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Space Capitalism: The Trillion-Dollar Race Beyond Earth

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Report copyright infringementby Mike Bhangu (Author)Introduction: Welcome to the Final Frontier This book isn't about whether we'll colonize the cosmos. It's about how we'll turn it into a combo platter of Silicon Valley hubris, interplanetary tax evasion, and Yelp reviews for asteroid mining companies. Buckle up, Earthling. The future is a circus, and the clowns have PhDs in astrophysics. From Sputnik to Space Junk: A Brief History of Human Shenanigans In 1969, Neil Armstrong took a "giant l...

The Loom of Time: Between Empire and Anarchy, from the Mediterranean to China - Paperback

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by Robert D. Kaplan (Author)A stunning exploration of the Greater Middle East, where lasting stability has often seemed just out of reach but may hold the key to the shifting world order of the twenty-first century "Engaging . . . Even those who resist Kaplan's tragic sensibility have much to learn from his look at the emerging Middle East and its recent history."--National Review FINALIST FOR THE OVERSEAS PRESS CLUB'S CORNELIUS RYAN AWARD The Greater Middle East, which Robert D. Kaplan defin...

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by Bob Woodward (Author)Plan of Attack is the definitive account of how and why President George W. Bush, his war council, and allies launched a preemptive attack to topple Saddam Hussein and occupy Iraq. Bob Woodward's latest landmark account of Washington decision making provides an original, authoritative narrative of behind-the-scenes maneuvering over two years, examining the causes and consequences of the most controversial war since Vietnam. Based on interviews with 75 key participants...

Things That Matter: Three Decades of Passions, Pastimes and Politics - Paperback

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by Charles Krauthammer (Author)From America's preeminent columnist, named by the Financial Times the most influential commentator in the nation, a must-have collection of Charles Krauthammer's essential, timeless writings. A brilliant stylist known for an uncompromising honesty that challenged conventional wisdom at every turn, Krauthammer dazzled readers for decades with his keen insight into politics and government. His weekly column was a must-read in Washington and across the country. Don...

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Report copyright infringementby Deserai A. Crow (Author), Elizabeth A. Albright (Author)Disasters can serve as focusing events that increase agenda attention related to issues of disaster response, recovery, and preparedness. Increased agenda attention can lead to policy changes and organisational learning. The degree and type of learning that occurs within a government organization after a disaster may matter to policy outcomes related to individual, household, and community-level risks and ...

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Report copyright infringementby Stephanie C. Fox (Author)The Book of Thieves is the allegorical tale of how a greedy few destroyed a nation called Oblivion.Oblivion was once a great place to live and work in, with excellent laws to protect everyone who worked there, and to keep conditions fair for them.Not anymore.A greedy few called Banksters cheated and stole after working harder at getting the rules changed and finding ways to simply ignore them than at earning an honest living.The Bankste...

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Report copyright infringementby Fabio Franchino (Author), Camilla Mariotto (Author)Balancing Pressures analyses how the economy, national politics, and supranational politics shape economic policymaking in the European Union. Economic theories alert policymakers of the problems associated with policy initiatives. Economic uncertainties shape political positioning during negotiations, while actual economic conditions affect both negotiations and implementation. National pressures to win office...

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Report copyright infringementby Niccolò Machiavelli (Author), William Garner (Editor)Adagio's version of The Prince, wonderfully translated by Luigi Ricci, has been lightly edited for clarity and easier reading for the American English audience. Rest easy: we were careful not to disturb Ricci's delicate brushstrokes and superb rendering. Niccolò Machiavelli's The Prince has become a classic over the centuries since it first appeared around 1510, not because of its elegance or style but becaus...

The New Enlightenment: A Twenty-First Century Peaceful American Revolution

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Report copyright infringementby Robert Bivona (Author)Our nation was born in the Age of Enlightenment when extreme economic and political inequalities motivated revolutions. Today, through peaceful means, we again require radical change for similar reasons. The New Enlightenment details the major public policy changes that are needed to create a fundamentally more just and democratic society. Reforms that compromise ideals in response to our dysfunctional political system would be a surrender...

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Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future - Hardcover

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by Jason Stanley (Author)"I've never read a book that is as timely, urgent and essential as this one. A battle plan for keeping this nation from falling into fascism." --Khalil Gibran Muhammad, author of The Condemnation of Blackness From the bestselling author of How Fascism Works, a searing confrontation with the far right's efforts to rewrite history and undo a century of progress on race, gender, sexuality, and class. The human race finds itself again under threat of a rising global fasci...

