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Ambassador Morgenthau's Storyby Henry MorgenthauISBN 1594622442 (1-59462-244-2)
Softcover, Standard Pubns Inc
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The Americanization of Edward Bokby Edward BokISBN 159605073X (1-59605-073-X)
Softcover, Cosimo Inc
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An Apology for the True Christian Divinityby Robert BarclayISBN 1594622922 (1-59462-292-2)
Softcover, Standard Pubns Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'An Apology for the True Christian Divinity'Book summary:As the condition of kings and princes puts them in a station more obvious to the view and observation of the world, than that of other men, of whom, as Cicero observes, neither any word or action can be obscure; so are those kings, during whose appearance upon the stage of this world it pleaseth the Great King of kings singularly to make known unto men the wonderful steps of his unsearchable providence, more signally observed, and their lives and actions more diligently remarked, and enquired into by posterity; especially if those things be such as not only relate to the outward transactions of this world, but also are signalized by the manifestation or revelation of the knowledge of God in matters spiritual and religious. These are the things that rendered the lives of Cyrus, Augustus Ceasar, and Constantine the Great in former times, and of Charles the Fifth, and some other modern princes in these last ages, so considerable. [via]
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Around the World in 80 Daysby Jules VerneISBN 1595400427 (1-59540-042-7)
Softcover, Authorhouse
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Around the World in 80 Days'Book summary:Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. 1st World Library-Literary Society is a non-profit educational organization. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - Mr. Phileas Fogg lived, in 1872, at No. 7, Saville Row, Burlington Gardens, the house in which Sheridan died in 1814. He was one of the most noticeable members of the Reform Club, though he seemed always to avoid attracting attention; an enigmatical personage, about whom little was known, except that he was a polished man of the world. People said that he resembled Byron-at least that his head was Byronic; but he was a bearded, tranquil Byron, who might live on a thousand years without growing old. Certainly an Englishman, it was more doubtful whether Phileas Fogg was a Londoner. He was never seen on 'Change, nor at the Bank, nor in the counting-rooms of the "City"; no ships ever came into London docks of which he was the owner; he had no public employment; he had never been entered at any of the Inns of Court, either at the Temple, or Lincoln's Inn, or Gray's Inn; nor had his voice ever resounded in the Court of Chancery, or in the Exchequer, or the Queen's Bench, or the Ecclesiastical Courts. He certainly was not a manufacturer; nor was he a merchant or a gentleman farmer. His name was strange to the scientific and learned societies, and he never was known to take part in the sage deliberations of the Royal Institution or the London Institution, the Artisan's Association, or the Institution of Arts and Sciences. He belonged, in fact, to none of the numerous societies which swarm in the English capital, from the Harmonic to that of the Entomologists, founded mainly for the purpose of abolishing pernicious insects. [via]
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Aurora Leighby Elizabeth Barrett BrowningISBN 1594624399 (1-59462-439-9)
Softcover, Standard Pubns Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aurora Leigh'Book summary:Aurora Leigh is an aspiring poet of independent spirit, rebelling against the stifling constraints of Victorian middle-class society and struggling for self expression. This story exposes the hypocrisy and repressive social attitudes of Victorian England. [via]
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Baseball In The Lone Star State: The Texas League's Greatest Hitsby David King, Tom KayserISBN 1595340130 (1-59534-013-0)
Softcover, Trinity Univ Pr
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The Big Book of Porn: A Penetrating Look at the World of Dirty Moviesby Seth Grahame-smithISBN 1594740402 (1-59474-040-2)
Softcover, Quirk Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Big Book of Porn: A Penetrating Look at the World of Dirty Movies'Book summary:An XXX Rated Celebration of Adult Movies
According to film historians, the first motion picture was screened in December 1895. And the first dirty motion picture was screened just a few months later.
Adult movies are nearly as old as cinema itself. The Big Book of Porn celebrates this controversial art form in all its timeless gloryfrom the stag films of the 1920s and the Super 8 reels of the 50s to the VHS boom of the 80s and the interactive DVDs of Tomorrow.
Chapters include:
" Know Your Classics: The twenty-five most important adult films of all time, including Debbie Does Dallas, Deep Throat, and an X-rated musical version of Alice in Wonderland.
" Great Moments in Porn History: From the first on-screen kiss to the invention of the silicone breast implant, these are major events that defined modern-day adult films.
" The Pantheon of Porn: These mini-bios of mega-stars like Seka, Linda Lovelace, and Marilyn Chambers are filled with surprising trivia.
" Its A Porn World, After All: We travel around the worldfrom Australia and Canada to Germany and Japanto watch the best of international porn.
" Make Your Own Porno: All you need is a video camera, a willing partner, and these simple pointers ( Tell a story, Start with a bang, Parody a real film title whenever possible ).
