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In 1940, Phoenix was a small, agricultural city of sixty-five thousand, and the Navajo Reservation was an open landscape of scattered sheepherders. Forty years later, Phoenix had blossomed into a metropolis of 1.5 million people and the territory of the Navajo Nation was home to two of the largest strip mines in the world. Five coal-burning power p

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Based on the author's own conversations with President Karzai and other Afghan politicians, as well as prominent international representatives, this title presents a Norwegian diplomat's account of his two years at the United Nations. It offers an account of contemporary Afghanistan, and critiques military and civilian operations in Afghanistan.

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Precarious Prescriptions brings together essays that place race, citizenship, and gender at the center of questions about health and disease. Exploring the interplay between disease as a biological phenomenon, illness as a subjective experience, and race as an ideological construct, this volume helps us better understand the long and fraught history of health care in America.

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Focuses on how to manage one of the central unknowns: the prospect of change in North Korea's leadership. This title outlines three scenarios of succession - managed, contested, and failed - and offers policy recommendations for dealing with potentially fractious leadership change.

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"A reissue of the 1974 report for the House Committee on the Judiciary updated to cover presidents Nixon through Obama"--

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The United States witnessed an unprecedented failure of its political system in the mid-nineteenth century, resulting in a disastrous civil war that claimed the lives of an estimated 750,000 Americans. In his other acclaimed books about the American presidency, Fred Greenstein assesses the personal strengths and weaknesses of presidents from George

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"Pretensions to Empire" deals with current affairs.

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Begins with the invasion of Iraq in March 2003 and culminates with a case for the impeachment of George W Bush. This collection provides a critical perspective on Bush's presidency. It also includes a dissection of the Republican propaganda mill's octopus-like network and its role in the neoconservative ascent to power.

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Cyfrol sy'n adrodd hanes un o sefydliadau addysg uwch pwysicaf Cymru, o'i ddechreuad yn 1884 fel Coleg Prifysgol Gogledd Cymru, i'w dyddiau fel Prifysgol Cymru, Bangor, a'i ben-blwydd yn 125 oed yn 2009. Mae fersiwn Saesneg hefyd ar gael.

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Covers the origins of the title, Prince of Wales, and lives and activities of its twenty-one official holders since the Statute of Rhuddlan confirmed Edward's conquest of Wales in 1284. From tragic youths to seasoned warriors, from sickly children to men who held the title into old age, they are all in this 700-year panorama of British royalty.

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Offers a discussion of the developing role of Princess of Wales. The book consists of individual biographies, complementary to one another. Linking this are themes that include the parallels between the lives of the princesses, the developing role and position in society of the Princess of Wales and the importance of Wales within Britain.

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During WWI hundreds of thousands of Germans faced incarceration in hundreds of camps on the British mainland. This is the first book on these German prisoners, and covers 3 different types of internees in Britain: civilians already present in the country in August 1914; civilians brought to Britain from all over the world; and combatants.

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A collection of essays on American abolitionism. This book draws on a body of research in literature, art history, film, law, women's studies, and other disciplines. It incorporates thinking on such topics as the role of early black newspapers, anti-slavery poetry, and abolitionists in film.

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Draws on a body of research in literature, art history, film, law, women's studies, and other disciplines. This book incorporates thinking on topics such as the role of early black newspapers, anti-slavery poetry, and abolitionists in film. It is a collection of original essays on American abolitionism to appear in a generation.

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Examines how modern Jewish historians have interpreted Jewish history. This book traces the master narratives of Jewish history from the beginnings of the scholarly study of Jews and Judaism in nineteenth-century Germany; to eastern European approaches by Simon Dubnow and the interwar school of Polish-Jewish historians.

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One of the world's leading writers on propaganda and information projection presents a remarkably detailed history and critique of the workings and development of the COI from its origins in the Second World War through to the era of AIDS and the threat of nuclear war.

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