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Hardcover:
9780517700006 | 1 edition (Crown Pub, April 1, 2000), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: The author offers his personal take on America's poverty-stricken urban neighborhoods, recalling the lessons he has learned from time spent among the nation's poorest people
Paperback:
9780770435677 | Broadway Books, July 24, 2012, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: In a stirring departure from his earlier work, Jonathan Kozol has written his most personal and hopeful book to date, an energized and unexpected answer to the bleakness of Death at an Early Age, the prize-winning classic that he published more than 30 years ago.
9780060956455 | 1 edition (Perennial, February 1, 2001), cover price $14.99 | About this edition: The author offers his personal take on America's poverty-stricken urban neighborhoods, recalling the lessons he has learned from time spent among the nation's poorest people.
CD/Spoken Word:
9781596005952 | Mp3 una edition (Brilliance Audio, March 25, 2005), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The author examines America's poverty-stricken urban neighborhoods, recalling the lessons he has learned from time spent among the nation's poorest people.
Cassette/Spoken Word:
9781587882845 | Abridged edition (Brilliance Audio, March 1, 2001), cover price $7.99 | About this edition: Jonathan Kozol's books have become touchstones of the American conscience.
Reinforced:
9780606274371 | Demco Media, March 1, 2001, cover price $23.50 | About this edition: The author offers his personal take on America's poverty-stricken urban neighborhoods, recalling the lessons he has learned from time spent among the nation's poorest people.
Prebinding:
9780613598187 | Turtleback Books, July 1, 2003, cover price $25.75 | About this edition: The author offers his personal take on America's poverty-stricken urban neighborhoods, recalling the lessons he has learned from time spent among the nation's poorest people.
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9780231159722 | Revised edition (Columbia Univ Pr, May 15, 2012), cover price $79.50 | About this edition: Over the past half century, Buddhism has grown from a transplanted philosophy to a full-fledged religious movement in America, rich in its own practices, leaders, adherents, and institutions.
9780231108683 | Columbia Univ Pr, December 1, 1999, cover price $48.50 | About this edition: With a history stretching back to ancient India, Buddhism has influenced American culture since the American Transcendentalist movement in the 1830s and '40s.
Paperback:
9780231159739 | Revised edition (Columbia Univ Pr, May 15, 2012), cover price $27.50 | About this edition: Over the past half century, Buddhism has grown from a transplanted philosophy to a full-fledged religious movement in America, rich in its own practices, leaders, adherents, and institutions.
9780231108690 | Columbia Univ Pr, November 1, 2000, cover price $28.00 | About this edition: With a history stretching back to ancient India, Buddhism has influenced American culture since the American Transcendentalist movement in the 1830s and '40s.
Miscellaneous:
9780231500388 | Columbia Univ Pr, August 21, 2007, cover price $0.04
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9781608710171 | 3 edition (Cq Pr, March 1, 2012), cover price $55.00 | About this edition: In the wake of worldwide economic turmoil and efforts toward recovery, understanding the interdependence of government and business is more important than ever.
9781933116051 | 2 edition (Cq Pr, October 31, 2005), cover price $47.00 | About this edition: What influence does business have on government?
9781889119380 | Chatham House Pub, June 1, 2001, cover price $35.95 | About this edition: In addition to a historical perspective of US government and business, this work offers a comprehensive overview of current developments, theoretical positions and contemporary issues.
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9780801436376 | Cornell Univ Pr, June 1, 2000, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: .
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9780801477331 | 2 edition (Ilr Pr, January 17, 2012), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: From reviews of the first edition-"Zweig's investigation of politics goes beyond the electoral, focusing instead on how a broad working-class social movement (often in alliance with segments of the professional middle class) could reshape workplace and community power relations as well as national politics.
9780801487279 | Ilr Pr, January 1, 2001, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: The United States is not a middle class society.
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9780814208168 | Ohio State Univ Pr, May 1, 1999, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: In Crack Mothers, Drew Humphries asserts that medicine and criminal justice have always been at odds on the subject of drug use.
Paperback:
9780814250181, titled "Crack Mothers: Pregnancy, Drugs and the Media" | Reissue edition (Ohio State Univ Pr, September 21, 2011), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: In Crack Mothers, Drew Humphries asserts that medicine and criminal justice have always been at odds on the subject of drug use.
