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Week The World Stood Still - Inside The Secret Cuban Missile Crisis

by Sheldon M. Stern

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 The Cuban missile crisis was the most dangerous confrontation of the Cold War and the most perilous moment in American history. In this dramatic and succinct narrative, Sheldon M. Stern enables the reader to follow the often harrowing twists and turns of the crisis.
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A Preponderance Of Power - National Security, The Truman Administration, And The Cold War

by Melvyn P. Leffler

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 This is the most comprehensive history to date of the Truman Administration's progressive embroilment in the cold war, and it presents a stunning new interpretation of U.S. national security policy during the formative stages of the Soviet-American rivalry. Illustrated with 15 halftones and 10 maps.
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Wizards Of Armageddon

by Fred Kaplan

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 This is the untold story of the small group of men who have devised the plans and shaped the policies on how to use the Bomb. The book (first published in 1983) explores the secret world of these strategists of the nuclear age and brings to light a chapter in American political and military history never before revealed.
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Science And Conscience - The Life Of James Franck

by Jost Lemmerich

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 James Franck (1882-1964) was one of the twentieth century''s most respected scientists, known both for his contributions to physics and for his moral courage. During the 1920s, Franck was a prominent figure in the German physics community. His research into the structure of the atom earned him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1925. After the Nazis seized power in 1933, Franck resigned his professorship at Gottingen in protest against anti-Jewish policies. He soon emigrated to the United States, where, at the University of Chicago, he began innovative research into photosynthesis. When the Second World War began, Franck was recruited for the Manhattan Project. With Enrico Fermi and Leo Szilard, he created a controlled nuclear chain reaction which led to the creation of a nuclear weapon. During the final months of the war, however, Franck grew concerned about the consequences of using such a weapon. He became the principal author of the celebrated "Franck Report," which urged Truman not to use the atomic bomb and warned that a nuclear arms race against the Soviet Union would be an inevitable result. After the War, Franck turned his attention back to photosynthesis; his discoveries influenced chemistry as well as physics.
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Cuban Missile Crisis In American Memory - Myths Versus Reality

by Sheldon M. Stern

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 This book completely transforms our understanding of the actual roles that each of the principal EXCOMM members played in the decision making process that led to a peaceful resolution of the Cuban missile crisis.
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Confronting The Bomb - A Short History Of The World Nuclear Disarmament Movement

by Lawrence S. Wittner

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 Confronting the Bomb tells the dramatic, inspiring story of how citizen activism helped curb the nuclear arms race and prevent nuclear war.
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Britain And The Bomb - Nuclear Diplomacy, 1964-1970

by David James Gill

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 The book explores how economic, political, and strategic considerations shaped British nuclear diplomacy during Prime Minister Harold Wilson's first two terms of office (1964-1970).
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African Americans Against The Bomb - Nuclear Weapons, Colonialism, And The Black Freedom Movement

by Vincent J Intondi

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 Well before Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke out against nuclear weapons, African Americans were protesting the Bomb. Historians have generally ignored African Americans when studying the anti-nuclear movement, yet they were some of the first citizens to protest Truman''s decision to drop atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. Now for the first time, African Americans Against the Bomb tells the compelling story of those black activists who fought for nuclear disarmament by connecting the nuclear issue with the fight for racial equality. Intondi shows that from early on, blacks in America saw the use of atomic bombs as a racial issue, asking why such enormous resources were being spent building nuclear arms instead of being used to improve impoverished communities. Black activists'' fears that race played a role in the decision to deploy atomic bombs only increased when the U.S. threatened to use nuclear weapons in Korea in the 1950s and Vietnam a decade later. For black leftists in Popular Front groups, the nuclear issue was connected to colonialism: the U.S. obtained uranium from the Belgian controlled Congo and the French tested their nuclear weapons in the Sahara. By expanding traditional research in the history of the nuclear disarmament movement to look at black liberals, clergy, artists, musicians, and civil rights leaders, Intondi reveals the links between the black freedom movement in America and issues of global peace. From Langston Hughes through Lorraine Hansberry to President Obama, African Americans Against the Bomb offers an eye-opening account of the continuous involvement of African Americans who recognized that the rise of nuclear weapons was a threat to the civil rights of all people.
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The Wizards Of Armageddon

by Fred Kaplan

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 This is the untold story of the small group of men who have devised the plans and shaped the policies on how to use the Bomb. The book (first published in 1983) explores the secret world of these strategists of the nuclear age and brings to light a chapter in American political and military history never before revealed.
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The End Of The Pacific War - Reappraisals

