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The Taming of Chance High quality books The Taming of Chance By:Ian Hacking Published on 1990-08-31 by Cambridge University Press This book combines detailed scientific historical research with characteristic philosophic breadth and verve. This Book was ranked at 21 by Google Books for keyword Cambridge equation. Book ID of The Taming of Chance's Books is ud7EzIBwQBwC, Book which was written byIan Hackinghave ETAG "jewsu633XWw" Book which was published by Cambridge University Press since 1990-08-31 have ISBNs, ISBN 13 Code is 9780521388849 and ISBN 10 Code is 0521388848 Reading Mode in Text Status is false and Reading Mode in Image Status is true Book which have "264 Pages" is Printed at BOOK under CategoryHistory This Book was rated by 1 Raters and have average rate at "5.0" This eBook Maturity (Adult Book) status is NOT_MATURE Book was written in en eBook Version Availability Status at PDF is falseand in ePub is false Book Preview

Operation Dark Heart High quality books Operation Dark Heart By:Anthony Shaffer Published on 2010-09-24 by Macmillan On Friday, August 13, 2010, just as St. Martin's Press was readying its initial shipment of this book, the Department of Defense contacted us to express its concern that our publication of Operation Dark Heart could cause damage to U.S. national security. After consulting with our author, we agreed to incorporate some of the government's changes into a revised edition of his book while redacting other text he was told was classified. The newly revised book keeps our national interests secure, but this highly qualified warrior's story is still intact. Shaffer's assessment of successes and failures in Afghanistan remains dramatic, shocking, and crucial reading for anyone concerned about the outcome of the war. |While I do not agree with the edits in many ways, the DoD redactions enhance the reader's understanding by drawing attention to the flawed resul...

Powder Burn High quality books Powder Burn By:Daniel Glick Published on 2009-02-23 by PublicAffairs In October, 1998 an arson caused $12 million in damage at Vail, the country's largest ski area. A shadowy radical environmental group called the Earth Liberation Front claimed credit for what the FBI called the costliest act of ecoterrorism in U.S. history. But as it turns out, credible suspects were everywhere, since Vail was owned by a New York investment firm that had alienated a wide swath of Colorado's high country residents.|Who couldn't have done this?| wondered a local sheriff's investigator. More than a clever whodunit, Powder Burn scrapes away the glitz of America's premier ski destination to reveal a cautionary tale about runaway opulance and rapid change in the New West. As the Denver Post put it, |Vail is a microcosm of the disputes over growth raging across the Rockies, and Glick's take on the fire helps to fan the flames.| Packed with odd characters...

Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is Burning High quality books Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is Burning By:Jonathan Mahler Published on 2006-03-21 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux A passionate and dramatic account of a year in the life of a city, when baseball and crime reigned supreme, and when several remarkable figures emerged to steer New York clear of one of its most harrowing periods. By early 1977, the metropolis was in the grip of hysteria caused by a murderer dubbed |Son of Sam.| And on a sweltering night in July, a citywide power outage touched off an orgy of looting and arson that led to the largest mass arrest in New York's history. As the turbulent year wore on, the city became absorbed in two epic battles: the fight between Yankee slugger Reggie Jackson and team manager Billy Martin, and the battle between Ed Koch and Mario Cuomo for the city's mayoralty. Buried beneath these parallel conflicts—one for the soul of baseball, the other for the soul of the city—was the ...

Radical Ritual High quality books Radical Ritual By:Neil Shister Published on 2020-07-14 by Counterpoint LLC |Neil Shister's book skillfully traces the evolution of Burning Man and provides rare insights into how this cultural phenomenon is changing the world.| --Michael Mikel, founding board member of the Burning Man Project Written from Neil Shister's perspective as a journalist, student of American culture, and six-time participant in Burning Man, Radical Ritual presents the event as vitally, historically important. Shister contends that Burning Man is a significant player in the avant-garde, forging new social paradigms as liberal democracy unravels. Burning Man's contribution to this new order is postmodern, a fusion of sixties humanism with state-of-the-art Silicon Valley wizardry. Shister is not alone in his opinion. In 2018, the Smithsonian dedicated its entire Renwick Gallery, located next door to the White House, to an exhibition of Burning Man art and culture. Th...

The Troubled Empire High quality books The Troubled Empire By:Timothy Brook Published on 2010-06-30 by Harvard University Press Explores the history of China between the Mongol reunification of China in 1279 under the Yuan dynasty and the Manchu invasion four centuries later, explaining how climate changes profoundly affect the empire during this period. By the author of Collaboration: Japanese Agents and Local Elites in Wartime China This Book was ranked at 28 by Google Books for keyword Money burning. Book ID of The Troubled Empire's Books is b80ePdTYWXoC, Book which was written byTimothy Brookhave ETAG "EGpQFLKplek" Book which was published by Harvard University Press since 2010-06-30 have ISBNs, ISBN 13 Code is 9780674046023 and ISBN 10 Code is 0674046021 Reading Mode in Text Status is true and Reading Mode in Image Status is true Book which have "329 Pages" is Printed at BOOK under CategoryHistory This Book was rated by 2 Raters and have average rate at ...

