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Chicken: The Dangerous Transformation of America's Favorite Food (Yale Agrarian Studies Series)

Steve Striffler

From Publishers Weekly From a vivid account of working as the "flour boy" breading chicken on the line to a detailed expo...

The haves and the have nots: the abuse of power and privilege in the workplace-- and how to control it

Harvey A. Hornstein

From the Back Cover "No one should be allowed to manage who has not read this book and taken its content to heart." —...

Seeking Truth from Facts: A Restrospective on Chinese Military Studies in the Post-Mao Era

James Mulvenon

About the Author JAMES CHARLES MULVENON (Ph.D., Political Science University of California, Los Angeles) is the Deputy Di...

World Population Shifts: Boom or Doom? (Plastics Engineering)

Kevin Mccarthy

From the Publisher A version of this lecture was given at the Rocco C. Siciliano Forum entitledConsiderations on the Stat...

Oil on the Brain: Adventures from the Pump to the Pipeline

Lisa Margonelli

From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. In the last few years, just about everyone has had "oil on the brain" at some poin...

Advanced SEAL Delivery System: Perspectives and Options

Mark V. Arena

From the Publisher The Deep Submergence Directorate (PMS 395) of the Naval Sea Sys-temsCommand asked RAND to undertake a ...

Coralling the Trojan Horse: A Proposal for Improving U.S. Urban Operations Preparedness in the Period 2000-2025 (Documented Briefing Rand Corporation)

Russell Glenn

Coralling the Trojan Horse: A Proposal for Improving U.S. Urban Operations Preparedness in the Period 2000-2025 (Documented Briefing Rand Corporation)...

The Art of Sport

Reuters Photographers

Review "Struth! Here's a book that makes even golf look exciting... 188 pages of jaw-detaching full-colour sports images ...

The Truth About the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to Do About It

Marcia Angell

Amazon.com Review Many Americans have wondered why prescription drugs have become so expensive while advertising for thos...

Activism!: Direct Action, Hacktivism and the Future of Society (FOCI)

Tim Jordan

Review In this accessible, logical book, Tim Jordan explains the difference between different sorts of collective action ...

Animal (FOCI)

Erica Fudge

Review 'A brilliant analysis of the ambiguous boundaries that separate and bind humans and animals.' - The Irish Times, D...

European Military Prospects, Economic Constraints, and the Rapid Reaction Force (2001)

Charles Wolf

About the Author Benjamin Zycher (Ph.D. (Economics, 1979), University of California, Los Angeles) is a Senior Economist, ...

E-Vision 2000: Key Issues That Will Shape Our Energy Future: Analysis and Papers Prepared for the E-Vision 2000 Conference

Rand

From the Publisher This report documents a May 2000 initiative by the Office of Energy Efficiencyand Renewable Energy (EE...

Plan of Attack

Bob Woodward

Amazon.com Review The 2003 American invasion of Iraq was contentious, not just in the arena of global public opinion, but...

World Boom Ahead: Why Business and Consumers Will Prosper

Knight A. Kiplinger Knight Kiplinger

Amazon.com Review When you call a book World Boom Ahead, you make it abundantly clear that you're not expecting to see t...

American Vertigo: Traveling America in the Footsteps of Tocqueville

From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. Lévy's journey through this "magnificent, mad country" is indeed vertiginous...

Ben-Gurion's Scandals: How the Haganah and the Mossad Eliminated Jews

Naeim Giladi

Ben-Gurion's Scandals: How the Haganah and the Mossad Eliminated Jews...

From Bomba to Hip-Hop

Juan Flores

From Library Journal Flores (black and Puerto Rican studies, Hunter Coll.; sociology, CUNY Graduate Ctr.) has written wid...

Enabling the Information Society by Stimulating the Creation of a Broadband Environment in Europe: Analyses of Evolution Scenarios for Future Networking Technologies and Networks in Europe

Maarten Botterman

Enabling the Information Society by Stimulating the Creation of a Broadband Environment in Europe: Analyses of Evolution Scenarios for Future Networking Technologies and Networks in Europe...

If They Give You Lined Paper, Write Sideways.

Daniel Quinn

From Publishers Weekly This slender volume—a place marker in Quinn's philosophical oeuvre about mankind's relations...

Letter to a Christian Nation

Sam Harris

Letter to a Christian Nation...

Third World America: How Our Politicians Are Abandoning the Middle Class and Betraying the American Dream

Arianna Huffington

Third World America: How Our Politicians Are Abandoning the Middle Class and Betraying the American Dream...

The Hot Zone

Richard Preston

The Hot Zone...

