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American Pharaoh by Adam Cohen & Elizabeth Taylor
epub, mobi |eng | 2001-05-07 | Author:Adam Cohen & Elizabeth Taylor [Cohen, Adam & Taylor, Elizabeth]

In early July, NAACP delegates descended on Chicago for the organization’s national convention. The summer of 1963 had already been an upsetting one for the civil rights movement. The NAACP’s ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People June 13,2017 )
Throw Them All Out: How Politicians and Their Friends Get Rich Off Insider Stock Tips, Land Deals, and Cronyism That Would Send the Rest of Us to Prison by Schweizer Peter
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-11-15 | Author:Schweizer, Peter [Schweizer, Peter]

With the passage of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act, the Treasury Department had $700 billion to make available to financial institutions, and with it the unprecedented authority to pick winners ...
( Category: Politics & Government June 13,2017 )
Roosevelt's Centurions by Joseph E. Persico
epub |eng | 2013-05-27 | Author:Joseph E. Persico [Persico, Joseph E.]

ON AUGUST 12, 1943, FDR was relaxing at Hyde Park awaiting a now frequent guest, Winston Churchill, who had just made a dash across the Atlantic aboard the Queen Mary. ...
( Category: Military June 13,2017 )
Common Wealth by Jeffrey Sachs
epub |eng | 2011-05-26 | Author:Jeffrey Sachs [D. Sachs, Jeffrey]

Access to Reproductive Health Services Even when households would prefer to reduce fertility, they need reproductive health services, including family planning and contraception, in order to turn aspirations into reality. ...
( Category: Economics June 13,2017 )
How to Run the World by Parag Khanna
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-01-10 | Author:Parag Khanna [Khanna, Parag]

Chapter Seven Getting Rights Right Accountability is the DNA of civilized societies. —SIMON ZADEK, founder, AccountAbility The United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted in 1948, was one of ...
( Category: Politics & Government June 13,2017 )
The Future of Power by Nye Jr. Joseph S
mobi |eng | 2011-01-31 | Author:Nye Jr., Joseph S.

The cyberdomain is both a new and a volatile human-made environment. The characteristics of cyberspace reduce some of the power differentials among actors and thus provide a good example of ...
( Category: Politics & Government June 13,2017 )
Born Digital by Palfrey John & Gasser Urs
mobi |eng | 2008-11-05 | Author:Palfrey, John & Gasser, Urs [Palfrey, John]

Some recent headlines from around the world:• “A South Korean games addict died after playing nonstop for 86 hours.”3 • “An overweight 26-year-old man from north-eastern China has died after ...
( Category: Technology June 13,2017 )
The Other Barack: The Bold and Reckless Life of President Obama's Father by Sally H. Jacobs
epub |eng | 2011-07-07 | Author:Sally H. Jacobs [Jacobs, Sally H.]

Barack H. Obama as a student in Hawaii. He was one of an elite group of young Kenyan men and women educated in America and charged with shaping the new ...
( Category: Politics & Government June 13,2017 )
The Greeks: A Portrait of Self and Others by Paul Cartledge
epub |eng | 1993-04-15 | Author:Paul Cartledge [Cartledge, Paul]

model of a civic choice that is both free and determined' ( Loraux 1986a: 104). But Perikles' epitaphios was political in a second, narrower sense as well. It was a ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations June 13,2017 )
The Logic of Political Survival by Mesquita Bruce Bueno de
epub |eng | 2003-10-01 | Author:Mesquita, Bruce Bueno de [Mesquita, Bruce Bueno de]

Subgame Perfect Equilibria We now characterize the properties of subgame perfect equilibria to the game. Using the backward induction logic inherent in SPE, we start with the last decision and ...
( Category: Economics June 13,2017 )
A Decade of Hope by Dennis Smith
epub |eng | 2011-07-24 | Author:Dennis Smith

Michael Burke William “Billy” Burke, Jr., was the namesake of Deputy Assistant Chief of Department William Burke, a high-ranking officer in New York City’s Fire Department. He followed in his ...
( Category: Politics & Government June 13,2017 )
DAVIES, robertson - Deptford 3 - World of Wonders by DAVIES robertson
epub | | 2010-06-16 | Author:DAVIES, robertson [robertson, DAVIES,]

4 In the days that followed, Magnus was busy filming the last scraps of Hommage in a studio near London; these were close-ups, chiefly of his hands, as he did ...
( Category: Occult June 8,2017 )
Designing Social Inquiry by Gary King & Robert O. Keohane & Sidney Verba
epub |eng | 1996-02-15 | Author:Gary King & Robert O. Keohane & Sidney Verba [King, Gary]

Figure 4.1 Selection Bias Now suppose an incoming business-school student were interested in studying how he could increase his starting salary upon graduation. Not having learned about selection bias, this ...
( Category: Social Sciences June 8,2017 )
The Contours Of American History by William Appleman Williams
epub |eng | 1961-06-07 | Author:William Appleman Williams

Field's strategy was to define the market place as a national rather than a state problem and then insist that die due process clause of the i4th amendment gave the ...
( Category: Politics & Government June 8,2017 )
Testaments Betrayed by Milan Kundera
epub |eng | 2010-12-22 | Author:Milan Kundera [Kundera, Milan]

This is how kitsch-making interpretation kills off works of art. Some forty years before the American professor imposed this moralizing meaning on the story, "Hills Like White Elephants" was published ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory June 8,2017 )

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