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African Americans in Central Texas History

From Slavery to Civil Rights

by E. Joe Brackner Jr., Sherilyn Brandenstein, Donaly E. Brice, William Dean Carrigan, Karen Kossie-Chernyshev, Billy Bob Lightfoot, Ronald E. Marcello, James T. Matthews, Donald G. Nieman, Neil G. Sapper, Rebecca Sharpless, James Sorelle, Keith J. Volanto, Martin Kuhlman ...

Bruce A. Glasrud and Deborah M. Liles have gathered over thirty years of scholarship—articles, book excerpts, and new, original essays—to offer for the first time an overview of the history of African Americans in Central Texas. From slavery and agriculture in the nineteenth century to entrepreneurship and the struggle for civil rights in the twentieth century, African Americans in Central Texas ... Read more

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Bruce A. Glasrud and Deborah M. Liles have gathered over thirty years of scholarship—articles, book excerpts, and new, original essays—to offer for the first time an overview of the history of African Americans in Central Texas. From slavery and agriculture in the nineteenth century to entrepreneurship and the struggle for civil rights in the twentieth century, African Americans in Central Texas
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Warriors and Scholars

A Modern War Reader

Edited by Peter B. Lane, Ronald E. Marcello ...

Few works of military history are able to move between the battlefield and academia. But Warriors and Scholars takes the best from both worlds by presenting the viewpoints of senior, eminent military historians on topics of their specialty, alongside veteran accounts for the modern war being discussed. Editors Peter Lane and Ronald Marcello have added helpful contextual and commentary footnotes ... Read more

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Few works of military history are able to move between the battlefield and academia. But Warriors and Scholars takes the best from both worlds by presenting the viewpoints of senior, eminent military historians on topics of their specialty, alongside veteran accounts for the modern war being discussed. Editors Peter Lane and Ronald Marcello have added helpful contextual and commentary footnotes
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A Handbook of Food Crime

Immoral and Illegal Practices in the Food Industry and What to Do About Them

by Sugandi del Canto, Kora Liegh Glatt, Camilla Barbarossa, Dominique Paturel, Coveney John, Sue Booth, Ricardo Cesar Barbosa Junior, Estevan Leopoldo De Freitas Coca, Michael Lynch, Michael Long, Rob White, Stephanie Baran, Jan Deckers, Linnea Laestadius, Xiaocen Liu, Juanjuan Sun, Reece Walters, Eileen Davenport, Ashley Savage, Richard Hyde, Wesley Tourangeau, Amy Fitzgerald, Hongming Cheng, Joseph Asomah, Paul Leighton, Bernd Van Der Meulen, Antonia Corini, Rachel Engler-Stringer, Jan Mei Soon, Louise Manning, Robert Phillips, Judith Schrempf-Stirling, Jinky Leilani Del Prado-Lu, Harvey James, Tiziana Pagnani, Ferro Trabalzi, Marcello De Rosa, Martha McMahon ...

Food today is over-corporatized and under-regulated. It is involved in many immoral, harmful, and illegal practices along production, distribution, and consumption systems. These problematic conditions have significant consequences on public health and well-being, nonhuman animals, and the environment, often simultaneously.In this insightful book, Gray and Hinch explore the phenomenon of food ... Read more

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Food today is over-corporatized and under-regulated. It is involved in many immoral, harmful, and illegal practices along production, distribution, and consumption systems. These problematic conditions have significant consequences on public health and well-being, nonhuman animals, and the environment, often simultaneously.In this insightful book, Gray and Hinch explore the phenomenon of food
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Oxytobrands

Human Brands for an Emotional Market

by Marcelo Ghio ...

Inspiration. Respect. Trust. Love. Human values projected through an intangible (the brand as a symbolic entity) capable of providing a unique lived experience to each individual, thus, attaining a quality that transcends the primary function. Oxytobrands presents a new vision of, emotional branding, the marketing of experiences, and the construction of brands. A vision that contemplates the ... Read more

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Inspiration. Respect. Trust. Love. Human values projected through an intangible (the brand as a symbolic entity) capable of providing a unique lived experience to each individual, thus, attaining a quality that transcends the primary function. Oxytobrands presents a new vision of, emotional branding, the marketing of experiences, and the construction of brands. A vision that contemplates the
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The Generals

American Military Command from World War II to Today

by Thomas E. Ricks ...

**A New York Times bestseller!An epic history of the decline of American military leadership—from the bestselling author of Fiasco and Churchill and Orwell.**While history has been kind to the American generals of World War II—Marshall, Eisenhower, Patton, and Bradley—it has been less kind to the generals of the wars that followed, such as Koster, Franks, Sanchez, and Petraeus. In The Generals, ... Read more

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**A New York Times bestseller!An epic history of the decline of American military leadership—from the bestselling author of Fiasco and Churchill and Orwell.**While history has been kind to the American generals of World War II—Marshall, Eisenhower, Patton, and Bradley—it has been less kind to the generals of the wars that followed, such as Koster, Franks, Sanchez, and Petraeus. In The Generals,
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The Gun

by C. J. Chivers ...

