Specific Topics in Politics & Government
epub |eng | 2013-01-16 | Author:Evgeny Morozov

Against Technological Defeatism Viewed in the abstract, it may seem that the tides of digital preemption, situational crime prevention, and reputation-based controls are unstoppable and irreversible. Information is everywhere, and ...
( Category: Social Media March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-09-05 | Author:Joel Brenner

WIKILEAKS’S STATEMENT of purpose is high-minded. In its view, “principled leaking” changes history for the better, and “transparency in government activities leads to reduced corruption, better government and stronger democracies.” ...
( Category: Social Aspects March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-03-17 | Author:Clancy, Tom - Net Force 01 [01, Clancy, Tom - Net Force]

"Uh, okay, sure," came out of Tyrone's mouth. Who said that? Are you insane? Death! Dismemberment! Destruction! Aaiiee! screamed the voice of selfpreservation as it tried to dig a hole ...
( Category: Espionage March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Priscilla Murolo [Murolo, Priscilla]

EARLY YEARS OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION Organized labor’s weakness in numbers and militancy helped set the stage for the Great Depression. While the Roaring Twenties saw gigantic increases in industrial ...
( Category: United States March 26,2014 )
epub, pdf, mobi |eng | 2001-03-22 | Author:John J. Mearsheimer [Mearsheimer, John J.]

BISMARCKIAN PRUSSIA (1862–70) Background Prussia did not become a great power until the mid-eighteenth century, but even then it was probably the weakest European great power until the mid-nineteenth century.42 ...
( Category: Diplomacy March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-04-04 | Author:Neil Irwin [Irwin, Neil]

FOURTEEN The King’s Speech The official name of the gathering is “The Lord Mayor’s Banquet for Bankers and Merchants of the City of London.” Everyone knows it, however, simply as ...
( Category: Money & Monetary Policy March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-03-25 | Author:Butler Shaffer [Butler Shaffer]

1Calaprice, ed., The Expanded Quotable Einstein, p. 317. 2Economist.com, October 9, 2008. 3Tim Wise, Red-Baiting and Racism: Socialism as the New Black Bogeyman. August 10, 2009, redroom.com. 4New York Times.com, ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-04-01 | Author:Barbara Garson [Garson, Barbara]

Susana Elsemeer and I are small, wisecracking, middle-aged women with almost the same Brooklyn accents. We were both single parents, and we both spent our prime years managing the family’s ...
( Category: Economic Conditions March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:John Nichols [Nichols, John and McChesney, Robert W.]

ELECTION COVERAGE IN RECENT TIMES If we begin with the idea that the election coverage in the partisan era tended to be rich and engaging because the broader political journalism ...
( Category: Elections March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-05-28 | Author:Michael J. Casey [Casey, Michael J.]

The Circular Relationship “I feel like a weatherman in California. Every day is sunny,” said U.S. government bond strategist William O’Donnell when I visited RBS’s Stamford trading floor on November ...
( Category: Economic Conditions March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2007-03-25 | Author:Collier, Paul

Aid and the Natural Resource Trap The second trap was the natural resource trap. Here, frankly, aid is fairly impotent. Evidently, the resource-rich countries have money coming into the government. ...
( Category: Economic Policy March 26,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-02-01 | Author:Thomas Sowell [Sowell, Thomas]

Statistical Trends One of the problems with comparisons of national output over some span of time is the arbitrary choice of the year to use as the beginning of the ...
( Category: History & Theory March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Rebecca Knuth

The Serbs were interested in destroying items that, simply by existing, confirmed the history of Muslim residency in Bosnia. Typifying Bosnia's Muslims as converted Serbs, and thus traitors against Serbdom, ...
( Category: General March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:William M. Adler

SALT LAKE CITY was bracing for war: an incursion by Kelly’s Army of the Unemployed, a roving band of Wobblies under the command of “General” Charles T. Kelly. In early ...
( Category: Country & Folk March 26,2014 )