Looking at the CIA, FBI, and the NSA, Smist examines how the relationship between these agencies and the Congress has evolved in the 1947-94 time period. A former CIA officer, Smist has insights into intelligence that only an A-list insider could hope to possess.

I saw this charming book featured in the Hartford Courant and bought it to quiz my kids about the state they live in. We have a great time with our question and answer sessions, especially on road trips and travels throughout Connecticut.

The biggest obstacle to spreading the Conservative message of more freedom and less government is the lack of effective communicators. If Conservatives continue to blame media bias, liberal demagoguery, etc., they will only become more frustrated. The key is to become proficient and persuasive in communicating the Conservative message. Dr. Luntz's booklet is a good start for getting Conservatives on that path.

If your looking for a forms book for construction contracts this is the one. The book is filled with standard AIA documents and includes the typical verbage explaining each section. The cool, unexpected item is the alternative contract language. For example, indemnification terms has the standard AIA verbage and then has 3-5 alternate versions of the same section. Pretty slick.

Frank Dikötter has put together an excellent collection of articles about the development of racial and national identities in China and Japan. Starting from where Western scholars fear to tread but need to go, he asserts in the introduction that dismissing the development of racial (or racist) attitudes in Asia as the mere extension of Western ethnocentrism is not only short-sighted, but dangerous.

Especially as we enter the 21st century as globalization brings nations and ideologies closer together, it is important to understand the historically specific formations of national and racial identity that determines individual identity formation. Splitting the book into two halves, with articles about China leading off the book, the varied articles and analyses are quite insighful and theoretically rigorous.

This is a good first introduction to the subject, and many of the authors in the book can be found elsewhere, some of them having written their own books based on their lines of research. Kosaku Yoshino, Frank Dikötter, Louise Young, and David Goodman have all written works worthy of buying outright.

Of particular interest are the Japan chapters, which outline the development of ideas of racial particularism as the nation reconstructed itself in its program of modernization, the place of the Ainu "other" in this process, the distancing and stigmatizing of Chinese kanbun throughout this process, as well as the turn Japanese ideology took after the forced annexation of Manchukuo. For a detailed exploration of the Chinese formation of national identity, this is a good book, but it goes without saying (although I clearly am) that one should own a copy of Dikötter's The Discourse of Race in Modern China.

Perfect accompanying works to be read alongside this one are the aforementioned book on China, the edited volume Making Majorities, by Dru Gladney, as well as Cultural Nationalism in East Asia, by Harumi Befu. The big man on campus, as it were, is Kosaku Yoshino, who wrote Cultural Nationalism in Contemporary Japan. If you are a scholar of nationalism in Asia, you cannot be without these books. Also of interest would be Michael Robinson's Cultural Nationalism in Korea, any and all works by John Dower, beginning with War Without Mercy, and the book Colonialism and Nationalism in Asian Cinema.

As a graduate student specializing in this area, and having just passed my qualifying exams in the area of Nationalism in East Asia, I can say that I have scoured bibliographies and booklists far and wide. This book, along with the others mentioned above, will provide a solid start for the interested scholar.

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every word in this book is the truth

Excellent Review articles - can be of great help to researchers in the field of Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer in Porous Media.

If this is the same text I had in college (25 years ago), and it seems to be, it is a really great book. I really regret having given it away in the time since then. The book is divided into chapters, each approximately two or three pages, consisting of topic drawing (e.g., gas station, theater) and list of basic vocabulary and idioms. It is a good reference and starting point for building vocabulary for conversation. I also had a similar edition for my French studies - and I also gave it away!

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