Series series A History of Weapons and Warfare
In a tour de force, prize-winning New York Times reporter C.J. Chivers traces the invention of the assault rifle, following the miniaturization of rapid-fire arms from the American Civil War, through WWI, Vietnam, to present day Afghanistan when Kalashnikovs and their knock-offs number as many as 100 million—enough for one out of seventy people on earth.At a secret arms-design contest in Stalin’s ... Read more

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In a tour de force, prize-winning New York Times reporter C.J. Chivers traces the invention of the assault rifle, following the miniaturization of rapid-fire arms from the American Civil War, through WWI, Vietnam, to present day Afghanistan when Kalashnikovs and their knock-offs number as many as 100 million—enough for one out of seventy people on earth.At a secret arms-design contest in Stalin’s
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What We Owe Each Other

A New Social Contract for a Better Society

by Minouche Shafik ...

From one of the leading policy experts of our time, an urgent rethinking of how we can better support each other to thriveWhether we realize it or not, all of us participate in the social contract every day through mutual obligations among our family, community, place of work, and fellow citizens. Caring for others, paying taxes, and benefiting from public services define the social contract that ... Read more

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From one of the leading policy experts of our time, an urgent rethinking of how we can better support each other to thriveWhether we realize it or not, all of us participate in the social contract every day through mutual obligations among our family, community, place of work, and fellow citizens. Caring for others, paying taxes, and benefiting from public services define the social contract that
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Thinking in New Boxes

A New Paradigm for Business Creativity

by Alan Iny, Luc De Brabandere ...

When BIC, manufacturer of disposable ballpoint pens, wanted to grow, it looked for an idea beyond introducing new sizes and ink colors. Someone suggested lighters.LIGHTERS?With an idea that seemed crazy at first, that bright executive, instead of seeing BIC as a pen company—a business in the PEN “box”—figured out that there was growth to be found in the DISPOSABLE “box.” And he was right. Now ... Read more

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When BIC, manufacturer of disposable ballpoint pens, wanted to grow, it looked for an idea beyond introducing new sizes and ink colors. Someone suggested lighters.LIGHTERS?With an idea that seemed crazy at first, that bright executive, instead of seeing BIC as a pen company—a business in the PEN “box”—figured out that there was growth to be found in the DISPOSABLE “box.” And he was right. Now
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The Cold War

A Military History

by Stephen E. Ambrose ...

Even fifteen years after the end of the Cold War, it is still hard to grasp that we no longer live under its immense specter. For nearly half a century, from the end of World War II to the early 1990s, all world events hung in the balance of a simmering dispute between two of the greatest military powers in history. Hundreds of millions of people held their collective breath as the United States ... Read more

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Even fifteen years after the end of the Cold War, it is still hard to grasp that we no longer live under its immense specter. For nearly half a century, from the end of World War II to the early 1990s, all world events hung in the balance of a simmering dispute between two of the greatest military powers in history. Hundreds of millions of people held their collective breath as the United States
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A Healthy Society

How a Focus on Health can Revive Canadian Democracy

by Ryan Meili ...

Income, education, employment, housing, the wider environment, and social supports; far more than the actions of physicians, nurses, and other health care providers, it is these conditions that make the greatest difference in our health. Drawing on his experiences as a family physician in the inner city of Saskatoon, Mozambique, and rural Saskatchewan, Dr. Ryan Meili uses scholarship and patient ... Read more

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Income, education, employment, housing, the wider environment, and social supports; far more than the actions of physicians, nurses, and other health care providers, it is these conditions that make the greatest difference in our health. Drawing on his experiences as a family physician in the inner city of Saskatoon, Mozambique, and rural Saskatchewan, Dr. Ryan Meili uses scholarship and patient
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Losing Military Supremacy

The Myopia of American Strategic Planning

by Andrei Martyanov ...

Marytanov explains why and how the US armed forces have lost the military supremacy they thought they once had and how Russia, which supposedly had been defeated in the Cold War, succeeded not only in catching up with USA, but actually surpassing it in many key domains such as long range cruise missiles, diesel-electric submarines, air defenses, electronic warfare, air superiority and many others. ... Read more

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Marytanov explains why and how the US armed forces have lost the military supremacy they thought they once had and how Russia, which supposedly had been defeated in the Cold War, succeeded not only in catching up with USA, but actually surpassing it in many key domains such as long range cruise missiles, diesel-electric submarines, air defenses, electronic warfare, air superiority and many others.
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The Companion to Development Studies

Edited by Vandana Desai, Rob Potter ...

The Companion to Development Studies contains over a hundred chapters written by leading international experts within the field to provide a concise and authoritative overview of the key theoretical and practical issues dominating contemporary development studies. Covering a wide range of disciplines the book is divided into ten sections, each prefaced by a section introduction written by the ... Read more

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The Companion to Development Studies contains over a hundred chapters written by leading international experts within the field to provide a concise and authoritative overview of the key theoretical and practical issues dominating contemporary development studies. Covering a wide range of disciplines the book is divided into ten sections, each prefaced by a section introduction written by the
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