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Report copyright infringementby John Bellamy Foster (Author)This is the first systematic discussion of the Marxian political economy of Paul Baran, Paul Sweezy, Harry Magdoff, and Samir Amin. John Foster explains their theoretical contributions and situates these in the context of on-going debates on economic theory. While orthodox economics takes account of the preeminent role of the giant, monopolistic corporation under capitalism only in passing, John Bellamy Foster's new study belongs to ...

The Perverse Economy: The Impact of Markets on People and the Environment

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Report copyright infringementby M. Perelman (Author)The purpose of this book is to call for a wholesale rethinking of the way that markets treat both the labour and natural resources on which we all depend. It reveals how economic analysis justifies self-defeating policies that encourage wanton use of the environment and callous abuse of the least advantaged labourers. From Adam Smith to the present day, economic theory has short-changed the workers most crucial to the functioning of human li...

The Almightier: How Money Became God, Greed Became Virtue, and Debt Became Sin

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Report copyright infringementby Paul Vigna (Author)The complete story of how we came to worship money, and how we can stop greed from destroying everything.The pursuit of wealth is considered an essential function of human nature, and greed is an unspoken civic virtue. Many of us revere billionaires and Wall Street rain-makers, then complain about "the system" being rigged, and wonder why the country doesn't seem to work for the little guy anymore. Some blame the Deep State for income inequal...

Three Days at Camp David: How a Secret Meeting in 1971 Transformed the Global Economy - Paperback

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by Jeffrey E. Garten (Author)The former dean of the Yale School of Management and Undersecretary of Commerce in the Clinton administration chronicles the 1971 August meeting at Camp David, where President Nixon unilaterally ended the last vestiges of the gold standard--breaking the link between gold and the dollar--transforming the entire global monetary system.Over the course of three days--from August 13 to 15, 1971--at a secret meeting at Camp David, President Richard Nixon and his brain t...

The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations - Paperback

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by Daniel Yergin (Author)A Wall Street Journal besteller and a USA Today Best Book of 2020 Named Energy Writer of the Year for The New Map by the American Energy Society "A master class on how the world works." --NPRPulitzer Prize-winning author and global energy expert, Daniel Yergin offers a revelatory new account of how energy revolutions, climate battles, and geopolitics are mapping our future The world is being shaken by the collision of energy, climate change, and the clashing power of ...

Running for Office: The Strategies, Techniques and Messages Modern Political Candidates Need To Win Elections - Hardcover

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by Ronald A. Faucheux (Author)This is your first and last stop for everything you need to know about winning the political game in the modern world of expensive, competitive campaigning. Number of Pages: 224 Dimensions: 0.84 x 9.28 x 6.32 IN Publication Date: May 22, 2002

The Simple Sabotage Field Manual: Covert Disruption, Psychological Warfare, and the Art of Everyday Resistance

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Report copyright infringementby Office Of Strategic Services (Author), Tim Zengerink (Translator)How do you quietly undermine a system-from the inside out?The Simple Sabotage Field Manual is a fascinating artifact from WWII, created by the U.S. Office of Strategic Services (OSS) to instruct citizens living in enemy-occupied territories on how to disrupt daily life and organizational efficiency without being detected.From encouraging clumsiness on factory floors to weaponizing bureaucracy in t...

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Report copyright infringementby Benjamin Powell (Author)Out of Poverty provides a comprehensive defence of Third World sweatshops that does not put economic efficiency over people, but instead explores methods of improving the welfare of those in Third World countries. The author explains how sweatshops provide the best opportunity for workers; and how they play an important role in development, leading to better wages and working conditions. Using economic theory, empirical evidence, and his...

Integral City Inquiry and Action: Designing Impact for the Human Hive

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Report copyright infringementby Marilyn Hamilton (Author), Paul Van Schaik (Contribution by)How do you inquire about, act in and impact the city as self, other and place?This is a book of: burning questions that deepen your reflective capacity; injunctions that guide your practice as a city AQtivator; and frames for designing impact on, with and as the city.Learn through a series of methodological cases studies and templates for process designs, based on Integral City work in the last decade....