Nice Racism: How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm - Paperback

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by Robin Diangelo (Author)NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Building on the groundwork laid in the New York Times bestseller White Fragility, Robin DiAngelo explores how a culture of niceness inadvertently promotes racism. In White Fragility, Robin DiAngelo explained how racism is a system into which all white people are socialized and challenged the belief that racism is a simple matter of good people versus bad. DiAngelo also made a provocative claim: white progressives cause the most daily harm to...

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Report copyright infringementby Jo M. Sekimonyo (Author), Tara Casimir (Editor)Fifty Five Shades of Political Economy.... Economic theorists since their inception over 200 years ago, have struggled with the question of how to distribute wealth and continue to come up short. The author is not only criticizing capitalism, but finally has brought to the table, a new thought provoking alternative to the economic cannibalistic system. The author's unconventional line of attack, will raise your hea...

Blinded by Progress: Breaking Out of the Illusion That Holds Us

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Report copyright infringementby Lee Van Ham (Author)Blinded by Progress is a work of keen observation, a great deal of scholarship and an abiding care for living beings. There were many paths that we might have taken in the past that would have led to a better world than the one we inhabit. Lee Van Ham's writing delineates a path going forward that does not repeat the illusions of progress. I hope it opens many eyes. - Paul Hawken, entrepreneur, environmentalist, and author of Blessed Unrest ...

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Report copyright infringementby Robert L. Shuler (Author)An essential reference on the history & meaning of money, it's role in the cycle of trade and war, patterns of wealth across generations and how they differ by wealth category. Replace the limited vision of saving only for retirement with a generational wealth building plan. Gain understanding, using family backgrounds of 16 of the world's wealthiest people told in a narrative style with over 120 color illustrations. Examine connect...

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Report copyright infringementby Corinne Michaela Flick (Author)In our rapidly changing world, the future of our economic system--capitalism--seems more unpredictable than ever. Digitalization is already having a significant impact on the labor market. Intensive globalization has led to the emergence of new forms of capitalism that are very different from the Western free market economies. And contemporary critiques of capitalism present another challenge to our economic system. This volume lo...

The Revolution Will Be Improvised: Critical Conversations On Our Changing World

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Report copyright infringementby Mike Freedman (Author), David Cromwell (Introduction by), David Edwards (Introduction by)Filmmaker and writer Mike Freedman speaks with a range of experts from a variety of backgrounds about what the future has in store for humanity.Post-growth economics, sustainability, water privatisation, rejuvenation biotechnology, cyber-security and the war on drugs are some of the topics covered, featuring new insights from diverse thinkers including Richard Heinberg, Der...

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Report copyright infringementby William Thomas Thornton (Author), Michael D. Greaney (Editor)During the Great Famine in Ireland (1846-1852), William T. Thornton (1813-1880), an English economist, proposed that unused land be purchased by the government and sold on credit to families that would put it into production. In this way funds spent on famine relief would be turned from an expenditure into an investment, jobs would be created, and the benefits of widespread capital ownership would acc...

Prosperity in a Stable World--Volume 3 of Social Capitalism in Theory and Practice

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Report copyright infringementby Robert Corfe (Author)The reform of the financial-industrial infrastructure cannot be undertaken without considering fully the political culture in which it exists. But such reforms can only best be initiated from within the capitalist system itself by those most technically competent to effect necessary change, and hence this book calls upon the business community to take such an initiative. Whilst the first volume of this work traced the development of the new...

Innovation through Knowledge Transfer 2014

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Report copyright infringementby C. Birch (Author), R. Howlett (Author), C. Hurard (Author)This book contains papers presented at the sixth International conference on Innovation through Knowledge Transfer, InnovationKT-14, held at the University of Greenwich, 2-4 April 2014. The theme of the conference was an important one. All developed nations now talk about being, or becoming, knowledge-based economies. This infers that innovative new ideas and concepts are effectively commercialised bring...

Mid-Life Issues and the Workplace of the 90s: A Guide for Human Resource Specialists

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Report copyright infringementby Shirley A. Waskel (Author)The median age of workers in the United States will reach 36 by the year 2000. The number of workers between the ages of 35 and 47 will increase by 38 percent, while those aged 48 to 53 will grow by a staggering 67 percent. This middle aging of the work force brings with it unique employee issues and personal mid-life stresses that affect work performance. Shirley A. Waskel suggests that as the number of workers aged 35 to 55 increases...

