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Robert D. Kaplan is one of our leading international journalists, someone who can explain the most complicated and volatile regions and show why they’re relevant to our world. In Surrender or Starve, Kaplan illuminates the fault lines in the Horn of Africa, which is emerging as a crucial region for America’s ongoing war on terrorism.

Reporting from Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, and Eritrea, Kaplan examines the factors behind the famine that ravaged the region in the 1980s, exploring the ethnic, religious, and class conflicts that are crucial for understanding the region today. He offers a new foreword and afterword that show how the nations have developed since the famine, and why this region will only grow more important to the United States. Wielding his trademark ability to blend on-the-ground reporting and cogent analysis, Robert D. Kaplan introduces us to a fascinating part of the world, one that it would behoove all of us to know more about..
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Taking readers inside the minds, bodies and feelings of anorexic or bulimic patients, this book tells the stories of those who have successfully fought back from this disease. Anyone who has suffered from anorexia/bulimia or who has had a loved one struggle with it, will benefit from the insights in this book..
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American political culture and military necessity were at odds during the War for American Independence, as demonstrated in this interpretation of Continental army administration. E. Wayne Carp shows that at every level of authority—congressional, state, and county—a localistic world-view, a deferential political order, and adherence to republican ideology impeded the task of supplying the army, even though independence demanded military strength.

Placing military history within the context of colonial and revolutionary historiography, Carp finds that the colonial American belief that authority and political power should be decentralized deeply influenced Congress's approach to the task of supplying the army. Furthermore, most Congressmen had neither military experience nor any idea of how to administer an army, while local governments constantly thwarted the army's efforts to obtain supplies—they blocked impressment and interfered with the movement of food and clothing.

Carp shows that political leaders eventually adjusted their ideals to the imperatives of winning the war. He offers a revisionist analysis of the origins of the Nationalist movement of 1780-83 that was begun by army officers and state legislators fearing the imminent failure of the Revolution. Lacking unity and blinded by republican ideology, the Nationalists did not markedly improve the administration of the army. Instead, it was largely through the efforts of Superintendent of Finance Robert Morris, the cooperation of the French, and sheer luck that the British were ultimately defeated. Carp concludes that the Americans won the Revolution "in spite of, rather than because of, their political beliefs.".
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While commitment and craft can take writers to the top, most will fail without the insider knowledge needed to navigate the publishing industry. Not just another happily-ever-after writing book, this guide provides: Twenty-seven cold, hard truths about the realities of getting published, including Nepotism Happens and Writers Rarely Help Other Writers; Easy-to-digest, quick lessons that are both browsable and succinct; A tough-love approach to instructing and motivating writers; Boot camp and charm school all in one, this book will toughen up writers so they can survive and thrive in the publishing world..
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International journalism's most respected writers on hunger and food aid issue a powerful indictment of the economic, political, and social dynamics that encourage hunger and famine to continue - and point out a clear path to change.The science and technology necessary to conquer famine has been available to us for more than thirty years, yet 25,000 people a day - and six million children a year - die of hunger, malnutrition and related diseases. Scott Kilman and Roger Thurow - two of international journalism's most respected writers on hunger and food aid issues - perceive this fact as a matter of criminal negligence. In this powerful book, they journey around the world to expose the economic, social, and political dynamics in both the developed and developing worlds that encourage famine to continue, citing the US & European farm subsidy programmes, the policies of the World Bank, the IMF and African leaders amongst others. They document how conquering chronic hunger is achievable, and add fuel to the growing groundswell of effort to make it happen. International in focus, written with enormous urgency and passion, "To Feed the Hungry" is a necessary prequel to "The End of Poverty"..
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