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An inside view of a rural Iowa town torn apart by greed, failed immigration policy and misguided view of diversity. Postville (population 2400) is an obscure meatpacking town in the northeast corner of Iowa. Here, in the most unlikely of places, in the middle of endless cornfields, unparalleled diversity drew the curiosity of international media and outside observers. In 2008, however, people who hoped Postville would succeed declared the town's experiment...
13022) Les gréco-syriennes
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Il est coutume de dire que l'Histoire est écrite par les vainqueurs, mais c'est oublier la partie de l'humanité qui engendre ces hommes. L'effondrement de l'empire d'Alexandre Le Grand va donner naissance à de multiples royautés disséminées sur le monde méditerranéen. Ces nouveaux mondes seront dirigés par des volontés hégémoniques, et les femmes n'en seront pas absentes. Le présent ouvrage dresse le portrait holistique et sans concessions...
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Utopian dreamers are deceived and deceiving. Their "fight for the people" rhetoric may sound good at first, but history proves egalitarian governments create poverty and misery. Utopians believe that through their own personal brilliance a better society can be created on earth. When the belief in man as a creation in the image of God is completely rejected, the use of slavery and mass execution can be justified in the name of the creation of a utopian...
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L'ouvrage propose une réflexion critique à la fois sur la géographie et sur la région caribéenne comme elle a trop souvent été enseignée et décrite. Pour ce faire, cet espace est appréhendé à la fois dans sa globalité et dans le détail, au travers de nombreuses études de terrain menées par l'auteur durant les dix dernières années (Suriname, Haïti, Cuba, etc.). Le géographe Romain Cruse rejette ici d'emblée le mythe de la neutralité...
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Este libro aspira a describir y analizar el Gobierno del General Horacio Vásquez del período de 1924 al 1930. Horacio Vásquez fue tres veces presidente de la República Dominicana, brevemente en el 1899, por casi un año en el 1903 y en el período de seis años que estudiamos. Sin embargo es un hombre y político olvidado por la historia. Por eso en esta obra intento rescatar la historia política, social y económica de un singular período de...
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"In this book, Ariel Ahram offers a new perspective on a growing threat to international and human security-the reliance of 'weak states' on quasi-official militias, paramilitaries, and warlords. Tracing the history of several ""high profile"" paramilitary organizations, including Indonesia's various militia factions, Iraq's tribal ""awakening,"" and Iran's Revolutionary Guard and Basij corps, the book shows why and how states co-opt these groups,...
13027) Pension Wise: Confronting Employer Pension Underfunding-And Sparing Taxpayers the Next Bailout
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Charles Blahous, one of the nation's foremost retirement security experts, explains the origins and dangers of current underfunding in our single-employer defined-benefit pension system and outlines the options for solving the problem and preventing the next taxpayer-financed bailout. He provides a tutorial on the basic workings of pension law, reviews the recent history that led to the worsening condition of the pension insurance system, and suggests...
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You have never campaigned for President? Isn''t it about time you did? Why let the rich and powerful have all the fun? This is a funny, informative guide for the presidential candidate. It covers such topics as what's involved in filing, whether to journey to New Hampshire for the primary or conduct an inexpensive front porch campaign, relations with the news media, what to say if you find yourself in a room with the other presidential candidates,...
13029) The Recruitment Files
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On 28th January 2014, there was a countywide raid by the CBI for alleged recruitment fraud committed in Bokaro Steel Plant (BSL), a unit of Steel Authority of India Ltd (SAIL), which took place in the year 2007-08. The CBI started its witch-hunt in the year 2014 but by then most top executives of Bokaro Steel Plant(BSL) relating to the recruitment processes, including the then MD, Bokaro Steel Plant, Sri VK Srivastava had retired from the Company....
13030) A Flight of Broken Wings
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Six hundred years ago, humanity rose up in revolt against the Aeriels. They were driven from earth - and back to their homeworld - after a bloody and glorious war.
