Product Description: 1977 Hardcover. No Dust Jacket As Issued By Publisher.

Analyzes the current balance of power between the three branches of U.S. government, detailing how recent clashes over the exercise of powers has exposed a fundamental imbalance between the executive and legislative branches

Describes and illustrates hundreds of political strategies, including proven techniques of gaining favor, using and controlling information, power grabbing, recognizing organization taboos, and outmaneuvering your opponents

Harrassed by his formidable wife Eva and their five-year-old quadruplets, liberal studies professor Henry Wilt enjoys a brief flirtation with a foreign student before becoming an unintentional participant in a terrorist siege

Chronicles the role of the intelligence center in World War II

Essays discuss the people, culture, history, natural beauty, and folklore of the Bahamas and are accompanied by tips for travelers

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Product Description: Written by 72 international specialists, these volumes bring together a variety of disciplines to provide a survey of the state-of-the-art of knowledge in pulmonary disease. This sixth edition has been updated and expanded, with new chapters, approaches and authors added, to provide coverage of developments in the field...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

First published in 1990, Rural Communities under Stress goes behind the crises of famine and poor agricultural production to examine the forces and pressures that can affect peasant farming communities in sub-Saharan Africa. Drawing on a wide range of case studies by anthropologists, political scientists, sociologists, and economists, the book shows that peasant farmers have ways of defending their interests. Cases from Senegal, Tanzania, Mozambique, Ghana, Kenya, and Uganda are given as concrete examples of ways peasant farming communities cope with the stresses of economic exploitation, political subordination, and demographic and ecological pressure. Even when they are not successful, peasant farmers are far from being passive victims. The book examines in direct and clear language the major arguments about the basic nature of Africa's rural crisis put forward by powerful agencies of international assistance and influential academics.

Product Description: Since its first publication, this book has succeeded in establishing itself as the leading reference work on German tort law. It is a uniquely detailed and scholarly study which has no rival in the English language. Frequently cited in the courts when points of German law are under discussion, the book has now been heavily revised and completely updated to take account of the major changes to German law brought about as a result of reunification...read more

Product Description: Book by Chen Mills, Ami

A standard, up-to-date guide to the national firefighter exam features five full-length, written sample tests with explanations of answers, a review of all subject areas, two complete sample physical tests, and tips for scoring well. Original.

The core of this book, written by a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist, documents the wide-ranging FBI assault on CISPES. (view table of contents)