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Sweeping changes in welfare programs since 1996 have transformed the way America cares for its poor. Today, for every dollar spent on cash welfare payments, some twenty dollars are spent on service programs targeted at the working poorjob training, adult education, c... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:35 | This new translation of First Corinthians includes an introduction and extensive commentary that has been composed to explain the religious meaning of this Pauline epistle. Joseph Fitzmyer discusses all the usual introductory problems associated with the epistle, inc... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:35 | How and why has the saga of Scarlett OHara kept such a tenacious hold on our national imagination for almost three-quarters of a century? In the first book ever to deal simultaneously with Margaret Mitchells beloved novel and David Selznicks spectacular film version ... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:35 | James Livesey traces the origins of the modern conception of civil societyan ideal of collective life between the family and politicsnot to England or France, as many of his predecessors have done, but to the provincial societies of Ireland and Scotland in the eighte... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:35 | The years since World War II have seen rapid shifts in the relative positions of different countries and regions. Leading political economist Mancur Olson offers a new and compelling theory to explain these shifts in fortune and then tests his theory against evidence... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:35 | This new edition of Michael H. Hunt's classic reinterpretation of American diplomatic history includes a preface that reflects on the personal experience and intellectual agenda behind the writing of the book, surveys the broad impact of the book's argument, and addr... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:36 | Bjorn Lomborg argues that many of the elaborate and staggeringly expensive actions now being considered to meet the challenges of global warming ultimately will have little impact on the world's temperature. He suggests that rather than focusing on ineffective soluti... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:36 | In this ambitious book, acclaimed writer Marilynne Robinson applies her astute intellect to some of the most vexing topics in the history of human thoughtscience, religion, and consciousness. Crafted with the same care and insight as her award-winning novels, Absence... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:36 | Modeled on one of the most famous histories of ancient Rome (The Twelve Caesars), Nigel Hamiltons new book, American Caesars, looks afresh at the lives and careers of the twelve leaders of the American empire since World War II, from Franklin D. Roosevelt to George W... Полное описание |
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{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:36 | What was life really like for East Germans, effectively imprisoned behind the Iron Curtain? The headline stories of Cold War spies and surveillance by the secret police, of political repression and corruption, do not tell the whole story. After the unification of Ger... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:37 | Drawing on declassified material from Stalin's personal archive, this is the first systematic attempt to analyze how Stalin saw his world-both the Soviet system he was trying to build and its wider international context. Stalin rarely left his offices and viewed the ... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:37 | Israels victory in the June 1967 Six Day War provided a unique opportunity for resolving the decades-old Arab-Zionist conflict. Having seized the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, the Sinai Peninsula, and the Golan Heights, Israel for the first time in its history had somet... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:37 | This extraordinary book encompasses the time period from the first Christian evangelists' arrival in Latin America to the dictators of the late twentieth century. With unsurpassed knowledge of Latin American history, John Lynch sets out to explore the reception of Ch... Полное описание |
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{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:37 | Early modern English canonical sources and sermons often urge the subordination of women. In Household Politics, Don Herzog argues that these sources were blatheranot that they were irrelevant, but that plenty of people rolled their eyes at them. Indeed many held tha... Полное описание |
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{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:37 | A towering figure in world literature, Dante wrote his great epic poem Commedia in the early fourteenth century. The work gained universal acclaim and came to be known as La Divina Commedia, or The Divine Comedy. Giuseppe Mazzotta brings Dante and his masterpiece to ... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:37 | Leonard Bernstein stood at the epicenter of twentieth-century American musical life. His creative gifts knew no boundaries as he moved easily from the podium, to the piano, to television with his nationally celebrated Young People's Concerts, which introduced an enti... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:37 | Western struggles-and failures-to create functioning states in countries such as Iraq or Afghanistan have inspired questions about whether statebuilding projects are at all viable, or whether they make the lives of their intended beneficiaries better or worse. In thi... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:37 | Recent decades have witnessed the rise of social and environmental certification programs that are intended to promote responsible business practices. Consumers now encounter organic or fair-trade labels on a variety of products, implying such desirable benefits as i... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:37 | Rachel Carson's eloquent book Silent Spring stands as one of the most important books of the twentieth century and inspired important and long-lasting changes in environmental science and government policy. Frederick Rowe Davis thoughtfully sets Carson's study in the... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:38 | Becoming Jimi Hendrix traces ';Jimmy's' early musical roots, from a harrowing, hand-to-mouth upbringing in a poverty-stricken, broken Seattle home to his early discovery of the blues to his stint as a reluctant recruit of the 101st Airborne who was magnetically drawn... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:38 | The first (and maybe last, depending on sales) anthology of the hugely popular website CollegeHumor.com! Since 1999, CollegeHumor.com has been home to some of the best comedy online. From its humble, dorm room origins, CollegeHumor has grown to attract over ten milli... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:38 | A year in the life of one New England family as they work to preserve an ancient, lucrative, and threatened agricultural art--the sweetest harvest, maple syrup...How has one of America's oldest agricultural crafts evolved from a quaint enterprise with "e;sugar pa... Полное описание |
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