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During the last five decades, U.S. cultural diplomacy programs have withered because of politics and accidents of history that have subordinated cultural diplomacy to public relations campaigning, now called "public diplomacy." With anti-Americanism on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781596412842Author Carlos B VegaFormat PaperbackPage Count 454Imprint Janaway Publishing, Inc.Publisher Janaway Publishing, Inc.Weight(grams) 662g

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From outlawing bowling in colonial America to regulating violent video games and synthetic drugs today, Mark Stein's Vice Capades examines the nation's relationship with the actions, attitudes, and antics that have defined morality. This humorous and...

The New York Police Department is an iconic symbol of one of the world's most famous cities. The blue uniforms of the men and women who serve on the force have long stood for integrity and heroism in the work to serve and protect the city's residents...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781648049446Author Terry L KoglinFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Dorrance Publishing Co.Publisher Dorrance Publishing Co.Weight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781581070958Author John C PowellFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint New Forums PressPublisher New Forums PressWeight(grams) 259g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647487577Author Captivating HistoryFormat HardbackPage Count 106Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 313g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637165621Author Captivating HistoryFormat HardbackPage Count 106Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 313gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439203668Author Mary Harvey WitheringtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 662Imprint Booksurge PublishingPublisher Booksurge PublishingWeight(grams) 1129g

Although American independence was no miracle, the timing of the country's independence and its huge scope, both political and territorial, do seem miraculous. In The Miracle of American Independence Jonathan R. Dull reconstructs significant events...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781603770804Author Alfred De GraziaFormat PaperbackPage Count 522Imprint Metron PublicationsPublisher Metron PublicationsWeight(grams) 178g

New in paperbackAs we ask anew in these troubled times what it means to be an American, You, the People provides perspective by casting its eye over the answers given by past U.S. presidents in their addresses to the public. Who is an American, and who...

They are Americans, and they are mujahideen. Hundreds of men from every imaginable background have walked away from the traditional American dream to volunteer for battle in the name of Islam. Some have taken part in foreign wars that aligned with U.S...

From 1789 to 1800, the Federalist and Republican parties held opposing visions for America's future. Led by Alexander Hamilton, the Federalists sought to establish a strong central government that would lead an American commercial, financial,...

When the Nazis took power in 1933, most Germans did not foresee the oncoming storm. Many were wildly enthusiastic; some were alarmed; most were worried but trusted that things would work out. In short, they felt much as Americans have felt from time to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781596051461Author Pres The President of the United StatesFormat PaperbackPage Count 340Imprint Cosimo ReportsPublisher Cosimo ReportsWeight(grams) 499g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781593640163Author Madison GrantFormat HardbackPage Count 452Imprint Liberty Bell PublicationsPublisher Liberty Bell PublicationsWeight(grams) 817g

In this newly updated book, C-SPAN provides a comprehensive guide to the final resting places of our nation's presidents. As much about the presidents' lives as it is about their burial sites and how to visit them, this book belongs in the glove box of...

Rodeo has always been considered a supremely masculine sport, a rough and tumble display of macho strength and skill. But author Joan Burbick shows us the other side of rodeo: the world of rodeo queens- part cowgirl and part pageant princess- who wave...

The White House Situation Room is arguably the most important facility in the most important building in the world. As the president's intelligence and alert center, it provides vital communication and crisis management capabilities to the chief...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781565847255Author Howard ZinnFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint The New PressPublisher The New PressWeight(grams) 714g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781591098102Author Leon F BurrellFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Booksurge PublishingPublisher Booksurge PublishingWeight(grams) 286g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637168424Author Captivating HistoryFormat HardbackPage Count 90Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 290g

A few sea captains, a couple of college professors, a battle-hardened general, a senator, a congressman, and a knavish adventurer: What could such men have in common? In addition to an eye upon the broader world and a streak of independence, each had a...

What did early explorers think of Elliot Bay, Seattle's major seaport, during their initial surveys in the 1840s? What hardships did the first white men who cruised through the San Juan Islands face? How was Puget Sound discovered? How did the highest...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498104883Author Thomas ReidFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 676g

Lynching has often been called "America's national crime" that has defined the tradition of extralegal violence in America. Having claimed many thousand victims, "Judge Lynch" holds a firm place in the dark recesses of our national...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781419688478Author Varoujan KarentzFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Booksurge PublishingPublisher Booksurge PublishingWeight(grams) 331g

Rethinking the Red Power Movement examines Red Power ideology with a focus on its many forms of solidarity with African Americans, the role of gender in shaping the movement, its international expansion, and its current meaning in contemporary activism...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498199896Author William Edwin BoardmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 334Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 449g

In 1935, the United States Congress began employing large numbers of American artists through the Works Progress Administration-fiction writers, dramatists, photographers, poster artists, painters, sculptors, muralists, wood carvers, composers and...

In this remarkable work, Roger Lundin seeks the source of American moral and cultural authority in the shift from nature to experience figured in the thought of Ralph Waldo Emerson. While the pragmatic tradition concludes that experience must generate...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781512806922Author Sigmund SkardFormat HardbackPage Count 340Imprint University of Pennsylvania PressPublisher University of Pennsylvania PressWeight(grams)...

Were there any missed chances to build a more peaceful world than the present one after the Cold War? Were there any attempts at working out a more comprehensive and more cooperative way to overcome it? What was precisely at stake during the Cold War?...

This book is the first to document Illinois African-American state lawmakers who have served in Illinois General Assembly from the Reconstruction Era to 2005. The book includes U.S. Senator Barack Obama; the late Mayor Harold Washington of Chicago;...

Today, surveillance and regulation of employees at all levels (except the highest) of the American workplace are pervasive. Digital information systems have become important tools of managerial control, along with the principles of human relations and...

America's Global Role, a collection of essays and reviews on national security, geopolitics and war, combines a broad historical and geopolitical overview of U.S. national security policy with commentary on historical events and biographical sketches of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781275860278Author John Milton GregoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint Gale, Sabin AmericanaPublisher Gale, Sabin AmericanaWeight(grams) 354g