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Product Description: My grandfather died when he was sixty-five, my father died at seventy. At eighty-eight, I am the eldest of three brothers all of us older than our father was at his death. Given a reasonable degree of vitality, however, I would like to live to forever...read more

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9781452073293 | Authorhouse, October 5, 2010, cover price $22.49 | About this edition: My grandfather died when he was sixty-five, my father died at seventy.

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9781452073286 | Authorhouse, October 5, 2010, cover price $12.99 | About this edition: My grandfather died when he was sixty-five, my father died at seventy.

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9780742551589 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, December 30, 2006, cover price $42.00

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Product Description: Political corruption is easy to define - the use of public office for private gain - but it isn't so readily seen because politicians cover their tracks so well. Four of America's most corrupt mayors and their shady dealings are covered in this work...read more

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9780786418459 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, August 1, 2004, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Political corruption is easy to define - the use of public office for private gain - but it isn't so readily seen because politicians cover their tracks so well.

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Product Description: A tumultuous stock market, a media obsessed with celebrity and scandal, a time new technologies were rocking society: the 1920s bear more than a little semblance to today, and 1927 is a snapshot of the period. Photographs and illustrations bring to life a year with astonishing parallels to the present...read more

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9781568582450 | Basic Books, September 8, 2002, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: A tumultuous stock market, a media obsessed with celebrity and scandal, a time new technologies were rocking society: the 1920s bear more than a little semblance to today, and 1927 is a snapshot of the period.

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The author of The Pageant of World History takes readers back into the heart of the 'Roaring Twenties' to show a country with remarkable similarities to contemporary America. (view table of contents)

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9781568581538 | Basic Books, March 15, 2001, cover price $32.00 | About this edition: The author of The Pageant of World History takes readers back into the heart of the 'Roaring Twenties' to show a country with remarkable similarities to contemporary America.

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Examines some of the elements of the unifying phenomenon of patriotism in the United States

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9780531113103 | Franklin Watts, April 1, 1997, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: Examines some of the elements of the unifying phenomenon of patriotism in the United States

Offers various definitions of heroes, discusses who becomes a hero in America and why hero-worship seems to have declined, and explores how to be a hero in one's own life

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9780531112823 | Franklin Watts, December 1, 1996, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: Offers various definitions of heroes, discusses who becomes a hero in America and why hero-worship seems to have declined, and explores how to be a hero in one's own life

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Looks at the history of American immigration, discusses immigration policy and illegal immigration, and looks at arguments for changing or keeping the current policy

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9780531130384 | Franklin Watts, March 1, 1995, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: Looks at the history of American immigration, discusses immigration policy and illegal immigration, and looks at arguments for changing or keeping the current policy

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Weighs the advantages and disadvantages of the present government structure, examines the effectiveness of the system of checks and balances established by the Constitution, and looks at proposed changes to the Constitution

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9780531111277 | Franklin Watts, July 1, 1994, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: Weighs the advantages and disadvantages of the present government structure, examines the effectiveness of the system of checks and balances established by the Constitution, and looks at proposed changes to the Constitution

Explores the techniques of transplantation and implant surgery which have developed since the 1950s, discussing the risks and moral issues involved

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9780531130261 | Rev sub edition (Franklin Watts, December 1, 1992), cover price $20.60 | About this edition: Explores the techniques of transplantation and implant surgery which have developed since the 1950s, discussing the risks and moral issues involved
9780531049303 | Franklin Watts, April 1, 1985, cover price $12.90 | About this edition: A look at the use of organ transplants as a tool of modern medicine examines the legal, moral, and ethical issues raised by transplants and discusses problems facing both organ donors and recipients

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Examines the history, problems, and concerns of public education in America

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9780816021000 | Facts on File, July 1, 1992, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Examines the history, problems, and concerns of public education in America

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Examines the origins of the concept of civil liberties and reviews the controversial issue of what kinds of speech and expression are protected under provisions of the First Admendment.

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9780816021017 | Facts on File, November 1, 1990, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Examines the origins of the concept of civil liberties and reviews the controversial issue of what kinds of speech and expression are protected under provisions of the First Admendment.

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Surveys environmental problems in the United States, examines legal and social aspects of environmentalism, and discusses political plans in place to deal with the environmental decline

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9780816020997 | Facts on File, September 1, 1990, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Surveys environmental problems in the United States, examines legal and social aspects of environmentalism, and discusses political plans in place to deal with the environmental decline

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Explores some of the causes of hunger in America--such as unemployment and poverty--as well as the lack of proper nutrition in many Americans' diets and shows what government and private charities are doing to eliminate hunger

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9780531100639 | Franklin Watts, September 1, 1985, cover price $12.90 | About this edition: Describes the contemporary paradox of hunger and malnutrition in the United States, one of the richest countries in the world.

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9780879860196 | Natl Council for the Social, June 1, 1978, cover price $6.95

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