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The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb

The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb

Gar Alperovitz

Reconstructs the events leading up to the bombing of Hiroshima in 1945
Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb: Gar Alperovitz and the ...

Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb: Gar Alperovitz and the ...

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Contains a summary of charges and responses in the Hiroshima debate and postings with additional analysis. Links to H-Diplo and H-Japan Web sites as well as to the home page of Hiroshima: Was it Necessary?
What Then Must We Do?: Straight Talk about the Next American ...

What Then Must We Do?: Straight Talk about the Next American ...

Gar Alperovitz

Looks at the problems with America's current economic system offers a revolutionary way forward that the author claims is not corporate capitalism or state socialism, but rather a system that is uniquely American.
Unjust Deserts: How the Rich are Taking Our Common Inheritance

Unjust Deserts: How the Rich are Taking Our Common Inheritance

Gar Alperovitz

Draws on extensive research to reveal how as much as ninety percent of current economic output is collective in nature, in a report that argues that the wealthy are not inherently deserving of their economic advantages and that more ...
America Beyond Capitalism: Reclaiming Our Wealth, Our ...

America Beyond Capitalism: Reclaiming Our Wealth, Our ...

Gar Alperovitz

Lionel Robbins Memorial Lectures 2002/3, delivered on March 3-5, 2003, London School of Economics, cep.lse.ac.uk (accessed 04/28/03); and Robert Edwards Lane, The Loss of Happiness in Market Democracies (New Haven: Yale  ...
America Beyond Capitalism: Reclaiming Our Wealth, Our ...

America Beyond Capitalism: Reclaiming Our Wealth, Our ...

Gar Alperovitz

2011 edition, with a new introduction by the author and a new foreword by James Gustave Speth As discontent with the economic and political status quo mounts in the wake of the "great recession," America Beyond Capitalism is a book whose ...
Luzerne County

Luzerne County

Harrison Wick

Charles Benjamin Johnson was commander of GAR Conyngham Post No. 97 when the building on 146 South Main Street was dedicated on April 9, 1890. After Conyngham Post No. 97 disbanded, the former GAR building was sold in 1941.
The Hidden Injuries of Class

The Hidden Injuries of Class

Richard Sennett

PERSONAL ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The following people worked as interviewers for this study: Claire Siegel- baum, Petra Szonyi, Nancy Lyons, Quaker Case, Sandra Warren, Guil- lemette Alperovitz, Robert Manx, Dennis Brown, Stephen ...
Batting Stance Guy: A Love Letter to Baseball

Batting Stance Guy: A Love Letter to Baseball

Gar Ryness

I WAS TOLD THAT THIS WOULD ALLOW FOR THE BEST POSSIBLE SWING AND BAT ROTATION. BRETBOONE AND I WERE NOT IN THE SAME LITTLE LEAGUE. His knuckles are lined up, however, on the complete other side of the bat.
Return of the Gar:

Return of the Gar:

Mark Spitzer

Interspersing science, folklore, history, and action-packed fishing narratives, Spitzer's empathy for and fascination with this air-breathing, armored fish provides for an entertaining odyssey that examines management efforts to preserve ...
Die geheimen Tagebücher der Charlotte Brontë: Roman

Die geheimen Tagebücher der Charlotte Brontë: Roman

Syrie James

Chronik einer Liebe Charlotte Brontë mag den neuen Hilfspfarrer ihres Vaters gar nicht.
Arbroath and Its Abbey; Or, The Early History of the Town ...

Arbroath and Its Abbey; Or, The Early History of the Town ...

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Of the challenge of wobsters (weavers), it is found : — "That they mak our lang ' thrums : Whereas they tak in with weights, when they give it out they mak it donk and weet with water, casting things thereon to gar it weigh, and there-through ...
Draculas, Vampires, and Other Undead Forms: Essays on ...

Draculas, Vampires, and Other Undead Forms: Essays on ...

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John Ea'gar Browning and Carolinejoan (Kay) Picart We all know Dracula, or think we do, but . . . there are many Draculas—and still more vampires who refuse to be Dracula or to play him. . . . [V]ampires are easy to stereotype, but it is their ...
Vuggevise

Vuggevise

Carin Gerhardsen

Og Einar Eriksson dukker stadig ikke op på arbejde ... Vuggevise handler om skyld – en skyld, som går generationer tilbage, og som bliver ved med at forfølge de involverede.
The Official Picture: The National Film Board of Canada's ...

The Official Picture: The National Film Board of Canada's ...

