Although little noticed, the face of central banking has changed significantly over the past ten to fifteen years, says the author of this enlightening book. Alan S. Blinder, a former vice chairman of the Federal Reserve System and member of President Clinton's Council of Economic Advisers, shows that the changes, though quiet, have been sufficiently profound to constitute a revolution in central banking. Blinder considers three of the most significant aspects of the revolution. The first is the shift toward transparency: whereas central bankers once believed in secrecy and even mystery, greater openness is now considered a virtue. The second is the transition from monetary policy decisions made by single individuals to decisions made by committees. The third change is a profoundly different attitude toward the markets, from that of stern schoolmarm to one of listener. With keenness and balance, the author examines the origins of these changes and their pros and cons.

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Gary B. Nash - Landmarks of the American Revolutio n (2003).jpg

In 1775, on the green of Lexington, Massachusetts, 2,200 British minutemen fired upon the local militia -- seventy colonial farmers and village artisans in total. The British suffered staggering losses: half of their troops died. And so began the American Revolution. In Landmarks of the American Revolution, fourteen key sites and numerous secondary locales show with rich detail and fascinating anecdotes where the War of Independence took place. In addition to the Lexington-Concord Battle Site, historian Gary Nash features Independence Hall in Philadelphia where the Declaration of Independence was signed; John Paul Jones House in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where the out-of-work, 28-year-old immigrant who went on to become one of the new nation's naval heroes lived; Peyton Randolph House in Williamsburg, Virginia, a place emblematic of African Americans' role in the war; and many other significant places of the American Revolution. A dynamic journey through history that reveals all sides in the war -- loyalists, patriots, African American, Native American, women, British -- Landmarks of the American Revolution brings to life how a new nation came to be.

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Lucy Moore - Anything Goes, A Biography of the Roa ring Twenties (2010).jpg

The term Roaring Twenties connotates an era of uninhibited excess, characterized by drinking, shameless flappers, jazz, and gangland wars. All of these aspects are covered in this enjoyable, if uneven, survey of the decade. Moore also convincingly asserts that this was a period of significant social and political change with long-term effects. Utilizing a topical approach, she offers interesting descriptions of the emergence of organized crime, the excesses of big business, the Harlem Renaissance, and the stirrings of civil rights activism. She provides many useful tidbits about personalities as varied as Al Capone and Marcus Garvey. As long as Moore stays with her descriptive narrative, her account moves along smoothly. Unfortunately, her efforts to analyze these trends and to link them to our current economic and political conditions don’t ring true and are often based upon unwarranted assumptions. Still, for general readers, this work provides an interesting and wide-ranging look at a tumultuous period.

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Lucy Moore - Anything Goes, A Biography of the Roa ring Twenties (2010).pdf

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Stephen Michael Shearer - Patricia Neal, An Unquie t Life (2006).jpg

Screen legend Neal's life was filled with tragedies and triumphs, and Shearer unveils an impressive portrait of the actress, revered for her roles in such memorable movies as A Face in the Crowd and The Day the Earth Stood Still. Born in Kentucky in 1926, Neal began her drama studies at the age of 11 in Knoxville and was a professional by age 19, possessing a fiercely ambitious drive when she arrived on Broadway as an understudy in 1945. After she won a 1947 Tony Award for Another Part of the Forest, Hollywood beckoned. Over five decades, she made more than 30 feature films, including her Oscar-winning performance in Hud. After her emotional affair with Gary Cooper led to an abortion, she married writer Roald Dahl in 1953. Neal suffered massive strokes in 1965, yet made her much-publicized screen comeback three years later in The Subject Was Roses. In addition to extensive interviews and a detailed appendix, the book benefits from Shearer's access to Neal's personal archives of reviews, scrapbooks and letters. She also supplied at least 50 of the 123 photos seen here. Readers of As I Am, Neal's 1988 memoir, will seek out this biography for more of the actress's absorbing and inspirational story.

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Alex Callinicos - Imperialism and Global Political Economy (2009).jpg

In Imperialism and Global Political Economy Alex Callinicos intervenes in one of the main political and intellectual debates of the day. The global policies of the United States in the past decade have encouraged the widespread belief that we live in a new era of imperialism. But is this belief true, and what does 'imperialism' mean?
Callinicos explores these questions in this wide-ranging book. In the first part, he critically assesses the classical theories of imperialism developed in the era of the First World War by Marxists such as Lenin, Luxemburg, and Bukharin and by the Liberal economist J.A. Hobson. He then outlines a theory of the relationship between capitalism as an economic system and the international state system, carving out a distinctive position compared to other contemporary theorists of empire and imperialism such as Antonio Negri, David Harvey, Giovanni Arrighi, and Ellen Wood.
In the second half of Imperialism and Global Political Economy Callinicos traces the history of capitalist imperialism from the Dutch East India Company to the specific patterns of economic and geopolitical competition in the contemporary era of American decline and Chinese expansion. Imperialism, he concludes, is far from dead.

