Global Environmental Politics or Henry Adams

Global Environmental Politics

Author: David L Downi

When Global Environmental Politics was first published, the environment was just emerging as a pivotal issue in traditional international relations. Today, the environment is considered to be a central topic to discussions of international politics, political economy, international organization, and the relationship between foreign and domestic policy. With new and updated case studies throughout, a revised chapter on improving compliance with international environmental regimes, and a new section on environment within the larger context of sustainable development, this classic text is more complete and up-to-date than any survey of international environmental politics on the market. In addition to providing a concise yet comprehensive overview of global environmental issues, the authors have worked to contextualize key topics such as the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development, the Kyoto Protocol, the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants, international forest policy, and the trade, development and environment nexus. Environmental concerns from global warming to biodiversity loss to whaling are seen as challenges to transnational relations, with governments, NGOs, IGOs, and MNCs all involved in the multilateral interaction that is necessary to address the ever-complicated subject of global environmental politics.

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Henry Adams: History of the United States of America During the Administrations of Thomas Jefferson (Library of America), Vol. 1

Author: Henry Adams

This monumental work, complete in two volumes, culminated Henry Adams' lifelong fascination with the American past. First published in nine volumes from 1889-91, it has been judged one of the greatest historical works in English -- and yet has been out of print for several decades. Adams' History traces the formative period of American nationality from the rise of Thomas Jefferson's Republican party through the War of 1812. Hoping to keep the United States out of Europe's Napoleonic wars, Jefferson's pacificism instead antagonizes both France and England, the two greatest military powers in the world. While the states threaten to duplicate the map of Europe by dissolving into separate, squabbling sections, Madison leads the country into a war with British regulars and Indian tribes that he is illequipped to fight. Yet time is on the side of the American people -- who, despite statesmen and generals, emerge from the conflict a single nation ready to flex its burgeoning muscles. In Adams' ironic narrative, personalities like Bonaparte and Aaron Burr, William "Tippecanoe" Harrison and Andrew Jackson, Shawnee leader Tecumseh and Haitian revolutionary Toussaint Louverture act their glittering parts against a background of inexorable historical forces that transform the United States from a pre-industrial backwater into an emergent world power.

In this first volume, Jefferson's optimistic laissez-faire principles -- designed to prevent American government from becoming a militaristic European "tyranny" -- clash with the realities of European war and American security. The party of small government presides over the Louisiana Purchase, the most extensive use of executive power the country had yet seen. Jefferson's embargo -- a high-minded effort at peaceable coercion -- breeds corruption and smuggling, and the former defender of states' rights is forced to use federal power to suppress them. The passion for peace and liberty pushes the country toward war. In the center of these ironic reversals, played out in a Washington full of diplomatic intrigue, is the complex figure of Jefferson himself, part tragic visionary, part comic mock-hero. Like his contemporary Napoleon Bonaparte, he is swept into power by the rising tide of democratic nationalism; unlike Bonaparte, he tries to avert the consequences of the wolfish struggle for power among nation-states.

The grandson of one president and great-grandson of another, Adams gained access to hitherto secret archives in Europe. The diplomatic documents that lace the history lend a novelistic intimacy to scenes such as Jefferson's conscientious introduction of democratic table manners into stuffily aristocratic state dinner parties. Written in a strong, lively style pointed with Adams' wit, the History chronicles the consolidation of American character, and poses questions about the future course of democracy.

Table of Contents:

Volume 1
I.	Physical and Economical Conditions	5
II.	Popular Characteristics	31
III.	Intellect of New England	54
IV.	Intellect of the Middle States	76
V.	Intellect of the Southern States	91
VI.	American Ideals	107
VII.	The Inauguration	126
VIII.	Organization	148
IX.	The Annual Message	169
X.	Legislation	180
XI.	The Judiciary Debate	193
XII.	Personalities	209
XIII.	The Spanish Court	227
XIV.	The Retrocession	238
XV.	Toussaint Louverture	255
XVI.	Closure of the Mississippi	269
XVII.	Monroe's Mission	285
Volume 2
I.	Rupture of the Peace of Amiens	301
II.	The Louisiana Treaty	319
III.	Claim to West Florida	336
IV.	Constitutional Difficulties	352
V.	The Louisiana Debate	366
VI.	Louisiana Legislation	380
VII.	Impeachments	393
VIII.	Conspiracy	409
IX.	The Yazoo Claims	431
X.	Trial of Justice Chase	449
XI.	Quarrel with Yrujo	467
XII.	Pinckney's Diplomacy	480
XIII.	Monroe and Talleyrand	496
XIV.	Relations with England	516
XV.	Cordiality with England	533
XVI.	Anthony Merry	546
XVII.	Jefferson's Enemies	567
XVIII.	England and Tripoli	581
	Maps
	The States of North Africa	166
	The Coast of West Florida and Louisiana	302

The Lazlo Letters or The Shape of the River

The Lazlo Letters

Author: Don Novello

In letters to stars, dignitaries, and chairmen of the country's most powerful organizations, Don Novello's alter ego Lazlo Toth pestered his victims for photographs, offered outlandish advice, fired off strange inquiries, and more. The strangest part? Practically everyone answered, leaving Toth with a hilarious collection of outlandish correspondence unmatched in the history of American letters.

The Lazlo Letters contains nearly 100 notes to public figures, including then-President Nixon, Vice President Ford ("I've been Vice President of a lot of organizations myself, so I know how you feel."), Bebe Rebozo, Lester Maddox, Earl Butz, and America's top business leaders. The replies, says the author, "classic examples of American politeness."

In an on-going correspondence with the White House, Toth suggests everything from ridiculously corny jokes for the President to use, to a campaign song sung to the tune of "Tea for Two." He asks the president of a bubble bath company just how to use the product, as the packaging instructions specifically state to "keep dry."

"No matter how absurd my letter was, no matter how much I ranted and raved, they always answered," reports the author. "Many of these replies are beautiful examples of pure public relations nonsense." One is not: columnist James Kilpatrick has a lone sentiment for Toth-"Nuts to You!" 247,000 copies in print.

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The Shape of the River: Long-Term Consequences of Considering Race in College and University Admissions

Author: William G Bowen

This is the book that has forever changed the debate on affirmative action in America. The Shape of the River is the most far-reaching and comprehensive study of its kind. It brings a wealth of empirical evidence to bear on how race-sensitive admissions policies actually work and clearly defines the effects they have had on over 45,000 students of different races. Its conclusions mark a turning point in national discussions of affirmative action--anything less than factual evidence will no longer suffice in any serious debate of this vital question.

Glenn Loury's new foreword revisits the basic logic behind race-sensitive policies, asserting that since individuals use race to conceptualize themselves, we must be conscious of race as we try to create rules for a just society. Loury underscores the need for confronting opinion with fact so we can better see the distinction between the "morality of color-blindness" and the "morality of racial justice."

Across the country, in courts, classrooms, and the media, Americans are deeply divided over the use of race in admitting students to universities. Yet until now the debate over race and admissions has consisted mainly of clashing opinions, uninformed by hard evidence. This work, written by two of the country's most respected academic leaders, intends to change that. It brings a wealth of empirical evidence to bear on how race-sensitive admissions policies actually work and what effects they have on students of different races.

The authors are the economist William G. Bowen, President of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and former President of Princeton University, and Derek Bok, former President of Harvard University andformer Dean of the Harvard Law School. Bowen and Bok argue that we can pass an informed judgment on the wisdom of race-sensitive admissions only if we understand in detail the college careers and the subsequent lives of students-or, to use a metaphor they take from Mark Twain, if we learn the shape of the entire river. The heart of the book is thus an unprecedented study of the academic, employment, and personal histories of more than 45,000 students of all races who attended academically selective universities between the 1970s and the early 1990s.

The study reveals how much race-sensitive admissions increase the likelihood that blacks will be admitted to selective universities and demonstrates what effect the termination of these policies would have on the number of minority students at different kinds of selective institutions. The authors go on to determine how well black students have performed academically in comparison to their white classmates, what success they have had in their subsequent careers, and how actively they have participated in civic and community affairs. The authors also explore the views expressed by graduates of selective colleges about the value of their education and the contributions that a diverse student body has made to their capacity to live and work with people of other races.

