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Here is the whole story of the world of drugs-from the infamous Opium Wars to the legal availability of narcotics in the United States during the past century; from the unexpected boost given to illicit drugs by Prohibition to the great success of the French Connection.

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Just what does it take to become a Navy SEAL Former Navy SEAL Couch takes readers deep into the most relentless training in the world. In an epilogue new to this edition, he talks about the men from Class 228 who made it--where they are now and why terrorists have much to fear from these American warriors.

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In this clear-eyed and controversial book he sets himself to take the temperature of the nation at the end of the 20th century - to test its blood for health and heartiness, sample its imagination for largeness amd magnanimity, conduct examinations of its intelligence, judgement and moral sense.

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The Way We Think is a dazzling tour of the complexities of human imagination.--George Lakoff, co-author of Philosophy in the Flesh and Where Mathematics Comes From.

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* In this exceptional book, Guy Claxton finally frees the unconscious from its narrow psychoanalytic confines and explores its evolution from the Sun God myths of Ancient Eygpt to the insights of 21st century neuroscience.

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How did hot-button issues develop How did these issues grow into passionately debated controversies within American society This series contains volumes which trace the historical roots and aspects of questions that Americans have found of compelling importance in shaping our way of life.

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This impassioned and informed book is the first to describe how government and industry have failed working families and what we can do to get beyond this critical impasse

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When Susan Maushart first decided to pull the plug on all electronic media at home, she realised her children would have sooner volunteered to go without food, water or hair products. Susan's experiment with her family was a major success and she found that having less to communicate with, her family is communicating more.

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One of Washington's finest writers on people, politics, and life -- collected for the first time.

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Men dominate history because they write it. This book offers a reappraisal which aims to re-establish women's importance at the centre of the worldwide history of revolution, empire, war and peace. As well as looking at the influence of ordinary women, it looks at those who have shaped history.

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From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Arab and Jew" comes a new book that presents a searing, intimate portrait of working American families struggling against insurmountable odds to escape poverty.

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What do women - and men - really want A sassy young academic explores the very different worlds of today's Generation Y'.

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Examines what would happen if the United States no longer held a position of global leadership.

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Points of view of scholars, lawyers, and representatives of international institutions on the conflict between the growth of the human race and the insufficient increase in the resources required to support mankind.

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In essays ranging from the profound to the playful, a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and bestselling author examines the political, social, cultural, and historic threads that form the tapestry of life in contemporary America.

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The author explores where nationalism comes from and where it is taking us. He explains how nationalism was distorted into Nazism and Communism - and how a resurgence of nationalism defeated both.