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Thomas Pearson - Missions and Conversions, Creatin g the Montagnard-Dega Refugee Community (2009).jpg

This study offers a fresh reading of religious conversion by analyzing a variety of “missionaries” that sought to influence the Montagnard-Dega refugee. Thomas Pearson uses ethnographic and archival research to tell the story of cross-cultural contact in the highlands during the Vietnam War, Christian conversion, refugee exile, and the formation of the Dega refugee community in the United States. His insightful study considers not just evangelicals and Catholics, but humanitarian workers in the highlands, refugee resettlement volunteers in the United States, and the American Special Forces soldiers. This book makes the case that the Dega have appropriated the anthropological and religious discourses of this disparate group of missionaries to recreate themselves through a multivalent “conversion.”

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Thomas Pearson - Missions and Conversions, Creatin g the Montagnard-Dega Refugee Community (2009).pdf

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Concord - Armor 7052 - Steven J. Zaloga - US armor ed funnies US specialized armored vehicles in the ETO in WW2 (2005).jpg

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Any buff of WWII armored vehicles will be well aware of the Ą§FunniesĄ¨ designed by the British, particularly those employed by the 79th Armoured Division from D-Day onwards. Yet the USA was a prodigious designer and user of specialized armored vehicles as well. This was especially true in the areas of tank recovery vehicles and armored engineer vehicles.

Steve Zaloga, a prolific writer with an unsurpassed knowledge of American military vehicles, has put together a collection of photos of these U.S. Ą§FunniesĄ¨. The focus is on the European Theater of Operations (ETO), which includes Italy and Northwest Europe. The USA tended to sprinkle its specialist tanks throughout regular tank battalions, rather than create specialized divisions. The fascinating array of black and white photos offer a detailed look at a whole host of vehicle types, and insightful captions explain the subject matter. The book also includes sixteen high quality computer generated color plates that have also been produced by the author.

This volume begins with the following vehicles: M31 and M32 tank recovery vehicles; M33 and M35 prime movers; Shermans fitted with dozer blades; DD amphibious tanks, as well as Shermans fitted with wading stacks. The book continues on with bridgelayers and treadway layers in action, then mine clearing tanks. As the book progresses towards the end, there are detailed sections on flamethrower and rocket launcher tanks. Last but not least are the top secret Ą§LeafletĄ¨ and Ą§sonicĄ¨ tanks. Each type of vehicle receives a detailed yet concise summary of its history, development and use in the introductory text.

This is an engrossing book, and it covers a category of vehicles that have not been well represented in print before. When combined with the penmanship of one of the leading military history and modeling exponents in the world, this is a Ą§FunniesĄŚ book that any enthusiast would be funny to miss!

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Concord - Armor 7052 - Steven J. Zaloga - US armor ed funnies US specialized armored vehicles in the ETO in WW2 (2005).pdf

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Carol Lancaster - George Bush's Foreign Aid, Trans formation or Chaos (2008).jpg

Over the past seven years, the Bush administration has launched a revolution in U.S. foreign aid. At no time since the administration of President Kennedy have there been more changes in the volume of aid, in aid's purposes and policies, in its organization, and in its overall status in U.S. foreign relations. George Bush's Foreign Aid: Transformation or Chaos? analyzes in detail the array of recent reforms of U.S. economic assistance and the difficult issues these reforms raise, while placing the changes and the manner of their implementation in a historical and political context. Lancaster draws out the challenges and opportunities this transformation of U.S. aid offer for the next administration to engage the emerging world of the 21st century.

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Carol Lancaster - George Bush's Foreign Aid, Trans formation or Chaos (2008).pdf

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Bruce B. G. Clarke - Expendable Warriors, The Batt le of Khe Sanh and the Vietnam War (2007).jpg

The battle of Khe Sanh was won and the Vietnam war was lost at the same time. Expendable Warriors describes at multiple levels the soldiers and marines who were expendable in the American political chaos of Vietnam, 1968. On January 21, 1968, nine days before the Tet offensive, tens of thousands of North Vietnamese regulars began the attacks on the Khe Sanh plateau, which led to the siege of the Khe Sanh Combat Base.For those with a vivid memory of the Vietnam war, there is consolation in knowing that the impact of that war altered and shaped politics and warfare for the next generations. But in that altering we must take the lessons and apply them to new situations, new challenges and new policy dilemmas. To fail to do so would mean that the warriors at Khe Sanh and all of Vietnam were truly expendable, The battle of Khe Sanh was won and the Vietnam war was lost at the same time. Expendable Warriors describes at multiple levels the soldiers and marines who were expendable in the American political chaos of Vietnam, 1968. On January 21, 1968, nine days before the Tet offensive, tens of thousands of North Vietnamese regulars began the attacks on the Khe Sanh plateau, which led to the siege of the Khe Sanh Combat Base.

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Blair Howard - Adventure Guide to the Great Smoky Mountains (2001).jpg

The Great Smoky Mountains incorporate the highest mountains in the entire Appalachian system. They offer scenic beauty and an abundance of opportunities for outdoor recreation. This adventure guide to the area discusses hiking in the Chattahoochee National Forest, rafting down the rivers, going shopping for crafts, boating, fishing, horse riding, and whitewater sports. Each section of the book provides useful tips, as well as background on key cities, parks and forests. There is information on camping and accommodations.
"Blair Howard's Adventure Guide To The Great Smoky Mountains covers boating, camping, canoeing, craft hunting, the Great Smoky Mountain National Park (camping, horseback riding, etc.), fishing, hiking, shopping, snow skiing, and whitewater adventures. Adventure Guide To The Great Smoky Mountains includes information on accommodations in all price ranges, maps for easy planning, and contact details for local information. Adventure Guide To The Great Smoky Mountains is the take-along travel guide for Great Smoky Mountains vacationers, and stay-at-home armchair travelers as well!--Midwest Book Review Recommended for visitors who want to research a trip ahead of time and take the book along for repeated reference. An outdoors-oriented guide which includes all the best fishing spots, hiking trails in largely uncharted areas and whitewater rafting. An excellent guide." The Bookwatch [Adventure Guides] direct you away from the theme parks and into the great outdoors... the information on trekking routes, canoeing, wildlife refuges--even golf courses--is well researched." The Sunday Telegraph This exciting update covers Eastern Tennessee, Western North Carolina and Northern Georgia. Outdoor activities, plus craft hunting and fairs. All the information you need for an activity-filled vacation."

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Blair Howard, Norman Renouf & Kathy Renouf - Adven ture Guide to the Georgia, Carolina Coasts (2000).jpg

A complete revision of this popular best-seller that covers Beaufort, Myrtle Beach, New Bern, Savannah, the Sea Islands, Hilton Head, Brunswick and the Golden Isles, Okefenokee Swamp, the Outer Banks, Charleston, Cape Hatteras and all the places in-between.

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Elizabeth Canning Blackwell - Frommer's Irreverent Guide to Chicago, 5Th Ed (2005).jpg

"Full of solid, insider information with just the right amount of cynicism."

—Travel Savvy magazine

Are you tired of cliché-ridden guidebooks packed with promotional fluff? Then move over to the IRREVERENT GUIDES-the travel series that no tourist board would dare to recommend.

Look inside for the lowdown on:

* The best places to stay, from luxury to budget-conscious-plus where to avoid conventioneers
* Pizza that the locals line up for . . . even in the dead of winter
* The top sights for everyone, from art enthusiasts to talk-show junkies to nature lovers to Wrightophiles
* The best neighborhoods for unrepentant shopaholics
* Chicago's preeminent nightlife-from comedy clubs to the best local blues joints

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Bosley Crowther - Hollywood Rajah, The life and ti mes of Louis B. Mayer (1960).jpg

The life and times of Louis B. Mayer.

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Bosley Crowther - Hollywood Rajah, The life and ti mes of Louis B. Mayer (1960).pdf

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Carolyn Merchant - Green Versus Gold, Sources In C alifornia's Environmental History (1998).jpg

While the state of California remains one of the most striking and varied landscapes in the world, it has experienced monumental changes since European settlers first set foot there. The past two centuries have witnessed an ongoing struggle between environment and economy, nature and humanity that has left an indelible mark on the region.
For each chapter, Merchant has selected original documents that give readers an eyewitness account of specific environments and periods, along with essays from leading historians, geographers, scientists, and other experts that provide context and analysis for the documents. In addition, she presents a list of further readings of both primary and secondary sources. Among other topics, chapters examine.
- California's natural environment and Native American lands
- the Spanish and Russian frontiers
- environmental impacts of the gold rush
- the transformation of forests and rangelands
- agriculture and irrigation
- cities and urban issues
- the rise of environmental science and contemporary environmental movement.

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Carolyn Merchant - Green Versus Gold, Sources In C alifornia's Environmental History (1998).pdf

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Robert & Patricia Foulke - Adventure guide to the Champlain, Hudson river valleys (2003).jpg

From the Tappan Zee bridge in Manhattan, this guide takes you up the Hudson all the way to Lake Champlain and Vermont. The authors explore the surrounding mountains and lakes, and tell of the best hikes, scenic drives, canoe trips and more. Lake Mohonk, Rhinebeck and Sleepy Hollow are just a few of the highlights. You will also discover lodges and inns hidden in the hills and places to eat that serve everything from diner-style hot dogs to five-star haute cuisine. The series of "Adventure Guides" are about living more intensely, waking up to your surroundings and truly experiencing all that you encounter. Each book offers a mix of practical travel information along with activities designed for everyone, no matter what their age or ability. Comprehensive background information - history, culture, geography and climate - presents a knowledge of each destination and its people. Regional chapters take you on an introductory tour, with stops at museums, historic sites and local attractions. The volumes also cover: places to stay and eat; transportation to, from and around your destination; practical concerns; useful websites; e-mail addresses; and tourism contacts. Detailed regional and town maps feature walking and driving tours.

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