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The huge crowds for Obama and the disappointing turn-outs for other candidates and the agony and excitement of the 2004 Presidential campaign between Bush and Kerry echo the mad frenzy of earlier, low-tech campaigns. How much does it depend on the competing candidates, and how much the campaign staff? In important ways, little has really changed in the fundamental nature of presidential campaigns, presidential politics and presidential lives. In these pages, a Nixon man shares incidents and anecdotes that illuminate the inner workings of a presidential campaign and life in the White House, revealing touching moments and flashes of personality from the controversial Nixon years. He gives a sense of the adrenaline, the quick thinking and the humor that are part of the terrain when working for a campaign. These are small items, some serious, some humorous -- telling little moments not likely to be addressed in the writings of more famous authors. This is a collection of the stories that contribute to the drama of a campaign, of views from Pennsylvania Avenue, and with them some opinions on several White House personalities.

Although over eighty percent of the country is Muslim, Indonesia is marked by an extraordinary diversity in language, ancestry, culture, religion and ways of life. This book focuses on the Christian Dani of West Papua, providing a social and ethnographic history of the most important indigenous population in the troubled province. It presents a fascinating overview of the Dani's conversion to Christianity, examining the social, religious and political uses to which they have put their new religion. Based on independent research carried out over many years among the Dani people, the book provides an abundance of new material on religious and political events in West Papua. Underlining the heart of Christian-Muslim rivalries, the book questions the fate of religion in late-modern times.

A CIA veteran scours sources as diverse as The Bible, James Bond movies, and presidential speeches to examine the mysterious world of intelligence and espionage The Literary Spy provides a unique view of the intelligence world through the words of its own major figures (and those fascinated with them) from ancient times to the present. CIA speechwriter and analyst Charles E. Lathrop has compiled and annotated more than 3,000 quotations from such disparate sources as the Bible, spy novels and movies, Shakespeare's plays, declassified CIA documents, memoirs, TV talk shows, and speeches from U.S. and foreign leaders and officials. Arranged in thematic categories with opening commentary for each section, the quotations speak for themselves. Together they serve both to illuminate a world famous for its secrets and deceptions and to show the extent to which intelligence has manifested itself in literature and in life. Engaging, informative, and often irreverent, The Literary Spy is an exceedingly satisfying book - one that meets the needs of the serious researcher just as ably as those of the armchair spy in pursuit of an evening's entertainment.

I Introduction to Primary Energy — Nonrenewable Sources -- 1 Introduction to World Energy -- 2 Historical Perspective of Energy -- 3 World Primary Energy Overview -- 4 World Coal Resources -- 5 Nuclear Energy -- 6 Hydroelectric Power -- 7 Meeting Future Demands for Energy Resources -- II Renewable Energy Sources and Alternative Energy Technologies -- 8 Geothermal Energy -- 9 Solar Energy -- 10 Wind Energy -- 11 Advanced Alternative Energy Sources -- 12 Nonrenewable Alternative Energy Resources and Technologies -- 13 Environmental Issues and Concerns in Energy -- 14 History of World Energy Program Policies -- III United States — Energy Forecasts and Modeling -- 15 Energy Modeling Approach and Assumptions -- 16 U.S. Energy Forecasts and Modeling -- 17 USA Energy Demand and World Markets -- 18 USA Electricity Demand and Markets -- 19 USA Oil and Natural Gas Consumption Forecasts -- 20 Coal Market Forecasts and Analysis -- IV World Regional Energy Overview -- 21 Regional Overview — North America and Latin America -- 22 The Middle East -- 23 Antarctica and Canada -- 24 Latin America -- 25 Europe and Central Eurasia -- 26 Africa -- 27 Asia and Pacific -- References -- Appendix I. Conversion Table of Energy Units -- Author Index.

Companion to Heidegger's Contributions to PhilosophyEdited by Charles E. Scott, Susan Schoenbohm, Daniela Vallega-Neu, and Alejandro VallegaA key to unlocking one of Heidegger's most difficult and important works.The publication of the first English translation of Martin Heidegger's Beiträge zur Philosophie (Vom Ereignis) marked a significant event for Heidegger studies. Considered by scholars to be his most important work after Being and Time, Contributions to Philosophy (From Enowning) e