Top Secret America: The Rise of the New American Security State, Paperback - Dana Priest

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Reducere. In T. E. Lawrence's classic memoir Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Lawrence of Arabia claimed that he inspired a "dream palace" of Arab nationalism. What ...

Reducere. The American labor movement isn't dead. It's just moving from the bargaining table to the streets. In A New American Labor Movement, William Scheue...

Combining an intellectual history of social policy with a sweeping history of the educational system, Daniel S. Moak looks beyond the rise of neoli...

DescriptionIran has emerged from decades of isolation and struggle to become a leading, if not the pre-eminent, regional power. Iran projects its i...

East Asia hosts a fifth of the world's population and consumes over half the world's coal, a quarter of its petroleum products, and a tenth of its ...

Reducere. Though capable of staging spectacular attacks like 9/11, jihadist organizations were not a significant force on the ground when they first became n...

No longer dogs of war running ragtag armies, the new breed of private soldiers operate their million-dollar contracts from executive boardrooms wor...

Yugoslavia's diverse and interconnected art scenes from the 1960s to the 1980s, linked to the country's experience with socialist self-management. ...

Reducere. Linda Weiss attributes the U.S. capacity for transformative innovation to the strength of its national security state, a complex of agencies, progr...

Land of Desire: Merchants, Power, and the Rise of a New American Culture, Paperback

Long before the age of "Big Data" or the rise of today's "self-quantifiers, " American capitalism embraced "risk"--and proceeded to number our days...

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Contributor(s): Author: Meika LoeSince its introduction in 1998, Viagra has launched a new kind of sexual revolution. Quickly becoming one of the m...

Presents US History from 1900 to 1945. This work features a historical narrative that looks at the period from the 1890s to 1945. It is a synthesis...

Reducere. The America of the modern administrative state is not the America of the original Constitution. This transformation comes not only from the ordinar...

The author of the bestselling COSA NOSTRA explores the previously underexposed mafias of Southern Italy.Publisher: Hodder & StoughtonAuthor(s): Joh...

Reducere. This book is the first anthology to explore the connection between race and the suburbs in American cinema from the end of World War II to the pres...

Explores American reactions to hostile world opinion, as voiced in the United Nations by representatives of the Global South from 1970 to 1984. Sea...

Reducere. Pushing Past the Human in Latin American Cinema brings together fourteen scholars to analyze Latin American cinema in dialogue with recent theories...

Istoria statului si dreptului romanesc - Dan Top, Olivian Mastacan

From 1986 to 1994, East Africa's postcolonial, political order was profoundly challenged when four revolutionary 'liberation' movements seized powe...

How to identify and see through deceptive and unethical health marketing practices Health scams come in all shapes and sizes--from the suppression ...

Conventional wisdom dates the origins of activist federal government to the New Deal. William J. Novak shows that the roots run deeper. Tracing the...

Reducere. The period between the American Revolution and the middle nineteenth century dramatically changed New York State and the Iroquois. Upstate metropol...

Reducere. This is a complete translation of Eihei Shingi, the major writing by the Japanese Zen master Eihei Dogen (1200-1253) on monastic practice and the r...

Reducere. As a teenager, Eddie Buczynski had dreamed of becoming a Jesuit Priest. Rejected by the Church because of his questioning mind and budding homosexu...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Mafia in the United States might be a shadow of its former self, but in the New York/New Jersey metro area, there are still wiseguys...

A century ago, almost any state could be competitive at espionage. Fifty years ago, only the Cold War alliances clustered around the two superpower...

Reducere. Yoga. Humanistic Psychology. Meditation. Holistic Healing. These practices are commonplace today. Yet before the early 1960s they were atypical opt...

Dream, myth, delusion, and reality collide in this surrealist navigation of the national security state.Publisher: John Hunt PublishingAuthor(s): J...

Reducere. An explosive, long-forgotten story of police violence that exposes the historical roots of today's criminal justice crisis A deeply researched and ...

Reducere. How One House Call Can Change Your LifeA weekend service call changes the life of Doc Anderson forever. Johnny, the surprisingly wealthy energy whi...

Reducere. Why do people stay in a struggling city? City on the Edge explores this question through the lives of five people in Syracuse, New York, a quintess...

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Reducere. The definitive portrait of the powerful, corruption-ridden Teamsters union and its legendary president, Jimmy Hoffa-organizer, gangster, convict, a...

DescriptionThis collection investigates the intersections between faith-based charity and secular statecraft. The contributors trace the connection...

This book traces an unexpected journey to Latin America for South Asian literature in English. It shows how this encounter fundamentally shaped the...

Reducere. Ex-priest Stephen H. Donnelly's memoir, A Saint and a Sinner, is an immersive experience into the world of a Catholic priest and a brutally honest ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Todd R. ClearAuthor: Natasha A. FrostOver the last 40 years, the US penal system has grown at an unprecedented rate--five t...

The first book taking stock of a new left generationPublisher: Verso BooksAuthor(s): Raina LipsitzNumber of pages: 272Publication date: 2022Dimensi...

Traces the history of government profiling, the effects of contemporary technologies on surveillance practices, and how the law protects individual...