“…The book weighs in on habeas' historical controversies - addressing its origins, the relationship between king and parliament, the US Constitution's Suspension Clause, the writ's role in the power struggle between the federal government and the states, and the proper scope of federal habeas for state prisoners and wartime detainees from the Civil War and World War II to the War on Terror. It stresses the importance of liberty and detention policy in making the writ more than a tool of power. …”

“…In this ground-breaking book, acclaimed author Kati Marton brings to life an unknown chapter of World War II: the tale of nine men who grew up in Budapest's brief Golden Age, then, driven from Hungary by anti-Semitism, fled to the West, especially to the United States, and changed the world. …”
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“…As the Nazis swept across Europe during World War II, Jewish victims wrote diaries in which they grappled with the terror unfolding around them. …”

“… From the end of Reconstruction through World War II, a network of public colleges for white women flourished throughout the South. …”

“…How did it show up in American history and culture with the rise of fascist regimes in Europe before World War II? Why has its use persisted even as those regimes were defeated? …”

“…The purpose of this wide-ranging collection of essays, all by eminent scholars in the humanities and social sciences, is to explore the phenomenal explosion since World War II of interdisciplinary interest in the visual arts. …”
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“…After World War II, a wave of Italian films emerged that depicted the life and hardships of characters left helpless after the conflict, bringing to the screen the struggles of a time of existential angst and uncertainty. …”

“…Three-quarters of the carbon dioxide humans have contributed to the atmosphere has accumulated since World War II ended, and the number of people on Earth has nearly tripled. …”

“…Based largely on Osmar White's own war diary and the articles he wrote as a war correspondent, this deeply personal account stands out among the vast literature on World War II. Selected among the best 100 articles in Australian journalism of the twentieth century, White's eloquent record of the climactic events in the final days of the Third Reich remains as fresh and timely as ever…”

“…"Scorpions" tells the story of four great justices: their relationship with Roosevelt, with each other, and with the turbulent world of the Great Depression, World War II, and the Cold War. It also serves as a history of the modern Constitution itself, exploring the constitutional battles of the Roosevelt era (1940s and 1950s) and their contemporary relevance…”

“…"From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, a stunningly ambitious and beautiful novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Marie Laure lives with her father in Paris within walking distance of the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of the locks (there are thousands of locks in the museum). …”

“…Battered by crises and setbacks around the globe, its post-World War II international leadership appeared to be draining steadily away. …”

“…She argues that both countries were deeply concerned with sustaining a commitment to the idea of democracy in the aftermath of World War II. This allegiance to democracy as a rhetorical and ideological platform created new opportunities and constrained the choices of actors in each country and greatly influenced each country's policies regionally and globally. …”

“…They include: Enid Dinnis, Anna Hanson Dorsey, Alice Thomas Ellis, Eleanor Farjeon, Rumer Godden, Caroline Gordon, Clotilde Graves, Caryll Houselander, Sheila Kaye-Smith, Jane Lane, Marie Belloc Lowndes, Alice Meynell, Kathleen Raine, Pearl Mary Teresa Richards, Edith Sitwell, Gladys Bronwyn Stern, Josephine Ward, and Maisie Ward.There are various reasons why each of these writers fell out of print: changes in the commercial publishing world after World War II, changes within the Church itself and in the English-speaking universities that redefined the literary canon in the last decades of the 20th century. …”

