Gr. 9-12. This fascinating biography in the Oxford Portraits series offers a broad, well-researched and nicely presented view of the man, his business and personal interests, and his philanthropic legacy. Starting with his early years, marked by poverty and his tough, itinerant father and willful mother, the book follows Rockefeller through each development in his empire until his death in 1927, providing an oblique history of the oil industry in America along the way. Always setting Rockefeller's personal story within a larger historical context, the text, filled with anecdotes and first-person quotes, is very readable and includes intimate details about Rockefeller's contradictory attitudes towards his health, his homes, and his personal and familial relationships. A first-rate biography for reports or for students curious about the man or the era. A nice selection of photos illustrate, and a family tree, a chronology, and further resources are appended.

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Headquarters Department of the Army - Rifle Marksm anship M16A1, M16A2-3, M16A4, AND M4 Carbine (2003 ).jpg

Contents: Introduction and training strategy; Characteristics, ammunition, and accessories; Troubleshooting and destruction; Preliminary rifle instruction; Downrange feedback; Field fire; Advanced rifle marksmanship; Advanced optics, lasers, and iron sights.

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Hu Yi-Chong, Patrick Weller - Inside the World Ban k, Exploding the Myth of the Monolithic Bank (2009 ).jpg

This book challenges the common view that the World Bank can be seen as a single player in world politics. Its critics credit it with common views and an over-riding neo-liberal philosophy, which it imposes on unwilling countries. We argue that the Bank, far from being a unitary actor, is fundamentally plural, internally fragmented and dispersed, with cascading chains of delegation, authority and controls, and with considerable discretion delegated to the staff. There are management dilemmas that ensure internal variations of opinion and approach are an inevitable part of its activities. Bank staff are important players in shaping the operation of the Bank; they have scope for creativity in the selection of the development programs and projects the Bank undertakes in the client/partner countries. To understand the Bank it is necessary to appreciate how it works and what impact the staff can have.

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James Miller - The United States and Italy, 1940-1 950, The Politics and Diplomacy of StabilizationIt aly (1986).jpg

Preface

On Monday, 4 April 1949, the foreign ministers of eleven
nations met in the ornate Departmental Auditorium on Constitution Avenue in
Washington, D.C., to sign the North Atlantic Treaty. President Harry Truman
and Secretary of State Dean Acheson made opening remarks that stressed the
defensive nature of the new pact. Each of the European foreign ministers then
rose to reply. Count Carlo Sforza, Italy's foreign minister, spoke midway
through the program. For Sforza personally and for Italy, this was a moment of
the greatest significance.

Sforza was the living embodiment of Italy's newly forged ties with the
United States. In July 1940, he arrived in the United States as a refugee from
fascism, seeking an American commitment that Italy would have a free post-
war choice of its government institutions and would retain its national sover-
eignty and boundaries. Two years later, in the same Departmental Auditorium,
Sforza's efforts bore concrete fruit when Acheson publicly committed the
United States to a significant role in Italy's postwar reconstruction. As the
leader of the Italian exile movement in the United States and later as a
spokesman for moderate antifascism in liberated Italy, Sforza was closely
identified with the introduction of American power into Italy. After the war, as
foreign minister, Sforza was a leading spokesman for Italian participation in
the Marshall Plan, European Union, and Atlantic Alliance. With the signing of
the treaty, Sforza had an American commitment to defend Italy against foreign
attack. Meanwhile, Marshall Plan aid flowed into his nation to shore up its
economy and defeat the threat of internal assaults on Italian democracy. Italy
and the United States were linked in a partnership that has lasted ever since.

