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41. The Policy Analysis Matrix for Agricultural Development by Eric A. Monke, Scott R. Pearson | |
Paperback: 279
Pages
(1989-09)
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42. Through starving Russia: being a record of a journey to Moscow and the Volga provinces, in August and September, 1921 (1921) by C. E. Bechhofer (Carl Eric Bechhofer) Roberts | |
Paperback: 226
Pages
(2009-07-08)
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43. Goethe and the Novel by Eric A. Blackall | |
Hardcover: 344
Pages
(1976-07-31)
Isbn: 0801409780 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
44. Russia at the cross-roads [1916] by C. E. Bechhofer (Carl Eric Bechhofer) Roberts | |
Paperback: 220
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(2009-07-08)
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45. Nero and Actea: A Tragedy [ 1891 ] by Eric Mackay | |
Paperback: 154
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(2009-08-10)
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46. On Concussion of the Spine, Nervous Shock and Other Obscure Injuries of the Nervous System: In Their Clinical and Medico-Legal Aspects (1882 ) by Sir John Eric Erichsen | |
Paperback: 188
Pages
(2009-10-21)
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47. The Making of National Money: Territorial Currencies in Historical Perspective by Eric Helleiner | |
Hardcover: 304
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(2002-12)
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Editorial Review Product Description Our contemporary understandings of national currency are, Helleiner shows, surprisingly recent. Based on standardized technologies of production and extraction, territorially exclusive national currencies emerged for the first time only during the nineteenth century. This major change involved a narrow definition of legal tender and the exclusion of tokens of value issued outside the national territory. "Territorial currencies" rapidly became bound up with the rise of national markets, and money reflected basic questions of national identity and self-presentation: In what way should money be managed to serve national goals? Whose pictures should go on the banknotes? Helleiner draws out the potent implications of this largely unknown history for today's context. Territorial currencies face challenges from many monetary innovations-the creation of the euro, dollarization, the spread of local currencies, and the prospect of privately issued electronic currencies. While these challenges are dramatic, the author argues that their significance should not be overstated. Even in their short historical life, territorial currencies have never been as dominant as conventional wisdom suggests. The future of this kind of currency, Helleiner contends, depends on political struggles across the globe, struggles that echo those at the birth of national money. |
48. Biological Oceanography: An Early History, 1870-1960 by Eric L. Mills | |
Hardcover: 378
Pages
(1989-12)
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49. Iraq in Fragments: The Occupation And Its Legacy (Crises in World Politics) by Eric Herring, Glen Rangwala | |
Hardcover: 354
Pages
(2006-10-19)
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Editorial Review Product Description This book analyzes in detail why the Iraqi polity fractured after the invasion, and the consequences of this fragmentation. The major reason advanced by Herring and Rangwala rests not with the Iraqi people's fixed and antagonistic ethnic or sectarian identities, or with specific mistakes made by U.S. administrators, but with the character of the project to rebuild the Iraqi state. Through this project, the Coalition powers have often unwittingly created incentives for unregulated local power struggles, patron-client relations, corruption, smuggling, and violence. These features in turn have substantially shaped Iraq's new political actors. Placing the Iraq conflict within the context of regional, global, and U.S. politics, Herring and Rangwala explain how the international relations of consent, coercion, and capital accumulation have transformed the lives and allegiances of the Iraqi population. As uncertainty about the future of Iraq and the stability of the Middle East persists, this necessary volume offers a new perspective on the prospects for Iraq and the significance of the occupation. Customer Reviews (1)
Useful study of the effects of the invasion and occupation of Iraq |
50. Who Speaks for America?: Why Democracy Matters in Foreign Policy by Eric Alterman | |
Hardcover: 244
Pages
(1998-10)
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Editorial Review Product Description Experts have long insisted that the public is too ignorant to contribute to the creation of successful foreign policy. But over the course of two hundred years, as Alterman makes clear, the American people have shown an impressive consistency in their ideals and values. The problem for any elite, the author explains, is that Americans often define their interests quite differently than those who would speak in their name. The American public's values are, ironically, much closer to the "liberal republican" philosophy of our founders than to those of our most powerful elites.Alterman concludes with a series of challenging proposals for reforms designed to create a truly democratic U.S. foreign policy. "The public's values," writes Alterman in Who Speaks forAmerica?, "are a good deal closer to the liberal republican