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Book The Decency Wars

    Book Details:
  • Author : Frederick S. Lane
  • Publisher : Prometheus Books
  • Release : 2010-09-09
  • ISBN : 1615923179
  • Pages : 367 pages

Download or read book The Decency Wars written by Frederick S. Lane and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2010-09-09 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lane examines America's changing attitudes toward the politics of decency and spells out strategies for combating the rising influence of the puritanical Religious Right.

Book Stark Decency

    Book Details:
  • Author : Allen V. Koop
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1988
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 160 pages

Download or read book Stark Decency written by Allen V. Koop and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An evocative history of a World War II German POW camp in New Hampshire, where friendships among prisoners, guards, and villagers overcame the bitter divisions of war.

Book Imposing Decency

    Book Details:
  • Author : Eileen Findlay
  • Publisher : Duke University Press
  • Release : 1999
  • ISBN : 9780822323969
  • Pages : 332 pages

Download or read book Imposing Decency written by Eileen Findlay and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The interrelationship between sexuality and national identity during Puerto Rico's transition from Spanish to U.S. colonialism.

Book Democracy Without Decency

Download or read book Democracy Without Decency written by William M. Epstein and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An analysis of social and economic policies in the United States, with emphasis on the 1960s War on Poverty"--Provided by publisher.

Book Net wars

    Book Details:
  • Author : Wendy Grossman
  • Publisher : NYU Press
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN : 9780814731031
  • Pages : 260 pages

Download or read book Net wars written by Wendy Grossman and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: London-based American journalist Grossman continues her coverage of the Internet by assessing the battles she believes will define its future. Among them are scams, class divisions, privacy, the Communications Decency Act, women online, pornography, hackers and the computer underground, criminals, and sociopaths. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Book The Art of Fairness

Download or read book The Art of Fairness written by David Bodanis and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a New York Times bestselling author, a fresh and detail-rich argument that the best way to lead is to be fair Can you succeed without being a terrible person? We often think not: recognizing that, as the old saying has it, “nice guys finish last.” But does that mean you have to go to the other extreme and be a bully or Machiavellian to get anything done? In The Art of Fairness, bestselling author David Bodanis uses thrilling case studies to show there's a better path, leading neatly in between. He reveals how it was fairness, applied with skill, that led the Empire State Building to be constructed in barely a year––and how the same techniques brought a quiet English debutante to become an acclaimed jungle guerrilla fighter. In ten vivid profiles featuring pilots, presidents, and even the producer of Game of Thrones, we see that the path to greatness doesn't require crushing displays of power or tyrannical ego. Simple fair decency can prevail. With surprising insights from across history––including the downfall of the very man who popularized the phrase “nice guys finish last”––The Art of Fairness charts a refreshing and sustainable new approach to cultivating integrity and influence.

Book A National Party No More

Download or read book A National Party No More written by Zell Miller and published by Stroud & Hall Pub. This book was released on 2003 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Democratic senator discusses issues and values he recommends the Democratic Party must embrace to make the party relevant for the American people.

Book A Conspiracy of Decency

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  • Author : Emmy E. Werner
  • Publisher : Westview Press
  • Release : 2002-11-06
  • ISBN : 9780813339061
  • Pages : 232 pages

Download or read book A Conspiracy of Decency written by Emmy E. Werner and published by Westview Press. This book was released on 2002-11-06 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dramatic and compelling rescue of the Danish Jews from the hands of the Nazis, told through firsthand accounts and personal stories

Book To End All Wars

Download or read book To End All Wars written by Ernest Gordon and published by HarperChristian + ORM. This book was released on 2013-11-25 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now a major motion picture starring Robert Carlyle and Kiefer Sutherland "Waking from a dream, I suddenly realized where I was: in the Death House--in a prison camp by the River Kwai. I was a prisoner of war, lying among the dead, waiting for the bodies to be carried away so that I might have more room." When Ernest Gordon was twenty-four he was captured by the Japanese and forced, with other British prisoners, to build the notorious "Railroad of Death," where nearly 16,000 prisoners of war gave their life. Faced with the appalling conditions of the prisoners' camp and the brutality of the captors, he survived to become an inspiring example of the triumph of the human spirit against all odds. To End All Wars is Ernest Gordon's gripping true story behind both the Academy Award-winning film The Bridge on the River Kwai, starring Alec Guinness, and the new film To End All Wars, directed by David Cunningham.

Book Crimes of the Civil War  and Curse of the Funding System

Download or read book Crimes of the Civil War and Curse of the Funding System written by Henry Clay Dean and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hitler s Savage Canary

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  • Author : David Lampe
  • Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
  • Release : 2011-04
  • ISBN : 1611450632
  • Pages : 255 pages

Download or read book Hitler s Savage Canary written by David Lampe and published by Skyhorse Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2011-04 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the story of Denmark's ordinary citizens who created an extraordinary resistance movement to Nazi occupation.

Book War in a Time of Peace

    Book Details:
  • Author : David Halberstam
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2015-11-17
  • ISBN : 1501141503
  • Pages : 872 pages

Download or read book War in a Time of Peace written by David Halberstam and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-11-17 with total page 872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pulitzer Prize­-winning journalist David Halberstam chronicles Washington politics and foreign policy in post­ Cold War America. Evoking the internal conflicts, unchecked egos, and power struggles within the White House, the State Department, and the military, Halberstam shows how the decisions of men who served in the Vietnam War, and those who did not, have shaped America's role in global events. He provides fascinating portraits of those in power—Clinton, Bush, Reagan, Kissinger, James Baker, Dick Cheney, Madeleine Albright, and others—to reveal a stunning view of modern political America.

Book No Sense of Decency

Download or read book No Sense of Decency written by Robert Shogan and published by Ivan R. Dee Publisher. This book was released on 2009 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: of McCarthyism, the strategy based on fear, smear, and guilt by association that McCarthy had ridden to prominence, as opposed to his ill-mannered personality. But television overlooked this omission, and as it went on to transform American political debate it exhibited the same shortcomings exposed by the hearings: an emphasis on razzle-dazzle and a reluctance to challenge power and authority. Still today, while television journalists often ask the hard questions of political leaders and experts, Mr. Shogan contends, too often they allow guests to dodge important issues and answer from prepared talking points. The story in No Sense of Decency thus leads to a disturbing irony: while television expedited the downfall of McCarthy, the most notorious practitioner of the politics of fear in our history, a half-century later TV's knee-jerk coverage of the 9/11 tragedy and the "War on Terror" has helped revive the paranoid strain in our political DNA." --Book Jacket.

Book The Brunt of the War  and where it Fell

Download or read book The Brunt of the War and where it Fell written by Emily Hobhouse and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Peace Meals

Download or read book Peace Meals written by Anna Badkhen and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-10-25 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides not only an unsparing and intimate history of some of the last decade's most vicious conflicts but also the most human elements that transcend the dehumanizing realities of war: the people, the compassion they scraped from catastrophe, and the food they ate. Making palpable the day-to-day life during conflicts and catastrophes, Badkhen describes not just the violence but also the beauty of events that take place even during wartime. Throughout Badkhen's stories, punctuated by recipes from the meals she shared with the people she encountered, emerges the most important lesson she has observed in conflict zones from Afghanistan to Chechnya: that war can kill our friends and decimate our towns, but it cannot destroy our inherent decency, generosity, and kindness--that which makes us human. --From publisher description.

Book True Stories of the Great War

Download or read book True Stories of the Great War written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: