How is it that the United States-the country that cherishes the ideal of private property more than any other in the world-has chosen to set aside nearly one-third of its territory as public lands? Considering this intriguing question Randall K Wilson traces the often-forgotten ideas of nature that have shaped the evolution of America's public land system The result is a fresh & probing account of the most pressing policy & management challenges facing national parks forests rangelands & wildlife refuges today The author explores the dramatic story of the origins of the public domain including the century-long push toward privatization & the subsequent emergence of a national conservation ideal Arguing that we cannot fully understand one type of public land without understanding its relation to the rest of the system he provides in-depth accounts of the different types of public lands Including chapters on national parks national forests wildlife refuges Bureau of Land Management lands & wilderness areas Wilson examines key turning points & major policy debates for each land type He considers questions of bison & elk management & recent disputes over fire policy roadless areas mining claims & grazing fees This comprehensive overview offers a chance to rethink our relationship with America's public lands including what it says about the way we relate to & value nature in the United States ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Gwen (Catherine Zeta-Jones) & Eddie (John Cusack) are America&s Sweethearts two wildly popular celebrities who share their love on & off the screen in this farcical romantic comedy A messy breakup sends Eddie to a New Age Hollywood healing center & Gwen into the arms of her current affair a Spanish bohunk short on charm (Hank Azaria) When their relationship troubles begin to threaten their superstar celebrity status & the release of their final film together the studio heads call in legendary press agent Lee Phillips (Billy Crystal) to helm the troubled film&s press junket Julia Roberts costars as Kiki Gwen&s personal assistant & sister who has always lived to please her demanding diva sister Once overweight & severely self-conscious Kiki&s life revolves around her sister&s ridiculous demands in this send up of ego-driven movie star vanity Phillips manages to gather the warring superstars together at a remote desert location for the all important press junket where his best laid plans begin to unravel in this hysterical parody of the movie industry replete with neurotic actors eccentric crazed directors (Christopher Walken in a gem of a cameo) maniacal studio heads & gossip-starved press who will do anything or anyone for the next big story Actors Julia Roberts Billy Crystal Catherine Zeta-Jones John Cusack Hank Azaria Stanley Tucci Christopher Walken & Seth Green Director Joe Roth Certificate 12 years & over Year 2001 Screen Widescreen 2351 Anamorphic Languages English ; Spanish
- Dolby Digital (51) Subtitles English ; English For The Hearing Impaired ; Hindi ; Spanish Duration 1 hour & 39 minutes (approx)
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Hailed in The New York Times Book Review as the single best book written in recent years on the sweep of American political history this groundbreaking work divides our nation's history into three regimes each of which lasts many many decades allowing us to appreciate as never before the slow steady evolution of American politics government & law The three regimes which mark longer periods of continuity than traditional eras reflect are Deferential & Republican from the colonial period to the 1820s; Party & Democratic from the 1830s to the 1930s; & Populist & Bureaucratic from the 1930s to the present Praised by The Economist as a feast to enjoy & by Foreign Affairs as a masterful & fresh account of US politics here is a major contribution to the history of the United States-an entirely new way to look at our past our present & our future-packed with provocative & original observations about American public life ...

It was Thomas Jefferson who envisioned the United States as a great 'empire of liberty' In the first new one-volume history in two decades David Reynolds takes Jefferson's phrase as a key to the saga of America
- helping unlock both its grandeur & its paradoxes He examines how the anti-empire of 1776 became the greatest superpower the world has seen how the country that offered liberty & opportunity on a scale unmatched in Europe nevertheless founded its prosperity on the labour of black slaves & the dispossession of the Native Americans He explains how these tensions between empire & liberty have often been resolved by faith
- both the evangelical Protestantism that has energized US politics since the foundation of the nation & the larger faith in American righteousness that has impelled the country's expansion Reynolds' account is driven by a compelling argument which illuminates our contemporary world

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When a tiny US town becomes an independent country its clueless citizens decide to model their new nation after America
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Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play A riveting adventure of how America came to be America The Story Of The US focuses on the people ideas & events that built the great nation covering 400 years of American history in the most extensive & in-depth television series ever produced by HISTORY This epic 12-part series is a grand cinematic vision of how the country was built &

Includes:: contributions from prominent Americans such as Michael Douglas Meryl Streep Buzz Aldrin Colin Powell Donald Trump John Legend & more Certificate Exempt from Classification Languages English Duration 9 hours (approx)

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Track Listings Disc 1 1 Don't Stop Believin'
- Journey 2 More Than a Feeling
- Boston 3 Eye of the Tiger
- Survivor 4 Suspicious


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A1 The World Is On Fire A2 Crooked Straight A3 Tough Folks A4 When We Were Younger Men A5 One Day At A Time B1 Things Change B2 Work Conquers All B3I Gave Up The Drinking (Before She Gave Up On Me)B4 Shadows Of You B5&8216; Til The Final Curtain Falls ...

