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by Philip Seib
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2008
The battle for hearts and minds in the Middle East is being fought not on the streets of Baghdad, but on the newscasts and talk shows of Al Jazeera. The future of China is being shaped not by Communist Party bureaucrats, but by bloggers working quietly in cyber cafes. The next attacks by al Qaeda will...
Keepers of the Game
When the Baseball Beat Was the Best Job on the Paper
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
There was a time when the most prestigious job on a major newspaper belonged to the baseball beat writer, who enjoyed unparalleled longevity and influence within his profession. Through a variety of events and circumstances—television, expansion, all-sports radio, lifestyle changes, and the Internet...
by Nancy Hartevelt Kobrin
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2010
Terrorist organizations have been able to market mass murder under hysteria's banner of alleged martyrdom. But when it comes to understanding Islamic suicide terrorism in particular, there is much more to it than martyrdom. In this groundbreaking book, Nancy Kobrin dismantles the psychological dynamics...
Predators
The CIA's Drone War on al Qaeda
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
Predators is a riveting introduction to the murky world of Predator and Reaper drones, the CIAÆs and U.S. militaryÆs most effective and controversial killing tools. Brian Glyn Williams combines policy analysis with the human drama of the spies, terrorists, insurgents, and innocent tribal peoples...
by Rob Morris, Ian Hawkins
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2011
The 95th Bomb Group (Heavy), the most highly decorated bomb group of World War II, participated in every major mission of the war from May 1943 through the war's end and won an unprecedented three Presidential Unit Citations (known as the Distinguished Unit Citation before 1966). Flying the celebrated...
The Poet
The Life and Los Angeles Times of Jim Murray
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
Forget Ring Lardner, Grantland Rice, and Jerome Holtzman. According to author Steven Travers, Jim Murray of the Los Angeles Times was the greatest sports columnist who ever lived—period. Known for his highly descriptive metaphors and phrasing—a strike zone the size of Hitler's heart, so painfully...
by Joseph P. McCallus
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2010
It has been more than a century since the American conquest and subsequent annexation of the Philippines. Although the nation was given its independence in 1946, American cultural authority remains.In order to locate and lend significance to the relics of American empire, Joseph McCallus retraces the...
Not a Choice, Not a Job
Exposing the Myths about Prostitution and the Global Sex Trade
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
A generation ago, most people did not know how ubiquitous and grave human trafficking was. Now many people agree that the $35.7 billion business is an appalling violation of human rights. But when confronted with prostitution, many people experience an odd disconnect because prostitution is shrouded...
by Paul L. Moorcraft, Philip M. Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
As the literature on military-media relations grows, it is informed by antagonism either from journalists who report on wars or from ex-soldiers in their memoirs. Academics who attempt more judicious accounts rarely have any professional military or media experience.A working knowledge of the operational...
by Emmy E. Werner
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2009
More than twelve million immigrants, many of them children, passed through Ellis Island's gates between 1892 and 1954. Children also came through the “Guardian of the Western Gate,” the detention center on Angel Island in California that was designed to keep Chinese immigrants out of the United States....
Bat, Ball & Bible
Baseball and Sunday Observance in New York
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, moral and social forces collided in the argument over upholding New York State's blue laws, meant to restrict social activities and maintain Sunday's traditional standing as a day of religious observation. Baseball was at the center of this...
Tales From First Base
The Best, Funniest, and Slickest First Basemen Ever
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2013
When a batter races toward first base and fielders scramble to make a tough play, anything can happen. Tales from First Base is a humorous and insightful look at the players, coaches, and umpires who have spent time along those first ninety feet of the base path.Brad Engel and Wayne Stewart...
by Claude Salhani
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2011
Kazakhstan, a former Soviet republic in Central Asia that has been under the leadership of President Nursultan Nazarbayev since independence in 1991, has proven that a mostly Muslim nation can be active on the international scene. Its leaders have worked fervently to bridge the ugly schism that has developed...
Soldier of Change
From the Closet to the Forefront of the Gay Rights Movement
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
When ôDonÆt Ask, DonÆt Tell,ö the official U.S. policy on gays serving in the military, was repealed in September 2011, soldier Stephen Snyder-Hill (then Captain Hill) was serving in Iraq. Having endured years of this policy, which passively encouraged a culture of fear and secrecy for gay soldiers,...