2012

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A Fatal Addiction
War in the Name of God
This unsettling book reviews specific instances of ‘holy war’? as proposed in the holy books of the major faith traditions, and illustrates how bellicose, war-like language is used to explain the spiritual quest.

Tom Block Price range: $22.95 through $32.95 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
A More Imperfect Union
How Inequity, Debt, and Economics Undermine the American Dream
Inflation and an addiction to debt characterize the U.S. economy.

James L. Jennings Price range: $23.95 through $33.95 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
Euro Exit
Why (and How) To Get Rid of the Monetary Union
The euro zone is clearly not an optimal single currency area, and thus the euro has been the worst governmental mistake since deflationary policy turned the 1929 crisis into a decade of depression.

Jean-Jacques Rosa Price range: $9.95 through $19.95 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
Fiscal Crisis and World Order
The book begins by approaching the fiscal crisis that hit the United States and the global economy starting in 2008 with a short historical background.

Raymond W. Converse Price range: $22.95 through $32.95 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
From Conflict to Crisis
The Danger of U.S. Actions
A society that is reared on competition will face unsettling challenges to authority if it doesn’t set certain functions outside the arena of battle, via systematic enrichment of the affluent minority that has always had the power to topple and ruin the system.

Jeanne M. Haskin Price range: $22.95 through $32.95 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
Hatshepsut, Queen of Sheba
Over the centuries the figure of the Queen of Sheba has loomed large in poetry and romance. The mysterious Queen, who is said to have visited Solomon in Jerusalem, has cast her spell over poets, painters and storytellers of many lands.

Emmet Scott Price range: $21.95 through $31.95 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
Homo Redneckus
On Being Not Qwhite In America
Discussing questions of race and class in America, we often skip those who are white but are treated as a different kind of “other.” A professor of English and literature, Dr.

William Matthew McCarter Price range: $23.95 through $33.95 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
Kairological Economics
An Anthropocentric and Creative Theory of Political Economy and Management
Economic analysis underpins and informs economic decision-making, even if there is a lengthy lag between economic analysis and its gradual absorption into economic debate.

Nicolas Laos Price range: $21.95 through $31.95 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
Medina Mayrit
The Origins of Madrid
Ana Ruiz visits the monuments, architecture and archeological remains of early Madrid, tracing its evolution up until the Christian conquest in the late 11th century.

Ana Ruiz Price range: $21.95 through $31.95 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
Minimizing the Risk of Alzheimer’s Disease
A prudent diet, lifestyle modifications, nutritional supplements, exercise and activities to stimulate the brain are some of the best ways to prevent or delay Alzheimer’s disease. Use your brain or lose it!

Frank Murray Price range: $23.95 through $33.95 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
On Strength
A Collection of Philosophical Dialogues
Exploring elements that contribute to personal strength, the author engages us in conversation to tease out the complexities.What does character have to do with strength? What about truth?How do heart and soul figure into things? What about mind and gut?

Nicholas J. Pappas Price range: $21.95 through $31.95 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
Patterns of Bias in Hollywood Movies
Many groups within our multi-cultural society have complained over the years about negative and stereotypical portrayals of their own group members in motion pictures produced or released through the Hollywood-based motion picture studios.

John Cones Price range: $22.95 through $32.95 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
Quality of Life, Balance of Power, and Nuclear Weapons (2012)
A Statistical Yearbook for Statesmen and Citizens
The foundations of power politics in the nuclear age, fundamental forces that drive events in the international news, and seldom-discussed factors that can shift whole economies, or trigger wars, may be discerned from the statistical tables…

Alexander V. Avakov Price range: $19.95 through $29.95 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
Race, Ethnicity and Crime
Melting pot or tossed salad? The U.S. criminal justice system may prove to be fueling intolerance rather than enabling society to accommodate racial and ethnic differences.

Dianne Williams Price range: $23.95 through $33.95 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
Smokescreen
The US, NATO and the Illegitimate Use of Force
When is it legitimate for America to use force? Was military intervention legitimate in Venezuela, in Libya, in Iraq?

Paul F.J. Aranas Price range: $22.95 through $32.95 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
Stiffing the Working Class
Welcome to Third-World America
The writer shows how paying a little more money for permanent employees results in increased production and improved quality, whereas using cheaper temporary labor destroys quality.

Clyde Bradley Price range: $21.95 through $31.95 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page