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Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In the heady days of the Cold War, when the Bomb loomed large in the ruminations of Washington's wise men, policy intellectuals flocked to the home of Albert and Roberta Wohlstetter to discuss deterrence and doomsday. The Cold World They Made takes a fresh look at the original power couple of strategic studies. Seeking to unravel the complex tapestry of the Wohlstetters' world and worldview, Ron Robin reveals fascinating insights into an unlikely...
Author
Publisher
University of Washington Press
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
The word "violence" conjures up images of terrorism, bombings, and lynchings. Beaten down is concerned with more prosaic acts of physical force--a husband slapping his wife, a parent taking a birch branch to a child, a pair of drunken friends squaring off to establish who is the "better man." David Peterson del Mar accounts for the social relations of power that lie behind this intimate form of violence, this "white noise" that has always been with...
103) Moon theory
Author
Publisher
Robert M. Drake
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"This is something about self-love. Something they don't teach in school. Something that's very hard to learn on your own. This is something about putting yourself first because it's okay to love yourself before anyone else. This is something about doing what's best for you, no matter what people say, because only you know what you deserve. This is something about being real, being real to who you are and accepting things as they come and change....
Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"A Deep Exploration of the Rise, Reign, and Legacy of the Third Reich For its brief existence, National Socialist Germany was one of the most destructive regimes in the history of humankind. Since that time, scholarly debate about its causes has volleyed continuously between the effects of political and military decisions, pathological development, or modernity gone awry. Was terror the defining force of rule, or was popular consent critical to sustaining...
Publisher
Columbia/Legacy
Pub. Date
[1991]
Language
English
Description
Presents a commemoration of the World War II years by combining legendary speeches by President Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, President Truman, General MacArthur and others, with musical favorites of those times by recording artists like Benny Goodman, Jimmy Dorsey, Les Brown, and many more.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
There can be no area of human experience that has generated a wider range of powerful feelings than war. Jon Stallworthy's classic and celebrated anthology spans centuries of human experience of war, from Homer's Iliad, through the First and Second World Wars, the Vietnam War, and the wars fought since. This new edition, published to mark the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War, includes a new introduction and additional poems from David...
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