In the final chapters, Bowen and Bok relate their findings to the current debate about the wisdom of race-sensitive admissions. They consider whether critics are correct in claiming that such policies harm their intended beneficiaries by forcing minority students to compete with academically superior classmates. They examine alternative policies that have been proposed to increase diversity without relying explicitly on race in the admissions process. They end by reflecting on the thorny question of whether the concept of "merit" is compatible with a deliberate effort to achieve a racially diverse student body.

Authoritative, powerfully argued, and elegantly written, this book is a landmark work in one of the most important debates in recent American history. In the words of Harvard Law Professor Randall Kennedy, "The Shape of the River should be essential reading for anyone seeking a dependable guide through the morass of competing claims that obscure from public attention the questions that need to be posed and the answers that need to be assessed."

Richard D. Kahlenberg

The Shape of the River makes a business case for diversity, a case that is chilling in its emphasis on efficiency over fairness. Maybe this book will help show that today's affirmative action is not the liberal program that liberals believe it to be. -- Washington Monthly

New York Times

No study of this magnitude has been attempted before. Its findings provide a strong rationale for opposing curent efforts to demolish race-sensitive policies in colleges across the country. . . .The evidence collected flatly refutes many of the misimpressions of affirmative-action opponents.

Los Angeles Times

A compelling new book. . .demonstrates why affirmative action programs can be good for the country. . .The authors prove with facts, not anecdotes, that affirmative action works.

Newsweek

The most ambitious and authoritative study to date of the effects of affirmative action in higher education.

Ronald Dworkin

Offers much more comprehensive statistics and much more sophisticated analysis than has been available before. . . .Impressionistic and anecdotal evidence will no longer suffice. -- The New York Review of Books

The New York Times

No study of this magnitude has been attempted before. Its findings provide a strong rationale for opposing curent efforts to demolish race-sensitive policies in colleges across the country. . . .The evidence collected flatly refutes many of the misimpressions of affirmative-action opponents.

Newsweek

The most ambitious and authoritative study to date of the effects of affirmative action in higher education.

Los Angeles Times

A compelling new book. . .demonstrates why affirmative action programs can be good for the country. . .The authors prove with facts, not anecdotes, that affirmative action works.

David Karen

. . .Bowen and Bok have performed a major service for advocates of affirmative action. . . .[and] have also written a book that underliens the degree to which colleges are useful investments in human capital. -- The Nation

David Gergen

The most comprehensive study ever done of affirmative action in higher education.. .it demands the attention of anyone who cares about American universities. -- U.S. News & World Report

What People Are Saying

Garry Wills
An extensive and intensive study. . .finds that. . .what is good for business. . .is good for society, too -- good for all of us. This report may, at last, make that fact evident even to the most obtuse (Garry Wills is a syndicated columnist).

Robert M. Solow
This important book is a calm, expert, analytical study of race-sensitive college admissions, and what happens afterwards. . . .It tells us many things we didn't know, because untill now there was no way to know them (Robert M. Solow is M.I.T. Noel Laureate in Economics).

Bill Bradley
An invaluable resource for those interested in American higher education and, more generally, race in America.

Randall Kennedy
Written by two of the most respected figures in higher education, The Shape of the River offers the public what has long been needed: a large dose of crucial, unvarnished fact about affirmative action. -- Harvard Law School

Table of Contents:

	List of Figures
	List of Tables
	Preface
Ch. 1	Historical Context	1
Ch. 2	The Admissions Process and "Race-Neutrality"	15
Ch. 3	Academic Outcomes	53
Ch. 4	Advanced Study: Graduate and Professional Degrees	91
Ch. 5	Employment, Earnings, and Job Satisfaction	118
Ch. 6	Civic Participation and Satisfaction with Life	155
Ch. 7	Looking Back: Views of College	193
Ch. 8	Diversity: Perceptions and Realities	218
Ch. 9	Informing the Debate	256
Ch. 10	Summing Up	275
App. A	The College and Beyond Database	291
	App. B. Notes on Methodology	336
App. C	Earnings in Relation to Advanced Degrees, Sector of Employment, and Occupation	362
	App. D. Additional Tables	375
	References	451
	Index	461

Savage Peace or Crime Scene

Savage Peace: Hope and Fear in America 1919

Author: Ann Hagedorn

Written with the sweep of an epic novel and grounded in extensive research into contemporary documents, Savage Peace is a striking portrait of American democracy under stress. It is the surprising story of America in the year 1919.
In the aftermath of an unprecedented worldwide war and a flu pandemic, Americans began the year full of hope, expecting to reap the benefits of peace. But instead, the fear of terrorism filled their days. Bolshevism was the new menace, and the federal government, utilizing a vast network of domestic spies, began to watch anyone deemed suspicious. A young lawyer named J. Edgar Hoover headed a brand-new intelligence division of the Bureau of Investigation (later to become the FBI). Bombs exploded on the doorstep of the attorney general's home in Washington, D.C., and thirty-six parcels containing bombs were discovered at post offices across the country. Poet and journalist Carl Sandburg, recently returned from abroad with a trunk full of Bolshevik literature, was detained in New York, his trunk seized. A twenty-one-year-old Russian girl living in New York was sentenced to fifteen years in prison for protesting U.S. intervention in Arctic Russia, where thousands of American soldiers remained after the Armistice, ostensibly to guard supplies but in reality to join a British force meant to be a warning to the new Bolshevik government.
In 1919, wartime legislation intended to curb criticism of the government was extended and even strengthened. Labor strife was a daily occurrence. And decorated African-American soldiers, returning home to claim the democracy for which they had risked their lives, were badly disappointed. Lynchings continued, raceriots would erupt in twenty-six cities before the year ended, and secret agents from the government's "Negro Subversion" unit routinely shadowed outspoken African-Americans.
Adding a vivid human drama to the greater historical narrative, Savage Peace brings 1919 alive through the people who played a major role in making the year so remarkable. Among them are William Monroe Trotter, who tried to put democracy for African-Americans on the agenda at the Paris peace talks; Supreme Court associate justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., who struggled to find a balance between free speech and legitimate government restrictions for reasons of national security, producing a memorable decision for the future of free speech in America; and journalist Ray Stannard Baker, confidant of President Woodrow Wilson, who watched carefully as Wilson's idealism crumbled and wrote the best accounts we have of the president's frustration and disappointment.
Weaving together the stories of a panoramic cast of characters, from Albert Einstein to Helen Keller, Ann Hagedorn brilliantly illuminates America at a pivotal moment.

Publishers Weekly

Former Wall Street Journalstaffer Hagedorn (Beyond the River) makes a stylish entry into the history-of-a-year genre with this account of America in upheaval in the wake of WWI. In 1919, both the world and the U.S. were in need of reconstruction: soldiers returning from war needed jobs, and the influenza epidemic wasn't quite under control. Two threads Hagedorn follows are middle-class Americans' fear of Bolshevism, and the struggles of black Americans. U.S. Attorney-General Palmer instigated raids to try to root out leftist activists, and in what may have been "the State Department's first official interference in African-American politics," the agency denied black Americans' request for passports to travel to France and speak to the Paris Peace Conference about racial equality. In a year rife with lynchings in the Deep South, W.E.B. Du Bois, who had urged black Americans to shelve their grievances and fight the Germans, now argued that blacks, having served the nation, deserved to be accorded civil rights. Still, some exciting cultural developments presaged the roaring '20s: F. Scott Fitzgerald's star rose, and the nation's first dial telephones were installed in Norfolk, Va. This vivid account of a nation in tumult and transition is absorbing, and the nexus of global and national upheaval is chillingly relevant. (Apr.)

Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

Table of Contents:

Prologue: Armistice Day 1918     1
Winter: Jubilation and Hope
Gods of War and Peace     19
Spies Are Everywhere     24
Christmas at Villa Lewaro     37
Women and Molasses     46
The List     53
A Mere Slip of a Girl     61
Polar Bears in Peril     80
Sergeant Henry Johnson     91
Trotter and the Passports     104
The Magisterial Wand     114
Blinders     124
Shuffleboard     134
In Like a Lion     143
Out Like a Lion     155
Spring: Fear
Inner Light     163
Make-Believe Riots and Real Bombs     175
It's in the Mail     188
Monsieur Trotter     203
302 Seconds in May     210
What Happened on R Street     218
War of a Different Sort     226
Thrilling Feats     234
Summer: Passion
Missichusetts     249
Paris     262
Independence Day 1919     269
The Narrow Path     279
Miss Puffer Insane?     285
That Certain Point     297
Weapons in Their Hats     308
Kingof the Index     323
"I'll Stay With You, Mary"     334
Autumn: Struggle
"The Right to Happiness"     345
Tugs-of-War and of the Heart     356
Autumn Leaflets     364
Not Exactly Paradise     376
Albert in Wonderland     386
Greatness     391
Armistice Day 1919     398
Falling Ladders     404
All Aboard     408
Boughs of Glory     417
Epilogue: Endings and Beginnings     425
Notes on Sources     447
Notes     455
Selected Bibliography     499
Acknowledgments     511
Index     517

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Crime Scene: How Forensic Science Solves

Author: W Mark Dal

The Crime Scene: How Forensic Science Works is an affordable trade paperback for those who want to learn more about forensic science and how it is used to solve criminal cases.

This book will appeal to the college student who is studying forensic science, or the person who is interested in learning more about it for a career or course of study in criminal justice. Unlike the popular trade books out there on crime scene investigation, this book doesn’t just focus on the gory details of a crime and how it is solved; rather, it introduces the student to the science of the investigation and what it takes to break a case.

In addition, it will be aligned to criminal justice curriculum and the education of investigators-to-be.

Rebel in Chief or Fiscal Disobedience an Anthropology of Economic Regulation in Central Africa

Rebel in Chief: Inside the Bold and Controversial Presidency of George W. Bush

Author: Fred Barnes

“You can’t worry about being vindicated, because the truth of the matter is, when you do big things, it’s going to take a while for history to really understand.” —President Bush, in an exclusive interview with Fred Barnes for Rebel-in-Chief

With Rebel-in-Chief, veteran political reporter Fred Barnes provides the defining book on George W. Bush’s presidency, giving an insider’s view of how Bush’s unique presidential style and bold reforms are dramatically remaking the country—and, indeed, the world. In the process, Barnes shows, the president is shaking up Washington and reshaping the conservative movement.

Barnes has gained extraordinary access to the Bush administration for Rebel-in-Chief, conducting rare one-on-one interviews with President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, and many other close presidential advisers. That access, along with Barnes’s extensive independent reporting and interviewing, produces an eye-opening look at this highly consequential—and controversial—presidency.

Rebel-in-Chief reveals:

• How Bush acts as an “insurgent force” in the nation’s capital—“a different kind of president” who is turning the Washington establishment on its ear

• How Bush is redefining conservatism for a new era—and creating a new Republican majority

• The inside story of how Bush has revolutionized American foreign policy—and how the president's crusade for democracy would have been anathema to Bush himselfonly five years ago

• When and why Bush decided to go into Iraq, even knowing that he was putting his political future at risk

• How a White House aide you've probably never heard of is shaping the Bush vision

• The surprising and important ways Bush's faith affects critical presidential decisions

• How Bush has outmaneuvered his political opponents and surprised members of the press who have dismissed him as an intellectual bantamweight

• How Bush routinely defies conventional wisdom because of his contempt for elite opinion and halfway reforms (“small-ball,” he calls them)—and why he usually wins

George W. Bush billed himself as a “different kind of Republican.” He has proved to be a different kind of president, too. And Fred Barnes’s riveting behind-the-scenes account helps us understand how much this “Rebel-in-Chief ” is reshaping the world around us.

The Washington Post - Jackson Diehl

.The Weekly Standard editor and Fox News pundit convincingly describes a president who thinks and behaves "as an insurgent" in Washington, who scorns small ideas and conventional thinking and who consequently "has found it easy to overturn major policies with scarcely a second thought." Barnes portrays Bush's contempt for Washington elites and the press as a virtue that has allowed him to revolutionize both foreign and domestic policy and fashion a new form of conservatism. The case he makes for Bush's boldness is indisputable, especially in foreign affairs. But the thinness of Bush's counsel in his anti-Washington bubble also stands out.

Library Journal

Barnes (executive editor, the Weekly Standard) argues for the greatness of George W. Bush. Less biography than hagiography, this work is an unabashed love letter to the current president, with its author revealing that he shares Bush's inability to identify any mistakes that the president has made. Barnes notes an interview with Bush, but otherwise no sourcing is given for the book, which could pass for the regurgitated Republican National Committee talking points that one might hear on Barnes's own show on the Fox News Channel. A third of the text defends Bush's Middle East policy; the rest praises his faith and his impact on domestic politics, but the "new majority" Barnes hails is shaky at best, with new fissures opening weekly, while the "new conservatism" is a complete repudiation of traditional conservatism. As for Bush's "rebel" status, it apparently consists of refusing to wear tuxedos or to socialize with the Washington press corps. This book will be demanded by that new conservative choir that enjoys being preached to, but Ronald Kessler's similar, albeit gossipy A Matter of Character: Inside the White House of George W. Bush is more comprehensive and contains actual reporting. Purchase only where there is demand.-Michael O. Eshleman, Kings Mills, OH Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

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Fiscal Disobedience - An Anthropology of Economic Regulation in Central Africa

Author: Janet L L Roitman

Fiscal Disobedience represents a novel approach to the question of citizenship amid the changing global economy and the fiscal crisis of the nation-state. Focusing on economic practices in the Chad Basin of Africa, Janet Roitman combines thorough ethnographic fieldwork with sophisticated analysis of key ideas of political economy to examine the contentious nature of fiscal relationships between the state and its citizens. She argues that citizenship is being redefined through a renegotiation of the rights and obligations inherent in such economic relationships.

The book centers on a civil disobedience movement that arose in Cameroon beginning in 1990 ostensibly to counter state fiscal authority--a movement dubbed Opération Villes Mortes by the opposition and incivisme fiscal by the government (which for its part was eager to suggest that participants were less than legitimate citizens, failing in their civic duties). Contrary to standard approaches, Roitman examines this conflict as a "productive moment" that, rather than involving the outright rejection of regulatory authority, questioned the intelligibility of its exercise. Although both militarized commercial networks (associated with such activities trading in contraband goods including drugs, ivory, and guns) and highly organized gang-based banditry do challenge state authority, they do not necessarily undermine state power.

Contrary to depictions of the African state as "weak" or "failed," this book demonstrates how the state in Africa manages to reconstitute its authority through networks that have emerged in the interstices of the state system. It also shows how those networks partake of thesame epistemological grounding as does the state. Indeed, both state and nonstate practices of governing refer to a common "ethic of illegality," which explains how illegal activities are understood as licit or reasonable conduct.

Table of Contents:

Ch. 1	Introduction : an anthropology of regulation and fiscal relations	1
Ch. 2	Incivisme fiscal	23
Ch. 3	Tax-price as a technique of government	48
Ch. 4	Unsanctioned wealth, or the productivity of debt	73
Ch. 5	Fixing the moving targets of regulation	100
Ch. 6	The unstable terms of regulatory practice	129
Ch. 7	The pluralization of regulatory authority	151

Vietnam or Nazi Germany

Vietnam: Explaining America's Lost War

Author: Gary R Hess

In Vietnam, Gary R. Hess describes and evaluates the main arguments of scholars, participants, and journalists – both revisionist and orthodox in their approach – as they consider why the United States was unable to achieve its objectives. While providing a clear and well-balanced account of the existing historical debate, Hess also offers his own interpretation of the events and opens a dialogue about the usefulness of historical argument in reaching a deeper understanding of the conflict. This concise book is essential reading for students and teachers of the Vietnam War as it provides a clear and well-balanced account of existing historical debate and a thought-provoking look at the future of historical scholarship.

