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Keeping Tito Afloat draws upon newly declassified documents to show the critical role that Yugoslavia played in U.S. foreign policy with the communist world in the early years of the Cold War. After World War II, the United States considered Yugoslavia to be a loyal Soviet satellite, but Tito surprised the West in 1948 by breaking with Stalin. Seizing this opportunity, the Truman administration sought to "keep Tito afloat" by giving him military and economic aid. President Truman hoped that American involvement would encourage other satellites to follow Tito's example and further...

Arvind Kumar, Shih-Sheng Sun, and Alistair J. Lees: Photophysics and Photochemistry of Organometallic Rhenium Diimine Complexes; Conor Long: Photophysics of CO Loss from Simple Metal Carbonyl Complexes; Antonin Vlcek Jr: Ultrafast Excited-State Processes in Re(I) Carbonyl-Diimine Complexes: From Excitation to Photochemistry; Kenneth Kam-Wing Lo: Exploitation of Luminescent Organometallic Rhenium(I) and Iridium(III) Complexes in Biological Studies; Maria L. Muro, Aaron A. Rachford, Xianghuai Wang, and Felix N. Castellano: Platinum II Acetylide Photophysics; Andreas F. Rausch, Herbert H. H....

A host of nature lovers throughout America, children and adults, await each new Sam Campbell book about his experiences with animals. The Seven Secrets of Somewhere Lake is one of the best that has come from the pen of this popular author, photographer, lecturer and naturalist.

In the summer, Sam and Giny plan to make a movie film of the Grand Canyon country. Although they look forward to the experience, they realize it means leaving their island Sanctuary deep in the north woods of Wisconsin. This year, they say, there are to be no baby animals taken in to be...

Domestic advice literature is rich in information about design, ideals of domesticity, consumption and issues of identity, yet this literature remains a relatively neglected resource in comparison with magazines and film. "

Design at Home" brings together etiquette, homemaking and home decoration advice as sources in the first systematic demonstration of the historical value of domestic advice literature as a genre of word and image, and a discourse of dominance. This book traces a transatlantic domestic dialogue between the UK and the US as the chapters explore issues of design,...