Landscapes in History, 2nd Edition (One Volume)

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The definitive, one-stop reference to the history of landscape architecture-now expanded and revised

This revised edition of Landscapes in History features for the first time new information-rarely available elsewhere in the literature-on landscape architecture in India, China, Southeast Asia, and Japan. It also expands the discussion of the modern period, including current North American planning and design practices.

This unique, highly regarded book traces the development of landscape architecture and environmental design from prehistory to modern times-in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and North America. It covers the many cultural, political, technological, and philosophical issues influencing land use throughout history, focusing not only on design topics but also on the environmental impact of human activity. Landscape architects, urban planners, and students of these disciplines will find here:
* The most comprehensive, in-depth, and up-to-date overview of the subject
* Hundreds of stunning photographs and design illustrations
* A scholarly yet accessible treatment, drawing on the latest research in archaeology, geography, and other disciplines
* The authors' own firsthand observations and travel experiences
* Insight into the evolution of landscape architecture as a discipline
* Useful chapter summaries and bibliographies

The Dream Weaver: One Boy's Journey Through the Landscape of Reality (Anniversary Edition) (2nd Edition)

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The Dream Weaver: One Boy's Journey Through the Landscape of Reality (Anniversary Edition) (2nd Edition)
Jack R Bowen
Manufacturer: Longman
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ASIN: 0205528864

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A Great Guidebook.......2007-02-16

This is a terrific introduction to philosophy. Plato found the origins of philosophy in the experience of wonder. Bowen does a great job conveying all that is wonderful about philosophy in a way that is welcoming rather than elitist. The strength of the book lies in the thoughtfully crafted storyline and characters. The narrative structure allows the reader to explore a number of ideas which if presented on their own, without any guidance, would be too challenging for new philosophers. While the content of the book is sophisticated enough for anyone with an appreciation for ideas, the artful presentation of The Dream Weaver makes it an especially good choice for a bright young adult. This is what they'll want to read when they realize that Harry Potter's magic doesn't really work. A good follow up is Lavine's book From Socrates to Sartre or Spiro's The Creed Room.

A mindblower!.......2006-06-15

What an amazing introduction to philosophy! Read a single page, and you'll experience the rest of your day with whole new eyes. This is a book to be read over and over. Though the basic plot is not hard to follow, the ideas presented need to be savored and toyed with, discussed for a long time and again and again. I remain a bit in awe of the author's breadth of background. his citing from Zeno of Elea (490 BC) and Plato to the WIZARD OF OZ and the musical group "Tool." A treasure to be recommended to one's most inquisitive friends!

Digestible Philosophy.......2006-05-31

The Dream Weaver is a panacea for anyone who has ever been curious about philosophy but hasn't know where to start, or has been too intimidated by the fancy language to go anywhere near it. Likewise, it is an ideal launching point for personal inquiry or group discussion relating to the Big Questions: How did we get here? What is the meaning of life? What is my purpose? Why do I see things the way that I do? Why do I believe what I believe?
The author, Jack Bowen, explains that he wrote the book to help others see the personal relevance and applicability of philosophy, which has been branded esoteric and obsolete. Bowen's chosen form--narrative fiction--and protagonist--a fourteen-year-old boy named Ian--make philosophy both personal and accessible Through Ian's journey and discoveries, supported by theories from Plato to pop culture (which are sourced in the margins), the novel presents philosophy, not by condescension but by appealing to the naiveté in those of us who have yet to broach these compelling but infinitely complex issues. The book can be read voraciously all at once and then digested, or enjoyed at a slower place, allowing the reader to process the personal and public implications of each chapter's theme, one at a time.
As befits such a book, Bowen's narrative framework skillfully posits opposing arguments and theories behind matters such as free will, evolution vs. intelligent design, and reason vs. belief, in an effort to remain as objective as possible and allow to reader to develop her own conclusions (as we come to learn in the book, there is no such thing as absolute objectivity so any perceived bias is a combined result of the reader and author's own perceptions).
The Dream Weaver should be required reading for high school students, athletes, politicians, corporate executives and religious scholars alike. Instead of blindly accepting the doctrines and dogma of our parents, teachers, bosses and/or leaders, it encourages readers to ask perhaps the most important question of all: Why do I think what I think? Only when we begin to explore the fundamental questions posed by philosophy, can we begin to deconstruct our personal belief system and approach the world with authentic thinking.