And thats just the beginning. Youll also find a glossary of unfamiliar terms, a catalog of favorite porn genres, tons of classic stills and posters, interviews with porn pioneers, the 300 goofiest porn titles of all time (Edward Penishands, Juranal Park, Oklahomo!), and much, much more. [via]More editions of The Big Book of Porn: A Penetrating Look at the World of Dirty Movies:
Birth of a Dynasty: Behind The Pinstripes With The 1996 Yankeesby Joel Sherman, David ConeISBN 1594862443 (1-59486-244-3)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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Blue Bloodby Edward ConlonISBN 1594480737 (1-59448-073-7)
Softcover, Riverhead Books
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Comanche Moonby Jack Jackson, T.R. FehrenbachISBN 1594290032 (1-59429-003-2)
Softcover, Reed Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Comanche Moon'Book summary:Jack Jacksons Comanche Moon is the extraordinary story of Cynthia Ann Parker, a white settler child kidnapped by a band of Comanche Indians in 1836 in Texas. Brought up as a Comanche, she became the wife of a feared Comanche warrior and gave birth to Quanah, a warrior-son who became chief of the Comanches and eventually led them in their last great battles against the relentlessly encroaching white settlers. This is the story of their defeat and the end of the Comanche Nations dominance of the Texas plains.
Jackson is one of the original figures of the American underground comics movement of the 1960s. Unlike his peers, whose comics celebrated the counterculture, Jackson instead created lively, detailed and historically accurate works that chronicle the bloody, fascinating history around the founding of Texas. Told against a rich backdrop of 19th century life and the complex historical and political conflicts that fueled the brutal wars between Native Americans and settlers, the story of Naduah the white Comanche represents non-fiction comics at its best. [via]
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The Complete Book of Oscar Fashion: Variety's 75 Years of Glamour on the Red Carpetby Reeve ChaceISBN 1594290016 (1-59429-001-6)
Hardcover, Sourcebooks Inc
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A Concise Dictionary of Middle English 1888by Walter W. Skeat, A. L. MayhewISBN 1594621195 (1-59462-119-5)
Softcover, Standard Pubns Inc
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A Concise Etymological Dictionary of the English Languageby Walter W. SkeatISBN 1596050926 (1-59605-092-6)
Hardcover, Cosimo Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Concise Etymological Dictionary of the English Language'Book summary:This 1901 volume of A Concise Etymological Dictionary of the English Language completely updates the classic reference work first published in 1882. Skeat provides a staggering number of words, including those most frequently used in everyday speech and those most prominent in literature. They appear along with their definitions, their language of origin, their roots, and their derivatives. Those who are fascinated with the English language will find much to explore here and many overlooked but interesting tidbits and treasures of an ever-evolving language. Walter W. Skeat was a scholar of Old English, mathematics, English place names, and Anglo-Saxon. He founded the English Dialect Society in 1873 and was a professor at Cambridge University. Skeat edited many classic works, including Lancelot of the Laik, Piers Plowman, The Bruce, Lives of Saints, and a seven-volume edition of Chaucer. [via]
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Constitutional Chaos: What Happens When the Government Breaks Its Own Lawsby Andrew P. NapolitanoISBN 1595550402 (1-59555-040-2)
Softcover, Nelson Current
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Crimes Against Humanity: The Struggle for Global Justiceby Geoffrey RobertsonISBN 1595580719 (1-59558-071-9)
Softcover, New Press, The
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Crimes Against Humanity: The Struggle for Global Justice'Book summary:The story of the rise of the human rights movement by the renowned international attorney, in a newly revised and expanded edition.
For centuries it seemed an impossible dream that international institutions could ever tell nation-states how to treat their own citizens. But after a century in which 160 million lives have been wasted by war, genocide, and torture, the worldwide human rights movement is gaining popular and political strength.
In a book that has been called "an epic work" by The Times (London), Geoffrey Robertson, one of the world's leading human rights lawyers, weaves together disparate strands of history, philosophy, international law, and politics to show how an identification of the crime against humanity, first defined at Nuremberg, has become the key that unlocks the closed door of state sovereignty, enabling the international community to bring tyrants and torturers to heel.
This newly revised and expanded edition features additional chapters on Iraq and Guantánamo, and incorporates insights from the author's experience since 2002 as a UN appeals judge for the Special Court on war crimes in Sierra Leone. Robertson also brings us up to date on the trials against Slobodan Milosevic and Saddam Hussein and the International Criminal Court at Darfur. [via]More editions of Crimes Against Humanity: The Struggle for Global Justice:
Crisisby Winston ChurchillISBN 1595401350 (1-59540-135-0)
Softcover, 1st World Library
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The Development Of Social Network Analysis: A Study In The Sociology Of Scienceby Linton C. FreemanISBN 1594577145 (1-59457-714-5)
Softcover, Booksurge Llc
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Division Street: Americaby Studs TerkelISBN 1595580727 (1-59558-072-7)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Division Street: America'Book summary:The groundbreaking book that first made Studs Terkel a household name.
Division Street: America, Studs Terkel's first book of oral history, established his reputation as America's foremost oral historian and as "one of those rare thinkers who is actually willing to go out and talk to the incredible people of this country" (in the words of Tom Wolfe).
