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Can the Welfare State Survive? by Andrew Gamble
epub |eng | 2016-04-19 | Author:Andrew Gamble

International competitiveness The second key challenge facing contemporary welfare states and governments seeking to manage them is how to maintain a welfare state in an open economy. After several decades ...
( Category: Political Economy March 22,2017 )
Brown Skin, White Masks (The Islamic Mediterranean) by Hamid Dabashi
epub |eng | 2014-12-18 | Author:Hamid Dabashi [Dabashi, Hamid]

Ibn Warraq: Exactly, and that’s why, as I’ve said over and over again, it is illogical, totally illogical, for the Western media, there’s an editorial practically every month now in ...
( Category: Colonialism & Post-Colonialism March 22,2017 )
A Generation of Sociopaths by Bruce Cannon Gibney
epub, mobi |eng | 2017-07-02 | Author:Bruce Cannon Gibney

Antisocial Security All OAB programs struggle for the simple reason that they never received enough funding in the first place. FDR may have hoped Social Security would be self-sustaining and ...
( Category: Commentary & Opinion March 22,2017 )
Shadow Wars: The Secret Struggle for the Middle East by Christopher Davidson
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-10-05 | Author:Christopher Davidson [Davidson, Christopher]

SYRIA – THE MEDIA WAR In parallel to the increased funding and weapons supplies for Syrian rebel militias and jihadist organizations, since 2013 there were also renewed and substantial efforts ...
( Category: African March 22,2017 )
Nujeen by Nujeen Mustafa
epub |eng | 2016-08-22 | Author:Nujeen Mustafa [Mustafa, Nujeen]

From the sea the island looked much further away. Our dark grey dinghy was very small. Even though we had paid extra just to be the thirty-eight of us, which ...
( Category: Middle Eastern March 22,2017 )
Cosmopolis: A Novel by DeLillo Don
epub, azw3 |eng | 2003-04-01 | Author:DeLillo, Don [DeLillo, Don]

PART TWO 3 She had coral brown skin and well-defined cheekbones. There was a beeswax sheen to her lips. She liked to be looked at and made the act of ...
( Category: Satire March 22,2017 )
Supremely Partisan by James D. Zirin
epub |eng | 2012-03-21 | Author:James D. Zirin

Notes 1. Remark to diplomat Evelyn Shickburgh. Diaries 1951–1956 (London, 1986). 2. Congress’s naturalization power, Art. §8, cl. 4, enables it to grant American citizenship to such a person born ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism March 22,2017 )
Broad Influence: How Women Are Changing the Way America Works by Newton-Small Jay
azw3 |eng | 2016-01-04 | Author:Newton-Small, Jay [Newton-Small, Jay]

There’s a good deal of evidence that women are inherently risk-averse. Almost all—97 percent—of microlending is done to women in the developing world. Microcredit started in Bangladesh in 1983 and ...
( Category: Leadership March 22,2017 )
The Nixon Tapes by Douglas Brinkley
epub |eng | | Author:Douglas Brinkley

NIXON: The point that you should make, of course, that everyone should make out there, is that putting it in its coldest terms: South Vietnam should get demoralized if they ...
( Category: Executive Branch March 22,2017 )
Good Clean Fun by Nick Offerman
epub |eng | 2016-10-04 | Author:Nick Offerman

BEAVER TAIL PADDLE MORE FROM NICK OFFERMAN MAKING THE BEAVER TAIL PADDLE Okay, friend, you have arrived. A canoe paddle is a great project in which to become comfortable with ...
( Category: Carpentry March 22,2017 )
Jesse Ventura's Marijuana Manifesto by Jesse Ventura
epub |eng | 2016-03-21 | Author:Jesse Ventura

• In 2014, the drug overdose death rate for whites aged twenty-five to thirty-four was five times what it was in 1999. • The overdose rate for thirty-five-to-forty-four-year-old whites tripled ...
( Category: Social Policy March 22,2017 )
Kingdom of the Unjust by Medea Benjamin
epub |eng | 2016-08-28 | Author:Medea Benjamin

HOW DID THE PRESENCE OF U.S. TROOPS ON SAUDI SOIL CONTRIBUTE TO THE 9/11 ATTACKS? During the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan from 1979 to 1989, Saudi Arabia and the United ...
( Category: Cultural Policy March 22,2017 )
Progress by Johan Norberg
epub |eng | 2016-08-08 | Author:Johan Norberg

7 Literacy The mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting. Plutarch1 When Lasse Berg and Stig Karlsson met the poor agricultural worker Bhagant in ...
( Category: General March 22,2017 )
Political Ideals by Bertrand Russell
epub, pdf |eng | 1917-03-21 | Author:Bertrand Russell [Russell, Bertrand]

4 The cure for the evils and dangers which we have been considering is a very great extension of devolution and federal government. Wherever there is a national consciousness, as ...
( Category: Communism & Socialism March 22,2017 )
Anything for a Vote: Dirty Tricks, Cheap Shots, and October Surprises in U.S. Presidential Campaigns by Cummins Joseph
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-01-17 | Author:Cummins, Joseph [Cummins, Joseph]

WILSON’S STOLEN VALISE The only hint of a romantic scandal in this campaign came when Woodrow Wilson’s longtime friendship with a lovely divorcée named Mary Allen Peck was made public ...
( Category: Elections March 22,2017 )

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