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Arbella: England's Lost Queen
Sarah Gristwood Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0618341331 |
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In this U.K. bestseller, Lady Arbella Stuart emerges as a most contemporary royal, a young woman determined to shape her own destiny in the midst of her plot-ridden world.Customer Reviews:
subject intriguing but book is uneven.......2007-05-15
Arbella: Englands Lost Queen.......2007-03-09
So far...........2007-02-13
An excellent historical biography.......2006-03-31
If You Are interested in Stuart/Tudor history.......2006-01-27
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Arbella England's Lost Queen
Sarah Gristwood Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Company ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000UV0LZS |
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Arbella: England's Lost Queen
Sarah Gristwood Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Company ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000N66I5W |
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Ignorant Armies: Sliding into War in Iraq
Gwynne Dyer Manufacturer: McClelland & Stewart ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items: ASIN: 0771029772 Release Date: 2003-03-05 |
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Baffled by how Bush’s war on al-Qaeda segued into war on Iraq? Canada’s leading expert on war unravels the tangled chain of eventsCustomer Reviews:
convincing analysis.......2006-09-15
Ignorant Armies : Sliding into War in Iraq.......2005-10-26
Why we are in Iraq........2004-11-05
This book will open your eyes to the causes of Gulf War II.......2003-05-26
This book reveals in intriguing detail and the chain of events that have lead the United States to fight a war against Iraq even when the original pretext of 9/11 seems have no connection. In doing so, Dyer notes that the standard antiwar perception of being only about oil is simplistic, since even Iran at its most hostile to the US has never hesitated selling as much oil to it as possible.
Rather, Dyer details the combination of US domestic political oppurtunism coupled with the current US administration's obsessions, Israeli diplomatic efforts to maintain US support and US corporate interests that have led to a war most of the world never wanted. Dyer can explain this better than I can and I invite you to explore for yourself.
The only drawback is that he fully admits that this book was finished in early Febuary this year and so he could only speculate as the possible consequences to the Iraq War. However, that itself is still intriguing for the paths current events could have taken, or indeed they still might.
In other words, if you are tired of the murky spin of Bush and the boys or the kowtowing American media, then this book represents a refreshingly sober and insightful alternative view.
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The Ignorant Armies
Manufacturer: Harper & Brothers ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000HL5IW2 |
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The exciting story of the desperate Anglo-American campaign against the Bolsheviks in North Russia at the end of the Great War. An epic of human endurance and courage that provides a key to understanding Russian-American relations today.
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FANTASY REVIEW (88) Eighty-Eight - February Feb 1986: Touchstones: Sticking Like Burrs; Hey Listen To Me; Amazing Encounter: MacFadden's Takeover of Gernsback's Co.; Touchstones: Where Ignorant Armies Clash
Robert A. (editor) (Charles de Lint; Parke Godwin; Sam Moskowitz; Ian Watson) Collins Manufacturer: Florida Atlantic University ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000IBD57G |
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Ignorant Armies
Fraser Manufacturer: Arsenal Pulp Pr Ltd ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0889782245 |
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Ignorant Armies
Karen Alkalay-Gut Manufacturer: Cross-Cultural Communications ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0893043400 |
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The ignorant armies
E. M Halliday Manufacturer: Harper ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0007DK3ES |
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The Ignorant Armies.......2001-02-26
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Ignorant Armies (Warhammer)
Manufacturer: Boxtree Ltd ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1852833734 |
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The Ignorant Armies Russia in Siberia WWI
E.M. Halliday Manufacturer: Harper ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000SZUW6Y |
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The ignorant armies. Foreword by S.L.A. Marshall
Ernest Milton (1913-) Halliday Manufacturer: New York, Harper & brothers ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000KH2OFC |
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Ignorant Armies: Warhammer
David (editor) Pringle Manufacturer: GW Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000QD159G |
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Public Budgeting in America (5th Edition)
Robert W. Smith , and Thomas D. Lynch Manufacturer: Prentice Hall ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0130979937 |
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The most comprehensive and accurate treatment of the public budgeting process on the market, this book offers a thorough treatment of the entire subject, with an emphasis on state budgets. Public Budgeting in America, 5/E is user-friendly, with a no-nonsense approach that offers readers a solid theoretical treatment of key constructs that underlie public budgeting in America. It includes case scenarios, practical examples, and instructional exhibits of working budget documents and analysis, as well as supporting data to demonstrate key concepts. Topics include: budget formats and preparation; modern budgeting; budget behavior; applied analysis; processing; operating budgets and accounting; capital budgeting and debt administration; revenue systems; and internal service functions. For individuals employed in the fields of public budgeting, financial management, and public finance.Customer Reviews:
Fits the bill.......2006-02-22
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Deficit Hysteria: A Common Sense Look at America's Rush to Balance the Budget
Arthur Benavie Manufacturer: Praeger Publishers ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items: ASIN: 027596308X |
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The political consensus in the United States today is that the nation avoid deficit spending. But as virtuous and unassailable as that goal sounds, it has fallacies and dangers. In a lucid, nontechnical writing style, Benavie shows that deficits can be either good or bad and explains how to tell the difference. Deficits, or government borrowing, can be beneficial or harmful depending on what the government does with the money. Preventing such borrowing, Benavie points out, would be comparable to preventing one's family from borrowing money to buy a house or to put a child through college. Deficits can be beneficial to the nation's economic health in three main ways. When the economy slumps, a deficit, which is automatically created, helps to reduce the severity of the recession. When the economy is seriously depressed, boosting the deficit may be the only cure. Finally, deficits to support such investments as basic research, cleaning up toxic waste, and rebuilding inner cities are crucial to the economic health of future generations.
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Funding Science In America: Congress, Universities, and the Politics of the Academic Pork Barrel
James D. Savage Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0521794617 |
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Since the 1950s, the federal government has relied on the peer review system for funding academic science. Peer review, however, is under attack for being a biased system that helps rich research universities get richer. As a remedy for these biases, university presidents and members of Congress have turned to the earmarking of science projects and facilities in the federal budget. Funding Science in America explores both the pros and the cons of the academic earmarking issue and explains why this issue has caused a rift within the nation's science community.
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Budget and Control: Reforming the Public Sector in Latin America (Inter-American Development Bank)
Humberto Petrei Manufacturer: Inter-American Development Bank ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1886938415 |
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New methods of public management are transforming the structure of modern governments. These methods, sometimes called managerialism, essentially adapt private sector management principles and practices to the public sector.
Although in theory Latin American governments prepare their budgets according to programs, for the most part they are still input-based--focused mainly on what the state plans to purchase. This approach should be replaced either by output-based budgeting, a system geared towards goods and services to be provided by the state, or by results budgeting, which focuses on what the state proposes to accomplish.
Budget and Control examines the institutional arrangements required for the countries of the region to reform their budget and control systems. The book is based on two decades of reform experience in the leading countries in the field of budget preparation, evaluation and control, with case studies of six Latin American countries. Public officials and policymakers working with budgets, as well as students of development economics, will find this book a valuable tool.
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Incentive-Based Budgeting Systems in Public Universities
Manufacturer: Edward Elgar Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 184376170X |
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Financial incentives play an important role in the behavior of public institutions of higher education. Incentive-Based Budgeting Systems in Public Universities examines alternative uses of these financial incentives, and reviews the consequences of their implementation.The contributors to the book explore diverse areas including:
faculty behavior in an incentive-based environment
effects on teaching, evaluation of decentralized approaches to budgeting
efficiency implications at the state level
the ramifications of revenue flux on institutional behavior.
Case studies from the University of Toronto, the University of Michigan and Indiana University are also presented, and the volume concludes with recommendations regarding possible implementation strategies.
The first to analyze the implementation of various permutations of incentive based budgeting in public institutions of higher education, this book will be of enormous interest to policy makers, trustees, administrators and faculty members of these institutions. It will also appeal to those involved in higher education programs offering courses in the economics and finance of colleges and universities.
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The Deficit and the Public Interest: The Search for Responsible Budgeting in the 1980s
Joseph White , and Aaron Wildavsky Manufacturer: University of California Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0520076508 |
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Political time is counted, not in years, but in issues--the depression defined the political era of the 1930s just as the cold war did the 1950s and civil rights the 1960s. Today the federal budget looms as the dominant issue by which all others are considered and has become a concern which catalyzes debate again and again in our nation's capital. In this definitive new work, Joseph White and Aaron Wildavsky describe and analyze the struggles over taxing and spending from Carter's last year through the Reagan administration.