Viewing the inhabitants of a single city, Chicago, as a microcosm of the nation at large, Division Street: America chronicles the thoughts and feelings of some seventy people from widely varying backgrounds in terms of class, race, and personal history. From a mother and son who migrated from Appalachia to a Native American boilerman, from a streetwise ex-gang leader to a liberal police officer, from the poorest African Americans to the richest socialites, these unique and often intimate first-person accounts form a multifaceted collage that defies any simple stereotype of America. As Terkel himself put it: "I was on the prowl for a cross-section of urban thought, using no one method or technique&.I guess I was seeking some balance in the wildlife of the city as Rachel Carson sought it in nature." Revealing aspects of people's lives that are normally invisible to most of us, Division Street: America is a fascinating survey of a city, and a society, at a pivotal moment of the twentieth century. [via]More editions of Division Street: America:
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Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spiritby Al GoreISBN 1594866376 (1-59486-637-6)
Softcover, Rodale Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit'Book summary:What's most inspiring about Earth in the Balance is who wrote it. It's a big deal, after all, that a sitting senator was willing to write, "We must make the rescue of the environment the central organizing principle for civilization." And that's not all. In his 1992 book, Al Gore also wrote:
I have become very impatient with my own tendency to put a finger to the political winds and proceed cautiously.... [E]very time I pause to consider whether I have gone too far out on a limb, I look at the new facts [on the environment crisis] that continue to pour in from around the world and conclude that I have not gone far enough.... [T]he time has long since come to take more political risks--and endure more political criticism--by proposing tougher, more effective solutions and fighting hard for their enactments.
And the buzz on the street is that Gore actually wrote those words himself.
When Earth in the Balance first came out, it caused quite a stir--and for good reason. It convincingly makes the case that a crisis of epidemic proportions is nearly upon us and that if the world doesn't get its act together soon and agree to some kind of "Global Marshall Plan" to protect the environment, we're all up a polluted creek without a paddle. Myriad plagues are upon us, but the worst include the loss of biodiversity, the depletion of the ozone layer, the slash-and-burn destruction of rainforests, and the onset of global warming. None of this is new, of course, nor was it new in 1992. But most environmentalists will still get a giddy feeling reading such a call to action as written by a prominent politician.
The book is arranged into three sections: the first describes the plagues; the second looks at how we got ourselves into this mess; and the final chapters present ways out. Gore gets his points across in a serviceable way, though he could have benefited from a firmer editor's hand; at times the analogies are arcane and the pacing is odd--kind of like a Gore speech that climaxes at weird points and then sinks just as the audience is about to clap. Still, at the end you understand what's been said. Gore believes that if we apply some American ingenuity, the twin engines of democracy and capitalism can be rigged to help us stabilize world population growth, spread social justice, boost education levels, create environmentally appropriate technologies, and negotiate international agreements to bring us back from the brink. For example, a worldwide shift to clean, renewable energy sources would create huge economic opportunities for companies large and small to design, build, and maintain solar panels, wind turbines, fuel cells, and other ecofriendly innovations.
Gore doesn't mince words when describing just how hard it will be to get out of this jam. Real hope is contingent on a swelling up of concern among the public--and fast. A year into the vice presidency, in an interview with writer Bill McKibben, Gore paraphrased a key passage in his book, "The minimum that is scientifically necessary far exceeds the maximum that is politically feasible." Ah, a political out. Some readers will ask of Gore: what has he done since publishing his book to advance the political feasibility of decisive environmental action? --Chip Giller [via]
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The Edifice Complex: How the Rich And Powerful Shape the Worldby Deyan SudjicISBN 1594200688 (1-59420-068-8)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Eighth Promise: A Memoirby William Poy LeeISBN 159486456X (1-59486-456-X)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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Elvis Presley Passed Here: Even More Locations Of America's Pop Culture Landmarksby Chris EptingISBN 1595800018 (1-59580-001-8)
Softcover, Santa Monica Pr Llc
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Endless Knotby Steve LawheadISBN 1595542213 (1-59554-221-3)
Softcover, Thomas Nelson Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Endless Knot'Book summary:Fires rage in Albion: strange, hidden fires, dark-flamed, invisible to the eye. Llew Silver Hand is High King of Albion, but now the Brazen Man has defied his sovereignty and Llew must journey to the Foul Land to redeem his greatest treasure. The last battle begins, and the myths, passions, and heroism of an ancient people come to life as Llew faces his greatest test yet.
The ancient Celts admitted no separation between this world and the Otherworld: the two were delicately interwoven, each dependent on the other. The Endless Knot crosses the thin places between this work and that, as Lewis Gillies begins his ultimate quest, striking the final resounding chord in the Song of Albion. [via]
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Essays in Idlenessby KenkoISBN 1596050624 (1-59605-062-4)
Softcover, Cosimo Inc
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Everything Bad Is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarterby Steven JohnsonISBN 1594481946 (1-59448-194-6)
Softcover, Riverhead Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Everything Bad Is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter'Book summary:In his fourth book, Everything Bad Is Good for You, iconoclastic science writer Steven Johnson (who used himself as a test subject for the latest neurological technology in his last book, Mind Wide Open) takes on one of the most widely held preconceptions of the postmodern world--the belief that video games, television shows, and other forms of popular entertainment are detrimental to Americans' cognitive and moral development. Everything Good builds a case to the contrary that is engaging, thorough, and ultimately convincing.
The heart of Johnson's argument is something called the Sleeper Curve--a universe of popular entertainment that trends, intellectually speaking, ever upward, so that today's pop-culture consumer has to do more "cognitive work"--making snap decisions and coming up with long-term strategies in role-playing video games, for example, or mastering new virtual environments on the Internet-- than ever before. Johnson makes a compelling case that even today's least nutritional TV junk foodthe Joe Millionaires and Survivors so commonly derided as evidence of America's cultural decline--is more complex and stimulating, in terms of plot complexity and the amount of external information viewers need to understand them, than the Love Boats and I Love Lucys that preceded it. When it comes to television, even (perhaps especially) crappy television, Johnson argues, "the content is less interesting than the cognitive work the show elicits from your mind."
