Specific Topics
epub |eng | 2003-03-22 | Author:Joseph E. Stiglitz

CHAPTER 7 Tax Cuts FEEDING THE FRENZY THE BUBBLE MADE MILLIONS of Americans rich beyond their wildest dreams. But that did not necessarily invigorate them with a sense of public ...
( Category: Economic Policy March 23,2016 )
mobi |eng | 2009-02-19 | Author:Fallows, James [Fallows, James]

THE PRELUDE: LATE 2001 Success in war requires an understanding of who the enemy is, what resources can be used against him, and how victory will be defined. In the ...
( Category: Specific Topics March 21,2016 )
epub |eng | 1999-01-02 | Author:James Clemens [Clemens, James]

extracted two parchment-wrapped packages. She called Elena to her side. “Crush these leaves and berries,” she said, tossing her two tiny packages. Er’ril realized he would get no further information ...
( Category: Specific Topics March 19,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-01-16 | Author:Castells, Manuel [Castells, Manuel]

The State and Media Politics: Propaganda and Control The state remains a critical actor in defining power relationships through communication networks. While we have analyzed the complexity of the interaction ...
epub, azw3 |eng | 2008-03-31 | Author:John Robb [Robb, John]

Cascades of Failure There are two ways to disrupt networks. The obvious way is to pick a high-value facility and damage it. Despite the media’s obsession with the supposed vulnerability ...
( Category: Specific Topics March 18,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-04-20 | Author:Melanie Phillips [Phillips, Melanie]

7 THE RED-BLACK ALLIANCE When the Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced in October 2005 that he intended to ‘wipe Israel off the map,’ Britain, along with the rest of the ...
( Category: Specific Topics March 16,2016 )
epub |eng | 1940-12-31 | Author:Emily Hahn

CHAPTER XVII Eling Gets a Taste of Public Life In may 1931 the group of dissatisfied leaders in Canton interrupted the people’s convention that was being held at Nanking with ...
( Category: China March 14,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-01-04 | Author:Chris Grabenstein

“We’re still tied for first place,” Kyle reminded Sierra. Sierra lowered her eyes. “But I let you guys down.” “Not really,” said Akimi. “Did you see any of us winning ...
( Category: Books & Libraries March 14,2016 )
epub |eng | 2011-08-29 | Author:Reza Aslan [Aslan, Reza]

The debate between the Rationalist and the Traditionalist Ulama continued for a few hundred years, with each school alternating in influence, until the end of the thirteenth century, when, partly ...
( Category: Islam March 14,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Sarah Leonard & Bhaskar Sunkara

FINDING THE FUTURE OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE In March 2015, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, a division of the New York Public Library, convened a panel discussion, “American ...
( Category: Radicalism March 12,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-03-08 | Author:Penn Rhodeen

Keep in mind, the world was focused on Bosnia and I had tried to get the allies early in ‘93 to agree to have NATO take action there. Warren Christopher ...
( Category: European March 9,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-04-05 | Author:Philip Mudd [Mudd, Philip]

____________ * Philip Tetlock, Expert Political Judgment (pub info TK), 20–21. † “Intelligence Estimates on Iran, in Senior Review Panel Report on Intelligence Judgments Preceding Significant Historical Failures: The Hazards ...
( Category: Decision Making March 9,2016 )
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2015-09-20 | Author:Jeannie Morris [Morris, Jeannie]

As sister African American feminists, Carol Moseley Braun and Donna Marie Jackson were really hitting it off, and Carol was completely warmed up by the time we got to our ...
( Category: Women in History March 9,2016 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2010-08-04 | Author:Walter A. Rosenbaum [Rosenbaum, Walter A.]

Table 6-1 Changes in Air Quality, 1980–2008 Source: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Air Quality Trends, available at: http://www.epa.gov/airtrends/aqtrends.html (accessed January 25, 2010). Notes: “—” indicates trend data not available. PM ...
( Category: Environmental Policy March 9,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-02-23 | Author:Michael V. Hayden [Hayden, Michael V.]

THIRTEEN GOING HOME PITTSBURGH, PA, 1945–2014 In the 1997 hit film Grosse Pointe Blank, John Cusack plays an assassin back in town for his high school’s ten-year reunion. Searching for ...
( Category: United States March 8,2016 )