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Presents a report on the state of working class teenagers in America, from Mexican-American gang members in Washington to white supremacists outside Los Angeles
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9780375753824 | Modern Library, June 1, 1999, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Presents a report on the state of working class teenagers in America, from Mexican-American gang members in Washington to white supremacists outside Los Angeles
Miscellaneous:
9780307766144 | Modern Library, January 12, 2011, cover price $15.95
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A study of the role of Americans in the growth and development of the Tokyo underworld since the end of World War II
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9780679419761 | Pantheon Books, March 1, 1999, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: A study of the role of Americans in the growth and development of the Tokyo underworld since the end of World War II
Paperback:
9780375724893 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, September 1, 2000), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: A provocative study of the role of Americans in the growth and development of the Tokyo underworld since the end of World War II examines the powerful alliances among crime bosses, corporate leaders, politicians, and public figures.
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9780307765178 | Vintage Books, September 15, 2010, cover price $16.00
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An account of Flight 93's heroic final moments describes phone calls between passengers and their loved ones, their decision to fight the hijackers, and their heroic sacrifices to prevent a greater tragedy.
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9781587243608 | Large print edition (Wheeler Pub Inc, January 1, 2003), cover price $30.95 | About this edition: An account of Flight 93's heroic final moments describes phone calls between passengers and their loved ones, their decision to fight the hijackers, and their heroic sacrifices to prevent a greater tragedy.
9780060099084 | Harpercollins, July 1, 2002, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: An account of Flight 93's heroic final moments describes phone calls between passengers and their loved ones, their decision to fight the hijackers, and their heroic sacrifices to prevent a greater tragedy.
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9780060099091 | Reprint edition (Perennial, August 1, 2003), cover price $14.99 | About this edition: A definitive account of Flight 93's heroic final moments describes phone calls between passengers and their loved ones, their decision to fight the hijackers, and their heroic sacrifices to prevent a greater tragedy.
Miscellaneous:
9780062028655 | Harpercollins, August 24, 2010, cover price $10.99
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9781435298255 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, June 5, 2008), cover price $23.95 | About this edition: On the evening of September 14, as the sun set over the flag-draped county courthouse in Somerset, Pennsylvania, fifteen hundred mourners gathered together as Governor Tom Ridge presided over a memorial to the passengers and crew of United Flight 93.
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The authors combine irreverent humor with a patriotic celebration of American greatness as they cover topics ranging from the Constitution to toilet paper, freedom to the Slinky, with a variety of lists, facts, and trivia.
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9780060099411 | 1 edition (Harpercollins, May 1, 2002), cover price $14.99 | About this edition: The authors combine irreverent humor with a patriotic celebration of American greatness as they cover topics ranging from the Constitution to toilet paper, freedom to the Slinky, with a variety of lists, facts, and trivia.
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9780062011787, titled "Why We Rule!: 101 Great Reasons to Love Our Country" | Harpercollins, August 24, 2010, cover price $10.99
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Follows a determined African American teenager from a violent school in Washington, D.C., to the bewildering world of the Ivy League
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9780767901253 | Broadway Books, June 1, 1998, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Follows a determined African American teenager from a violent school in Washington, D.
Paperback:
9780767901260 | Reprint edition (Broadway Books, June 1, 1999), cover price $15.99 | About this edition: Follows a determined African American teenager from a violent school in Washington, D.
9789990038224 | Bantam Dell Pub Group, June 1, 1999, cover price $0.02
Miscellaneous:
9780307763082 | Broadway Books, August 18, 2010, cover price $15.99
Reinforced:
9780606218023 | Demco Media, July 1, 2001, cover price $25.65 | About this edition: Follows a determined African American teenager from a violent school in Washington, D.
Prebinding:
9780613510769, titled "Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League" | Turtleback Books, December 1, 2003, cover price $28.15 | About this edition: Follows a determined African American teenager from a violent school in Washington, D.
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Examines the Mexican music trend of 'narcocorridos,' a form that reflects the history, culture, and feelings of people with ties to the dangerous world of drug traffickers that cross the Mexico-United States border.
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9780060505103 | Reprint edition (Rayo, November 1, 2002), cover price $16.99 | About this edition: Examines the Mexican music trend of 'narcocorridos,' a form that reflects the history, culture, and feelings of people with ties to the dangerous world of drug traffickers that cross the Mexico-United States border.