Silk Road After Ukraine: A New Vision for Eurasian Integration

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Report copyright infringementby Nathan Mark Hutson (Author)Through an in-depth analysis of transport infrastructure and governance, this book lays out the likely trajectory of Eurasian supply chains following the invasion of Ukraine. Uniquely, the author brings Ukraine's future role as a logistics platform into the broader discussion of Eurasian trade integration.Author BiographyNathan Mark Hutson is assistant professor of urban policy and planning at the University of North Texas. ...

The Death of Patient Care in America: a guide to how it happened and how it might be resuscitated

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Report copyright infringementby Steven Jay Block (Author)THE DEATH OF PATIENT CARE IN AMERICA is much more than a discourse on the evolution of healthcare delivery in human society and its evolution into the current, misguided American system, which is plagued by powerful lobbyists at the expense of patients. Based on more than four decades of private, solo practice in cardiology, DR. BLOCK provides specific examples, illustrating how the false promises, and deliberately misleading pronouncem...

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Report copyright infringementby Petr Alekseevich Kniaz Kropotkin (Author)Peter Kropotkin's "The Conquest of Bread" remains a seminal work in anarchist and socialist thought, exploring the potential for a society organized around principles of mutual aid and voluntary cooperation. Challenging traditional economic models, Kropotkin envisions a future beyond capitalism and wage labor. This foundational text delves into the possibilities of a communist society where resources are freely available...

International Political Economy in the 21st Century: Contemporary Issues and Analyses

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Report copyright infringementby Roy Smith (Author), Imad El-Anis (Author), Christopher Farrands (Author)International Political Economy in the 21st Century offers students an engaging and coherent foundation to the subject. It considers traditional and alternative approaches to IPE, and in doing so elucidates key concepts, assumptions and the intellectual and historical context in which they arose and developed.Author BiographyRoy Smith is Senior Lecturer in the Nottingham Business School at ...

Integral City 3.7: Reframing Complex Challenges for Gaia's Human Hives

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Report copyright infringementby Marilyn Hamilton (Author)Integral City 3.7 considers a series of apparently intractable challenges that all cities face because the world has become so complex that cause and effect are rarely directly linked. This third book in our series explores three themes that are eternal practices for designing a collective life that works for all life; namely, Caring, Contexting and Capacity Building. The challenges cities face today result from the intertwining impacts...

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Report copyright infringementby Martha Brill Olcott (Author)Tajikistan teeters on the brink of failure. This mountainous and landlocked country, the poorest in Central Asia, confronts the challenges of good governance and economic survival. These domestic struggles become even more problematic as international forces prepare to withdraw from neighboring Afghanistan, leaving Central Asian countries to ensure regional stability.In Tajikistan's Difficult Development Path, Martha Brill Olcott tra...

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Report copyright infringementby Kristin Ciupa (Editor), Jeffery R. Webber (Editor)Natural resource extraction and primary commodity export remain persistent features of the Latin American economy. This edited volume traces the power of labor in extractive sectors in Latin America starting in the 1980s and shows how labor shapes national export sectors, economies, politics, and societies more broadly. Kristin Ciupa and Jeffery R. Webber bring together a team of international experts who look a...

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by Erich Fromm (Author)If humanity cannot live with the dangers and responsibilities inherent in freedom, it will probably turn to authoritarianism. This is the central idea of Escape from Freedom, a landmark work by one of the most distinguished thinkers of our time, and a book that is as timely now as when first published in 1941. Few books have thrown such light upon the forces that shape modern society or penetrated so deeply into the causes of authoritarian systems. If the rise of democr...

Food Fight: Misguided Policies, Supply Challenges, and the Impending Struggle to Feed a Hungry World

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Report copyright infringementby Richard J. Sexton (Author)Society's most basic challenge is arguably to produce and distribute enough food for its citizens. In 2023, 733 million people faced hunger and 2.3 billion were moderately or severely food insecure. Feeding a growing world population is becoming more difficult in the face of climate change, pest resistance to traditional treatments, and misguided government policies that limit how much food ends up on our plates. Policies to support bi...

Leadership RESET: The Path Forward in Our Upside-down World

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Report copyright infringementby Barry S. McInerney (Author)Unravel the Power of Traditional Leadership 3.0: A Fresh Approach to Tackling Economic, Political, & Social Crises Through Strategic, Agile Leadership.In this thought-provoking book, Leadership RESET, the author draws on his unprecedented experiences as a global executive, actuary, and award-winning CEO to offer a fresh perspective on leadership in times of crisis. Amidst the escalating polarization and divisiveness in the United ...

