Government Business category: 2241 books
by Capitol Reader
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2013
This ebook consists of a summary of the ideas, viewpoints and facts presented by Roy Moore and John Perry in their book “So Help Me God: The Ten Commandments, Judicial Tyranny and the Battle for Religious Freedom”. This summary offers a concise overview of the entire book in less than 30 minutes...
by United States Government Office of Personnel Management
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
The U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has prepared human resources guidance for agencies and employees on administrative furloughs. An administrative furlough is a planned event by an agency which is designed to absorb reductions necessitated by downsizing, reduced funding, lack of work,...
Private Wealth and Public Revenue in Latin America
Business Power and Tax Politics
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
Inequality and taxation are fundamental problems of modern times. How and when can democracies tax economic elites? This book develops a theoretical framework that refines and integrates the classic concepts of business's instrumental (political) power and structural (investment) power to explain...
by Capitol Reader
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2013
This ebook consists of a summary of the ideas, viewpoints and facts presented by Jack Cafferty in his book “Now or Never: Getting Down to the Business of Saving American Dream”. This summary offers a concise overview of the entire book in less than 30 minutes reading time. However this work does...
Monoculture
How One Story is Changing Everything
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
Winner of the 2011 NCTE George Orwell Award for outstanding contributions to the critical analysis of public discourse. One of The Atlantic's Top 11 psychology books of 2011.
“[Michaels] writes in clear, energetic prose that’s thoughtful, engaging and unforced. She defines and analyzes...
by Capitol Reader
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2013
This ebook consists of a summary of the ideas, viewpoints and facts presented by Cliff Sloan and David McKean in their book “The Great Decision: Jefferson, Adams, Marshall, and the Battle for the Supreme Court”. This summary offers a concise overview of the entire book in less than 30 minutes reading...
First Dollars
Pipelines, Ports, Prisons and Private Property
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
MAKING MILLIONS — BOLD ABORIGINAL ENTREPRENEURS — KIM BAIRD, CLARENCE LOUIE, TEWANEE JOSEPH, MANNY JULES — ARE REINVENTING CANADA’S ECONOMY
A growing number of aboriginal leaders – especially those blessed by geography – are unlocking the value of their lands in order...
The Price of a Life
Shell, Gold, Carbon Notes and Weed: Four Kinds of Money in the Humboldt Bay / Six Rivers Region. A Historical and Personal Account
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2017
The Price of a Life is the story of money and marijuana in northern California’s Emerald Triangle. It tells the history, from dentalia shells to gold and from lumber and paper dollars to the emergent weed economy. Under the nom de guerre of Dr Loon, Jerry Martien has followed this story since the...
Partisan Priorities
How Issue Ownership Drives and Distorts American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2013
Americans consistently name Republicans as the party better at handling issues like national security and crime, while they trust Democrats on issues like education and the environment - a phenomenon called 'issue ownership'. Partisan Priorities investigates the origins of issue ownership, showing...
Civic Hope
How Ordinary Americans Keep Democracy Alive
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Civic Hope is a history of what everyday Americans say - in their own words - about the government overseeing their lives. Based on a highly original analysis of 10,000 letters to the editor from 1948 to the present published in twelve US cities, the book overcomes the limitations of survey data by...
Partisan Bonds
Political Reputations and Legislative Accountability
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2010
Political scientists have long painted American voters' dependence on partisan cues at the ballot box as a discouraging consequence of their overall ignorance about politics. Taking on this conventional wisdom, Jeffrey D. Grynaviski advances the provocative theory that voters instead rely on these...
Transforming San Antonio
An Insider's View to the AT&T Arena, Toyota, the PGA Village, and the Riverwalk Extension
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
San Antonio boasts one of the country’s fastest-growing metropolitan regions, thanks to visionary personalities, key politicians, a vibrant citizenry, and a bit of luck. In this lively behind-the-scenes account, former mayor Nelson Wolff focuses on four major developments - the San Antonio Spurs’...
by Alain Parguez, Riccardo Bellofiore, Daniele Della Bona
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 11, 2014
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 11, 2014
Grazie a un bagaglio culturale che va molto oltre quello di gran parte degli economisti moderni, Alain Parguez (insider che lavorò nel governo francese guidato da Mitterand) rintraccia le motivazioni nascoste che hanno portato la casta dirigente europea a imporre alle popolazioni la moneta...
Networks of Communication in South Africa
New Media, New Technologies
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Within a short period of time, South Africa has made remarkable progress in the adoption of mobile and Internet technologies. In this landmark study, R. Sooryamoorthy examines the development of communication patterns, social contacts and networks in South Africa. Based on pioneering quantitative...