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Smuggling on the South Coast
Tracing the history of open smuggling along the south coast.
Liquid Life
Why would a country strongly influenced by Buddhism's reverence for life allow legalized, widely used abortion? Equally puzzling to many Westerners is the Japanese practice of mizuko rites, in which the parents of aborted fetuses pray for the well-being of these rejected "lives." In this provocative investigation, William LaFleur examines abortion as a window on the culture and ethics of Japan. At the same time he contributes to the Western debate on abortion, exploring how the Japanese resolve their conflicting emotions privately and avoid the pro-life/pro-choice politics that sharply divide Americans on the issue.
Accountancy
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Rhodes Scholars, Oxford, and the Creation of an American Elite
Each year thirty-two seniors at American universities are awarded Rhodes Scholarships, which entitle them to spend two or three years studying at the University of Oxford. The program, founded by the British colonialist and entrepreneur Cecil Rhodes and established in 1903, has become the world's most famous academic scholarship and has brought thousands of young Americans to study in England. Many of these later became national leaders in government, law, education, literature, and other fields. Among them were the politicians J. William Fulbright, Bill Bradley, and Bill Clinton; the public policy analysts Robert Reich and George Stephanopoulos; the writer Robert Penn Warren; the entertaine...
The Book at War
A Sunday Times Best Book of 2023 'Magisterial' Kathryn Hughes, The Sunday Times (A Sunday Times Book of the Week) 'Rich, authoritative and highly readable, Andrew Pettegree's tour de force will appeal to anyone for whom, whatever the circumstances, books are an abiding, indispensable part of life.' David Kynaston Chairman Mao was a librarian. Stalin was a published poet. Evelyn Waugh served as a commando - before leaving to write Brideshead Revisited. Since the advent of modern warfare, books have all too often found themselves on the frontline. In The Book at War, acclaimed historian Andrew Pettegree traces the surprising ways in which written culture - from travel guides and scientific papers to Biggles and Anne Frank - has shaped, and been shaped, by the conflicts of the modern age. From the American Civil War to the invasion of Ukraine, books, authors and readers have gone to war - and in the process become both deadly weapons and our most persuasive arguments for peace.
Materials
Introduces the concept of materials and how they are used, including wood, rocks, metal, and fabrics, and describes how humans have historically used these materials to their benefit.
Print Culture, Crime and Justice in 18th-Century London
An entirely original approach to deconstruction from a leading academic in the field.
First In His Class
Who exactly is Bill Clinton, and why was he, of all the brilliant and ambitious men in his generation, the first in his class to reach the White House? Drawing on hundreds of letters, documents, and interviews, David Maraniss explores the evolution of the personality of our forty-second president from his youth in Arkansas to his 1991 announcement that he would run for the nation's highest office. In this richly textured and balanced biography, Maraniss reveals a complex man full of great flaws and great talents. First in His Class is the definitive book on Bill Clinton.
On the Make
Before Bill Clinton became president, no reporter in America knew him better than Little Rock reporter Meredith Oakley. Time and again she watched him make campaign promises, break them, then lie to save face. Now, in this biography based on 12 years of personal files, Oakley presents the first factual, critical answer to the question, "What makes Bill Clinton tick?"
Yen!
A single Japanese company, Nippon Telegraph & Telephone, is worth more than IBM, AT&T, General Motors and G.E. combined. All of the world's largest banks are Japanese. These and other fascinating facts detail a subject vital to America.
