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Perhaps the most enduring legacy of the Reagan administration will be the conservative judges it has placed on the Supreme Court and other federal courts. In this provocative essay, Harvard political scientist Stephen Macedo warns that the New Right's "Jurisprudence of Original Intent" seems to put untrammeled majoritarianism in place of constitutionally guaranteed liberties. Macedo accuses the New Right of "moral skepticism in the service of majoritarianism"...
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A government monopoly over drug regulation is not sacrosanct. This hard-hitting book describes the current regulation of drugs by the FDA and proposes a model for fundamental, yet workable, reform-including an innovative proposal for drug testing and certification review.
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This book is a slightly revised version of the Thesis titled 'Post Globalisation Politics of Language in Maharashtra' submitted to the University of Mumbai for Ph.D. The book details the trajectory of Language policy and Politics in Unified Maharashtra. It begins with introducing the concepts of language policy, politics and provides details of the scholarly works on language politics in India. It then focuses on the struggle for the creation of Unified...
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Putting tariffs on imported goods or setting other barriers to international trade can be tempting for politicians. They assume that many of their constituents believe that free trade is not fair trade and that other countries aren't playing by the rules. This belief makes it easy for industry leaders to demand protection for their businesses and their workers-to "put America first."
But Americans should resist the siren calls of protectionism. In...
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In British Columbia, like most of the world, the wealth of the richest one percent has grown exponentially in recent decades, while the majority have found their incomes stagnant or even declining. The top 10 percent in BC now hold 56.2 percent of the wealth, a greater share than anywhere else in Canada. Our richest have wealth counted in the billions while the poorest sleep in downtown doorways, or have to choose between medicine and food. Those...
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The new edition of this annual publication offers highly innovative articles by recognized national experts on contemporary economic and public policy issues. The pieces selected for publication in this year's issue reveal in-depth, original research on gold pricing during the Depression, the Federal Reserve's program for managing pressures on short-term funding markets, executive compensation, and the impact of shifts in punishment policy on prison...
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"La paz consagrada en la Constitución Política de 1991 como deber y derecho, ha sido un compromiso asumido e integrado en los Planes Globales de Desarrollo de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia que, desde el 2012, ha establecido ejes orientados a apoyar el actual proceso de paz a partir del reconocimiento que se requiere para una solución definitiva al conflicto armado interno. Desde la academia, este compromiso se ha extendido al análisis y...
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El Centro Universitario de Tonalá ofrece desde la experiencia de sus profesores distintas perspectivas sobre lo que son hoy las políticas públicas. Esta obra dota al lector de herramientas analíticas y aborda temáticas novedosas para el debate como la política tecnológica, el uso de medios alternativos de solución de conflictos, la autonomía financiera y la deuda pública, la agenda y la normatividad de la migración institucional de México,...
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America's Space Futures is an important contribution to the ongoing debate about space policy, the American space program, and the human destiny in space. It lays out alternative paradigms and frameworks for assessing America's future in space and how different visions would require changes to America's current approach to space development and exploration. Since the end of the Apollo program in the 1970s, the U.S. civil space program has accomplished...
90) The Art of War
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Written after 1513's "The Prince," Niccolo Machiavelli's war treatise, "The Art of War", is a dazzling array of war tactics and strategies based on the military strength of the Romans. Machiavelli wrote "The Art of War" as a dialogue between a group of young men in the Florentine republic. The main narrator, Lord Fabrizio Colonna, is the voice of knowledge and wisdom. The others ask questions about military tactics, and Fabrizio gives them advice...
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In this bracing book, Michael Chertoff makes clear that our laws and policies surrounding the protection of personal information, written for an earlier time, need to be completely overhauled in the Internet era. On the one hand, the collection of data-more widespread by business than by government, and impossible to stop-should be facilitated as an ultimate protection for society. On the other, standards under which information can be inspected,...
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The immigration issue affects virtually every American, directly or indirectly, often in deeply personal ways. This guide is designed to help people deliberate together about how we should approach the issue. The three options presented here reflect different ways of understanding what is at stake and force us to think about what matters most to us when we face difficult problems that involve all of us and that do not have perfect solutions.
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Completely updated, in 2021, with the most current compiled information, These Are MY Guns is written in support of the Second Amendment, firearm rights, and our right to bear arms. It is a definitive and in-depth examination of the Anti-Gun and Gun Control Movement's claims and tactics, and the facts and statistics that completely refute them; written not by a Politician, Political Operative, or Media Expert with a bully pulpit, but by a regular...
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El propósito de este libro es aportar elementos para entender las cuestiones que hoy representan los procesos migratorios de y en MÉxico, y se enfoca tanto en la dimensiÓn estructural como en las repercusiones psicosociales de la experiencia de los migrantes: de los que retornan a sus lugares de origen y de aquellos deportados a nuestro paÍs desde el norte, asÍ como de quienes llegan desde el sur y tienen necesidad de solicitar refugio.
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Throughout history, personal liberty, free markets, and peaceable, voluntary exchanges have been roundly denounced by tyrants and often greeted with suspicion by the general public. Unfortunately, Americans have increasingly accepted the tyrannical ideas of reduced private property rights and reduced rights to profits, and have become enamored with restrictions on personal liberty and control by government. In this latest collection of essays selected...
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Terrorizing Ourselves dismantles much of the flawed thinking that dominates U.S. counterterrorism policy today and lays out alternative approaches informed by experience, deliberation, and the well-established norms of a free society. Leading experts in the field contributed to this important new book, which shows that politicians use fear for political purposes and spend vast sums of money on dubious security measures. These experts explore the nature...
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The immigration issue affects virtually every American, directly or indirectly, often in deeply personal ways. This guide is designed to help people deliberate together about how we should approach the issue. The three options presented here reflect different ways of understanding what is at stake and force us to think about what matters most to us when we face difficult problems that involve all of us and that do not have perfect solutions. This...
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America's immigration crisis is out of control!
Unregulated immigration has led to an increase in crime, a loss of working class jobs, an inflated welfare state, and an elevated amount of terror threats on our home territory. The clash of differing emotions, facts, and opinions reveal that this issue is not simply a nationwide disagreement; it is an American crisis.
In The Politically Incorrect Guide to Immigration, authors John Zmirak and Al...
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