2002

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A Philosophy of War
“War’s origins are complex: they are found in the nebulous systems of thoughts generated in cultures over time. But while reason and explication can unravel those origins-and explain why man wages war-the task of abolishing war can never be completed by reason alone.

Alexander Moseley Price range: $21.95 through $28.95 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
Civilization’s Quotations
Life's Ideal
In Civilization’s Quotations: Life’s Ideal , Richard Alan Krieger presents a masterful collection of humanity’s most profound thoughts on life, purpose, and the human experience.

Richard Alan Krieger Price range: $22.95 through $28.95 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
College Attrition at American Research Universities:
Comparative Case Studies
College Attrition at American Research Universities offers a rare inside look at why students leave some of the nation’s most selective institutions—and what colleges can realistically do about it.

Joseph C. Hermanowicz Price range: $21.95 through $29.95 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
Eating the Ashes: Seeking Rehabilitation within the US Penal System
Written from prison, the book contrasts penal programs focused on counseling and rehabilitation vs punishment, with case studies of successful, but increasingly scarce, programs.

Veronica Compton-Wallace Price range: $21.95 through $28.95 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
Empress Dowager Cixi
In all the history of China, only two women ever conquered and held the heights of power. Both enjoyed long reigns characterized by ruthless intrigue; they maintained an iron grip at the center while the vast country was torn by rebellions and caught up in foreign wars.

X. L. Woo Price range: $21.95 through $28.95 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
Locke, Jefferson, and the Justices:
Foundations and Failures of the US Government
“This book is about American politics and law; it is also about the roots of the Contract with America. . . . A logical place to find the intent of the Founders is in Locke, [and] Stephens makes a contribution by highlighting this.

George Stephens Price range: $21.95 through $28.95 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
Mikhail Bakunin
The Philosophical Basis of His Theory of Anarchism
McLaughlin is concerned not so much with an explication of Bakunin’s anarchist position, as such, as with the basic philosophy which underpins it.

Paul McLaughlin Price range: $22.95 through $29.95 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
Moldova: A Romanian Province under Russian Rule
Diplomatic History from the Archives of the Great Powers
Since Romania entered the EU, the murky territorial questions on her northeastern border have started to receive more attention. What are Moldova, Bassarabia, and Transnistria; and how did they wind up suspended between Romania and Russia?

Marcel Mitrasca Price range: $33.00 through $45.00 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
Prophets without Honor
A Requiem for Moral Patriotism
“Radical priests” laid it on the line, challenging government, corporations and the Church. Some were jailed; some were killed. Personal accounts tell why they had to do it – and why governments and the Church fought so hard to stop them.

Michael Palecek Price range: $23.95 through $30.95 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
Reason in Revolt, Vol. I
Dialectical Philosophy and Modern Science
Many people feel in their innermost being that something is going badly wrong, with no logical explanation. Dialectical Materialism offers new insights uniting laws that govern science and society from evolution to chaos theory, nuclear physics to childhood development.

Ted Grant Price range: $21.95 through $28.95 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
Restorative Justice
Prison as Hell or a Chance for Redemption
Part an explication of the idea of restorative justice and part the traumatic personal story of a young woman unfortunate enough to fall into the claws of the current US penal system, the book demonstrates through both logic and emotion that we, as…

Jennifer Furio Price range: $19.95 through $26.95 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
Synchronized Chronology:
Rethinking Middle East Antiquity
Synchronized Chronology resolves the structural problems of Egyptian chronology and then outlines the correct history of the Middle East and Mediterranean from the time of Abraham and his wandering into the Empire of Alexander the Great.

Roger Henry Price range: $24.95 through $31.95 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
The American Civilization and Ancient Confucianism
American Civilization Portrayed in Ancient Confucianism offers a striking reversal of perspective: instead of judging China by Western standards, Wei-Bin Zhang uses classical Confucian thought to examine the United States.

Wei-Bin Zhang Price range: $21.95 through $28.95 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
The Evolution of Electoral and Party Systems in the Nordic Countries
This work discusses and shows through statistics how the choice and design of electoral system/changes in electoral systems can have significant and lasting direct consequences for party proliferation, proportionality of party representation, racial…

Bernard Grofman et al. Price range: $40.00 through $80.00 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
The Informed Vision
Essays on Learning and Human Nature
Many of the essays in this book use science and mathematics education as the starting point for the author’s concern with the way children develop their understanding of the world around them – the principal focus of Hawkins’ work.

David Hawkins Price range: $32.95 through $48.95 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
The Morgenthau Plan
Soviet Influence on American Foreign Policy
After hostilities officially ceased, what was driving American policy towards Germany in 1944-1949, and what changed? Contrary to what is often reported in history books, the Morgenthau Plan had a major impact on postwar planning.

John Dietrich Price range: $21.95 through $32.95 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page