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Michael E. Latham

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New Cold War History

Providing new insight on the intellectual and cultural dimensions of the Cold War, Michael Latham reveals how social science theory helped shape American foreign policy during the Kennedy administration. He shows how, in the midst of America’s protracted struggle to contain communism in the developing world, the concept of global modernization moved beyond its beginnings in academia to become a motivating ideology behind policy decisions.After tracing the rise of modernization theo...

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Michael E. Latham

"Michael E. Latham has provided a very interesting and useful synthesis of the rise and decline (and eventual reappearance) of modernization theory in the United States, exploring both its intellectual roots and its deep connections to the country's foreign policy."— Michele Alacevich ― Technology and CultureAfter World War II, a powerful conviction took hold among American intellectuals and policymakers: that the United States could profoundly accelerate a...

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J.M. Tolcher

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James Tolcher, Michael Latham

Part provocateur, part seducer, this young gay man’s account of life offers one of the freshest takes on Australia and the world today.Honouring poets of the past – Jean Genet, Veronica Franco, Euripedes, Hunter S. Thompson, Oscar Wilde – and joining in their task of finding meaning in existence and the modern world, Tolcher has produced a brazenly honest debut without precedent.Through his writing he subverts his own shame, weaponises it, and positions himself as an anti-h...

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Michael Latham

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Ease & Grace

As the title suggests, Trade With Ease And Grace makes trading the stock market simultaneously EASY and GRACEFUL.What can otherwise be a very cumbersome process is made super simple in this very short yet concise book which cuts straight to the chase and shows you how to outperform most stock market participants, including large hedge funds.Stock indexing takes all the guesswork out of successfully trading the stock market.Of all stock indexing strategies you'll find...

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Michael R. Braun, Scott F. Latham

Fun to read yet full of powerful business information, this guide provides a comprehensive toolkit for crafting winning strategies in today's competitive environment.Mastering Strategy: Workshops for Business Success uses a series of workshops to strip away confusion and present popular and proven strategy frameworks in an easy-to-understand, straightforward, and entertaining manner. Using everyday language that avoids jargon, the workshops in this compreh...

This comprehensive reader chronicles the western engagement with the nature of knowledge during the past four centuries while providing the historical context for the postmodernist thought of Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Richard Rorty and Hayden White, and the challenges their ideas have posed to our conventional ways of thinking, writing and knowing.

New Perspectives in Forensic Human Skeletal Identification provides a comprehensive and up-to-date perspective on human identification methods in forensic anthropology. Divided into four distinct sections, the chapters will reflect recent advances in human skeletal identification, including statistical and morphometric methods for assessing the biological profile (sex, age, ancestry, stature), biochemical methods of identification (DNA analysis, stable isotope analysis, bomb curve analysis...

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David Eastman, Mark D. Ellison, Jennifer Awes Freeman, Felicity Harley-McGowan, John J. Herrmann, Jr., David G. Hunter, Jacob Latham, Michael Peppard, William Tabbernee, Annewies van den Hoek, Andrew McGowan, Lee M. Jefferson

Death and rebirth was of vital importance to early Christians in late antiquity. In late antiquity, death was all encompassing. Mortality rates were high, plague and disease in urban areas struck at will, and one lived on the knife’s edge regarding one’s health. Religion filled a crucial role in this environment, offering an option for those who sought cure and comfort. Following death, the inhumed were memorialized, providing solace to family members through sculpture, painting, and epigr...

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Dr. Bethany Layne, Professor or Dr. Lucia Boldrini, Professor Michael Lackey, Professor or Dr. Monica Latham

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Biofiction Studies

Explores biopics about moments of crisis for the House of Windsor and how these productions, along with Netflix's long-running series The Crown, both represent and enact the Royal Family's post-crises rehabilitation.Biopics of the House of Windsor examines screen representations of the British royal family, with an emphasis on the reigning monarch from the abdication to the present. Focusing on high-profile 21st-century productions that intervene ...

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Theodore S. Greenberg, Larissa Gray, Delphine Schantz, Carolin Gardner, Michael Latham

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StAR Initiative

In recent years, revelations of grand corruption and the plunder of state assets have led to greater scrutiny of financial relationships with politically exposed persons (PEPs)â€"senior government officials and their family members and close associates. Notwithstanding the efforts by many financial institutions and regulatory authorities to prevent corrupt PEPs from entering and using the financial system to launder the proceeds of corruption, there has been an overall failure in the effec...

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Greenberg Theodore S.; Gray Larissa; Schantz Delphine; Gardner Carolin; Latham Michael

In recent years, the revelations of grand corruption and the scale of the plunder of state assets has led to greater scrutiny of financial relationships with politically exposed persons (PEPs) and potential money laundering risks associated with these customers. PEPs individuals who are or have been entrusted with prominent public functions, their family members, and close associates represent a greater risk because of the possibility that such individuals may abuse their position and influen...

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Christopher Wilkinson-Latham

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Men-at-Arms

This book examines the uniforms, equipment, history and organisation of the armies that fought in the Boer War.Christopher Wilkinson-Latham explores the composition and appearance of both sides, and summarises the campaigns fought. Alongside concise text, this guide is richly illustrated, and uniforms are shown in full detail.