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Sidewinder: Creative Missile Development at China Lake - Ron Westrum - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=xVEgAQAAQBAJ
In the mid-1950s a small group of overworked, underpaid scientists and engineers, working on a remote base in the Mojave Desert, developed a weapon no one had asked for but that everyone was looking for. Sidewinder is the story of how that unorthodox team…
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Parenting Culture Studies - Ellie Lee, Jennie Bristow, Charlotte Faircloth, Jan Macvarish - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=td_EAgAAQBAJ
Why have the minutiae of how parents raise their children become routine sources of public debate and policy making? This book provides in-depth answers to these features drawing on a wide range of sources from sociology, history, anthropology and…
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Iraqi Federalism and the Kurds: Learning to Live Together - Dr Alex Danilovich - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=gyFgAwAAQBAJ
Iraq today faces a whole gamut of problems associated with post-war recovery and state-rebuilding compounded by age old mistrust and suspicion. The situation in Iraq resembles a huge experiment in which social scientists can observe the consequences of…
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Empire of Difference: The Ottomans in Comparative Perspective - Karen Barkey - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=4Di3Zxls4X8C
This book is a comparative study of imperial organization and longevity that assesses Ottoman successes as well as failures against those of other empires with similar characteristics. Barkey examines the Ottoman Empire's social organization and mechanisms…
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Establishing Religious Freedom: Jefferson's Statute in Virginia - Thomas E. Buckley - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=tdV6AAAAQBAJ
The significance of the Virginia Statute for Establishing Religious Freedom goes far beyond the borders of the Old Dominion. Its influence ultimately extended to the Supreme Court’s interpretation of the separation of church and state. In his latest book,…
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War and Independence In Spanish America - Anthony McFarlane - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=TdZtAQAAQBAJ
During the period from 1808 to 1826, the Spanish empire was convulsed by wars throughout its dominions in Iberia and the Americas. The conflicts began in Spain, where Napoleon’s invasion triggered a war of national resistance. The collapse of the Spanish…
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Neurofeminism: Issues at the Intersection of Feminist Theory and Cognitive ... - Robyn Bluhm, Heidi Lene Maibom, Anne Jaap Jacobson - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=qmZEuS4kmtAC
Going beyond the hype of recent fMRI 'findings', thisinterdisciplinary collection examines such questions as: Do women and men have significantly different brains? Do women empathize, while men systematize? Is there a 'feminine' ethics? What does brain…
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Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science - Alan Sokal, Jean Bricmont - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=x6spAgAAQBAJ
In 1996 physicist Alan Sokal published an essay in Social Text--an influential academic journal of cultural studies--touting the deep similarities between quantum gravitational theory and postmodern philosophy. Soon thereafter, the essay was revealed as a…
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The First Anglo-Afghan Wars: A Reader - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=CaPnAwAAQBAJ&dq=First+Anglo-Afghan+War+Girishk&hl=de&source=gbs_navlinks_s
Designed for classroom use, The First Anglo-Afghan Wars gathers in one volume primary source materials related to the first two wars that Great Britain launched against native leaders of the Afghan region. From 1839 to 1842, and again from 1878 to 1880,…
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Memory in Dispute - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?hl=de&id=Q-pHNOujW5AC
'This is a much-needed book - experienced clinicians writing intelligently about one of the most fraught and complex clinical problems facing psychotherapy today. We have patients who are suffering - suffering because of memories of experiences with which…