Miscellaneous:
9780062018595 | Harpercollins, August 17, 2010, cover price $10.99
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9780743476959 | Pocket Books, April 1, 2003, cover price $6.99 | About this edition: Describes the fearful events of October 2002 when, for twenty-three days, the nation's capital region was threatened with two snipers attacking at random, and recounts the efforts made by police to capture the murderers.
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9780684856827 | Free Pr, May 1, 2000, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Reveals why Little River, Alabama, experienced racial violence in 1997, including the murder of a black man, an attack on a white storekeeper, and the burning of two black churches by white teens.
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9780786231072 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, February 1, 2001), cover price $28.95 | About this edition: A guide to bourgeois bohemianism describes the social class' attitudes towards consumption, business, intellectualism, pleasure, spiritual life, and politics.
9780684853772 | Simon & Schuster, May 1, 2000, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: A guide to bourgeois bohemianism describes the social class' attitudes towards consumption, business, intellectualism, pleasure, spiritual life, and politics.
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9780684853789 | Simon & Schuster, March 6, 2001, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: A guide to bourgeois bohemianism describes the social class' attitudes towards consumption, business, intellectualism, pleasure, spiritual life, and politics.
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9781859841396 | Verso Books, August 1, 1998, cover price $16.95
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9781849350082 | A K Pr Distribution, July 17, 2012, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: In their signature journalistic style, Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St.
9781859842584 | Verso Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Documents the subversive actions of the CIA, ranging from the recruitment of Nazi scientists, to the arming of opium dealers in Afganistan, to its involvment with Mexico's Guadalajara drug cartel
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9780872893412 | 7 edition (Cq Pr, February 8, 2007), cover price $66.95 | About this edition: A thorough revision of a tried and true classic, the seventh edition of Judicial Process in America offers a comprehensive study of the American judicial system that integrates new scholarship and original research.
9781568028286 | 6 sub edition (Cq Pr, March 1, 2004), cover price $59.95 | About this edition: A thorough revision of a tried and true classic, the seventh edition of Judicial Process in America offers a comprehensive study of the American judicial system that integrates new scholarship and original research.
9781568025094 | Cq Pr, January 1, 2001, cover price $54.95 | About this edition: This thoroughly updated, comprehensive study of the American court system provides an insightful look at the complex environment in which judges, lawyers, litigants, and other actors function in our federal and state, civil and criminal systems.
9781568023946 | 4th edition (Cq Pr, February 1, 1998), cover price $46.95 | About this edition: A thorough revision of a tried and true classic, the seventh edition of Judicial Process in America offers a comprehensive study of the American judicial system that integrates new scholarship and original research.
9780871878335 | 3rd edition (Cq Pr, July 1, 1995), cover price $34.95 | About this edition: A thorough revision of a tried and true classic, the seventh edition of Judicial Process in America offers a comprehensive study of the American judicial system that integrates new scholarship and original research.
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Provides a close look at the dramatic growth of Russian organized crime in the United States, discussing its role in the international financial world, drug trafficking, weapons sales, and other activities.
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9780316294744 | 1 edition (Little Brown & Co, May 1, 2000), cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Provides a close look at the dramatic growth of Russian organized crime in the United States, discussing its role in the international financial world, drug trafficking, weapons sales, and other activities.
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9780316092876 | Little Brown & Co, November 29, 2009, cover price $12.99
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From his bawdy and brave fellow firefighters to the hopeful, hateful, beautiful and beleaguered residents of the poverty-stricken district where he works, Dennis Smith tells the story of a brutalising yet rewarding profession.
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9780899667744 | Reissue edition (Buccaneer Books, December 1, 1993), cover price $27.95 | About this edition: From his bawdy and brave fellow firefighters to the hopeful, hateful, beautiful and beleaguered residents of the poverty-stricken district where he works, Dennis Smith tells the story of a brutalising yet rewarding profession.
9780841501386, titled "Report from Engine Co. 82." | E P Dutton, January 1, 1972, cover price $5.95 | About this edition: A New York City fireman describes his work in the South Bronx, a community plagued by crime and corruption, providing insight into the hazards of this profession
Paperback:
9780783893495 | Large print edition (G K Hall & Co, February 1, 2001), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: From his bawdy and brave fellow firefighters to the hopeful, hateful, beautiful and beleaguered residents of the poverty-stricken district where he works, Dennis Smith tells the story of a brutalising yet rewarding profession.
