Politics & Social Sciences
epub |eng | | Author:Murray Leinster

* Letter from Herr Theophrastus Paracelsus Bosche, astrologer, to Professor Albrecht Aigen, Brunn University. Most respected Herr Professor: I am amused that a so-eminent scientist like yourself should ask information ...
( Category: Schools & Teaching June 3,2021 )
epub |eng | | Author:Nikesh Shukla

When you were born and we were struggling with sleep, I used to take you out on urban rambles in the middle of the night. It was often an insight ...
( Category: Politics & Social Sciences June 3,2021 )
epub |eng | 2021-06-02 | Author:Ben Rhodes [Rhodes, Ben]

It was hard to imagine that these were really the most pressing concerns of the young people in the audience. Most Chinese would never hear the words Obama said about ...
( Category: American History June 3,2021 )
epub |eng | | Author:Dána-Ain Davis [Davis, Dána-Ain]

Figure 4.1 Children’s Bureau poster commemorating Children’s Year Saving Mothers and Infants: The Sheppard-Towner Act From 1909 until 1936, infant and maternal mortality were treated as public, social, and political ...
( Category: Social Sciences June 3,2021 )
epub |eng | | Author:Cheryl Thompson

The story behind television’s ambiguous embrace of Black life may have surfaced new questions about representation, but it actually traced back to a much earlier period in the history of ...
( Category: Humor June 3,2021 )
epub |eng | 2020-12-10 | Author:Harsha Walia

CHAPTER 9 Permanently Temporary: Managed Migration in Canada Under the temporary foreign worker program, the boss has all the power—over your money, house, status, everything. They have you tied to ...
( Category: Politics & Government June 3,2021 )
epub |eng | | Author:Yaba Blay [Blay, Yaba]

DENISE BROWN Philadelphia, Pennsylvania “African American” I come from light-skinned-race people, so there’s no lack of clarity anywhere in my family about identity. I’ve always been Black and proud, and ...
( Category: Social Sciences June 3,2021 )
epub |eng | 2021-04-08 | Author:Nicole Saphier [Saphier, Nicole]

THE PROBLEM ISN’T LOCKDOWNS, IT’S HOW THEY’RE IMPLEMENTED Data has shown that lockdowns do have some positive effects, but the main problems are when politicians create arbitrary rules, flout their ...
( Category: Politics & Government June 3,2021 )
epub |eng | | Author:Racial Disproportionality & Disparities in the Child Welfare System (2021)

Our complex identities can shape the specific way we each experience bias. Disadvantage or exclusion can be based on the interaction of multiple factors rather than just one. Going beyond ...
( Category: Sociology of Class June 3,2021 )
epub |eng | 2020-05-15 | Author:Max M. Edling [Edling, Max M.]

I England’s Glorious Revolution was followed by a dramatic upsurge in parliamentary activity. In the two centuries before 1688, Parliament passed around 2,700 acts. Between 1688 and 1800, it passed ...
( Category: Politics & Government June 3,2021 )
epub |eng | 2009-09-29 | Author:Richard Marcinko & Jim Defelice

[ II ] ONE OF THE arguments that’s always been raised against women in combat has been that men will drop everything to save a woman on his team if ...
( Category: Genre Literature & Fiction June 3,2021 )
epub |eng | | Author:Murray Leinster

* Unless the world of 2180 told its ancestors what to do about it. That was the proposal. Two-way communication was necessary for the purpose, because there would be questions ...
( Category: American History June 3,2021 )
epub |eng | | Author:Helson, Ravenna M.; Mitchell, Valory;

CHANGING GOALS AND VALUES IN MIDLIFE Two developmental theorists, Gutmann (1987) and Jung (1969), both believed that the second half of life bring shifts in values and goals. In younger ...
( Category: Social Sciences June 3,2021 )
epub |eng | 2009-08-04 | Author:David Wessel [Wessel, David]

BEAR AT THE DOOR A few hours after the Fed announced the TSLF, Geithner hosted a closed-door lunch for Bernanke in the New York Fed’s Washington Dining Room, one of ...
( Category: Politics & Social Sciences June 3,2021 )
epub |eng | 2019-08-14 | Author:John Reilly

Yesterday’s solution is today’s problem. — Peter Senge In Dancing with a Ghost Rupert Ross tells of a conference he attended in 1986 in Whitehorse in which he first saw ...
( Category: True Crime June 3,2021 )