Chicago, Boston, and Baltimore all suffered terrible fires in the late nineteenth or early twentieth century. Residents of these cities agreed that the destruction caused by the fires provided them with a special opportunity to improve their inadequately built cities. This book examines these rebuildings, using each to examine in close detail the process of city growth. The massive population growth and economic expansion of the nineteenth century necessitated that every aspect of the urban environment be redeveloped. Yet, at virtually every stage of city growth, the achievement of environmental adaptation lagged significantly behind the need for change. The innovative features of this book will make it useful to all readers interested in city growth. By drawing on several fields of the social sciences, the author develops a conceptual framework for explaining the barriers to environmental improvement; and through the historical narrative, the usefulness of this framework is demonstrated.

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Anna K. Jarstad, Timothy D. Sisk - From War to Dem ocracy, Dilemmas of Peacebuilding (2008).jpg

Attempts to introduce democracy in the wake of civil war face a critical problem: how can war-torn societies move towards peace and democracy when competitive politics and hard-fought elections exacerbate social and political conflict? Through a study of six themes (peacekeeping, management of violence, power sharing, political party transformation, elections, civil society and international reactions to democratization crises) this volume considers the dilemmas that arise in pursuing peace after civil war through processes of democratization. The contributors' research highlights the complex relationship between democratization, which is competitive, and peacebuilding or efforts to achieve reconciliation. The book offers insights into more effective action in peacebuilding in light of the short-term negative effects that democratization can introduce. It is a thought-provoking work that seeks both to advance theory and to provide policy-relevant findings to facilitate more effective and durable transitions from war to democracy.

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Anna K. Jarstad, Timothy D. Sisk - From War to Dem ocracy, Dilemmas of Peacebuilding (2008).pdf

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Sherman, H. Skolnick - Overthrow of the American R epublic, The Writings of Sherman Skolnick (2007).jpg

Known as "America's leading judge-buster," the late Sherman H. Skolnick, one of America's most courageous, and outrageous journalists, suddenly became ill in May of 2006, was rushed to the hospital, and passed away shortly after. Overthrow of the American Republic is a collection of Skolnick's Internet writings that also include 24 articles that were never published on his website. Included are: Coups and Counter-Coups . Disclosures and Financial Crisis? . Black Tuesday: The Big Lie and Dark Truth . Anthrax Frame-Up? . Is the U.S. Presidency Cursed? . FBO Sought Clamp on Bush Stories . Secret Transcripts Expose Bush . Democrats and GOP in Secret Iraq Deal . The Fake Money Business . The Pedophile/Homosexual Underground . Disasters of Convenience . U.S. Civil/Military Insurrection? . The Bush/Blair Bribery Affair . U.S./IRAQ Plots and Secret Weapons . Saddam Hussein and the Exit Money . The Judges and the Shadow Government . The Making and Breaking of Empires .Fraud upon the Court From 1958 to the time of his death, Sherman H. Skolnick was a court reformer, and from 1969 to 1993 alone, twenty judges and over forty attorneys went behind bars as a result of Skolnick's public exposure of their crimes.

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Gini Graham Scott - Homicide by the Rich and Famou s, A Century of Prominent Killers (2007).jpg

"Scott (an independent writer/researcher/consultant) examines 17 of the richest, most famous, and most bizarre murders to churn up the media in the last century. Here we find a sausage king who conceals the evidence in his next shipment and a playboy who shoots a rival in full view of the Gotham elite and buys his way in and out of a mental institution."–Reference & Research Book News

“An unsparing examination of the power of wealth and fame over justice that roasts American values over a brilliant flame of indignation.”–Marvin J. Wolf, author of Perfect Crimes

“Dr. Scott provides an organized, accessible collection of some of the most intriguing crime stories of elite American culture. Without resorting to sensational reporting, she nevertheless has penned a page-turner.”–Katherine Ramsland, Professor of Forensic Psychology, DeSales University author of The Criminal Mind and Inside the Minds of Mass Murderers

“Homicide by the Rich and Famous is an exciting read. Gini Scott is an excellent researcher...Reading this book will change people's reactions to crime news forever.”–Alma H. Bond, Ph.D., Psychoanalyst, faculty of Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR) and Writers School author of The Deadly Jigsaw Puzzle and Murder on the Streetcar

“Ms. Scott's book demonstrates that homicides are not just confined to the inner city or gang violence. No one is immune from this deadly violence or its consequences. It is often good "old fashioned police work" that brings these cases to justice.”–Peter Dunbar, Deputy Chief, Oakland Police Department

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Linda Allen, Spencer Moon - Reel Black Talk, A Sou rcebook of 50 American Filmmakers (1997).jpg

The first book by an African American on contemporary African American filmmakers; here directors and producers speak for themselves and pose challenges to current thinking in the field.

