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Jeremy Black - America Or Europe, British Foreign Policy, 1739-63 (1997).jpg

Why did Britain's position dramatically improve between 1739 and 1763? In this study, the author examines a pivotal period in Britain's rise to power status that culminated in the defeat of France in the struggle for North America in the Seven Years' War. The central themes in this book are the choices between war and peace, America of Europe. Due weight is given to the period of the War of the Austrian Succession 1740-48, when British policy was far from successful and when the major theme was concern with European developments, and to the years of inter-war diplomacy, when the agenda was once again dominated by European developments, specifically the attempt to create a continental system of collective security to off set the Franco-Prussian alliance. Focusing on the diplomacy of the period rather than, as with the majority of works, emphasizing the dominance of a struggle with France for colonial and maritime superiority, new light is thrown on British foreign policy in this period.

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Jeremy Black - America Or Europe, British Foreign Policy, 1739-63 (1997).pdf

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Robert M. Groves, Daniel L.Cork - Ensuring the Qua lity, Credibility, and Relevance of U.S. Justice S tatistics (2009).jpg

USA Books - Robert M. Groves, Daniel L.Cork - Ensuring the Quality...bility, and Relevance of U.S. Justice Statistics 2009.jpg

The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) of the U.S. Department of Justice is one of the smallest of the U.S. principal statistical agencies but shoulders one of the most expansive and detailed legal mandates among those agencies. Ensuring the Quality, Credibility, and Relevance of U.S. JusticeStatistics examines the full range of BJS programs and suggests priorities for data collection. BJS's data collection portfolio is a solid body of work, well justified by public information needs or legal requirements and a commendable effort to meet its broad mandate given less-than-commensurate fiscal resources. The book identifies some major gaps in the substantive coverage of BJS data, but notes that filling those gaps would require increased and sustained support in terms of staff and fiscal resources. In suggesting strategic goals for BJS, the book argues that the bureau's foremost goal should be to establish and maintain a strong position of independence.

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Robert M. Groves, Daniel L.Cork - Ensuring the Qua lity, Credibility, and Relevance of U.S. Justice S tatistics (2009).pdf

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J. R. Mcneill - Atlantic American Societies, From Columbus Through Abolition 1492-1888 (1992).jpg

Within the chronological framework of implantation, maturity, and transition, Atlantic American Societies traces the history of European expansion in the Americas. Suggesting a shift in the traditional analysis of history away from nationally defined boundaries, Alan Karras and John McNeill treat the Atlantic world as a whole, encouraging the reader to see the larger inter-imperial issues which governed behavior in both the new world and the old. Emphasizing the links between Africa, Europe, and the Americas, the authors outline the process of transatlantic intercultural integration that began after the voyages of Columbus.

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J. R. Mcneill - Atlantic American Societies, From Columbus Through Abolition 1492-1888 (1992).pdf

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Mark Atwood Lawrence - Assuming the Burden, Europe and the American Commitment to War in Vietnam (20 05).jpg

This beautifully crafted and solidly researched book explains why and how the United States made its first commitment to Vietnam in the late 1940s. Mark Atwood Lawrence deftly explores the process by which the Western powers set aside their fierce disagreements over colonialism and extended the Cold War fight into the Third World. Drawing on an unprecedented array of sources from three countries, Lawrence illuminates the background of the U.S. government's decision in 1950 to send military equipment and economic aid to bolster France in its war against revolutionaries. That decision, he argues, marked America's first definitive step toward embroilment in Indochina, the start of a long series of moves that would lead the Johnson administration to commit U.S. combat forces a decade and a half later. Offering a bold new interpretation, the author contends that the U.S. decision can be understood only as the result of complex transatlantic deliberations about colonialism in Southeast Asia in the years between 1944 and 1950. During this time, the book argues, sharp divisions opened within the U.S., French, and British governments over Vietnam and the issue of colonialism more generally. While many liberals wished to accommodate nationalist demands for self-government, others backed the return of French authority in Vietnam. Only after successfully recasting Vietnam as a Cold War conflict between the democratic West and international communism--a lengthy process involving intense international interplay--could the three governments overcome these divisions and join forces to wage war in Vietnam.