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James O'Loughlin - The Real Warren Buffett, Managi ng Capital, Leading People (2004).jpg

"A timely new book about the Sage of Omaha's management practices...an interesting and worthwhile approach." -- Salon.com
"Fresh and rewarding insight into stock market guru Buffett .... an important and inspiring book." -- The Good Book Guide, February 2003
"How does [Buffett] do it? O'Loughlin tackles the question enthusiastically, laying out Buffett's investing strategies, management techniques and unconventional wisdom." -- Publishers Weekly
"Must reading for students of management. Highly recommended." -- Choice
"Pacey, highly readable ... this book deserves praise for its broad scope." -- The Daily Telegraph, Your Money, February 2003
"Your insights mixed with Buffett's very quotable quotes is great stuff." -- Arnold S. Wood, founding partner, president and CEO of Martingdale Asset Management
Buy and hold! -- Director Magazine
One of the Thirty Best Business Books of 2003! -- SOUNDVIEW EXECUTIVE BOOK SUMMARIES
Timely and insightful....intelligently written. -- Accounting Business --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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John A. Ragosta - Wellspring of Liberty, How Virgi nia's Religious Dissenters Helped Win the American Revolution and Secured Religious Liberty (2010).jpg

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Before the American Revolution, no colony more assiduously protected its established church or more severely persecuted religious dissenters than Virginia. Both its politics and religion were dominated by an Anglican establishment, and dissenters from the established Church of England were subject to numerous legal infirmities and serious persecution. By 1786, no state more fully protected religious freedom.
This profound transformation, as John A. Ragosta shows in this book, arose not from a new-found cultural tolerance. Rather, as the Revolution approached, Virginia's political establishment needed the support of the religious dissenters, primarily Presbyterians and Baptists, for the mobilization effort. Dissenters seized this opportunity to insist on freedom of religion in return for their mobilization. Their demands led to a complex and extended negotiation in which the religious establishment slowly and grudgingly offered just enough reforms to maintain the crucial support of the dissenters.
After the war, when dissenters' support was no longer needed, the establishment leaders sought to recapture control, but found they had seriously miscalculated: wartime negotiations had politicized the dissenters. As a result dissenters' demands for the separation of church and state triumphed over the establishment's efforts and Jefferson's Statute for Establishing Religious Freedom was adopted.
Historians and the Supreme Court have repeatedly noted that the foundation of the First Amendment's protection of religious liberty lies in Virginia's struggle, turning primarily to Jefferson and Madison to understand this. In Wellspring of Liberty, John A. Ragosta argues that Virginia's religious dissenters played a seminal, and previously underappreciated, role in the development of the First Amendment and in the meaning of religious freedom as we understand it today.

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Michael S. Foley - Dear Dr. Spock, Letters about t he Vietnam War to America's Favorite Baby Doctor ( 2005).jpg

At the height of the Vietnam War, thousands of Americans wrote moving letters to Dr. Benjamin Spock, America's pediatrician and a high-profile opponent of the war. Personal and heartfelt, thoughtful and volatile, these missives from Middle America pre an intriguing glimpse into the conflicts that took place over the dinner table as people wrestled with this divisive war and with their consciences.
Pring one of the first clear views of the home front during the war, Dear Dr. Spock collects the best of these letters and offers a window into the minds of ordinary Americans. They wrote to Spock because he was familiar, trustworthy, and controversial. His book Baby and Child Care was on the shelves of most homes, second only to the Bible in the number of copies sold. Starting in the 1960s, his activism in the antinuclear and antiwar movements drew mixed reactions from Americans—some puzzled, some supportive, some angry, and some desperate.
Most of the letters come from what Richard Nixon called the "silent majority"white, middleclass, law-abiding citizens who the president thought supported the war to contain Communism. In fact, the letters reveal a complexity of reasoning and feeling that moves far beyond the opinion polls at the time. One mother of young children struggles to imagine how Vietnamese women could endure after their village was napalmed, while another chastises Spock for the "dark shadow" he had cast on the country and pledges to instill love of country in her sons.
What emerges is a portrait of articulate Americans struggling mightily to understand government policies in Vietnam and how those policies did or did not reflect their own sense of themselves and their country.

