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Understanding the Department of Homeland Security
Don Philpott · Bernan Press
Pages: 320
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Understanding the Department of Homeland Security discusses why the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) --the largest and the newest department of government--was established and then takes a detailed look at the role of the 22 different federal departments and agencies that were incorporated... |
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The Medici: Power, Money, and Ambition in the Italian Renaissance
Paul Strathern · Pegasus Books
Pages: 430
Format: Print book |
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A vivid, dramatic, and authoritative account of perhaps the most influential family in Italian history: the Medici.A dazzling history of the modest family that rose to become one of the most powerful in Europe, The Medici is a remarkably modern story of power, money, and ambition. Against... |
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The New Democrats and the Return to Power
Al From · Palgrave Macmillan Trade
Format: Hardcover |
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After Barack Obama's solid win in the 2012 election, it's easy to forget that there was a time, not long ago, when the Democrats were shut out of power for over a decade. But Al From remembers. In 1984, he led a small band of governors, US senators, and members of Congress to organize... |
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Slavery Inc: The Untold Story of International Sex Trafficking
Lydia Cacho · Soft Skull Press,
Pages: 271
Format: Paperback |
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Illegal, inhuman, and impervious to recession, there is one trade that continues to thrive, just out of sight. The international sex trade criss-crosses the entire globe, a sinister network made up of criminal masterminds, local handlers, corrupt policemen, willfully blind politicians,... |
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Goochland County, Virginia Court Order Book 1 and 2, 1728-1731
Ann Kicker Blomquist · Heritage Books
Pages: 450
Format: Paperback |
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A wide variety of transactions, for the public good and between individuals, are preserved on these pages. For the public welfare, roads were ordered to be cleared, surveyors were assigned, and bridges were built. Prices for liquor and meals were establis
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Inhabitants of Kent County, Maryland, 1637-1787
Henry C Peden · Willow Bend Books
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback |
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This book on the early inhabitants of Kent County, Maryland, contains thousands of names, with relevant information, gleaned from a wide variety of sources: debt books (1733-1769) ; land patents (1637-1787) ; the Kent County tax list of 1783; indentured orp
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