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Based on interviews with participants and research in Soviet archives, this work reveals how the American atomic monopoly affected Stalin's foreign policy, the role of espionage in the evolution of the bomb, and the relationship between Soviet nuclear scientists and the country's leaders.
Because your home is an investment, it is worth preventing deterioration by ensuring that it is protected and maintained against adverse weather conditions. With the help of this handbook, you will learn basic skills, using the right materials and tools,
This interdisciplinary study of how 9/11 and the 'war on terror' were represented during the Bush era, shows how culture often functioned as a vital resource, for citizens attempting to make sense of momentous historical events that frequently seemed beyond their influence or control.Illustrated throughout, the book discusses representation of 9/11 and the war on terror in Hollywood film, the 9/11 novel, mass media, visual art and photography, political discourse, and revisionist historical accounts of American 'empire,' between the September 11 attacks and the Congressional midterm elections in 2006. As well as prompting an international security crisis, and a crisis in international governance and law, David Holloway suggests the culture of the time also points to a 'crisis' unfolding in the institutions and processes of republican democracy in the United States. His book offers a cultural and ideological history of the period.
Through close examination of the formal as well as thematic organization of Cormac McCarthy's eight novels, this volume offers a radically new assessment of the work of an author who has often been described as one of the greatest contemporary American novelists.
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