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The World Turned Upside Down
Maintaining American Leadership in a Dangerous Age
2018
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Aspen Policy Books is a series of annual publications on the United States’ most pressing foreign policy and national security issues. In 2017, the Aspen Strategy Group examined the future of the liberal world order. The papers in this volume outline the history and importance the system of institutions and normative values that have underpinned the international system since the end of WWII. They also highlight some of the key threats to this order that have emerged over the past several ...
2024
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At the heart of this book lies a simple yet profound truth: the way we think, feel, and perceive the world around us can significantly influence our health outcomes and quality of life. With each page, you'll discover the science behind positivity, learn practical strategies for cultivating a positive mindset, and explore how these practices can lead to lasting changes in your health and happiness.
2014
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The unjust conviction of French Jewish Captain Alfred Dreyfus on charges of treason started the Dreyfus affair, a major event in European anti-Semitism. “This documentary history is designed to introduce the broad outlines and significant legacies of the Dreyfus affair, from the captain’s arrest in 1894 to the 1998 centennial of J’Accuse, Émile Zola’s scathing indictment of the French military... This volume, fashioned for a weeklong assignment in a college course, reproduces the affair’s ...
The Flat Tire Murders
Unsolved Crimes of a South Florida Serial Killer
2021
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South Florida in the 1970s was one of the nation's most dangerous locations. Behind the image of sun and surf, young women were the victims of a brutal killer. In the mid-1970s, over a dozen young women were murdered and found in canals. These cases became known as the Flat Tire Murders and the Canal Murders. Only one case was ever solved. More than four decades have passed since these crimes, and no arrests were ever made.This is the first book to explore these murders in depth, a...
Mud & Bodies
The War Diaries & Letters of Captain N.A.C. Weir, 1914–1920
2013
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Neil Weir died in 1967, but it was not until 2009 that his grandson, Mike Burns, discovered his diary among some boxes he had been left, and learnt that his grandfather had served as an officer in the 10th Battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlander throughout the First World War, seeing action at Loos, the Somme and Vimy Ridge, as well as in staff and training posts. It ends with his work at the War Office during the Russian Civil War of 191920. In the diary, and the accompanying letters w...
2013
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Harry Logan, a loud, arrogant, obsessive man is the successful author if two books. His last won the Pulitzer Prize Award for Literature and he has spent the last two years on a successful lecture tour throughout the United States. As he now prepares to write his third book his head inexplicably aches and his personal life is in chaos due to his absolute belief that he is the only one who is right and knows the truth. He now faces a very real and perhaps debilitating illness and despite hi...
Sticks 'n' Stones
The Battle for Curling to be an Olympic Sport
2021
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In the 1970s, when most people thought about curling they thought it was just a game, something that could never be a real sport. Warren Hansen, a top curler in the seventies, felt curling wasn’t viewed fairly by the sports world. That needed to change.Hansen joined forces with Ray Kingsmith in the late 1970s to change this, setting out to get curling into the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary as a demonstration sport. They succeeded, but then it seemed like curling would never go be...
Kierkegaard and the Matter of Philosophy
A Fractured Dialectic
2015
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Søren Kierkegaard is often cast as the forefather of existentialism and an anti-Hegelian proponent of the single individual. Yet this book calls these traditional characterizations into question by arguing that Kierkegaard offers not only a systematic critique of idealist philosophy, but more surprisingly, a political ontology that is paradoxically at home in the context of twenty-first-century philosophical and political thought.Through a close consideration of his authorship in t...
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- The Shadow/Green Hornet
2014
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Bestseller Michael Uslan (Archie Marries, Batman: Black and White) unites two classic pulp heroes in a meticulously-researched historical fiction! An unstoppable power will plunge the world into darkness... unless the crime-fighting icons known as The Shadow, The Green Hornet, and Kato can stop it! When an invention capable of harnessing elemental forces falls into the hands of the maniacal Shiwan Khan, The Shadow races against time to prevent the utter destruction of all America's vital i...
2013
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This comprehensively revised – essentially rewritten – new edition of the 1990 edition (described as "extremely useful" by MATHEMATICAL REVIEWS and as "understandable and comprehensive" by Scitech) guides readers through the dense array of mathematical information in the International Tables Volume A. Thus, most scientists seeking to understand a crystal structure publication can do this from this book without necessarily having to consult the International Tables themselves. This remains ...
2005
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This up-to-date digest of current medical problems will aid the reader in interpretation of investigations, which are increasingly requested. It provides guidance for the first line of management of patients. It is written primarily by an experienced geriatrician, informed by an old-age psychiatrist; a unique combination of author perspectives that
Kennedy and Roosevelt
The Uneasy Alliance
2016
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The revealing story of Franklin Roosevelt, Joe Kennedy, and a political alliance that changed history, from a New York Times–bestselling author.When Franklin Roosevelt ran for president in 1932, he gained the support of Joseph Kennedy, a little-known businessman with Wall Street connections. Instrumental in Roosevelt's victory, their partnership began a longstanding alliance between two of America's most ambitious power brokers.Kennedy worked closel...