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Nazi Germany

Author: Jane Caplan

The history of National Socialism as a movement and a regime remains one of the most compelling and intensively studied aspects of twentieth-century history, one whose significance extends far beyond Germany or even Europe. Featuring ten chapters by leading international experts, this volume presents an up-to-date and authoritative introduction to the history of Nazi Germany.
Opening with an introduction delineating the challenges this period of history has posed to historians since 1945, Nazi Germany continues on with chapters that explain how Nazism emerged as an ideology and a political movement; how Hitler and his party took power and remade the German state; and how the Nazi "national community" was organized around a radical and eventually lethal distinction between the "included" and the "excluded." Later chapters discuss the complex relationship between Nazism and Germany's religious faiths; the perverse economic rationality of the regime; the path to war laid down by Hitler's foreign policy; and the intricate and intimate intertwining of war and genocide. The volume concludes with a final chapter on the aftermath of National Socialism in postwar German history and memory.

Table of Contents:

List of maps

List of contributors

Abbreviations and glossary

Introduction Jane Caplan Caplan, Jane 1

1 The emergence of Nazi ideology Richard J. Evans Evans, Richard J. 26

2 The NSDAP 1919-1934: from fringe politics to the seizure of power Peter Fritzsche Fritzsche, Peter 48

3 Hitler and the Nazi state: leadership, hierarchy, and power Jeremy Noakes Noakes, Jeremy 73

4 Inclusion: building the national community in propaganda and practice Jill Stephenson Stephenson, Jill 99

5 The policy of exclusion: repression in the Nazi state, 1933-1939 Nikolaus Wachsmann Wachsmann, Nikolaus 122

6 Religion and the churches Richard Steigmann-Gall Steigmann-Gall, Richard 146

7 The economic history of the Nazi regime Adam Tooze Tooze, Adam 168

8 Foreign policy in peace and war Gerhard L. Weinberg Weinberg, Gerhard L. 196

9 Occupation, imperialism, and genocide, 1939-1945 Doris L. Bergen Bergen, Doris L. 219

10 The Third Reich in post-war German memory Robert G. Moeller Moeller, Robert G. 246

Further reading 267

Chronology 288

Maps 297

Index 305

Iraq or Christianity and Law

Iraq: Searching for Hope

Author: Andrew Whit

As an envoy for peace, Andrew White is dedicated to religious and political reconciliation in Iraq and has frequently risked his life. In this new edition of his book, which tells a remarkable inside story, Andrew reflects on what he has seen in Iraq during his visits since 2005, including the escalating violence, working with the military and the involvement of the Americans. He also assesses what he considers to be mistakes in the peace process. Among the more dramatic moments are the trial of Saddam, at which Andrew was present; the abduction of the leaders of St George's church and their presumed death; and hostage crises including the death of colleagues. Andrew's personal struggle has been very real, but even at the worst moments, he never loses hope. His picture of life on the ground in Iraq is as compelling as his insights into what goes on behind the political censors. Interspersed in this compelling account are reflections on such profound issues as the nature of evil, the occasional necessity of war and - perhaps the most urgent question - whether religion is part of the problem or the solution.

About the Author:
Canon Andrew White is the former International Director of the Iraqi Institute of Peace and President of the Foundation for Relief and Reconciliation in the Middle East

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgements     iv
Historical note     vi
Preface to second edition     vii
Preface toufirst edition     viii
Making friends with the enemy     1
The struggle begins     16
Why me?     22
Hope, edged with fear     25
Was the war justified?     38
The tale of suffering     45
Is it appropriate to speak of 'evil'?     53
Chaos and horror     55
Who are the insurgents?     54
The pursuit of peace     69
Doesn't religion do more harm than good?     82
Signing up     85
Can there be peace between religions?     95
Striving to set the captives free     98
Where is God in all this?     107
The corridors of power     110
Whose side are the media on?     118
Changing regimes     122
What is so special about Iraq?     133
Signs of new growths     137
A land of hope     144
The darkness and the glory     152
The Baghdad Religious Accord     171
The Dokan Religious Accord     173
Who's who     175

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Christianity and Law: An Introduction

Author: John Witte Jr

What impact has Christianity had on the law from its beginnings to the present day? This introduction explores the main legal teachings of Western Christianity, set out in the texts and traditions of scripture and theology, philosophy and jurisprudence. It takes up the weightier matters of the law that Christianity has profoundly shaped - justice and mercy, rule and equity, discipline and love - as well as more technical topics of canon law, natural law, and state law. Some of these legal creations were wholly original to Christianity. Others were converted from Jewish and classical traditions. Still others were reformed by Renaissance humanists and Enlightenment philosophers. But whether original or reformed, these Christian teachings on law, politics and society have made and can continue to make fundamental contributions to modern law in the West and beyond.

Moving A Nation to Care or The Faiths of Our Fathers

Moving A Nation to Care: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and America's Returning Troops

Author: Ilona Meagher

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in our returning combat troops is one of the most catastrophic issues confronting our nation. Yet, despite the fact that nearly 20 percent of the over half million troops that have left the military since 2003 have been diagnosed with PTSD, and that many who suffer symptoms are unlikely to seek help because of the stigma of this terrible disease, our government and media have remained silent.

Moving A Nation to Care: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and America's Returning Troops is a grassroots call to action designed to break the shameful silence and put the issue of PTSD in our returning troops front and center before the American public. In addition to presenting interviews with Iraq and Afghanistan veterans suffering with PTSD, such as Blake Miller, the famous "Marlboro Man," this book will be the most comprehensive resource to date for concerned citizens who want to understand the complex political, social, and health-related issues of PTSD, with an eye toward "moving our nation to care" to do what is necessary to help our fighting men and women who suffer from PTSD.

Ilona Meagher is editor of the online journal PTSD Combat: Winning the War Within and author of the PTSD Timeline, a comprehensive database of PTSD incidents. She has appeared on Fox News and numerous other media outlets.

Robert Roerich, MD, is one of the world experts in trauma therapy and PTSD and a board member of the National Gulf War Resource Center.

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The Faiths of Our Fathers: What America's Founders Really Believed

Author: Alf J Mapp

In this eloquent little book, leading colonial historian Alf J. Mapp, Jr., provides a highly readable overview of the religious beliefs of eleven of the most esteemed men of the generation that declared our independence and wrote the U. S. Constitution. Perhaps for the first time, we confront the breadth and diversity of the Founding Fathers’ thinking on religious matters. In fact, their sustained ruminations on issues of religion, conscience, and ethics contributed to making their era one of the greatest in human history.
    

As Mapp contends, there was “no monolithic national faith acknowledged by all Founding Fathers. Their religious attitudes were as varied as their political opinions.” This is hardly surprising, as these eleven men—Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, James Madison, John Adams, George Washington, John Marshall, Patrick Henry, Alexander Hamilton, George Mason, Charles Carroll of Carroltton, and Haym Solomon—came from all parts of the colonies and from differing social backgrounds. 

 

Faiths of Our Fathers explores the profound connections between the Revolutionary period and our own. In doing so, it offers a much-needed corrective to the many misconceptions about the role of faith in the lives of our Founding Fathers.

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgments
1	In the Beginning Was Variety	1
2	Thomas Jefferson	3
3	Benjamin Franklin	22
4	James Madison	41
5	John Adams	54
6	George Washington	66
7	John Marshall	80
8	Patrick Henry	86
9	Alexander Hamilton	97
10	George Mason	110
11	Charles Carroll of Carrollton	124
12	Haym Salomon	146
13	What Most People Thought	153
App	Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom	158
	Bibliography	161
	Index	178
	About the Author	184

Transportation Systems Security or Blindside

Transportation Systems Security

Author: Allan McDougall

Transportation systems security is an integral part of counterterrorism and homeland security. Highlighting all aspects, this comprehensive text presents strategic, practical, and operational applications for the physical, procedural, and psychological safeguards that are needed to keep all modes of transportation up and running. Topics include systems layout, core performance issues, and risk assessment; predicting internal and external loss; drills, exercises, and training; as well as layered systems, compliance, and shared information. Each chapter features questions and case scenarios to facilitate understanding. A fictitious company is used to depict various scenarios in order to illustrate the theoretical concepts discussed by the authors.

