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Verlag: Encounter Books,USA, United States, New York, 2016
ISBN 10: 1594037892ISBN 13: 9781594037894
Anbieter: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Vereinigtes Königreich
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. What caused the eurozone debacle and the chaos in Greece? Why has Europe's migrant crisis spun out of control, over the heads of national governments? Why is Great Britain calling a vote on whether to leave the European Union? Why are established political parties declining across the continent while protest parties rise? All this is part of the whirlwind that EU elites are reaping from their efforts to create a unified Europe without meaningful accountability to average voters. The New Totalitarian Temptation: Global Governance and the Crisis of Democracy in Europe is a must-read if you want to understand how the European Union got to this point and what the European project fundamentally is. This is the first book to identify the essence of the EU in a utopian vision of a supranationally governed world, an aspiration to achieve universal peace through a global legal order. The ambitions of the global governancers are unlimited. They seek to transform not just the world's political order, but the social order as well--discarding basic truths about human nature and the social importance of tradition in favor of a human rights policy defined by radical autonomy and unfettered individual choice. And the global governance ideology at the heart of the EU is inherently antidemocratic. EU true believers are not swayed by the common sense of voters, nor by reality itself. Because the global governancers aim to transfer core powers of all nations to supranational organizations, the EU is on a collision course with the United States. But the utopian ideas of global governance are taking root here too, even as the European project flames into rancor and turmoil. America and Europe are still cultural cousins; we stand or fall together. The EU can yet be reformed, and a commitment to democratic sovereignty can be renewed on both sides of the Atlantic. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Verlag: Encounter Books,USA, United States, New York, 2011
ISBN 10: 1594035245ISBN 13: 9781594035241
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. In the 15 years to mid-2007 the world economy enjoyed unparalleled stability (the so-called "Great Moderation"), with steady growth and low inflation. But the period since mid-2007 ("the Great Recession") has seen the worst macroeconomic turmoil since the 1930s. A dramatic plunge in trade, output and employment in late 2008 and 2009 has been followed by an unconvincing recovery. How is the lurch from stability to instability to be explained? What are the intellectual origins of the policy mistakes that led to the Great Recession? What theories motivated policies in the USA and other leading nations? Which ideas about economic policy have proved right? And which have been wrong? Money in a Free Society contains 18 provocative essays on these questions from Tim Congdon, an influential economic adviser to the Thatcher government in the UK and one of the world's leading monetary commentators. Congdon argues that academic economists and policy-makers have betrayed the intellectual legacy of both Keynes and Friedman. These two great economists believed -- if in somewhat different ways -- in the need for steady growth in the quantity of money. But Keynes has been misunderstood as advocating big rises in public spending and large budget deficits as the only way to defeat recession. That has led under President Obama to an unsustainable explosion in American public debt. Meanwhile the Fed has ignored extreme volatility in the rate of money growth, contrary to the central message of Friedman's analytical work. In his 1923 Tract on Monetary Reform Keynes said, "The Individualistic Capitalism of today, precisely because it entrusts saving to the individual investor and production to the individual employer, presumes a stable measuring-rod of value, and cannot be efficient--perhaps cannot survive--without one." In Money in a Free Society Congdon calls for a return to stable money growth and sound public finances, and argues that these remain the best answers to the problems facing modern capitalism. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Verlag: Encounter Books,USA, New York, 2012
ISBN 10: 1594036632ISBN 13: 9781594036637
Anbieter: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, USA
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Each year, the United States spends $65,000 per poor family to fight poverty in a country in which the average family income is just under $50,000. Meanwhile, most of that money goes to middle-class and upper-middle-class families, and the current U.S. poverty rate is higher than it was before the government began spending trillions of dollars on anti-poverty programs.In this eye-opening Broadside, Kevin D. Williamson uncovers the hidden politics of the welfare state and documents the historical evidence that proves Lyndon B. Johnsons Great Society was designed to do one thing: maximize the number of Americans dependent upon the government. The welfare state was never meant to eliminate privation; it was created to keep Democrats in power. Each year, the United States spends $65,000 per poor family to "fight poverty" - in a country in which the average family income is just under $50,000. Meanwhile, most of that money goes to middle-class and upper-middle-class families, and the current U.S. poverty rate is higher than it was before the government began spending trillions of dollars on anti-poverty programs. In this eye-opening Broadside, Kevin D. Williamson uncovers the hidden politics of the welfare state and documents the historical evidence that proves Lyndon B. Johnson's "Great Society" was designed to do one thing: maximize the number of Americans dependent upon the government. The welfare state was never meant to eliminate privation; it was created to keep Democrats in power. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: Encounter Books,USA, New York, 2011
