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Drawing on philosophy, history, moral psychology, and ethics, this revised and expanded edition of French's The Code of the Warrior examines historical and contemporary warrior cultures and their values, arguing that today's warriors need a code, as their ancestors did, to pre...

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This book provides an analysis of five of the best known comedies of the award winning American film makers Joel and Ethan Coen. It demonstrates that their films, while popular and entertaining, also contain substantial philosophic and political ideas, particularly focusing on the nature of liberal democracy.

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This book provides an analysis of five of the best known comedies of the award winning American film makers Joel and Ethan Coen. It demonstrates that their films, while popular and entertaining, also contain substantial philosophic and political ideas, particularly focusing on the nature of liberal democracy.

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An interdisciplinary anthology of essays on animal cognition.

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What makes for war or for a stable international system Are there general principles that should govern foreign policy This title explores how historical work can throw light on these questions. It deals with specific problems - with such matters as nuclear strategy and US-European relations.

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A critical issue in the origins of the Cold War--the development of Soviet--American conflict over Eastern Europe from 1941 to 1945--is the subject of Lynn Etheridge Davis's book. Disagreeing with those writers who argue that conflict arose from the determination of the United States to obtain economic markets in Europe or from imprecise assessment

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Examining US policy in Angola during the 1980s, this text shows how the Reagan administration and US media inflated the importance of Jonas Savimbi and helped inflame the civil war in Angola. The author explains how the Bush administration and the media have continued to support Savimbi.

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This text is an analysis and critical commentary on American foreign policy toward Soviet Russia during the formative years of the Cold War. It contends that the US must bear a majority of responsibility for the endless litany of conflicts, crises and military confrontations after 1945.

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It stands on its own as an account of both the war and the major films that have depicted it.

Memories of the Cold War have often been shaped by the popular films that depict itfor example, The Manchurian Candidate, The Hunt for Red October, and Charlie Wilson's War, among others.

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This new study provides an assessment of the entire course of the Cold War based on insights into the structure of postwar international politics revealed by the collapse of the Soviet Union. It argues that the Cold War can only be understood by exploring the interplay between ideology, domestic politics, and military security.

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This book focuses on a key aspect of the German question--the problem of German national identity and communist ideology in their historical perspective since 1945 and their immediate clash in the downfall of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) in 1989.

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The Truman years saw the beginnings of a dramatic shift in the Republican party's approach to foreign policy and a growing congressional commitment to bipartisanship in foreign affairs.

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An American academic describes the breakup of the Soviet Union and the formation of an independent Latvia from the vantage point of Riga, where he was acting as an advisor to the Latvian Parliament and was a visiting faculty member at the time of the events.

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This book is the collected works of Tom Segrave, an author who exposes the paradoxes of psychiatric illness: the good and the bad, the insights and the insanity.

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Each year, millions of American families struggle with the expense of higher education. For the past fifty years, the US government has helped students and families pay for college; but with the entire domestic policy agenda in flux, federal aid to education hangs in the balance. This book analyses government policies for helping students pay for education beyond high school.

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This book presents a new paradigm for higher education, one that focuses on the value added of postsecondary education as well as on student success beyond the traditional measure of college graduation rates, a model which merges conventional practices and supports for students with non-traditional partnerships with successful non-completers.