Table of Contents:

Preface     xv
Acknowledgments     xix
Authors     xxi
Introduction to Transportation Systems     1
Introduction     1
Requirements for Securing the Sector     2
The Transportation Sector as Linked Systems     4
Impact Resulting from System Failure or Interruption     4
Trends within the Transportation Sector     6
Fragility and Reliability     7
Understanding Transportation System Security     8
Transportation System Topography     11
Introduction     11
General Overview     12
Nodes and Conduits     12
Directly and Indirectly Derived Demands     14
Factors Affecting Directly Derived Demands     14
Factors Affecting Indirect Demands     16
Routing of Conduits     19
Spoke-and-Hub Systems     19
Control Points versus Nodes     20
Control Points in Fixed Conduits     20
Control Points along Flexible Conduits     21
Terminal or Transfer?     21
System as a Sum of Interlinked Systems     22
Recap of the System     24
Constraints within the System     25
Coordination Networks     25
Coordination Network-Operations     25
How the Coordination Network Interacts with the System     26
Conduit-Based Networks: Operations and Deployment     27
Use of Systems for Automation     27
Persons and Associations and Networks of Persons     28
Aviation (Air)     28
Marine     28
Rail     28
Trucking     28
Sector-Wide     29
Factors to Consider     29
Business Goals and Mission Analysis     33
Introduction     33
Scales of Operability     33
General Interaction     35
How Is the System Mission Achieved?     36
Considerations of the Transportation System     37
System-Level Mission Statement     38
Transportation System Security Mission Statement     38
Determining the Mission Statement for Organizations     39
Strategic Level Mission Statements as Organizational Constraints     40
Operational Level within the Structure     42
Interaction between the Strategic and Operational Levels     42
Role of the Operational Level     43
Tactical Level within the Structure      43
Interaction between the Operational and Tactical Levels     44
Overview of the Structure     45
Limitations on Controls     45
Limitations on the Strategic Level     45
Limitations on the Operational Level     47
Limitations on the Tactical Level     47
Generation of the Mission Statements     48
ABC Transport's Security Mission Statements     49
How Does the Mission Statement Fit into Critical Infrastructure Protection?     49
Questions     50
General Definitions and Approaches     53
Introduction     53
Persons, Assets, Facilities, Information, and Activities     54
Follow-the-Pipe Approach     54
Mission-Driven Value     55
Vulnerability-Driven Considerations     55
Integrating the C-I-A Triad     57
Confidentiality     57
Integrity     58
Availability     59
Integrating the D-M-L Triad     60
Disclosure     61
Modification     61
Loss     62
CIP Management Approach     62
Criticality     63
Means, Opportunity, and Intent      63
Convergence within the Transportation System     64
The Concept of Risk, Residual Risk, and Risk Appetite     65
Who Decides the Threshold for Risk Appetite?     68
Avoiding, Addressing, Transferring, Accepting, and Ignoring Risk     68
Avoiding Risk     69
Addressing Risk     69
Transferring Risk     70
Accepting Risk     71
Ignoring Risk     71
Responses to Risk and Regulation     72
Risk Awareness     73
The Concept of Safeguards     74
Tactical-Level Safeguards     75
Operational-Level Safeguards     75
Strategic-Level Safeguards     76
Regulator-Driven Safeguards     76
Prevention, Detection, Response, and Recovery     77
Prevention     77
Detection and Response     78
Recovery     80
Looking at Vulnerabilities     80
Interim versus Proposed Measures     81
Layered Defenses     82
The Macro Level     83
ABC Transport     83
Local versus Systems Approaches     89
Introduction     89
Structures of Networks     90
The Flux of the Transportation System     91
Imperatives Driving Network Component Behavior     92
Aligning Imperatives with the Mission Statement     93
Relationship between Imperatives and Levels     95
Tactical-Level Imperatives     95
Operational-Level Imperatives     96
Strategic-Level Imperatives     97
Aligning the Levels of the Organization     97
Communications among the Levels     98
Pace of Evolution     99
Internal Influences versus External Influences     100
Transorganizational Constraints     100
Alignment with Mission Statements     100
Influences on Follow the Pipe     101
Alignment of Transorganizational Groups with the Matrix     101
Constraints by Regulators     102
Questions     103
Answers     104
Criticality, Impact, Consequence, and Internal and External Distributed Risk     107
Introduction     107
Assignment of Value     108
Criticality     109
Single Points of Failure     109
Consideration for Nationally Declared Critical Infrastructure     110
Impact     110
Tactical-Level Impact      111
Operational-Level Impact     111
Strategic-Level Impact     112
Consideration for Control Systems     113
Consequence     113
Risk     114
Internal Risk     114
External Risk     115
Risk Calculations     115
ABC Transport Example     116
Questions     119
Mitigation and Cost Benefit     121
Introduction     121
First Step to Mitigating Risk-Strategy     121
Key Considerations     122
Management Tolerances toward Risk     122
Costs     122
Resistance to Change     123
Selecting a Mitigation Strategy     123
Ignoring Risk     124
ABC Transport Example     124
Tactical-Level Considerations     125
ABC Transport Example     126
Operational-Level Considerations     126
ABC Transport Example     127
Strategic-Level Considerations     127
System-Level Considerations     129
Cost Considerations     130
Benefit Considerations     130
Aligning Procedures with Performance      131
Setting Strong Procedures     131
Prevention     132
Detection     133
Response     134
Recovery     135
Linking Business Activities     136
Robustness, Resiliency, and Redundancy     137
Robustness     137
Resiliency     137
Redundancy     137
Cascading Impacts     138
Setting Goals and Benchmarks     138
Generating the Manual     139
Questions     139
Certification, Accreditation, Registration, and Licensing     141
Introduction     141
Linking to Mitigation     142
Certification     142
Accreditation     143
Registration     144
Licensing     145
The Trusted Transportation System     145
ABC Transport Example     146
Continuity of Operations Planning     147
Questions     149
Continuity of Operations     151
Introduction     151
What Is COOP?     152
Aligning COOP, BCP, and Contingency Planning     153
Background of COOP     154
Objectives      155
Elements     156
Operations     157
Issues Implementing COOP     158
Aligning with Preventive Safeguards     159
ABC Transport Example: Business Continuity Planning     159
Detection     161
ABC Transport Example: Corporate Policy     163
Response and Mitigation     163
ABC Transport Example: ABC Employees     163
ABC Transport Example: The Regional Office     164
ABC Transport Example: Senior Management     164
Recovery     165
Supply Chain Management Security     166
Questions     167
Networks and Communities of Trust     171
Introduction     171
Value of Community Involvement     172
Prevention     172
Detection     173
Response     174
Recovery     174
Community Building as a Continuum     175
Setting of Arrangements     176
Communities and Council Building     177
Tactical, Operational, and Strategic Considerations     177
Communities, Trusted Networks, and Operations     178
ABC Transport Example     179
Questions      180
Establishing and Monitoring Learning Systems     183
Introduction     183
Intent of the Learning System     184
How the Intent Is Met     184
Assessing or Evaluating against Criteria     185
Prioritizing Based on Divergence     186
Determining Causes     186
Communicating Results     187
Challenges with ISACs     188
How Would Information Be Shared?     189
Legal Issues with ISACs     190
Consequences of Accidental Disclosure of Information     191
Intellectual Property and ISACs     192
Trend Analysis     192
Reporting Trends     192
Information Sharing and Definition and Categorization Challenges     193
ABC Transport     194
Questions     195
Fragility and Fragility Analysis Management     197
Introduction     197
Requirement for Information     198
Repositories of Information     198
Lines of Communication     201
Data Categorization     202
Adaptability of the Categorization Process     203
Adaptability of Data Sets or Mutability     204
Assessment      205
Integration into Mitigation Strategies     206
Addressing Capacity in Decision-Making Gaps     209
Translating of Strategies into Action     209
The Rough Fragility Score for Evolution     210
Additional Factors with Respect to Fragility     213
Rating Geographic, Sphere of Control, and Interdependency Fragility     214
Fragility Factor     217
Relating to Resiliency and Redundancy     217
Fragility and the Path of Least Resistance     218
Mean Time between Business Failure (MTBBF)     218
Mean Time between Market Failure (MTBMF)     219
Persistent Fragility Leading to System Revolution     220
Management of Fragility     220
Relating to Prevention, Detection, Response, and Recovery     221
Transportation System Security, Risk, and Fragility     221
Questions     221
Sample Memorandum of Understanding between The Radio Amateurs of Canada Inc. and The Canadian Red Cross Society     223
Memorandum of Understanding between The Radio Amateurs of Canada Inc. and The Canadian Red Cross Society     223
Appendix A     224
Guidelines for Cooperation     224
Appendix B     225
Organization of The Canadian Red Cross Society     225
Organization of The Radio Amateurs of Canada Inc     225
Manager's Working Tool     227
Product or Service Delivery     227
Geography and Community Building     231
Data Categorization and Information Management     236
Establish a Learning System     238
Maintenance and Sustainability     242
Index     245

