books about: half-century     books:       America's Half-Century: United States Foreign Policy in the Cold War and After (The American Moment)1 review Thomas J. McCormick The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989 An Honest History of US Foreign Relations Readers not fully abreast of contemporary debates in the study of U.S. history may be somewhat shocked by the central theme of Thomas J. McCormick's America's Half-Century. According to McCormick the Cold War was not something foisted on a reluctant American leadership by Soviet belligerence and intransigence. Rather, the Cold War was itself part of a larger "hegemonic project" -- a projection ...             50 Years of the Gibson Les Paul: Half a Century of the Greatest Electric Guitars8 reviews Tony Bacon Backbeat Books, 2002 Another must have for Gibson lovers A great book on Gibsons and also for references.             My Half-Century: Selected Prose Anna Akhmatova Northwestern University Press, 1997 My Half-Century presents a large collection of the major prose works of the great twentieth century Russian poet, including -- "Pages from a Diary", her brilliant shorter pieces "About Pushkin", a number of reviews and public addresses including "A Word About Dante", a long selection of letters (to Aleksander Blok, Nikolai Gumilyov, Osip and Nadezhda Mandelstam, Boris Pasternak, and many others up to Joseph Brodsky), with an afterword ...             Chinese Literature in the Second Half of a Modern Century Indiana University Press, 2000 This volume offers a survey of Chinese Literature in the second half of the twentieth century. It has three goals: (1) to introduce the figures, works, movements, and debates that constitute the dynamics of Chinese literature from 1949 to the end of the century; (2) to depict the reality of Chinese cultural politics; and (3) to observe the historical factors behind the interplay of literary (post)modernities in the Chinese communities of the ...             America's Half-Century: United States Foreign Policy in the Cold War and After (The American Moment)6 reviews Thomas J. McCormick The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995 Outstanding, provocative overview of US foreign policy This is one of the best books available tracing the political and economic history of U.S. foreign policy since the end of World War II. I use it on a regular basis in my American Foreign Policy course and students enjoy McCormick's clarity and provocative insights,as he does a masterful job in linking economic and political power in the shaping of U.S. foreign policy.             U.S. Versus Them: How a Half-Century of Conservatism Has Undermined America's Security9 reviews J. Peter Scoblic Viking Adult, 2008 Highly recommended for IR beginners and experts alike Peter Scoblic's US vs Them provides a thorough and highly readable overview of conservative foreign policy, accessable for IR-"novices" and providing some fresh interpretations for experts out there. I find it hard to read this genre without falling asleep... and Scoblic kept me awake.             Abortion Wars: A Half Century of Struggle, 1950-20003 reviews University of California Press, 1998 Wide-reaching and informative The essays in this book bring together a wide range of perspectives on reproductive rights and freedom of choice, many of which are not always part of the "mainstream" dialogue about these issues. Essays are well-written and engaging, and the book makes a wonderful reference tool.             Saab: Half a Century of Achievement, 1947-19773 reviews Eric Dymock Haynes Pubns, 1997 No Saab driver should be without! This book is so hard to find! I had to get it for my brother who is a Saab fanatic and he LOVES it. It's the thing to have if you love Saabs. Even if you don't, the photos are amazing so it's great to flip through. If you know someone with a 9-3 this one's the best: Saab 9-3 or a 9-5: Saab 9-5: a Personal Story             The Cutting Edge: A Half Century of U.S. Fighter Aircraft R&D Mark Lorell RAND Corporation, 1998 This pictorial history, featuring nearly 40 rare aircraft photos, discusses the major trends in the history of jet fighter design and development in the United States since WWII. With the declining size and experience base of the U.S. military aerospace industry, many worry about the industry's ability to support future military requirements. The authors examine the successes of the past to help shape research and development policies for the ...             Classic American Popular Song: The Second Half-Century, 1950-20003 reviews David Jenness, Don Velsey Routledge, 2005 Excellent The book which is a kind of a sequel to an epochmaking book by Alec Wilder is simply indispensable to anyone who is interested in the field. It is both intelligent and entertaining, as a book on popular music should be. Highly recommended.             The World Bank: Its First Half Century1 review Devesh Kapur, John P. Lewis, ... Brookings Institution Press, 1997 An Imposing Study of a Bretton Woods Institution This massive history of the World Bank's first fifty years of existence is governed by two main themes. The first is the seemingly intractable conflict between the Bank's avowed mission of promoting economic development in general and the Bank's need to keep its shareholders' interests in mind and to satisfy the capital markets. The interplay between the World Bank's project lending ...             Mental Ills and Bodily Cures: Psychiatric Treatment in the First Half of the Twentieth Century (Medicine and ...2 reviews Joel Braslow University of California Press, 1997 A Sympathetic History of Draconian Treatment Methods This book investigates the history of somatic therapies which were generally applied in mental hospitals during the first half of the twentieth century, among them electroshock therapy, lobotomy, metrazol shock therapy, malaria fever therapy, and forced sterilization. Such treatments are most often dismissed straight away as cruel and barbaric (which is, of course, not entirely incorrect). The ...             The Long Night of Dark Intent: A Half Century of Cuban Communism Irving Horowitz Transaction Publishers, 2008 The Cuban Revolution did not start with the entrance of guerrillas into Havana on January 1, 1959. As Castro himself made clear, that event culminated several years of armed insurrection against the Batista regime. It was both a triumph and a harbinger of tragedy to come. Rather than herald a new Cuba joining the world's democracies, January 1, 1959 marked a new stage in authoritarian rule in the Americas. This amalgam of military charisma as a ...             All Deliberate Speed: Reflections on the First Half-Century of Brown v. Board of Education11 reviews Charles J. Ogletree W. W. Norton & Company, 2005 "Bearing Witness to the Truth" -- All Deliberate Speed All Deliberate Speed bears witness to the truth about our two party education system. This book should be on the required reading list for all students in both high school and college. It is a must read for law students who take, or contemplate taking constitutional law courses or anyone who truly wants to understand the impact of Brown v. Board of Education. All Deliberate Speed speaks the ...             France and England in North America: Vol II: Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV, A Half-Century ...1 review Francis Parkman Library of America, 1985 I can not say enough good about this work It is always distressing when the greatest of works somehow go unnoticed in present history when this series came out Francis Parkman was at the zenith of his paving the road for all the lesser historians which infest the world today. My reason for finding Parkman was his mention in Theodore Roosevelt's historical work, The Winning of the West, and as good as Roosevelt is....Francis Parkman is ...             A Half-Century of Greatness: The Creative Imagination of Europe, 1848-1884 Frederic Ewen NYU Press, 2007 A Half-Century of Greatness paints a vivid and dramatic picture of the creative thought of mid- to late nineteenth century Europe and the influence of the unsuccessful revolutions of 1848. It reveals often unexpected links between novelists, poets, and philosophers from England, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Russia, and Ukraine?especially Dickens, Carlyle, Mill, the Brontës, and George Eliot; Hegel, Strauss, Feuerbach, Marx, Engels, Wagner, and ...              search for books 1848-1884, 1947-1977, 1950-2000, abortion, achievement, aircraft, american, communism, conflict, conservatism, creative, deliberate, education, electric, frontenac, greatest, greatness, half-century, imagination, literature, medicine, montcalm, psychiatric, reflections, security, selected, struggle, treatment, twentieth, undermined books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen book: The Antioxidant Cookbook: A Nutritionist's Secret Strategy leave a comment home  impressum - about us