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David Kamp
The United States of Arugula: The Sun Dried, Cold Pressed, Dark Roasted, Extra Virgin Story of the American Food Revolution

2007 y.
Publisher: Broadway
Description: The wickedly entertaining, hunger-inducing, behind-the-scenes story of the revolution in American food that has made exotic ingredients, celebrity chefs, rarefied cooking tools, and destination restaurants familiar aspects of our everyday lives. Amazingly enough, just twenty years ago eating sushi was a daring novelty and many Americans had never even heard of salsa. Today, we don`t bat an eye at a construction worker dipping a croissant into robust specialty coffee, city dwellers buying just-picked farmstand produce, or suburbanites stocking up on artisanal cheeses and extra virgin oils at supermarkets. The United States of Arugula is a rollicking, revealing stew of culinary innovation, food politics, and kitchen confidences chronicling how gourmet eating in America went from obscure to pervasive-and became the cultural success story of our era. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0767915801
Book size: —; Page extent: 416.

 

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T.R. Reid
The United States of Europe: The New Superpower and the End of American Supremacy

2005 y.
Publisher: —
Description: To Americans accustomed to unilateralism abroad and social belt-tightening at home, few books could be more revelatory?or controversial?than this timely, lucid, and informative portrait of the new European Union. Now comprising 25 nations and 450 million citizens, the EU has more people, more wealth, and more votes on every international body than the United States. It eschews military force but offers guaranteed health care and free university educations. And the new ?United States of Europe? is determined to be a superpower. Tracing the EU`s emergence from the ruins of World War II and its influence everywhere from international courts to supermarket shelves, T. R. Reid explores the challenge it poses to American political and economic supremacy. The United States of Europe is essential reading. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0143036084
Book size: —; Page extent: 320.

 

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John Dicker
The United States of Wal-Mart

2005 y.
Publisher: —
Description: An irreverent, hard-hitting examination of the world`s largest-and most reviled-corporation, which reveals that while Wal-Mart`s dominance may be providing consumers with cheap goods and plentiful jobs, it may also be breeding a culture of discontent. It employs one of every 115 American workers. If it were a nation-state, it would be one of the world`s top twenty economies. With yearly sales of nearly $260 billion and an average wage of $8 an hour, Wal-Mart represents an unprecedented-and perhaps unstoppable-force in capitalism. And there have been few corporations that have evoked the same levels of reverence and ire. The United States of Wal-Mart is a hard-hitting examination of how Sam Walton`s empire has infiltrated not just the geography of America but also its consciousness. Peeling away layers of propaganda and politics, investigative journalist John Dicker reveals an American (and, increasingly, a global) story that has no clear-cut villains or… [detailed...]

ISBN: 1585424226
Book size: —; Page extent: 256.

 

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Dean Baker
The United States since 1980 (The World Since 1980)

2007 y.
Publisher: —
Description: This provocative book describes the sharp right turn the United States has taken following the election of Ronald Reagan as president in 1980. The treatment details how the policies pursued by the Reagan administration were a break from both the policies pursued by prior administrations and those pursued in other wealthy countries. The Reagan administration policies had the effect of redistributing both before- and after-tax income upward, creating a situation in which the bulk of the economic gains over the last quarter century were directed to a small segment of the population. The analysis explains how both political parties have come largely to accept the main tenets of Reaganism, putting the United States on a path that is at odds with most of the rest of the world and is not sustainable. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0521677556
Book size: —; Page extent: 288.

