This volume assesses Franklin Roosevelt's role as war leader from the vantage point of the twenty-first century, by looking at different aspects of his foreign policy.

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David B. Woolner - FDR's World, War, Peace, and Le gacies (2008).pdf

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Gordon Morris Bakken - Icons of the American West, From Cowgirls to Silicon Valley (2008).jpg

The American West is rich in lore, cultural roots, and iconic images. The subject of countless movies, books, and songs, in many ways it embodies the American spirit. This lively two-volume set presents the stories of some of the most influential and representative Western icons—those that have captured the nation's imagination since the early days of westward exploration and that continue to do so within the environmental and technological frontier that is the modern West. This accessible treatment of the untamed enterprise of the 'Old West'—including cowboys, wild west shows, and gun battles—and the continued entrepreneurial imagination of the paradisical 'New West'—including environmentalists and the incorporation of national parks—elevates the reader's understanding of oft-romanticized subjcts and the conflicts and cultural changes that made them icons.

Narrative entries include:

; Chief Joseph

; George Armstrong Custer

; Gold Rush

; Winchester Model 1873

; Frederic Remington

; John Muir

; Las Vegas

; Bill Gates

; Disneyland

; Yellowstone National Park

; Sierra Club

With vibrant photos and descriptive sidebars, this comprehensive set is a must-have for students of American history and culture.

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M. Scott Peck - The Road Less Traveled and Beyond, Spiritual Growth in an Age of Anxiety (1998).jpg

The Road Less Traveled and Beyond is the culmination of a lifetime of Dr. M. Scott Peck's counseling, lecturing, and writing, and the conclusion of the "Road" trilogy. In it, we are led to a deeper awareness of how to live rich, fulfilling lives in a world fraught with stress and anxiety.

With the rare combination of profound psychological insight and deep spirituality that has already spoken to millions of readers, Dr. Peck talks about decision making and the choices we make every day in business and at home, and the ethical choices that may affect the very survival of humankind. We learn the difference between good and evil, to overcome narcissism, to love and be loved, to live with paradox, to accept the consequences of our actions all through life, and to come to terms with dying and death.

Dr. Peck is a guide on the adventure that is life, learning, and spiritual growth—life's greatest adventure. Building in depth and power from the very first chapter to its lyrical and poetic conclusion, The Road Less Traveled and Beyond is an adventure in itself.

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Myrna Chandler Goldstein, Mark A. Goldstein - Cont roversies in Food and Nutrition (2002).jpg

Foods often contain a host of different additives. Some are considered safe. Others are believed to trigger undesirable reactions in some people. Open your kitchen cabinets. Most of the items inside probably contain some food additives. For example, look at the list of ingredients on the label of a can of chicken noodle soup: Chicken broth, enriched penne pasta (semolina, egg whites, niacin, ferrous sulfate, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), carrots, celery, salt, monosodium glutamate, hydrolyzed corn and soy protein, chicken fat, onion powder, autolyzed yeast extract, parsley, natural flavor.
All these products are contained in one 19-ounce can. Some of them—such as chicken broth, carrots, celery, chicken fat, onion powder, and parsley—are straightforward, but why add monosodium glutamate or hydrolyzed corn and soy protein? According to the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, food additives—substances that are usually not eaten alone but are added to other foods—play an important role in enhancing the quality of our food supply. Additives can help keep food wholesome and appealing while it is being transported to markets thousands of miles from where it was grown or manufactured. And, additives that enhance taste, texture, consistency or color can also improve the nutritional value and physical appeal of foods.

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Drew Curtis - It's Not News, It's Fark, How Mass M edia Tries to Pass Off Crap As News (2008).jpg

Now in paperback, the hilarious exposé on the media gone awry, from the creator of the wildly popular Fark.com

Have you ever noticed certain patterns in the news you see and read each day? Perhaps it’s the blatant fear-mongering in the absence of facts on your local six o’clock news (“Tsunami could hit the Atlantic any day!” Everybody panic!), or the seasonal articles that appear year after year (“Roads will be crowded this holiday season.” Thanks, AAA.) It’s Not News, It’s Fark is Drew Curtis’s clever examination of the state of the media today and a hilarious look at the go-to stories mass media uses when there’s just not enough hard news to fill a newspaper or a news broadcast. Drew exposes eight stranger-than-fiction media patterns that prove just how little reporting is going on in the world of reporters today. It’s Not News, It’s Fark examines all the “news” that was never fit for print in the first place, and promises to have you laughing along the way.

