Author : Michael Zezima
Publisher : Soft Skull Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,7 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Virulently questions the ultra-patriotic assumptions we have been taught since birth about the reasons behind the second World War, and the underlying assumptions which have underpinned involvement of the US and other countries.
Author : Jesse Kornbluth
Publisher :
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 40,14 MB
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 9781557043849
America Online invited viewers of Saving Private Ryan to post their responses to the film on a web site, and this is a selection of 100 of the 25,000 messages which resulted.
Author : Susan K. Sell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 12,54 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521525398
Analysis of the power of multinational corporations in moulding international law on intellectual property rights.
Author : Michael Kalthoff
Publisher : Tate Publishing
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 33,3 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1625104006
The U.S. healthcare system will financially collapse in three to five years if we stay on our current path. Millions will lose their health insurance, thousands of doctors will leave medicine, wait times for medical care will dramatically increase, and quality of care will plummet. Saving Private Healthcare calls out the many problems in healthcare, including the new Obamacare law, then offers a pure, open-market, commonsense, and complete re-design of all sectors of our healthcare system with a sweeping new approach called The Saving Private Healthcare Initiative. "The Initiative" is both a powerful and easy-to-understand plan combined with a large organization of both private citizens and healthcare experts who will bring down healthcare costs by two-thirds or $2 trillion per year by 2022. We must have a complete solution to our healthcare crisis, a well-constructed implementation plan, as well as an open-market, energized movement to actually make it happen.Welcome to Saving Private Healthcare. "If there was ever a book for today, this is it. As well-intentioned lead-ers wrestle self-interest groups over health reform, this book offers commonsense direction and comprehensive guidelines on how we as a nation can dramatically lower healthcare costs without reducing everyone's access to high quality healthcare." - Ilene Little, CEO, Traveling4Health.com "This is the kind of out-of-the-box, innovative thinking that we need to restore affordability to our healthcare system using open-market, non-governmental solutions." - Dr. Alieta Eck, president, Association of American Physicians and Surgeons"
Author : Vaclav Smil
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 24,92 MB
Release : 2018-11-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 0262536161
A comprehensive account of how energy has shaped society throughout history, from pre-agricultural foraging societies through today's fossil fuel–driven civilization. "I wait for new Smil books the way some people wait for the next 'Star Wars' movie. In his latest book, Energy and Civilization: A History, he goes deep and broad to explain how innovations in humans' ability to turn energy into heat, light, and motion have been a driving force behind our cultural and economic progress over the past 10,000 years. —Bill Gates, Gates Notes, Best Books of the Year Energy is the only universal currency; it is necessary for getting anything done. The conversion of energy on Earth ranges from terra-forming forces of plate tectonics to cumulative erosive effects of raindrops. Life on Earth depends on the photosynthetic conversion of solar energy into plant biomass. Humans have come to rely on many more energy flows—ranging from fossil fuels to photovoltaic generation of electricity—for their civilized existence. In this monumental history, Vaclav Smil provides a comprehensive account of how energy has shaped society, from pre-agricultural foraging societies through today's fossil fuel–driven civilization. Humans are the only species that can systematically harness energies outside their bodies, using the power of their intellect and an enormous variety of artifacts—from the simplest tools to internal combustion engines and nuclear reactors. The epochal transition to fossil fuels affected everything: agriculture, industry, transportation, weapons, communication, economics, urbanization, quality of life, politics, and the environment. Smil describes humanity's energy eras in panoramic and interdisciplinary fashion, offering readers a magisterial overview. This book is an extensively updated and expanded version of Smil's Energy in World History (1994). Smil has incorporated an enormous amount of new material, reflecting the dramatic developments in energy studies over the last two decades and his own research over that time.
Author : A. Claire Cutler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 19,45 MB
Release : 2003-08-14
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780521533973
Transnational merchant law, which is mistakenly regarded in purely technical and apolitical terms, is a central mediator of domestic and global political/legal orders. By engaging with literature in international law, international relations and international political economy, the author develops the conceptual and theoretical foundations for analyzing the political significance of international economic law. In doing so, she illustrates the private nature of the interests that this evolving legal order has served over time. The book makes a sustained and comprehensive analysis of transnational merchant law and offers a radical critique of global capitalism.
Author : David McGowan
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 13,5 MB
Release : 2001-06-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781475906899
By offering a radical review of the last one hundred years of US history, this work is intended as a counterpoint to the rampant revisionism of the flurry of books glorifying the "American Century". Beginning with the rather bold and decidedly controversial assertion that the current political system in place in the United States at the dawn of the twenty-first century is fascism, the first part of this book attempts to justify that claim by first defining exactly what fascism iscorrecting various widely-held misconceptionsand then analyzing how closely we as a nation conform to that definition. Also included is a review of some of the hidden history and key events of World War II. Part II offers a retrospective of the twentieth century American presidential administrations, to demonstrate that the steady and inexorable march towards overt fascism was a defining characteristic that remained unchanged. The final section looks at the still very much alive eugenics movement, and analyzes the role played by the psychiatric establishment in validating the fascist state. This book will surely find no shortage of detractors, but if read with an open mind, it just may change the way you view the world.
Author : International Monetary Fund
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 67 pages
File Size : 40,54 MB
Release : 2012-02-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1463939086
This 2011 Article IV Consultation reports that Cambodia’s high degree of dollarization and largely reduced fiscal space constrain the authorities’ ability to cushion shocks. Macroeconomic stability hinges on prudent fiscal policies. The mission cautioned that fiscal space is limited and that greater consolidation efforts are needed to strengthen revenue administration and prioritize spending. The outlook for external debt sustainability has improved on Cambodia’s prudent track record, but potentially large contingent liabilities from public–private power sector projects need to be carefully managed.
Author : International Monetary Fund. Asia and Pacific Dept
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 69 pages
File Size : 41,28 MB
Release : 2013-01-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 147552529X
Despite the global slowdown, Cambodia’s economy has been holding up, driven by resilient exports and tourism and a strong real estate recovery. Fiscal policy has remained anchored in rebuilding government deposits and maintaining long-term fiscal debt sustainability, while providing adequate financing for Cambodia’s vast development needs. Executive Directors identified greater mobilization of fiscal revenues imperative to rebuild government deposits, and maintained that focus should be on measures that would generate substantial additional revenue and create strong positive externalities.
Author : Patrick Slattery
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 45,63 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 1136792058
First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