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 State-of-the-art reinterpretations of the reasons for Japan's decision to surrender, by distinguished historians of differing national perspectives and differing views.
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Another Such Victory - President Truman And The Cold War, 1945-1953

by Arnold A. Offner

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 A provocative reassessment of President Truman's profound influence on US foreign policy and the Cold War. The author contends that throughout his presidency, Truman remained a parochial nationalist who lacked the vision and leadership to move the United States away from conflict.
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Chronotypes - The Construction Of Time

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 Chronotypes are models or patterns through which time assumes practical or conceptual significance. Chronotypes are themselves temporal and plural, constantly being made and remade at multiple individual, social, and cultural levels. This book looks at time and chronotypes in the modern age.
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Amazonian Routes - Indigenous Mobility And Colonial Communities In Northern Brazil

by Heather F. Roller

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 This book examines the role of spatial mobility in the formation and consolidation of indigenous communities in the colonial Amazon.
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Convulsing Bodies - Religion And Resistance In Foucault

by Mark D. Jordan

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 By using religion to get at the core concepts of Michel Foucault's thinking, this book proposes and models a major shift in the way that the philosopher's work is read across the humanities and social sciences.
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African Americans Against The Bomb - Nuclear Weapons, Colonialism, And The Black Freedom Movement

by Vincent J. Intondi

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The Reach Of The State - Sketches Of The Chinese Body Politic

by Vivienne Shue

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 Includes four conceptual and critical essays on state and society in contemporary China that argue vigorously against the grain of prevailing scholarly interpretation. This title argues that the party/state under Mao fell far short of the full control over China's peasant society that outside observers often assumed it had achieved.
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Strategic Behavior And Policy Choice On The U.S. Supreme Court

by Chris W. Bonneau e Reginald S. Sheehan

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 This book presents the first comprehensive model of policymaking by strategically-rational justices who pursue their own policy preferences in the Supreme Court's multi-stage decision-making process.
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The Week The World Stood Still - Inside The Secret Cuban Missile Crisis

by Sheldon M. Stern

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 The Cuban missile crisis was the most dangerous confrontation of the Cold War and the most perilous moment in American history. In this dramatic and succinct narrative, Sheldon M. Stern enables the reader to follow the often harrowing twists and turns of the crisis.
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Scoring Points - Politicians, Activists, And The Lower Federal Court Appointment Process

by Nancy Scherer

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 This book explores how the lower federal court appointment process became vastly politicized in the modern era.
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The Strategic Dynamics Of Latin American Trade

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 The volume starts with a theoretical framework highlighting the political-economic tradeoffs entailed in different trade strategies. The following chapters focus on domestic and international constraints and the final half contains detailed, empirically grounded studies of four countries.
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Toward Nuclear Abolition - A History Of The World Nuclear Disarmament Movement, 1971-Present

by Lawrence S. Wittner

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 Toward Nuclear Abolition presents the inspiring, dramatic story of how citizen activists helped curb the nuclear arms race and prevent nuclear war.
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Between The Sacred And The Worldly - The Institutional And Cultural Practice Of Recogimiento In Colonial Lima

by Nancy E. Van Deusen

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 This groundbreaking work argues that the seminal concept of recogimiento functioned as a metaphor for the colonial relationship between Spain and Lima.
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The Advisors - Oppenheimer, Teller, And The Superbomb

by Herbert F. York

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 This volume looks at the technical, strategic, and human aspects of the debate that led to the decision to build the first hydrogen bomb. Based on participants experience of "Project Superbomb", and declassified papers the book explains the background to this acceleration of the nuclear arms race.
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Public Engagement For Public Education - Joining Forces To Revitalize Democracy And Equalize Schools

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 This volume examines the ways youth, parents, community members, and civic leaders join forces to improve public education.
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