9780446675529 | Grand Central Pub, April 1, 1999, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: A New York city firefighter describes his work in the South Bronx, a community plagued by crime and corruption, providing insight into the hazards of his profession
Miscellaneous:
9780759521421 | Grand Central Pub, September 26, 2009, cover price $9.99 | also contains Report from Engine Co. 82
CD/Spoken Word:
9780792726319 | Unabridged edition (Chivers Sound Library, June 1, 2002), cover price $39.95 | About this edition: From his bawdy and brave fellow firefighters to the hopeful, hateful, beautiful and beleaguered residents of the poverty-stricken district where he works, Dennis Smith tells the story of a brutalising yet rewarding profession.
9781565116818 | Abridged edition (Highbridge Co, February 12, 2002), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: A New York City firefighter describes his firsthand experience working in the poverty- and corruption-plagued South Bronx, detailing the hazards, bravery, and camaraderie that mark his profession.
Cassette/Spoken Word:
9780792726029 | Unabridged edition (Chivers Sound Library, June 1, 2002), cover price $54.95 | About this edition: From his bawdy and brave fellow firefighters to the hopeful, hateful, beautiful and beleaguered residents of the poverty-stricken district where he works, Dennis Smith tells the story of a brutalising yet rewarding profession.
9781565116801 | Abridged edition (Highbridge Co, March 1, 2002), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: A New York City firefighter describes his firsthand experience working in the poverty- and corruption-plagued South Bronx, detailing the hazards, bravery, and camaraderie that mark his profession.
Reinforced:
9780606246934 | Demco Media, April 1, 2002, cover price $22.73 | also contains Report from Engine Co. 82 | About this edition: A New York city firefighter describes his work in the South Bronx, a community plagued by crime and corruption, providing insight into the hazards of his profession
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Offers an exhaustive account of the murder of JonBenet Ramsey based on hundreds of interviews with all involved
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9780060191535 | Harpercollins, February 1, 1999, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: Offers an exhaustive account of the murder of JonBenet Ramsey based on hundreds of interviews with all involved
Paperback:
9780061096969 | Reprint edition (Harper Torch, November 1, 1999), cover price $7.99 | About this edition: Offers an exhaustive account of the murder of JonBenet Ramsey based on hundreds of interviews with all involved
Miscellaneous:
9780061868238 | Harpercollins, March 17, 2009, cover price $7.99
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Product Description: In this updated and expanded edition, Arthur Schlesinger argues that the image of the American nation as a cultural melting pot in which differences of race, wealth, religion and nationality are submerged in democracy is being replaced by an orthodoxy which celebrates difference and abandons assimilation...read more
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9780393045802 | Rev sub edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, March 1, 1998), cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Examines the growing cult of ethnicity in the United States and discusses how it undermines a common American identity and results in ethnic and racial animosity
Paperback:
9780393318548 | Revised edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, September 1, 1998), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Examines the growing cult of ethnicity in the United States and discusses how it undermines a common American identity and results in ethnic and racial animosity
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9781439571453 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, November 5, 2008), cover price $23.95 | About this edition: In this updated and expanded edition, Arthur Schlesinger argues that the image of the American nation as a cultural melting pot in which differences of race, wealth, religion and nationality are submerged in democracy is being replaced by an orthodoxy which celebrates difference and abandons assimilation.
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Product Description: The infamous murder in October 1998 of a twenty-one-year-old gay University of Wyoming student ignited a media frenzy. The crime resonated deeply with America's bitter history of violence against minorities, and something about Matt Shepard himself struck a chord with people across the nation...read more
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9780231118583 | Columbia Univ Pr, October 1, 2000, cover price $72.00 | About this edition: Explores why the 1998 murder of gay student Matthew Shepard in Laramie, Wyoming, set off a media frenzy and continues to haunt the nation, and examines how the politics of sexuality unfolded in the small town.
Paperback:
9780231118590 | Columbia Univ Pr, September 1, 2001, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: The infamous murder in October 1998 of a twenty-one-year-old gay University of Wyoming student ignited a media frenzy.
Prebinding:
9781439569108 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, November 3, 2008), cover price $30.95 | About this edition: The infamous murder in October 1998 of a twenty-one-year-old gay University of Wyoming student ignited a media frenzy.
