For years, The Economics of Public Issues has shown students the power of economics in explaining the world around us. The thirteenth edition continues the tradition of illustrating traditional economic principles through contemporary issues by offering ten all-new chapters on compelling topics such as the costs of terrorism, deregulation of ...
Former members of the National Security Council under Clinton relive the bureaucratic feuds centered on information-sharing between the CIA, FBI, and Pentagon in the days before 9/11. A New York Times Notable Book for 2002.
Economics can be both entertaining and informative. This next text, by the authors of the market leading Economics of Public Issues, focuses solely on macroeconomic issues that include changes in the unemployment rate, inflation, the federal budget deficit, the international balance of payments, interest rates, and Social Security. This all-new ...
Former members of the National Security Council under Clinton relive the bureaucratic feuds centered on information-sharing between the CIA, FBI, and Pentagon in the days before 9/11. A New York Times Notable Book for 2002.
This classic is Franklin's last word on his greatest literary creation--his own invented persona, the original incarnation of the American success story.
Attempting to avoid the pitfalls of both blanket legislation and all-out federal prohibition, the authors argue for a drugs programme that eliminates the federal government's monopoly on drug policy and elevates the drug-enforcement powers of the 50 states and their local jurisdictions.
This comprehensive study of author, Thomas Harris' popular works focuses particularly on Harris' internationally known antihero Hannibal "The Cannibal" Lecter in the classic novels "Red Dragon", "Silence of the Lambs", and "Hannibal". In 12 scholarly essays, the work examines several themes within Harris' trilogy, including the author's artistic ...
The authors of the bestseller "The Age of Sacred Terror" show how the United States is losing the war on terror and what we need to do if we're serious about winning it. We are losing. Four years and two wars after September 11, 2001, the United States is no closer to victory in the "war on terror." In fact, we are unwittingly clearing the way for ...
When the medievals spoke of "last things" they were sometimes referring to events, such as the millennium or the appearance of the Antichrist, that would come to all of humanity or at the end of time. But they also meant the last things that would come to each individual separately - not just the place, Heaven, Hell, or Purgatory, to which their ...
"The need for Oracle technical professionals has never been so great. Oracle's own certification program recently grew by 100 percent in just eight months and continues to grow at an incredible pace. Even with all these new OCP members, businesses using Oracle technologies still have a large amount of open job orders for OCPs. There just are not ...
Valerie and her widowed grandfather spend the day picking fruit from the grandfather's pear tree. While they work, the grandfather tells Valerie about the single silver pear he and her grandmother found on the tree each year. Although they never do find a silver pear, Valerie realizes that spending time with her grandfather is just as valuable. ...
-- Examine the Internet as a set of resources for writers to make use of, participate in, and audiences to engage. -- Topics include: defining an argument, considering purpose, on-line researching and writing, discussion lists and newsgroups design principles, and more. -- Includes MLA-style guidelines for citing Internet documents. There are ...
As the author views it, the desire for religious and spiritual commitment remains strong in North American and European post-Christian society, although now free to take many forms both inside and outside the churches. Drawing on the anthropological work of Ernest Becker, Liechty suggests that by understanding such desire as a result of our human ...
First and Second Timothy and Titus have for many years borne the collective title "The Pastoral Epistles." Both their style and their content make it difficult to locate them within the corpus of Pauline letters, and recent scholarship most often considers them pseudonymous, works that imitate paul's letters but apply the apopstle's teaching to ...
This is an architectural monograph on the work of New York-based Jesse Reiser and Nanako Umemoto, whose architecture follows the latest freedom in geometry which has been brought about by the extensive use of the computer within architectural design. The text provides descriptions of their theories and design, and is illustrated in colour with ...
This work contains text in Spanish. Delicious in every sense of the word, this book takes readers on a culinary tour of the beverages, dishes, and ingredients this famous columnist loves (or hates) the most.
This title offers a first-person diary account of living through the Great Depression, with haunting parallels to our own time. Benjamin Roth was born in New York City in 1894. When the stock market crashed in 1929, he had been practicing law for approximately ten years, largely representing local businesses. After nearly two years, he began to ...
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