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Michael S. Foley - Dear Dr. Spock, Letters about t he Vietnam War to America's Favorite Baby Doctor ( 2005).pdf

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Paul Howard Carlson - Buffalo Soldier Tragedy of 1 877 (2003).jpg

The year 1877 was a drought year in West Texas. In the middle of that arid summer, a troop of some forty buffalo soldiers (African American cavalry led by white officers) struck out into the Llano Estacado from Double Lakes, south of modern Lubbock, pursuing a band of Kwahada Comanches who had been raiding homesteads and hunting parties. A group of twenty-two buffalo hunters accompanied the soldiers as guides and allies. Several days later three black soldiers rode into Fort Concho at modern San Angelo and reported that the men and officers of Troop A were missing and presumed dead from thirst. The "Staked Plains Horror," as the Galveston Daily News called it, quickly captured national attention. Although most of the soldiers eventually straggled back into camp, four had died, and others eventually faced court-martial for desertion. The buffalo hunters had ridden off on their own to find water, and the surviving soldiers had lived by drinking the blood of their dead horses and their own urine. A routine army scout had turned into disaster of the worst kind. Although the failed expedition was widely reported at the time, the sparse treatments since then have relied exclusively on the white officers' accounts. Paul H. Carlson has mined the courts-martial records for testimony of the enlisted men, memories of a white boy who rode with the Indians, and other sources to pre a nuanced view of the interaction of soldiers, hunters, settlers, and Indians on the Staked Plains before the final settling of the Comanches on their reservation in Indian Territory.

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Robert Ellickson - Order without Law, How Neighbor s Settle Disputes (1994).jpg

In Order without Law Robert C. Ellickson shows that law is far less important than is generally thought. He demonstrates that people largely govern themselves by means of informal rules-social norms-that develop without the aid of a state or other central coordinator. Integrating the latest scholarship in law, economics, sociology, game theory, and anthropology, Ellickson investigates the uncharted world within which order is successfully achieved without law.
The springboard for Ellickson's theory of norms is his close investigation of a variety of disputes arising from the damage created by escaped cattle in Shasta County, California. In "The Problem of Social Cost" --the most frequently cited article on law--economist Ronald H. Cease depicts farmers and ranchers as bargaining in the shadow of the law while resolving cattle-trespass disputes. Ellickson's field study of this problem refutes many of the behavioral assumptions that underlie Coase's vision, and will add realism to future efforts to apply economic analysis to law.
Drawing examples from a wide variety of social contexts, including whaling grounds, photocopying centers, and landlord-tenant relations, Ellickson explores the interaction between informal and legal rules and the usual domains in which these competing systems are employed. Order without Law firmly grounds its analysis in real-world events, while building a broad theory of how people cooperate to mutual advantage.

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Susan L. Carruthers - Cold War Captives, Imprisonm ent, Escape, and Brainwashing (2009).jpg

This provocative history of early cold war America recreates a time when World War III seemed imminent. Headlines were dominated by stories of Soviet slave laborers, brainwashed prisoners in Korea, and courageous escapees like Oksana Kasenkina who made a "leap for freedom" from the Soviet Consulate in New York. Full of fascinating and forgotten stories, Cold War Captives explores a central dimension of American culture and politics--the postwar preoccupation with captivity. "Menticide," the calculated destruction of individual autonomy, struck many Americans as a more immediate danger than nuclear annihilation. Drawing upon a rich array of declassified documents, movies, and reportage--from national security directives to films like The Manchurian Candidate--his book explores the ways in which east-west disputes over prisoners, repatriation, and defection shaped popular culture. Captivity became a way to understand everything from the anomie of suburban housewives to the "slave world" of drug addiction. Sixty years later, this era may seem distant. Yet, with interrogation techniques derived from America's communist enemies now being used in the "war on terror," the past remains powerfully present.

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Trevor Rhodes - American Landlord Law, Everything U Need to Know About Landlord-Tenant Laws (2008).jpg

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Vivienne Sosnowski - When the Rivers Ran Red, An A mazing Story of Courage and Triumph in America's W ine Country (2009).jpg

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Today, millions of people around the world enjoy California's legendary wines, unaware that 90 years ago the families who made these wines--and in many cases still do – turned to struggle and subterfuge to save the industry we now cherish. When Prohibition took effect in 1919, three months after one of the greatest California grape harvests of all time, violence and chaos descended on Northern California. Federal agents spilled thousands of gallons of wine in the rivers and creeks, gun battles erupted on dark country roads, and local law enforcement officers, sympathetic to their winemaking neighbors, found ways to run circles around the intruding authorities. For the state's winemaking families--many of them immigrants from Italy--surviving Prohibition meant facing impossible decisions, whether to give up the idyllic way of life their families had known for generations, or break the law to enable their wine businesses and their livelihood to survive. Including moments of both desperation and joy, Sosnowski tells the inspiring story of how ordinary people fought to protect to a beautiful and timeless culture in the lovely hills and valleys of now-celebrated wine country.

