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The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War

Author : Stephen Kinzer
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1429953527
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War written by Stephen Kinzer and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A joint biography of John Foster Dulles and Allen Dulles, who led the United States into an unseen war that decisively shaped today's world During the 1950s, when the Cold War was at its peak, two immensely powerful brothers led the United States into a series of foreign adventures whose effects are still shaking the world. John Foster Dulles was secretary of state while his brother, Allen Dulles, was director of the Central Intelligence Agency. In this book, Stephen Kinzer places their extraordinary lives against the background of American culture and history. He uses the framework of biography to ask: Why does the United States behave as it does in the world? The Brothers explores hidden forces that shape the national psyche, from religious piety to Western movies—many of which are about a noble gunman who cleans up a lawless town by killing bad guys. This is how the Dulles brothers saw themselves, and how many Americans still see their country's role in the world. Propelled by a quintessentially American set of fears and delusions, the Dulles brothers launched violent campaigns against foreign leaders they saw as threats to the United States. These campaigns helped push countries from Guatemala to the Congo into long spirals of violence, led the United States into the Vietnam War, and laid the foundation for decades of hostility between the United States and countries from Cuba to Iran. The story of the Dulles brothers is the story of America. It illuminates and helps explain the modern history of the United States and the world. A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2013

God's Cold Warrior

Author : John D. Wilsey
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467462144
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (674 download)

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Download or read book God's Cold Warrior written by John D. Wilsey and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When John Foster Dulles died in 1959, he was given the largest American state funeral since Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s in 1945. President Eisenhower called Dulles—his longtime secretary of state—“one of the truly great men of our time,” and a few years later the new commercial airport outside Washington, DC, was christened the Dulles International Airport in his honor. His star has fallen significantly since that time, but his influence remains indelible—most especially regarding his role in bringing the worldview of American exceptionalism to the forefront of US foreign policy during the Cold War era, a worldview that has long outlived him. God’s Cold Warrior recounts how Dulles’s faith commitments from his Presbyterian upbringing found fertile soil in the anti-communist crusades of the mid-twentieth century. After attending the Oxford Ecumenical Church Conference in 1937, he wrote about his realization that “the spirit of Christianity, of which I learned as a boy, was really that of which the world now stood in very great need, not merely to save souls, but to solve the practical problems of international affairs.” Dulles believed that America was chosen by God to defend the freedom of all those vulnerable to the godless tyranny of communism, and he carried out this religious vision in every aspect of his diplomatic and political work. He was conspicuous among those US officials in the twentieth century that prominently combined their religious convictions and public service, making his life and faith key to understanding the interconnectedness of God and country in US foreign affairs.

My First Oxford Book of Poems

Author : John Foster
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780192763396
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (633 download)

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Download or read book My First Oxford Book of Poems written by John Foster and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A children's collection of poetry by English poets.

A World for Us

Author : John Foster
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 019153806X
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book A World for Us written by John Foster and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2008-04-24 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A World for Us aims to refute physical realism and establish in its place a form of idealism. Physical realism, in the sense in which John Foster understands it, takes the physical world to be something whose existence is both logically independent of the human mind and metaphysically fundamental. Foster identifies a number of problems for this realist view, but his main objection is that it does not accord the world the requisite empirical immanence. The form of idealism that he tries to establish in its place rejects the realist view in both its aspects. It takes the world to be something whose existence is ultimately constituted by facts about human sensory experience, or by some richer complex of non-physical facts in which such experiential facts centrally feature. Foster calls this phenomenalistic idealism. He tries to establish a specific version of such phenomenalistic idealism, in which the experiential facts that centrally feature in the constitutive creation of the world are ones that concern the organization of human sensory experience. The basic idea of this version is that, in the context of certain other constitutively relevant factors, this sensory organization creates the physical world by disposing things to appear systematically world-wise at the human empirical viewpoint. Chief among these other relevant factors is the role of God as the one who is responsible for the sensory organization and ordains the system of appearance it yields. It is this that gives the idealistically created world its objectivity and allows it to qualify as a real world.

