Social Sciences
epub |eng | 2012-06-19 | Author:P. D. Smith [Smith, P. D.]
When skyscrapers rise, do markets fall? The Skyscraper Index was proposed in 1999 by property analyst Andrew Lawrence, who argued that skyscrapers embody the ‘irrational exuberance’ of financial markets. According ...
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Urban
March 27,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:David Batstone
TRAFFICKING ORPHANS Orphanages have become one of the few (legal) growth industries in eastern Europe over the past two decades. The collapse of the family led to massive numbers of ...
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Discrimination & Racism
March 27,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2012-12-31 | Author:Colin Flaherty
It even has its own Wikipedia page: There were reports of widespread brawling, vandalism, and weapons being brandished. Damage to local businesses exceeded $100,000. Much of the violence was perpetrated ...
( Category:
African-American Studies
March 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2004-12-31 | Author:Theodore Dalrymple [Dalrymple, Theodore]
‘Consider your own lives,’ said Mustapha Mond. ‘Has any of you ever encountered an insurmountable obstacle?’ The question was answered by a negative silence. ‘Has any of you been compelled ...
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Social Policy
March 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-03-31 | Author:James Hoggan, Richard Littlemore
[ eleven ] SLAPP SCIENCE Using courts and cash to silence critics of climate confusion A Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation (SL APP) is a lawsuit intended to intimidate and ...
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Environmental Policy
March 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-04-23 | Author:Alan Ehrenhalt [Ehrenhalt, Alan]
CHAPTER SIX UNEASY COEXISTENCE TWO NOTABLE EVENTS TOOK PLACE in Philadelphia in late February 2009. They had nothing to do with each other, but taken together, they suggest why Philadelphia ...
( Category:
Public Affairs & Administration
March 27,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2010-03-26 | Author:Albert Jay Nock [Nock, Albert Jay]
III The charter of the American revolution was the Declaration of Independence, which took its stand on the double theses of “unalienable” natural rights and popular sovereignty. We have seen ...
( Category:
History & Theory
March 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2009-03-22 | Author:Joshua Cooper Ramo [RAMO, JOSHUA COOPER]
* * * In the old days, many problems in international affairs seemed as if they could be understood from the outside in. If you knew, say, how many tanks ...
( Category:
History & Theory
March 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-01-24 | Author:George Friedman [Friedman, George]
CHAPTER 8 THE RETURN OF RUSSIA The collapse of the Soviet Union appeared to signal Russia’s demise as an international player, but news of that death was premature. A nation ...
( Category:
International & World Politics
March 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-03-25 | Author:Magnus Linton [Linton, Magnus]
THE WAR ON DRUGS from Nixon to Obama ‘Everyone here is a whore to statistics. We’re fighting over criminals.’ — GUSTAVO GUEVARA, GOVERNMENT PROSECUTOR HEAVILY ARMED HELICOPTERS carrying 30 soldiers ...
( Category:
Criminology
March 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2001-01-01 | Author:Jon Ronson [Ronson, Jon]
∨ Them ∧ 7 The Klansman Who Won’t Use the N-Word Somewhere in the middle of the Ozark Mountains, northern Arkansas, is an unusual white building. It stands surrounded only ...
( Category:
Fascism
March 27,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2012-09-24 | Author:Ann Coulter [Coulter, Ann]
During the same time period, blacks were raping whites at a clip of several thousand per year—and raping black women at a rate of many multiple thousand per year, according ...
( Category:
Conservatism & Liberalism
March 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-07-12 | Author:Laura Ingraham & Raymond Arroyo [Ingraham, Laura & Arroyo, Raymond]
Last year I attended a neighborhood child’s final soccer game of the season. The little boy played his heart out and scored three goals during the game. The boy clearly ...
( Category:
Conservatism & Liberalism
March 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-08-19 | Author:Dante Chinni [Chinni, Dante]
PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATISM Tractor Country can be thought of as the broad empty space in the middle of the United States. It comprises 311 counties, in a vast expanse of terrain ...
( Category:
Human Geography
March 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-10-18 | Author:Nicholas Eberstadt [Eberstadt, Nicholas]
PART II Dissenting Points of View Have We Become a “Nation of Takers”? William A. Galston NICHOLAS EBERSTADT assembles a host of empirical trends to prove a moral conclusion: the ...
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Specific Topics
March 27,2014 )
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