books about: containment

books about: containment

books:

Containment

400 Wood Boxes: The Fine Art of Containment & Concealment (500 Series)

Lark Books, 2004

Thinking outside the box!
I have always been fascinated by boxes.An avid puzzle enthusiast,I am always on the lookout for what I call puzzle boxes.These are boxes that have a secret method required to open.They are designed with hidden panels,magnets,bars,bearings,and everything imaginable that ...

Containment Culture: American Narratives, Postmodernism, and the Atomic Age (New Americanists)
Alan Nadel

Duke University Press, 1995

Alan Nadel provides a unique analysis of the rise of American postmodernism by viewing it as a breakdown in Cold War cultural narratives of containment. These narratives, which embodied an American postwar foreign policy charged with checking the spread of Communism, also operated, Nadel argues, within a wide spectrum of cultural life in the ...

Honoring the Trust: Quality and Cost Containment in Higher Education (JB - Anker)

William F. Massy

Jossey-Bass, 2003

How to reconcile aspirations outside and inside the academy
There is a contrast today between those in the academy and those outside. Those inside believe they are under pressure as never before and underappreciated. Those outside increasingly believe that those inside are both greedy and careless with their finances and also ...

Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South (Gender and American ...

Stephanie M. H. Camp

The University of North Carolina Press, 2004

Not my first choice
While the book is interesting, it has some real editing problems with free standing quotes that leave the book as an exercise in patience. I don't disagree that the book does some great things in terms of how we understand space and geography in terms of slavery but my ...

Stop the Anger Now: A Workbook for the Prevention, Containment, and Resolution of Anger

Ronald T. Potter-Efron

New Harbinger Publications, 2001

Stop the Anger Now Workbook
Great book to use for anger management counseling in my counseling practice. Always get me orders in a timely manner.

Damming the Flood: Haiti, Aristide and the Politics of Containment

Peter Hallward

Verso, 2008

Best Book on Haiti's Recent History
I read a lot of books on Haiti, this is the best one I have seen on Haiti's history between 1990 and 2005. Well-written and researched, with strong analysis. It is important for anyone interested in understanding Haiti today, but it is equally important for ...

500 Metal Vessels: Contemporary Explorations of Containment (500 Series)

Lark Books

Lark Books, 2007

I am impressed
I really like this book, there is a lot of good work. For those of you who had a fit about the unwearable jewelry in the various 500 jewelry books: many of these vessels are non functional. So I don't want to hear your complaints like, "I don't see how anyone could ...

Strategies of Containment: A Critical Appraisal of American National Security Policy during the Cold War

John Lewis Gaddis

Oxford University Press, USA, 2005

Analysis and Critique of Evolving US Strategies in the Cold War
Strategies of Containment, by John Lewis Gaddis, is a description of the evolving strategy of containment that was the basis of US policy toward the Soviet Union from 1946 through 1989. Gaddis traces the concept of containment from its inception by George F. Kennan ...

The Russian Empire and the World, 1700-1917: The Geopolitics of Expansion and Containment

John P. LeDonne

Oxford University Press, USA, 1996

An overview of Russian Diplomatic Relations
The Russian Empire and the World provides an overview of Russia's interactions between the years of 1700-1917. It assesses the impact of everything from the Great Northern War to the Russo Japanese War and how these impacted Russia's foreign relations. The book is ...

Vulnerable Moments: Deepening the Therapeutic Process
Martin S. Livingston

Jason Aronson, 2001

A deeply felt and beautifully written tribute to the bravery of patients and therapists alike in their very human search for connection.

Religion and American Foreign Policy, 1945-1960: The Soul of Containment

William Inboden

Cambridge University Press, 2008

containment has always had a religious implicaqtion
Wiliam Inboden's book on Religion and American foreign Policy is a good attempt to establish that truth contrary to the claims of its founders, that religion has always influenced the United States society and its foreign policy. The cold war era'a containment policy ...

Waste Containment Systems, Waste Stabilization, and Landfills: Design and Evaluation
Hari D. Sharma, Sangeeta P. Lewis

Wiley-Interscience, 1994

The most comprehensive design reference available on remediation techniques, waste disposal methods and various waste containment systems. Covers several important new issues such as the regulatory structure of RCRA Subtitles C and D; subsurface flow and transport of contaminants; liner systems, leachate collection and removal systems for ...

George F. Kennan and the Origins of Containment, 1944-1946: The Kennan-Lukacs Correspondence

George Frost Kennan, John Lukacs

University of Missouri Press, 1997

Kennan: The War Years
This is not the typical work of diplomatic history, as it comprises a series of letters between George Kennan and historian John Lukacs in the mid-1990s. In his well-written and informative introduction Lucaks lays out his aim in writings the books, which is to chart ...

Containment: Rebuilding a Strategy against Global Terror

Ian Shapiro

Princeton University Press, 2008

Viable Alternative
Shapiro presents a rational, concise, and morally consistent alternative to Bush's foreign doctrine of aggression and the Democrat's barren response. Supported by illustrations of former foreign policy successes and blunders, his proposal to rekindle the Cold War ...