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The Living Planner: What to Prepare Now While You Are Living

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Report copyright infringementby Lynn Lambrecht (Author)Preparing for the future doesn't have to be overwhelming. Infact, it can be quite empowering.With Lynn's expertise, you can enjoy the confidence and satisfactionthat comes with controlling your future.Lynn's concierge approach to simplifying your life helps you to- identify the pieces you already have in place- determine what more you need to complete your plans- make the appropriate professional connections and contactsyou may need- desi...

Women in the Valley of the Kings: The Untold Story of Women Egyptologists in the Gilded Age - Hardcover

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by Kathleen Sheppard (Author)The never-before-told story of the women Egyptologists who paved the way of exploration in Egypt and created the basis for Egyptology. The history of Egyptology is often told as yet one more grand narrative of powerful men striving to seize the day and the precious artifacts for their competing homelands. But that is only half of the story. During the so-called Golden Age of Exploration, there were women working and exploring before Howard Carter discovered the to...

Fault Lines in the Constitution: The Framers, Their Fights, and the Flaws That Affect Us Today - Paperback

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by Cynthia Levinson (Author), Sanford Levinson (Author)A noted children's nonfiction author and one of the nation's foremost constitutional scholars team up to create an essential book on the United States Constitution for everyone grappling with today's most urgent political issues. Many of the political issues we struggle with today have their roots in one place--the U.S. Constitution. Fault Lines in the Constitution takes readers back to the creation of this historic document and reveals h...

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by Amaranth Borsuk (Author)The book as object, as content, as idea, as interface.What is the book in a digital age? Is it a physical object containing pages encased in covers? Is it a portable device that gives us access to entire libraries? The codex, the book as bound paper sheets, emerged around 150 CE. It was preceded by clay tablets and papyrus scrolls. Are those books? In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Amaranth Borsuk considers the history of the book, the futu...

The Witch: A History of Fear, from Ancient Times to the Present - Paperback

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by Ronald Hutton (Author)Why have societies all across the world feared witchcraft? This book delves deeply into its context, beliefs, and origins in Europe's history "Traces the idea of witches far beyond the Salem witch trials to beliefs and attitudes about witches around the world throughout history."--Los Angeles Times The witch came to prominence--and often a painful death--in early modern Europe, yet her origins are much more geographically diverse and historically deep. In this landma...

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Report copyright infringementby Frederic Bastiat (Author)Originally published in French in 1848, Essays on Political Economy by Frederic Bastiat is a collection of essays in which Bastiat addresses several controversial economic and political principles, such as the free market, the role of government, taxes, and capital and interest, among others. Bastiat was an advocate of the free market and limited government that defended an individual's right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happine...

Global Responsible Intergenerational Leadership: A Conceptual Framework and Implementation Guidance for Intergenerational Fairness

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Report copyright infringementby Julia M. Puaschunder (Author)Today's grand policy dilemmas, from climate change, to over-indebtedness, to demographic shifts, have momentous long-term implications. Future generations will be constrained by our present decisions to an extent that is without precedent in advanced capitalist democracies. This book is an extensively researched and reasoned appeal in favor of intergenerational fairness - the ability to provide to future generations an at least as f...

Black Baseball, Black Business: Race Enterprise and the Fate of the Segregated Dollar

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Report copyright infringementby Roberta J. Newman (Author), Joel Nathan Rosen (Author), Monte Irvin (Contribution by)Winner of the 2014 Robert W. Peterson Award for Excellence in Negro League Research from the Jerry Malloy Negro League Conference, sponsored by Negro Leagues Committee of the Society for American Baseball Research Roberta J. Newman and Joel Nathan Rosen have written an authoritative social history of the Negro Leagues. This book examines how the relationship between black base...

An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. X (in 51 Volumes)

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Report copyright infringementby Adam Smith (Author), Charles W. Eliot (Editor), C. J. Bullock (Editor)Originally published between 1909 and 1917 under the name "Harvard Classics," this stupendous 51-volume set-a collection of the greatest writings from literature, philosophy, history, and mythology-was assembled by American academic CHARLES WILLIAM ELIOT (1834-1926), Harvard University's longest-serving president. Also known as "Dr. Eliot's Five Foot Shelf," it represented Eliot's belief that...

A Shangri-La Economy: Exploring Buddhist Bhutan

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Report copyright infringementby Mahmood Ansari (Author)Analysing the status of agrarian justice and its relation with the national slogan of "gross national happiness"(GNH) in Bhutan, this monograph deals with food insecurity, resource asymmetry and growth in the political economy perspective. In this tiny Himalayan nation under absolute democratic monarchy, there are huge inequities in the ethos of general income and consumption poverty and a fundamental transformation in the political econo...