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Mark Atwood Lawrence - Assuming the Burden, Europe and the American Commitment to War in Vietnam (20 05).pdf

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Russell W. Glenn - Ready for Armageddon, Proceedin gs of the 2001 Rand Arroyo-U.S. Army ACTD-CETO-USM C Nonlethal and Urban Operations Program Urban Ope rations Conference (2002).jpg

USA Books - Russell W. Glenn - Ready for Armageddon, Proceedings o...an Operations Program Urban Operations Conference 2002.jpg

Summarizes the proceedings of the fourth annual Urban Operations COnference co-hosted by RAND Arroyo Center and representatives of the Army and Marine Corps.

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Russell W. Glenn - Ready for Armageddon, Proceedin gs of the 2001 Rand Arroyo-U.S. Army ACTD-CETO-USM C Nonlethal and Urban Operations Program Urban Ope rations Conference (2002).pdf

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Mark P Jelonek - Toward an Air and Space Force, Na val Aviation and the Implications for Space Power (1999).jpg

The challenge of transforming the US Air Force into a truly integrated aerospace force is a pressing issue for our service. In Toward an Air and Space Force: Naval Aviation and the Implications for Space Power, Lt Col Mark P. Jelonek uses the historical analogy of the US Navy’s integration of aviation dur ing the interwar period as a possible model for the comprehensive integration of space into the operational Air Force. Defining integration as “the evolutionary process by which a new technology (aviation in the Navy and space power in the Air Force) becomes an inseparable part of the military service,” Colonel Jelonek describes the various policies pursued by the sea service to integrate aviation into the fleet. He contends that five policies proved indispensable to that process:
(1) promoting broad understanding of aviation within the naval establishment;
(2) demonstrating that aviation enhanced rather than threatened the battleship’s place as the premier naval weapons system of the day;
(3) creating a career path that allowed aviators to attain senior rank;
(4) ensuring that aviators remained fully conversant with surface operations; and
(5) incorporating aviation into naval war games.
Arguing that similar practices could facilitate metamorphosis of the Air Force into a true air and space force, Jelonek employs the integration policies pursued by the interwar Navy (appropriately rephrased for contemporary airmen) as a device for measuring the Air Force’s progress in integrating space into its own operational mainstream. He finds such progress has been uneven at best and cites as major impediments the lack of an official plan for air-space integration, the suspect (to aviators) operational credibility of many space officers, and an institutional tendency to mistake technological adaptation for organizational transformation. The author’s proposals for over - coming these difficulties and for promoting the full integration of space power—and space power practitioners—merit serious reflection.

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Mark P Jelonek - Toward an Air and Space Force, Na val Aviation and the Implications for Space Power (1999).pdf

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Sharon L. Jones - Critical Companion to Zora Neale Hurston (2008).jpg

Zora Neale Hurston, one the first great African-American novelists, was a major figure in the Harlem Renaissance and an inspiration for future generations of writers. Widely studied in high school literature courses, her novels are admired for their depiction of Southern black culture and their strong female characters."Critical Companion toZora Neale Hurston " is a reliable and up-to-date resource for high school and college-level students, providing reliable information on Hurston's life and work. This new volume covers all her writings, including "Their Eyes Were Watching God"; her landmark works of folklore and anthropology, such as "Mules and Men"; and shorter works, such as her story "The Gilded Six-Bits."

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Sharon L. Jones - Critical Companion to Zora Neale Hurston (2008).pdf

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Ronald J. Pestritto - Woodrow Wilson and the Roots of Modern Liberalism (2005).jpg

Woodrow Wilson and the Roots of Modern Liberalism highlights Wilson's sharp departure from the traditional principles of American government, most notably the Constitution. Ronald J. Pestritto persuasively argues that Wilson's unfailing criticism places him clearly in line with the Progressives' assault on the originalprinciples of American constitutionalism. Drawing primarily from early writings and speeches that Wilson made during his years as a scholar, Pestritto examines the future president's clear and consistent ideologies that laid the foundation for later actions taken as a public leader.

