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China's Trapped Transition: The Limits of Developmental Autocracy by Minxin Pei
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2006-03-14 | Author:Minxin Pei

Crime and Punishment The breakdown of the monitoring system is accompanied by an increasingly dysfunctional system of punishing corrupt officials—despite the frequent use of the death penalty against high-profile offenders. ...
( Category: Asian March 25,2014 )
Were You Born on the Wrong Continent? by Thomas Geoghegan
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-09-20 | Author:Thomas Geoghegan

5 Clash of Civilizations Meanwhile, America had become dark. There was the nightmare of Bush v. Gore. We did not seem like a democracy. We had big tax cuts for ...
( Category: Economic Policy March 25,2014 )
Pity the Billionaire by Thomas Frank
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-01-05 | Author:Thomas Frank

CHAPTER 8 Say, Don’t You Remember “Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?” was the so-called anthem of the Depression, a transcendent expression—if such a thing is possible—of the hopeless disillusionment ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism March 25,2014 )
After America by Mark Steyn
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-07-27 | Author:Mark Steyn

THERE GOES THE NEIGHBORHOOD The ruling class divides its subjects into Representation and Taxation categories. Favored groups are those that will expand the dependent class and, therefore, the dependent-administration class. ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism March 25,2014 )
A Capitalism for the People: Recapturing the Lost Genius of American Prosperity by Luigi Zingales
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-06-05 | Author:Luigi Zingales

THE WRONG FIXES One natural political response to this state of affairs is protectionism. Given the economic fundamentals, there has been surprisingly little pressure for that so far. One possible ...
( Category: Economic Policy March 25,2014 )
Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 1900-12-01 | Author:Thomas Sowell

Risk and Time To take an extreme example of how risk can vary over time, while a dollar invested in bonds in 1801 would be worth nearly a thousand dollars ...
( Category: History & Theory March 25,2014 )
No Logo by Naomi Klein
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2009-11-24 | Author:Naomi Klein

During the late 1990s, the process of turning the service sector into a low-wage ghetto advanced rapidly in Germany. The German unemployment rate reached 12.6 percent in 1998, primarily because ...
( Category: Radicalism March 25,2014 )
American Lightning by Howard Blum
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2008-09-16 | Author:Howard Blum

In the days that followed, McManigal and McNamara remained hidden away while Billy waited with increasing impatience for the extradition writs from Los Angeles. He tried to convince himself that ...
( Category: Anarchism March 25,2014 )
Living My Life by Emma Goldman
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-12-30 | Author:Emma Goldman

CHAPTER XXXVII May 18, the day of Sasha’s resurrection, remained graven on my heart, although my yearly tours had always prevented my being with him on the anniversary of his ...
( Category: Radicalism March 25,2014 )
Don't Start the Revolution Without Me! by Jesse Ventura; Dick Russell
mobi |eng | 2008-01-02 | Author:Jesse Ventura; Dick Russell

We stay at a campground facing the bay called Rancho Grande, and are on our way again by 8:00 a.m. The next stretch of road, while still unpaved and bumpy, ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism March 25,2014 )
Even Silence Has an End: My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle by Ingrid Betancourt
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2010-10-15 | Author:Ingrid Betancourt

THIRTY-EIGHT BACK IN THE PRISON MARCH 24, 2004 Everything happened very quickly. On leaving the chicken run, I noticed Shirley as I went by: She wanted to reassure me, to ...
( Category: Communism & Socialism March 25,2014 )
In My Time by Dick Cheney; Liz Cheney
mobi |eng | 2011-08-01 | Author:Dick Cheney; Liz Cheney

Liz and Mary on election night 2000 reacting to the news that the networks had called the election for George W. Bush and me. It was a premature – but ...
( Category: Political March 25,2014 )
Being George Washington by Beck Glenn
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2011-11-21 | Author:Beck, Glenn [Beck, Glenn]

October 20, 1781 Yorktown General Cornwallis knew that this would be one of the most painful days of his esteemed life. Surrendering to the enemy was simply unimaginable. He would ...
( Category: History & Theory March 25,2014 )
The Revolution by Ron Paul
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2009-09-24 | Author:Ron Paul

“I’m for protecting the health and well-being of both workers and consumers,” McGovern went on. “I’m for a clean environment and economic justice. But I’m convinced we can pursue those ...
( Category: Political March 25,2014 )
The Downing Street Years by Margaret Thatcher
mobi, epub |eng | 1993-01-10 | Author:Margaret Thatcher

SDI President Reagan’s Strategic Defence Initiative, about which the Soviets and Mr Gorbachev were already so alarmed, was to prove central to the West’s victory in the Cold War. Although, ...
( Category: Leadership March 25,2014 )

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