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Taking Stock of the Army's Base Realignment and Closure Selection Process
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The Army has been doing its part to help downsize the defense establishment, closing 23 major installations in the four rounds of base closures and realignments. Yet, this ... [Read more]
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Diagnosing the Army's Equipment Readiness
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To keep its equipment ready to fight, the Army needs metrics that portray its condition both in the motor pool and during missions. This work provides an integrated set of ... [Read more]
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Alternative Futures and Their Implications for Army Modernization
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Having developed several plausible alternative futures, the authors of this book describe each one's possible implications for the Army's likely missions and the forces req... [Read more]
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Serving Away from Home
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How does deployment affect reenlistment in the US forces? The authors look at this particular issue in the wake of the high rate of military deployment throughout the 1990s... [Read more]
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Kremlin Rising
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In the tradition of Hedrick Smith's The Russians, Robert G. Kaiser's Russia: The People and the Power, and David Remnick's Lenin's Tomb comes an eloquent and eye-opening ch... [Read more]
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Military Recruiting
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Based on indications of increased difficulty in meeting recruiting goals, inspring 1994 the Army Chief of Staff and the Deputy of Secretary of Defenseasked RAND to examine ... [Read more]
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Into the Mirror
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From the bestselling author of American Tragedy and Perfect Murder, Perfect Town comes an even more stunning portrayal of America's dark side. Into the Mirror is the shocki... [Read more]
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Why We Fight
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The events of September 11, 2001, were an unforgettable tragedy, but they also revealed that the spirit of America is strong and undiminished. Not since the shocking attack... [Read more]
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My Turn at the Bully Pulpit: Straight Talk About the Things That Drive Me Nuts
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Welcome to the bully pulpit where opinions fly but common sense rules. Heres where youll find straight talk about the most pressing issues of the day, all delivered in the ... [Read more]
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World on Fire
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Every few years, a book is published about America's role in the world and the changing contest of global affairs that gets everyone thinking in a new way. Amy Chua's WORLD... [Read more]
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Will They Ever Trust Us Again?
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American soldiers serve willingly. They risk their lives so the rest of us can be safe. The one small thing they ask, though, is that they not be sent into harm's way unles... [Read more]
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What Painting Is
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At the root of this tremendously original work is Elkins' desire to bring the study of art back to the studio to understand the artist's relationship to his or her medium. [Read more]
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General and Flag Officer Careers
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Congress has recently expressed concern that the current tenure system for developing general and flag officers does not effectively prepare them forhandling increasing lev... [Read more]
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The Accrual Method for Funding Military Retirement
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Prior to 1984, military personnel force managers had little incentive tocontrol retirement budgets and payments, which equaled $16 billion in 1984, since any decisions made... [Read more]
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The Role of the Office of Homeland Security in the Federal Budget Process
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How can the newly created Office of Homeland Security (OHS) engage effectively in the federal budget process? This report finds that OHS is uniquely poised to bring strateg... [Read more]
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Visible Fictions
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Ellis questions the assumption that cinema and television are interchangeable media. He sees cinema and broadcast TV not as competitive media, but as distinct forms, able t... [Read more]
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Pluralism, Politics and the Marketplace
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A study of the the re-regulation of the German broadcasting system since the mid 1980s when the public duopoly was challenged by the emergence of private networks in both r... [Read more]
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The New Gilded Age
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In keeping with its tradition of sending writers out into America to take the pulse of our citizens and civilization, The New Yorker over the past decade has reported on th... [Read more]
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America the Broke
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One day soon, our government will suddenly run out of cash, unable to meet its payments, leaving the United States as bankrupt as any banana republic. We are far more vulne... [Read more]
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Imperial America
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Russell Mead, New York Times Book Review ) comes a timely and important account of the Bush administrations squandered foreign-policy opportunitieswhat it did and did not d... [Read more]
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No True Glory: Fallujah and the Struggle in Iraq
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"This is the face of war as only those who have fought it can describe it."Senator John McCain Fallujah: Iraqs most dangerous city unexpectedly emerged as the maj... [Read more]
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Recent Large Service Acquisitions in the Department of Defense
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New approaches to the acquisition of services and the related policy issues in which the Office of the Secretary of Defense is likely to become involved. Six case studies, ... [Read more]
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Improving the Planning and Management of U.S. Army Security Cooperation
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Discusses the US Army's process for planning and resourcing its security cooperation activities and explores avenues for improvement. This monograph seeks to help the US Ar... [Read more]
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The Troubles of Journalism
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Since the last edition, many significant challenges have occurred in the media. To do justice to these recent ""troubles"" of the news media, important ... [Read more]
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Ready for Armageddon
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This work summarizes the proceedings of the fourth annual Urban Operations Conference co-hosted by RAND Arroyo Center and representatives of the Army and Marine Corps. [Read more]
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Coralling the Trojan Horse
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This study presents an alternative to continued reliance on close combat urban operations paradigms that require a commitment of large numbers of soldiers to urban operatio... [Read more]
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NATO's Secret Armies
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This book tells the story of NATO's secret anti-communist stay-behind armies that had been set up by the CIA and MI6 after World War Two in all countries of Western Europe ... [Read more]
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The US NATO and Military Burden-sharing
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This book traces the changing relationship between Russia and NATO through the prism of conventional arms control, specifically the negotiation, implementation and adaptati... [Read more]
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Future Ground Commanders' Close Support Needs and Desirable System Characteristics
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Examines the role of close support amid changes in the threat environment and technological advances. To explore new questions about the demand for and capabilities of clos... [Read more]
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How Much Is Enough?
