Politics & Government
epub |eng | 2007-11-13 | Author:Lewis, Michael [Lewis, Michael]

“Who are you?” I ask. He’s all alone, a stray alien life-form who landed on earth by mistake. And he’s put his finger on the problem. It’s the corporate risk ...
( Category: Politics & Government April 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-09-27 | Author:Silver, Nate [Silver, Nate]

In practice, poker players might differ a lot in how they assess the probabilities for his hand. Skilled poker players are probably better than 99.9 percent of the population at ...
( Category: Management & Leadership April 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-05-22 | Author:Ferguson, Charles [Ferguson, Charles]

In the Service of Rogue States and Drug Lords TAX EVASION IS not the only motive for bank secrecy, money laundering, and asset concealment.17 Kleptocratic political leaders, organized criminals, drug ...
( Category: Economics April 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2008-09-16 | Author:Filkins, Dexter [Filkins, Dexter]

THE WALLS OF THE HOUSE swayed and the windows rattled and the bathroom door slammed on its own. I set down my coffee and spilled it over the counter. It ...
( Category: Military April 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2008-10-01 | Author:Cicero, Marcus Tullius [Cicero, Marcus Tullius]

BOOK III. 1. MY son Marcus, Cato, who was nearly of the same age with Publius Scipio, the first of the family that bore the name of Africanus, represents him ...
( Category: Philosophy April 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2004-01-01 | Author:French, Howard W. [French, Howard W.]

CHAPTER EIGHT Castles in the Sand My second visit to Mali came more than a decade after my first. In lieu of a goatskin sack and a battered tape player, ...
( Category: Africa April 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2005-03-18 | Author:Evans, Richard J. [Evans, Richard J.]

‘HELL HAS BROKEN OUT’ I On the Eastern Front, the defeat of the German Sixth Army at Stalingrad marked the beginning of a long retreat that was only to end ...
( Category: Military April 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2004-01-01 | Author:Evans, Richard J. [Evans, Richard J.]

II The complacent belief of Franz von Papen and his friends that they had Hitler where they wanted him did not last long. The Nazis occupied only three cabinet posts. ...
( Category: Politics & Government April 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-10-02 | Author:Goodman, Amy & Moynihan, Denis [Goodman, Amy & Moynihan, Denis]

September 14, 2011 Troy Davis and the Politics of Death Death brings cheers these days in America. In the most recent Republican presidential debate in Tampa, Florida, when CNN’s Wolf ...
( Category: Politics & Government April 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-09-18 | Author:House, Karen Elliott [House, Karen Elliott]

CHAPTER 9 Plans, Paralysis, and Poverty Be not like the hypocrite who, when he talks, tells lies; when he makes a promise, he breaks it; and when he is trusted, ...
( Category: Anthropology April 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2008-04-27 | Author:Bartels, Larry M. [Bartels, Larry M.]

Separate analyses by income class indicate that the effect of respondents’ own perceived tax burdens was about equally powerful among upper-and middle-income people. However, people whose incomes put them in ...
( Category: Politics & Government April 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-10-01 | Author:Nicholson, Alexander [Nicholson, Alexander]

( Category: Engineering April 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2010-12-22 | Author:Ambrose, Stephen E. [Ambrose, Stephen E.]

The most important result of Carter’s growing hostility toward and fear of the Soviets was the demise of SALT II. Carter was unwilling to go more than halfway in meeting ...
( Category: Americas April 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-05-01 | Author:Chomsky, Noam [Chomsky, Noam]

¶¶ Colin Asher, “Occupy Wall St. in NYC—The Week That Was,” The Progressive, October 16, 2011. http://www.progressive.org/occupy_wall_street_week.html *** Noam Chomsky, “The State-Corporate Complex: A Threat to Freedom and Survival,” lecture ...
( Category: Politics & Government April 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2009-01-01 | Author:Hoffman, David [Hoffman, David]

Akhromeyev. Gorbachev called Chernyaev at home that evening. "We discredited the country, humiliated our people," Gorbachev said, according to Chernyaev's account. Gorbachev wondered if he should have resigned too. Then ...
( Category: Military April 26,2018 )