Social Sciences
epub |eng | 2014-10-22 | Author:Yash Tandon

The Myth of IP as Essential for Innovation and Development So I am not taken in by the myth created by Western hegemonic ideologues about the necessity of ‘intellectual property’ ...
( Category: Trades & Tariffs April 16,2016 )
epub |eng | 2012-04-14 | Author:Peter Moruzzi

It all began with Don the Beachcomber. Not with his original Hollywood haunt, but rather the first Beachcomber franchise, which Don’s wife Sunny Sund opened in Chicago in the 1940s ...
( Category: United States April 15,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-03-01 | Author:Matthew Desmond [Desmond, Matthew]

20. Nobody Wants the North Side The Lodge sat on the corner of Seventh and Vine Streets, near downtown. On most days, residents gathered near the entrance, talking, smoking, and ...
( Category: Minority Studies April 14,2016 )
mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 2015-03-17 | Author:Geoff Manaugh

Panic Room A little more than an hour’s drive south of Manhattan, amid a rolling landscape of state parks and golf courses in the woods of coastal New Jersey, Vietnam ...
( Category: Monographs April 14,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-11-03 | Author:Tara Sue Me [Me, Tara Sue]

Chapter Eleven NATHANIEL Abby didn’t speak much on the drive back to Wilmington. Normally after a scene, she grew tired and would sleep, but apparently that was not the case ...
( Category: Sports April 14,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-03-10 | Author:David Shambaugh [Shambaugh, David]

Pathways to China’s Social Future All of these public goods—healthcare, pensions, education, environment, and energy—are going to be increasingly important to China’s future over the next ten to twenty years ...
( Category: Asian April 14,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-02-28 | Author:Nicholas Mirzoeff

DIVIDED CITIES During the Cold War, certain cities became separated and divided in ways that could not be ignored. If Paris was the paradigm of nineteenth-century imperial cities, Berlin was ...
( Category: History April 14,2016 )
epub |eng | 2012-04-13 | Author:Lean'tin Bracks

James Van Der Zee (1886–1983) Photographer James Van Der Zee was born on June 29, 1886, in Lenox, Massachusetts. His parents had moved there from New York in the early ...
( Category: Social Sciences April 14,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Chow, Gregory C.; Perkins, Dwight H.;

4 The effect of property rights reform on performance Changes in incentives due to the HRS reforms unleashed increases in both agricultural production and productivity. In one of the first ...
( Category: Ethnic Studies April 14,2016 )
mobi |eng | 2016-04-05 | Author:Kathryn Harrison

My job, this winter morning in Los Angeles, is to remove the tinsel that issues from the tiny, pink, puckered assholes of six white kittens that appear completely untroubled by ...
( Category: Essays April 13,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-04-04 | Author:Kathryn Harrison

Baby New Year “I’m lost,” my grandmother tells me. She’s calling me at work, where, in New York, it’s about four in the afternoon. She’s in Los Angeles, three hours ...
( Category: Essays April 13,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-03-31 | Author:Goodhart, David

Multiculturalism, What’s the Big Idea? Academic multiculturalism faces two big intellectual challenges. First, how can its stress on group rights and the primacy of ethnic identities be reconciled with the ...
( Category: European April 13,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Paul Starr [Starr, Paul]

The Depression, Welfare Medicine, and the Doctors Increased state and federal financing of medical services for the poor originated inadvertently and inconspicuously during the Depression. It was a hidden consequence ...
( Category: Health Care Delivery April 12,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-09-14 | Author:William J. Kubiak

A Friendly Offering from an Ottawa Visitor An Ottawa Finding a Medicine Arrow A small segment of the tribe that refused to submit to the authority of the United States ...
( Category: Native American Studies April 12,2016 )
azw3 |eng | 2015-09-20 | Author:Wise, Tim [Wise, Tim]

In short, the rich didn’t build their fortunes: the labor of others who were underpaid for their trouble did. Capitalists, it turns out, may be the most dependent people on ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism April 12,2016 )