This book is the first to challenge current orthodoxy that Chamberlain's appeasement policy before World War Two was justified by Britain's inability to pay for rearmament. The book shows that British war potential was actually massive, with a solid foundation in the existing Imperial economy. Using previously unconsidered and recently declassified documents from British and American archives, the author demonstrates that the deliberate and political rejection of rearmament in the hope of eventual American support proved catastrophic for Britain.

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Christopher Price - Britain, America and Rearmamen t in the 1930s, The Cost of Failure (2001).pdf

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John J. McCusker, Kenneth Morgan - The Early Moder n Atlantic Economy (2001).jpg

This book throws new light on the interlocking commercial relationships of the Atlantic trading world during the centuries ending with the American and French Revolutions. Grouped under four themes--the role of merchants and their connections; the development of trades; imperial economies; and colonial working societies--and written by an international team of economic historians, these essays increase our knowledge and understanding of the transatlantic economy. Contributions include studies of individual businessmen, labor patterns, port cities, branches of trade, and comparative studies of trading nations.

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John J. McCusker, Kenneth Morgan - The Early Moder n Atlantic Economy (2001).pdf

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Barbara L. Solow - Slavery and the Rise of the Atl antic System (1991).jpg

'The great virtue of this 'Atlantic system' approach is that it forces American historians, in particular, to sidestep the exceptionalism that bedevils their historiography and to confront the fact that slavery is a part of the history of the Atlantic and not just of what later became their own nation-state. It is also the focus on the Atlantic world that gives this collection of pieces covering an enormous geographical area a coherence that is unusual in conference proceedings.' Georgia Historical Quarterly

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Barbara L. Solow - Slavery and the Rise of the Atl antic System (1991).pdf

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Joseph F. Powell - The First Americans. Race, Evol ution and the Origin of Native Americans (2005).jpg

The recent discoveries of 9000-12000 year old skeletal remains in the Americas have begun to change our understanding of who originally entered the Americas at the end of the last Ice Age. Discoveries such as Washington state's 'Kennewick Man', Brazil's 'Luzia', and Alaska's 'Prince of Wales Island Man' have challenged the archaeological and geological status quo. The First Americans explores these new discoveries by using racial classifications and micro-evolutionary techniques to better understand the complex relationships between the first Americans and living Native Indian groups.

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Joseph F. Powell - The First Americans. Race, Evol ution and the Origin of Native Americans (2005).pdf

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Joann Dreby - Divided by Borders, Mexican Migrants and Their Children (2010).jpg

Since 2000, approximately 440,000 Mexicans have migrated to the United States every year. Tens of thousands have left children behind in Mexico to do so. For these parents, migration is a sacrifice. What do parents expect to accomplish by dividing their families across borders? How do families manage when they are living apart? More importantly, do parents' relocations yield the intended results? Probing the experiences of migrant parents, children in Mexico, and their caregivers, Joanna Dreby offers an up-close and personal account of the lives of families divided by borders. What she finds is that the difficulties endured by transnational families make it nearly impossible for parents' sacrifices to result in the benefits they expect. Yet, paradoxically, these hardships reinforce family members' commitments to each other. A story both of adversity and the intensity of family ties, Divided byBorders is an engaging and insightful investigation of the ways Mexican families struggle and ultimately persevere in a global economy.

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Joann Dreby - Divided by Borders, Mexican Migrants and Their Children (2010).pdf

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William G. Bowen, Matthew M. Chingos, Michael S. M cPherson - Crossing the Finish Line, Completing Co llege at America's Public Universities (2009).jpg

USA Books - William G. Bowen, Matthew M. Chingos, Michael S. McPhe...mpleting College at Americas Public Universities 2009.jpg

Long revered for their dedication to equal opportunity and affordability, public universities play a crucial role in building our country's human capital. And yet--a sobering fact--less than 60 percent of the students entering four-year colleges in America today are graduating. Why is this happening and what can be done? Crossing the Finish Line, the most important book on higher education to appear since The Shape of the River, pres the most detailed exploration ever of the crisis of college completion atAmerica's public universities. This groundbreaking book sheds light on such serious issues as dropout rates linked to race, gender, and socioeconomic status.