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The Simple Sabotage Field Manual: Covert Disruption, Psychological Warfare, and the Art of Everyday Resistance (Deluxe Hardbound Edition)

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Report copyright infringementby Paul Kenny (Author) Number of Pages: 282 Dimensions: 0.64 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: July 03, 2025

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Report copyright infringementby Samuel J. R. Mercer (Author)The Ideology of Work is an unflinching critique of theoretical humanism and how it has undermined our analysis of work. In On the Reproduction of Capitalism, Louis Althusser cited an appendix which, it seems, remains lost or was never completed - it was titled 'the Ideology of Work'. Samuel J.R. Mercer takes this appendix as his starting point to think about what is at stake for both Marxism and sociology in analyzing work from an ...

Best Free Open Source Data Recovery Apps for Mac OS English Edition Hardcover Version

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Report copyright infringementby Cyber Jannah Sakura (Author)Discover the power of open-source software with "Best Free Open Source Data Recovery Apps for Mac OS - English Edition." This comprehensive guide equips Mac users with the essential knowledge and tools to effectively recover lost data, providing step-by-step instructions and practical tips for a successful data recovery experience. Number of Pages: 36 Dimensions: 0.25 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date...

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Report copyright infringementby Asha Castleberry (Author)The memoir is about Asha's frontline experiences in national security. The author presents a multidimensional perspective discussing her personal experiences in national security ranging from 9/11, rising China in Shanghai, democracy in El Salvador, counterterrorism in the Middle East, diplomacy work at the United Nations, running for office during the initial outbreak of COVID-19 and gun violence in America. Throughout the book, the au...

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Report copyright infringementby David Greenberg (Author)A comprehensive, authoritative biography of Civil Rights icon John Lewis, "the conscience of the Congress," drawing on interviews with Lewis and approximately 275 others who knew him at various stages of his life, as well as never-before-used FBI files and documents. Born into poverty in rural Alabama, Lewis would become second only to Martin Luther King, Jr. in his contributions to the Civil Rights Movement. He was a Freedom Rider who h...

Borders and Belonging: Toward a Fair Immigration Policy - Hardcover

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by Hiroshi Motomura (Author)A uniquely broad and fair-minded guide to making immigration policy ethical.Immigration is now a polarizing issue across most advanced democracies. But too much that is written about immigration fails to appreciate the complex responses to the phenomenon. Too many observers assume imaginary consensus, avoid basic questions, or disregard the larger context for human migration. In Borders and Belonging, Hiroshi Motomura offers a complex and fair-minded account of imm...

Polarization: What Everyone Needs to Know(R) - Paperback

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by McCarty (Author)The 2016 election of Donald J. Trump invoked a time for reflection about the state of American politics and its deep ideological, cultural, racial, regional, and economic divisions. But one aspect that the contemporary discussions often miss is that these fissures have been opening over several decades and are deeply rooted in the structure of American politics and society. In Polarization: What Everyone Needs to Know(R) Nolan McCarty takes readers through what scholars kno...

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How Solar Energy Became Cheap: A Model for Low-Carbon Innovation

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Report copyright infringementby Gregory F. Nemet (Author)Drawing on case studies from the US, Japan, German and China, this book provides a truly comprehensive and global explanation for how solar has become inexpensive and also offers important policy recommendations for accelerated innovation. Author BiographyGregory F. Nemet is Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the La Follette School of Public Affairs, USA. Number of Pages: 238 Dimensions: 0.8 x ...

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Report copyright infringementby Don Soards (Author)Automation Annuity with Magic Oranges presents a visionary economic response to the realities of automation. As machines take over more work and traditional wages disappear, economies shift into a dangerous deflationary cycle-what author Don Soards calls the "buyer's market" side of the production parabola.The book introduces the Automation Annuity-an innovative income supplement funded by "progress dollars" to help restore purchasing power, ...

Trumponomics: How America's New Leader Can Shape Global Markets and Prosperity

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Report copyright infringementby Usama Bajwa (Author)Dive into the transformative world of Trumponomics, where bold economic strategies meet a rapidly evolving global landscape. This insightful book unpacks the economic philosophy that defined an era, shedding light on how tax reforms, deregulation, and a strong focus on national interests reshaped America's position in the global economy.Explore the core principles of economic nationalism, the impacts of trade wars, and the redefinition of gl...