By examining the careers of Sugar Ray Leonard and other fighters, a sports writer brings new insights into the glorious, grimy, big-monied, media-hyped world of professional boxing

Includes hundreds of problems with worked-out solutions to help students drill in geometry theory and problem solving

Product Description: This supplement is available for sale to the student, and includes detailed solutions to all odd-numbered problems and most review exercises.

Product Description: "The first volume was hailed as a `cornerstone volume in fascilitating research.' This revision, appearing all at one time, deserves that designation even more. . . . essential for large public and academic libraries." Reference Books Bulletin "Eight new articles describing business, catalogs, computers, dance, fashion, gardening, graffiti, and musical theater...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A description of how the United States reacted to the 'Cold War' in the Middle East after World War II and how the United States provided Turkey with military assistance. It examines the successful efforts of the US to get Turkey into NATO which blocked Soviet entry.

Product Description: A must for every market-savvy reader, this directory and performance guide to more than 14,000 stocks, bonds, and mutual funds sets the standard for investment data. Features include 1995 year-end prices for all stocks and bonds, detailed data on 700 mutual funds and hundreds of variable annuities, S&P's earnings and dividend rankings for common stocks and ratings for preferred stocks, and more...read more

Explores what happened to the university in the postwar years and why these changes occurred

Product Description: The end of the Cold War should have been an occasion to reassess its origins, history, significance and consequences. Yet most commentators have restated positions already developed during the Cold War. They have taken the break-up of the Soviet Union, the shift toward capitalism and electoral politics in Eastern Europe and countries formerly in the USSR as evidence of a moral and political victory for the United States that needs no further elaboration...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A Cross of Iron provides the fullest account yet of the national security state that emerged in the first decade of the Cold War. Michael J. Hogan traces the process of state-making through struggles to unify the armed forces, harness science to military purposes, mobilize military manpower, control the defense budget, and distribute the cost of defense across the economy. President Harry S. Truman and his successor were in the middle of a fundamental contest over the nation's political identity and postwar purpose, and their efforts determined the size and shape of the national security state that finally emerged. (view table of contents)

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This survey of more than fifty years of national security policy juxtaposes declassified U. S. national intelligence estimates with recently released Soviet documents disclosing the views of Soviet leaders and their Communist allies on the same events. Matthias shows that U. S. intelligence estimates were usually correct but that our political and military leaders generally ignored them—with sometimes disastrous results. The book begins with a look back at the role of U. S. intelligence during World War II, from Pearl Harbor through the plot against Hitler and the D-day invasion to the "unconditional surrender" of Japan, and reveals how better use of the intelligence available could have saved many lives and shortened the war. The following chapters dealing with the Cold War disclose what information and advice U. S. intelligence analysts passed on to policy makers, and also what sometimes bitter policy debates occurred within the Communist camp, concerning Vietnam, the Bay of Pigs, the Cuban missile crisis, the turmoil in Eastern Europe, the Six-Day and Yom Kippur wars in the Middle East, and the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan. In many ways, this is a story of missed opportunities the U. S. government had to conduct a more responsible foreign policy that could have avoided large losses of life and massive expenditures on arms buildups.While not exonerating the CIA for its own mistakes, Matthias casts new light on the contributions that objective intelligence analysis did make during the Cold War and speculates on what might have happened if that analysis and advice had been heeded.

This jungle tale reads as a long joke, furnished with a punch line. Designed for young readers, a simple scenario is established, and the repetitive text builds up to the end twist. The story features a great big bullfrog who manages to keep his self-respect.

Product Description: Secret heiress Liza Chandler didn't want the money—or the rugged millionaire who'd suddenly come into her life. But Beckett had made a vow to get the job done…and he wasn't the type to take no for an answer. Especially not when he discovered that beneath Liza's plain-Jane exterior hid a passionate woman just waiting to be protected...read more

Product Description: Cold War Endgame is the product of an unusual collaborative effort by policy makers and scholars to promote better understanding of how the Cold War ended. It includes the transcript of a conference, hosted by former Secretary of State James Baker and former Soviet Foreign Minister Alexander Bessmertnykh, in which high-level veterans of the Bush and Gorbachev governments shared their recollections and interpretations of the crucial events of 1989–91: the revolutions in Eastern Europe; the reunification of Germany; the Persian Gulf War; the August 1991 coup; and the collapse of the USSR...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)