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The Lost Science of Money: The Mythology of Money - The Story of PowerStephen A. Zarlenga

The Lost Science of Money: The Mythology of Money - The Story of Power

In this entertaining and informative collection, career diplomat Chas Freeman brings together keen observations, witty insights, shrewd advice, and classic words of wisdom on the art and practice of diplomacy. In so doing, this wide-ranging compendium draws on many cultures, ancient and modern. This revised edition adds about eighty new entries to the text. Like the first edition, it should be useful to "anyone... (more)

American Ambassadors in a Troubled World: Interviews with Senior Diplomats (Contributions in Political Science)

American Ambassadors in a Troubled World: Interviews with Senior Diplomats (Contributions in Political Science)

by Dayton Mak

How do American citizens become ambassadors, and how do they serve U.S. interests overseas? What is embassy life really like? How do ambassadors deal with host governments and officials back in Washington? Seventy-four senior diplomats provide real insights and practical lessons into the business of being an American ambassador today in a troubled world. They talk informally about their motivations for a foreign... (more)

Presidential Anecdotes

by Paul F. Boller

Dramatic, poignant, hilarious, and sentimental, anecdotes about our presidents are as varied as the presidents themselves. This new and revised edition of 'Presidential Anecdotes' recounts some of the most striking stories about America's 42 chief executives, from Washington to Clinton, shedding light on the presidents as human beings and on the culture that produced them.

The Popes Against Modern Errors: 16 Famous Papal Documents

The Popes Against Modern Errors: 16 Famous Papal Documents

by Tan Books

The Blair Years: The Alastair Campbell Diaries

The Blair Years: The Alastair Campbell Diaries

by Alastair Campbell

A revelatory account of Tony Blair’s tumultuous leadership, The Blair Years gathers extracts from the diaries of the man who knew him best: Alastair Campbell—Blair’s spokesman from 1994 to 2003, his press secretary, strategist, and closest confidant. It is a compelling chronicle of contemporary British politics and the rise of New Labour, providing the first important record of a remarkable decade in Britain’s... (more)

Reading the Right Books

by Lee Edwards

Books contain the ideas, make the arguments, and preserve the history necessary for the maintenance and perpetuation of liberty. Reading the Right Books is a practical list of thoughtful and accessible books — not the "classics" but solidly good books — recommended to provide a general framework around which the reader can build a firmer structure of political knowledge. Edited and annotated by Lee Edwards, the... (more)

Baptist Polity As I See It

by James L. Sullivan

Southern Baptist Polity at Work in a ChurchJames L. Sullivan

Southern Baptist Polity at Work in a Church

by James L. Sullivan

The Septembers of Shiraz

by Dalia Sofer

In the aftermath of the Iranian revolution, rare-gem dealer Isaac Amin is arrested, wrongly accused of being a spy. Terrified by his disappearance, his family must reconcile a new world of cruelty and chaos with the collapse of everything they have known. As Isaac navigates the tedium and terrors of prison, forging tenuous trusts, his wife feverishly searches for him, suspecting, all the while, that their... (more)

Blasphemy

by Douglas Preston

The world's biggest supercollider, locked in an Arizona mountain, was built to reveal the secrets of the very moment of creation: the Big Bang itself. The Torus is the most expensive machine ever created by humankind, run by the world’s most powerful supercomputer. It is the brainchild of Nobel Laureate William North Hazelius. Will the Torus divulge the mysteries of the creation of the universe? Or will it, as... (more)

Collateral Language: A User's Guide to America's New War

Collateral Language: A User's Guide to America's New War

Terrorism, jihad, fundamentalism, blowback. These and other highly charged terms have saturated news broadcasts and everyday conversation since September 11th. But to keen ears their meanings change depending upon who's doing the talking. So what do these words really mean? And what are people trying to say when they use them? Each of the thirteen essays in Collateral Language offers an informed... (more)

Politics in Russia (4th Edition) (The Longman Series in Comparative Policies)

Politics in Russia (4th Edition) (The Longman Series in Comparative Policies)

by Thomas F. Remington

This is an examination of Russia's political institutions and processes in the post-1991 period when it became formally independent. The book explores the old political system in relation to the Russian system that has since emerged. The text aims to provide a clear overview of the change in the political institutions from the old communist, Soviet regime, through the transitional period in the early 1990s, to... (more)

American Trade Politics, Fourth Edition

by I. M. Destler

In this comprehensive revision of the most influential, widely read analysis of the US trade policymaking system, Destler addresses how globalization has reshaped trade politics, weakening traditional protectionism but intensifying concern about trade’s societal impacts. Entirely new chapters treat the deepening of partisan divisions and the rise of “trade and . . .” issues (especially labor and the... (more)

Tax Policy and the Economy, Vol. 21 (Tax Policy and the Economy)

Tax Policy and the Economy, Vol. 21 (Tax Policy and the Economy)

This NBER series presents current academic research findings in the areas of taxation and government spending. The papers included provide important background information for policy analysts in government and the private sector without making specific policy recommendations. This twenty-first installment in the series reports on recent research concerning both taxation and social insurance policy. The papers... (more)

Oliver Dibbs & the Dinosaurs CauseBarbara A Steiner

Oliver Dibbs & the Dinosaurs Cause

by Barbara A Steiner

Immersed in studying his favorite topic, dinosaurs, Oliver involves his fifth grade class in a campaign to make the stegosaurus the Colorado state fossil and runs afoul of an interfering bully.

The Great Justices, 1941-54: Black, Douglas, Frankfurter, and Jackson in Chambers

The Great Justices, 1941-54: Black, Douglas, Frankfurter, and Jackson in Chambers

by William Domnarski

The Great Justices offers a revealing glimpse of a judicial universe in which titanic egos often clash, and comes as close as any book ever has to getting inside the minds of Supreme Court jurists. This is rare and little-examined territory: in the public consciousness the Supreme Court is usually seen as an establishment whose main actors, the justices, remain above emotion, vitriol, and gossip, the better to... (more)

Secret World of Money

by Andrew M. Gause

Primer, money and finance

Transitions From Dictatorship To Democracy: Comparative Studies Of Spain, Portugal And Greece

Transitions From Dictatorship To Democracy: Comparative Studies Of Spain, Portugal And Greece

by Ronald Chilcote

These essays offer a retrospective assessment of the transition from dictatorship to representative democracy and on to socialism in the countries of Spain, Portugal and Greece. Examined here are current developments with particular attention paid to the role of the state and social classes in the overthrow of the old dictatorships, the evolution of representative democracy and political parties and the formal... (more)

Solidarity's Secret: The Women Who Defeated Communism in Poland

Solidarity's Secret: The Women Who Defeated Communism in Poland

by Shana Penn

"This important book explores one of the most pivotal periods in Polish history and deals with a topic nearly everyone else overlooked. Shana Penn's study begins with a simple question I wish I had thought more about myself: once the leadership of Solidarity had been arrested during the 1981 military coup, who kept the movement alive over the following months and years? The answer will surprise you, as Penn delves... (more)

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