for in your relationship with God was placed in y...

Reducere. This is the classic WW2 sniping handbook. The author had much experience in sniping on the western front in the First World War, and he wrote his e...

Reducere. Named a 2007 Book of Distinction by the Sir John Templeton Foundation. The special edition of this award winning book celebrates the 200th birthday...

During the Battle of Fort Wagner in 1863, Sgt. William Harvey Carney picked up the fallen flag from his lifeless comrade. He waved the flag for all...

DescriptionArmy Air Force pilot Jim Muri flew his torpedo-equipped B-26 bomber on a daring mission of survival that helped win the Battle of Midway...