Social Sciences
epub |eng | | 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 November 11,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-01-13 | Author:Jonathan Franklin

DAY 27: WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1 From a distance the rescue site at the San José copper mine looked like a construction site gone mad. Huge cranes rattled twenty-four hours a ...
( Category: Chile November 11,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-10-18 | Author:Debbie Nathan [Nathan, Debbie]

Flora had her happy ending, exactly when she wanted it. Now she could do the book—and not just a potboiler, but a work of moral and literary heft. Writing about ...
( Category: Mental Illness November 11,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Folktales

THE QUEST FOR THE SPOUSE 16. The Brave Lad TELLER: Allah has spoken, and His word is a blessing! AUDIENCE: Blessings abound, Allah willing! There was once the king of ...
( Category: Folklore & Mythology November 11,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-08-08 | Author:Don Peck [Peck, Don]

7 UNDERCLASS: MEN AND FAMILY IN A JOBLESS AGE IN HIS 1996 BOOK, WHEN WORK DISAPPEARS, THE HARVARD SOCIOLOGIST William Julius Wilson connected the loss of jobs from inner cities ...
( Category: Demography November 11,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Frederick Douglass

Kbb CHAPTER XVIII. NEW RELATIONS AND DUTIES CHANGE OF MASTERS—BENEFITS DERIVED BY THE CHANGE—FAME OF THE FIGHT WITH COVEY—RECKLESS UNCONCERN—AUTHOR’S ABHORRENCE OF SLAVERY—ABILITY TO READ A CAUSE OF PREJUDICE—THE HOLIDAYS—How ...
( Category: African-American Studies November 11,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1995-11-10 | Author:Geraldine Brooks [Brooks, Geraldine]

Later that year the king’s democratic initiative bore fruit in an election that left Islamic hard-liners dominating the Parliament. Just before the election, a delegation of liberal-minded Jordanians had come ...
( Category: Cultural November 11,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Ayaan Hirsi Ali [Ali, Ayaan Hirsi]

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 November 11,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-09-08 | Author:Bella DePaulo

Jungian Psychology According to Jung, a major component of the human psyche belongs to the collective unconscious—a storehouse of primordial knowledge, experiences, and images that are shared by all members ...
( Category: History & Criticism November 11,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-03-17 | Author:Dan Gardner [Gardner, Dan]

THE CONFIDENCE GAME In much the same way, a strong, enthusiastic, confident speaking style has a power that transcends mere rationality—a power the psychologist Stephen Ceci demonstrated in an ingenious ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology November 11,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-11-10 | Author:Anna David

10 JOINING THE REAL WORLD Anna David YOU’D THINK THAT, more than twenty seasons in, I might get a little bored. You’d imagine that, after all this time, hearing about ...
( Category: Popular Culture November 11,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Jonathan Kay

The Damaged Survivor On April 2, 2008, World Autism Awareness Day, Larry King devoted his nightly CNN program to “Jenny McCarthy’s Autism Fight.” Anyone who’d followed the debate over the ...
( Category: Communication & Media Studies November 11,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-11-10 | Author:Frans de Waal [Waal, Frans de]

Pointing Primates Nikkie, a chimpanzee, once showed me how to manipulate attention. He had gotten used to my throwing wild berries across the moat at the zoo where I worked. ...
( Category: Mammals November 11,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2010-06-14 | Author:Gary L. Hardcastle

Each little snake that poisons, Each little wasp that stings. He made their brutish venom, He made their horrid wings. All things sick and cancerous, All evil great and small, ...
( Category: Popular Culture November 11,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-04-27 | Author:Jesse Ventura

Veterans who become ill or disabled due to military service are eligible to receive priority access to medical care at VA medical facilities and to receive monthly compensation checks. In ...
( Category: General November 11,2014 )