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  • The War on Drugs

    A History

    par David Farber ...
    Essays offering a revealing look at the history and legacy of the "War on Drugs" in the United States.Fifty years after President Richard Nixon declared a "War on Drugs," the United States government has spent over a trillion dollars fighting a losing battle. In recent years, about 1.5 million people have been arrested annually on drug charges—most of them involving cannabis—and nearly 500,000 ... En savoir plus

    $26.39 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

    Aussi disponible en : Livre audio

    Aussi disponible en : Livre audio

  • Taken Hostage

    The Iran Hostage Crisis and America's First Encounter with Radical Islam

    par David Farber ...
    Collections series Politics and Society in Modern America
    On November 4, 1979, Iranian militants stormed the United States Embassy in Tehran and took sixty-six Americans captive. Thus began the Iran Hostage Crisis, an affair that captivated the American public for 444 days and marked America's first confrontation with the forces of radical Islam. Using hundreds of recently declassified government documents, historian David Farber takes the first in-depth ... En savoir plus

    $38.99 CAD

  • The Rise and Fall of Modern American Conservatism

    A Short History

    par David Farber ...
    The story of modern conservatism through the lives of six leading figuresThe Rise and Fall of Modern American Conservatism tells the gripping story of perhaps the most significant political force of our time through the lives and careers of six leading figures at the heart of the movement. David Farber traces the history of modern conservatism from its revolt against New Deal liberalism, to its ... En savoir plus

    $35.19 CAD

  • Jobs to Be Done

    A Roadmap for Customer-Centered Innovation

    par Stephen Wunker, Jessica Wattman, David Farber ...
    In a challenging economy filled with multiple competitors, no one can afford to stagnate. Yet, innovation is notoriously difficult. How do you pinpoint the winning ideas that customers will love?Sifting through purchasing data for clues about what might sell or haphazardly brainstorming ideas are typical strategies. However, innovation expert Stephen Wunker offers the effective Jobs method: ... En savoir plus

    $14.99 CAD

  • Crack

    Rock Cocaine, Street Capitalism, and the Decade of Greed

    par David Farber ...
    A shattering account of the crack cocaine years from award-winning American historian David Farber, Crack tells the story of the young men who bet their lives on the rewards of selling 'rock' cocaine, the people who gave themselves over to the crack pipe, and the often-merciless authorities who incarcerated legions of African Americans caught in the crack cocaine underworld. Based on interviews, ... En savoir plus

    $19.99 CAD

    Aussi disponible en : Livre audio

    Aussi disponible en : Livre audio

  • America in the Seventies

    Modifié par Beth Bailey, David Farber ...
    Collections series CultureAmerica
    Tucked between the activist Sixties and the conservative Eighties lies a largely misunderstood and still under-appreciated decade. Now nine leading scholars of postwar America offer a revealing look at the Seventies and their rightful place in the epic narrative of American historyThis is the first major work to relate the economic decline and cultural despair of the Seventies to the creative ... En savoir plus

    $24.99 CAD

  • Everybody Ought to Be Rich

    The Life and Times of John J. Raskob, Capitalist

    par David Farber ...
    Today, consumer credit, employee stock options, and citizen investment in the stock market are taken for granted--fundamental facts of American economic life. But few people realize that they were first widely promoted by John Jakob Raskob (1879-1950), the innovative financier and self-made businessman who built the Empire State building, made millions for DuPont and General Motors, and helped ... En savoir plus

    $23.99 CAD

  • The Sixties

    From Memory to History

    Modifié par David Farber ...
    This collection of original essays represents some of the most exciting ways in which historians are beginning to paint the 1960s onto the larger canvas of American history. While the first literature about this turbulent period was written largely by participants, many of the contributors to this volume are young scholars who came of age intellectually in the 1970s and 1980s and thus write from ... En savoir plus

    $34.39 CAD

  • The Columbia Guide to America in the 1960s

    par David Farber, Beth Bailey ...
    Collections series Columbia Guides to American History and Cultures
    The 1960s continue to be the subject of passionate debate and political controversy, a touchstone in struggles over the meaning of the American past and the direction of the American future. Amid the polemics and the myths, making sense of the Sixties and its legacies presents a challenge. This book is for all those who want to take it on. Because there are so many facets to this unique and ... En savoir plus

    $47.99 CAD

  • The First Strange Place

    The Alchemy of Race and Sex in World War II Hawaii

    par Beth Bailey, David Farber ...
    Just as World War I introduced Americans to Europe, making an indelible impression on thousands of farmboys who were changed forever “after they saw Paree,” so World War II was the beginning of America’s encounter with the East – an encounter whose effects are still being felt and absorbed. No single place was more symbolic of this initial encounter than Hawaii, the target of the first ... En savoir plus

    $19.99 CAD

  • Everybody Ought to Be Rich

    The Life and Times of John J. Raskob, Capitalist

    par David Farber ...
    Today, consumer credit, employee stock options, and citizen investment in the stock market are taken for granted--fundamental facts of American economic life. But few people realize that they were first widely promoted by John Jakob Raskob (1879-1950), the innovative financier and self-made businessman who built the Empire State building, made millions for DuPont and General Motors, and helped ... En savoir plus

    $23.99 CAD

  • Beyond Pearl Harbor

    A Pacific History

    Modifié par Beth Bailey, David Farber ...
    Collections series Modern War Studies
    In the United States, December 7, 1941, may live in infamy, in President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s phrase, but for most Americans the date’s significance begins and ends with the attack on Pearl Harbor. On December 8 (December 7 on the other side of the International Date Line) Japanese military forces hit eight major targets, all but one on western colonial possessions and military outposts in the ... En savoir plus

    $33.99 CAD