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In the wake of September 11, 2001, the Transportation Security Agency was given the responsibility for ensuring that all baggage flying on U.S. aircraft would be screened. ... [Read more]
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Bringing Down the House
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It's Friday night and you're on a red-eye to the city of sin. Strapped to your chest is half a million dollars; in your overnight bag is another twenty-five thousand in bla... [Read more]
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Never Too Late
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In June 12, 1963, Mississippi's fast-rising NAACP leader Medgar Evers was gunned down by a white supremacist named Byron De La Beckwith. Beckwith escaped conviction twice a... [Read more]
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Are You There Alone?
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In the tradition of In Cold Blood, The Executioner's Song, and A Civil Action, Suzanne O'Malley exposes the human mystery of the most horrifying crime in recent history and... [Read more]
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Profit and Pleasure
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In Profit and Pleasure , Rosemary Hennessy develops a new understanding of sexual identities as they are linked to lived material realities, capitalism in particular. [Read more]
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Talk on Television
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In an examination of talk shows such as Kilroy and The Oprah Winfrey Show the authors analyse the `experts' contribution, the conventions of the genre and the dangers and o... [Read more]
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Media Reform
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Media Reform examines the relationship between the media and the development of democracy. Detailed worldwide case studies illustrate discussions on liberalisation of media... [Read more]
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Horror, The Film Reader
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Key articles and essays introduce students to debates over the definition of the horror film as a genre, its sexual politics, and its conditions of production and consumption. [Read more]
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Women's Contemporary Lives
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Questioning notions of female success through work, education and family, Hughes asks whether feminism promises the impossible. She argues for a fluid interpretation of fem... [Read more]
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The Ingenuity Gap
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"The most persuasive forecast of the 21st century I have seen." -- E.O. Wilson, author of Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge and twice winner of a Pulitzer prize... [Read more]
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Hard America, Soft America
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A peculiar feature of our country today, says Michael Barone, is that we seem to produce incompetent eighteen-year-olds but remarkably competent thirty-year-olds. Indeed, A... [Read more]
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The Lies of George W. Bush
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George W. Bush is a liar. He has lied large and small, directly and by omission. He has mugged the truthnot merely in honest error, but deliberately, consistently, and repe... [Read more]
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Step Across This Line
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From one of the great novelists of our day, a vital, brilliant new book of essays, speeches and articles essential for our times. Step Across This Line showcases the other ... [Read more]
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The Truth About the Drug Companies
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During her two decades at The New England Journal of Medicine , Dr. Marcia Angell had a front-row seat on the appalling spectacle of the pharmaceutical industry. She watche... [Read more]
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The O'Reilly Factor
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The million-copy New York Times bestseller from the Fox News anchor whos brought new excitementand massive amounts of populist common sense and rock-solid honestyto televis... [Read more]
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September 11th and its Aftermath
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A series of 11 original essays discussing the impacts of 11 September 2001 on foreign policies and international relations. The authors draw from a variety of perspectives ... [Read more]
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Straddling Economics and Politics
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This collection of essays examines the case for and against globalization, the effects of U.S. economic and foreign policy, and numerous issues related to Asian economics a... [Read more]
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Magazine Editing
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This new edition looks at the current state of the magazine market. It features case studies, examples of covers and spreads and useful tables and graphs to explain the job... [Read more]
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Introduction to Theories of Popular Culture
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Among the theories and ideas the book introduces are mass culture, the Frankfurt School and the culture industry, semiology and structuralism, Marxism, feminism, postmodern... [Read more]
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House of Bush, House of Saud
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Newsbreaking and controversial -- an award-winning investigative journalist uncovers the thirty-year relationship between the Bush family and the House of Saud and explains... [Read more]
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Football in the New Media Age
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Based on extensive interviews with key players in the media and football industry, Football in the New Media Age analyses the impact of media change on the football industry. [Read more]
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How Israel Lost
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Once in a great while, a book comes along that not only discusses a topic of interest, it changes the boundaries of that discussion forever. This is such a book. In How Isr... [Read more]
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Treachery
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"A blockbuster book . . . Just astounding."Rush Limbaugh "Explosive . . . A methodical, well-thought-out, easy-to-read book . . . that will shock the average... [Read more]
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Exploring Advanced Technologies for the Future Combat Systems Program