Johnson's work has been controversial, as befits a writer willing to challenge wisdom so conventional it has ossified into accepted truth. But even the most skeptical readers should be captivated by the intriguing questions Johnson raises, whether or not they choose to accept his answers. --Erica C. Barnett [via]More editions of Everything Bad Is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter:
The Executive's Almanac: A Diverse Portfolio of Eclectic Business Triviaby Milton MoskowitzISBN 1594741018 (1-59474-101-8)
Hardcover, Chronicle Books Llc
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Founding Fathers, Secret Societies: Freemasons, Illuminati, Rosicrucians, And the Decoding of the Great Sealby Robert Hieronimus, Laura CortnerISBN 1594770875 (1-59477-087-5)
Softcover, Destiny Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Founding Fathers, Secret Societies: Freemasons, Illuminati, Rosicrucians, And the Decoding of the Great Seal'Book summary:An exploration of the influence of secret societies on the formative documents and symbols of the United States
" Reveals the Founding Fathers spiritual vision for America as encoded in the Great Seal
" Traces the influence of the Iroquois League of Nations upon the Constitution
" Exposes the deep connections the Founding Fathers had with the Freemasons and other secret societies
All children growing up in America learn who the Founding Fathers were. Most, however, never learn of the founders connections to the Freemasons, the Rosicrucians, and other esoteric orders. In Founding Fathers, Secret Societies Robert Hieronimus investigates these important connections and how their influence can be traced throughout our most significant national documents and symbols, especially the Great Seal. He reveals in detail how the reverse of the Great Seal--which appears on the back of the one-dollar bill--is a blueprint that conveys the secret destiny of America. By understanding the kabbalistic meaning of the Great Seals reverse, he shows how our current era presents unique opportunities for the fulfillment of our Founding Fathers spiritual vision. [via]
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Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock down Culture and Control Creativityby Lawrence LessigISBN 1594200068 (1-59420-006-8)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock down Culture and Control Creativity'Book summary:From "the most important thinker on intellectual property in the Internet era" ("The New Yorker"), a landmark manifesto about the genuine closing of the American mind.
Lawrence Lessig could be called a cultural environmentalist. One of America's most original and influential public intellectuals, his focus is the social dimension of creativity: how creative work builds on the past and how society encourages or inhibits that building with laws and technologies. In his two previous books, Code and The Future of Ideas, Lessig concentrated on the destruction of much of the original promise of the Internet. Now, in Free Culture, he widens his focus to consider the diminishment of the larger public domain of ideas. In this powerful wake-up call he shows how short-sighted interests blind to the long-term damage they're inflicting are poisoning the ecosystem that fosters innovation.
All creative works-books, movies, records, software, and so on-are a compromise between what can be imagined and what is possible-technologically and legally. For more than two hundred years, laws in America have sought a balance between rewarding creativity and allowing the borrowing from which new creativity springs. The original term of copyright set by the Constitution in 1787 was seventeen years. Now it is closer to two hundred. Thomas Jefferson considered protecting the public against overly long monopolies on creative works an essential government role. What did he know that we've forgotten?
Lawrence Lessig shows us that while new technologies always lead to new laws, never before have the big cultural monopolists used the fear created by new technologies, specifically the Internet, to shrink the public domain of ideas, even as the same corporations use the same technologies to control more and more what we can and can't do with culture. As more and more culture becomes digitized, more and more becomes controllable, even as laws are being toughened at the behest of the big media groups. What's at stake is our freedom-freedom to create, freedom to build, and ultimately, freedom to imagine. [via]More editions of Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock down Culture and Control Creativity:
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Gag Rule: On the Suppression of Dissent and the Stifling of Democracyby Lewis LaphamISBN 1594200173 (1-59420-017-3)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Dissent is democracy. Democracy is in trouble. Never before, argues Lewis Lapham, have voices of protest been so locked out of the mainstream political conversation: they are criminalized, marginalized, and muted by a government that recklessly disregards civil liberties and by an ever-more concentrated and profit-driven media, in which the safe and the selling sweep all uncomfortable truths from view. As a result, we face a crisis of democracy as serious as any in our history. Never has the public conversation been more in need of dissent, and never has protest been more effectively quarantined into zones where it has so little effect on the political process. Under the noses of a cowed and silenced populace, Lapham posits, the Bush regime is "assembling from the ruins of a democratic republic the corporate splendor of a precision-guided empire....What the Bush administration has in mind is not the defense of the American citizenry against a foreign enemy, but the protection of the American oligarchy from the American democracy."
Dissent has always had a hard time of it, Lapham shows in a bravura short tour of political dissent in American history, and an especially hard one in time of war. The more ill defined the conflict and the more invisible the enemy, the worse it is for civil liberties, particularly the liberty to disagree. And now, just when the electorate is most narcotized and apathetic, spoon-fed its infotainment by a small gang of gigantic media conglomerates, and the government is in the hands of a terrifyingly self-righteous crew, comes a conflict, the "war on terror," that makes the hunt for Communists in the 1950s look like the Normandy landings on D-Day in its clarity of aim and purpose. It's a witch's brew that is pure poison for a living democracy.