Thoughtful and all-inclusive .......2006-05-27

I highly recommend this introduction to philosophy for anyone with an interest in learning (or learning more) about the subject. The author opened a few windows for this linear thinker!

Fun and Easy Philosophy.......2006-05-11

I purchased this book because it was recommended to me by a friend. i hate reading!! But i found this book to be intriguing and exciting. I couldn't put it down. You follow Ian, the main character, through all these exciting adventures in which you learn many new philosophical ideas.

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Essential reading for landscape architects and designers

Trees in Urban Design, 2nd Edition
Henry F. Arnold
Manufacturer: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company
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ASIN: 0471284440

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Essential reading for landscape architects and designers.......2005-04-02

As a practicing urban designer, I reference this book on a weekly basis. It provides a clear and concise understanding of how trees perform in urban conditions, from conceptual use in spatial definition to planting details. Many of Arnold's ideas were revelations to me, even after five years of training in landscape architecture. Unfortunately, the volume is somewhat dated, especially in its notes on current cultivar disease resistance. Still, highly recommended.

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Collector's Guide to Wallace Nutting Pictures contains the most complete and current Wallace Nutting price guide, featuring not only the rare, expensive prints, but also the many common popular images. Hundreds of photos aid in identification and special chapters are devoted to grading and rating prints, recognizing authentic Nutting signatures, collecting other memorabilia, as well as identifying fakes.2001 values. AUTHORBIO: Michael Ivankovich has been collecting hand-colored photography for over 25 years, especially David Davidson, Fred Thompson, and Sawyer. He is generally considered to be the country's leading authority on Wallace Nutting and Wallace Nutting-like pictures, as well as WallaceNutting books, furniture, and memorabilia. He is the author of Collector's Guide to Wallace Nutting Pictures, Early 20th Century American Prints, and Wallace Nutting Furniture. REVIEW: This book is devoted to Wallace Nutting, America's foremost photographer. Between 1900 and his death in 1941, he sold literally millions of hand-colored pictures. His work achieved such enormous popularity that hardly an American middle-class household was without one during the first quarter of the twentieth century. This book shows collectors what key characteristics to look for, what is common and what is rare, and what the difference is between a good, better, and best picture.

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Can pay for itself in your first online auction!.......2000-01-21

Wallace Nutting pictures are still (and temporarily) plentiful at all the online auction houses. This book will definitely protect you in the forest of sellers and allow you to wend you way through acquisitions without bumping your head or losing your wallet. Gives a good grounding in the world of buying and selling Wallace Nutting Photos. What sizes, what titles, what's there, how rare, how much, etc. Don't go to the auction without it! Very well done and very complete.

The Price Guide to Wallace Nutting Pictures

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The Price Guide to Wallace Nutting Pictures
Michael Ivankovich
Manufacturer: Messer Pub
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A PRICE GUIDE TO WALLACE NUTTING PICTURES

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A PRICE GUIDE TO WALLACE NUTTING PICTURES
Michael Ivankovich
Manufacturer: Cheetah Prints
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THE PRICE GUIDE TO WALLACE NUTTING PICTURES, 3RD ED.

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THE PRICE GUIDE TO WALLACE NUTTING PICTURES, 3RD ED.
MICHAEL IVANKOVICH
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THESE PICTURES WHICH ONCE SOLD FOR PENNIES, HAVE INCREASED TREMENDOUSLU OM VALUE, ESPECIALLY OVER THE LAST YEAR. EARLY 1998, THE RECORD PRICE FOR A WALLACE NUTTING PICTURE WAS $450... IN MARCH $594... IN SEPTEMBER, $1182... AND THEN IN OCTOBER, $1250... NO WALLACE NUTTING COLLECTOR, ANTIQUE DEALER, AUCTIONEER, OR APPRAISER CAN AFFORD TO BE WITHOUT THIS LATEST 3RD EDITION.