 

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Helene Sjursen
The United States, Western Europe and the Polish Crisis: International Relations in the Second Cold War

2003 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Book Description This book examines the response of the Western Alliance to the Polish Crisis (1980-83). The author analyzes the different views of Europe and the US regarding enforcement in East-West relations and the opposition in western Europe tothe American approach. This case exemplifies the lasting differences in attitude within the Western Alliance. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0333740661
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The United States: Singapore Free Trade Agreement Highlights and Insights

2004 y.
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Description: On 1 January 2004, the US?Singapore Free Trade Agreement (USSFTA) came into force. The USSFTA was the result of a two-year negotiation process which started towards the end of the Clinton Administration and concluded under the Bush Administration. How did the negotiation process straddle the two administrations? What is the rationale for the FTA? What were the unique features of the negotiating process? Was negotiating with the US different from negotiating with other countries? How will the FTA benefit the two countries? What is the impact on ASEAN, APEC and the WTO? This book captures some of the personal insights thrown up in the negotiations and offers highlights and analysis of the USSFTA. Contributors to the volume include the Chief Negotiators of the two delegations, the US and Singapore Ambassadors, key negotiators and close observers of the process. Selected key documents pertaining to the USSFTA process have also been included. This book is a comprehensive reader on… [detailed...]

ISBN: 9812388486
Book size: —; Page extent: 316.

 

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Robert Hieronimus, Laura Cortner
The United Symbolism of America: Deciphering Hidden Meanings in America`s Most Familiar Art, Architecture, and Logos

2008 y.
Publisher: —
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ISBN: 1601630018
Book size: —; Page extent: 320.

 

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Martin Davis
The Universal Computer: The Road from Leibniz to Turing

— y.
Publisher: —
Description: One of the world`s pioneers in the development of computer science offers a mesmerizing history of computers. Computers are everywhere today--at work, in the bank, in artist`s studios, sometimes even in our pockets--yet they remain to many of us objects of irreducible mystery. How can today`s computers perform such a bewildering variety of tasks if computing is just glorified arithmetic? The answer, as Martin Davis lucidly illustrates, lies in the fact that computers are essentially engines of logic. Their hardware and software embody concepts developed over centuries by logicians such as Leibniz, Boole, and Godel, culminating in the amazing insights of Alan Turing. The Universal Computer traces the development of these concepts by exploring with captivating detail the lives and work of the geniuses who first formulated them. Readers will come away with a revelatory understanding of how and why computers work and how the algorithms within them came to be. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0393047857
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Georges Ifrah, Georges Ifrah
The Universal History of Computing: From the Abacus to the Quantum Computer

— y.
Publisher: —
Description: `A fascinating compendium of information about writing systems?both for words and numbers.` ?Publishers Weekly `A truly enlightening and fascinating study for the mathematically oriented reader.` ?Booklist `Well researched. . . . This book is a rich resource for those involved in researching the history of computers.` ?The Mathematics Teacher In this brilliant follow-up to his landmark international bestseller, The Universal History of Numbers, Georges Ifrah traces the development of computing from the invention of the abacus to the creation of the binary system three centuries ago to the incredible conceptual, scientific, and technical achievements that made the first modern computers possible. Ifrah takes us along as he visits mathematicians, visionaries, philosophers, and scholars from every corner of the world and every period of history. We learn about the births of the pocket calculator, the adding machine, the cash… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0471441473
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Michael Novak
The Universal Hunger For Liberty: Why the Clash of Civilizations Is Not Inevitable

2006 y.
Publisher: —
Description: `In this vital book the author tells how peacemakers can capitalize on man`s universal inner longings for liberty and mutual respect, and so restore calm to a stressed-out world.` - Washington Times Starting with 9/11 and continuing with the struggle for peace in Iraq, the West has been forced to interact more fully with the civilization of Islam. In The Universal Hunger for Liberty , statesman and award-winning author Michael Novak sets forth a new model for facing this challenge-and for healing a still violently fractured world. In place of ongoing conflict, he offers a surprisingly optimistic vision of how the concept of fundamental human liberty-shared by the Islamic and Judeo-Christian traditions-can heal our cultural, economic, and political differences. `It is Novak`s nuanced explication of his own religion`s relationship with the contemporary that is the most useful part of The Universal Hunger for Liberty .` - Los Angeles Times `Novak is… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0465051324
Book size: —; Page extent: 281.

