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The only way to avoid dodgy dossiers and dubious foreign adventures is to acknowledge that the post-Cold War world is a far safer place than neoconservative rhetoricians would have us believe. The Ministry of Defence should reclaim its pre-Orwellian meaning and the armed forces should be scaled back accordingly.
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Russian Liberalism charts the development of liberal ideas and political organizations in Russia as well as the implementation of liberal reforms by the Russian and Soviet governments at various points in time. Paul Robinson's comprehensive survey covers the entire period from the late eighteenth century to the present day.
Robinson demonstrates that liberalism has always lacked strong roots in the Russian population, being largely espoused by a...
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"Even the title of Paul Robinson's excellent book, And Your Life Starts Now, can infuse you with an initial sense of optimism that gets more and more powerful with each turn of a page. Interspersed between the rich array of stories of people courageously turning their lives around and a deep well of inspirational quotes to make you think and then think again, Robinson offers solid advice to help anyone and everyone who wants to build a better life....
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Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich Romanov (1856–1929) was a key figure in late Imperial Russia, and one of its foremost soldiers. At the outbreak of World War I, his cousin, Tsar Nicholas II, appointed him Supreme Commander of the Russian Army. From 1914 to 1915, and then again briefly in 1917, he was commander of the largest army in the world in the greatest war the world had ever seen. His appointment reflected the fact that he was perhaps the man...
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Paul Robinson's Russian Conservatism examines the history of Russian conservative thought from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the present. As he shows, conservatism has made an underappreciated contribution to Russian national identity, to the ideology of Russian statehood, and to Russia's social-economic development. Robinson charts the contributions made by philosophers, politicians, and others during the Imperial, Soviet, and post-Soviet...
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Polymer matrix composites are increasingly replacing traditional materials, such as metals, for applications in the aerospace, automotive and marine industries. Because of the relatively recent development of these composites there is extensive on-going research to improve the understanding and modelling of their behaviour - particularly their failure processes. As a consequence there is a strong demand among design engineers for the latest information...
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The first Cold War was a struggle between capitalism and communism; most Western politicians and policymakers imagine the new one to be a struggle between democracy and autocracy. Russia's World Order explains that in Russian eyes, the conflict is about something very different: it is a fight between two incompatible visions of where history is leading.
Russia's World Order describes the civilizational theory that has come to dominate Russian...
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Can crime make our world safer? Crimes are the worst of humanity's wrongs but, oddly, they sometimes "trigger" improvement in our lives. Crimes That Changed Our World explores some of the most important trigger cases of the past century, revealing much about how change comes to our modern world.
The exact nature of the crime-outrage-reform dynamic can take many forms, and Paul and Sarah Robinson explore those differences in the cases they present....
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Two hundred and seven years ago a starship is pulled apart by a gravitational vortex. Three segments out of fourteen crash-land with survivors in three different places on Big Blue, an earthlike planet. Now two boys and a girl discover that they have been telepathically connected since before they were born to three different mothers on the Second Continent. Jeanne, DonEl, and Al'Lan become voyagers to other planets for their community. And one day...
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An illuminating exercise that challenges the reader's beliefs about the justice system
A police trooper inspects a car during a routine traffic stop and finds a vast cache of weapons, complete with automatic rifles, thousands of rounds of ammunition, and black ski masks-a veritable bank robber's kit. Should the men in the car be charged? If so, with what?
A son neglects to care for his elderly mother, whose emaciated form is discovered shortly...
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Odds and Ends: Stories and Essays from the Sixties is a collection of thirty essays or stories written between 1959 and 1969. One or more could be labeled: Science fiction, Fantasy, Horror, Romance, or Satire. They were written while the author was in high school, college and seminary in the sixties. They have never been published before. They are in the order for the best read. However, you can read them in any order that you choose. I hope you enjoy...
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A form of subtle vigilantism threatens to undermine the justice system and is eroding community trust in law enforcement.
A pervasive and destructive problem is afflicting our current justice system, eroding community confidence in law enforcement. "Shadow vigilantism" is a vicious cycle in which ordinary people, as well as criminal justice officials, are so fed up with the system's failures that they distort and subvert the system to force it to...