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Ronald J. Pestritto - Woodrow Wilson and the Roots of Modern Liberalism (2005).pdf

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Jane Latour - Sisters in the Brotherhoods, Working Women Organizing for Equality in New York City (2 008).jpg

Sisters in the Brotherhoods is an oral-history-based study of women who have, against considerable odds, broken the gender barrier to blue-collar employment in various trades in New York City beginning in the 1970s. It is a story of the fight against deeply ingrained cultural assumptions about what constitutes women's work, the middle-class bias of feminism, the daily grinding sexism of male coworkers, and the institutionalized discrimination of employers and unions.It is also the story of some gutsy women who, seeking the material rewards and personal satisfactions of skilled manual labor, have struggled to make a place for themselves amongNew York City's construction workers, stationary engineers, firefighters, electronic technicians, plumbers, and transit workers.Each story contributes to an important unifying theme: the way women confronted the enormous sexism embedded in union culture and developed new organizational forms to support their struggles, including and especially the United Tradeswomen.

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Jane Latour - Sisters in the Brotherhoods, Working Women Organizing for Equality in New York City (2 008).pdf

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Beth Boosalis Davies - Mayor Helen Boosalis, My Mo ther's Life in Politics (2008).jpg

As a 1950s housewife and League of Women Voters volunteer who spearheaded the city of Lincoln s switch to a strong mayor form of government, Helen Boosalis never anticipated that she herself would one day be that strong mayor and chief executive of Nebraska s capital city. Helen Boosalis s story, told by her daughter, Beth Boosalis Davis, is the story of a true pioneer of women in politics.The daughter of Greek immigrants, Boosalis achieved national prominence as the first woman president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors and as an outspoken advocate for economically distressed cities facing President Reagan s new federalism. Winning the Democratic nomination for governor of Nebraska in 1986,Helen Boosalis ran against Kay Orr in the first gubernatorial contest between two women in U.S. history. The interwoven tales of conflict and challenge, from the mayor s office to the campaign trail, combine personal insight into one woman s trailblazing political history with a compelling memoir of a half century of public service and private devotion shared by two remarkable women.

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Beth Boosalis Davies - Mayor Helen Boosalis, My Mo ther's Life in Politics (2008).pdf

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Richard J. Beamish, Brian J. Rothschild - The Futu re of Fisheries Science in North America (2009).jpg

Fisheries science in North America is changing in response to a changing climate, new technologies, an ecosystem approach to management and new thinking about the processes affecting stock and recruitment.

Authors of the 34 chapters review the science in their particular fields and use their experience to develop informed opinions about the future. Everyone associated with fish, fisheries and fisheries management will find material that will stimulate their thinking about the future. Readers will be impressed with the potential for new discoveries, but disturbed by how much needs to be done in fisheries science if we are to sustain North American fisheries in our changing climate. Officials that manage or fund fisheries science will appreciate the urgency for the new information needed for the stewardship of fish populations and their ecosystems. Research organizations may want to keep some extra copies for a future look back into the thoughts of a wide range of fisheries professionals. Fisheries science has been full of surprises with some of the surprises having major economic impacts. It is important to minimize these impacts as the demand for seafood increases and the complexities of fisheries management increase.

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Richard J. Beamish, Brian J. Rothschild - The Futu re of Fisheries Science in North America (2009).pdf

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Earl L. Grinols, James W. Henderson - Health Care for Us All, Getting More for Our Investment (2009).jpg

Health Care for Us All challenges the common belief that health care problems in the United States are difficult and possibly insoluble. Americans want to get more for their health care spending, including insurance coverage for all that is personal, portable, and permanent. They want a system that respects incentives for quality care, exhibits a responsible approach to the budget, and is sustainable. Health Care for Us All adopts these five objectives and applies an efficiency filter to identify the virtually unique framework that meets all objectives. Impediments to achieving Americans' goals can be summarized under the rubrics of too little insurance, too little income, and too little properly functioning market. The efficient remedy for each is the subject of the book. Related philosophical as well as economic issues, such as why there should be government involvement in health care, are analyzed.