“…He discusses the complicated history of the Roosevelt administration's response to the worsening situation of European Jewry in the context of the ambiguous racial status of Jews in Depression and World War II-era America. He examines the post-war decades in America, and discusses, over a series of chapters, how the Holocaust, like American Jewry itself, came to move from the margins to the very center of American awareness. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Optimism -- The Drivers of the Four Phases -- The Cycle and Bear Markets -- Identifying the Transition from Bear Market to Bull Market -- Valuations and the Market Inflection -- Growth and the Market Inflection -- Combining Growth and Valuation as a Signal -- Inflation, Interest Rates and the Market Inflection -- Combining Growth and Interest Rates -- Chapter 3 Super Cycles and Their Drivers -- Super Cycles in Economic Activity -- The Modern Era: Growth from the 1820s -- Super Cycles in Inflation -- Super Cycles in Interest Rates -- Super Cycles and Government Debt -- Super Cycles in Inequality -- Super Cycles in Financial Markets -- Super Cycles in Equities -- 1. 1949-1968: Post-World War II Boom -- 2. 1982-2000: The Modern Cycle -- 3. 2009-2020: The Post-Financial-Crisis Cycle and Zero Interest Rates -- 1. 1968-1982: Inflation and Low Returns -- 2. 2000-2009: Bubbles and Troubles -- Part II Analysing Post-War Super Cycles -- Chapter 4 1949-1968: Post-World War II Boom -- International Agreements and Falling Risk Premia -- Strong Economic Growth -- Technological Innovation -- Low and Stable Real Interest Rates -- A Boom in World Trade -- A Baby Boom -- The Consumer and Credit Boom -- All-Consuming Consumerism -- Chapter 5 1968-1982: Inflation and Low Returns -- A Lost Decade for Investors -- The Bubble Before the Bust -- High Interest Rates and Low Growth…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Tables -- Figures -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Literature Review -- Thesis Statement -- The Distinctiveness of the Study -- Research Questions -- Primary Research Question -- Research Sub-Questions -- Diffusional Matrix of Conversion -- Methodology and Delimitation -- Definition of Terms -- Conversion and Diffusion in the New Testament -- Conversion within the Doctrine of Salvation -- The Two Basic Components of Conversion -- Conversion and the Order of Salvation -- Conversion as Process or Point -- Conversion and Transmission -- Conversion and Transformation -- Conclusion -- Chapter 2 The Historical Context of Case Study Churches -- Evangelical Free Churches in Germany -- Impulses and Challenges of Pentecostalism in Germany -- Historical Impulses of Pentecostalism from North America -- Historical Highlights of Pentecostalism in Germany -- Pentecostal Church Planting since World War II -- New Pentecostal Church Planting -- Conclusion -- African Migrant Churches and Reverse Mission in Germany -- Development of Global Christianity and Reverse Mission -- African Migrants in Germany -- African Migrant Churches in Germany -- Failure of Reverse Mission in Germany -- Potential of Reverse Mission in Germany -- Conclusion -- The History of Redeemer City to City in Germany -- American Mission Efforts in post-World War II Germany -- The Origins of Redeemer City to City -- The Development of Redeemer City to City in Germany -- Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3 Case Study 1: Hope Center in Berlin -- Overview of Research at Hope Center -- Local Context of Hope Center -- History of Hope Center -- Observation of a Worship Service -- Transmission -- Encouraged Individual Transmission -- Committed to Corporate Transmission…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Second Edition -- Third Edition -- Acknowledgments -- About the Editors -- Advisory Board Members -- Contributors -- A -- A* Algorithm -- See -- References -- Acceptance Sampling -- Acceptance-Rejection Method -- See -- Accounting Prices -- Accreditation -- Active Constraint -- See -- Active Set Methods -- Activity -- See -- Activity Level -- See -- Activity-Analysis Problem -- See -- Acyclic Network -- See -- Adjacent -- See -- Adjacent (Neighboring) Extreme Points -- Advertising -- Introduction -- Sales-Advertising Relationship -- Optimal Advertising Policy -- Competition -- Over-Time Effects -- Concluding Remarks -- See -- References -- Affiliated Values Bidding Model -- See -- Affine Transformation -- Affine-Scaling Algorithm -- See -- Agency Theory -- Agent -- See -- References -- Agent-Based Simulation -- Introduction -- Elements of Agent-Based Simulation -- Agents -- Agents and Behavior -- ABS and Space -- ABS and Time -- ABS and Emergence -- Agent-Based Simulation Applications -- Agent-Based Simulation Development -- ABS Design -- ABS Toolkits -- Concluding Remarks -- See -- References -- Agriculture and the Food Industry -- See -- References -- AHP -- AI -- Air Force Operations Analysis -- Air Force Operations Research -- Introduction -- World War II in the 1940s -- Post-World War II and the Korean War in the 1950s -- Force Structure Analysis and Vietnam in the 1960s -- The Cold War in the 1970s and 1980s -- The Middle East Wars in the 1990s through 2010 -- Concluding Remarks -- See -- References -- Air Traffic Management -- Introduction -- Air Traffic Flow Management Background -- Basic Decision Problems and Optimization Models -- The (Single) Flight Planning Problem -- Arrival Sequencing Problem -- The Slot Assignment Problem -- Slot_Assign…”

“…Development of the conflict communities in the Bohemian and South Slavic countries of Austria-Hungary until 1918, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia in the interwar period, Nazi occupation policy in World War II, memory and historization after 1945.…”

“…For five years during World War II, Denmark was occupied by Germany. While the Danish reaction to this period of its history has been extensively discussed in Danish-language publications, it has not until now received a thorough treatment in English. …”