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With the Vietnam War raging and riots plaguing the cities of America, Jim Ward, a Grand Falls High School history teacher, faces financial ruin, including loss of his job, medical expenses, and a lawsuit demanding damages thirty times his annual salary. Years earlier, when America was in the throes of World War II, the thirteen boys of Grand Falls High School Homeroom 207 formed a club they termed the "The Guys." Travel back to Jim's youth and...

This volume traces the normative, legal, institutional, and political responses to the challenges of assisting and protecting internally displaced persons (IDPs).

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A revised and updated introduction to the 8th edition of this classic text covers the election of the ninth Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, the burgeoning of "new nationalisms" worldwide, including Trump and Brexit, and the continuing proliferation of such non-state actors as ISIS and those in the "third UN.

Unseemly complications unfold when a drunk driver steals the life of one of four inseparable college buddies. Flash back six years to the quartet's graduation from William's College, and trace the distinct, but intersecting paths their lives take. Join with them as they confront life's demons, some of which come from within. Endure an encounter with a dodgy college classmate who converts a long-coveted venture into a trek to Hell. Travel the b...

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This book has more than a hundred pages of fascinating facts about Brooklyn. It will entertain, challenge, inform, and educate you about New York's most unique Borough.

This book has more than a hundred pages of fascinating facts about Brooklyn. It will entertain, challenge, inform, and educate you about New York's most unique Borough.

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Trial attorney Skip Maynard, once the rising star of the Cooperstown Courthouse, has been hired to defend Harley Morehead, chairman of the Populist Party. The charge is murder, and the case against Morehead is rock solid. Ever since the hit-and-run driver killed Skip's wife Megan a decade earlier, his career has spiraled downward. Alcohol dominates hours once enthusiastically devoted to law books. With Megan, his soul mate, gone, a new friend,...

The use of sanctions is increasing in the post-Cold War world. Along with this increase, the international community must ask itself whether sanctions 'work, ' in the sense that they incite citizens to change or overthrow an offending government, and whether sanctions are really less damaging than the alternative of war. Here for the first time, sanctions and humanitarian aid experts converge on these questions and consider the humanitarian im...

Cynical attorney Peter Lambert, choking on a tedious diet of estates and closings, has finally landed a case to challenge his courtroom skills. Jack Boyland has been charged with robbing his business partner, and murder looms as a possibility. Only a corpus delicti is missing. An artist who knows too much, an insurance agent with too many angles and a bearded mystery man shroud the case with questions. A growing mountain of evidence against th...

THE GREAT FIRE OF LONDON A book that entertains, informs and suggests startling parallels to today's world. _____________________________________________________________________________ Join such historical figures as King Charles II whose far-seeing plan rebuilt a city, Samuel Pepys whose diary told the tale, and Christopher Wren whose architectural genius brought London back to life. __________________________________________________________...

It was the brainchild of Henry Ford and inventor William Bushnell Stout. It was the Ford Tri Motor, affectionately called the Tin Goose, the first all-metal passenger plane built in the United States. Only one hundred ninety-nine were ever manufactured, but they launched regular scheduled flights in America, introducing almost everything we have in air travel today-from stewardesses to concrete runways in airports. All major airlines started w...

Built around three critical themes in international relations-peace and security, human rights and humanitarian affairs, and sustainable human development-the eighth edition of The United Nations and Changing World Politics guides students through the seven turbulent decades of UN politics.

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Why would Lauren Worthington, reporter for the Cedar Creek Chronicle, trade romance, a good job and a bright future for controversy and peril? The year is 1983, and the western South Carolina village of Cedar Creek with its racially embittered past and depressed economy has begun to change, but far too slowly for Lauren. Her father, whose mansion was built more than a century before on the backs of slaves, plans to construct a shopping mall ju...

The Historiography of Genocide is an indispensable guide to the development of the emerging discipline of genocide studies and the only available assessment of the historical literature pertaining to genocides.