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Jean-Michel Boniface - GMC, Un Camion de Légende ( 2003).jpg

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A father's unique perspective sheds light on the personal and professional life of tennis great Andre Agassi in this account of the Agassi family, from Agassi's father's participation in the Olympics to Agassi's reclamation of his number-one ranking at the age of 33. Previously untold stories illuminate the maturation of the once easily rattled, flamboyant rebel to the calm, composed, humble tennis champion. Agassi's high-profile marriages to Brooke Shields and current wife Steffi Graf are discussed in this rags-to-riches account of an athletic, talented American family.

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The original edition of The Encyclopedia of Money won widespread acclaim for explaining the function—and dysfunction—of the financial system in a language any reader could understand. Now a decade later, with a more globally integrated, market-oriented world, and with consumers trying to make sense of subprime mortgages, credit default swaps, and bank stress tests, the Encyclopedia returns in an expanded new edition.

From the development of metal and paper currency to the ongoing global economic crisis, the rigorously updated The Encyclopedia of Money, Second Edition is the most authoritative, comprehensive resource on the fundamentals of money and finance available. Its 350 alphabetically organized entries—85 completely new to this edition—help readers make sense of a wide range of events, policies, and regulations by explaining their historical, political, and theoretical contexts. The new edition focuses most intently on the last two decades, highlighting the connections between the onrush of globalization, the surging stock market, and various monetary and fiscal crises of the 1990s, as well as developments, scandals, and pocketbook issues making headlines today.

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Edward Teller, Judith Shoolery - Memoirs, A Twenti eth-Century Journey in Science and Politics (2002).jpg

One of the great scientists of the 20th century recounts a brilliant life spanning 10 decades in his simply titled autobiography, Memoirs. Edward Teller came to the United States from Hungary in 1935 and found a place for himself at the thorny intersection of science and politics: he was deeply involved in the decision to build a hydrogen bomb during the Second World War as well as the push for missile defenses during the 1980s. His most controversial act may have been his small role in the ordeal of J. Robert Oppenheimer, who lost security clearance due to suspicious affiliations with Communist organizations. Teller says he disagreed with many of his colleague's views, but did not consider him a traitor. He also expresses remorse that his own congressional testimony was used against Oppenheimer: "I proved not only that stupidity is a general human property but that I possessed a full share of it." The bulk of Memoirs concentrates on events during the 1940s and 1950s, though Teller's influence on President Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative receives plenty of attention too. --John Miller

From Publishers Weekly
Teller's isn't a household name today, but in the 1950s he was dubbed "the father of the hydrogen bomb." Born in Hungary in 1908, Teller was educated in Germany, where he worked with some of the century's great scientists prior to the Nazi takeover. After arriving in the United States in 1935, he collaborated with other distinguished ‚migr‚s, such as Enrico Fermi and fellow Hungarian John von Neumann; he was one of the first scientists dispatched to Los Alamos, where he worked on the theoretical aspects of atom bomb design. After Hiroshima and Nagasaki came troubling years: Teller encountered great opposition to future nuclear research from the scientific community and found former friends unwilling to shake his hand after he testified against J. Robert Oppenheimer in Oppenheimer's 1954 security review. Later, Teller went on to establish the Lawrence Livermore Laboratories as a center for ground-breaking research in many fields, and in the late 1950s became a scientific consultant to Nelson Rockefeller. As is often the case with memoirs, time is relative: the years in the book's last half move much more quickly than those in the first. This is unfortunate, since Teller's work on safe proliferation of nuclear energy, the so-called Stars Wars defense system and the early detection of earth-crossing objects is almost as important as his work during the first part of his career. While waiting for a future biographer to give the latter years their proper due, readers can enjoy these panoramic and beautifully written recollections of one of the great scientific, if controversial, figures of all time.

