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United States v. Windsor (Slip Opinion) by United States Supreme Court
epub |eng | 2013-06-27 | Author:United States Supreme Court

( Category: Public Affairs & Policy March 26,2014 )
When Brute Force Fails by Kleiman Mark A. R
epub |eng | 2009-03-25 | Author:Kleiman, Mark A. R. [Kleiman, Mark A. R.]

SKETCH OF A COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS How do the three main categories of criminal-justice expenditure—on policing, on incarceration, and on community corrections—stack up against one another as ways of spending public ...
( Category: Criminal Procedure March 26,2014 )
Rise of the Warrior Cop by Radley Balko
epub |eng | | Author:Radley Balko [Balko, Radley]

THE ELECTION OF BILL CLINTON IN 1992 GAVE HOPE TO some in the drug reform community that an admitted pot smoker who had some ties to the counterculture during his ...
( Category: Criminology March 26,2014 )
Arabian Sands by Wilfred Thesiger
epub, pdf |eng | 2007-03-25 | Author:Wilfred Thesiger

9. From Salala to Mukalla A leisurely journey with the Rashid to Mukalla completes my survey of this part of Arabia. I stayed at Salala for a week. I was ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers March 26,2014 )
The Good Nurse by Charles Graeber
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Charles Graeber [Graeber, Charles]

Mambo was fastidious and professional. He wasted little movement as he changed gloves and moved back to the recorder, describing the body as he found it: The exhumed and embalmed ...
( Category: Medical March 26,2014 )
Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | | Author:Thomas Piketty [Piketty, Thomas]

Some Partial Explanations: Time, Taxes, and Growth In the end, then, it is hardly surprising that the concentration of wealth decreased sharply everywhere between 1910 and 1950. In other words, ...
( Category: Economic Policy March 26,2014 )
Rock On! by Sinclair John
epub |nld | | Author:Sinclair, John

'Watte?" Als dit een macabere grap was dan was het wel een heel slecht moment. Na alles wat we vannacht doorgemaakt hadden was ik niet in de stemming voor grapjes. ...
( Category: Rock March 26,2014 )
The Smartest Guys in the Room by Bethany McLean
epub |eng | 2013-11-25 | Author:Bethany McLean

CHAPTER 15 Everybody Loves Enron At practically every employee meeting in the late 1990s, Ken Lay would trot out what he once described as “one of my most favorite slides.” ...
( Category: Business March 26,2014 )
The Undercover Economist Strikes Back by Tim Harford
epub |eng | 2014-01-15 | Author:Tim Harford

Hmm. Maybe Ford was trying to get a reputation as a philanthropist? It’s another plausible-sounding theory. He was a rich man, after all, and his five-dollar working day made him ...
( Category: Economic Conditions March 26,2014 )
Gross Domestic Problem by Lorenzo Fioramonti
epub |eng | 2013-03-25 | Author:Lorenzo Fioramonti

CHAPTER 4 Change from below I don’t believe that the solutions in society will come from the left or the right or the north or the south. … This is ...
( Category: Statistics March 26,2014 )
From Foreclosure to Fair Lending by Chester Hartman
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Chester Hartman [Hartman, Chester; Squires, Gregory D.]

A New Political Bloc to Advance Our Long-Term Agenda One of the verities community organizers inherited from the 1970s was, with a few exceptions, an aversion to electoral politics. The ...
( Category: Economics March 26,2014 )
Planet Ponzi by Mitch Feierstein
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-10-11 | Author:Mitch Feierstein [Feierstein, Mitch]

Figure 13.3: The price of gold, 2000–2011 Source: ThomsonReuters. We’re just about done on equity markets. The simple truth, once again, is that the assets promised by a Ponzi scheme ...
( Category: Specific Topics March 26,2014 )
The Crash of 2016 by Thom Hartmann
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-09-30 | Author:Thom Hartmann [HARTMANN, THOM]

1) Please use the term “government-run health insurance” or, when brevity is a concern, “government option,” whenever possible. 2) When it is necessary to use the term “public option” (which ...
( Category: Politics & Government March 26,2014 )
Age of Revolution 1789-1848 by Eric Hobsbawm
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-11-25 | Author:Eric Hobsbawm [Hobsbawm, Eric]

III However, the economic development of this period contains one gigantic paradox: France. On paper no country should have advanced more rapidly. It possessed, as we have seen, institutions ideally ...
( Category: Europe March 26,2014 )
Marx by Singer Peter
epub |eng | 2010-12-06 | Author:Singer, Peter [Singer, Peter]

The references to “mankind’s destiny” and to England as “the unconscious tool of history” imply that history moves in a purposive way toward some goal. (The whole paragraph is reminiscent ...
( Category: Russian & Former Soviet Union March 26,2014 )

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