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Even as America faces a world of difficult-to-detect, low-tech, unconventional threats, the Bush administration has put its faith in a missile defence system or ""shield "" to keep us all safe.

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Offering new insight into Hitler as a military leader, this provocative study provides a clear view of Hitler's strengths and weaknesses and looks at what might have happened had he not blundered so often at vital times during the war.

Duffy begins with a look at Hitler's early victories in the Rhineland, Austria, and Czechoslovakia.

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The wide-ranging linguistic skills and vast network of European contacts of J.E. and H.W. Kaufmann have given them the ability to produce in Hitler's Blitzkrieg Campaigns a unique compilation of narratives, charts, photographs, diagrams, and maps not previously available in the United States.

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Social ills from drug addiction to unwed mothering is laid at the door of the working woman. As Gloria H. Albrecht shows, this dismal situation is not merely a cultural irony; it is a potential social tragedy, which symbolizes the new face of family life in America's post-industrial economy.

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This is a study of Finnish Lotto winners, aiming to reveal the changes taking place in consumer behaviour when economic resources are suddenly and unpredictably multiplied.

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This is a study of Finnish Lotto winners, aiming to reveal the changes taking place in consumer behaviour when economic resources are suddenly and unpredictably multiplied.

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With case studies of carefully selected countries, representative of every region of the world, this text allows students and teachers to make cross-cultural comparisons to discover how the problem of HIV and AIDS is viewed in different countries, and how the problem is changing.

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When Chinas first HIV-positive patient was reported in 1985, among those initially infected were peasants who had sold their plasma to international companies. Then it became clear that sex workers and injecting drug users were also becoming infected, and later, transient populations, ethnic groups and the poor.

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There are 1,100,000 intravenous drug users in the United States, with about 235,000 infected with HIV. Although treatment of substance abusers has an extensive history, no consensus has emerged as to which approach works best. This book offers information on the problem from an array of sources.

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The history, symptoms, prevention, and current issues surrounding HIV and AIDS are discussed, along with a focus on special populations struggling with the disease.

Once thought to be a disease of homosexuals and drug abusers, AIDS has now impacted people across cultures, genders, and sexual orientations.

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Traces the development of the Humvee and its many variations, including the families of armored Humvees used in Iraq, in 2003-05. This book also briefly covers the proliferation of Hummer clones in other countries, as well as the civilian versions of the HMMWV.

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This updated and revised edition of Rosen's text clearly and systematically examines issues of government accountability, including recent developments.

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This updated and revised edition of Rosen's acclaimed text clearly and systematically examines issues of government accountability, including recent developments.

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Explores the varied contours of the educational accountability movement that has swept the United States. This work describes the historical origins and underlying assumptions of accountability measures; issues surrounding accountability; relationships between the accountability and the standards movements; and more.

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A remarkable cultural history of what might exist under the Earth's surface-as reflected in mythology, religion, science, literature, and good old crackpottery