Public Affairs & Policy
epub |eng | 2011-05-04 | Author:Tracey Tokuhama-Espinosa

Shared Vocabulary In order for MBE science to continue to grow successfully, several challenges will have to be overcome. Among the most pressing challenges is that of developing a vocabulary ...
( Category: Educational Psychology May 5,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-05-02 | Author:Alfred Kadushin [Kadushin, Alfred]

CONFRONTATION The purpose of a confrontation is to point out discrepancies in the client’s presentation that reflect unrecognized conflicts, defenses, and motives that obstruct desired changes. The definition of the ...
( Category: Disabled May 3,2016 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2016-04-19 | Author:Robert H. Frank [Frank, Robert H.]

6 THE BURDEN OF FALSE BELIEFS If you share my view that material prosperity is a good thing, there is one dimension of personal luck that transcends all others, which ...
( Category: Public Affairs & Policy April 30,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2003-04-29 | Author:Paul Krugman

PRESCRIPTION FOR FAILURE July 26, 2000 In denouncing President Clinton’s plan to extend Medicare coverage to prescription drugs, and in touting their own counterproposal, Republicans have rolled out the usual ...
( Category: Economic Policy April 30,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-02-10 | Author:Kaushik Basu [Basu, Kaushik]

Food Security for the Vulnerable I have not yet addressed the subject of the government’s special responsibility to the poor and vulnerable households, that is, objective (2), mentioned earlier in ...
( Category: Asian April 26,2016 )
epub |eng | 2010-09-21 | Author:Reich, Robert B. [Reich, Robert B.]

3 Why Can’t We Be Content with Less? Historically, America’s cultural obsession to consume has been tempered by the “higher virtues” of thrift and self-sufficiency. “Be industrious and frugal, and ...
( Category: Economic Policy April 21,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-02-15 | Author:Cory Booker

So let us not be petty when our cause is great. Let us not quarrel amongst ourselves when our Nation’s future is at stake. —JOHN F. KENNEDY In the early ...
( Category: Legislative Branch April 20,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:James Rickards [Rickards, James]

The Paper Gold Market vs. the Physical Gold Market There’s another puzzle in this story. Investors assume that prices of goods are driven by the laws of supply and demand. ...
( Category: Economic Policy April 18,2016 )
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 )
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 |eng | 2012-04-11 | Author:Brian Sussman

AMERICANS HELD HOSTAGE Since 1960, we’ve elected federal leaders who have allowed us to be held hostage by a small cabal callous to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism April 12,2016 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2006-02-21 | Author:Bruce Bawer

THE HUGE WOODEN DOOR of the pension opened, and a young man with a Mediterranean appearance—Turkish, I guessed—eyed us steadily. “Deutsch? English?” he asked. “English,” I replied, and after introducing ...
( Category: European April 9,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-04-07 | Author:David C. Korten

MANAGED PERMEABLE BOUNDARIES At each level of organization—from the individual cell to the multicell organism, to the local eco-community, to the bioregion, to the biosphere—the living organism must define and ...
( Category: Cultural Policy April 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2012-03-19 | Author:Michael J Thompson

Now, as individuals differ greatly from each other, in intelligence, sagacity, energy, perseverance, skill, habits of industry and economy, physical power, position and opportunity—the necessary effect of leaving all free ...
( Category: National April 8,2016 )