ISBN 10: 1594036209ISBN 13: 9781594036200
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has launched an international campaign to achieve recognition by the United Nations for an independent Palestinian state. Abbas and his international supporters claim that only Israel (with the United States) stands in the way of this act of historical justice, which would finally bring about peace in the Middle East.In this eye-opening Broadside, Sol Stern debunks the Palestinians' claim and shows that Abbas has been lying about the origins and history of the conflict. Palestinian leaders have rejected partition plans that would have given them much more land for their independent state than the Jews were offered for theirs. Rather than being the innocent victims of a "dispossession" at the hands of the Israelis, the Palestinians rejected reasonable compromises and instead pursued their aim of getting rid of the only Jewish state in the world. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has launched an international campaign to achieve recognition by the United Nations for an independent Palestinian state. Abbas and his international supporters claim that only Israel (with the United States) stands in the way of this act of historical justice, which would finally bring about peace in the Middle East. In this eye-opening Broadside, Sol Stern debunks the Palestinians' claim and shows that Abbas has been lying about the origins and history of the conflict. Palestinian leaders have rejected partition plans that would have given them much more land for their independent state than the Jews were offered for theirs. Rather than being the innocent victims of a "dispossession" at the hands of the Israelis, the Palestinians rejected reasonable compromises and instead pursued their aim of getting rid of the only Jewish state in the world. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: Encounter Books,USA, New York, 2014
ISBN 10: 1594038074ISBN 13: 9781594038075
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. This is a surreal time for freedom of speech. While the legal protections of the First Amendment remain strong, the culture is obsessed with punishing individuals for allegedly offensive utterances. And academia already an institution in which free speech is in decline has grown still more intolerant, with high-profile "disinvitation" efforts against well-known speakers and demands for professors to provide "trigger warnings" in class.In this Broadside, Greg Lukianoff argues that the threats to free speech go well beyond political correctness or liberal groupthink. As global populations increasingly expect not just physical comfort but also intellectual comfort, threats to freedom of speech are only going to become more intense. To fight back, we must understand this trend and see how students and average citizens alike are increasingly demanding freedom from speech. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: Encounter Books,USA, United States, New York, 2010
ISBN 10: 1594034869ISBN 13: 9781594034862
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The New York Times was once considered the gold standard in American journalism and the most trusted news organization in America. Today, it is generally understood to be a vehicle for politically correct ideologies, tattered liberal pieties, and a repeated victim of journalistic scandal and institutional embarrassment. In Gray Lady Down, the hard-hitting follow up to Coloring the News, William McGowan asks who is responsible for squandering the finest legacy in American journalism. Combining original reporting, critical assessment and analysis, McGowan exposes the Times' obsessions with diversity, soft pop cultural news, and countercultural Vietnam-era attitudinizing, and reveals how these trends have set America's most important news icon at odds with its journalistic mission--and with the values and perspectives of much of mainstream America. Gray Lady Down considers the consequences--for the Times, for the media, and, most important, for American society and its political processes at this fraught moment in our nation's history. In this highly volatile media environment, the fate of the Times may portend the future of the fourth estate. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Verlag: Encounter Books,USA, New York, 2006
ISBN 10: 1594031428ISBN 13: 9781594031427
Anbieter: Trouve Books, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. Book is clean and tight without inside markings. Jacket's condition is near fine. From the earliest records of human civilization until the dawn of the twentieth century, and in widely separated cultures throughout the world, the story of honor was inseparable from the story of mankind.
