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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...

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Report copyright infringementby William B. Gilmore Mrcp Mpa (Author)Leadership: The Path to Success is a powerful, experience-driven exploration of what it truly means to lead in the public sector. Drawing on a rich career that spans local government, utilities, state policy, and beyond, William B. Gilmore reveals the hard-earned lessons that shaped his leadership philosophy. From uncovering corruption to spearheading major policy reforms, Gilmore doesn't just talk about leadership; he's live...

Becoming Transformational Leaders In The Post-Biden Era: Leveraging Visioning, Veracity and Vocalization

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Report copyright infringementby Ervin (Earl) Cobb (Author)The book Becoming a Transformational Leader in the Post-Biden Era discusses the current state of American democracy and the need for transformational leaders to foster critical thinking and a sense of common good. It emphasizes the importance of educating the public about the dangers of partisanship and authoritarianism. The author identifies a significant shift in American governance towards authoritarianism, which threatens democrati...

Facets of Power. Politics, Profits and People in the Making of Zimbabwe's Blood Diamonds

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Report copyright infringementby Richard Saunders (Editor), Tinashe Nyamunda (Editor)The diamond fields of Chiadzwa, among the world's largest sources of rough diamonds have been at the centre of struggles for power in Zimbabwe since their discovery in 2006. Against the backdrop of a turbulent political economy, control of Chiadzwa's diamonds was hotly contested. By 2007 a new case of 'blood diamonds' had emerged, in which the country's security forces engaged with informal miners and black ma...

The Great Divide: Unequal Societies and What We Can Do about Them

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Report copyright infringementby Joseph E. Stiglitz (Author)A singular voice of reason in an era defined by bitter politics and economic uncertainty, Joseph E. Stiglitz has time and again diagnosed America's greatest economic challenges, from the Great Recession and its feeble recovery to the yawning gap between the rich and the poor. The Great Divide gathers his most provocative reflections to date on the subject of inequality. As Stiglitz ably argues, a healthy economy and a fairer democracy...

Unequal Exchange: A Study of the Imperialism of Trade (Updated Edition)

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Report copyright infringementby Arghiri Emmanuel (Author), Charles Bettelheim (Notes by), Torkil Lauesen (Foreword by)How one nation can grow rich at the expense of another is one of the central problems of economics in the era of neo-colonialism. Traditional doctrine, resting on Ricardo's theory of comparative costs, which has dominated investigation of this issue for a century and a half, has proven itself incapable of providing an answer. Emmanuel's path-breaking study, now itself a classi...

The Winsome Candidate: The Winsome Way to Walk, Run, Win and Serve through Public Service in America

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Report copyright infringementby Dan Snell (Author)America's time must be now to return to the heart and soul of public service. "When you see something that needs to be done... and no one is willing to do it... step forward and be the Leader." L.D. Snell (my Dad) THE WINSOME CANDIDATE has been called America's breakthrough blueprint for serving in public office.Are you sick and tired of negative attack campaigning in politics?Is America in need of a breakthrough return to public service?A...

Lessons from the New Cold War: America Confronts the China Challenge

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Report copyright infringementby Hal Brands (Editor)How the US-China rivalry is reshaping global power, democracy, and the international order.A new cold war is unfolding--one that will define the future of the international order. In Lessons from the New Cold War, editor Hal Brands assembles an all-star cast of the most influential thinkers in foreign policy, defense strategy, technology, and economics to grapple with the defining geopolitical rivalry of our time: the competition between the...

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Reinventing Liberalism: The Politics, Philosophy and Economics of Early Neoliberalism (1920-1947)

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Report copyright infringementby Ola Innset (Author)In April 1947, a group of right-leaning intellectuals met in the Swiss Alps for a ten-day conference with the aim of establishing a permanent organization. Named "an army of fighters for freedom" by Friedrich Hayek, they would at times use "neoliberalism" as a description of the philosophy they were developing. Later, many of them would opt for "classical liberalism" or other monikers. Was their liberalism classical or was it new? All new cre...

Building the New American Economy: Smart, Fair, and Sustainable - Hardcover

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Report copyright infringementby Jeffrey D. Sachs (Author), Bernie Sanders (Foreword by)In this passionate and powerful book--part manifesto, part plan of action--the renowned economist Jeffrey D. Sachs offers a practical strategy to move America, seemingly more divided than ever, toward a new consensus: sustainable development. Sustainable development is a holistic approach that emphasizes economic, social, and environmental objectives in shaping policy. In focusing too much on economic growt...

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by John Rawls (Author)This book continues and revises the ideas of justice as fairness that John Rawls presented in A Theory of Justice but changes its philosophical interpretation in a fundamental way. That previous work assumed what Rawls calls a "well-ordered society," one that is stable and relatively homogenous in its basic moral beliefs and in which there is broad agreement about what constitutes the good life. Yet in modern democratic society a plurality of incompatible and irreconcila...

