CONTENTS:Scenes of My ChildhoodSeeking an EducationThe Law and PoliticsIn National PoliticsOn Entering and Leaving the PresidencySome of the Duties of the PresidentWhy I Did Not Choose to Run
Loyalty On Trial reveals that Arthur Wolter was accused of being the "power behind the throne" of an organization targeted by J. Edgar Hoover during WWII as subversive and un-American. Referenced in the index files of the House Special Committee on un-American Activities as the "poet laureate of the German American Bund, " Wolter's writings were used against him in the government's attempt to revoke his citizenship. In an effort to assure Amer...
Alexander Hamilton called the judiciary the "least dangerous" branch of government. He was right then but wrong today. Since Hamilton's time the Supreme Court has become a cardinal example of Lord Acton's famous dictum: "Power tends to corrupt, absolute power corrupts absolutely." It is not a corruption of bribes, or even of bad intentions, but of taking upon itself the right to alter the Constitution whenever past principles offend present pr...
Alexander Hamilton called the judiciary the "least dangerous" branch of government. He was right then but wrong today. Since Hamilton's time the Supreme Court has become a cardinal example of Lord Acton's famous dictum: "Power tends to corrupt, absolute power corrupts absolutely." It is not a corruption of bribes, or even of bad intentions, but of taking upon itself the right to alter the Constitution whenever past principles offend present pr...
After already declining dramatically in the previous two years, foreign direct investment (FDI) flows into OECD countries continued to slip in 2003. Direct investment into North America was particularly hard hit, whereas flows from OECD countries toward developing and emerging economies held up well. The first article in this year's International Investment Perspectives analyses the trends. Russia has so far not received much investment beyond...
The Old Testament message was a little scary, we were to "Fear" God. The New through Jesus was to love Him. This Third Testament is to understand Him, asking why He set up this Creation, etc. When Jesus said, "Be ye perfect, " there was not an explanation as to how or why. This book sets out to find answers. It begins with our origin and then creation that's already underway then follows the gift of our souls and then arrivals on this planet a...
The Old Testament message was a little scary, we were to "Fear" God. The New through Jesus was to love Him. This Third Testament is to understand Him, asking why He set up this Creation, etc. When Jesus said, "Be ye perfect, " there was not an explanation as to how or why. This book sets out to find answers. It begins with our origin and then creation that's already underway then follows the gift of our souls and then arrivals on this planet a...
Using her 10 years of psychology experience, Author Bree Allinson helps others through the constant challenges that arise when an overbearing and controlling mother-in-law is intimately involved in a couple's life. Without the use of intimidating "psychobabble" Allinson points out some common issues couple's face, as well as combining polls, personal interviews, and encouraging professional advice for those constantly at odds with their mother...
The syntactic periphery has become one of the most important areas of research in syntactic theory in recent years, due to the emergence of new research programmes initiated by Rizzi, Kayne and Chomsky. However research has concentrated on the empirical nature of clausal peripheries. The purpose of this volume is to explore the question of whether the notion of periphery has any real theoretical bite. An important consensus emerging from the v...
Something was wrong. The window was open. I had never opened it. Aunt Puff hadn't either. Had Minerva? I looked back at her seat. Minerva's leopard-print cowboy hat lay on the floor. "Minerva!" Ludwig growled, sniffing the air. Ciber squawked furiously, banging his feathers against his cage. Smoke swirled round the chair where Minerva had been sitting. The silly hands tried to fan it away. I gulped. Ludwig covered his eyes with his paws. Miner...
Something was wrong. The window was open. I had never opened it. Aunt Puff hadn't either. Had Minerva? I looked back at her seat. Minerva's leopard-print cowboy hat lay on the floor. "Minerva!" Ludwig growled, sniffing the air. Ciber squawked furiously, banging his feathers against his cage. Smoke swirled round the chair where Minerva had been sitting. The silly hands tried to fan it away. I gulped. Ludwig covered his eyes with his paws. Miner...
An essential study of Cecil and the Elizabethan court, especially with regard to the establishment of English international power and the defeat of the Armada.From the preface: "It was an ironical fate to achieve while living a flame of the very first magnitude, only to have it consistently debased by posterity: to be acknowledged by contemporaries as the virtual 'Ruler of England' throughout the period that was most decisive in the nation's d...
This rare book was one of the few early 20th century dog books to deal solely with the true `Working Terrier'. Now very scarce and much sought after in its original limited edition, we have reprinted it in a high quality hard back format. Written by an expert in both breeding and working terriers, the book is packed with practical advice, and includes many original photographs of terriers in action against a variety of quarry. J.C. Bristow-Nob...
Medieval Lyric" is a colourful collection of lyrical poems, carols, and traditional British ballads written between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries, together with some twentieth-century American versions of them.
Jail to Jail is the personal account of an Armenian soldier in the Ottoman army during the First World War who survived the genocide of his people. Accused of desertion while on medical leave in the summer of 1915, he was dragged form one prison cell to another for three years on his way form Marash, Turkey, to Mosul, Iraq, where he was set free. He endured constant beatings, hunger, torture, humiliation, and endless walks in shackles. He witn...
In The Network Society, Darin Barney provides a compelling examination of the social, political and economic implications of network technologies and their application across a wide range of practices and institutions.
This book discusses efforts to modify Senate and House operations and structure since the 1940's, including the origin and makeup of the various reform entities, their recommendations, and the consequences of those recommendations.
The expanding role of the Guard and its close cooperation with the Air Force are Dr. Gross' themes, explaining the rise of the Guard to the prominence it plays in today's air operations. He pulls no punches in recounting the conflict between Guard and regular Air Force, or in explaining how each side maneuvered to safeguard its interests. However, the author also shows how common concerns and mutual dedication to the national defense overcame ...
Bobby was born in the middle of the Cold War in the shadow of the big A-bomb factory which employed his father, a poor farm boy made good, This was the factory that made the Nagasaki bomb. Stumbling through childhood, Bobby is unaware that the area where he is growing up was once the home of the proud Plateau Indian culture, sharing with the bomb factory a deep dependence on the mighty Columbia River coursing through eastern Washington. In thi...