Eight years ago, Ruban's home was destroyed and his family murdered by an Aeriel.
When a new Aeriel threat looms over Ragah, the capital city of Vandram, Ruban Kinoh must do everything in his power to avenge his family's past and protect the future of his country.
Which is hard enough...
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Despite all the attention, cyberspace is far from secure. Why this is so reflects conceptual weaknesses more than imperfect technologies. Two questions highlight shortcomings in the discussion of cybersecurity. The first is why, after more than two decades, we have not seen anything like a cyber Pearl Harbor, cyber 9/11, or cyber catastrophe. The second is why, despite the increasing quantity of recommendations, there has been so little progress....
13032) What Doomed Detroit
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Many cities have struggled with the decline of key industries, from Philadelphia's shipyards to New York's textile industry, but Detroit-which is now in bankruptcy-is both a victim of the decline of the Michigan automobile industry and a cause of it. A city with a history of civil disorder-it is the only American city occupied on three separate occasions by federal troops-its poisonous blend of race-based politics and union domination has left it...
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"Uncle Tom's Cabin, Young Folks' Edition" by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our...
13034) The Miseducation of Women
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Girls and boys are different. So why do our schools insist on treating them as identical? Could this misguided equality have anything to do with the increasing dissatisfaction among women that is revealed in survey after survey? Do gender-blind educational policies in fact work to women's disadvantage? Bringing together many women's voices, from Bridget Jones to Simone de Beauvoir, Betty Friedan to Germaine Greer, James Tooley challenges education's...
13035) Deadly Game
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Alex Crane is on top of the world. President of one of the largest banks in the country, an early retirement to beautiful Lake Wawasee is not far away. But when a routine audit reveals that tens of millions of dollars have been skimmed from his bank's IRA accounts, his apparently secure world is turned upside down. He suddenly finds himself in the middle of a nightmarish scheme involving subprime mortgages, bailout money, FBI thugs, mobsters, and...
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What would the father of the Constitution think of contemporary developments in American politics and public policy?
Constitutional scholars have long debated whether the American political system, which was so influenced by the thinking of James Madison, has in fact grown outmoded. But if Madison himself could peer at the present, what would he think of the state of key political institutions that he helped originate and the government policies that...
13037) Power, Politics and People's Welfare: The Magnetron Technology – A New Window in Power Generation
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The book presents an admixture of treasured initiatives to make it a handy package:
- of vital tips on enduring social development;
- of inspiring stimuli for positive intellectual exploits;
- of delight to research and development (R&D) enthusiasts, environmentalists and the academia;
- of pointers to an exciting new field for exploration by corporate investors; and
- of good tidings on enhanced quality of life worldwide-
all carefully structured...
13038) Labyrinthe en Libye: Roman
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D'actualité brûlante, Paul « Honorable correspondant » de la DGSE reçoit pour mission de démanteler un réseau de passeurs de migrants opérant à partir des ctes libyennes.
Au fil de l'enquête, renseigné par des agents, ex-coéquipiers clandestinement intégrés aux cohortes migratoires et traversant l'Afrique dans des conditions extrêmes, non sans difficulté, Paul parviendra à remonter les filières marocaines et tunisiennes qui le mèneront...
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State failure is seen as one of the significant threats to regional and international stability in the current international system. State Failure in the Modern World presents a comprehensive, systematic, and empirically rigorous analysis of the full range of the state failure process in the post-World War II state system-including what state failure means, its causes, what accounts for its duration, its consequences, and its implications. Among the...
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Luego de más de una década de la implementación del presupuesto participativo en Medellín, consideramos pertinente una revisión de algunos de sus logros y desaciertos, enriquecida con el contraste que ofrecen experiencias internacionales como las de puerto alegre, en Brasil. La plata, en argentina y san juan en puerto rico. Hacemos entonces un balance de este mecanismo de participación ciudadana, establecemos sus relaciones con el sistema de...
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