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Tom Lansford - Old Europe, New Europe And The Us. Renegotiating Transatlantic Security In The Post 9 -11 Era (2004).jpg

USA Books - Tom Lansford - Old Europe, New Europe And The Us. Rene...ting Transatlantic Security In The Post 9-11 Era 2004.jpg

Iraq can be considered the 'perfect storm' which brought out the stark differences between the US and Europe. The disagreement over the role of the United Nations continues and the bitterness in the United States against its betrayal by allies like France is not diminishing. Meanwhile, the standing of the United States among the European public has plummeted. Within Europe, political tensions between what US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld euphemistically called the 'Old' Europe and the 'New' Europe continue to divide. To fully comprehend these rifts, this volume takes a specific look at the core security priorities of each European state and whether these interests are best served through closer security collaboration with the US or with emerging European structures such as the European Rapid Reaction Force. It analyzes the contribution each state would make to transatlantic security, the role they envisage for existing security structures such as NATO, and the role the US would play in transatlantic security.

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Tom Lansford - Old Europe, New Europe And The Us. Renegotiating Transatlantic Security In The Post 9 -11 Era (2004).pdf

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Squadron - Lou Drendel - Modern Military Aircraft, Eagle (1985).jpg

The story of the McDonnell F-15 Eagle aircraft. Fully illustrated with B&W and colour photographs, and many fine colour drawings.

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David F. Musto - The American Disease, Origins of Narcotic Control (1999).jpg

The American Disease is a classic study of the development of drug laws in the U.S. Supporting the theory that Americans' attitudes toward drugs have followed a cyclic pattern of tolerance and restraint, author David Musto examines the relations between public outcry and the creation of prohibitive drug laws from the end of the Civil War to the present day. Originally published in 1973, with an expanded edition in 1987, this third edition contains a new chapter and preface that cover the renewed debate on policy and drug legislation from the end of the Reagan administration to the present Clinton administration.

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David F. Musto - The American Disease, Origins of Narcotic Control (1999).pdf

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Gene Boyt, David L. Burch - Bataan, A Survivor's Story (2004).jpg

Former Corps of Engineers officer Boyt (1917-2003) and the family friend who helped him transcribe his story offer a cogent account of surviving the Depression and four years as a Japanese POW. From a family impoverished by the father's desertion as well as the economy, Boyt got to college through the Civilian Conservation Corps, and from college into the army. Arriving in the Philippines five months before war broke out, Boyt was captured on Bataan and survived the Death March and several camps in the Philippines. Shipped to Japan, where survival was, if not easier, at least less impossible, he was liberated in 1945 to embark on a successful career as a civil engineer. His is a straightforward tale, featuring understated but vivid portraits of helpers and hinderers, clear consciousness of how little can stand between life and death, and a balanced attitude toward the many vices and occasional virtues of his captors. Likely to be one of the last Bataan survivor's narratives, this one definitely belongs in Pacific war collections.

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Randall M. Miller - The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Daily Life in America (2008).jpg

The course of daily life in the United States has been a product of tradition, environment, and circumstance. How did the Civil War alter the lives of women, both white and black, left alone on southern farms? How did the Great Depression change the lives of working class families in eastern cities? How did the dicovery of gold in California transform the lives of native American, Hispanic, and white communities in western territories? Organized by time period as spelled out in the National Standards for U.S. History, these four volumes effectively analyze the diverse whole of American experience, examining the domestic, economic, intellectual, material, political, recreational, and religious life of the American people between 1763 and 2005.

Working under the editorial direction of general editor Randall M. Miller, professor of history at St. Joseph's University, a group of expert volume editors carefully integrate material drawn from volumes in Greenwood's highly successful Daily Life Through History series with new material researched and written by themselves and other scholars. The four volumes cover the following periods:The War of Independence and Antebellum Expansion and Reform, 1763-1861, The Civil War, Reconstruction, and the Industrialization of America, 1861-1900, The Emergence of Modern America, World War I, and the Great Depression, 1900-1940 and Wartime, Postwar, and Contemporary America, 1940-Present. Each volume includes a selection of primary documents, a timeline of important events during the period, images illustrating the text, and extensive bibliography of further information resources—both print and electronic—and a detailed subject index.

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R. E. G. Davies - Continental Airlines - The first fifty years 1934-1984 (1984).jpg

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R. E. G. Davies - Continental Airlines - The first fifty years 1934-1984 (1984).pdf

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Richard Sauer - Selling America Short, The SEC and Market Contrarians in the Age of Absurdity (2010).jpg

An industry insider reveals the inner workings of our financial system and the agencies who attempt to control it

During his dozen years as an SEC attorney, author Richard Sauer opened and supervised some of its most notable financial cases-investigations that took him to a dozen countries and returned hundreds of millions of dollars to American investors. While a partner at a major law firm and, later, a hedge fund manager, he saw firsthand the follies and failures of our system. Now, in Selling America Short, he shares his extraordinary experiences with you.

Selling America Short is a gripping chronicle of crooked companies, financial philanderers and hapless enforcers told through the eyes of personal experience. Page by page, it shows the damage wrought by the deep biases and lack of worldly experience common among those who hold the reins of our capital markets.

•Sheds light on the inner workings of our financial system
•Takes you on a fascinating journey of a rogue's gallery of crooked executives, professional fraud enablers, and squirrelly technocrats
•Offers a firsthand account of the many ways contrarian views of public companies are suppressed and punished, depriving the market of critical information
With the capital markets in turmoil, people are fascinated with what is happening on Wall Street. This book provides a unique look at the forces and events that led directly to financial tragedy and continue to wreak havoc.

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Harold G. Moore, Joseph L. Galloway - We Are Soldi ers Still, A Journey Back to the Battlefields of V ietnam (2008).jpg

USA Books - Harold G. Moore, Joseph L. Galloway - We Are Soldiers ...ll, A Journey Back to the Battlefields of Vietnam 2008.jpg

In their stunning follow-up to the classic bestseller We Were Soldiers Once . . . and Young, Lt. Gen. Hal Moore and Joe Galloway return to Vietnam and reflect on how the war changed them, their men, their enemies, and both countries—often with surprising results.

More than fifteen years since its original publication, the number one New York Times bestseller We Were Soldiers Once . . . and Young is still required reading in all branches of the military. Now Moore and Galloway revisit their relationships with ten American veterans of the battle—men such as Sgt. Maj. Basil Plumley and helicopter pilot Bruce "Old Snake" Crandall—as well as Lt. Gen. Nguyen Hu An, who commanded the North Vietnamese Army troops on the other side, and two of his old company commanders. These men and their countries have all changed dramatically since the first head-on collision between the two great armies back in November 1965.
Traveling back to the red-dirt battlefields, commanders and veterans from both sides make the long and difficult journey from old enemies to new friends. After a trip in a Russian-made helicopter to the Ia Drang Valley in the Central Highlands, with the Vietnamese pilots using Moore's vintage U.S. Army maps and Galloway's Boy Scout compass to guide them, they reach the hallowed ground where so many died. All the men are astonished at how nature has reclaimed the land once scarred by bullets, napalm, and blood. As darkness falls, the unthinkable happens—the authors and many of their old comrades are stranded overnight, alone, left to confront the ghosts of the departed among the termite hills and creek bed.
Moore and Galloway combine gritty and vivid detail with reverence and respect for their comrades. Their ability to capture man's sense of heroism and brotherhood, their love for their men and their former enemies, and their fascination with the history of this enigmatic country make for riveting reading. With sixteen pages of photos, tributes to departed friends and loved ones, and General Moore's reflections on lessons learned throughout his military career, We Are Soldiers Still puts a human face on warfare in a way that will not soon be forgotten.

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Malcolm R. Dando - Preventing Biological Warfare, The Failure of American Leadership (2002).jpg

The Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention entirely prohibits biological warfare, but it has no effective verification mechanism to ensure that the 140-plus States Parties are living up to their obligations. From 1995-2001 the States Parties attempted to negotiate a Protocol to the Convention to remedy this deficiency. On 25 July 2001 the United States entirely rejected the final text which would probably have been acceptable to most other states. The book investigates how this disaster came about, and the potential consequences of the failure of American leadership.

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Our expert author, an Oregon resident, is in-the-know when it comes to the best hotels, restaurants, shops, and nightlife spots in Portland and beyond, and gives readers truly insider opinions about what's worth your time and money.
Extensive coverage of the great outdoors, from the Cascades to the Columbia Gorge, plus wildlife viewing, fishing, biking, and beaching along the Oregon Coast.
Specialized-interest tours, including Oregon's best wineries and itineraries for families.

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