Inside Central America High quality books Inside Central America By:Clifford Krauss Published on 1991-04-01 by Examines how the history and the failed U.S. policies of the past one hundred years have made Central America unsafe for democracy This Book was ranked at 39 by Google Books for keyword Money burning. Book ID of Inside Central America's Books is 2eAWAAAAYAAJ, Book which was written byClifford Krausshave ETAG "GsMp83TEnEg" Book which was published by since 1991-04-01 have ISBNs, ISBN 13 Code is and ISBN 10 Code is Reading Mode in Text Status is false and Reading Mode in Image Status is false Book which have "316 Pages" is Printed at BOOK under CategoryHistory This Book was rated by 1 Raters and have average rate at "5.0" This eBook Maturity (Adult Book) status is NOT_MATURE Book was written in en eBook Version Availability Status at PDF is falseand in ePub is false Book Preview

Riot and Remembrance High quality books Riot and Remembrance By:James S. Hirsch Published on 2014-05-13 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt A best-selling author investigates the causes of the twentieth century's deadliest race riot and how its legacy has scarred and shaped a community over the past eight decades. On a warm night in May 1921, thousands of whites, many deputized by the local police, swarmed through the Greenwood section of Tulsa, Oklahoma, killing scores of blacks, looting, and ultimately burning the neighborhood to the ground. In the aftermath, as many as 300 were dead, and 6,000 Greenwood residents were herded into detention camps. James Hirsch focuses on the de facto apartheid that brought about the Greenwood riot and informed its eighty-year legacy, offering an unprecedented examination of how a calamity spawns bigotry and courage and how it has propelled one community's belated search for justice. Tulsa's establishment and many victims strove to forget the eve...

Modern China: All That Matters High quality books Modern China: All That Matters By:Jonathan Clements Published on 2013-08-30 by Hachette UK In Modern China: All That Matters, Jonathan Clements presents China as the Chinese themselves see it. He explains the key issues of national reconstruction; the Cold War, the Cultural Revolution, and the dizzying spectacle of China's economic reform. Clements offers a Chinese perspective on such events as the Handover of Hong Kong, and chronicles the historical events that continue to resonate today in Chinese politics, economics, culture and quality of life. A final chapter examines China's role in the global marketplace, its indirect effect on foreign economies from Australia to America to Africa, and its growing military might, with an assessment of the damage done to its environment and population. In his most provocative assertion, Clements suggests that China's contemporary problems are not the trials of a developing nation, but ...

Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind High quality books Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind By:Ellen F. Brown,John Wiley Jr. Published on 2011-02-16 by Taylor Trade Publications Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind: A Bestseller's Odyssey from Atlanta to Hollywood presents the first comprehensive overview of how this iconic novel became an international phenomenon that has managed to sustain the public's interest for seventy-five years. Various Mitchell biographies and several compilations of her letters tell part of the story, but, until now, no single source has revealed the full saga. This entertaining account of a literary and pop culture phenomenon tells how Mitchell's book was developed, marketed, distributed, and otherwise groomed for success in the 1930s—and the savvy measures taken since then by the author, her publisher, and her estate to ensure its longevity. This Book was ranked at 11 by Google Books for keyword Money burning. Book ID of Mar...

Money and the Church in Medieval Europe, 1000-1200 High quality books Money and the Church in Medieval Europe, 1000-1200 By:Giles E. M. Gasper,Svein H. Gullbekk Published on 2016-03-09 by Routledge Bringing together essays from experts in a variety of disciplines, this collection explores two of the most important facets of life within the medieval Europe: money and the church. By focusing on the interactions between these subjects, the volume addresses four key themes. Firstly it offers new perspectives on the role of churchmen in providing conceptual frameworks, from outright condemnation, to sophisticated economic theory, for the use and purpose of money within medieval society. Secondly it discusses the dichotomy of money for the church and its officers: on one hand voices emphasise the moral difficulties in engaging with money, on the other the reality of the ubiquitous use of money in the church at all levels and in places within Christendom. Thirdly it places in dialogue interdi...

PARKER'S CROSSROADS High quality books PARKER'S CROSSROADS By:JAMES R. COOLEY Published on 2014-09-29 by Trafford Publishing Parker's Crossroads, a decisive battle in the Battle of the Bulge four days before Christmas in 1944, was Jack Ebbott's personal |crossroads.| This is his story, which traces his life from its privileged beginning to its tragic conclusion--a journey he had not anticipated; an odyssey of unspeakable horrors, of depravity and suffering as a POW in German prison camps. As a combat medic, he attended to the deaths of his fellow prisoners and was a witness to the abject cruelty of his captors. Jack Ebbott and a group of allied prisoners were taken to a remote rail siding; there, ordered to dig a deep hole in the frozen ground. A boxcar was left at the siding when the hole was dug. The doors were opened, revealing the bodies of children stacked in cordwood. On the threat of death, the prisoners were ordered to bury the children in the hole. A few of the...

The Strange Case of the Broad Street Pump High quality books The Strange Case of the Broad Street Pump By:Sandra Hempel Published on 2006 by Univ of California Press |Meticulously researched and with a sophisticated approach to history, this is also an exciting and compelling story. After reading it, I dreamt about being lost and scared at night in the filthy lanes of Victorian London.|--Andrew Cunningham, Senior Research Fellow in History of Medicine, University of Cambridge |This book is one of those rare gems that thrills like fiction but is based on fact. It tells of the clear thought and quiet endeavour of a man who, without seeking honour or fame, persisted in overcoming prejudice and separating fact from fancy. john Snow discovered the way in which epidemic cholera was caught and nearly always killed us. By doing so he not only told the world how to prevent it, he laid the basis for the the prevention of all the world's medical ills--the science of epidemiology.|--Dr. Mike S...