valuesof the country's original founders than are those of the establishmentthat professes to represent them. The problem is not that the publicdoes not care. Rather, it has no idea how to force the government torespond to its preferences." The preferences Alterman indicates arebased on a wide range of public-opinion polls that demonstrate thesharp dichotomy between what citizens consider important andworthwhile and what lawmakers, self-appointed experts, corporatelobbyists, and other elitists comprising the "punditocracy" actuallyput into practice as foreign policy. For instance, polls reveal thatthe public attitude toward the United Nations is overwhelminglyfavorable; that nearly all forms of covert governmental actionconducted abroad are viewed as inexcusable; that there is strongpublic opposition to the size and scope of U.S. arms sales across theglobe; and protecting the environment is given a higher priority thaninsuring adequate energy supplies. All of these opinions areinconsistent with current American foreign policy, yet voters areunable (or, some would argue, unwilling) to exert any meaningful andsustained influence over the manner in which the government interactswith the world. According to Alterman, the primary reason for a lack of public accessto this process is the attitude historically held by leaders that thepublic is ill-equipped to make decisions concerning foreignaffairs. "How, then," he asks, "can the United States claim to be afunctioning democracy when one of the most crucial aspects of publicpolicy allows for almost no democratic participation?" The shortanswer is that it can't, so Alterman offers an "immodest proposal" foroverhauling the current system--though immodest is putting itlightly. He should be credited for highlighting a significant problemin this informed and important book, but it must be noted that hissolutions are so sweeping, and the implications so vast, that actuallyactivating them would require restructuring the electoral process andcreating new institutions from the ground up--a radical idea with afamiliar ring.--Shawn Carkonen Customer Reviews (3)
Compelling case for a democratic foreign policy
This book goes against the writing of founding fathers The mess with true democracy and the recall mess in California show why the founding fathers were on the money with the idea of a represenative republic instead of giving the masses immediate control through the chaotic process of a true democracy. This book as with all Eric Alterman books, his Altercation on msnbc.com, and his column in "the Nation" are designed to show us that the country should be to the left so that it goes along with Eric Alterman's ideals. The purpose of this book and other Alterman books is to say since the government won't do things my way, I'll create a book based on questionable documentation to show why I'm right. I don't fault Eric Alterman for his leftist and radical beliefs which are to the left of most liberals, democrats, and even Bill and Hillary Clinton. What I don't like is when Eric Alterman tells the rest of us why were wrong when we don't agree with his leftist, liberal, and radical beliefs.
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51. Eric Gill by Joseph Peter Thorp | |
Hardcover: 65
Pages
(1929)
Asin: B00085RNF2 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
52. Struggle for Empire: Kingship and Conflict Under Louis the German, 817–876 (Conjunctions of Religion and Power in the Medieval Past) by Eric J. Goldberg | |
Paperback: 388
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(2009-03-10)
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53. What Is It Then Between Us?: Traditions of Love in American Poetry by Eric Murphy Selinger | |
Paperback: 251
Pages
(1998-04)
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Editorial Review Product Description Tracing the solitude of the American self, the difference between idolatrous and companionate affection, and the dream of an "America of love," Eric Murphy Selinger shows how such concerns can shape a poet's most intimate decisions about genre and form. His lucid, elegant prose illuminates not only well-known love poets, including Emily Dickinson and William Carlos Williams, but also more unexpected figures, notably Wallace Stevens and Mina Loy.Like the poets he discusses, Selinger refuses to view love reductively. Rather, he takes the impulse to debunk love as part of his subject, whether it crops up in Puritan theology or contemporary literary theory. As he details Whitman's courtship of his readers, weighs the restorations of romance in H. D. and Ezra Pound, and demonstrates the bonds between poets as disparate as Robert Creeley and Robert Lowell, Selinger establishes love poetry as an essential American genre. Customer Reviews (1)