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Political, intellectual, and academic discourse in the United States has been awash in political correctness, which has itself been berated and defended -- yet little understood. As a corrective, Nelson and Greene look at a more general process: adopting political positions to enhance one's reputation for trustworthiness both to others and to oneself.

Phillip Nelson and Kenneth Greene are Professors of Economics in the Department of Economics at the State University of New York, Binghamton.

Phillip J. Nelson and Kenneth V. Greene, Signaling goodness: social rules and public choice, the University of Michigan Press, ann arbor, 2003, 261 pp., ... of Economic Behavior and Organization]

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Phillip J. Nelson and Kenneth V. Greene, Signaling goodness: social rules and public choice, the University of Michigan Press, ann arbor, 2003, 261 pp., ... of Economic Behavior and Organization]
E. Gick , and W. Gick
Manufacturer: Elsevier
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Binding: Digital
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This digital document is a journal article from Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, published by Elsevier in . The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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A Good Read!.......2001-04-07

International Business Etiquette is an informative mix of fact and opinion about doing business in Europe. With each chapter devoted to one country, the factual sections provide data on airports, currency, weather and other general travel topics. The far more entertaining opinion sections provide a subjective overview of local customs and manners relevant to conducting business within each country's borders. Taken as a whole, the chapters provide a good preview of what business travelers can expect once they set down across the pond. While we [...] recommend this book to any professional with a European trip on the calendar, International Business Etiquette also will provide an enjoyable diversion for any curious readers, who are bound to pick up some useful tips and interesting cocktail conversation.

Success at the Executive Level.......2000-04-11

A quick read of the section on Belgium provided valuable insight and helped with preparation for an executive level meeting. I adjusted my attire for the more formal environment and prepared handouts to address all issues planned for discussion as suggested. The meeting went extremely well, we solidified our relationship with this global account and secured a $1.5 million order.

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This book provides a general overview of barriers to women's advancement in organizations, especially those subtle barriers created by unconscious bias in evaluating women's work and misunderstanding differences in the communication and managerial styles of men and women. The book is based on the fact that women and men face two different work worlds- even if their organizational positions are identical- because the basis for evaluating and understanding women's and men's work is different. Separate sections deal with gender expectations and sex-role differences, fostering an understanding of how and why these different expectations occur and their organizational implications; communication and how differences are carried out and reinforced in organizations; and common organizational problems faced by women. Based on social science research, this book provides a better understanding of how gender influences organizational behavior.

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The traditional way of evaluating families in order to plan preventive or therapeutic treatment has been to rely solely on interviews. This book demonstrates, however, there are other methods that can help therapists better understand the family to provide effective treatment. The author leads the reader through the process of interviewing, giving test and written exercises, and developing interpretations to produce a report on the family. An extended case study helps to illustrate the methods described.

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A.H. Atteridge's biography of Michel Ney, Napoleon's most famous marshal, is a classic work of its kind.

He describes Ney's meteoric career in vivid detail, from his enlistment as a hussar in the army of Louis XVI, his rapid promotion through the ranks of the revolutionary armies and his long service under Napoleon. Ney's pugnacious character and his capacity for inspiring leadership come across strongly in innumerable actions across 25 years of almost constant warfare.

Particularly striking are the author's accounts of Ney's contribution to Napoleon's most famous campaigns - Ulm and Austerlitz, Jena, Eylau and Friedland and the catastrophic march on Moscow. Ney's last battle, Waterloo, and his subsequent execution by the returning Bourbons form the last chapter of this fascinating story.

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The Whole Story?.......2006-04-07

Just curious for those who have read this book...Does it go into the possibility that his execution was faked and he escaped to America. In the small town of Cleveland, NC at Third Creek Presbyterian Church there is a tomb that many claim to be the burial site of Marshal Michel Ney...The Bravest of the Brave.

Excellent.......2005-11-03

I thoroughly enjoyed reading this well written and historically accurate book. Michel Ney is a much maligned and often misunderstood historical figure. This book does much to clarify both his personal as well as his military life in verbage all can understand. He was trully the soldier's soldier and the "Bravest of the Brave".

