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The Map and the Territory by Alan Greenspan
epub |eng | 2013-09-20 | Author:Alan Greenspan

THE TURNING POINT The correlation between growing economic activity and growing weight of real GDP apparently peaked in the late 1970s. In recent years, the conceptual contribution to economic activity ...
( Category: Economic Policy March 25,2014 )
Life for Me Ain't Been No Crystal Stair by Susan Sheehan
epub |eng | 2013-08-20 | Author:Susan Sheehan [Sheehan, Susan]

Crystal’s social workers had known for years about her involvement with drug dealers, and had taken note of the expensive gifts they gave her. She had more gold jewelry than ...
( Category: Poverty March 25,2014 )
Countdown: Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth? by Alan Weisman
epub |eng | 2013-09-23 | Author:Alan Weisman [WEISMAN, ALAN]

In the village of Ahmed Khan Zour, fifty kilometers farther north, a HANDS theater troupe is giving its 640th performance. More than one hundred women in bright salwar kameez and ...
( Category: Environmental Policy March 25,2014 )
Ten Billion by Stephen Emmott
epub |eng | 2013-09-09 | Author:Stephen Emmott [Emmott, Stephen]

The global carbon cycle is absolutely critical to the ability of us, and almost every other species on Earth, to survive on this planet. We are now radically changing every ...
( Category: Environmental Policy March 25,2014 )
Counselling Skills For Dummies by Gail Evans
epub, pdf |eng | 2013-07-18 | Author:Gail Evans

Chapter 10 Stage Two: Deepening Understanding In This Chapter Getting a deeper understanding Achieving deeper empathy Using more challenging skills After you’ve established a relationship with the help-seeker and enabled ...
( Category: Public Affairs & Policy March 25,2014 )
Who Stole the American Dream? by Hedrick Smith
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-09-11 | Author:Hedrick Smith [Smith, Hedrick]

“Sometimes People Don’t Realize They Are Training Their Own Replacement” Inside IBM, longtime employees watched for clues. Tom Midgley, a $75,000-a-year IT systems administrator at the large IBM operation in ...
( Category: History & Theory March 25,2014 )
The Complex: How the Military Invades Our Everyday Lives by Nick Turse
mobi |eng | 2008-03-18 | Author:Nick Turse

The army Chevrolet and navy Dodge at the 2005 USG Sheetrock 400 NASCAR race. Photo Courtesy of the U.S. Army. Tasked with generating “qualified leads of potential Latino recruits nationwide,” ...
( Category: Cultural Policy March 24,2014 )
Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass by Theodore Dalrymple
epub |eng | 2003-03-07 | Author:Theodore Dalrymple [Dalrymple, Theodore]

1997 CHOOSING TO FAIL THE CHILDREN OF IMMIGRANTS from the Indian subcontinent make up a quarter of all British medical students, twelve times their proportion in the general population. They ...
( Category: Social Policy March 24,2014 )
Energy Myths and Realities by Vaclav Smil
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | | Author:Vaclav Smil [SMIL, VACLAV]

6 Liquid Fuels from Plants There is nothing new about liquid biofuels for transportation.1 Henry Ford, for example, was a great promoter of ethanol, and his famous Model T could ...
( Category: Environmental Policy March 24,2014 )
The Two-Income Trap by Elizabeth Warren; Amelia Warren Tyagi
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-05-26 | Author:Elizabeth Warren; Amelia Warren Tyagi

And so it was that family spending was transformed in a single generation. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, consumer lending was deregulated, launching a complicated, potentially dangerous product ...
( Category: Public Affairs & Policy March 24,2014 )

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