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Product Description: After he was denied access to report on Sing Sing, one of America's most notorious high security jails, journalist Ted Conover applied to become a prison guard. As a rookie officer, or 'newjack', Conover spent a year in the unpredictable, intimidating and often violent world of America's penal system...read more
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9780375501777 | 1 edition (Random House Inc, May 1, 2000), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The author, a former guard at Sing Sing prison, looks back on his rookie year in the prison as he attempts to balance basic human decency with the rigors of the prison system
Paperback:
9780375726620 | Vintage Books, June 1, 2001, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: The author, a former guard at Sing Sing prison, looks back on his rookie year in the prison as he attempts to balance basic human decency with the rigors of the prison system.
CD/Spoken Word:
9781596006317 | Mp3 una edition (Brilliance Audio, April 25, 2005), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The investigative journalist describes his year under cover as a guard at Sing Sing prison, relating his rookie year in the prison as he attempts to balance basic human decency with the rigors of the penal system.
Cassette/Spoken Word:
9781567407389 | Unabridged edition (Brilliance Audio Lib Edn, May 1, 2000), cover price $73.25 | About this edition: The investigative journalist describes his year under cover as a guard at Sing Sing prison, relating his rookie year in the prison as he attempts to balance basic human decency with the rigors of the penal system.
9781567403718 | Abridged edition (Brilliance Audio, May 1, 2000), cover price $35.95 | About this edition: The investigative journalist describes his year under cover as a guard at Sing Sing prison, relating his rookie year in the prison as he attempts to balance basic human decency with the rigors of the penal system.
9781567409130 | Abridged edition (Brilliance Audio, May 1, 2000), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The investigative journalist describes his year under cover as a guard at Sing Sing prison, relating his rookie year in the prison as he attempts to balance basic human decency with the rigors of the penal system.
Prebinding:
9781439559857 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, October 8, 2008), cover price $23.95 | About this edition: After he was denied access to report on Sing Sing, one of America's most notorious high security jails, journalist Ted Conover applied to become a prison guard.
9781417626083 | Turtleback Books, June 12, 2001, cover price $25.75 | About this edition: The author, a former guard at Sing Sing prison, looks back on his rookie year in the prison as he attempts to balance basic human decency with the rigors of the prison system.
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9780156027373 | Reprint edition (Mariner Books, July 1, 2003), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Offers the tales of refugees who have escaped countries riddled by conflict and ripped apart by war to realize their dream of starting a new life in America, detailing their triumph over adversity.
Prebinding:
9781439560235 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, October 8, 2008), cover price $23.00 | About this edition: Over the past decade, Mary Pipher has helped us understand our family members.
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9780816632428 | Univ of Minnesota Pr, March 1, 1999, cover price $44.95 | About this edition: JFK, Karl Marx, the Pope, Aristotle Onassis, Queen Elizabeth II, Howard Hughes, Fox Mulder, Bill Clinton-all have been linked to vastly complicated global (or even galactic) intrigues.
Paperback:
9780816654949 | Rev upd edition (Univ of Minnesota Pr, July 29, 2008), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: JFK, Karl Marx, the Pope, Aristotle Onassis, Queen Elizabeth II, Howard Hughes, Fox Mulder, Bill Clinton-all have been linked to vastly complicated global (or even galactic) intrigues.
9780816632435 | Univ of Minnesota Pr, April 1, 2001, cover price $22.50 | About this edition: JFK, Karl Marx, the Pope, Aristotle Onassis, Queen Elizabeth II, Howard Hughes, Fox Mulder, Bill Clinton-all have been linked to vastly complicated global (or even galactic) intrigues.
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9780805052084 | Metropolitan Books, April 1, 2001, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: A renowned historian traces the development of the welfare state from the colonial period to the war on poverty to the modern day age of 'compassionate conservativism' as he explains how an assault on dependence, the devolution of authority from federal government to state, and the use of market models for social policy have redefined the meaning of the welfare state.
Paperback:
9780812220186 | Updated edition (Univ of Pennsylvania Pr, August 15, 2008), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: For Michael B.
9780805069297 | 2 reprint edition (Owl Books, March 1, 2002), cover price $18.00 | About this edition: A renowned historian traces the development of the welfare state from the colonial period to the war on poverty to the modern day age of 'compassionate conservativism' as he explains how an assault on dependence, the devolution of authority from federal government to state, and the use of market models for social policy have redefined the meaning of the welfare state.
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