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The Cold War between the former Soviet Union and the United States indelibly shaped the world we live in today--especially international politics, economics, and military affairs. This volume shows how the globalization of the Cold War during the 20th century created the foundations for most of today's key international conflicts, including the "war on terror." Odd Arne Westad examines the origins and course of Third World revolutions and the ideologies that drove the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. towards interventionism. He focuses on how these interventions gave rise to resentments and resistance that, in the end, helped to topple one and to seriously challenge the other superpower. In addition, he demonstrates how these worldwide interventions determined the international and domestic framework within which political, social and cultural changes took place in such countries as China, Indonesia, Iran, Ethiopia, Angola, Cuba, and Nicaragua. According to Westad, these changes, plus the ideologies, movements and states that interventionism stirred up, constitute the real legacy of the Cold War. Odd Arne Westad is Professor of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science. In 2004 he was named head of department and co-director of the new LSE Cold War Studies Centre. Professor Westad is the author, or editor, of ten books on contemporary international history including Decisive Encounters: The Chinese Civil War, 1946-1950 (2003) and, with Jussi Hanhimaki, The Cold War: A History in Documents and Eyewitness Accounts (2003). In addition, he is a founding editor of the journal Cold War History.

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Outstanding Overview of a Neglected Topic.......2007-10-06

This fine book is devoted to a hugely important topic typically neglected in most discussions of the Cold War; the course and impact of the Cold War in the Third World. Most overview monographs on the Cold War concentrate on US-Soviet relations and/or the impact of the Cold War in Europe and Japan. Westad successfully attempts an overview and structural analysis of the Cold War in the Third World. Westad opens with a pair of summary chapters on the USA and Soviet Union leading up to the beginning of the Cold War. He then covers the early decades of the Cold War in the Third World concisely, and devotes much of the book to the last 2 decades of the Cold War, including detailed analyses of the events in Afghanistan, Africa, and Central America. Based on a wealth of secondary sources and analysis of primary literature from both US and Soviet archives, the narrative is comprehensive, clear, and punctuated with thoughtful analysis.

There is a lot of surprising information. While many readers will be aware of US interventions in places like Guatemala and Iran, Westad's descriptions of the depth of US interventions in places like Indonesia and Brazil will come as a surprise. Similarly, his description of how the Soviet involvement in the Third World came to be seen as a crucial element of the legitimacy of the Soviet state goes a long way towards explaining why the events in Afghanistan had such importance. With respect to the battleground states of the various Third World countries where US and Soviet interventions took place, this is generally a series of tragic stories, usually involving considerable bloodshed and impoverishment.

Westad goes considerably beyond good narrative. Several well articulated themes run through the narrative. A basic concept is that the Cold War was driven by two competing ideologies about what should be the basis of modern society - American liberal capitalism and Soviet communism. Westad is very good on how ideological considerations consistently drove US and Soviet policy decisions, including the many cases where ideology led to gross misunderstandings of reality. Another important theme is the independent role of local elites in Third World countries. Over and over again, these elites or portions of them sought superpower support to pursue their own ends, often quite different from those of the superpowers. This led, for example, to the depressingly frequent US support of brutal dictatorships and the Soviet support of regimes who suppressed local communist parties. Westad is very good as well at showing how the Cold War involvement of the superpowers was entangled with decolonialization, another important theme. Both the US and Soviet Union presented themselves as, and made serious efforts to act as, modernizers. In a series of particularly ironic developments, both US and Soviet policies often mimicked the development policies of the imperial states they displaced.

My only substantial criticisms of Westad are his treatment of the origins of the Cold War. Westad presents US policies as rooted in a long history of US expansionism and capitalist ideology. There is considerable truth in this position but it ignores some of the specific circumstances of the 1940s. The failure of the post-WWI settlement seemed to demand a dominant international US role after WWII. Similarly, as Westad's own narrative shows, US fears of the Soviet Union were driven in good part by Stalin's aggressive and paranoid behavior.

Westad concludes by highlighting the frequently tragic consequences of US and Soviet intervention in Third World states, often transforming local conflicts into major disasters. The results of US and Soviet interventions in the Third World are among the most important results of the Cold War, and these results have been largely negative.

A good introduction.......2007-06-23

This is an important introduction to the topic of the Third World and the Cold War which has been gaining more study recently and deservedly so. For too long the history of the Cold War focused on foreign policy and Europe, but this book examines the doctrine of intervention, beggining mostly with Eisenhower in the U.S and increasing greatly with Khruschev and Brezhnev in the U.S.S.R. The book examines unique examples such as Cuba, Vietnam, Southern Africa, and Afghanistan. But it is also a sweeping account of this phenomenon, whereby many countries went from being colonized to being politiszed between the West and the Soviet Union. A very interesting study that seeks to show how the modern state of affairs in the world is tied up with the affects of the Cold War.

Seth J. Frantzman

The Third World and the Cold War.......2007-05-15

Westad presents a disturbing but comprehensive and balanced evaluation of U.S. and Soviet policies towards Latin America, Africa, and Southeast Asia in the 1946-1991. His research is exhaustive, and his conclusions are cautionary for American interventionists in the post-Cold War era.

Important and surprisingly readable new account of our times.......2007-04-01

Westad's book offers a new interpretation of the second half of the twentieth century, one that focuses on how the conflict between the US and the USSR-- and the division of the world into two halves-- played out in the Third World, and shaped and was shaped by the politics of those regions. The first two chapters are fairly heavy going, as Westad lays out sweeping statements about first the US, then the USSR, arguing that both countries developed around ideas that committed them to an almost evangelical form of statehood, of exporting their way of life. As he moves into the middle of the book, however, the story really takes off; he offers well-informed, fascinating case studies ranging from Angola and Ethiopia to Iran and Afghanistan. In every case, he illuminates the way in which the US and USSR offered only two sides on the playing field, and how people in these Third World countries responded by playing the superpowers off one another. One of the central processes that he brings to light is the way in which this situation eventually encouraged the rise of sectarian movements in many of those countries, including fundamentalist Islam, which appears here as a natural development from a generation who had watched their predecessors cast in with one of the two superpowers, and end up pawns in a global chess game. After finishing this book, I felt that I had an entirely new perspective on American history in the 20th century and better understood current-day issues from the rise of Islam to American support for Israel to the politics of central Africa. Certainly NOT a light read, but an invaluable one.

An interesting thesis.......2006-06-02

From reading Westad's book it appears that the American loss in Vietnam actually led to the Soviets losing the Cold War. After the American defeat in Vietnam, the Soviets believed that they could ignore the popular front strategy that they used in Spain during the thirties and continued in Egypt and Indonesia, and replace it with a more revolutionary strategy that would abandon the popular front phase. This was the main reason they supported the revolutionary governments in Angola and Ethiopia. However wars in these African countries and Central America drained the Soviet economy. Finally the Soviets believed that they could prevent Afghanastan from falling to the competing revolutionary ideology of Islamic fundamentalism. Ths further led to financial and human losses for the Soviet Union and finally its collaspse. It is ironic after the Soviet loss in the Cold War the Americans find themselves blinded by triumphalism and committing serious mistakes in the Middle East and Latin America.

The Cold War: An International History (The Making of the Contemporary World)

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The Cold War: An International History (The Making of the Contemporary World)
David Painter
Manufacturer: Routledge
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ASIN: 0415153166

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Most scholarly studies devoted to examining the entire Cold War period focus almost exclusively on Soviet-American relations, thus neglecting other important aspects of the war. In addition to the global contest between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, the history of the Cold War involves a wide range of issues relating to geopolitics, political economy (both international and domestic), and political development in all parts of the world. This international study provides a fresh perspective on the Cold War through an exploration of many of these issues, including: changes in the global distribution of power; advances in warfare technology; shifts in the balance of social and political forces within and among nations; the evolution of the world economy; and the transformation of the Third World. David Painter offers a compact, sophisticated analysis of how all of these factors intersected to produce, prolong and eventually end the Cold War.