Another Second Poetry Book

Author : John Foster
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780199162291
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (622 download)

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Download or read book Another Second Poetry Book written by John Foster and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated collection of children's poetry.

The Immaterial Self

Author : John Foster
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134731051
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)

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Download or read book The Immaterial Self written by John Foster and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-01-04 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dualism argues that the mind is more than just the brain. It holds that there exists two very different realms, one mental and the other physical. Both are fundamental and one cannot be reduced to the other - there are minds and there is a physical world. This book examines and defends the most famous dualist account of the mind, the cartesian, which attributes the immaterial contents of the mind to an immaterial self. John Foster's new book exposes the inadequacies of the dominant materialist and reductionist accounts of the mind. In doing so he is in radical conflict with the current philosophical establishment. Ambitious and controversial, The Immaterial Self is the most powerful and effective defence of Cartesian dualism since Descartes' own

John Foster Dulles and the Diplomacy of the Cold War

Author : Richard H. Immerman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691006222
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book John Foster Dulles and the Diplomacy of the Cold War written by Richard H. Immerman and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1992-03-23 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Dwight D. Eisenhower's Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles came to personify the shortcomings of American foreign policy. This collection of essays, representing the first archivally based reassessment of Dulles's diplomacy, examines his role during one of the most critical periods of modern history. Rejecting familiar Cold War stereotypes, this volume reveals the hidden complexities in Dulles's conduct of foreign policy and in his own personality.

What Every Environmentalist Needs to Know About Capitalism

Author : Fred Magdoff
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1583672737
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (836 download)

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Download or read book What Every Environmentalist Needs to Know About Capitalism written by Fred Magdoff and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for Foster and Magdoff’s The Great Financial Crisis: In this timely and thorough analysis of the current financial crisis, Foster and Magdoff explore its roots and the radical changes that might be undertaken in response. . . . This book makes a valuable contribution to the ongoing examination of our current debt crisis, one that deserves our full attention.—Publishers Weekly There is a growing consensus that the planet is heading toward environmental catastrophe: climate change, ocean acidification, ozone depletion, global freshwater use, loss of biodiversity, and chemical pollution all threaten our future unless we act. What is less clear is how humanity should respond. The contemporary environmental movement is the site of many competing plans and prescriptions, and composed of a diverse set of actors, from militant activists to corporate chief executives. This short, readable book is a sharply argued manifesto for those environmentalists who reject schemes of “green capitalism” or piecemeal reform. Environmental and economic scholars Magdoff and Foster contend that the struggle to reverse ecological degradation requires a firm grasp of economic reality. Going further, they argue that efforts to reform capitalism along environmental lines or rely solely on new technology to avert catastrophe misses the point. The main cause of the looming environmental disaster is the driving logic of the system itself, and those in power—no matter how “green”—are incapable of making the changes that are necessary. What Every Environmentalist Needs To Know about Capitalism tackles the two largest issues of our time, the ecological crisis and the faltering capitalist economy, in a way that is thorough, accessible, and sure to provoke debate in the environmental movement.

Cambrian Ocean World

Author : John Foster
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253011884
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Cambrian Ocean World written by John Foster and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-06 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, aimed at the general reader, presents life and times of the amazing animals that inhabited Earth more than 500 million years ago. The Cambrian Period was a critical time in Earth's history. During this immense span of time nearly every modern group of animals appeared. Although life had been around for more than 2 million millennia, Cambrian rocks preserve the record of the first appearance of complex animals with eyes, protective skeletons, antennae, and complex ecologies. Grazing, predation, and multi-tiered ecosystems with animals living in, on, or above the sea floor became common. The cascade of interaction led to an ever-increasing diversification of animal body types. By the end of the period, the ancestors of sponges, corals, jellyfish, worms, mollusks, brachiopods, arthropods, echinoderms, and vertebrates were all in place. The evidence of this Cambrian "explosion" is preserved in rocks all over the world, including North America, where the seemingly strange animals of the period are preserved in exquisite detail in deposits such as the Burgess Shale in British Columbia. Cambrian Ocean World tells the story of what is, for us, the most important period in our planet's long history.