In the Name of Freedom: A Political Dissident's Fight for Human Rights in the NBA and Around the World

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Report copyright infringementby Enes Kanter Freedom (Author)A riveting story of personal hardship, the cost of political dissent, and the quest for justice that recounts how NBA star Enes Kanter Freedom became a leading activist for human rights around the world. Enes Kanter Freedom was born to play basketball. But he risked it all when he realized that his voice could be a force for change. In the Name of Freedom tells the story of how Enes Kanter, a boy with a dream in Turkey, became Enes ...

Rights of Man, Common Sense, and Other Political Writings - Paperback

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by Thomas Paine (Author), Mark Philp (Editor)Thomas Paine was the first international revolutionary. His Common Sense (1776) was the most widely read pamphlet of the American Revolution--and his Rights of Man (1791-2), the most famous defense of the French Revolution, sent out a clarion call for revolution throughout the world. Paine paid the price for his principles: he was outlawed in Britain, narrowly escaped execution in France, and was vilified as an atheist and a Jacobin on his return t...

Mao: A Very Short Introduction - Paperback

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by Delia Davin (Author)A giant of 20th century history, Mao Zedong played many roles: peasant revolutionary, patriotic leader against the Japanese occupation, Marxist theoretician, modernizer, and visionary despot. This Very Short Introduction chronicles Mao's journey from peasant child to ruler of the most populous nation on Earth. Delia Davin provides an invaluable portrait of Mao, showing him in all his complexity--ruthless, brutal, and ambitious, a man of enormous talent and perception, y...

Love Your Enemies: How Decent People Can Save America from the Culture of Contempt - Hardcover

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by Arthur C. Brooks (Author)NATIONAL BESTSELLER To get ahead today, you have to be a jerk, right?Divisive politicians. Screaming heads on television. Angry campus activists. Twitter trolls. Today in America, there is an "outrage industrial complex" that prospers by setting American against American, creating a "culture of contempt"--the habit of seeing people who disagree with us not as merely incorrect, but as worthless and defective. Maybe, like more than nine out of ten Americans, you disl...

The Horn of Africa: State Formation and Decay - Paperback

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by Christopher Clapham (Author)Why is the Horn such a distinctive part of Africa? This book, by one of the foremost scholars of the region, traces this question through its exceptional history and also probes the wildly divergent fates of the Horn's contemporary nation-states, despite the striking regional particularity inherited from the colonial past. Christopher Clapham explores how the Horn's peculiar topography gave rise to the Ethiopian empire, the sole African state not only to survive...

The Pride of an African Migrant: Revised Edition

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Report copyright infringementby Massocki Ma Massocki (Author)Where is the human in migration? In an age of immigration as political posturing and propaganda, Massocki Ma Massocki presents a collage of dreams, journeys, tears, wills... even death. This book is an intimate retelling of lives and stories that strips migrants of convenient agenda-driven labels, baring them stark to the reader. With blood running in their veins, vulnerable to fear, driven by ambition--the emotive human is at the c...

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by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Author)Alexander Solzhenitsyn's Warning to the West includes the texts of the Nobel Prize-winning author's three speeches in the United States in the summer of 1975, his first major public addresses since his expulsion from the Soviet Union in 1974: on June 30 and July 9 to trade-union leaders of the AFL-CIO in Washington, D.C., and in New York City, and on July 15 to the United States Congress; and also the texts of his BBC interview and radio speech, which sparked...

Rethinking Political Thinkers - Paperback

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by Manjeet Ramgotra (Editor), Simon Choat (Editor)Rethinking Political Thinkers explores a uniquely diverse set of political thinkers, from traditionally canonical theorists such as Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, and Mill, to marginalized women and thinkers of color, such as hooks, Du Bois, Butler, Fanon, Firestone, Said, and Goldman. Placing traditional thinkers alongside and in conversation with neglected and unheard voices opens up important debates, and presents political t...

My Conscience: An Exile's Memoir of Burma

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Report copyright infringementby U. Kyaw Win (Author), Sean Turnell (Foreword by)Since gaining its independence from British colonial rule in 1948, Burma's history has been cursed. The military raped the resource-rich country for fifty years and drove its people to penury. Activists who advocated for democracy were imprisoned, tortured, and exiled. Civil society institutions were ground into oblivion. My Conscience: An Exile's Memoir of Burma is U Kyaw Win's compelling account of the bleeding ...

