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Economics Without Illusions: Debunking the Myths of Modern Capitalism by Joseph Heath
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-01-02 | Author:Joseph Heath

Even when we can all agree about what the right outcome is, we often find it simply too heart-wrenching or difficult to carry out the actions necessary to bring that ...
( Category: Economic Conditions March 25,2014 )
The Great Derangement by Matt Taibbi
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-01-02 | Author:Matt Taibbi

1 Now a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a garland of twelve stars… 5 ...
( Category: Iraq March 25,2014 )
Dear White America: Letter to a New Minority by Tim Wise
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-01-01 | Author:Tim Wise

Nothing, of course, serves to inflate uncritical nationalistic hubris like nostalgia, nor does anything else so perfectly play to white fears concerning a changing nation, and it is this commodity, ...
( Category: Ethnic Studies March 25,2014 )
Beyond Bin Laden by Jon Meacham
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-05-09 | Author:Jon Meacham

Pakistan’s Future(s) Contrary to the dire predictions of some American analysts, Pakistan’s internal cleavages do not mean that the country faces the prospect of imminent collapse. But Pakistanis are in ...
( Category: Specific Topics March 25,2014 )
The Caged Virgin: An Emancipation Proclamation for Women and Islam by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2004-01-02 | Author:Ayaan Hirsi Ali

6. Thou shalt not kill. There are a few religious fanatics around who will want to kill me because I have become an atheist, and because—by killing me—they will secure ...
( Category: Political Advocacy March 25,2014 )
Beyond Glory: Joe Louis Vs. Max Schmeling, and a World on the Brink by David Margolick
mobi |eng | 2006-10-10 | Author:David Margolick

* Schmeling had originally planned to travel to America via the Hindenburg, arriving on May 7. But at Joe Jacobs’s insistence—Jacobs wanted him in New York when the boxing commission ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism March 25,2014 )
The Wit and Wisdom of Ted Kennedy by Bill Adler; Bill Adler Jr
mobi |eng | 2011-05-15 | Author:Bill Adler; Bill Adler Jr.

Our nation’s greatest resource is its children. We must do all we can to ensure that they reach their full potential. Improving school readiness is an essential first step. —Introduction ...
( Category: Politics & Government March 25,2014 )
In Defense of Flogging by Peter Moskos
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-05-01 | Author:Peter Moskos

If prisons are broken, then so, too, is prison reform. With the exception of a few Supreme Court decisions in their favor, prison reformers have an awfully bad track record ...
( Category: Social Policy March 25,2014 )
Storms of My Grandchildren by Hansen James
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Hansen, James [Hansen, James]

IN 2007, THE ENVIRONMENTALIST AND writer Bill McKibben began bugging me, very politely, to either confirm 450 parts per million as the appropriate target level of carbon dioxide in the ...
( Category: Environmental Policy March 25,2014 )
Storms of My Grandchildren: The Truth About the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Save Humanity by James Hansen
mobi |eng | 2011-01-04 | Author:James Hansen

I am not sure that it is fair to say that it is a problem we must wrestle with. To assume that it is a problem is to assume that ...
( Category: Environmental Policy March 25,2014 )
Love Your Monsters: Postenvironmentalism and the Anthropocene by Michael Shellenberger; Ted Nordhaus
mobi |eng | 2011-11-27 | Author:Michael Shellenberger; Ted Nordhaus

THE RISE AND FALL OF ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS A Cautionary Tale Mark Sagoff In September of 1982, a group of scholars met in Stockholm intending to reform — even to revolutionize ...
( Category: Environmental Policy March 25,2014 )
Green Gone Wrong by Rogers Heather
mobi, epub |eng | | Author:Rogers, Heather [Rogers, Heather]

CHAPTER SIX The Price of Air: Carbon Offsets Gudibanda is a string of dusty villages about sixty kilometers north of Bangalore in the southern state of Karnataka, India. The landscape ...
( Category: Environmental Policy March 25,2014 )
Climate Code Red: The Case for Emergency Action by Spratt David & Sutton Philip
mobi |eng | | Author:Spratt, David & Sutton, Philip [Spratt, David]

CHAPTER 17 When ‘Reasonable’ Is Not Enough In November 2007, UN secretary-general Ban Ki-Moon told the world that global warming is an emergency, and ‘for emergency situations we need emergency ...
( Category: Environmental Policy March 25,2014 )
Blue Revolution: Unmaking America's Water Crisis by Cynthia Barnett
mobi, epub |ru | 2011-09-20 | Author:Cynthia Barnett

After the philosophers, the academics, and the Christians, there was still one crucial authority I had yet to mine for ethical truths about water. And that was YouTube. One Saturday ...
( Category: Environmental Policy March 25,2014 )
Let Them In: The Case for Open Borders by Jason L. Riley
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-06-03 | Author:Jason L. Riley

AMERICA’S HARDEST WORKERS The journalist Tamar Jacoby once wrote that “most foreigners, whether they arrive legally or illegally, come to the United States to work. Most do not come in ...
( Category: Cultural Policy March 25,2014 )

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