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Based on first-person accounts, interviews, declassified documents, and secondary background sources, this book gives readers insight into the significant actions and innovative techniques of the struggle for East Timorese independence from 1999 to 2006.

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An account of a major in the British Army of his dealings with the Bosnian Serb leadership, of his operation in Sarajevo, and of his subsequent arrest by Ministry of Defence police on suspicion of betraying secrets to the Serbs. What lay behind it will be revealed in the book.

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Through these stories (both true and false), he sheds a revealing light on just what role these rumors play in contemporary societyand what role our society plays in regard to these rumors as well.

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Reveals how ideology and politics are distorting, diminishing, and destroying scientific research results regarding topics from needle exchange to medical marijuana use and HIV/AIDS prevention. This work shows that when ideology distorts scientific judgment, public welfare is endangered and every person in the nation can be affected.

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From the authors of The Sion Revelation comes the reissue of a classic work in this genre.

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Three-quarters of a century ago Mustafa Kemal Ataturk launched a sweeping Cultural Revolution in the disintegrating Ottoman Empire, abolishing the Caliphate and Sufi orders and other Islamic institutions to create the modern secular Republic of Turkey.

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After the Cold War, the 'Hot War' has made its comeback in Afghanistan and Iraq. With his customary sharpness and wit, Eco proposes, not so much that we resume a forward march, but at the very least that we cease marching backwards.

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Americans began the twentieth century standing in Europe's sartorial shadow, yet ended by outfitting the world in blue jeans, T-shirts and sneakers.

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The author of Canical Culture and Adcult analyzes the century in advertising, focusing on the great campaigns, from P.T. Barnum to the Nike's "Just Do It, and describing the dramatic influence of advertising on twentieth-century culture. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.

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Now everyone can learn what the U.S. government knew about Saudi society, and when they knew it.

After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, many intelligence failures have come to light.

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Now with a new Foreword, this revised edition marks the tenth anniversary of "Type Talk at Work" with a new chapter on leadership techniques for each of the 16 personality types.

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This work highlights the distortion of Guinier's written record, clarifies and explains her creative approach to voting-rights problems and opens a crucial dialogue on race and democracy.

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This book provides an analytical guide to the modern political campaign, chronologically covering key federal, state, and local campaign laws, election commission rules, and the court decisions interpreting them.

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This work is a fascinating overview of Americans' complex and occasionally uneasy relationship with military service, from World War II to the age of global terrorism.

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This book provides a survey of the U.S. civilian and military agencies responsible for postconflict reconstruction and peace-building around the world and how these agencies function in the interagency process.

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This handbook is a one-stop forum for nonpartisan discussion of the major proposals for addressing Social Security's coming financial crisis.

This timely volume details the history and development of the American system of Social Security and examines the serious problems it faces.

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Scoblic looks at how American foreign policy has been formed by conservative ideals and argues that the Bush administration's stance poses a catastrophic threat to the nation's future.