A Towering Flame: The Life & Times of the Elusive Latvian Anarchist Peter the Painter

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Report copyright infringementby Philip Ruff (Author)The Houndsditch murders of three City of London policemen in 1910 and the ensuing "Siege of Sidney Street", in which Latvian anarchists took on Winston Churchill and the British Army, have entered into East London folklore. But no-one ever accounted for the mysterious Peter the Painter, popularly supposed to be the leader of the gang and to have escaped the burning house during the battle. This book solves the mystery. Here for the first tim...

Whom Shall I Fear?: Pushing the Politics of Change

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Report copyright infringementby Ewart Frederick Brown (Author)Outspoken, accomplished, and frequently controversial, Bermudian physician and political leader Ewart Brown, MD, has been a longtime champion of racial equality, human rights, and economic and social justice. In this event-filled memoir, he shares the experiences that most shaped him and that defined his often tumultuous time in office.Brown's journey began with a childhood in a politically engaged family in a Bermuda then still le...

Star-Spangled Men: America's Ten Worst Presidents

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Report copyright infringementby Nathan Miller (Author)Picking America's best presidents is easy. George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Franklin D. Roosevelt usually lead the list, But choosing the nation's worst presidents requires more thought. In Star-Spangled Men, respected presidential biographer Nathan Miller puts on display those leaders who were abject failures as chief executive. With pointed humor and a deft hand, he presents a rogues' gallery of the men who dropped the presidenti...

How to Think Seriously about the Planet: The Case for an Environmental Conservatism - Paperback

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by Roger Scruton (Author)The environment has long been the undisputed territory of the political Left, which casts international capitalism, consumerism, and the over-exploitation of natural resources as the principle threats to the planet, and sees top-down interventions as the most effective solution. In How to Think Seriously About the Planet, Roger Scruton rejects this view and offers a fresh approach to tackling the most important political problem of our time. The environmental movement...

Petrostate: Putin, Power, and the New Russia - Paperback

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by Marshall I. Goldman (Author)In the aftermath of the financial collapse of August 1998, it looked as if Russia's day as a superpower had come and gone. That it should recover and reassert itself after less than a decade is nothing short of an economic and political miracle. Based on extensive research, including several interviews with Vladimir Putin, this revealing book chronicles Russia's dramatic reemergence on the world stage, illuminating the key reason for its rebirth: the use of its ...

The Logic of American Nuclear Strategy: Why Strategic Superiority Matters - Paperback

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by Matthew Kroenig (Author)For decades, the reigning scholarly wisdom about nuclear weapons policy has been that the United States only needs the ability to absorb an enemy nuclear attack and still be able to respond with a devastating counterattack. This argument is reasonable, but, empirically, we see that the US has always maintained a nuclear posture that is much more robust than a mere second-strike capability. In The Logic of American Nuclear Strategy, Matthew Kroenig challenges the con...

Ageing Without Ageism?: Conceptual Puzzles and Policy Proposals - Hardcover

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by Greg Bognar (Editor), Axel Gosseries (Editor)Ageing without Ageism? contributes to the essential and timely discussion of age, ageism, population ageing, and public policy. It demonstrates the breadth of the challenges posed by these issues by covering a wide range of policy areas: from health care to old-age support, from democratic participation to education, and from family to fiscal policy. With contributions from 21 authors the discussion bridges the gap between academia and public li...

Capitol Times Magazine Issue 25 - Kimberly Fletcher Moms for America

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Report copyright infringementby Capitol Times Magazine (Prepared by), Anil Anwar (Editor in Chief), Kathrine Daigle & David Colbert (Associate Editor)As we usher in another school year and another critical season in our nation's history, we are reminded once again of the truth our Founding Fathers knew so well: liberty cannot survive without faith, family, and the courage to defend both.The forces of darkness are hard at work. From classrooms poisoned with indoctrination, to public square...

The Unaccountability Machine: Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions--And How the World Lost Its Mind

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Report copyright infringementby Dan Davies (Author)Longlisted for the 2024 Financial Times Book of the Year. How life and the economy became a black box--a collection of systems no one understands, producing outcomes no one likes. Passengers get bumped from flights. Phone menus disconnect. Automated financial trades produce market collapse. Of all the challenges in modern life, some of the most vexing come from our relationships with automation: a large system does us wrong, and there's noth...

On Coal, At Home And Abroad: With Relation To Consumption, Cost, Demand, And Supply (1873)

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Report copyright infringementby John R. Leifchild (Author)On Coal, At Home And Abroad: With Relation To Consumption, Cost, Demand, And Supply is a book written by John R. Leifchild and first published in 1873. The book provides a comprehensive analysis of the coal industry at the time, both in the United Kingdom and abroad. Leifchild examines the consumption, cost, demand, and supply of coal, and provides detailed statistics and analysis of the industry. The book is divided into several secti...