 

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Don Koberg, Jim Bagnall
The Universal Traveler: A Soft-Systems Guide to Creativity, Problem-Solving, and the Process of Reaching Goals

— y.
Publisher: —
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ISBN: 1560526793
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Maurizio Gasperini
The Universe Before the Big Bang: Cosmology and String Theory (Astronomers` Universe)

2008 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Terms such as `expanding Universe`, `big bang`, and `initial singularity`, are nowadays part of our common language. The idea that the Universe we observe today originated from an enormous explosion (big bang) is now well known and widely accepted, at alllevels, in modern popular culture. But what happens to the Universe before the big bang? And would it make any sense at all to ask such a question? In fact, recent progress in theoretical physics, and in particular in String Theory, suggests answers to th above questions, providing us with mathematical tools able in principle to reconstruct the history of the Universe even for times before the big bang. In the emerging cosmological scenario the Universe, at the epoch of the big bang, instead of being a`new born baby` was actually a rather `aged` creature in the middle of its possibly infinitely enduring evolution. The aim of this book is to convey this picture in non-technical language accessibile also to non-specialists. The… [detailed...]

ISBN: 3540744193
Book size: —; Page extent: 208.

 

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Terence Dickinson
The Universe and Beyond

2004 y.
Publisher: Firefly Books
Description: `The Universe and Beyond` is a factual, up-to-date guide to the universe, written by bestselling astronomy author, Terence Dickinson. This book includes the most recent astronomical discoveries and events using imaginative astronomical illustration in addition to dramatic photography from the Hubble Space Telescope, space probes and the largest observatories on Earth. This fourth edition has been carefully reviewed, revised and brought up-to-date with new text and photographs. The chapter on cosmology is significantly expanded to include new information about the origin of the universe and the large-scale structure of the universe. Also included are over thirty new photographs of planets, nebulas, galaxies and galaxy clusters. Every major topic of astronomy is described clearly and concisely. `The Universe and Beyond` addresses the questions that arise most often from those with a fascination for the night sky. Brimming with color illustrations, the book includes the… [detailed...]

ISBN: 1552979016
Book size: —; Page extent: 180.

 

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M. R. Franks
The Universe and Multiple Reality: A Physical Explanation for Manifesting, Magick and Miracles

2003 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Book DescriptionUnderstand the nature of your mind and exactly how it interacts with matter at the quantum level to produce manifestations, magick and miracles. Learn the nature of the universe in which we live and the exact process by which you can change your destiny by mere faith and imagination. Understand how modern physics demonstrates the absolute immortality of your consciousness, your mind, your spirit. The Universe and Multiple Reality presents a viewpoint dramatically different from the currently fashionable scientific interpretation of modern physics, an interpretation that denies the most important part of recent scientific discoveries: the mind and its effect on reality. The Universe and Multiple Reality explains the exact physical processes by which paranormal events operate, including how miracles, magick and manifesting occur. This book is a must for any person curious about the place their mind occupies in the… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0595294723
Book size: —; Page extent: 82.

 

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Robert Zimmerman
The Universe in a Mirror: The Saga of the Hubble Space Telescope and the Visionaries Who Built It

2010 y.
Publisher: —
Description: The Hubble Space Telescope has produced the most stunning images of the cosmos humanity has ever seen. It has transformed our understanding of the universe around us, revealing new information about its age and evolution, the life cycle of stars, and the very existence of black holes, among other startling discoveries. But it took an amazing amount of work and perseverance to get the first space telescope up and running. The Universe in a Mirror tells the story of this telescope and the visionaries responsible for its extraordinary accomplishments. Robert Zimmerman takes readers behind the scenes of one of the most ambitious scientific instruments ever sent into space. After World War II, astronomer Lyman Spitzer and a handful of scientists waged a fifty-year struggle to build the first space telescope capable of seeing beyond Earth`s atmospheric veil. Zimmerman shows how many of the telescope`s advocates sacrificed careers and family to get it launched, and how others devoted their… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0691146357
Book size: —; Page extent: 312.