Could Have Been, Should Have Been, But Isn't Selinger begins by asserting, "since no one before me has put together a book of American poetry of love, either a critical study or an anthology, I have no monolith to undermine, no canon to shoot down."In essence, he has no bone to pick and is simply concerned with the close readings of the poems and his own very interesting claim. Selinger is definitely at his best when he engages in intimate readings, as when he chides Emerson for being "to self-ironic and New Englandly proper," or when he spends time explicating the fifth section of Whitman's "Song of Myself," in which "Whitman pivots from mystical insights to home truths," a shift, he says that was engendered by "a mention of love." It is when Selinger moves away from his reading of the poems that his book ceases to be about poetics and patterns and begins to literalize the "lessons" of the poems via vague references to psychoanalysis. Selinger uses the poems as little lessons in love and then substantiates his claims with an often intrusive and unnecessary gallery of Gallic critics:Derrida, Barthes, Kristeva, Beauvoir.Then poems then become psychological and ideological love lessons:wounds and reparations, self versus other, male versus female, etc.Reading the poems as such, their successes and failures do not hinge upon the language they use or even their artistry, but upon how well the poems help to create "an America of Love." Selinger also fails to distinguish between Love and love; the philosophical idea which, in America is inextricably bound up with the ideas of eros, agape and carritas, and the love that exists between two people.This lack of distinction would presume that the private and the poetic are always political and that American poems are no more than the autobiographies of lovers and political manifestos. Selinger's interest lies more in the objects of the poet's love than in the poems, themselves.His chapter on Creeley and Lowell is more about the poets' relationships with their wives and lovers than it is about their poetry.Selinger even admits as much when he says, "In my reading of Creeley I have not, I realize, attended to questions of composition as much as the poet would like."That sentence is appended with a quotation from Creeley, himself: "Some concerns have been persistent, e.g., the terms of marriage, relations of men and women, sense of isolation...But I have never...begun with any sense of 'subject,' since the point I wish to make is that I am writing."The writing, however, is what Selinger eschews when discussing poetry."To turn the beloved into a poem," Selinger claims in his chapter on Adrienne Rich, "does a certain violence to her sovereignty of self." What Selinger fails to do is to accept the poems on their own terms.When he struggles through Mina Loy's harrowing Songs to Johannes, he flips back and forth between considering the "I" of the poem a persona and then Loy, herself, alternately finding the poem both "successful" and "troubled."Here, Selinger uses Kristeva's analysis to explain Loy's unwillingness to reconcile the figures in the poem, but this unwillingness is never considered an aesthetic choice, as it should have been, but the inevitable working out of personal difficulties on the page. Poetry is a theory in and of itself.When an author composes poetry, he is theorizing about the world or about ideas, finding metaphors and similes and struggling to find the words with which to describe his vision and revision of the world.Poetry is then philosophy, psychology and literary theory.Too often, though, poetry is not allowed to escape from the limitation of its historical periodicity or the personal lives of its practitioners.Conversely, critics also find anachronistic attributes in poems in order to legitimize the poet through a contemporary idea or politic.This, of course, implies that what is contemporary is best; that American love poetry has been undergoing a progressive evolution.It implies that what we know about love today is more sophisticated than what poets knew and wrote decades ago. Selinger's final chapter is on James Merrill and it is in this chapter that he comes closest to what poetry really is.His obvious respect and love for Merrill's poetry allows him to read it more carefully and more like pure poetry.Here there is more care with his ideas that American ideas of love are played out in American poetry and he is careful to distinguish between person and poem.Had he only been content to read the other poets with such an open mind, he would have written a thoroughly fascinating book on the limits of American love as engaged in American poetry.As it stands, the book does a disservice to poets who, like Emily Dickinson, deserves true readings of their poetry and not psychological examinations of their sexuality, marriageability or personal life. ... Read more |
54. The Emergence of German As a Literary Language, 1700-1775 by Eric A. Blackall | |
Hardcover: 574
Pages
(1978-06)
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55. Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: -1887 by Eric S. (Eric Sutherland) Robertson | |
Paperback: 202
Pages
(2009-07-24)
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56. FANTASTIC (6 ISSUES) by Raymond; Bradbury, Ray; Asimov, Isaac; Miller, Walter; Capote, Truman; Sturgeon, Theodore; Russell, Eric F; Leiber, Fritz; Poe, Edgar Allan; Woolrich, Cornell; Spillane, Mickey; Matheson, Richard; Kuttner, Henry; Traven, B; et. Al. Chandler | |
Paperback:
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(1952)
Asin: B00111BRUE Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
57. Kaironomia: On the Will-To-Invent by Eric Charles White | |
Hardcover: 176
Pages
(1987-04)
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58. On Concussion of the Spine, Nervous Shock and Other Obscure Injuries of the Nervous System, in Their Clinical and Medico-Legal Aspects: -1882 by John Eric Erichsen | |
Paperback: 370
Pages
(2009-07-24)
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59. An Introduction to the Synoptic Problem(1912) by Eric Rede Buckley | |
Paperback: 314
Pages
(2009-06-01)
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60. The Fourth Dimension: -1921 by Eric Harold Neville | |
Paperback: 78
Pages
(2009-07-24)
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