Scientific Literacy and Environmental Policy: The Missing Prerequisite for Sound Decision Making

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Report copyright infringementby Dorothy J. Howell (Author)National institutions involved in environmental policy planning respond more to the accommodation of special interests, whether vested, parochial, or societal, than to the realities of technological advances. This situation, combined with the added problem of widespread scientific illiteracy, makes the formulation of effective environmental policy a very difficult task to accomplish. Our politico-legal system and relationships among sc...

Siting Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Facilities: The Public Policy Dilemma

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Report copyright infringementby Mary R. English (Author), Mary Read English (Author)Many lament the difficulty of siting hazardous waste facilities that are intended to benefit the public at large but are locally unwanted. Many label local opposition as purely self-interested; as simply a function of the NIMBY (Not In My Backyard) syndrome. Drawing upon the experience of states trying to site new low-level radioactive waste disposal facilities, Mary English argues that we need to think harder...

Expanding Free Expression in the Marketplace: Broadcasting and the Public Forum

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Report copyright infringementby Dom Caristi (Author)In order for free expression to be meaningful, there must be forums available for individuals wishing to express themselves. Despite an increasing number of broadcast stations, there are still far more people wishing to speak than there are licenses. This book examines the marketplaces for free speech and proposes means by which speaking opportunities can be increased. The author even proposes the creation of broadcast access channels. Unlik...

Human Resource Management and the Americans with Disabilities ACT

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Report copyright infringementby John G. Veres (Author), John G. Veres (Editor), Ronald R. Sims (Editor)Veres, Sims and their contributors focus on the nuts-and-bolts issues in human resource management (HRM) created by passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), then identify future issues and their projected impact. With practical discussion of traditional HRM activities and innovative activities the act has created, they help alleviate fears and, in doing so, fill a wide gap in th...

Antitrust Policy and Interest-Group Politics

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Report copyright infringementby William F. Shughart (Author)This groundbreaking study is the first to apply an analytical model derived from the interest-group theory of regulation to the study of antitrust law and policy. The application of this model which stresses that government intervention in the economy will always benefit some political groups at the expense of others to the analysis of antitrust enables Shughart both to identify important trends in the antitrust arena and demonstrate...

Essential Industry and the Nimby Phenomenon

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Report copyright infringementby Denis J. Brion (Author)This pioneering study explores the problems of politics and law that lie behind the growing phenomenon of NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard), a stance taken by residential property owners attempting to keep various types of facilities out of their neighborhoods. Denis J. Brion argues that the pejorative connotation that NIMBY carries is both unfortunate and unwarranted and seeks to expose the underlying problems for which NIMBY is a symptom. In ...

Collective Bargaining as an Instrument of Social Change

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Report copyright infringementby David C. Jacobs (Author)This provocative book makes the case that trade unions must intervene in economic restructuring in order to halt the erosion of job quality in today's economy. The author, who is a professor at the Kogod College of Business Administration at The American University in Washington, D.C., specializes in labor-management relations and the social responsibilities of business and has brought both of these disciplines into focus for this book. ...

The Prince: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) - Paperback

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by Niccolo Machiavelli (Author), Tim Parks (Translator), Tim Parks (Introduction by)A new translation of the infamous Renaissance classic, in a striking deluxe edition The original blueprint for realpolitik, The Prince shocked sixteenth-century Europe with its advocacy of ruthless tactics for gaining absolute power and its abandonment of conventional morality. For this treatise on statecraft, Machiavelli drew upon his own experience of office under the turbulent Florentine republic, rejectin...

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Report copyright infringementby Thomas J. S. J. Reese (Author), Unknown (Author) Number of Pages: 237 Dimensions: 0.63 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN Publication Date: November 20, 1980

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Report copyright infringementby Patricia Lunneborg (Author), Unknown (Author)Drawing on in-depth interviews with women employees, Lunneborg asks five broad questions: How do you approach your job differently than men do? What subtle differences do you notice in the way you do your job relative to men? How do male/female value differences in your occupation affect the way work is done? What are the strengths of women for your occupation? How would increasing the numbers of women in your occupa...

The Control of Municipal Budgets: Toward the Effective Design of Tax and Expenditure

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Report copyright infringementby David Merriman (Author)The first comprehensive analysis of the design and effects of tax and expenditure limitations (TELs), The Control of Municipal Budgetsshows how limitation measures have worked and offers practical guidelines for analyzing and designing such programs under current economic and political conditions. Looking first at the characteristics of different types of TELs, Merriman discusses the various ways in which limitations may be imposed. He ne...