Author: Ruth LambPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Master and Servant; Or, Richard Owen's Choice
Author: Ruth LambMaster and Servant; or, Richard Owen's choice
Author: afterwards LAMB BUCK (Ruth)Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
the sunday school teachers magazine
Author: A Selection of Leading Cases in the Common Law
Author: Walter Shirley ShirleyPublisher:
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Category : Common law
Languages : en
Pages : 826
Book Description
THE SUNDAY SCOOL TEACHERS MAGAZINE
Author: The Dorean Principle
Author: Conley OwensPublisher:
ISBN: 9781953151155
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Choice
Author: Richard K. GardnerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 968
Book Description
Armed Servants
Author: Peter FeaverPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674036772
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
How do civilians control the military? In the wake of September 11, the renewed presence of national security in everyday life has made this question all the more pressing. In this book, Peter Feaver proposes an ambitious new theory that treats civil-military relations as a principal-agent relationship, with the civilian executive monitoring the actions of military agents, the armed servants of the nation-state. Military obedience is not automatic but depends on strategic calculations of whether civilians will catch and punish misbehavior. This model challenges Samuel Huntington's professionalism-based model of civil-military relations, and provides an innovative way of making sense of the U.S. Cold War and post-Cold War experience--especially the distinctively stormy civil-military relations of the Clinton era. In the decade after the Cold War ended, civilians and the military had a variety of run-ins over whether and how to use military force. These episodes, as interpreted by agency theory, contradict the conventional wisdom that civil-military relations matter only if there is risk of a coup. On the contrary, military professionalism does not by itself ensure unchallenged civilian authority. As Feaver argues, agency theory offers the best foundation for thinking about relations between military and civilian leaders, now and in the future.
The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science, Art, and Finance
Author: Utopia Avenue
Author: David MitchellPublisher: Random House
ISBN: 0812997441
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 625
Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The long-awaited new novel from the bestselling, prize-winning author of Cloud Atlas and The Bone Clocks. New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice • “Mitchell’s rich imaginative stews bubble with history and drama, and this time the flavor is a blend of Carnaby Street and Chateau Marmont.”—The Washington Post “A sheer pleasure to read . . . Mitchell’s prose is suppler and richer than ever . . . Making your way through this novel feels like riding a high-end convertible down Hollywood Boulevard.”—Slate NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post • NPR • USA Today • The Guardian • The Independent • Kirkus Reviews • Men’s Health • PopMatters Utopia Avenue is the strangest British band you’ve never heard of. Emerging from London’s psychedelic scene in 1967, and fronted by folk singer Elf Holloway, blues bassist Dean Moss and guitar virtuoso Jasper de Zoet, Utopia Avenue embarked on a meteoric journey from the seedy clubs of Soho, a TV debut on Top of the Pops, the cusp of chart success, glory in Amsterdam, prison in Rome, and a fateful American sojourn in the Chelsea Hotel, Laurel Canyon, and San Francisco during the autumn of ’68. David Mitchell’s kaleidoscopic novel tells the unexpurgated story of Utopia Avenue’s turbulent life and times; of fame’s Faustian pact and stardom’s wobbly ladder; of the families we choose and the ones we don’t; of voices in the head, and the truths and lies they whisper; of music, madness, and idealism. Can we really change the world, or does the world change us?