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In this volume a number of international experts on individual variants of fascism explore the link between a particular totalitarian movement or regime and the concrete historical phenomena it produced.

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Rahsaan Pearl's main ambition in life is just to be happy, and he's convinced that there isn't a woman alive that he can be truly happy with...until he moves from New York to North Carolina. There he finds the woman of his teenage fantasies...and the girl of his dreams. Sophistocated, eloquent and bitter about relationships, Alicia Hayes is reluctant to hook up with a younger man. But loneliness will get to anyone after being around long en...

Though born an expatriate U.S. citizen in Nicaragua, the author's hometown has an English name, Bluefields, and was the former capital of the onetime British protectorate called Mosquitia. Added to this exotic background, during his boyhood in the 1930's Nicaragua was under U.S. Marine Occupation and the country's entire Caribbean region was, in effect, an Anglo-American enclave, which led to his latino friends nicknaming him a gringo hechizo,...

Though born an expatriate U.S. citizen in Nicaragua, the author's hometown has an English name, Bluefields, and was the former capital of the onetime British protectorate called Mosquitia. Added to this exotic background, during his boyhood in the 1930's Nicaragua was under U.S. Marine Occupation and the country's entire Caribbean region was, in effect, an Anglo-American enclave, which led to his latino friends nicknaming him a gringo hechizo,...

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American social policy, writes David Stoesz, is currently experiencing an alarming paradigm shift. Quixote's Ghost, a provocative new analysis of the ideological fight for control of American social welfare policy, demonstrates how the Right pirated the pragmatism championed by the Left sincethe New Deal and what that means for the future of social policy. Stoesz's fascinating account documents how conservative think tanks arose to combat the ...

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Anthony "Tony Palma" Palmeri, popular barber and humorist in Pittston, a small Pennsylvania coal-mining town, began telling jokes as he began losing hair in his twenties. With his dynamic wit, Tony built up a repertoire as "The Bald Barber, " which mushroomed into a stand-up-comedian routine over a 40-year career. With the humor of Robin Williams and the gentleness of Bing Crosby, there was no frightened child whom Tony could not charm into a ...

This is a textbook of macroeconomic theory and politics from a post-Keynesian perspective. The function of the macroeconomic system is explained in a straightforward way. The text is deliberately designed to be simple and pedagogical and is supported by a number of illustrative diagrams. Mathematics is reduced to an absolute minimum and put into separate text boxes.

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Spans a host of jazz idioms including blues, swing, Latin and gospel with 10 jazz standards. This book/CD includes "Fly me to the moon", "Stompin' at the Savoy" and "C Jam Blues" and the professional, acoustic backing tracks help create an atmospheric performance.

This is a penetrating analysis of UN Security Council reform. It presents an overview of the current debates - emphasising the potential for, and modalities of, adjustment in the post-Cold War era - through a systematic investigation of the various reform proposals and the attitudes of member states. This is essential reading for all students and scholars of the United Nations and international relations.

This book contains analyses, experimental investigations, and stability evaluation of landslides in soil. Case records with detailed surveys illustrate the topographic conditions and the movements that take place. Numerous case records from rockslides give new information about the extent of such slides and the geological conditions where such slides occur. The sliding mechanism is described and modeled in order to explain the dynamics of slid...

Covers distributed spatial infrastructure, image-based geospatial information management, indexing and querying geospatial databases, and ontology and semantics for geospatial data. This volume offers contributions from leading experts in spatial information modeling, image processing and analysis, database management, ontologies and data mining.

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Modesty Blaise's loyal lieutenant, Willie Garvin, is kidnapped and brainwashed into believing that Modesty is dead and that he must kill her murderer - a woman who looks exactly like Modesty herself. Pawns in a deadly game, Modesty and Willie must fight against the diabolical ingenuity of Pilgrim's plan.