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Stalin ordered his execution, but here Palchinksy's ghost leads us through the miasma of Soviet technology and industry, pointing out the mistakes he condemned in his lifetime, the corruption and collapse he predicted, and the ultimate price paid for silencing those who were not afraid to speak out. The story of this engineer's life and work, as Graham tells it, is also the story of the Soviet Union's industrial promise and failure..
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Since 1980 the number of prisoners in the U.S. has tripled to over 2 million people, 70 percent of them people of color. Indeed, 3,600 people are on America’s death rows. This growth industry currently employs 523,000 people.

Among abuses that Mark Taylor notes in this "theater of terror" are capital punishment, inordinate sentencing, violations of fairness in both process and results, racism in the justice system and prisons, prison rape and other terrorizing techniques, and paramilitary policing practices.

With 25 years of involvement with prison reform, Taylor passionately describes and explains the excesses and injustices in our corrections system and capital punishment to foster compassionate and effective Christian action. "Remembering the executed Jesus is crucial to mobilizing effective response to ‘lockdown America’ today," says Taylor.

His book convincingly relates the life-engendering power of God—demonstrated in Jesus’ cross and resurrection—to the potential transformation of the systems of death and imprisonment.

"A powerful critique of America as Empire and the challenge it poses for all who believe in the way of Jesus."
---James H. Cone, Union Theological Seminary, New York

"Mark Taylor's absorbing examination of our shameful execution obsession is without a doubt the finest and most discerning theological analysis of the death penalty now available. There is no doubt that the question is once again back in the public eye, and his graphic and penetrating book will surely help focus the discussion we all need."
---Harvey Cox, Harvard Divinity School.
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When David Dow took his first capital case, he supported the death penalty He changed his position as the men on death row became real people to him, and as he came to witness the profound injustices they endured: from coerced confessions to disconcertingly incompetent lawyers; from racist juries and backward judges to a highly arbitrary death penalty system.

It is these concrete accounts of the people Dow has known and represented that prove the death penalty is consistently unjust, and it's precisely this fundamental—and lethal—injustice, Dow argues, that should compel us to abandon the system altogether.

"An honorably dispassionate and logical broadside against a shameful practice."
—Kirkus Reviews

"Dow reveals the dirty little secret of American death-penalty litigation: procedure trumps innocence . . . [His book] is insightful and full of the kinds of revelations that may lead readers to reconsider their stand on the death penalty."
—Steve Mills, Chicago Tribune

"Dow's book leaves all else behind. It is powerful, direct, informative, and told in compelling human terms. He makes us see that the issue is not sentiment or retribution or even innocence. It is justice."
—Anthony Lewis, Pulitzer Prize–winning former columnist for the New York Times

David R. Dow is professor of law at the University of Houston Law Center and an internationally recognized figure in the fight against the death penalty. He is the founder and director of the Texas Innocence Network and has represented more than thirty death row inmates. Regularly quoted in publications like the New York Times and the Washington Post, Dow lives in Houston, Texas..
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Joseph R. Fischer reassesses the historical value of the first of the “Indian Wars,” a campaign generally regarded as one of the Continental army’s strategic fiascoes. Major General John Sullivan’s expedition, intended to punish the Iroquois Confederacy for raids in western New York and Pennsylvania, ultimately did not remove the Iroquois from the conflict despite the successful destruction of their lands. Instead the crusade increased the dependency of the Iroquois remnant on its British supporters and galvanized raiding activities. Fischer suggests that the historical focus on the campaign’s failure has overshadowed its importance as a vehicle for understanding the Continental army at a turning point in the war. He demonstrates that this expedition provides exceptional insight into the growing professionalism of George Washington’s military. While Fischer uses the Sullivan campaign to enumerate the logistical inadequacies that plagued the Continental army, he also uses it to highlight the significant progress Washington had achieved by 1779. Fischer contends that improvements in operational planning, intelligence, tactics, and leadership exhibited during the Sullivan campaign transformed the army into a force capable of victory against British forces..
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The true story of a group of infiltrators from the Union Army set off on a mission to disrupt the South's railway system. Taking a steam engine these commandos dressed as civilians and set off to burn bridges and pull up the railways of the confederacy.

This is the true story behind Buster Keaton's 1927 movie "The General".

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Strategy alone does not determine business success It s how well you implement that strategy, how well you execute those ideas and plans. Effective execution requires looking at your entire business and finding ways to improve each part of the process your leadership, your people, your business process, your partners, your technological skill. It requires really implementing the improvements you see necessary, getting your employees to fully participate, measuring your progress, adjusting, correcting, applauding, and then repeating the process all again... and again... and again. This book will help you, your organization, and your people to use the organizational tools you already own to close the gap between your dreams and reality. This book is filled with do-able ideas. It will assist you to look outside your traditional viewing (and thinking) platform. Research information and examples abound. Use them not only to consider changing your modus operandi, use them to help you decide how to change your approach. Execution is touched by so many factors, from the style of the leader, to the mindset of the people from the skills brought to the table to the environment in which execution is to take place from the partners involved to the technology utilized. Each part of the book focuses on one area of execution. Part One: Examines the characteristics of today s organizations, today s leaders and today s people. Part Two: Looks at the members of the execution team. Part Three: Highlights in detail the skills required for effective execution to take place. Part Four: Focuses on the partners in execution from the resources to the technology. Part Five: Concentrates on the execution experience. At the conclusion of each part there are Marketplace Lessons that offer up valuable learning experiences. All together the book discusses significant elements of execution and offers many invaluable suggestions you will use on an ongoing basis. These will assist you to move from strategic thinking to strategic doing. Take charge of execution!.
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When the rumor that the recently executed prisoner was already dead before he received his lethal injection threatens the President's reelection, Richard Michaelson conducts a secret investigation and discovers connections between the Pentagon, a Japanese computer firm, and Washington society..
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