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    Cage Fight

    What happens when civilian or military dissent interferes with an administration's leadership? Or when the right to elect new leaders in the middle of a conflict interrupts a long-term military…

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    Greek Ways: How the Greeks Created Western Civilization

    Bruce Thornton

    Discusses those areas of Greek life - sexuality and sexual roles; slavery and war; and, philosophy and politics - that some modern critics have made into contested sites. This title…

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    Searching for Joaquin: Myth, Murieta and History in California

    Bruce Thornton

    Intends to probe the role that Joaquin Murieta has played in the myth of the old Hispanic California.

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    Eros: The Myth Of Ancient Greek Sexuality

    Bruce S. Thornton

    This book offers a comprehensive account of ancient Greek sexuality free of currently fashionable theoretical jargon and pretensions. It is about what the literary remains from 700-100 b.c. say about…

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    Eros: The Myth Of Ancient Greek Sexuality

    Bruce S. Thornton

    This book offers a comprehensive account of ancient Greek sexuality free of currently fashionable theoretical jargon and pretensions. It is about what the literary remains from 700-100 b.c. say about…

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    The Wages of Appeasement: Ancient Athens, Munich, and Obama’s America

    Bruce S. Thornton

    Wages of Appeasement explores the reasons why a powerful state gives in to aggressors. It tells the story of three historical examples of appeasement: the greek city-states of the fourth…

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    The Fracturing of the E.U.

    Bruce S. Thornton

    The long-simmering crises challenging the European Union have worsened with the 2008 financial crisis, the influx of Middle East refugees in 2015, several bloody terrorist attacks, and England's departure from…

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    Business Start-ups Done Dirt Cheap: For Entrepreneurs Who Want to Minimize Start-up Costs and Maximize Chances of Success

    Bruce C Thornton

    The number one reason for business failures in the United States is running out of cash. Business Start-Ups Done Dirt Cheap is an entrepreneur’s guide to minimizing cash outlays while…

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    Plagues of the Mind

    Bruce S. Thornton

    Mass literacy, mass communication, and the Internet have all increased the amount of information available. But false knowledge still abounds. Taking cues from Sir Thomas Browne, the English Renaissance skeptic…

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    A Students Guide to Classics

    Bruce S. Thornton

    Provides readers with an overview of each of the major poets, dramatists, philosophers, and historians of ancient Greece and Rome. Including short bios of major figures and a list of…

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    The Welcoming Table

    Bruce D Thornton

    The Welcoming Table is not an inclusive theme in this manuscript of poems. However, there is a line of thought that tie food as a welcoming stable to the table…

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    Democracy’s Dangers & Discontents: The Tyranny of the Majority from the Greeks to Obama

    Bruce S. Thornton

    By democracy we usually mean a government comprising popular rule, individual human rights and freedom, and a free-market economy. Yet the flaws in traditional Athenian democracy can instruct us on…

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    Decline & Fall: Europe’s Slow Motion Suicide

    Bruce S. Thornton

    Argues that once a colossus dominating the globe, Europe today is a doddering convalescent. This book tells the story of this decline by focusing on the larger cultural dysfunctions behind…

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    The Principles of Treatment and Their Applications in Practical Medicine

    John Mitchell Bruce,Edward Quin Thornton

    General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1900 Original Publisher: Lea Subjects: Medicine Medical / General Medical / Clinical Medicine Medical / Dictionaries

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    Reservoir Limnology: Ecological Perspectives

    Kent W. Thornton,Bruce L. Kimmel,Forrest E. Payne

    Addresses reservoirs as unique ecological systems and presents research indicating that reservoirs fall into two or three highly concatenated, interactive ecological systems ranging from riverine to lacustrine or hybrid systems…

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    Transforming Food Systems Under Climate Change through Innovation

    Why food system transformation is needed, how it can be achieved, and how science can be a catalyst for change. Written by a global interdisciplinary team, it provides actionable insights…

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