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Description:
About Lynyrd Skynyrd
(A Step-By-Step Breakdown of the Band's Guitar Styles and Techniques). By Lynyrd Skynyrd. Signature Licks Guitar. Softcover with CD. Guitar tablature. 96 pages. Published by Hal Leonard (HL.695872).
ISBN 0634090224. With guitar tablature. 9x12 inches.
Explore the Southern rock mastery of Skynyrd's multiple guitar assault featuring Gary Rossington, Allen Collins, Ed King and Steve Gaines. Dave Rubin breaks down the licks from 15 tunes.

Contents:
* Simple Man
* Don't Ask Me No Questions
* Down South Jukin'
* Free Bird
* Gimme Back My Bullets
* Gimme Three Steps
* I Ain't The One
* The Needle And The Spoon
* On The Hunt
* Saturday Night Special
* Sweet Home Alabama
* What's Your Name
* Whiskey Rock-A-Roller
* You Got That Right
* I Know A Little

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Lincoln Geraghty - American Science Fiction Film a nd Television (2009).jpg

American Science Fiction Film and Television presents a critical history of late 20th Century SF together with an analysis of the cultural and thematic concerns of this popular genre. Science fiction film and television were initially inspired by the classic literature of H.G. Wells and Jules Verne. The potential and fears born with the Atomic age fuelled the popularity of the genre, upping the stakes for both technology and apocalypse. From the Cold War through to America's current War on Terror, science fiction has proved a subtle vehicle for the hopes, fears and preoccupations of a nation at war.The definitive introduction to American science fiction, this book is also the first study to analyze SF across both film and TV. Throughout, the discussion is illustrated with critical case studies of key films and television series, including The Day the Earth Stood Still, Planet of the Apes, Star Trek: The Next Generation, The X-Files, and Battlestar Galactica.

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Robert Stanley - Dimensions of Law in the Service of Order, Origins of the Federal Income Tax, 1861- 1913 (1993)(1).jpg

USA Books - Robert Stanley - Dimensions of Law in the Service of O...r, Origins of the Federal Income Tax, 1861-1913 19931.jpg

A sophisticated and accessible application of the newest theoretical work in public-policy history and legal studies, this book is a detailed account of how a permanent income tax was enacted into law in the United States. The tax originated as an apology for the aggressive manipulation of other forms of taxation, especially the tariff, during the Civil War. Levied with very low rates on a small proportion of the population and raising little revenue, the early tax was designed to preserve imbalances in the structure of wealth and opportunity, rather than to ameliorate or abolish them, by strengthening the status quo against fundamental attacks by the political left and right. This book shows that the early course of income taxation was more clearly the product of centrist ideological agreement, despite occasional divergences, than of "conservative-liberal" allocative conflict.

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Michael J. Martin - The Iraqi Prisoner Abuse Scand al (2005).jpg

It was the bloodiest day in American history since the battle of Antietam during the Civil War—a day in which everything about the nation would change forever. People, when speaking of the country,would henceforth specify “before September 11”or “after September 11.” It was as if, on that Tuesday morning, the borders had suddenly shifted to include Canada and Mexico, or as if the official language of the United States had changed. The difference between “before” and “after” was that pronounced.
That Tuesday morning, September 11, 2001, was the day that Americans began to learn firsthand about terrorism, as first one fuel-heavy commercial airliner, and then a second, hit New York’s World Trade Towers—sending them thundering to the ground in a firestorm of smoke and ash. A third airliner was flown into a wall of the Pentagon in Washington,D.C., and a fourth was apparently wrestled away from terrorists before it could be steered into another building. By the time the explosions and collapses had stopped and the fires had been extinguished, more than three thousand Americans had died.

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David K. Johnson, William Irwin - Heroes and Philo sophy, Buy the Book, Save the World (2009).jpg

When ordinary individuals from around the world inexplicably develop superhuman abilities, they question who they are, struggle to cope with new responsibilities, and decide whether to use their new power for good or for evil. Every episode of Tim Kring's hit TV show Heroes is a philosophical quandary. Heroes and Philosophy is the first book to analyze how philosophy makes this show so compelling. It lets you examine questions crucial to our existence as thinking, rational beings. Is the Company evil, or good? Does Hiro really have a destiny? Do we? Is it okay to lie in order to hide your powers or save the world? Heroes and Philosophy offers answers to these and other intriguing questions.

# Brings the insight of history's philosophical heavyweights such as Plato and Nietzche to Heroes characters and settings
# Adds a fun and fascinating dimension to your understanding of the show
# Expands your thinking about Heroes as the series expands from graphic and text novels to action figures and a video game

Whether you're new to Heroes or have been a fan since day one, this book will take your enjoyment of the show to the next level.

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Ann Southworth - Lawyers of the Right, Professiona lizing the Conservative Coalition (2008).jpg

A timely and multifaceted portrait of the lawyers who serve the diverse constituencies of the conservative movement, Lawyers of the Right explains what unites and divides lawyers for the three major groups—social conservatives, libertarians, and business advocates—that have coalesced in recent decades behind the Republican Party.

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Wade Davies, Richmond L. Clown - American Indian S overeignty and Law, An Annotated Bibliography (200 9).jpg

American Indian Sovereignty and Law: An Annotated Bibliography covers a wide variety of topics, including sources dealing with federal Indian policy, federal and tribal courts, criminal justice, tribal governance, religious freedom/economic development, and numerous subtopics related to tribal and individual rights. Although primarily covering the past 100 years, many sources focus on the 19th century or earlier.

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Wade Davies, Richmond L. Clown - American Indian S overeignty and Law, An Annotated Bibliography (200 9).pdf

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Bert Kinzey - U. S. Aircraft and Armament of Opera tion Desert Storm (1997).jpg

This volume in the Detail & Scale Series is being written in response to a very large number of requests.
We have received numerous phone calls and letters asking for a book in thisseries on the U.S. aircraft and armament of Operation Desert Storm. During a visit to Washington, D.C.. and a trip to the International Plastic Modelers Society's national conventions in St. Louis and Seattle, the author was approached time and time again about doing such a book. Almost everyone who contacted Detail & Scale made two very important points. First, they are far from pleased with most of the publications on Desert Storm that have been released so far. This is because many of these publications were rushed into print to make a quick profit off of the war. As a result, the accuracy and scope of those books often suffered considerably. Some had photographs and information from only one source, and there was often an obvious lack of original research. Military photographers who took the photographs were not technical experts, and the captions that they supplied with their photos often contained errors. In attempts to beat another publisher's book to the market, these obvious errors were often left uncorrected.

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Bert Kinzey - U. S. Aircraft and Armament of Opera tion Desert Storm (1997).pdf

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Robert Stanley - Dimensions of Law in the Service of Order, Origins of the Federal Income Tax, 1861- 1913 (1993).jpg

USA Books - Robert Stanley - Dimensions of Law in the Service of O...r, Origins of the Federal Income Tax, 1861-1913 1993.jpg

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Modelmania 3 - Dariusz Karnas - P-51D Mustang (199 8).jpg

This book includes brief descriprtion of the development history of the P-51D Mustang, large number of photos show details and subassemblies of airframe and engine. Noteworthy are details important for modellers, more help in building a model is provided by scale drawings of the aircraft, as well as drawings from technical manuals that show important details. Additional illustration are colour plates - both profiles of individual aircraft and markings/stencilling. Dual Polish / English text.

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Topshots 34 - Dodge WC by Kagero

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Daniel E. Sutherland - A Savage Conflict, The Deci sive Role of Guerrillas in the American Civil War (2009).jpg

The American Civil War is famous for epic battles involving massive armies outfitted in blue and gray uniforms, details that characterize conventional warfare. A Savage Conflict is the first work to treat guerrilla warfare as critical to understanding the course and outcome of the Civil War. Daniel Sutherland argues that irregular warfare took a large toll on the Confederate war effort by weakening support for state and national governments and diminishing the trust citizens had in their officials to protect them.

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Mari Jo Buhle - Feminism and Its Discontents, A Ce ntury of Struggle with Psychoanalysis (2000).jpg

With Sigmund Freud notoriously flummoxed about what women want, any encounter between psychoanalysis and feminism would seem to promise a standoff. But in this lively, often surprising history, Mari Jo Buhle reveals that the twentieth century's two great theories of liberation actually had a great deal to tell each other. Starting with Freud's 1909 speech to an audience that included the feminist and radical Emma Goldman, Buhle recounts all the twists and turns this exchange took in the United States up to the recent American vogue of Jacques Lacan. While chronicling the contributions of feminism to the development of psychoanalysis, she also makes an intriguing case for the benefits psychoanalysis brought to feminism.

From the first, American psychoanalysis became the property of freewheeling intellectuals and popularists as well as trained analysts. Thus the cultural terrain that Buhle investigates is populated by literary critics, artists and filmmakers, historians, anthropologists, and sociologists--and the resulting psychoanalysis is not so much a strictly therapeutic theory as an immensely popular form of public discourse. She charts the history of feminism from the first wave in the 1910s to the second in the 1960s and into a variety of recent expressions. Where these paths meet, we see how the ideas of Freud and his followers helped further the real-life goals of a feminism that was a widespread social movement and not just an academic phenomenon. The marriage between psychoanalysis and feminism was not pure bliss, however, and Buhle documents the trying moments; most notably the "Momism" of the 1940s and 1950s, a remarkable instance of men blaming their own failures of virility on women.

An ambitious and highly engaging history of ideas, Feminism and Its Discontents brings together far-flung intellectual tendencies rarely seen in intimate relation to each other--and shows us a new way of seeing both.

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