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In the Path of God: Islam and Political Power

Author: Daniel Pipe
Publisher: Transaction Publisher
Keywords: power, political, islam, god, path
Number of Pages: 373
Published: 2002-09-11
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0765809818
ISBN-13: 9780765809810

The attention of Americans suddenly focused on Islam and Muslims in the aftermath of September 11, 2001, and to many in the United States this felt unprecedented. But Islam and Muslims had dominated American public life once before, during the period of the Iranian revolution and hostage crisis, from 1979 to 1981. On both of these occasions, Americans found themselves targeted for reasons stemming from a militant interpretation of Islam. It was in response to that first heightened interest in Islam that Daniel Pipes wrote In the Path of God. His intention was to present an overview of the conn

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Return to Philosophy

Author: Thomas Molnar
Publisher: Transaction Publisher
Keywords: philosophy, return
Number of Pages: 113
Published: 1996-01-01
List price: $32.95
ISBN-10: 1560002514
ISBN-13: 9781560002512

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The Economic Consequences of the Peace

Authors:John Keynes, David Felix,
Publisher: Transaction Publisher
Keywords: peace, consequences, economic
Number of Pages: 298
Published: 2003-09-03
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0765805294
ISBN-13: 9780765805294

John Maynard Keynes, then a rising young economist, participated in the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 as chief representative of the British Treasury and advisor to Prime Minister David Lloyd George. He resigned after desperately trying and failing to reduce the huge demands for reparations being made on Germany. The Economic Consequences of the Peace is Keynes’ brilliant and prophetic analysis of the effects that the peace treaty would have both on Germany and, even more fatefully, the world. A popular lecturer of economics at Cambridge University and editor of the Economic Journal, Ke

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A Fatal Embrace?: Assessing Holistic Trends in Human Resources Programs

Authors:Frank Heuberger, Laura L. Nash,
Publisher: Transaction Publisher
Keywords: human, resources, programs, trends, holistic, embrace, assessing, fatal
Number of Pages: 261
Published: 1994-01-01
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 1560001232
ISBN-13: 9781560001232

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The Administrative State: A Study of the Political Theory of American Public Administration

Authors:Dwight Waldo, Hugh Miller,
Publisher: Transaction Publisher
Keywords: american, public, administration, theory, political, state, study, administrative
Number of Pages: 251
Published: 2006-12-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 141280597X
ISBN-13: 9781412805971

This classic text, originally published in 1948, is a study of the public administration movement from the viewpoint of political theory and the history of ideas. It seeks to review and analyze the theoretical element in administrative writings and to present the development of the public administration movement as a chapter in the history of American political thought. The objectives of "The Administrative State" are to assist students of administration to view their subject in historical perspective and to appraise the theoretical content of their literature. It is also hoped that this book