 

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Raman K. Prinja
The Universe, Stars and Constellations (Universe)

2007 y.
Publisher: —
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ISBN: 1432901702
Book size: —; Page extent: 32.

 

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Leo Marriott
The Universe

2007 y.
Publisher: —
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ISBN: 0785822402
Book size: —; Page extent: 255.

 

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Emilio Ambasz, Octavio Paz, Jean Baudrillard, Umberto Eco, Meyer Schapiro
The Universitas Project: Solutions for a Post-technological Society

2006 y.
Publisher: —
Description: `In January of 1972, The Museum of Modern Art hosted `The Universitas Project,` a two-day conference sponsored by the Museum`s International Council and the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies. The distinguished participants, from a wide range of scholarly and artistic disciplines, including Jean Baudrillard, Umberto Eco, Gyorgy Kepes, Octavio Paz, Anatol Rapoport, Meyer Schapiro, Carl Schorske and Jivan Tabibian, among many others, engaged in a multidisciplinary debate on the future of design and design institutions in the postindustrial era. The project, conceived and directed by the noted architect and designer Emilio Ambasz, then Curator of Design at the Museum, was originally described as `a critical and prospective inquiry into the relation of man to the natural and the sociocultural environment…specifically planned to explore the possibility of establishing in the United States a new type of institution centered around the task of evaluating and designing the… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0870700707
Book size: —; Page extent: 512.

 

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Loren Smith
The University of Georgia Football Vault

2007 y.
Publisher: —
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ISBN: 0794822967
Book size: —; Page extent: 144.

 

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Robin J. Richards
The University of Georgia Redcoat Band, 1905-2005 (Images of America: Georgia) (Images of America)

2004 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Book DescriptionThe University of Georgia Redcoat Marching Band has grown from 20 military cadets in 1905 to more than 350 musicians and auxiliary members performing complex and entertaining halftime shows all over the Southeast today. Throughout the past century the Redcoats have been invited to participate in every major bowl game in the country and in the inaugural parade of Jimmy Carter in 1977. The University of Georgia Redcoat Band: 1905?2005 covers the first 100 years of one of the finest musical organizations in America. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0738516848
Book size: —; Page extent: 128.

 

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The University, State, And Market: The Political Economy Of Globalization In The Americas

2005 y.
Publisher: —
Description: This volume explores the complex relationships among universities, states, and markets throughout the Americas in light of the growing influence of globalization. It offers a biting critique of neoliberal globalization and its anti-democratic elements. In seeking to challenge the hegemony of neoliberal globalization, the authors highlight the ways in which corporate capitalism, academic capitalism, and increased militarization?both in the form of terrorism and the international war against terrorism?are directing societies and institutions. Throughout this volume, the contributors?led by Noam Chomsky, Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Raymond Morrow, Sheila Slaughter, and Atilio Boron?argue that neoliberal globalization has changed the context for academic work, research and development, science, and social responsibility at universities. They examine issues of access and social mobility, and argue that the recent push toward privatization limits the democratic… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0804751692
Book size: —; Page extent: 360.

 

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Sean Brijbasi
The Unknowed Things

2009 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Brijbasi is the poet of irrecoverables. The shadowy figures of his skeletal world have no faces and they would not accept epiphanies. They do accept absurdities and they revel in contradictions. Brijbasi carries this to a degree that naturalizes absurdities and contradictions. The result is less fiction than a display of the mechanics of fiction that focuses on the bare minimum of expected content. This austerity, however witty it often is, brings the reader to considerations of what reality might be like if we look at it closely and if it is, in fact, real. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0977852601
Book size: —; Page extent: 172.

 

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R. Andrew Jacobus
The Unknown Guardian

2009 y.
Publisher: —
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ISBN: 1608363813
Book size: —; Page extent: 304.

