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Johann Most

Revolutionäre Kriegswissenschaft: Ein Handbüchlein zur Anleitung betreffend Gebrauches und Herstellung von Nitroglycerin, Dynamit, Schiessbaumwolle, Knallquecksilber, Bomben, Brandsätzen, Giften u.s.w., u.s.w. by Johann Most No publisher indicated but published in New York City by IInternationaler Zeitung-Verein, circa 1883. Title translation: Revolutionary War Science: A handbook on how to use and manufacture nitroglycerin, dynamite, gun cotton, explosive mercury, bombs, incendiary devices, poisons, etc., etc. The original of this little terrorist manual resides in the Labadie Collection, Special Collections Department of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Scan is by Google as part of their Google Books project. First published in the USA prior to 1923, public domain.

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Ron Paul

Twelve-term Texas Congressman, presidential candidate, and #1 New York Times bestselling author Ron Paul returns with a highly provocative treatise about how we need to fundamentally change the way we think about America's broken education system in order to fix it. He provides a focused solution that centers on strong support for home schooling and the application of free market principles in the American education system.

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David G. Goodman, Masanori Miyazawa

The popularity in Japan of books about Jews has climbed to staggering proportions. Such books have sold millions of copies and often top the best-seller list. What explains the virtual obsession with Jews in Japan - a country that has no Jews? Many of the Japanese books about Jews are overtly antisemitic; but even a large number of otherwise respectable scholarly books are replete with egregious distortions and antisemitic canards, such as references to the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a notorious antisemitic forgery, as though it were a serious work of social and historical analysis; and most propagate the myth that Jews control the American media and dominate international finance. How can we account for the indiscriminate mixture of fact and fantasy in the Japanese view of the Jews? Is Japanese antisemitism a growing phenomenon, and what does it portend for Japan's relations with the West as a whole? In this highly original cultural and intellectual history of modern Japan, authors David Goodman and Masanori Miyazawa use the Japanese image of the Jews to illuminate the Japanese mind. Skillfully tracing the sources and historical development of this image of the Jews against the background of Japan's emergence from centuries of cultural isolation, the authors reveal how its subtle alterations over time also reflect the changing character of Japanese social and political experience in this century.

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Arthur C. Clarke

Collecting the prophetic pieces of a career that has spanned more than sixty years, Arthur C. Clarke lucidly demonstrates through his nonfiction essays that he not only anticipated many of the twentieth century's greatest scientific innovations but that he also helped to shape the path to come.