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Weaponizing Civilian Protection exposes how coalition efforts to minimize and mitigate civilian casualties during the recent conflict in Afghanistan also worked to rationalize the harm inflicted upon Afghan civilians. Drawing on declassified documents and interviews with coalition officials, it traces how civilian protection was reimagined as a martial tactic rather than a humanitarian imperative, with coalition officials reframing civilian casualties as strategic setbacks that co...

Texonomics is not just another economics textbook. It's a revolution in perspective. Written from within the walls of incarceration at the Fremont Correctional Facility in Canon City, Colorado, but aimed at the hearts and minds of free thinkers everywhere, this book fuses rigorous economic theory with lived experience, unapologetic truth, and the pulse of real people struggling—and thriving—on the margins.Across thirteen powerfully structured chapters, Texonomics delivers a full-sp...

A comprehensive scholarly edition of the writings and correspondence of Thomas PaineThomas Paine: Collected Writings is the first major new edition of Paine’s works, bringing together all his writings in six breathtaking volumes that dramatically revise our previous understanding of his activities as a writer and his importance as a democratic theorist in the age of revolutions. It includes about 180 new letters and some two hundred works newly attributed ...

Global Politics: A New Introduction engages directly with questions that those coming to the study of world politics bring with them. From that innovative starting point, it explores key issues through a critical and inquiring perspective, presenting theoretical ideas and concepts in conjunction with a global range of historical and contemporary case studies.Revised and updated throughout, the fourth edition offers examples engaging with the latest developments in global p...

Synopsis:I had a nightmare last night.I'd been crying out for help,BUT NO ONE HEARD MY SILENT SCREAMS.Growing up in the home of an absent father and an emotionally abusive mother, Tom Stewart was an easy mark for a predator. Conditioned for compliance and desperate for affirmation from authority figures, Tom falls prey to a decade of abuse by his Boy Scout leader.The trauma of his stolen childhood follows him into the future, where he encoun...

A comprehensive scholarly edition of the writings and correspondence of Thomas PaineThomas Paine: Collected Writings is the first major new edition of Paine’s works, bringing together all his writings in six breathtaking volumes that dramatically revise our previous understanding of his activities as a writer and his importance as a democratic theorist in the age of revolutions. It includes about 180 new letters and some two hundred works newly attributed ...

Loyalty runs deep. But what happens when it drowns you?Gregory "Big Tex" Thomas is the charismatic, cowboy-hat-wearing Mayor of Dallas—a man forged by the streets, raised in faith, and married to chaos. His wife, Keisha Hardy-Thomas, once the beloved First Lady of Dallas, is now a woman consumed by heroin and secrets she's never shared—not even with him.As his political enemies circle like vultures, Greg refuses to let go of the woman he loves, even as her addiction threate...

A comprehensive scholarly edition of the writings and correspondence of Thomas PaineThomas Paine: Collected Writings is the first major new edition of Paine’s works, bringing together all his writings in six breathtaking volumes that dramatically revise our previous understanding of his activities as a writer and his importance as a democratic theorist in the age of revolutions. It includes about 180 new letters and some two hundred works newly attributed ...

Master SQL Database Design and Querying with PrecisionBook DescriptionUltimate SQL for Relational Database Design guides readers step by step from understanding why structured data matters to building and querying fully functional relational databases. The book begins with the foundations of data organization and the relational model, establishing how tables, keys, and relationships support accurate and sca...

Master SQL Database Design and Querying with PrecisionBook DescriptionUltimate SQL for Relational Database Design guides readers step by step from understanding why structured data matters to building and querying fully functional relational databases. The book begins with the foundations of data organization and the relational model, establishing how tables, keys, and relationships support accurate and sc...

The sixth edition of Ellestad's classic text on cardiac stress testing has been extensively updated and re-written to communicate contemporary understanding of the classical principles of stress testing to clinicians and researchers, students and seasoned practitioners alike. The current techniques for performing stress tests presented herein reflect major technologic advances in imaging, physiologic monitoring and the assessment of cardiovascular risk, addressing fundamental paradigm shif...

While health system decentralization is often associated with federations, there has been limited study on the connection between federalism and the organization of publicly financed or mandated health services. Federalism and Decentralization in Health Care examines eight federations that differ in terms of their geography, history and constitutional and political development. Looking at Canada, Brazil, Germany, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, South Africa and Switzerland, Federal...