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Surrender or Starve: Travels in Ethiopia, Sudan, Somalia, and Eritrea
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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Some Writers Deserve to Starve!
While commitment and craft can take writers to the top, most will fail without the insider savvy 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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To Starve the Army at Pleasure: Continental Army Administration and American Political Culture, 1775-1783
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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Feed Your Skin, Starve Your Wrinkles: Eat Your Way to Firmer, More Beautiful Skin with 100 Foods That Turn Back the Clock
Women today want to look as good as they can for as long as they can. Yet to many people expensive Botox procedures, chemical peels, and laser and surgery treatments are understandably unappealing. Topical moisturizers help—but only so much. However, what you eat changes the look, feel, and flexibility of your skin. Aging skin also does more than wrinkle—it sags, discolors, and causes the loss of firmness and luminosity. This guide isolates the 100 best foods that slow down the aging process, nourish skin, and give it a youthful glow naturally. .
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Hate Starve Curse: A Disagreeable Man's Search for Nothingness in the Face of Everythingness
By the time he turned 23, Austen James had everything a modern, educated, ambitious American man was supposed to want-unemployment, a 5150 to a psychiatric hospital, and cops swarming his front yard. But instead of feeling happy and fulfilled, he was consumed with panic, grief, and confusion. He went through repeated arrest, psychiatric abuse, and a high speed police chase. To recover from the complete eradication of everything he ever thought he was supposed to be, he took a radical step. In order to give himself the time and space to give up on meaningful goals and replace them with life platitudes, he got rid of his belongings, fixed up a wrecked motorcycle, left his loved ones behind, and undertook a year-long journey around the continent, all alone. Hate Starve Curse is the absorbing chronicle of how he lived that year..
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