Gag Rule is a rousing and necessary call to action in defense of one of our most important liberties-the right to raise our voices against the powers that be and have those voices heard. [via]More editions of Gag Rule: On the Suppression of Dissent and the Stifling of Democracy:
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Gaining Lightnessby John Baur, Mark SummersISBN 1595710221 (1-59571-022-1)
Softcover, Word Assn Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gaining Lightness'Book summary:Avast, ye scurvy dogs and saucy wenches! The Pirate Guys Mark "Cap'n Slappy" Summers and John "Ol' Chumbucket" Baur were as surprised as anyone when their idea for Talk Like a Pirate Day went around the world in just two years. In 2003 more than 19 million people on seven continents took part in the fun. The Pirate Guys have been seen and heard on CNN, National Public Radio, the BBC, Radio Ireland, and plenty more radio stations and newspapers around the globe.
Now they share their booty of pirate lore and high seas hijinks in Well Blow Me Down. With an introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winner Dave Barry, the Guys tell the how and why of talking like pirates in a "drop-dead funny" book that will shiver your timbers and make any landlubber swagger with pirattitude. [via]
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Hey! It's That Guy!: The Fametracker.com Guide to Character Actorsby Tara Ariano, Adam SternberghISBN 1594740429 (1-59474-042-9)
Softcover, Chronicle Books Llc
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You know the one: the actor who always shows up in movies as the rumpled police detective, or the stern but ineffectual high school principal, or the wiseguy mobster. What is that guys name? And where have you seen that woman before?
Youll find them all in this exhaustive and entertaining guide to character actors whose faces you recognize but whose names you can never quite recall. Find their head shots in the photo section, or seek out their most common habitatthe hospital, the precinct, the suburbs, the courtroom, and moreto determine their identities. With Hey! Its That Guy! you can impress your friends and confound your enemies by identifying everyone from Jeffrey Jones (the dean of students from Ferris Buellers Day Off) to Jennifer Coolidge (Stiflers mom in American Pie) to Patrick Cranshaw (the really old guy from Old School) to Jane Adams (Niless plastic surgeon wife on Frasier).
With Hey! Its That Guy! in your hands, youll never again wonder where youve seen that cop (or nurse, or executive) before! [via]More editions of Hey! It's That Guy!: The Fametracker.com Guide to Character Actors:
Hidden Kitchens: Stories, Recipes And More from Npr's the Kitchen Sistersby Nikki Silva, Davia Lee NelsonISBN 1594865310 (1-59486-531-0)
Softcover, Rodale Pr
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Hidden Kitchens: Stories, Recipes, and More From NPR's the Kitchen Sistersby Davia Nelson, Davia Lee NelsonISBN 159486313X (1-59486-313-X)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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Historians in Trouble : Plagiarism, Fraud, and Politics in the Ivory Towerby Jon WienerISBN 1595581596 (1-59558-159-6)
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Howard Zinn on Democratic Education (P)by Howard Zinn, Donaldo MacedoISBN 1594510555 (1-59451-055-5)
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Iraq: The Logic of Withdrawalby Anthony Arnove, Zinn, Howard (AFT), Howard ZinnISBN 1595580794 (1-59558-079-4)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Howard Zinn's book Vietnam: The Logic of Withdrawal, though it appeared five years before the United States eventually abandoned that war, argued with remarkable foresight that getting out was the only realistic option. Now, nearly forty years later, the United States is once again involved in a seemingly intractable foreign conflict. And, following in the footsteps of Zinn, Anthony Arnove (his co-editor on the widely acclaimed Voices of a People's History of the United States) has written a book that will likely prove equally prescient.