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Budgeting Democracy: State Building and Citizenship in America, 1890-1928
Jonathan Kahn Manufacturer: Cornell University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0801429501 |
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There was a time when no government in the United States had a coherent budget system. Jonathan Kahn tells the story of how a small, energetic band of reformers waged a successful campaign in Progressive-era America to introduce fundamentally new systems of public budgeting into many cities, nearly every state, and ultimately the federal government. It is a story that has remarkable resonances today. Kahn suggests that budget reform transformed understandings of citizenship and political accountability while facilitating a conceptual leap from seeing government as a random agglomeration of administrative fiefdoms to envisioning a coherent, interrelated, and unitary state. Kahn argues that public budgets are more than simply technical tools for allocating government resources. They are also cultural constructions that shape public life, state institutions, and the relations between the two. Reformers "invented" the budget, Kahn explains, and then marketed it through exhortations, exhibits, and demonstrations that were replicated throughout the United States. Kahn explains how budget reform narrowed and contained popular engagement with government by promoting new notions of accountability and representation based on passive oversight rather than active political participation. Finally, budget reform transformed federal governance by creating the apparatus to conceive, order, and control a unified executive branch.
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Fixing Health Budgets: Experience from Europe and North America
Manufacturer: John Wiley & Sons ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0471964972 |
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The notion of a fixed health budget seems self-evident: a public or private payer sets a time-tied ceiling on expenditures. Such a definition, while correct, is nonetheless far from sufficient. In actual practice, the key issues revolve around not only the `what, but also the `who and the `how of establishing and maintaining periodic health care expenditure ceilings. The design and implementation of fixed budgets in health systemsnot to mention their successvaries considerably between countries, within countries, and between health sub-sectors. Fixing Health Budgets: Experience from Europe and North America reviews the impact of financial reform on the quality and delivery of health care in Austria, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, the UK and the USA. It outlines how far countries have moved to adopt fixed budgets and how management on a macro-, meso- and micro-level of the various systems is coping with the challenges and conflicts between the providers, patients, community and society. Its message has relevance for health care providers, public policy analysts and health economists worldwide, as well as providers of health education and social services.
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New Class Politics: The Polarization of America and What We Can Do About It
William B. Cannon Manufacturer: Inst for Policy Studies ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0897580427 |
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Participatory Budgeting in Brazil: Contestation, Cooperation, and Accountability
Brian Wampler Manufacturer: Pennsylvania State University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0271032529 |
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As Brazil and other countries in Latin America turned away from their authoritarian past and began the transition to democracy in the 1980s and 1990s, interest in developing new institutions to bring the benefits of democracy to the citizens in the lower socioeconomic strata intensified, and a number of experiments were undertaken. Perhaps the one receiving the most attention has been Participatory Budgeting (PB), first launched in the southern Brazilian city of Porto Alegre in 1989 by a coalition of civil society activists and Workers' Party officials. PB quickly spread to more than 250 other municipalities in the country, and it has since been adopted in more than twenty countries worldwide. Most of the scholarly literature has focused on the successful case of Porto Alegre and has neglected to analyze how it fared elsewhere.In this first rigorous comparative study of the phenomenon, Brian Wampler draws evidence from eight municipalities in Brazil to show the varying degrees of success and failure PB has experienced. He identifies why some PB programs have done better than others in achieving the twin goals of ensuring governmental accountability and empowering citizenship rights for the poor residents of these cities in the quest for greater social justice and a well-functioning democracy. Conducting extensive interviews, applying a survey to 650 PB delegates, doing detailed analysis of budgets, and engaging in participant observation, Wampler finds that the three most important factors explaining the variation are the incentives for mayoral administrations to delegate authority, the way civil society organizations and citizens respond to the new institutions, and the particular rule structure that is used to delegate authority to citizens.
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Breeding Birds of Wasington State: Location Data and Predicted Distributions
Michael R. Smith Manufacturer: Seattle Audubon Society ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0914516094 |
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