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Michel Crozier, Samuel P. Huntington, Joji Watanuk i - The Crisis of Democracy, Report on the Governa bility of Democracies to the Trilateral Commission (1975).jpg

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Michel Crozier, Samuel P. Huntington, Joji Watanuk i - The Crisis of Democracy, Report on the Governa bility of Democracies to the Trilateral Commission (1975).pdf

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Seth Grahame-Smith - Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunt er (2010).jpg

Indiana, 1818. Moonlight falls through the dense woods that surround a one-room cabin, where a nine-year-old Abraham Lincoln kneels at his suffering mother's bedside. She's been stricken with something the old-timers call "Milk Sickness."
"My baby boy..." she whispers before dying.
Only later will the grieving Abe learn that his mother's fatal affliction was actually the work of a vampire.
When the truth becomes known to young Lincoln, he writes in his journal, "henceforth my life shall be one of rigorous study and devotion. I shall become a master of mind and body. And this mastery shall have but one purpose..." Gifted with his legendary height, strength, and skill with an ax, Abe sets out on a path of vengeance that will lead him all the way to the White House.
While Abraham Lincoln is widely lauded for saving a Union and freeing millions of slaves, his valiant fight against the forces of the undead has remained in the shadows for hundreds of years. That is, until Seth Grahame-Smith stumbled upon The Secret Journal of Abraham Lincoln, and became the first living person to lay eyes on it in more than 140 years.
Using the journal as his guide and writing in the grand biographical style of Doris Kearns Goodwin and David McCullough, Seth has reconstructed the true life story of our greatest president for the first time-all while revealing the hidden history behind the Civil War and uncovering the role vampires played in the birth, growth, and near-death of our nation..

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Vine Deloria - The Indian Reorganization Act, Cong resses and Bills (2002).jpg

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Jeffrey Sklansky - The Soul's Economy, Market Soci ety and Selfhood in American Thought, 1820-1920 (2 002).jpg

Tracing a seismic shift in American social thought, Jeffrey Sklansky offers a new synthesis of the intellectual transformation entailed in the rise of industrial capitalism. For a century after Independence, the dominant American understanding of selfhood and society came from the tradition of political economy, which defined freedom and equality in terms of ownership of the means of self-employment. However, the gradual demise of the household economy rendered proprietary independence an increasingly embattled ideal. Large landowners and industrialists claimed the right to rule as a privilege of their growing monopoly over productive resources, while dispossessed farmers and workers charged that a propertyless populace was incompatible with true liberty and democracy. Amid the widening class divide, nineteenth-century social theorists devised a new science of American society that came to be called "social psychology." The change Sklansky charts begins among Romantic writers such as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Margaret Fuller, continues through the polemics of political economists such as Henry George and William Graham Sumner, and culminates with the pioneers of modern American psychology and sociology such as William James and Charles Horton Cooley. Together, these writers reconceived freedom in terms of psychic self-expression instead of economic self-interest, and they redefined democracy in terms of cultural kinship rather than social compact.

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Brian J. C. McKercher - Transition of Power, Brita in's Loss of Global Pre-eminence to the United Sta tes, 1930-1945 (1999).jpg

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This book addresses one of the least understood issues in modern international history: how, between 1930 and 1945, Britain lost its global preeminence to the United States. The crucial years are 1930 to 1940, for which until now no comprehensive examination of Anglo-American relations exists. Transition of Power analyzes these relations in the pivotal decade, with an epilogue that deals with the Second World War after 1941. Britain and the United States, and their intertwined fates, were fundamental to the course of international history in these years.

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Charles Reed, David Ryall, General Sir Richard Dan natt - The Price of Peace, Just War in the Twenty- First Century (2007.jpg

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Lively political and public debates on war and morality have been a feature of the post-Cold War world. The Price of Peace argues that a re-examination of the just war tradition is therefore required. The authors suggest that despite fluctuations and transformations in international politics, the just war tradition continues to be relevant. However they argue that it needs to be reworked to respond to the new challenges to international security represented by the end of the Cold War and the impact of terrorism. With an interdisciplinary and transatlantic approach, this volume provides a dialogue between theological, political, military and public actors. By articulating what a reconstituted just war tradition might mean in practice, it also aims to assist policy-makers and citizens in dealing with the ethical dilemmas of war.

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Howard Schweber - The Creation of American Common Law, 1850-1880, Technology, Politics, and the Cons truction of Citizenship (2004).jpg

USA Books - Howard Schweber - The Creation of American Common Law,...y, Politics, and the Construction of Citizenship 2004.jpg

"This book combines two of the most interesting developments in the study of law and politics in recent years to great effect...far beyond its masterful illumination of how railroads influenced legal development in nineteenth century America, [this book] will spark serious debate about the common law, citizenship, and political and legal development. The Law and Politics Book Review

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