Michael Doyle
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Unbridled passions threatened nineteenth-century America, a vulnerable young nation already feeling beset by foreigners, corruption, and disease. Purifying crusaders like Hamilton College philosophy professor and Presbyterian minister John W. Mears mobilized to fight every sin and carnal lure, from liquor to free love. In Upstate New York's famed Oneida Community, Mears encountered his stiffest challenge. Oneida's founder and patriarch, John Humphrey...
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For more than sixty-years, John Hancock has pursued a remarkable and often tumultuous career as a writer/director/producer. From the hallucinatory horrors of Let's Scare Jessica to Death and the gritty fantasy of Prancer to the unshakable humanity of Bang the Drum Slowly, Weeds and The Looking Glass, he has cultivated a deeply personal yet accessible cinema; one that yields a textured emotionalism and philosophical richness that belies its surface...
3) Heaven
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'Heaven' is an enthralling account of what is like to leave this world and
enter Paradise. Released from its body, the author's soul comes before God and is sent to purgatory, tempted by Jezebel and harlots, overcomes them and is sent to heaven. There he encounters Faith, Hope and Love and falls in love with an archangel. Never before has a writer explored Paradise with such spiritual insight.
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Michael W. Doyle is the Harold Brown Professor of International Affairs, Law, and Political Science at Columbia University. He served as assistant secretary-general and special adviser to U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, and is currently the chair of the U.N. Democracy Fund. His books include Making War and Building Peace (Princeton) and Ways of War and Peace.
Does the United States have the right to defend itself by striking first, or must it...
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Michael W. Doyle is Harold Brown Professor of Law and International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. Nicholas Sambanis is Associate Professor of Political Science at Yale University.
Making War and Building Peace examines how well United Nations peacekeeping missions work after civil war. Statistically analyzing all civil wars since 1945, the book compares peace processes that had UN involvement to those that didn't. Michael Doyle and...
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An urgent examination of the world barreling toward a new Cold War.
With a historian's eye and a theorist's ingenuity, Michael Doyle, whose writings on liberal peace have revolutionized modern statesmanship, cogently assesses the tectonic shifts threatening a global order that has held for more than seventy years. As tensions among China, Russia, and the US escalate perilously toward a new Cold War, Doyle introduces a radical paradigm that will facilitate...
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2023.
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"By 1990, the first Cold War was ending. The Berlin Wall had fallen and the Warsaw Pact was crumbling; following Russia's lead, cries for democracy were being embraced by a young Chinese populace. The post-Cold War years were a time of immense hope and possibility. They heralded an opportunity for creative cooperation among nations, an end to ideological strife, perhaps even the beginning of a stable international order of liberal peace. But the days...
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1999
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Recorded interviews conducted by Cheryl Turkington with long-time residents of Irish descent in Morristown, N.J from 1999 to 2004. The individuals in this collection shared their recollections of Morristown in formal recorded interviews that began in 1999 and were conducted by Library archivist Cheryl Turkington. The interviews are part of a larger Irish history project conducted by Turkington that culminated in the publication of her book, "Ordinary...
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