World Population

Geoffrey Gilbert

From Library Journal These two new volumes in the "Contemporary World Issues" series share the strengths of other series volume...

Living It Up

James B. Twitchell

From Publishers Weekly As the author of works on advertising, materialism and modern culture, University of Florida professor Tw...

Muhajababes

Allegra Stratton

From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. Two-thirds of the Middle East—a quarter of a billion people—are 25 or younger...

Consumer Culture: A Reference Handbook

Douglas Goodman

This book asks why some countries devote the lion's share of their social policy resources to the elderly, while others have a mor...

Women in Prison: A Reference Handbook

Cyndi Banks

This innovative text emphasizes how communicative processes develop, are maintained, and change throughout the life span. Topics c...

The Inheritance: The World Obama Confronts and the Challenges to American Power

David E. Sanger

Readers of The New York Times know David Sanger as one of the most trusted correspondents in Washington, one to whom presidents, s...

Beyond Civilization: Humanity's Next Great Adventure

Daniel Quinn

Beyond Civilization: Humanity's Next Great Adventure...

Royal Canadian Mounted Police, 1873-1987

David Ross, Richard Hook

Today the Royal Canadian Mounted Police has 18,000 members and a budget of more than $1 billion with which to enforce federal laws...

A Trial by Jury

D. Graham Burnett

A Trial by Jury...

Global Warming - Myth or Reality?: The Erring Ways of Climatology

Patrick J. Fitzpatrick

In the global-warming debate, definitive answers to questions about ultimate causes and effects remain elusive. In Global Warming:...

Genetic Engineering

Harry Levine Iii

Genetic Engineering...

The 10 big lies about America: combating destructive distortions about our nation

Michael Medved

“It ain’t so much the things we don’t know that get us into trouble,nineteenth-century humorist Josh Billings re...

Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid

Jimmy Carter

Amazon.com Review The crowning achievement of Jimmy Carter's presidency was the Camp David Accords between Israel...

The India-Pakistan Military Standoff: Crisis and Escalation in South Asia

Zachary S. Davis

Review “This book offers the most detailed and expert analysis in the open literature of the 2001-2002 crisis betwee...

The Nobel Peace Prize: What Nobel Really Wanted

Fredrik S. Heffermehl

Review "This highly original and well argued critical examination of the record of the Norwegian Nobel Committee represents...

Ethics, Authority, and War: Non-State Actors and the Just War Tradition

Eric Heinze, Brent J. Steele

Review “The proliferation of non-state actors in the world’s war zones is one of the most troubling, and ethi...

Treating Weapons Proliferation: An Oncological Approach to the Spread of Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Technology

David Santoro

Review “David Santoro’s innovative application of oncology to the analysis of weapons proliferation provides ...

Peace by Design: Managing Intrastate Conflict through Decentralization

Dawn Brancati

Review "This work represents a superb achievement. Well-written and admirably argued, Peace by Design will probably becom...

$Fixing fractured nations: the challenge of ethnic separatism in the Asia-Pacific$

Fixing fractured nations: the challenge of ethnic separatism in the Asia-Pacific

Ehsan Ahrari, Robert G. Wirsing

About the Author EHSAN AHRARI is a professor of Security Studies at the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies in&...

Australia and the European Superpower: Engaging with the European Union (Academic Monographs)

Philomena Murray

Australia and the European Superpower: Engaging with the European Union (Academic Monographs)...

War No More: Eliminating Conflict in the Nuclear Age

Joseph Rotblat, Robert A. Hinde

About the Author Joseph Rotblat is a nuclear physicist who was involved in the creation of the first atom bomb. He left t...

European Union Policy Towards The Arab-Israeli Peace Process: The Quicksands of Politics (Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics)

Costanza Musu

About the Author COSTANZA MUSU is Assistant Professor of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa in ...

Waging War to Make Peace: U.S. Intervention in Global Conflicts

Susan Yoshihara

Review "Susan Yoshihara has broken through the obfuscation surrounding 'humanitarian intervention' with this important anal...

Cultural Cleansing in Iraq: Why Museums Were Looted, Libraries Burned and Academics Murdered

Raymond W. Baker, Tareq Y. Ismael, Shereen T. Ismael

Review If you are looking for a textbook that provides a view of Middle East politics free of colonial bias, ... [this] b...

Prescription for Survival: A Doctor's Journey to End Nuclear Madness (BK Currents (Hardcover))

Bernard Lown

About the Author Dr. Bernard Lown is Professor of Cardiology (Emeritus) at the Harvard School of Public Health. He is the...

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