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This book examines the relationship between the private naval armaments industry, businessmen and the British government defence planners between the wars. It reassesses the concept of the Military-Industrial Complex through the impact of disarmament upon private industry, the role of leading industrialists in supply and procurement policy, and the successes and failings of government organisation.

For courses in criminological theory (undergraduate and graduate) and Introduction to Criminology. This concise, up-to-date text provides student-friendly examples of all theoretical approaches that emphasize the complex relationships between 21st century social structures, cultures, and crime. Criminological Theory: A Brief Introduction, 4e provides students and instructors with a concise, up-to-date, and thorough discussion and explication o...

Shaped with a clear political chronology, this book reflects the variety of individual experiences and cultures that comprise American society. It provides a clear narrative and an integrated program of learning aids that make the historical content vivid and comprehensible to readers at all levels of preparedness.

Originally published in 1915, this is the first study to explore a distinctly American style of landscape design based on the celebration, replication, and conservation of the natural environment of the Midwest.

In Joe and Kate Keller's family garden, an apple tree - a memorial to their son Larry, lost in the Second World War - has been torn down by a storm. But his loss is not the only part of the family's past they can't put behind them.

In Miller's uproarious new work, two feuding biographers take on the life andlegacy of a legendary writer--with hilarious and fatal results.

Why do anvils fall from the sky?And backseat drivers make us cry?What do these old jokes mean?The answers are in American Cornball, a hysterical illustrated survey of things that used to make us laugh. From hiccups and henpecked husbands to outhouses and old maids, Christopher Miller revisits nearly 200 comic staples, their (often unseemly) origins, why they were funny then, and why they’re not so funny now. The result is a grand tour of the e...

Christopher Miller's American Cornball is an indispensable history of our shared legacy of forgotten humor by one of our wittiest cultural observers, it's also "that rare book on humor that is as entertaining as its subject" (Publishers Weekly). From hiccups and henpecked husbands to outhouses and old maids, Miller revisits nearly two hundred comic staples, their (often unseemly) origins, their cultural roots, and what they reveal about Americ...

Peter Miller presents an arsenal of essential ingredients-and five exceptional recipes for preparing each

The field of Games is rapidly expanding, prompting institutions throughout the world to create game development programs and courses focusing on educational games. As a result, games have also become a hot topic in the area of educational technology research. This increased interest is due to the technological advancement of digital games and the fact that a new, digital generation is emerging with a strong gaming background. Games: Purpose an...

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How does African literature written in French change the way we think about nationalism, colonialism, and postcolonialism? How does it imagine the encounter between Africans and French? And what does the study of African literature bring to the fields of literary and cultural studies? Christopher L. Miller explores these and other questions in "Nationalists and Nomads." Miller ranges from the beginnings of francophone African literature--which...

Situating literature and anthropology in mutual interrogation, Miller's...book actually performs what so many of us only call for. Nowhere have all the crucial issues been brought together with the sort of critical sophistication it displays."--Henry Louis Gates, Jr. ." . . a superb cross-disciplinary analysis."--Y. Mudimbe

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