New Alternate History Fantasy series created by New York Times best-selling author Kevin J Anderson & Sarah A Hoyt Arcane America A new world New magic New history After Halley’s Comet was destroyed in a magical battle in 1759 the backlash separated the entire New World from the Old in an event known as The Sundering Now isolated from the rest of the globe America has become a very different place where magic works & history has been changed forever It is 1803—a new 1803 Young Meriwether Lewis footloose & intrigued goes to hear a lecture in St Louis by the venerated old wizard Benjamin Franklin Franklin’s talk is disrupted by the attack of a winged fire-breathing beast much like legends from Lewis’s own Welsh heritage In the aftermath Franklin tells the young man that he knows of a great growing evil that lurks in the uncharted Arcane Territories west of the Mississippi Using his own vast fortune Franklin commissions Lewis & his own talented partner William Clark to embark on a remarkable voyage of exploration to meet & document the indigenous tribes to find a route all the way to the Pacific Ocean—and perhaps beyond the magical veil to Europe again—and to stop the growing evil that is filling the American West For while the Sundering separated the rest of the world & granted the original colonists unexpected magical gifts sorcery inspired by native legends has also been ignited & the Arcane Territories may hold unparalleled dangers for the expedition both natural & magical Accompanied by the brilliant shape-shifting sorceress Sacajawea Lewis & Clark set off on an unparalleled adventure across a landscape that no European has ever seen About the Author Kevin J Anderson has published more than 140 books 56 of which have been national or international bestsellers He has written numerous novels in the Star Wars X-Files & Dune universes as well as unique steampunk fantasy novels Clockwork Angels & Clockwork Lives written with legendary rock drummer Neil Peart based on the concept album by the band Rush His original works include the Saga of Seven Suns series the Terra Incognita fantasy trilogy the Saga of Shadows trilogy & his humorous horror series featuring Dan Shamble Zombie PI He has edited numerous anthologies written comics & games & the lyrics to two rock CDs Anderson & his wife Rebecca Moesta are the publishers of Word Fire Press Sarah A Hoyt under various names is the author of over 30 books—she gets tangled up when she tries to count them & always misses a couple—in science fiction fantasy mystery romance & historical fiction Her first published novel Ill Met by Moonlight was a finalist for the Mythopoeic Award Darkship Thieves the first novel of her popular Darkship Thieves series is a Prometheus Award Winner She’s published over 100 short stories in magazines such as Analog Asimov’s & Weird Tales (and others some no longer in existence) as well as an array of science fiction fantasy & mystery anthologies Sarah was born & raised in Portugal & now lives in Colorado near her two grown sons with her husband & a varying clowder of cats English is her third language but she can swear fluently in seven When not laying down words on the latest manuscript she can be found refinishing furniture walking or studying history ...

Soon to be a major motion picture starring Dylan O& Brien (Maze Runner) Taylor Kitsch (True Detective) & Michael Keaton Tensions in the Middle East are simmering when Central Intelligence Agency Director Irene Kennedy pays a visit to Syracuse University where she hopes to recruit none other than Mitch Rapp a student who has quickly climbed up the academic & athletic ranks At first glance he appears like any other smart good-looking American college kid Under the surface however a tempest rages Nine months later after gruelling training Mitch finds himself in Istanbul on his first assignment He hits his target but quickly sees for the first time what revenge means Praise for the Mitch Rapp series& Sizzles with inside information & CIA secrets& Dan Brown&A cracking uncompromising yarn that literally takes no prisoners& The Times& Flynn perfectly measures all the ingredients for a fast & furious read& Publishers Weekly& Fast-paced & pulse-pounding& Crime & Publishing ...