Arnove sets out a compelling case for the immediate withdrawal of troops from Iraq. Countering widespread arguments made in support of the occupation by conservatives and liberals alike, Arnove insists that the U.S. presence is the major source of instability and suffering for the Iraqi people. He challenges the idea that George W. Bush has ever been interested in bringing democracy to the country and explores the real reasons behind the invasion, which centrally involve control over strategic Middle Eastern energy resources. And he sets out a constructive vision for the antiwar movement, one that involves soldiers, military families, and the many communities affected by the occupation, who together can build a coalition to bring the troops home. [via]More editions of Iraq: The Logic of Withdrawal:
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Jimmy Corriganby Chris WareISBN 1594972079 (1-59497-207-9)
Hardcover, Public Square Books
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Jose Maria De Jesus Carvajal: The Life And Times of a Mexican Revolutionaryby Joseph E. ChanceISBN 1595340203 (1-59534-020-3)
Hardcover, Trinity Univ Pr
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Kata And The Transmission Of Knowledge: In Traditional Martial Artsby Michael RosenbaumISBN 1594390266 (1-59439-026-6)
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La Perdidaby Jessica AbelISBN 1594973679 (1-59497-367-9)
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Lonek's Journey: The True Story Of A Boy's Escape To Freedomby Dorit Bader WhitemanISBN 1595720219 (1-59572-021-9)
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Lost Mountainby Eric ReeseISBN 1594489084 (1-59448-908-4)
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Lost Worldby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 1595404112 (1-59540-411-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lost World'Book summary:Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - Mr. Hungerton, her father, really was the most tactless person upon earth, - a fluffy, feathery, untidy cocka-too of a man, perfectly good-natured, but absolutely centered upon his own silly self. If anything could have driven me from Gladys, it would have been the thought of such a father-in-law. I am convinced that he really believed in his heart that I came round to the Chestnuts three days a week for the pleasure of his company, and very especially to hear his views upon bimetallism, a subject upon which he was by way of being an authority. For an hour or more that evening I listened to his monotonous chirrup about bad money driving out good, the token value of silver, the depreciation of the rupee, and the true standards of exchange. [via]
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The Magus of Freemasonry: The Mysterious Life of Elias Ashmole--scientist, Alchemist, And Founder of the Royal Societyby Tobias ChurtonISBN 1594771227 (1-59477-122-7)
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Mexican Revolution: A People's Historyby Adolfo GillyISBN 1595581235 (1-59558-123-5)
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Middle Passages : African American Journeys to Africa, 1787-2005by James T. CampbellISBN 1594200831 (1-59420-083-1)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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The Monster at Our Door: The Global Threat of Avian Fluby Mike DavisISBN 1595580115 (1-59558-011-5)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Morals And Dogma: Of The Ancient And Accepted Scottish Rite Of Freemasonryby Albert PikeISBN 159547997X (1-59547-997-X)
Softcover, Nuvision Pubns
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Mozart the Freemason: The Masonic Influence on His Musical Geniusby Brigitte Massin, Jacques Henry, Jack CainISBN 1594771286 (1-59477-128-6)
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Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empireby Antonio Negri, Michael HardtISBN 1594200246 (1-59420-024-6)
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Murder in Amsterdam: Liberal Europe, Islam, and the Limits of Toleranceby Ian BurumaISBN 1594201080 (1-59420-108-0)
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The Nephilim: And the Pyramid of the Apocalypseby Patrick HeronISBN 1594678944 (1-59467-894-4)
Softcover, Xulon Press, Incorporated
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The Truth Behind Myth In The Nephilim and the Pyramid of the Apocalypse, author Patrick Heron examines ancient texts from Genesis to the Book of Enoch to Revelations to once and for all establish the true identity of this mysterious, lost race of giant beings. Are they angels? Genetic monsters? Are they characters of fable and myth? Are they still among us? Within these pages the answers are finally revealed.
Solving The Riddle Of The Pyramids The identity of the Nephilim firmly in hand, Patrick Heron takes his research deeper, using science and an examination of age-old prophecies to discover the true meaning of the pyramids. His astonishing findings address the importance of the pyramid shape and its diabolical aim to supplant the City of God. And last but not least, once the riddle of the pyramids is solved, its significance in helping to navigate the coming Apocalypse is fully illuminated.
Patrick Heron was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1952, and has a B.S. and M.A. in Business Studies from Trinity College, Dublin. At the age of 24, he began his Christian walk following an epiphany he experienced while reading the Bible. In 1997, having recently become interested in Bible prophecy concerning the "end times," Patrick published his best-selling book Apocalypse Soon. He currently resides in Dublin with his family and is not associated with any particular church or denomination. [via]
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A New Reformation: Creation Spirituality And the Transformation of Christianityby Matthew FoxISBN 1594771235 (1-59477-123-5)
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The Night Watchby Sarah WatersISBN 1594482306 (1-59448-230-6)
Softcover, Riverhead Books
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Paradise Regainedby John MiltonISBN 1595400494 (1-59540-049-4)
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The Paradise Warby Steve LawheadISBN 1595542191 (1-59554-219-1)
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A People's History of the Civil War: Struggles For The Meaning of Freedomby David Williams, Howard ZinnISBN 1595581251 (1-59558-125-1)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Phantom Of The Operaby Gaston LerouxISBN 1595400249 (1-59540-024-9)
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A Picture Book Of Fredrick Douglassby David A. Adler, Samuel Byrd, Charles TurnerISBN 1595193766 (1-59519-376-6)
Softcover, Live Oak Media
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Popular Contention In Great Britain, 1758-1834by Charles TillyISBN 1594511209 (1-59451-120-9)
Softcover, Paradigm Pub
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The Portraitby Iain PearsISBN 159448175X (1-59448-175-X)
Softcover, Riverhead Books
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The Power and the Story: How the Crafted Presidential Narrative Has Determined Political Success from George Washington to George W. Bushby Evan CornogISBN 159420022X (1-59420-022-X)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Proposed Roads to Freedomby Bertrand RussellISBN 1596050659 (1-59605-065-9)
Softcover, Cosimo Inc
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Resurrectionby Tucker MalarkeyISBN 1594482543 (1-59448-254-3)
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It's 1948, and British nurse Gemma Bastian travels to Cairo to close the affairs of her late father, staying at the home of David Lazar, her father's oldest friend, and his enigmatic sons. While she's there she stumbles across her father's last and most closely guarded archaeological project, one that could change the Christian world forever: the discovery of the legendary Lost Gospels. Torn between two brothers and beset by ominous warnings, Gemma finds herself caught in an intricate web of love and betrayal where she fights to resurrect her own shattered life and a faith that was lost to all of humanity. -
Rilla of Inglesideby L.M. MontgomeryISBN 1594624275 (1-59462-427-5)
Softcover, Standard Pubns Inc
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Ronald Reagan In Private: A Memoir Of My Years In The White Houseby Jim KuhnISBN 1595230084 (1-59523-008-4)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Ruby Slippers, Madonna's Bra, And Einstein's Brain: The Locations of America's Pop Culture Artifactsby Chris EptingISBN 1595800085 (1-59580-008-5)
Softcover, Santa Monica Pr Llc
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The Sack of Rome: How a Beautiful European Country With a Fabled History And a Storied Culture Was Taken Over By A Man Named Silvio Berlusconiby Alexander StilleISBN 159420053X (1-59420-053-X)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Science of the Dogon: Decoding the African Mystery Traditionby Laird Scranton, John Anthony WestISBN 1594771332 (1-59477-133-2)
Softcover, Inner Traditions
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Scribbling the Cat: Travels With an African Soldierby Alexandra FullerISBN 1594200165 (1-59420-016-5)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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When Alexandra ("Bo") Fuller was home in Zambia a few years ago, visiting her parents for Christmas, she asked her father about a nearby banana farmer who was known for being a "tough bugger." Her father's response was a warning to steer clear of him; he told Bo: "Curiosity scribbled the cat." Nonetheless, Fuller began her strange friendship with the man she calls K, a white African and veteran of the Rhodesian war. With the same fiercely beautiful prose that won her acclaim for Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, Fuller here recounts her friendship with K.
K is, seemingly, a man of contradictions: tattooed, battle scarred, and weathered by farm work, he is a lion of a man, feral and bulletproof. Yet he is also a born-again Christian, given to weeping when he recollects his failed romantic life, and more than anything else welling up inside with memories of battle. For his war, like all wars, was a brutal one, marked by racial strife, jungle battles, unimaginable tortures, and the murdering of innocent civilians-and K, like all the veterans of the war, has blood on his hands.
Driven by K's memories, Fuller and K decide to enter the heart of darkness in the most literal way-by traveling from Zambia through Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia) and Mozambique to visit the scenes of the war and to meet other veterans. It is a strange journey into the past, one marked at once by somber reflections and odd humor and featuring characters such as Mapenga, a fellow veteran who lives with his pet lion on a little island in the middle of a lake and is known to cope with his personal demons by refusing to speak for days on end. What results from Fuller's journey is a remarkably unbiased and unsentimental glimpse of men who have killed, mutilated, tortured, and scrambled to survive during wartime and who now must attempt to live with their past and live past their sins. In these men, too, we get a glimpse of life in Africa, a land that besets its creatures with pests, plagues, and natural disasters, making the people there at once more hardened and more vulnerable than elsewhere.
Scribbling the Cat is an engrossing and haunting look at war, Africa, and the lines of sanity. [via]More editions of Scribbling the Cat: Travels With an African Soldier:
Secrets of the English War Bowby Joseph Gibbs, Hugh D. H. Soar, Christopher Jury, Mark StrettonISBN 1594160252 (1-59416-025-2)
Hardcover, Westholme Pub Llc
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She Would Not Be Moved: How We Tell the Story of Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycottby Herbert R. Kohl, Marian Wright EdelmanISBN 1595581278 (1-59558-127-8)
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A Short History Of Tractors In Ukrainianby Marina LewyckaISBN 1594200440 (1-59420-044-0)
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Showdownby Ted DekkerISBN 1595540059 (1-59554-005-9)
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Showdown: The Books of History Chroniclesby Ted DekkerISBN 1595542221 (1-59554-222-1)
Softcover, Thomas Nelson Inc
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Epic battles of good and evil are happening all around us.
Today that battle comes to town with the sound of lone footsteps clacking down the blacktop on a hot, lazy summer afternoon. The black-cloaked man arrives in the sleepy town of Paradise and manages to become the talk of the town within the hour. Bearing the power to grant any unfulfilled dream, he is irresistible.
Seems like bliss . . . but is it?
Or is hell about to break loose in Paradise?
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The Silver Handby Steve LawheadISBN 1595542205 (1-59554-220-5)
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The Song of Hiawathaby Henry Wadsworth LongfellowISBN 1595400354 (1-59540-035-4)
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The Story of Chicago Mayby Nuala O'FaolainISBN 1594482179 (1-59448-217-9)
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The Templar Pirates: The Secret Alliance to Build the New Jerusalemby Ernesto Frers, Ariel GodwinISBN 1594771464 (1-59477-146-4)
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Terra Nullius: A Journey Through No One's Landby Sven LindqvistISBN 1595580514 (1-59558-051-4)
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The Truth About Hillary: What She Knew, When She Knew It, And How Far She'll Go To Become Presidentby Edward KleinISBN 1595230238 (1-59523-023-8)
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The Twelve Little Cakes: a memoirby Dominika DeryISBN 1594481393 (1-59448-139-3)
Softcover, Riverhead Books
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The Two Babylonsby Alexander HislopISBN 1594624844 (1-59462-484-4)
Softcover, Standard Pubns Inc
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The Two Babylons 1903by Alexander HislopISBN 159462187X (1-59462-187-X)
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Ultra Cute 4by Nami AkimotoISBN 1595329595 (1-59532-959-5)
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The War of the Worldsby H. G. WellsISBN 1595400303 (1-59540-030-3)
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The Warwolf: A Peasant Chronicle of the Thirty Years Warby Hermann Lons, Robert KvinneslandISBN 1594160260 (1-59416-026-0)
Hardcover, Westholme Pub Llc
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Where Shall Wisdom Be Found?by Harold BloomISBN 1594481385 (1-59448-138-5)
Softcover, Riverhead Books
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The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill And So Little Goodby William EasterlyISBN 1594200378 (1-59420-037-8)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill And So Little Good'Book summary:An informed and excoriating attack on the tragic waste, futility, and hubris of the West's efforts to date to improve the lot of the so-called developing world, with constructive suggestions on how to move forward.
William Easterly's The White Man's Burden is about what its author calls the twin tragedies of global poverty. The first, of course, is that so many are seemingly fated to live horribly stunted, miserable lives and die such early deaths. The second is that after fifty years and more than $2.3 trillion in aid from the West to address the first tragedy, it has shockingly little to show for it. We'll never solve the first tragedy, Easterly argues, unless we figure out the second.
The ironies are many: We preach a gospel of freedom and individual accountability, yet we intrude in the inner workings of other countries through bloated aid bureaucracies like the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank that are accountable to no one for the effects of their prescriptions. We take credit for the economic success stories of the last fifty years, like South Korea and Taiwan, when in fact we deserve very little. However, we reject all accountability for pouring more than half a trillion dollars into Africa and other regions and trying one "big new idea" after another, to no avail. Most of the places in which we've meddled are in fact no better off or are even worse off than they were before. Could it be that we don't know as much as we think we do about the magic spells that will open the door to the road to wealth?
Absolutely, William Easterly thunders in this angry, irreverent, and important book. He contrasts two approaches: (1) the ineffective planners' approach to development-never able to marshal enough knowledge or motivation to get the overambitious plans implemented to attain the plan's arbitrary targets and (2) a more constructive searchers' approach-always on the lookout for piecemeal improvements to poor peoples' well-being, with a system to get more aid resources to those who find things that work. Once we shift power and money from planners to searchers, there's much we can do that's focused and pragmatic to improve the lot of millions, such as public health, sanitation, education, roads, and nutrition initiatives. We need to face our own history of ineptitude and learn our lessons, especially at a time when the question of our ability to "build democracy," to transplant the institutions of our civil society into foreign soil so that they take root, has become one of the most pressing we face. [via]More editions of The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill And So Little Good:
With God on Their Side: George W. Bush And the Christian Rightby Esther KaplanISBN 159558031X (1-59558-031-X)
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The World's Banker: A Story of Failed States, Financial Crises, and The Wealth and Poverty of Nationsby Sebastian MallabyISBN 1594200238 (1-59420-023-8)
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Year of the Hangman: George Washington's Campaign Against the Iroquoisby Glenn F. WilliamsISBN 1594160414 (1-59416-041-4)
Softcover, Westholme Pub Llc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Year of the Hangman: George Washington's Campaign Against the Iroquois'Book summary:[via]"An excellent account . . . . His descriptions of the events sort out many confusions that appear in other studies." The Niagara Loyalist
"Mr. Williams's prose is clear and direct, his narrative thorough: He has visited the sites he writes about. . . . [He] makes vivid an aspect of the American Revolution all but overlooked in traditional histories. . . . We must admire what Mr. Williams has done here."The Wall Street Journal
"An insightful and detailed look at the war on the frontier." On Point
After two years of fighting, Great Britain felt confident that the American rebellion would be crushed in 1777, the "Year of the Hangman." Britain devised a bold new strategy. Turning its attention to the colonial frontiers, especially those of western New York, Pennsylvania, and Virginia, Britain enlisted its provincial rangers, Tories, and allied warriors, principally from the Iroquois Confederacy, to wage a brutal backwoods war in support of General John Burgoyne's offensive as it swept southward from Canada in an attempt to cut the colonies in half, divert the Continental Army, and weaken its presence around British-occupied New York City and Philadelphia.
Burgoyne's defeat at Saratoga sent shock waves through the British command. But the efforts along the frontier under the direction of Sir John Johnson, Colonel John Butler, and the charismatic Mohawk leader, Joseph Brant, appeared to be impairing the American ability to conduct the war. Destroying Patriot settlements and farms across hundreds of miles of frontier, the British and Indian forces threatened to reduce Continental army enlistment, and more importantly, precious food supplies. Following the massacres at the well-established colonial settlements of Wyoming, Pennsylvania, and Cherry Valley, New York, the Continental Congress persuaded General George Washington to conduct a decisive offensive to end the threat once and for all. Brewing for years, the conflict between the Iroquois and colonists would now reach its deadly climax.
Charging his troops "to not merely overrun, but destroy," Washington devised a two-prong attack to exact American revenge. The largest coordinated American military action against American Indians in the war, the campaign shifted the power in the east, ending the political and military influence of the Iroquois, forcing large numbers of loyalist to flee to Canada, and sealing Britain's fateful decision to seek victory in the south. In Year of the Hangman: George Washington's Campaign Against the Iroquois, historian Glenn F. Williams recreates the riveting events surrounding the action, including the checkered story of European and Indian alliances, the bitter frontier wars, and the bloody battles of Oriskany and Newtown.
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