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Why Movements Matter: The West German Peace Movement and U.S. Arms Control ... - Steve Breyman - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=CSIIBxSak_cC&pg=PA162
Why Movements Matter is a provocative account of how the Reagan administration relented to pressures created by international peace movements during one of the most dangerous episodes of the Cold War. Breyman provides the first systematic account of the…
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Not in Our Name: American Antiwar Speeches, 1846 to the Present - Jesse Stellato - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=oYr-Bs-KzkYC&pg=PA136
Not in Our Name collects and analyzes the most important antiwar speeches in American history. It is a book about the origins and consequences of America&’s wars, but also about the integrity and sacrifices of those who fought on the front lines of…
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Not in Our Name: American Antiwar Speeches, 1846 to the Present - Jesse Stellato - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=oYr-Bs-KzkYC&pg=PA133
Not in Our Name collects and analyzes the most important antiwar speeches in American history. It is a book about the origins and consequences of America&’s wars, but also about the integrity and sacrifices of those who fought on the front lines of…
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Demystifying Syria - Fred H. Lawson - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=uUIhBQAAQBAJ&pg=PT46
Demystifying Syria offers an extraordinary insight into the shifting relations between the Ba'th party and the armed forces, civil law, social structure, burgeoning private enterprise, internal political opposition, the European Union and its relation to…
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Acts of Occupation: Canada and Arctic Sovereignty, 1918-25 - Janice Cavell, Jeff Noakes - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=6iuURy7nA7kC&pg=PA70&lpg=PA70
As climate change threatens to open the Northwest Passage to ice-free travel, Canadian sovereignty over the Arctic has come to the fore. Although Canada’s claim to the Arctic archipelago is now firmly entrenched in the minds of Canadians, less than a…
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The Undiscovered Expressionist: A Life of Marie-Louise Von Motesiczky - Jill Lloyd - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=jFHzcLA8QIkC&pg=PA48#v=onepage
Toward the end of her life, Viennese artist Marie-Louise von Motesiczky (1906–1996) at last gained recognition as one of Austria’s most important 20th-century painters. The great art historian Ernst Gombrich praised the artist’s striking individuality and…
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Triumph of the Heart: The Story of Statins - Jie Jack Li - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=0IZwL8MJ3y4C&pg=PA48#v=onepage
Over 25 million people in the U.S. alone have benefited from statins--such drugs as Lipitor, Zocor, Crestor, Pravachol, and other cholesterol-lowering medicines--in preventing stroke, heart attack, and other forms of coronary heart disease. But how did…
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In Whom We Live and Move and Have Our Being: Panentheistic Reflections on ... - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=N123ZrSR2b0C
Foreword by Mary Ann MeyersRecent years have seen an explosion of interest in the doctrine of panentheism -- the belief that the world is contained within the Divine, although God is also more than the world. Here for the first time leading scientists and…
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The Vietnamese American 1.5 Generation: Stories of War, Revolution, Flight ... - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=_tgdeezAQuEC&pg=PA63
The conflict that Americans call the Vietnam War was only one of many incursions into Vietnam by foreign powers. However, it has had a profound effect on the Vietnamese people who left their homeland in the years following the fall of Saigon in 1975.…
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The Nuclear Taboo: The United States and the Non-Use of Nuclear Weapons ... - Nina Tannenwald - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=oTOzgJbf9KkC&pg=PA282
Why have nuclear weapons not been used since Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945? Nina Tannenwald disputes the conventional answer of 'deterrence' in favour of what she calls a nuclear taboo - a widespread inhibition on using nuclear weapons - which has arisen…