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  • A simulation approach to the study of human fertility

    by G. Santow ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This book is an amended and somewhat shorter version of my doctoral thesis which I submitted to the Australian National University in 1976, and subsequently edited at the Netherlands Interuniversity Demographic Institute in 1977. The work falls naturally into two parts. The first is concerned with the construction and validation of a model, and the second with its application as an experimental ... Read more

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  • Saul Alinsky and the Dilemmas of Race

    Community Organizing in the Postwar City

    by Mark Santow ...
    A groundbreaking examination of Saul Alinsky's organizing work as it relates to race.Saul Alinsky is the most famous—even infamous—community organizer in American history. Almost single-handedly, he invented a new political form: community federations, which used the power of a neighborhood’s residents to define and fight for their own interests. Across a long and controversial career spanning ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • Helping the Federal Reserve Work Smarter

    Few presidents have sparked as much interest in recent years as Ronald Reagan. This biography finds Reagan's personal career and ability to understand and communicate with the American people admirable, but finds the long-term effects of his presidency harmful. ... Read more

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    The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America

    In this signal work of history, Bancroft Prize winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist Lizabeth Cohen shows how the pursuit of prosperity after World War II fueled our pervasive consumer mentality and transformed American life.Trumpeted as a means to promote the general welfare, mass consumption quickly outgrew its economic objectives and became synonymous with patriotism, social equality, and the ... Read more

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  • The Great Crash Ahead

    Strategies for a World Turned Upside Down

    In his most recent New York Times bestselling book, The Great Depression Ahead, Harry S. Dent, Jr., predicted that the stimulus plan created in response to the first crisis would hit demographic and debt saturation headwinds and ultimately fail. In 2010, the stimulus plan had started to fail, and it was already stalling by the first quarter of 2011. The Great Crash Ahead outlines why the next ... Read more

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  • Invisible Hands

    The Businessmen's Crusade Against the New Deal

    “A compelling and readable story of resistance to the new economic order.” —Boston GlobeIn the wake of the profound economic crisis known as the Great Depression, a group of high-powered individuals joined forces to campaign against the New Deal—not just its practical policies but the foundations of its economic philosophy. The titans of the National Association of Manufacturers and the chemicals ... Read more

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  • The Age of Deleveraging

    Investment Strategies for a Decade of Slow Growth and Deflation

    Top economist Gary Shilling shows you how to prosper in the slow-growing and deflationary times that lie aheadWhile many investors fear a rapid rise in inflation, author Gary Shilling, an award-winning economic forecaster, argues that the global economy is going through a long period of de-leveraging and weak growth, which makes deflation far more likely and a far greater threat to investors than ... Read more

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  • The Origins of the Urban Crisis

    Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit - Updated Edition

    Series series Princeton Studies in American Politics
    The reasons behind Detroit’s persistent racialized poverty after World War IIOnce America's "arsenal of democracy," Detroit is now the symbol of the American urban crisis. In this reappraisal of America’s racial and economic inequalities, Thomas Sugrue asks why Detroit and other industrial cities have become the sites of persistent racialized poverty. He challenges the conventional wisdom that ... Read more

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  • Crash Proof 2.0

    How to Profit From the Economic Collapse

    A fully updated follow-up to Peter Schiff's bestselling financial survival guide-Crash Proof, which described the economy as a house of cards on the verge of collapse, with over 80 pages of new materialThe economic and monetary disaster which seasoned prognosticator Peter Schiff predicted is no longer hypothetical-it is here today. And nobody understands what to do in this situation better than ... Read more

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  • Stocks for the Long Run 5/E: The Definitive Guide to Financial Market Returns & Long-Term Investment Strategies

    The stock-investing classic--UPDATED TO HELP YOU WIN IN TODAY'S CHAOTIC GLOBAL ECONOMYMuch has changed since the last edition of Stocks for the Long Run. The financial crisis, the deepest bear market since the Great Depression, and the continued growth of the emerging markets are just some of the contingencies directly affecting every portfolio inthe world.To help you navigate markets and make the ... Read more

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  • Messengers of the Right

    Conservative Media and the Transformation of American Politics

    by Nicole Hemmer ...
    Series series Politics and Culture in Modern America
    From Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity to Glenn Beck and Matt Drudge, Americans are accustomed to thinking of right-wing media as integral to contemporary conservatism. But today's well-known personalities make up the second generation of broadcasting and publishing activists. Messengers of the Right tells the story of the little-known first generation.Beginning in the late 1940s, activists working ... Read more

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  • The Next Shift

    The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America

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