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The Technology Trap: Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation by Carl Benedikt Frey
epub, pdf |eng | 2019-06-17 | Author:Carl Benedikt Frey

When occupational skills are replaced by machines, the investment workers have made in building up the human capital associated with that occupation has gone industrially bankrupt. A worker displaced from ...
( Category: Intelligence & Semantics July 22,2019 )
American Carnage by Tim Alberta
azw3, mobi, epub |eng | 2019-07-15 | Author:Tim Alberta

Chapter Sixteen October 2016 “Mother is not going to like this.” O NE BY ONE, THEY HAD TRICKLED OUT OF THE CONFERENCE ROOM ON the twenty-fifth floor of Trump Tower. ...
( Category: History & Theory July 22,2019 )
A Dictionary of Thought by Karl Marx
epub |eng | | Author:Karl Marx

J JAILS Stables designed to improve ethics by herding together the sinners. As sin will always come out on top, the result of this process is invariably the acquisition of ...
( Category: Communism & Socialism July 21,2019 )
You Are Not Human by Simon Lancaster
epub |eng | 2018-07-20 | Author:Simon Lancaster [Simon Lancaster]

SPIN John Ayrton Paris was the Brian Cox of his day. Throughout the early nineteenth century, he travelled the capital cities of Europe demonstrating science to children using an ingenious ...
( Category: Leadership July 21,2019 )
Justice on Trial by Mollie Hemingway & Carrie Severino
epub |eng | | Author:Mollie Hemingway & Carrie Severino

By the time the committee took its first break at 11:30 a.m., Kavanaugh’s situation was considered dire. Republican senators were described as “stone-faced” as they filed out of the hearing ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism July 19,2019 )
The Grand Food Bargain by Kevin D. Walker
epub |eng | 2019-07-18 | Author:Kevin D. Walker

Today’s food system did not start out at odds with nutrition. Though the initial 1894 dietary recommendations never mentioned vitamins or minerals, the public already knew that citrus could prevent ...
( Category: Agriculture & Food Policy July 19,2019 )
Democratic Rules of Order by Peg Francis
epub |eng | 2019-03-07 | Author:Peg Francis

Special Committees Most committees are democratic, but sometimes a nondemocratic committee is formed in which one person has full responsibility, although others may help. Chairing a Committee Meeting Ideally, a ...
( Category: Democracy July 19,2019 )
The Value of Everything by Mariana Mazzucato
epub |eng | 2018-04-26 | Author:Mariana Mazzucato [Mazzucato, Mariana]

Figure 22. PE-backed companies as a percentage of all US companies (by enterprise size)10 The recent history of the care home and water industries in the UK shows how PE ...
( Category: Economic Policy July 19,2019 )
The Body in Pain by Elaine Scarry
epub |eng | 1985-09-25 | Author:Elaine Scarry [Scarry, Elaine]

Body, Weapon, Voice in the Larger Framework The extreme separation into body and voice that characterizes what almost seem randomly recurring scenes of hurt (as well as the scenes of ...
( Category: International & World Politics July 19,2019 )
The Philosophy of Freedom by Caleb Nelson & Kenneth Jeppesen
epub |eng | 2013-12-26 | Author:Caleb Nelson & Kenneth Jeppesen [Nelson, Caleb & Jeppesen, Kenneth]

Chapter 11: Prosperity Principles WHAT IS MONEY? The concepts of “money” and “currency” are essential to understanding a principle-based approach to life, politics, prosperity, and economics. In attacks against capitalism ...
( Category: History & Theory July 19,2019 )
The Syrian Social Nationalist Party by Salim Mujais
epub |eng | 2019-02-12 | Author:Salim Mujais [Mujais, Salim]

CONFRONTING A RELIGIOUS BASTION The confrontation between the SSNP and the leadership of the Maronite church was initiated by the latter. Soon after the discovery of the SSNP, a pamphlet ...
( Category: Middle Eastern July 19,2019 )
My Name is Rachel Corrie by Rachel Corrie
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Rachel Corrie [Corrie, Rachel]

February 7th. I have been in Palestine for two weeks and one hour now, and I still have very few words to describe what I see. I don't know if ...
( Category: Middle Eastern July 19,2019 )
A Good American Family by David Maraniss
epub |eng | | Author:David Maraniss

* * * THE TAVENNER NAME was well known in Woodstock and its environs for influence and apples, which makes sense since the two were synonymous in the Shenandoah Valley. ...
( Category: Communism & Socialism July 19,2019 )
All Things Are Nothing to Me by Jacob Blumenfeld
epub |eng | 2018-12-14 | Author:Jacob Blumenfeld [Blumenfeld, Jacob]

Thinking and speaking are fundamental properties of the human being. Fine, Stirner retorts, but I do not want to be just human. To be merely human is to adapt oneself ...
( Category: Individual Philosophers July 18,2019 )
An Innocent Bystander by Julie Salamon
epub |eng | 2019-06-10 | Author:Julie Salamon

11 Trials New York City, May 5, 1986 A month after Ilsa and Paul’s wedding, the newlyweds sat with Jerry and Lisa and watched Abu al-Abbas look out from their ...
( Category: Middle Eastern July 18,2019 )

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