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Negotiating Paradise
Accounts of U.S. empire building in Latin America typically portray politically and economically powerful North Americans descending on their southerly neighbors to engage in lopsided negotiations. Dennis Merrill's comparative history of U.S. tourism in Latin America in the twentieth century demonst... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1926 -
Bread and the Ballot: The United States and India's Economic Development, 1947-1963
Dennis Merrill examines the origins and implementation of U.S. economic assistance programs in India from independence in 1947 to the height of John F. Kennedy's "development decade" in 1963. As the Cold War spread to the Third World in the late 1940s and 1950s, American policymakers tried to use e... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1990 -
Major Problems In American Foreign Relations - To 1920: Volume 1 (Major Problems In American History)
Designed to encourage critical thinking about history, this reader uses a carefully selected group of primary sources and analytical essays to allow students to test the interpretations of distinguished historians and draw their own conclusions about the history of American foreign policy. This text... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2010 -
Major Problems In American Foreign Relations Since 1914: Volume 2 (Major Problems In American History)
Designed to encourage critical thinking about history, this reader uses a carefully selected group of primary sources and analytical essays to allow students to test the interpretations of distinguished historians and draw their own conclusions about the history of American foreign policy. This text... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2010 -
The Eye Never Sleeps
The radical challenge of Zen Buddhism is to drop all assumptions and prejudices and experience the truth directly. American Zen teacher Dennis Genpo Merzel brings new life to this ancient wisdom through his commentaries on a classic Chinese Zen scripture, "Verses on Faith-Mind," by the Third Patriar... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1991 -
The Path of the Human Being: Zen Teachings on the Bodhisattva Way
Dennis Merzel, one of the most highly regarded American Zen teachers, explains how meditation can gradually lead us to becoming more and more familiar with our minds, allowing us to better understand ourselves and the nature of human life. He explores the practice of meditation in depth, as well as ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2003