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Focuses on foreign policy. Table of Contents: Preface, Kenneth W. Thompson, Director, White Burkett Miller Center; ^IIntroduction, Kenneth W. Thompson; The President and the National Security Process, Robert J. Pranger, the American Enterprise Institute; The President and the National Security Council Advisor, McGeorge Bundy, former President of the Ford Foundation and NSC advisor under JFK; Foreign Policy in the Eighties: The President and the International...
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Minnie and Daisy's class is going on a field trip to the Moushattan Museum of History. Minnie is really excited because she loves art and history; Daisy thinks it's going to be a snoozefest. When they get to the museum, their history teacher announces that the students will be doing a scavenger hunt. They have a list of questions to solve, and the answers can be found in the museum's exhibits. The first team to finish with correct answers will get...
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Treating such issues as animal sex, species politics, environmental justice, lesbian space and "gay" ghettos, AIDS literatures, and queer nationalities, this lively collection asks important questions at the intersections of sexuality and environmental studies. Contributors from a wide range of disciplines present a focused engagement with the critical, philosophical, and political dimensions of sex and nature. These discussions are particularly relevant...
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What is the future of Continental philosophy of religion? These forward-looking essays address the new thinkers and movements that have gained prominence since the generation of Derrida, Deleuze, Foucault, and Levinas and how they will reshape Continental philosophy of religion in the years to come. They look at the ways concepts such as liberation, sovereignty, and post-colonialism have engaged this new generation with political theology and the...
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Der Füllfederhalter eines Toten übermittelt eine unheilvolle Botschaft, für perfide Außerirdische erweist sich gewöhnliche Tinte als pures Gift, der Tod persönlich tauscht seine Sense gegen einen Füller, ein Weltkriegsveteran irgendwo in Russland hat schreckliche Schreibwerkzeuge zu verschenken.
Spannende Unterhaltung und subtiler Horror mit Gänsehautgarantie.
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Distant planets, galaxies, alien races--the universe is vast and filled with an almost unimaginable range of possibilities. But imagine it we can. Here are more than twenty stories from the most inventive writers in the field, including:
Poul Anderson * Stephen Baxter * Greg Bear * Gregory Benford * Arthur C. Clarke * Hal Clement * Greg Egan * H. B. Fyfe * R. A. Lafferty * Geoffrey A. Landis * Ursula K. Le Guin * Jack McDevitt * Larry Niven * G....
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In the 1920s, Los Angeles enjoyed a buoyant homegrown Spanish-language culture comprised of local and itinerant stock companies that produced zarzuelas, stage plays, and variety acts. After the introduction of sound films, Spanish-language cinema thrived in the city's downtown theatres, screening throughout the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s in venues such as the Teatro Eléctrico, the California, the Roosevelt, the Mason, the Azteca, the Million Dollar,...
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Do you know why the DASH diet is voted the Best Diet year after year? It's simple: The DASH diet is an easy and sustainable tool for creating a healthful lifestyle. Based on research by the National Institutes of Health, and chosen by U.S. News & World Report as its #1 choice in Best Diets Overall, Best Diets for Healthy Eating, and Best Diabetes Diets, the DASH diet rises above the noise of other gimmicky weight-loss plans. The DASH diet was created...
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Read along with Disney! Ready, set, GO! Lightning McQueen, the rookie hot-shot race car, is screaming his way down the track on his way to winning the Piston Cup. But when he gets stuck in a slow little town called Radiator Springs, McQueen must learn a valuable lesson about friendship-fast.
10) Essential Sufism
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The definitive compendium of Sufi wisdom, 'Essential Sufism' draws together more than three hundred fables, poems and prayers that reveal the luminous spirit of Islamic mysticism. Embracing all eras and highlighting the many faces of Sufism, this colle
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Assembled here for the first time in one volume are forty classic papers that have laid the foundations of modern ecology. Whether by posing new problems, demonstrating important effects, or stimulating new research, these papers have made substantial contributions to an understanding of ecological processes, and they continue to influence the field today.
The papers span nearly nine decades of ecological research, from 1887 on, and are organized...
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Written and directed by two white men and performed by an all-black cast, Nothing But a Man (Michael Roemer, 1964) tells the story of a drifter turned family man who struggles with the pressures of small-town life and the limitations placed on him and his community in the Deep South, an area long fraught with racism. Though unmistakably about race and civil rights, the film makes no direct reference to the civil rights movement. Despite this intentional...
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This anthology introduces some of the most influential literature shaping our understanding of the social and cultural foundations of education today. Together the selections provide students a range of approaches for interpreting and designing educational experiences worthy of the multicultural societies of our present and future. The reprinted selections are contextualized in new interpretive essays written specifically for this volume.
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It is important that children be properly guided so that they will grow with a strong set of values. This book for kids focuses on the most important values required for societal interactions and academic achievements. Encourage your child to read this book, or read it to him/her for bedtime. Go ahead and grab a copy today!
15) The Golden Goose
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Young children will enjoy this Disney twist on the classic story of the Golden Goose.
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Most knitters know: Getting through a difficult time often means knitting through it. Its this home truth -- and all the homespun wisdom behind it--that comes through clearly in the writings gathered in this book. These pieces -- some by contemporary writers like Donna Druchunas and Sherri Wood, others excerpted from the WPAs Federal Writers Project -- tell stories of knitting through adversity as widespread as war or the Great Depression, as personal...
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DAS Handbuch für einen nachhaltigen Haushalt – Dritte aktualisierte, erweiterte Ausgabe
Zwischen 40 und 60 verschiedene Wasch- und Putzmittel, Tabs, Lotionen, Seifen und Shampoos haben die meisten zu Hause. Aber warum eigentlich? Auch wenn die Werbung es anders suggeriert, sind die meisten herkömmlichen Drogerieprodukte überflüssig.
Denn mit Natron, Soda, Essig, Zitronensäure und Kernseife lassen sich fast alle Drogerieprodukte ersetzen...
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Join Mickey and Minnie in this treasury of classic fairy tales! Stories of Mickey and a magical beanstalk, Red Riding Minnie and a big bad wolf, and more! With beautiful full-page illustrations, these four popular fairy tales can each be read aloud in about five minutes-the perfect choice before bedtime, on the go, or anytime!
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Expressionism and Film, originally published in German in 1926, is not only a classic of film history, but also an important work from the early phase of modern media history. Written with analytical brilliance and historical vision by a well-known contemporary of the expressionist movement, it captures Expressionism at the time of its impending conclusion-as an intersection of world view, resoluteness of form, and medial transition. Though one of...
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Your health is very important. If you are unhealthy, you will be unable to do the things you want to do. The first step to becoming healthy is to know what health means and what can be done to achieve it. Equip yourself with the knowledge to be and to stay healthy. Grab a copy of this book today.