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Report copyright infringementby Everett C. Hughes (Author)Now available in library-quality hardcover edition, 2016, from Quid Pro Books. Part of the Classics of the Social Sciences series, this modern presentation of Hughes' influential work is not a mere photocopy or facsimile edition; yet its text embeds the original version's pagination, for continuity in referencing and assignment. - In this recognized classic of sociology and the study of labor and the professions, Everett C. Hughes deta...

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Report copyright infringementby John Ruskin (Author)One of the most astonishingly versatile British writers of the 19th century, art critic JOHN RUSKIN (1819-1900) held a profound sway on European painting and architecture of the 19th and 20th centuries...but he was also a vital influence on the ideals of the later British Labour party, on Gandhi's peaceful revolution, and on our modern notions of charity and charitable organizations. In this 1862 collection of essays, Ruskin lays out his hum...

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Report copyright infringementby Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Author)Startling in its observations and radical in its conclusions, this classic of women's rights literature, this work-by pioneering American feminist CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN (1860-1935)-was a phenomenon when it was first published in 1898, and was eventually translated into in seven languages and reprinted around the world. From her characterization of women as virtual economic, social, and sexual slaves, dependent on men for ever...

Plunder: Investigating Our Economic Calamity and the Subprime Scandal

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Report copyright infringementby Danny Schechter (Author), Robert Manning (Preface by)DANNY SCHECHTER, "The News Dissector" has spent decades as a truth teller in the media, with leading media companies and as an independent filmmaker with the award-winning independent company Globalvision. A graduate of Cornell and the London School of Economics, Schechter was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard and a multiple Emmy Award winner at ABC News, where he was among the first to cover the S&L crisis. In ...

An Empirical Analysis of Stock Option Valuation Methodologies in Closely Held U.S. Corporations

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Report copyright infringementby Mike Fred Balm (Author)The introduction of fair value accounting for stock options has required private companies to apply stock option valuation methodologies that were designed to be applied to their public counterparts. The two recommended methodologies, the Black-Scholes formula and the Binomial Lattice model, require the valuator to provide an input for estimated volatility; for private companies that do not have a trading history there is limited guidance...

Lombard Street: A Description of the Money Market

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Report copyright infringementby Walter Bagehot (Author)The Government is necessarily at times possessed of large sums in cash. It is by far the richest corporation in the country; its annual revenue payable in money far surpasses that of any other body or person.... A modern Government is like a very rich man with very great debts which he cannot well pay; its credit is necessary to its prosperity, almost to its existence, and if its bankers fail when one of its debts becomes due its difficul...

The Delusion of Progress: A Fallacy of Western Society

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Report copyright infringementby Pierre Chomat (Author)In The Delusion of Progress Pierre-Auguste Chomat portrays a young individual who gradually becomes an unconditional believer in progress and a full member of an industrial society that sets almost no limits to its material development. The case presented by the author defines Western Society as a whole. Industrialized countries take for granted that Progress characterizes Man and is a natural movement of his being. We have faith in Progre...

An Alternative History of Cleveland - Paperback

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by Jon Wlasiuk (Author), Libby Geboy (Illustrator)Dive into Cleveland's deep past and return with a new vision for how we should think about the region today.The land we call "northeast Ohio" was originally forged through eons of glacial pressure, geologic shifts, and the relentless movement of the Cuyahoga River. Since the last Ice Age, however, it has also been transformed countless times by the many people who have called it home.In An Alternative History of Cleveland, Jon Wlasiuk uncovers...

Statistical Handbook on Poverty in the Developing World

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Report copyright infringementby Chandrika Kaul (Author), Unknown (Author), Chandrika Kaul (Editor)Although poverty is one of the most serious issues facing the world's population, finding statistical information on this subject has, in the past, required a significant amount of time and effort. Now, this volume provides researchers with a single, comprehensive resource that includes detailed information regarding the worldwide and regional impact of poverty in the developing world and on indi...

Playing Through the Fence: Stories from 19 Women Who Challenged Stereotypes, Prejudice and Other Barriers to Achieve Career Success

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Report copyright infringementby Mary Jo Dowell (Author)"Playing Through the Fence" is part memoir, part self-help for emerging leaders or anyone seeking inspiration while facing obstacles on his or her career journey. Nineteen women, including the author, share powerful reflections of fortitude and accomplishments in their lives and careers, sometimes against what seemed like impossible odds, as they challenged barriers on their paths to success. A metaphor for these barriers, "The Fence" re...

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Report copyright infringementby René I. Holaind (Author)Reprint of the sole edition. Based on a series of lectures, this study examines questions of taxation, capital and labor organizations, strikes and boycotts and other major social issues. Its solutions are inspired by principles of Christian philosophy and adapted to actual conditions of society. Its contents include "Teleology, or Moral Causation," "Essence, Concrete Existence, and Attributes of Natural Law," "Human Acts and Animal Moti...