After Sustainability

Author : John Foster
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134549318
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (345 download)

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Download or read book After Sustainability written by John Foster and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-08-07 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dangerous climate change is coming. Some people still deny that it is happening. Others refuse to recognise that it is now too late to prevent it. But both these reactions spring from the same source: our pathological attachment to ‘progress’, of which sustainability has been one more version. After Sustainability traces that attachment to its roots in the ways we make sense of ourselves. Original and accessible, this is philosophy on the edge, written for anyone who glimpses our environmental tragedy and cares about our future. Does the challenge to stop pretending offer our only remaining chance? Read this book and make up your own mind.

The Case for Idealism

Author : John Foster
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000362728
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book The Case for Idealism written by John Foster and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1982, the aim of this book is a controversial one – to refute, by the most rigorous philosophical methods, physical realism and to develop and defend in its place a version of phenomenalism. Physical realism here refers to the thesis that the physical world (or some selected portion of it) is an ingredient of ultimate reality, where ultimate reality is the totality of those entities and facts which are not logically sustained by anything else. Thus, in arguing against physical realism, the author sets out to establish that ultimate reality is wholly non-physical. The crucial elements in this argument are the topic-neutrality of physical description and the relationship between physical geometry and natural law. The version of phenomenalism advanced by John Foster develops out of this refutation of physical realism. Its central claim is that the physical world is the logical creation of the natural (non-logical) constraints on human sense-experience. This phenomenalist perspective assumes that there is some form of time in which human experience occurs but which is logically prior to the physical world, and Foster explores in detail the nature of this pre-physical time and its relation to time as a framework for physical events. This book was a major contribution to contemporary philosophical thinking at the time.

The Life and Correspondence of John Foster

Author : John Foster
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Life and Correspondence of John Foster written by John Foster and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Fosteriana, Consisting of Thoughts, Reflections, and Criticisms, of John Foster

Author : John Foster
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fosteriana, Consisting of Thoughts, Reflections, and Criticisms, of John Foster written by John Foster and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Geisha & Maiko of Kyoto

Author : John Foster
Publisher : Schiffer Pub Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780764332210
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (322 download)

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Download or read book Geisha & Maiko of Kyoto written by John Foster and published by Schiffer Pub Limited. This book was released on 2009 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exquisite collection of photographs and interviews focuses on four of Kyoto's most beautiful geisha and maiko (apprentice geisha). First, the geisha and maiko were photographed at Kyoto's largest geisha dance performances and other important dances. Next, portrait sessions were held with each woman to capture the kata (forms or poses) of her favorite dances. The geisha and maiko were then interviewed about their photographs, giving the reader a rare insight into their artistic training. Finally, images follow one maiko from her last few days as an apprentice through her first few days as a geisha. Never before has the change from maiko to geisha been documented so completely. The result is a collection of 149 gorgeous photographs that shed light on these exquisitely beautiful women like no other book before.

Another Third Poetry Book

Author :
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780199171248
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (712 download)

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Download or read book Another Third Poetry Book written by and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1988 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wideranging poetry collection for later primary children.

Microbiology

Author : John W. Foster
Publisher : W. W. Norton
ISBN 13 : 9780393533248
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (332 download)

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Download or read book Microbiology written by John W. Foster and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 2021-01-04 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is a nonmajors, introductory microbiology book aimed at prospective medical and laboratory professionals. The Human Experience takes a case history approach to teaching microbiology, giving students the context for the microbiology they will need in their careers. New content-including substantial coverage of recent disease outbreaks (COVID-19 and others), updated IMPACT applications, and integrated patient-centered case histories-drive each chapter's narrative, keeping students' interest while ensuring that they learn the important underlying microbiology concepts. The Second Edition's highly readable text has been thoughtfully streamlined to deliver the foundational microbiology concepts students will need to know as medical and laboratory professionals via clear explanations they will understand"--

The Life and Thoughts of John Foster

Author : John Foster
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life and Thoughts of John Foster written by John Foster and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: