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Book cover of American Political History: A Very Short Introduction
by Donald T. Critchlow
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2015

The Founding Fathers who drafted the United States Constitution in 1787 distrusted political parties, popular democracy, centralized government, and a strong executive office. Yet the country's national politics have historically included all those features. In American Political History: A Very Short...
Book cover of Questions and Answers on Conversations with God
by Neale Donald Walsch
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2000

Millions of readers have come to value the Conversations with God series by Neale Donald Walsch, which has now been translated into twenty-six languages. Many thousands of those readers have had questions for him--questions about religion, good and evil, physical and mental health, death, prophecy,...
Book cover of Social Theory and Social History
by Donald MacRaild, Avram Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017

The expansion of social history that took place in the twentieth century has produced some of the most exciting works in the field of historical studies. As the range of the social historian's concerns has grown, so has the range of methodologies and theoretical approaches they employ. Historians...
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Meal by Meal

365 Daily Meditations for Finding Balance Through Mindful Eating

by Donald Altman
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010

Meal by Meal is a book of comfort, guidance, and insight for anyone with an unhealthy relationship with food. Its power is in its approach: each day is a self-contained journey of conscious eating to help people nurture new and sustainable attitudes and practices. Although bad habits cannot be changed...
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The Black Prince of Baseball

Hal Chase and the Mythology of the Game

by Nicholas Acocella, Donald Dewey
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016

As America lurched into the twentieth century, its national pastime was afflicted with the same moral malaise that was enveloping the rest of the nation. Players regularly bet on games, games were routinely fixed, and league politics were as dirty as the base paths. Against this backdrop, Hal Chase...
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Human Missions to Mars

Enabling Technologies for Exploring the Red Planet

by Donald Rapp
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2015

A mission to send humans to explore the surface of Mars has been the ultimate goal of planetary exploration since the 1950s, when von Braun conjectured a flotilla of 10 interplanetary vessels carrying a crew of at least 70 humans. Since then, more than 1,000 studies were carried...
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The Transformation of Governance

Public Administration for the Twenty-First Century

by Donald F. Kettl
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015

The traditional theory of public administration is based on entrenched notions of hierarchy and authority. However, as the structure of public work has grown less hierarchical, managers have adopted a wide variety of non-authoritarian strategies. This growing gap between theoretical ideas and actual...
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Escaping Jurassic Government

How to Recover America’s Lost Commitment to Competence

by Donald F. Kettl
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016

Why big government is not the problem. The Progressive government movement, founded on support from Republicans and Democrats alike, reined in corporate trusts and improved the lives of sweatshop workers. It created modern government, from the Federal Reserve to the nation’s budgetary and...
Book cover of Can Governments Earn Our Trust?
by Donald F. Kettl
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017

Some analysts have called distrust the biggest governmental crisis of our time. It is unquestionably a huge problem, undermining confidence in our elected institutions, shrinking social capital, slowing innovation, and raising existential questions for democratic government itself. What’s...
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Hear No Evil

Politics, Science & the Forensic Evidence in the Kennedy Assassination

by Donald Byron Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013

An in-depth analysis of all the major scientific evidence pertaining to the Kennedy assassination—including the Zapruder film and the Tippit Case.   Did a shot from the “grassy knoll” kill President Kennedy? If so, was Oswald part of a conspiracy or an innocent patsy? Why have scientific experts...
Book cover of Treatise on Estuarine and Coastal Science
by Donald McLusky, Eric Wolanski
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012

The study of estuaries and coasts has seen enormous growth in recent years, since changes in these areas have a large effect on the food chain, as well as on the physics and chemistry of the ocean. As the coasts and river banks around the world become more densely populated, the pressure on these...
Book cover of Shame and Pride: Affect, Sex, and the Birth of the Self
by Donald L. Nathanson, M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 1994

This is a revolutionary book about the nature of emotion, about the way emotions are triggered in our private moments, in our relations with others, and by our biology. Drawing on every theme of the modern life sciences, Donald Nathanson shows how nine basic affects—interest-excitement, enjoyment-joy,...
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Greater Ethiopia

The Evolution of a Multiethnic Society

by Donald N. Levine
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014

Greater Ethiopia combines history, anthropology, and sociology to answer two major questions. Why did Ethiopia remain independent under the onslaught of European expansionism while other African political entities were colonized? And why must Ethiopia be considered a single cultural region despite...
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Lake Bomoseen

The Story of Vermont's Largest Little-Known Lake

by Donald H. Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2009

Lake Bomoseen- the largest lake entirely within Vermont's borders- once attracted thousands of visitors each year. Its resorts and restaurants welcomed travelers of all stripes, from Walt Disney and Harpo Marx to humble groups of workers and families. Crowds flocked to beaches and picnic areas during...
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