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The Cold War dominated international relations for forty-five years and hardly any part of the world escaped its influence. David Painter provides a compact and analytical study that examines its origins, course and end.

Southern Modernist: Arthur Raper from the New Deal to the Cold War (Making the Modern South)

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Southern Modernist: Arthur Raper from the New Deal to the Cold War (Making the Modern South)
Louis Mazzari
Manufacturer: Louisiana State University Press
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Louis Mazzari brings to the fore one of the most important figures of the southern regionalist movement in the New Deal era. His is the first, much-needed biography of Arthur Raper, a progressive sociologist, writer, and public intellectual who advocated racial and social justice in the South when such views were not only unpopular but dangerous, effectively laying a foundation for the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. Raper was one of the first white southern scholars to speak out against lynching, sharecropping, and tenant farming in his pioneering and highly influential books The Tragedy of Lynching (1933), Preface to Peasantry (1936), Sharecroppers All (1941), and Tenants of the Almighty (1943). He also contributed significantly to Gunnar Myrdal's important study of U.S. race relations, An American Dilemma (1944). Mazzari carefully dissects Raper's works, casting them in a larger historical context and examining both the acclaim and anger they elicited in the South. He portrays Raper as a political and social radical fighting against southern racial and economic problems during the country's transition from an agrarian culture to a modern one, in an effort to keep the region from falling even further behind in an increasingly sophisticated world. Hostility toward his beliefs eventually led Raper to leave the South. He worked on the reconstruction of Japan after World War II and in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East at the height of the Cold War, promoting the same mix of federal planning and local control he had practiced in the New Deal South. In the life of Arthur Raper, Mazzari locates a larger story of liberalism in the white South. Raised on a North Carolina tobacco farm and educated at Chapel Hill under Howard Odum, Raper was remarkable for taking up issues of race and class to advocate for modernity in a part of the world where adherence to the past was almost pathological—and then going on to advance a liberal modern version of Jeffersonian democracy throughout the Third World. He looked critically at the causes of racial violence and successfully conveyed scientific sociology into broad circulation through mass culture. AUTHOR BIO: Louis Mazzari is an assistant professor of American culture and literature at Fatih University, Istanbul.

The American Civil Liberties Union and the Making of Modern Liberalism, 1930-1960

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The American Civil Liberties Union and the Making of Modern Liberalism, 1930-1960
Judy Kutulas
Manufacturer: The University of North Carolina Press
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Release Date: 2006-09-06

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Founded by radicals in 1920, the American Civil Liberties Union experienced several key changes in its formative years. Judy Kutulas traces the history of the ACLU between 1930 and 1960, as the organization shifted from the fringe to the liberal mainstream of American society.

In alternating chapters, Kutulas explores operations at the national level and among the group's local branches. To gain mainstream credibility, the radicals at ACLU headquarters became more professional, began using court challenges rather than direct action, and carefully chose their battles to focus on national security as much as on the protection of dissent. Meanwhile, the group's affiliates, separated from the institutionalization of the national office, maintained the idealism of defending the rights of all individuals, no matter how unpalatable their beliefs and activities.

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The Soviet Union in World Politics provides an introductory history of Soviet foreign policy and international relations from 1945 to the end of the Cold War and the break up of the USSR. Geoffrey Roberts summarizes historical and political controversies about Soviet foreign policy and brings the most recent research to bear on these debates. The book examines the role of ideology in the Cold War and discusses Stalin's role in the formulation of policy. Using the latest evidence available from the Soviet archives, it offers an excellent framework for the exploration of relevant issues and a guide to further reading and research.

Cold War and the Making of the Modern World

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Cold War and the Making of the Modern World
Martin Walker
Manufacturer: Vintage
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OGV6DA

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Birdwatching.......2000-08-27

An outstanding introduction to the joys and foibles of birders and birdwatching. It contains a wealth of information for the novice and occasional nuggets of wisdom even for the experienced birder. The subject is covered thoroughly with the sense of humor found in all the "Complete Idiot" guides.

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Birdwatching
Sheila Buff
Manufacturer: Alpha
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ASIN: B000O8YDCO

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