 

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The Unknown Kremlin

2005 y.
Publisher: Московский дом фотографии
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ISBN: 5-93977-020-7
Book size: —; Page extent: 276.

 

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Kenneth W. Faig
The Unknown Lovecraft

2008 y.
Publisher: Hippocampus Press
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ISBN: 0981488870
Book size: —; Page extent: 256.

 

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Thomas Walz
The Unlikely Celebrity: Bill Sackter`s Triumph over Disability

— y.
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ISBN: 0809322137
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Daniel Silva
The Unlikely Spy

2003 y.
Publisher: Signet
Description: In this debut novel, veteran journalist Silva mines the reliable territory of World War II espionage to produce a gripping, historically detailed thriller. In early 1944 the Allies were preparing their invasion of Normandy, critical to the invasion`s success was an elaborate set of deceptions--from phony radio signals to bogus airfields and barracks--intended to keep Hitler in the dark about when and where the Allied troops would arrive. Catherine Blake is the beautiful, ruthless spy who could bring the whole charade crashing down, Alfred Vicary is the brilliant but bumbling professor Churchill has tapped to protect the operation. Along with a teeming cast of other characters, real and fictional, they bring the chase to a furious and satisfying climax. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0451209303
Book size: —; Page extent: 544.

 

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Betty Levin
The Unmaking of Duncan Veerick

2007 y.
Publisher: —
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ISBN: 1932425969
Book size: —; Page extent: 212.

 

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Reg Theriault
The Unmaking of the American Working Class

— y.
Publisher: —
Description: A searingly candid account of work and class in America from the author of How to Tell When You`re Tired . Drawing on his experiences as a veteran longshoreman and fruit tramp, Reg Theriault, author of How to Tell When You`re Tired , which Robert Heilbroner called `extraordinary,` describes the blue-collar culture and ethics that have defined America, and explains why they are worth preserving in the face of globalization and downsizing. The Unmaking of the American Working Class tells the story behind the disappearance of blue-collar work in America, giving both a humorous picture of working-class labor and a devastating indictment of the forces that threaten it. Whether Republican or Democratic, every administration since World War II has fostered the destruction of large segments of the blue-collar working class. Theriault maintains that America is the poorer for such action, and argues that our society doesn`t need to destroy this vital part of itself…. [detailed...]

ISBN: 1565847628
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Yiannis Gabriel, Tim Lang
The Unmanageable Consumer: Contemporary Consumption and its Fragmentations

— y.
Publisher: —
Description: Consumption and concepts of the consumer sit at the centre of numerous current debates - academic, political and environmental. This highly readable and stimulating book - a tour-de-force in the breadth of its coverage and analysis - shows how different traditions of thought have constructed different representations of the consumer. Each of these has its own coherence but rarely addresses alternative positions. A key concern of the authors is to identify, disentangle and juxtapose approaches to contemporary consumption which are seldom found in a single text. Yiannis Gabriel and Tim Lang present a number of distinctive portraits of the consumer - as Chooser, as Communicator, as Identity-seeker, as Explorer, as Hedo [detailed...]

ISBN: 080397745X
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Yiannis Gabriel, Tim Lang
The Unmanageable Consumer

2006 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Western-style consumerism appears unstoppable. Yet it is has failed to deliver greater happiness and is now facing major environmental, population and political challenges. The Unmanageable Consumer examines the key Western traditions of thinking about and being a consumer. Each chapter posits a consumer model with examples from the international community. Readers are invited to enter an exciting and radical analysis of contemporary consumerism which suggests that consumerism is fragile and consumers unpredictable. Updated with new material, this Second Edition looks at the impact of new technologies on consumerism and the consolidation of consumerism and ‘consumer’ language in spheres like education and health. The authors discuss the spread of consumerism to developing countries like India and the effect of demographic change and migration. The fallout from 9/11 and US military hegemony is examined as is the influence on consumerism… [detailed...]

ISBN: 1412918936
Book size: —; Page extent: 232.

 

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