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Blindside: How to Anticipate Forcing Events and Wild Cards in Global Politics

Author: Francis Fukuyama

A host of catastrophes, natural and otherwise, as well as some pleasant surprises--such as the sudden end of the cold war--have caught governments and societies unprepared in recent decades. September 11 is only the most obvious example among many unforeseen events that have changed, even redefined, our lives. We have every reason to expect more surprises in future.

Certain kinds of unanticipated scenarios--particularly those of low probability and high impact--have the potential to escalate into systemic crises. Even positive surprises can pose major policy challenges. Contemporary policymakers, however, lack the understanding and the tools they need to manage low-probability, high-impact events. Refining our understanding and developing such tools are the twin foci of this insightful and perceptive volume, edited by renowned author Francis Fukuyama and sponsored by The American Interest magazine.

Organized into five sections, Blindside addresses the psychological and institutional obstacles that prevent leaders from planning for negative low-probability events and allocating the necessary resources to deal with them. Case studies pinpoint the failures--institutional as well as personal--that allowed key historical events to take leaders by surprise, and other chapters examine the philosophies and methodologies of forecasting. The book's final section offers a debate and two discussions with internationally prominent authorities who assess how individuals, communities, and local and national governments have handled low-probability, high-impact contingencies. They suggest what these entities can do to move forward in a period of heightened concern aboutboth man-made and natural disasters.

How can we avoid being blindsided by unforeseen events? There is no easy or obvious answer. But we first must understand the obstacles that prevent us from seeing the future clearly and then from acting appropriately. This readable and fascinating book is an important step in that direction.

Richard M Nixon or When I Was a Kid This Was a Free Country

Richard M. Nixon: An American Enigma

Author: Herbert S Parmet

Noted biographer and historian Herbert Parmet introduces readers to this enigmatic leader, whose forward-thinking policies and strategies still affect the international stage.

 

Both motivated and crippled by his appetite for power, President Richard M. Nixon will always be remembered for tarnishing the American Presidency.  However, this new biography shows how Nixon’s groundbreaking initiatives on the environment, technology, foreign relations and social policy rank Nixon among the most accomplished leaders ever to sit in the White House.

Table of Contents:

Editor's Preface     ix
Author's Preface     xi
A Quaker from Whittier     1
From Whittier to Washington     13
You're My Boy     31
Vice President     45
Defeat     61
Resurrection     75
A Governing Center     91
Nixon and the World     115
Alone in the Lincoln Sitting Room     139
A "Third-Rate" Burglary     163
Death of a Presidency     185
Study and Discussion Questions     206
A Note on the Sources     210
Index     217

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When I Was a Kid, This Was a Free Country

Author: G Gordon Liddy

G. Gordon Liddy reminds us what we loved about America, back when you could shoot off a firecracker, light up a cigar, or drive fast, and there wasn't a government bureaucrat telling you how to live your life. Liddy sounds an alarm for all freedom-loving Americans, warning that our liberties are being chipped away in the name of good causes, civic convenience and left-wing demagoguery "that there ought to be a law." Liddy also divulges new information in a shocking, tell-all chapter on Watergate-including court documents and crime-scene evidence that shreds Woodward and Bernstein's popular theory to bits.

Publishers Weekly

In this colorful right-wing screed, the Watergate felon and conservative radio talk show host bemoans the politically correct gulag that is the United States. Liddy pillories the usual suspects-environmentalists, "killer air bags," gun-control advocates, women who think they can do anything a man can-and gnaws on old enmities in a tedious appendix full of Watergate ephemera (something about "the notorious rat John Dean," plus clippings of a call-girl ring, etc.). Liddy's hyper-masculine prose celebrates weapons, the massive, gas-guzzling "torque" of his automobiles, and Julius Caesar, a "great leader" who wisely "slaughtered all the males remaining alive" among his foes and "sold all the women and children into slavery." In his Nietzschean worldview, life is a ceaseless struggle for power among men and nations, channeled and structured by the sado-masochistic bonding rituals of warriors. But as his title implies, Liddy's most poignant writing dwells on the vanished liberties of youth: going hunting with a pal, making his own fireworks, burning leaves on an autumn afternoon (now, sadly, banned by "global warming"-a term he always uses with quotes-alarmists). His is essentially a boy's view of freedom as the absence of responsibility and constraint. His many fans, of course, will love it. (Oct.) Copyright 2003 Cahners Business Information.

Ordeal of Change or Governor Henry Horner Chicago Politics and the Great Depression

Ordeal of Change

Author: Eric Hoffer

Eric Hoffer--one of America's most important thinkers and the author of The True Believer--lived for years as a Depression Era migratory worker. Self-taught, his appetite for knowledge--history, science, mankind--formed the basis of his insight to human nature. Nowhere is this more evident than in Hoffer's seminal work, The Ordeal of Change, essays on the duality and essentiality of change in man throughout history.

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Governor Henry Horner, Chicago Politics, and the Great Depression

Author: Charles J Masters

Many have never heard of Governor Henry Horner of Illinois, yet his story is remarkable. Governor Henry Horner, Chicago Politics, and the Great Depression focuses on Horner’s career in law and politics from 1915 to 1940, while examining the economic and political dynamics of Illinois during the darkest period in American history. This principled governor managed to maintain his political integrity in a climate where honesty was a liability, says author Charles J. Masters, but the few historians who include Horner in their narratives offer contradictory and dismissive characterizations of him. Masters corrects the public record and reintroduces Horner to political lore as a man who brazenly fought both the Chicago Democratic machine that worked to plot his downfall and Roosevelt’s White House to steadfastly do right by the people of Illinois.
 In this first book-length treatment of Horner in over thirty-five years, Masters traces the politician’s career, the history and politics of Chicago, and the effects of the Great Depression in Illinois. The volume details Horner’s life as a lawyer, probate judge, and two-term Democratic governor of Illinois. Horner’s relationships with President Franklin D. Roosevelt and such political players as Michael “Hinky Dink” Kenna, “Bathhouse” John Coughlin, and Chicago mayors Carter Harrison, Anton Cermak, and Ed Kelly are set against a backdrop of assassination, political sniping, court-packing schemes, Prohibition, and the New Deal.
Governor Henry Horner, Chicago Politics, and the Great Depression examines the governor’s management of the political andeconomic challenges of the state when millions of Americans were jobless, homeless, and hungry. The severely divergent economic and political positions of the state’s northern industrial and southern agrarian interests made the period even darker. Masters shows how Horner stemmed foreclosures, dealt with bank closings, placated unpaid teachers, soothed massive labor unrest, fed the hungry, and confronted the ever-present threat of revolution. While Hitler’s Germany was spreading Nazism throughout Europe, some Americans were questioning the fundamental order of their own political system, suggesting that socialism, communism, or Nazism could offer a better way. Masters addresses how Horner, Illinois’ first Jewish governor, dealt with these challenges to the U.S. political system.
 A story long absent from the historical record, Governor Henry Horner, Chicago Politics, and the Great Depression offers a portrait of the man, his style of governance, his successes, and his failures. The volume, with eight illustrations, effectively reevaluates Horner’s historical reputation and role in Illinois politics in the midst of the worst economic depression in our nation’s history.