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Vivienne Sosnowski - When the Rivers Ran Red, An A mazing Story of Courage and Triumph in America's W ine Country (2009).pdf

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Paul McDonald - The Star System, Hollywood's Produ ction of Popular Identities (2000).jpg

Looks at the development and changing organization of the star system in the American film industry. Tracing the popularity of star performers from the early "cinema of attractions" to the Internet universe, Paul McDonald explores the ways in which Hollywood has made and sold its stars. Through focusing on particular historical periods, case studies of Mary Pickford, Bette Davis, James Cagney, Julia Roberts, Tom Cruise, and Will Smith illustrate the key conditions influencing the star system in silent cinema, the studio era and the New Hollywood.

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Fredrik Barth, Andre Gingrich, Robert Parkin, Syde l Silverman - One Discipline, Four Ways, British, German, French, and American Anthropology (2005).jpg

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One Discipline, Four Ways offers the first book-length introduction to the history of each of the four major traditions in anthropology—British, German, French, and American. The result of lectures given by distinguished anthropologists Fredrik Barth, Andre Gingrich, Robert Parkin, and Sydel Silverman to mark the foundation of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, this volume not only traces the development of each tradition but considers their impact on one another and assesses their future potentials.

Moving from E. B. Taylor all the way through the development of modern fieldwork, Barth reveals the repressive tendencies that prevented Britain from developing a variety of anthropological practices until the late 1960s. Gingrich, meanwhile, articulates the development of German anthropology, paying particular attention to the Nazi period, of which surprisingly little analysis has been offered until now. Parkin then assesses the French tradition and, in particular, its separation of theory and ethnographic practice. Finally, Silverman traces the formative influence of Franz Boas, the expansion of the discipline after World War II, and the "fault lines" and promises of contemporary anthropology in the United States.

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'New France' consisted of the area colonized and ruled by France in North America. This title takes a look at the lengthy chain of forts built by the French to guard the frontier in the American northeast, including Sorel, Chambly, St Jean, Carillon (Ticonderoga), Duquesne (Pittsburgh, PA), and Vincennes. These forts were of two types: the major stone forts, and other forts made of wood and earth, all of which varied widely in style from Vauban-type elements to cabins surrounded by a stockade. Some forts, such as Chambly, looked more like medieval castles in their earliest incarnations. René Chartrand examines the different types of forts built by the French, describing the strategic vision that led to their construction, their impact upon the British colonies and the Indian nations of the interior, and the French military technology that went into their construction.

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Robert Higgs - Depression, War, and Cold War, Stud ies in Political Economy (2006)(1).jpg

Other books exist that warn of the dangers of empire and war. However, few, if any, of these books do so from a scholarly, informed economic standpoint. In Depression, War, and Cold War , Robert Higgs, a highly regarded economic historian, makes pointed, fresh economic arguments against war, showing links between government policies and the economy in a clear, accessible way. He boldly questions, for instance, the widely accepted idea that World War II was the chief reason the Depression-era economy recovered. The book as a whole covers American economic history from the Great Depression through the Cold War. Part I centers on the Depression and World War II. It addresses the impact of government policies on the private sector, the effects of wartime procurement policies on the economy, and the economic consequences of the transition to a peacetime economy after the victorious end of the war. Part II focuses on the Cold War, particularly on the links between Congress and defense procurement, the level of profits made by defense contractors, and the role of public opinion andnt ideological rhetoric in the maintenance of defense expenditures over time. This new book extends and refines ideas of the earlier book with new interpretations, evidence, and statistical analysis. This book will reach a similar audience of students, researchers, and educated lay people in political economy and economic history in particular, and in the social sciences in general.

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