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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Compendio Histórico del Perú	Teodoro Hampe Martínez,Peter T. Bradley	Part 1 - A comprehensive survey of the history of Peru including themes such as the enterprise of Pizarro, Indian resistance and fall of the Inca empire, government, institutions, the church, exploit…	OL15168160W
The New Aztecs	Dr. Zhivan Alach	The Western way of war has come full circle. After centuries of evolution toward increased totality and brutality, it has turned back once again to the ritualistic and restrained methods of primitive…	OL16046243W
Nuclear power's Global Expansion	Henry D. Sokolski	When security and arms control analysts list what has helped keep nuclear weapons technologies from spreading, energy economics is rarely, if ever, mentioned. Yet, large civilian nuclear energy progr…	OL16046273W
Some of the Best weapons for Counterinsurgents Do Not Shoot	Eric T. Olson	Even under the best circumstances, reconstruction in counterinsurgency is a difficult endeavor. The most critical tasks are numerous and complex. Many participating agencies must undertake missions t…	OL16046296W
Dilemmas of Brazilian grand Strategy	Dr. Hal Brands	This monograph analyzes Brazilian grand strategy under President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. During Lula’s nearly 8 years in office, he has pursued a multi-tiered grand strategy aimed at hastening the…	OL16046307W
Medevedev's Plan	Dr. Richard J. Krickus	The author addresses the question of how to give Russia a voice but not a veto in a new European security system and provides some provocative recommendations. Most specifically, he proposes that the…	OL16076136W
Provincial Reconstruction Teams	Carter Malkasian,Carter Malkasain,Gerald Meyerle	Over the past 6 years, provincial reconstruction teams (PRTs) have played a growing role in the U.S. counterinsurgency effort in Afghanistan. PRTs are one of several organizations working on reconstr…	OL16077152W
After Iraq	Colin S. Gray	A sustainable national security strategy is feasible only when directed by a sustainable national security policy. In the absence of policy guidance, strategy will be meaningless. The only policy tha…	OL16077153W
John Adams	David McCullough	In this powerful, epic biography, David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life journey of John Adams, the brilliant, fiercely independent, often irascible, always honest Yankee patriot who spared no…	OL16459038W
IT Auditing	Robert E. Davis, MBA, CISA, CICA	"IT Auditing: Assuring Information Assets Protection" provides a proven approach to assessing IT security frameworks, architectures, methods, and techniques. In terms of content, this publication con…	OL16684848W
Theocracy	Tish Davidson	Examines theocratic governments, exploring how they arose, how the leaders maintain authority, and what living under religious rule is like for regular people.	OL16769251W
Our Civic Life	Lisa Moran	The leaders of a government make laws and provide services for the people. In the United States (U.S.), people can participate in the government. Think about how people can participate in our governm…	OL17080633W
A Few Hours in the Life of a Young Man	Alexey Subbotin	«A Few Hours In The Life Of A Young Man» is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental. Sort of. The quest is to guess the YM'…	OL17316864W
The soul of liberty	Fred E. Foldvary	This book derives the universal ethic as the expression of natural moral law, and applies it to government, economics, the environment, and other social issues. There is also a chapter on the history…	OL1855659W
Baroda and Bombay: Their Political Morality. A Narrative Drawn from the ...	John Chapman,James Outram,Sir James Outram	Book digitized by Google from the library of the University of California and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.	OL19802655W
Conflux	Jordan Wakefield	IT’S A BAD, BAD WORLD OUT THERE - Two teenage girls who don’t even know their own names. A nightmarish town that wants to eat them alive. When fate brings them together, will a murderous town ful…	OL20890832W
Washington State	Robert E. Ficken	In November 1889, Washington—70,000 square miles brimming with timber, salmon, and rich farmland,—became the nation’s 42nd state. In a sequel to "Washington Territory," (WSU Press, 2002), author Robe…	OL2946187W
The people's republic	Greg Guma	The election of Bernie Sanders as mayor of Burlington, Vermont in 1981 caught the attention of the nation and inspired progressives. How did the self-proclaimed socialist win, and how did Vermont's l…	OL4780715W
Dead Men Talking	Dean T. Hartwell	This book provides legal proof of government misconduct in the events of 9/11 and the Kennedy assassinations.	OL6216485W
Semblanza del general Juan Vte. Gómez	V. Márquez Bustillos	Adulation of a dictator that filled an institutional and social void in Venezuela. Through the maze of interested praise and the complicated power struggles, emerges the profile of a resourceful and …	OL7750115W