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Earl L. Grinols, James W. Henderson - Health Care for Us All, Getting More for Our Investment (2009).pdf

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Manuel Hinds - Playing Monopoly with the Devil, Do llarization and Domestic Currencies in Developing Countries (2006).jpg

USA Books - Manuel Hinds - Playing Monopoly with the Devil, Dollar... and Domestic Currencies in Developing Countries 2006.jpg

Why should a developing country surrender its power to create money by adopting an international currency as its own? This comprehensive book explores the currency problems that developing countries face and offers sound, practical advice for policy makers on how to deal with them. Manuel Hinds, who has extensive experience in real-world economic policy making, challenges the myths that surround domestic currencies and shows the clear rationality for dollarization or the use of a standard international currency.
The book opens with an entertaining story of the Devil, who, through a series of common macroeconomic maneuvers, coaches the president of a mythical country into financial ruin. This ruler’s path is not unlike that taken in several real developing countries, to their detriment. Hinds goes on to introduce new ways of thinking about financial systems and monetary behavior in Third World countries.

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Manuel Hinds - Playing Monopoly with the Devil, Do llarization and Domestic Currencies in Developing Countries (2006).pdf

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A.P. Thirlwall - Trade Liberalisation And The Pove rty Of Nations (2008).jpg

This book breaks out of the standard distinction between "free trade" and "protectionism", and shows how to think constructively about trade policy as an instrument of national economic strategy. It is highly recommended for those who wish to think beyond orthodoxy, and especially for those in developing countries who wish to influence negotiations with developed countries and western-based international organisations.'
- Robert Wade, London School of Economics, UK
`This is a gem of a book. Based on deep understanding of diverse economic theories and empirical evidence, it offers us a succinct but highly informative overview of the controversies surrounding the impact of trade policy on growth, inequality, and macroeconomics.'
- Ha-Joon Chang, University of Cambridge, UK, and Author of Kicking Away the Ladder, and Bad Samaritans

`Free-trade fundamentalism is gradually making way for a more nuanced and historically well-informed understanding of the role that trade policy plays in economic development. Thirlwall and Pacheco-López provide an excellent review of the relevant literature as well as a sophisticated critique of the earlier, simplistic views. As they explain, it is the details - the timing, sequencing, and context - that determine whether liberalization will succeed.'
- Dani Rodrik, Harvard University, US

`This book will infuriate the free trade ultras who believe that liberalisation is the answer to every problem - and a good thing too. The real world, as Thirlwall and Pacheco-López show clearly and vividly, is different from the world of theoretical models so beloved by today's economic orthodoxy, and they take delight in tweaking the noses of the Washington consensus. History suggests they are right to argue that managed trade is better for developing countries than swallowing large doses of free-trade medicine.'
- Larry Elliott, The Guardian

Orthodox trade and growth theory, and the world's multilateral development institutions, extol the virtues of trade liberalisation and free trade for more rapid economic development of poor countries. However, the contemporary reality and history seem to tell a different story. The world economy has experienced an unprecedented period of trade liberalisation in the last thirty years, and yet international and global inequality is widening; domestic poverty (outside of China) is increasing; poor countries' exports have grown more slowly than their imports leading to balance of payments crises, and the so-called globalising economies of the world (excluding China and India) have fared no better, and in some cases worse, than those countries that have not liberalised so extensively. This book argues that orthodox theory is based on many unreal assumptions, and that there are sound economic arguments for selective protection of industrial activities in the early stages of economic development. The historical evidence of the now-developed countries also illustrates this fact.

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A.P. Thirlwall - Trade Liberalisation And The Pove rty Of Nations (2008).pdf

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John Curl - For All the People, Uncovering the Hid den History of Cooperation, Cooperative Movements, and Communalism in America (2009).jpg

USA Books - John Curl - For All the People, Uncovering the Hidden ...ooperative Movements, and Communalism in America 2009.jpg

Seeking to reclaim a history that has remained largely ignored by most historians, this dramatic and stirring account examines each of the definitive American cooperative movements for social change—farmer, union, consumer, and communalist—that have been all but erased from collective memory. Focusing far beyond one particular era, organization, leader, or form of cooperation, the expansive analysis documents the multigenerational struggle of the American working people for social justice. With an expansive sweep and breathtaking detail, the chronicle considers Native American times and follows the American worker from the colonial workshop to the modern mass-assembly line, ultimately painting a vivid panorama of those who built the United States and those who will shape its future.

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