Explains behind-the-scenes techniques used in politics; discusses alliances, enemies, deals, and reputations; and shares anecdotes about top politicians.
As a senatorial aide, presidential speechwriter, and right-hand man to Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill, Christopher Matthews has seen it all--now he tells all while revealing the political "hardball" played by some of the great politicians. Matthews is currently Washington Bureau Chief for the San Francisco Examiner.
Biochemistry,Third Edition merges a classical organization and presentation with contemporary insight, information, and technology, to make modern biochemistry interesting and accessible to today's students. Thoroughly updated to include the latest information, perspectives, and experimental techniques, the text is now supported by integrated ...
CNN commentator Chris Matthews examines some of the (mostly) positive and varied self-images and notions that Americans have of themselves: as pioneers, innovators, underdogs, loners, optimists, etc. Without being xenophobic, he rediscovers the value and truth in what some may see as tired cliches, but which, after 9/11, seem to have renewed ...
John Kennedy and Richard Nixon shared a dream of being the great young leader of their age. But what drove history was the enmity between these two towering figures whose 1960 presidential contest would set the nation's bitter course for years to come. In this startling dual portrait, the author of Hardball shows how the early fondness between the ...
John Kennedy and Richard Nixon shared a dream of being the great young leader of their age. But what drove history, as this work sets out to show, was the enmity between these two figures, whose 1960 presidential contest would set the nation's bitter course for years to come.
This reference book describes many species of plant which can be grown against a wall or a fence and up trellis and pergolas, and for each one gives cultivation requirements, season of interest and its suitability for a sunny or shady position.
As the foundations of the modern world were being laid at the beginning of the 19th century, Annapolis, Maryland, identified itself as the Ancient City. This unusual appellation has served Annapolis into the present as a city that has consistently defined and redefined for itself what being ancient means. The process of historical recognition and ...
These fifty poems explore the primacy of perspective, both that of the poetry and those of a diverse array of individuals, historical and contemporary. Syd Lea wrote in the foreword, "Here was a writer after my heart, one whose command of canonical Anglophone poetry was patent, but also one whose use of great traditions--especially of the dramatic ...
This collection provides a multilayered analysis of the branch of early Christian apocryphal literature that examines the relationship between tradition and redaction, uses of language, and the fluid border between literary criticism and motif analysis. The introduction takes the reader on the journey of editing, translating and interpreting ...
Many transport economists have for some time proposed marginal social cost as the principle on which prices in the transport sector should be based and, in recent years, their prescription has come to be taken more and more seriously by policy-makers. However, in order to properly test the possible implications of implementing pricing based on ...
Examines the role of ethnography in public archaeology. This work offers fresh insights into theories that advocate the engagement of archaeologists and archaeological investigations with the communities that are being studied.
The 10th Workshop on Advanced Accelerator Concepts reviews the current progress in the rapidly growing field of advanced accelerators. This series of DOE-sponsored workshops attracts researchers who invent and explore the physics and technologies needed to generate, accelerate, and manipulate particles with plasmas, laser and particle beams, as ...
This volume covers changes affecting the Earth over geological, intermediate and short timescales, including pre-Quarternary, Quarternary, Holocene, historical and modern environmental chages. Recent climatic change is a major focus but other topics covered in detail relate to natural and human-induced changes to the lithosphere, hydrosphere, ...
Closing the deal is the hallmark of great entrepreneurs. And Leo Hindrey is one of its best practitioners. Having sat across the table from some of America's biggest businessmen, including Jack Welch, George Steinbrenner, and Rupert Murdoch, Hindrey, CEO of YES Network, has many stories to tell about how it's done. THE BIGGEST GAME OF ALL collects ...
This work covers the history of the traditions that coalesced around the name Philip in the New Testament and other early Christian literature. It proposes that all of this material ultimately owes its genesis to one historical and literary figure, Philip the apostle.
It's nearly 30 years since historian Dame Frances Yates published her groundbreaking study The Rosicrucian Enlightement, and so brought academic rigour back to a subject which had for too long been almost the sole province of occultists who often confused fact and fancy. Yates placed the three main Rosicrucian manifestos, which first appeared in ...
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