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An assessment of technologies, tactics and operational concepts being considered for future army rapid-reaction forces in the USA. It focuses on small-scale contingency and... [Read more]
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How Republicans Stole Christmas
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In the wake of an election seen by many as a triumphant victory for moral values, political commentator and one-time seminarian Bill Press launches a counteroffensive again... [Read more]
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Army Distance Learning and Personnel Readiness
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Distance learning techniques can improve the efficiency of the army's processes for educating its officers and NCOs. This report summarizes the results of a project carried... [Read more]
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Special Operations Forces and Elusive Enemy Ground Targets
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Special operations forces can be effective where conventional ground units and air power alone cannot locate elusive or hidden ground targets. This title highlights specifi... [Read more]
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Interoperability of U.S. and NATO Allied Air Forces
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This volume provides background information for a larger RAND study entitled 'Interoperability: A Continuing Challenge in Coalition Air Operations', including supporting ag... [Read more]
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Protecting the Homeland
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RAND Arroyo Center has analyzed US Army Training and Doctrine Command's programme of homeland security games, seminars, and workshops. The issues raised here highlight emer... [Read more]
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In Time of Emergency
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What to do in case of a nuclear attack or natural disaster. [Read more]
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Sham
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Self-help: To millions of Americans it seems like a godsend. To many others it seems like a joke. But as investigative reporter Steve Salerno reveals in this groundbreaking... [Read more]
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Designing Assessments of Microworld Training for Combat Service Support Staff
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This report summarizes and extends RAND research on process-oriented training for Army combat service support (CSS) command and control (C2) using microworld models. To ass... [Read more]
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The Benefits of Positive Passenger Profiling on Baggage Screening Requirements
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Can positive passenger profiling lower the overall costs of airport security while minimizing the inconvenience to the flying public and retaining airport security at a hig... [Read more]
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Deployments and Army Personnel Tempo
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Over the past decade, numerous observers have expressed concerns about increased tempo and overseas deployments. This report derivesquantitative measures of unit and indivi... [Read more]
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The Intruder Bulletins:
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The Intruder Bulletins is the book that started it all on the subject of human cloning, organ theft, pharmaceutical fascism, stem cell research, etc.This provocative volume... [Read more]
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Saddam's Bombmaker
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The Iraqi scientist who designed Baghdad's nuclear bomb tells how he did it in secret with the cynical help of U.S., French, German, and British suppliers and experts, and ... [Read more]
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A Season in Bethlehem
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Newsweek' s Jerusalem bureau chief Joshua Hammer arrived in the West Bank in October 2000 -- just after Ariel Sharon made his inflammatory visit to the Haram al-Sharif, oth... [Read more]
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Peace Maintenance
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This book is invaluable in identifying the necessary ingredients for long term, legitimate and effective peace-maintenance at a time when it is needed most. [Read more]
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Introduction to Digital Media
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Addresses the fundamental questions about digital media and its potential use in our everyday lives. The world of 'off-line' media, CD-ROMs and broadcast media are examined... [Read more]
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Reporting War
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Reporting War explores the social responsibilities of the journalist during times of military conflict. [Read more]
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The Death of Right and Wrong
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If you believe children should be seduced into warped sexual behavior by the Gay Elite, if you think confessed murderers should be set free by defense attorneys who know ho... [Read more]
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The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup
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The bestselling author of The Orchid Thief is back and she's brought some friends in this wonderfully entertaining collection of the acclaimed New Yorker writer's best and ... [Read more]
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Weapons of Mass Distortion
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Could Al Franken and his left-wing cronies possibly be right? Is liberal media bias just a myth propagated by conservatives, and have the mainstream media actually swung to... [Read more]
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Off Camera
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Ted Koppel, anchor of Nightline , is one of America's most intelligent and respected journalists. With this fascinating book, he finally lets us know the man behind the fac... [Read more]
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The King of the Ferret Leggers and Other True Stories
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The King of the Ferret Leggers and Other True Stories collects journalist Donald Katz's most fascinating profiles of people whose lives tell us something about business, ad... [Read more]
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See No Evil
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Robert Baer was considered perhaps the best on-the-ground field officer in the Middle East. --Seymour M. Hersh, The New Yorker Robert Baer [was] one of the most talented Mi... [Read more]
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Who's Looking Out for You?