Resource Wars or Turning Stones

Resource Wars: The New Landscape of Global Conflict

Author: Michael T Klar

This sobering look at the future of warfare predicts that conflicts will now be fought over diminishing supplies of our most precious natural resources.From the barren oilfields of Central Asia to the lush Nile delta, from the busy shipping lanes of the South China Sea to the uranium mines and diamond fields of sub-Saharan Africa, Resource Wars looks at the growing impact of resource scarcity on the military policies of nations. International security expert Michael T. Klare argues that in the early decades of the new millennium wars will be fought not over ideology but over resources, as states battle to control dwindling supplies of precious natural commodities. The political divisions of the Cold War, Klare asserts, are giving way to an immense global scramble for essential materials, such as oil, timber, minerals, and water. And as armies throughout the world define resource security as their primary mission, widespread instability is bound to follow, especially in those places where resource competition overlaps with long-standing disputes over territorial rights.A much-needed assessment of a changed world, Resource Wars is a compelling look at the future of warfare in an era of heightened environmental stress and accelerated economic competition.

Publishers Weekly

Klare analyzes the most likely cause of war in the century just begun: demand by rapidly growing populations for scarce resources. An introductory chapter setsthe scene, laying out the complexities of rapidly increasing demand as the world industrializes, the concentration of resources in unstable states and the competing claims to ownership of resources by neighboring states. Succeeding chapters look more closely at the potential for conflict—over oil in the Persian Gulf and in the Caspian and South China Seas, over water in the Nile Basin and other multinational river systems and over timber, gems and minerals from Borneo to Sierra Leone. The strength of Klare's presentation is its concreteness.

His analyses of likely conflicts, for example among Syria, Jordan and Israel for the limited water delivered by the Jordan River, are informed by detailed research into projected usage rates, population growth and other relevant trends. As Klare shows, the same pattern is repeated in dozens of other locations throughout the world. Finite resources, escalating demand and the location of resources in regions torn by ethnic and political unrest all combine as preconditions of war. Klare, an expert on warfare and international security (Rogue States and Nuclear Outlaws, etc.), presents a persuasive case for paying serious attention to these impending hostilities and furnishes the basic information needed to understand their danger and the importance of international cooperation in staving off conflict.

Publishers Weekly

Klare analyzes the most likely cause of war in the century just begun: demand by rapidly growing populations for scarce resources. An introductory chapter sets the scene, laying out the complexities of rapidly increasing demand as the world industrializes, the concentration of resources in unstable states and the competing claims to ownership of resources by neighboring states. Succeeding chapters look more closely at the potential for conflict over oil in the Persian Gulf and in the Caspian and South China Seas, over water in the Nile Basin and other multinational river systems and over timber, gems and minerals from Borneo to Sierra Leone. The strength of Klare's presentation is its concreteness. His analyses of likely conflicts, for example among Syria, Jordan and Israel for the limited water delivered by the Jordan River, are informed by detailed research into projected usage rates, population growth and other relevant trends. As Klare shows, the same pattern is repeated in dozens of other locations throughout the world. Finite resources, escalating demand and the location of resources in regions torn by ethnic and political unrest all combine as preconditions of war. Klare, an expert on warfare and international security (Rogue States and Nuclear Outlaws, etc.), presents a persuasive case for paying serious attention to these impending hostilities and furnishes the basic information needed to understand their danger and the importance of international cooperation in staving off conflict. (May) Forecast: Klare's message is important, but it probably won't be heard by many beyond readers of the handful of major newspapers that will review it. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

Table of Contents:

1. Wealth, Resources, and Power: The Changing Parameters of
Global Security	1
2. Oil, Geography, and War: The Competitive Pursuit of
Petroleum Plenty	27
3. Oil Conflict in the Persian Gulf	51
4. Energy Conflict in the Caspian Sea Basin	81
5. Oil Wars in the South China Sea	109
6. Water Conflict in the Nile Basin	138
7. Water Conflict in the Jordan, Tigris-Euphrates, and Indus
River Basins	161
8. Fighting for the Riches of the Earth: Internal Wars over
Minerals and Timber	190
9. The New Geography of Conflict	213
Appendix: Territorial Disputes in Areas Containing Oil and/or
Natural Gas	227
Notes	233
Acknowledgments	275
Index	277

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Turning Stones: My Days And Nights With Children At Riska Caseworker's Story

Author: Marc Parent

An 8-year old boy holding a knife to his younger brother's throat. Three small children who watch their older sister jump out of a twenty-third story window, following their mother's orders. Two boys whose mother believes they are all victims of a hex laid on them by her ex-husband. An eleven-year-old boy at a fashionable Manhattan address whose mother is so drunk she can't keep her robe closed when child welfare workers come to visit. These are the heroes of Marc Parent's Turning Stones, small and unsuspecting victims of a society, and of a bureaucracy, that do not know what to do with them. For three years, Marc Parent was a respected caseworker in New York City's Emergency Children's Services, a city agency created to investigate cases of abused children during the evening and nighttime hours. Parent applied himself to his work with devotion, and in his tiny charges he saw day-to-day bravery as well as some of the strangest twists the human soul can suffer. Eventually, however, Parent discovered what a thin line separates any of us from tragedy, especially when children are involved. Faced with the horror of a child's death he ultimately, inspiringly, rediscovers the feeling of making a difference in our world - if only by turning one stone at a time. There are no prescriptions or policies here, only the lives of human beings in a fearsome world, told with vividness, humor, honesty, and deep sympathy.

Newsweek

"A revelatory and affirmative work, a grace note played against the darkest passages of family life."

Kirkus Reviews

At once heart-wrenching and heart-lifting is this record of four years that the author spent riding to the rescue of abused and neglected children.

Parent was an Emergency Children's Service worker in New York City's child welfare system, one of the men and women who on nights and weekends investigate calls about children in danger. Parent (yes, he took a lot of flack about his name) came to public prominence when a baby died after he and another worker had visited a family in a mice- and drug-infested building and missed identifying the child as at "imminent risk," that is, in immediate danger of death or serious injury. Official blame was placed elsewhere, but Parent agonized over the judgment for weeks. This compelling book is the result of his self-scrutiny. It includes what the author considers the most tragic and dramatic of the hundreds of cases he encountered. Here is the story of a mother who, anticipating Armageddon, urged her five children to jump out a 23rd-storey window; two leaped before help arrived. Another woman, convinced that she was hexed and seeing blood on the walls and broken glass in the food, had barricaded herself and her hungry children inside their apartment. In another horror story, a nine-year-old had beaten his five-year- old cousin to death. Amid the sad tales are often humorous sketches of Parent's colleagues and telling vignettes of the primitive working conditions—among other things, no place for children removed from their homes late at night to sleep except a straight chair. In the long anecdote that provides the title for the book, Parent comes to believe that even in cases where child welfare workers can do little, the work provides "an opportunity to touch a life at a critical moment and make it better."

Riveting stories, tuned to the headlines, that also defend the much maligned caseworkers who must make snap judgments under often bizarre circumstances in the field.

When I Was a German 1934 1945 or A Creative Tension

When I Was a German, 1934-1945: An Englishwoman in Nazi Germany

Author: Christabel Bielenberg

This fascinating glimpse of Nazi Germany is provided by an Englishwoman who was fluent in German and at home in German society, yet not entirely of it. Christabel Bielenberg moved from passive to active resistance as Hitler seized power and the Nazi dictatorship clamped down.

Table of Contents:

	Foreword	7
	Dramatis Personae	9
	Prologue	13
	The Years Before	16
Pt. I	Berlin
	The Blockwart	51
	Cold Interlude	61
	A Dinner Party	77
	Our Neighbours	82
	A Dangerous Tea Party	89
	A Hospital in Bad Aussee	94
	Star of David	110
Pt. II	Rohrbach in the Black Forest
	Our Arrival in Rohrbach	117
	The Terwiel Story	127
	Invasionitis	132
	Adam	138
	The American Airman	147
	The Plot of July 20th	156
	Russian Interlude	180
	A Journey to Berlin	184
	Berlin	195
	Lexi	202
	A Visit to Ravensbruck Concentration Camp	213
	Interrogation in the Prinz Albrechtstrasse	225
	Return to Rohrbach	240
	Peter's Return	252
	Peter's Story	256
	The End	266

A Creative Tension: The Foreign Policy Roles of the President and Congress

Author: Lee H Hamilton

A Creative Tension is a fresh look at the foreign policy roles of Congress and the president by one of the most astute congressional practitioners of foreign policy of recent decades, former U.S. representative and chairman of the House International Relations Committee Lee H. Hamilton. With an insider's perspective based on thirty-four years in Congress, Hamilton elucidates current domestic and international pressures influencing U.S. foreign policy, strengths and weaknesses in the foreign policy process, and ways to improve the performance of the president and Congress. A Creative Tension argues persuasively and elegantly that better consultation between the executive and legislative branches is the most effective way to strengthen American foreign policy.

A Creative Tension is the most extensive analysis of the congressional and presidential roles in foreign policy by a former member of Congress. Hamilton explores the topic in an original, stimulating, and accessible manner by deftly mixing incisive commentary with illuminating personal reflections. The book includes timely and important recommendations for improving the ability of Congress and the president to develop a foreign policy that meets the challenges and opportunities of a post-September 11 world. It should be of interest to foreign policy makers, scholars and students of American politics, and the general public.Wilson Forum

The Control Room or The Occupation

The Control Room: How Television Calls the Shots in Presidential Elections

Author: Martin Plissner

Who will determine what Americans are thinking when they cast their votes in the year 2000?

Martin Plissner, former political director of CBS News, has played a central role in the network coverage of every presidential campaign since 1964. In The Control Room, he shows how all the elements of our nation's greatest contest -- the primaries, the conventions, the counting of the ballots --are shaped by the networks' struggle for supremacy in today's media-intensive age. From the earliest announcements to the final swearing-in, those inside the control rooms determine what Americans care about when they enter the polling booths and whom the country ultimately sends to the Oval Office.

Publishers Weekly

Plissner, the former executive political director of CBS News, offers a spirited, if not entirely persuasive defense of how network news organizations cover presidential elections. Beginning in 1952, the first year that TV reporters roamed the floor at the Republican and Democratic conventions, Plissner traces the growing influence of the men in the network control rooms. Though he quickly dismisses the notion that TV producers and reporters form "a small and unelected elite," he acknowledges some of the dismaying byproducts of TV news coverage: feeding frenzies in New Hampshire and Iowa, nominating conventions with second-by-second scripts, obsessive polling to track the presidential "horse race." But these trends don't really seem to bother him, and he offers a weak defense of the tenor of campaign coverage: networks cover the horse race because it is "the only thing a good many viewers want to know in the first place." Plissner does better when he sticks to anecdotal evidence, as when he recounts the backstage maneuvering that led to Dan Rather's explosive 1988 interview with George Bush, in which Bush finally snapped: "How would you like it if I judged your career by those seven minutes when you walked off the set in New York?" At such points, the book is gripping. Ultimately, however, Plissner never goes beyond engaging eyewitness accounts to offer meaningful analysis of how the networks cover campaigns. He should have taken off the gloves and cast a more critical eye on his own profession. (May)

Library Journal

Plissner, the recently retired political director of CBS News, examines the role of television networks in transforming presidential elections. He argues that, given the pursuit of ratings (and the financial rewards that follow), campaigns have become almost exclusively creations of and responses to the demands of the networks. Lacing his narrative with inside stories and personal anecdotes, Plissner disputes theories of political bias in the news, arguing instead that while the "men and women who call the shots at the network news divisions do have an agenda," it is not to propagandize in favor of one party but to attract "the largest possible viewership at the lowest possible cost." On the proper relationship of the press to politics, Plissner says, "Prove all things, hold fast to that which is good." Admirable words but difficult to achieve--especially given the high stakes of the television ratings game. An elegant, persuasive book.--Michael A. Genovese, Loyola Marymount Univ., Los Angeles

Kirkus Reviews

A CBS veteran's look at television coverage of presidential elections is more entertaining than reflective. As executive political director of CBS News, Plissner (now retired) was in a very good position to observe the impact of television on politics. While he concedes that impact has been major—no surprise there—he argues that those on the political left and right "who worry about this worry too much." Employing his insider's perspective to unveil the factors that determined what went on the air, Plissner offers a pastiche of media history, first-person accounts, and second-hand reporting very much in the television tradition of "just the highlights, please." Nevertheless, these snippets are revealing as well as amusing, effectively portraying television's coverage over the years of party conventions, the election-night race to call the winner, election-year polling, presidential debates, and the nightly news. The competition among networks is always at the forefront, with only the financial bean-counters reining in efforts to score journalistic coups and come out on top in the ratings. We also see a progression in the relationship between the media and politicians. Party conventions, for example, initially involved gavel-to-gavel coverage, which produced conventions increasingly managed for television consumption, which resulted in boring conventions that receive decreased coverage because there is no news. This example suggests a problem with Plissner's belief that we need not worry about the medium's impact on politics. Even granting his contention that television's election-coverage agenda is commercial rather than political, the reader may still wonder why the authorbelieves media bias is therefore benign. Indeed, the idea that television's power is wielded without regard to its considerable political impact is most discomfiting; more introspection on this thorny subject would have been comforting. Not a book to pick up for insightful analysis, but the stories will amuse most readers.

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The Occupation: War and Resistance in Iraq

Author: Patrick Cockburn

A National Book Critics' Circle Award Finalist: A compelling, masterly portrait of a country ravaged by foreign occupation.

In March 2003, Patrick Cockburn traveled secretly to Iraq just before the invasion, and has covered the war from inside the country ever since. In this devastating, courageous and highly acclaimed book, he describes the fighting on the ground as Saddam's armies collapsed, the looting of Baghdad, the many failures of the US occupation, the springs of the resistance and how it turned into a full-scale uprising, and the country's collapse into civil war. In this new edition, brought completely up to date in a new chapter, Cockburn explores the impact of the "surge" of US forces into the country. Book of the Year for 2006 in the Guardian, Observer, Evening Standard, Mail on Sunday and Glasgow Herald.

The New York Times - Barry Gewen

Patrick Cockburn, now a correspondent for The Independent of London…knows the Middle East well. He has reported from Tehran and Lebanon, lived in Israel, and been visiting Iraq since 1978. His eye for the telling detail lifts The Occupation above the usual journalist's account of the Iraq war.

Library Journal

This is a lively and highly informative book on the American war in Iraq and the follies of occupation. Veteran journalist Cockburn (Middle East correspondent, the Independent) has been visiting Iraq for almost three decades and has written probing reports on the country. Out of the Ashes: The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein, which he coauthored with his brother, Andrew Cockburn, remains one of the best journalistic accounts of Saddam Hussein's rejuvenation as a political leader in the aftermath of the first Gulf War. Cockburn's latest book takes the reader through the often bewildering array of forces and personalities that are shaping developments in post-Saddam Iraq and makes them comprehensible to Western readers. The author was in Iraq when U.S. forces invaded that country and toppled its regime. Cockburn's account of the evolving conflict, the emergence of the resistance movement, the increasingly sectarian nature of the conflict, and the jockeying for power among the Shia, Sunni, and Kurdish communities is informed by his keen personal observations and understanding of the complexities and horrors of daily life in Iraq. Highly recommended for both public and academic libraries.-Nader Entessar, Univ. of South Alabama, Mobile Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.