Business & Money
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2005-01-02 | Author:John Lewis Gaddis

III. IT MIGHT become necessary, the Doolittle Report suggested, for the American people to “be made acquainted with, understand and support this fundamentally repugnant philosophy.”26 But no administration from Eisenhower’s ...
( Category: Russian & Former Soviet Union March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1998-01-01 | Author:Tom Brokaw

Martha Settle Putney Her all-black unit of medical technicians was to be housed near Gardner General Hospital, not too far from Chicago’s tony Lake Shore Drive. The Army had built ...
( Category: World War II March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1998-01-01 | Author:Tony Horwitz

FROM HIS OLIVE SKIN and unusual surname, I’d guessed that the pharmacist Joe Gerache was of southern European extraction. But when I arrived at his home in suburban Vicksburg, I ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-10-15 | Author:Peter Nichols

Eleven The Ships and the Men William Fish Williams’s childhood homes, the ships Florida, Hibernia, and Monticello, were more alike than any three houses in a small suburban neighborhood. The ...
( Category: Engineering March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1961-01-02 | Author:Bruce Catton

Then a new obstacle developed. Porter found himself leading his boats into a narrow channel which was all overgrown with young willows. Helpful Negroes explained that in seasons of low ...
( Category: Military March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2003-11-10 | Author:Clyde Prestowitz

THE ARMED ECONOMY The third important aspect of American militarism is economic. Just as it has sought to keep key countries as quasi-client states, so the United States has sought ...
( Category: Ideologies & Doctrines March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2011-03-01 | Author:Alexis Madrigal

The solar transcendentalists drew from a wide range of sources for their philosophies. There were the deep American antitechnological roots of Thoreau and there were the popular philosophers of the ...
( Category: Environmental March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-07-01 | Author:Zinn, Howard [Zinn, Howard]

Ten military advisers are attached to the Sonsonate armed forces... The episode contains all the unchanging elements of the Salvadoran tragedy— uncontrolled military violence against civilians, the apparent ability of ...
( Category: History & Theory March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-01-02 | Author:Noam Chomsky

Turning Point? The Obama-Netanyahu-Abbas meetings in May 2009, followed by Obama’s speech in Cairo, have been widely interpreted as a turning point in U.S. Middle East policy, leading to consternation ...
( Category: Comparative Politics March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-01-10 | Author:Paul M. Barrett

Some civilian shooting experts dissented, at least to an extent, from the majority’s unmitigated admiration for the Glock. “The gun factory ads cry, ‘Glock Perfection,’ ” Massad Ayoob wrote in ...
( Category: Shooting March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub | | 2009-12-21 | Author:Steve Coll

BY THE AUTUMN OF 1997 persistent lobbying against the Taliban by the Feminist Majority had influenced the two most important women in the Clinton administration, Madeleine Albright and Hillary Clinton. ...
( Category: Asian March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2009-01-12 | Author:Paul Krugman

What those who watch the movie today may not realize is that the words Oliver Stone put in Gordon Gekko’s mouth were strikingly similar to what the leading theorists on ...
( Category: Economic Policy March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub | | 2002-01-03 | Author:Mark Bowden

THE MEN IN THE LOST convoy had braced themselves for another vicious fight at K-4. But as they limped through the flaming barricades on Via Lenin, they saw instead, to ...
( Category: Military March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 1999-01-28 | Author:Steven Pinker

Most people choose either the D card or the D card and the 3 card. The correct answer is D and 7. “P implies Q” is false only if P ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2008-01-29 | Author:Robert Greene; Don Leslie

Authority: It is by turning the enemy, by attacking his flank, that battles are won. —Napoleon Bonaparte (1769–1821) REVERSAL In politics, occupying the flank by taking a similar position to ...
( Category: Social Psychology & Interactions March 25,2014 )