Carol Payne

The Official Picture looks closely at the work of many Division photographers from staff members Chris Lund and Gar Lunney during the 1940s and 1950s to the expressive documentary photography of Michel Lambeth, Michael Semak, and Pierre ...
Outze

Outze

Ole Lange

I denne biografi afdækker forfatterne Ole Lange og Alex Frank Larsen hele historien om Børge Outze og går bag om myter, begivenheder og hemmeligheder i hans dramatiske og eventyrlige liv som reporter, redaktør og revser.
Arbroath and its abbey; or, The early history of the town ...

Arbroath and its abbey; or, The early history of the town ...

David Miller (of Arbroath.)

Of the challenge of wobsters (weavers), it is" found : — " That they mak our lang thrums : Whereas they tak in with weights, when they give it out they mak it donk and weet with water, casting things thereon to gar it weigh, and there-through ...
Yoga Journal

Yoga Journal

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HOLLYWOOD Aruni Devi OAKLAND Raymond B.Auker, Paula Barros, Rose Gar- finkle, Joan Giguiere, Ethel Golder, Sequoia Thorn Lundy, Thea Maestro, Toni Montez, Judy Nichols, Briana Bender Sankey, Mukunda Tom Stiles, Sumant, ...
Scandalizing Jesus?: Kazantzakis's The Last Temptation of ...

Scandalizing Jesus?: Kazantzakis's The Last Temptation of ...

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Helen Kazantzakis, Biography, 505; Eleni Kazantzaki, Asymvivastos, 591.The phrase in ancient Greek is slightly misquoted from Aristotle's Poetics, chapter 9: “ Did kai filosofoteron kai spoudaioteron poiisis istorias estin. I men gar poiisis ...
Neugründung auf alten Werten?: Konservative Intellektuelle ...

Neugründung auf alten Werten?: Konservative Intellektuelle ...

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... wissenschaftlichen Literatur meist ohne nähere Betrachtung oder Differenzierung als konservativer Journalist und Publizist aufgeführt wird.16 In seinem Aufsatz über den „Springer-Mentor“ Hans Zehrer verweist Hans Becker von Sothen gar ...
Übersetzerschule von Toledo

Übersetzerschule von Toledo

Eveline Podgorski

Unter Alfons X., genannt el Sabio („der Weise“), erfuhr die Übersetzerschule von Toledo ihren Höhepunkt - auch wenn sie diese Bezeichnung, die erst später üblich wurde, damals noch gar nicht trug.
Biglotton, sive Dictionarium, Teuto-Latinum novum ... Editio ...

Biglotton, sive Dictionarium, Teuto-Latinum novum ... Editio ...

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Kjeld & Dirch: Historien om Danmarks største komikerpar

Kjeld & Dirch: Historien om Danmarks største komikerpar

Jesper Gaarskjær

En tak går i denne sammenhæng til Malin Lindgren, Leif Plenov, Paul Hammerich, Rikke Rottensten og Jakob Steen Olsen for deres forskellige skriftlige værker, som har været vigtige og indsigtsfulde kilder. Derudover skylder jeg at takke min ...
Nuclear Roulette: The Truth about the Most Dangerous Energy ...

Nuclear Roulette: The Truth about the Most Dangerous Energy ...

Gar Smith

... May 17, 2004, http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-04-415. 5. “Statement of Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich on the GAO Report on the Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Plant,” press release from the office of congressman DennisJ. Kucinich, May ...
Jag talar om kärlek

Jag talar om kärlek

Emmanuelle Pagano

Paganos bok är ett kalejdoskop av olika röster som vittnar om vardagliga ögonblick och situationer, när allt ställs på sin spets eller om funderingar vi går och bär på inför den vi lever med.↵↵I Jag talar om kärlek möter vi ...
Những hiện tượng bí ẩn: thế giới tâm linh

Những hiện tượng bí ẩn: thế giới tâm linh

Mary Ann Winkowski

Mary Ann Winkowski er gift og mor til to voksne døtre. Hun bor i Ohio, går i kirke hver søndag, og kan se og tale med spøgelser. I denne bog fortæller Mary Ann hendes utrolige historie.
Bornholm besat: Det glemte hjørne af Danmark under Anden ...

Bornholm besat: Det glemte hjørne af Danmark under Anden ...

Jesper Gaarskjær

BORNHOLM BESAT er blevet til efter indgående research i arkiver flere steder i landet, og bogen går helt tæt på historien om, hvordan et stykke af Danmark kunne blive besat af russerne og pludselig var fanget i et storpolitisk magtspil.
Där satan rullar i sanden

Där satan rullar i sanden

Lars Ardelius

”Jag skullealdrigvilja boi en stad”,tänker han sedan.”Går man på en gata och tänkerpå blodkorv är det plötsligt någon som stöter till en och man minns inte längrevad man tänkte på, trorkanske attdetvar korumpor.” Nästan alla de möter ...

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