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From the mega-bestselling author of The O'Reilly Factor and The No Spin Zone , a no-holds-barred expose of the people and institutions who are letting Americans down and wh... [Read more]
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Independent Nation
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Fifty percent of American voters define themselves as political moderates, two-thirds favor political solutions that come from the center of the political spectrum, and Ind... [Read more]
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Matrona Docta
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Presents a unique study of the education of upper-class women in Roman society in the central period of Roman History, from the second century BC to AD 235. Also examines t... [Read more]
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Countering al Qaeda
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Having achieved its initial goals in the war on terrorism, the United States is now in a second, more complex phase of the campaign. This monograph reviews events since the... [Read more]
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Bastard of a Place
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In the spirit of Les Carlyon's bestselling Gallipoli, this book restores Milne Bay, Gona, Buna and Sanananda to their rightful place beside Kokoda as sacred ground, and a v... [Read more]
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'Dear BBC'
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Drawing on the diverse views of over 1, 300 children in the UK between the ages of 6 and 12, 'Dear BBC' discusses key controversies in the public sphere about children's re... [Read more]
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The Vast Left Wing Conspiracy
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We have to fight back. Al Franken The Left is angryangry at President George W. Bush, the war in Iraq, the right-wing media, and more. And as National Review investigative ... [Read more]
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They Just Don't Get It
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No more politicsjust the truth about what we can and must do to protect ourselves. Fox News military analyst Colonel David Hunt has dedicated his career to fighting terrori... [Read more]
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Analytic Architecture for Capabilities-based Planning, Mission-system Analysis and Transformation
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This volume provides a definition of capabilities-based planning, puts it in the larger context of defence activity generally and sketches an analytic architecture for carr... [Read more]
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A Future Officer Career Management System
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This report is a follow-on to MR-470-OSD, Future Career Management Systems for U.S. Military Officers, 1994. The earlier study determined a range of likely future officer r... [Read more]
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Army PERSTEMPO in the Post Cold War Era
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This document reports the results of an examination of available data on the rate at which military personnel are involved in military operations (PERSTEMPO), specifically ... [Read more]
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Improving the Army Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution System (PPBES)
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This report provides an assessment of The Army Plan (TAP) 2000-2015, the document that provides the initial programming guidance to the Army Program Evaluation Groups. The ... [Read more]
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Network-Based Operations for the Swedish Defence Forces
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Presents a methodology to help the Swedish Ministryof Defence assess costs and benefits of architectures for network-basedoperations as the Swedish Defence Forces are reori... [Read more]
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Combat Service Support Transformation
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To be a strategically responsive force, the Army must be able to rapidly move or project forces with sufficient power to execute a broad spectrum of missions. This briefing... [Read more]
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The Death of Outrage
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Today we see little public outrage about Bill Clinton's misconduct. With enormous skill, the president and his advisors have constructed a defensive wall built of bricks le... [Read more]
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Going to the Mines to Look for Diamonds
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Describes RAND's evaluation of performance of a prototype military recruiting station located in an outlet mall in northern Virginia during its first year of operation. Eva... [Read more]
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Stickin'
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It's been said that if you want a friend in Washington, you should buy a dog. Unfortunately, there's some truth to that: there are few places in the world where the turncoa... [Read more]
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Is Our Children Learning?
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He was a poor student who somehow got into the finest schools. He was a National Guardsman who somehow missed a year of service. He was a failed businessman who somehow was... [Read more]
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New Art History
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The New Art History explores the fundamental changes which have occurred both in the institutions and practice of art history over the last thirty years. [Read more]
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Television, Ethnicity and Cultural Change
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With a case study of the Asian community in Southall, Marie Gillespie examines how television and video are being used to recreate cultural traditions and catalyse cultural... [Read more]
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Journalism After September 11
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This exciting collection raises important questions regarding what journalism should look like after the events of September 11. It will be necessary reading for those conc... [Read more]
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Hillary's Scheme
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Can this country survive another Clinton presidency? Two terms of Slick Willy were bad enough. Now, numerous political experts and people close to the Clinton family hint t... [Read more]
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Nine Minutes, Twenty Seconds
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A deeply moving account of the extraordinary strengths that ordinary people can display when tragedy confronts them. As emotionally powerful a book as you are likely ever t... [Read more]
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Preachers of Hate
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Like no book before it, Preachers of Hate uncovers an ancient hatred that threatens the life and livelihood of every American. The new anti-Semitism targets not only Jews, ... [Read more]
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Betrayal
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Simply put, the leftist labor unions have the Democrats in their pockets. And were all paying the price. Linda Chavez, President George W. Bushs original choice for Secreta... [Read more]
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