Unions at the Crossroads: Strategic Membership, Financial, and Political Perspectives

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Report copyright infringementby Marick F. Masters (Author)This is a broad assessment of the institutional health of the 28 major national unions in the United States. The membership in the unions and the financial and political resources are examined specifically from 1979 through 1993. The focus on this era is because it contains the 1980s--a time when the unions were assailed from several positions. The fundamental idea in this work is that the resources of the union affect their capacities...

The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science: The New Rural-Urban Interface

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Report copyright infringementby Daniel T. Lichter (Editor), James P. Ziliak (Editor) The volume focuses on the cultural, economic, demographic, and political dimensions of changing social and spatial boundaries that both separate and link urban and rural America. Number of Pages: 96 Dimensions: 0.65 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN Publication Date: August 08, 2017

Hidden Technocrats: The New Class and New Capitalism

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Report copyright infringementby Hansfried Kellner (Editor)In the early 1970s many social scientists and critics noted the emergence of a new elite based in the "Knowledge Industry" and pitted against the old business-based middle class both politically and culturally. Because of its close ties to academia and the media, this New Class was conceived by both its critics and its proponents to be in an advantageous position to influence the rest of society. The Hidden Technocrats attempts to deli...

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Report copyright infringementby Joe Williams (Author), James Duminy (Author)Available open access digitally under CC-BY licence. Development and environmental challenges are often framed at the global or planetary scale, but in a vague or apolitical manner. This book develops a theoretically rigorous and politicized concept of the planetary to intervene in contemporary debates on global development and to enhance our critical understanding of development as we approach the second quarter of t...

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Report copyright infringementby Willis George Emerson (Author)First published in 1896, "Emerson on Sound Money" is the transcript of a speech delivered by Willis G. Emerson to the Young Men's Republican Club at Lockerby Hall Grand Rapids, Michigan in 1896. The speech primarily concerns money and finances, referring to the contemporary political situation and providing suggestions as to how it can be improved. Willis George Emerson (1856 - 1918) was an American lawyer, novelist, politician, an...

Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route - Paperback

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by Saidiya Hartman (Author)In Lose Your Mother, Saidiya Hartman traces the history of the Atlantic slave trade by recounting a journey she took along a slave route in Ghana. Following the trail of captives from the hinterland to the Atlantic coast, she reckons with the blank slate of her own genealogy and vividly dramatizes the effects of slavery on three centuries of African and African American history. The slave, Hartman observes, is a stranger--torn from family, home, and country. To lose...

The Roots of Western Finance: Power, Ethics, and Social Capital in the Ancient World

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Report copyright infringementby Thomas K. Park (Author), James B. Greenberg (Author)The Roots of Western Finance takes an anthropological approach to origins of western finance and credit in ancient societies, covering a period from ancient Mesopotamia to the Islamic world in the eleventh century. The authors reveal that credit is not simply an economic transaction; it is a social relationship and a technology of power.Author BiographyThomas K. Park is associate professor of anthropology at t...

The Theory of the Leisure Class (Essential Economics Series: Celebrated Economists)

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Report copyright infringementby Thorstein Veblen (Author)The Theory of the Leisure Class' was first published in 1899. It's author, Thorstein Veblen, was the son of Norwegian American immigrants. He grew up to become a prominent economist and sociologist, producing many books and articles, and is often remembered for his use evolutionary theory to develop a 20th century theory of economics. This particular work is an economic treatise and detailed social critique of conspicuous consumption as...

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Report copyright infringementby Thorstein Veblen (Author)The Place of Science in Modern Civilisation and Other Essays' was first published in 1919. It's author, Thorstein Veblen, was the son of Norwegian American immigrants. He grew up to become a prominent economist and sociologist, producing many books and articles, and is often remembered for his use evolutionary theory to develop a 20th century theory of economics. This collection includes essays with such title as 'The Limitations of Mar...

Riding the Wave: An East Asian Miracle for the 21st Century

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Report copyright infringementby Caterina Ruggeri Laderchi (Author), Nikola Spatafora (Author), Sudhir Shetty (Author)Developing East Asia and Pacific has led the way in showing how rapid and broadly shared growth can lift millions out of poverty. As this book shows, the region has achieved even more: the wave of prosperity across the region since the 1980s has lifted three out of five of its citizens into economic security, where their risk of falling into poverty is minimal. And a solid midd...

Economics Takes a Holiday: Celebrations from the Dismal Science

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Report copyright infringementby Holley Hewitt Ulbrich (Author)Holidays help define our culture, but people forget that they are closely connected with economics. Author Holley Hewitt Ulbrich combines her lifelong fascination with our nation's most special occasions and her love of economics in this fascinating account. You'll learn why Punxsutawney Phil might play a role in economic forecasting; how Valentine's Day could just be an example of heartless capitalism; how Earth Day provides insig...