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Upbuilding Black Durham
The University of North Carolina Press 2008; US$ 28.95In the 1910s, both W. E. B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington praised the black community in Durham, North Carolina, for its exceptional race progress. Migration, urbanization, and industrialization had turned black Durham from a post-Civil War liberation community into the "capital of the black middle class." African Americans owned and operated mills,... more...
Reductionism and the Development of Knowledge
Taylor and Francis 2002; US$ 49.95Among the many conceits of modern thought is the idea that philosophy, tainted as it is by subjective evaluation, is a shaky guide for human affairs. People, it is argued, are better off if they base their conduct either on know-how with its pragmatic criterion of truth (i.e., possibility) or on science with its universal criterion of rational necessity.... more...
Living with Jim Crow
Palgrave Macmillan 2010; US$ 30.00Using first-person narratives collected through oral history interviews, this groundbreaking book collects black women's memories of their public and private lives during the period of legal segregation in the American South. more...
Improving Support to CINC Theater Engagement Plans
RAND Corporation 2001; US$ 9.95The purpose of this study is twofold: (1) help the Director for Strategic Plans and Policy and the Director for Force Structure, Resources, and Assessment develop a framework for assessing global engagement and (2) improve the potential for engagement resource support to the CINCs. more...
Managing Quadrennial Defense Review Integration
RAND Corporation 2001; US$ 9.95This title attempts to establish a working relationship between the US Joint Staff and the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD). It also seeks to to identify a set of mega-issues (with a set of supporting specific issues) and initiate studies and analysis on the most important ones. more...
Quadrennial Defense Review 2001
RAND Corporation 2002; US$ 9.95A summary of analysis performed in preparation for and in support of the second Quadrennial Defense Review. It concludes that QDR 2001 provided information about requirements for military capabilities, but was ineffective in presenting solutions to shortfalls in capabilities and resources. more...
Improving the Army Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution System (PPBES)
RAND Corporation 2001; US$ 9.95This report provides an assessment of The Army Plan (TAP) 2000-2015, the document that provides the initial programming guidance to the Army Program Evaluation Groups. The authors identify several problems, including mixing of operational and institutional functions, overlapping areas, overly broad and inappropriate mission areas, unwieldy structure,... more...
Practical Power System Protection
Elsevier Science 2004; US$ 70.95Plant operators, electricians, field technicians and engineers will gain a practical understanding of the role and workings of power system protection systems from this work. An understanding of power systems and their optimized management will increase plant efficiency and performance as well as increasing safety levels. This book provides both the... more...
Planet Broadband, Adobe Reader
Pearson Education 2003; US$ 23.96Understand what broadband is, why it is the fastest growing consumer media product since the VCR and what it means to you Learn about the historical development of broadband and understand its future course See how this technology will alter how we live, think, and do business Hear how recognized leaders in business, academia, and government... more...
Service Responses to the Emergence of Joint Decisionmaking
RAND Corporation 2001; US$ 9.95This volume is an assessment of the manner in which the services have altered their planning, programming, and budgeting processes in response to the changes brought about by the 1986 Goldwater-Nichols legislation. more...









