Catalog Search Results
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Nearly every American knows someone who has been affected by the opioid crisis. Addiction is a trans-partisan issue that impacts individuals from every walk of life. Millions of Americans are tired of watching their loved ones die while politicians ignore this issue. Where is the solution? Where is the hope? Where's the outrage? Ryan Hampton is a young man who has made addiction and recovery reform his life's mission. Through the wildly successful...
Author
Publisher
Cato Institute
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Global warming is vastly overrated as an environmental threat, argue leading climatologists Patrick J. Michaels and Robert Balling, Jr. Former Vice President Gore staked much of his career on a largely mythical problem, they write. Unlike every other book on global warming, The Satanic Gases places the issue in its proper social and scientific context. Citing the pioneering work of historian of science Thomas Kuhn and economist James Buchanan, Michaels...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Your guided tour to America's employment crisis, the title says it all. Where Did the Jobs Go-and How Do We Get Them Back? is a clear, nonpartisan, surprisingly entertaining look at our nation's current joblessness mess and how we can get ourselves working again. Written by Scott Bittle and Jean Johnson, authors of the breakout bestseller Where Did the Money Go?, this essential primer addresses the most serious problem facing Americans today with...
Author
Publisher
Berrett-Koehler
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Why We Need the Commons. A huge part of the economy is invisible, invaluable, and under siege. This is 'the commons,' a term that denotes everything we share. Some parts of the commons are gifts of nature: the air and oceans, the web of species, wilderness, and watersheds. Others are the product of human creativity and endeavor: sidewalks and public spaces, the Internet, our languages, cultures, and technologies. Jonathan Rowe illuminates the scale...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Squeezed" weaves together intimate reporting with sharp and lively critique to show how the high cost of parenthood and our increasingly unstable job market have imploded the middle-class American Dream for many families, and offers surprising solutions for how we might change things. Families today are squeezed on every side--from high childcare costs and harsh employment policies to workplaces without paid family leave or even dependable and regular...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Language
English
Formats
Description
Authors Dick Morris and Eileen McGann offer a comprehensive battle plan to oust the liberal Democrats before they can legislate Obama's dangerous policies. They provide a sharp analysis of the extraordinary stakes involved, the strategy that will win, and the specific targets to be defeated--and offer practical and workable advice on what you can do in your communities and online to turn the tide. Morris and McGann warned that an Obama presidency...
Author
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Solutions ... not theories. Political progress ... not political posturing. Instead of the constant jockeying for political advantage, in What Works, author and columnist Cal Thomas focuses on what promotes the general welfare, regardless of which party or ideology gets the credit. Thomas probes and provides answers to questions like, Why must we constantly fight the same battles over and over? Why don't we consult the past and use common sense in...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday, Page for Review of Reviews
Pub. Date
c1904. (1917 printing)
Language
English
Description
Cabbages and Kings (1904) is a novel by American writer O. Henry. Inspired by his experiences as a fugitive in Honduras, the interconnected stories that make up Cabbages and Kings-the title refers to a line from Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass-address themes of revolution, imperialism, exploitation, and greed. The novel is significant not only for launching O. Henry's career as a successful professional writer, but for coining the term "banana...
10) On war
Author
Language
English
Description
Michael Howard (1922–2019) was a leading British military historian who held professorships at the University of Oxford and Yale University. His many books included The Franco-Prussian War and War in European History. Peter Paret (1924–2020) was professor emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. His many books include Clausewitz in His Time, The Cognitive Challenge of War (Princeton), and Clausewitz and the State (Princeton)....
Author
Publisher
Encounter Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
With Donald Trump's rise to the presidency has come widespread awareness of the economic and social crisis facing much of the nation. Yet while everyone now cares, no one understands what happened or knows what to do. Most recommendations presume that we should proceed down our present path while somehow creating better government programs to drag along everyone falling behind. "I'm for globalization and a strong safety net" seems likely to become...
12) The War on Small Business: How the Government Used the Pandemic to Crush the Backbone of America
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Formats
Description
For years, government bureaucrats have been looking for ways to destroy small businesses. With coronavirus, they finally had their chance.
In 2020, the American economy suffered the biggest financial collapse in history. But while Main Street suffered like never before, the stock market continued to reach new highs. How could this be?The answer is that government had slapped oppressive restrictions on small businesses
...Author
Publisher
Seven Stories Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
A Seven Stories Press First edition.
Language
English
Description
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! In his first major book on the subject of income inequality, Noam Chomsky skewers the fundamental tenets of neoliberalism and casts a clear, cold, patient eye on the economic facts of life. What are the ten principles of concentration of wealth and power at work in America today? They're simple enough: reduce democracy, shape ideology, redesign the economy, shift the burden onto the poor and middle classes, attack the...
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
c2014
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Drawing on interviews with tech and policy leaders, the first chief technology officer of the United States, inspired by private sector trailblazers, offers a look at how open government can establish a new paradigm for the twenty-first century.
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Who Turned Out the Lights? is an entertaining and nonpartisan guide to the current U.S. energy crisis from Scott Bittle and Jean Johnson, coauthors of the breakout bestseller Where Does the Money Go? At once light-hearted and fun-like Jon Stewart's America: The Book and Stephen Colbert's I am America (and So Can You!)-and deadly serious, Who Turned Out the Lights? helps readers understand what's really at stake in the energy debate, an intelligent...
Author
Publisher
Harvard Business School Press
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
China and India are home to one-third of the world's population. And they're undergoing social and economic revolutions that are capturing the best minds--and money--of Western business. In Billions of Entrepreneurs, Tarun Khanna examines the entrepreneurial forces driving China's and India's trajectories of development. He shows where these trajectories overlap and complement one another--and where they diverge and compete. He also reveals how Western...
Author
Publisher
Seven Stories Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
Seven Stories Press 1st ed.
Language
English
Description
John R. Talbott's ingenious new book, The 86 Biggest Lies on Wall Street, exposes the lies and then exposes us to the truth of what it will take to rebuild our economy. As a former investment banker at Goldman Sachs, Talbott knows firsthand how the financial system operates and what it will take to fix it. As the "oracle" who predicted the housing crisis in his 2003 book, The Coming Crash in the Housing Market, warned of a global banking crisis in...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Chef José Andrés arrived in Puerto Rico four days after Hurricane Maria ripped through the island. The economy was destroyed and for most people there was no clean water, no food, no power, no gas, and no way to communicate with the outside world. Andr©♭s addressed the humanitarian crisis the only way he knew how: by feeding people, one hot meal at a time. From serving sancocho with his friend Jos©♭ Enrique at Enrique's ravaged restaurant...
Author
Publisher
Encounter Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
President Obama has declared that the standard by which all policies and policy outcomes are judged is fairness. He declared in 2011 that "we've sought to ensure that every citizen can count on some basic measure of security. We do this because we recognize that no matter how responsibly we live our lives, any one of us, at any moment, might face hard times, might face bad luck, might face a crippling illness or a layoff." And that, he says, is why...
Author
Series
Publisher
Everyman's Library/Knopf
Pub. Date
1991
Language
English
Description
The Wealth of Nations is the magnum opus of the Scottish economist and moral philosopher Adam Smith. First published in 1776, the book offers one of the world's first collected descriptions of what builds nations' wealth, and is today a fundamental work in classical economics. By reflecting upon the economics at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, the book touches upon such broad topics as the division of labour, productivity, and free markets....
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request