Verlag: Encounter Books,USA, New York, 2016
ISBN 10: 1594039054ISBN 13: 9781594039058
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. What happens when a leading conservative economist goes mano a mano with today's most influential exponent of left-liberal economics, over free markets versus government interventionism? Here are highlights of that showdown between Stephen Moore of the Heritage Foundation and Paul Krugman, Nobel laureate.Moore and Krugman sparred over eight major economic issues in our national debate from whether the policy response to the crisis of 2008 was successful, to the outlook for Obamacare, to the "red state/ blue state" divide. The contest was cordial and spiced with wit. (Does air conditioning explain the migration from blue to red states? Is Houston still uninhabitable?)This high-powered matchup illuminates a clash of worldview that leads to opposing policy prescriptions. More important, it will help you draw conclusions about which economic policies work. In July 2015, Stephen Moore debated the Nobel-prize-winning economist Paul Krugman in front of more than 2,000 people at FreedomFest in Las Vegas. This was billed as the economic showdown of the year: the lead economics columnist for the New York Times versus the former senior economics writer for the Wall Street Journal. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: Encounter Books,USA, New York, 2013
ISBN 10: 1594037124ISBN 13: 9781594037122
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Who is sovereign in the United States? Is it the people themselves, or is it an elite determined to rule citizens who are seen as incapable of making choices about their own lives? This is the central question in the American gun-control debate.In this Broadside, David Kopel explains why the right to keep and bear arms has always been central to the American identity and why Americans have always resisted gun control. The American Revolution was sparked by British attempts to confiscate guns. After the Civil War, the U.S. changed the Constitution to defeat the nation's first gun-control organization, the Ku Klux Klan. When Hitler and Stalin demonstrated how gun registration paves the way for gun confiscation, which paves the way for genocide, Americans resolved to make sure it never happens here.Gun control is not an issue of left vs. right or urban vs. rural. The right to bear arms is crucial to prevent large-scale tyranny by criminal governments and small-scale tyranny by ordinary criminals and to protect our Constitution. Who is sovereign in the United States? Is it the people themselves, or is it an elite determined to rule citizens who are seen as incapable of making choices about their own lives? This is the central question in the American gun-control debate. In this Broadside, David Kopel explains why the right to keep and bear arms has always been central to the American identity - and why Americans have always resisted gun control. The American Revolution was sparked by British attempts to confiscate guns. After the Civil War, the U.S. changed the Constitution to defeat the nation's first gun-control organization, the Ku Klux Klan. When Hitler and Stalin demonstrated how gun registration paves the way for gun confiscation, which paves the way for genocide, Americans resolved to make sure it never happens here. Gun control is not an issue of left vs. right or urban vs. rural. The right to bear arms is crucial to prevent large-scale tyranny by criminal governments and small-scale tyranny by ordinary criminals - and to protect our Constitution. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: Encounter Books,USA, New York, 2017
ISBN 10: 1594039720ISBN 13: 9781594039720
Anbieter: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, USA
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. The United Nations is failing abysmally, and dangerously, in its mission. Founded in 1945 as a vehicle to avert war and promote human dignity and freedom, the U.N. has instead become a self-serving and ever-expanding haven of privilege for the world's worst regimes, rife with bigotry, fraud, abuse, and corruption, both financial and moral. Yet the American foreign policy community treats it as taboo to speak seriously about sidelining, supplanting, or leaving the U.N. The usual argument is that the U.N. may be imperfect, but it's all we've got.In this Broadside, Claudia Rosett explains why the U.N.'s basic design means it cannot really be reformed and why it is becoming ever more urgent to seek alternatives. Rosett argues that it's time to break the taboo, and to bring fully into America's foreign policy debates the question of how to dispense with the U.N. altogether. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: Encounter Books,USA, New York, 2023
ISBN 10: 1641773715ISBN 13: 9781641773713
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. The Communist Party of China is fast-tracking the largest military buildup since the Second World War; it is sanctions-proofing itself; it is stockpiling grain; it is surveying America for nuclear weapons strikes; and, most ominously, it is mobilizing Chinas civilians for battle. In the past decade, ruler Xi Jinping has militarized the Chinese political system. As a result, the Peoples Liberation Army has become so powerful that, like the bloodthirsty Japanese military of the 1930s, it believes it can do whatever it wants. Xi Jinping has no answer for mounting internal crises. He knows the Chinese people are increasingly angry. His only way out is to unify the nation with the prospect of conflict. Inside the Party, there is an almost irresistible imperative for war.Meanwhile, Washington and other Western capitals lack urgency.Naysayers tell us that war is neither inevitable nor imminent, but how many times in history has a militant regime embarked on a breakneck military buildup and not launched a war of aggression? "A long essay on China's increasing bellicosity in Asia and the world"-- Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: Encounter Books,USA, New York, 2018
ISBN 10: 1641770279ISBN 13: 9781641770279
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Are robots finally replacing humans? Does the emerging age of artificial intelligence and automation mean we will soon see "peak jobs" and the need for a Universal Basic Income to support a widening swath of hapless citizens unsuited for employment in a primarily "knowledge" workforce? Improving productivity-reducing labor hours per unit of product or service-has been the hallmark of economic progress for centuries. But advances due to robots and AI, some say, will be fundamentally different because digital machines are ready to revolutionize the nature of work in nearly every sector, not just one or two. But the lessons of history and the realities of technologies suggest that, despite yet more disruption, the overall result will be net job gains and faster economic growth. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: Encounter Books,USA, New York, 2023
ISBN 10: 1641773693ISBN 13: 9781641773690
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Trust in American institutions is at historic lows. The answer from the Progressive Left? Make voting and counting ballots even more complicated.Ranked-choice voting is their latest fad to remake elections. It makes voting harder: longer lines, more mistakes, and lower turnout. And it makes election administration so complicated that, in 2022, one California county certified the wrong winner in a school board race.In this Broadside, two election experts explain what ranked-choice voting is, who is behind it, and why it threatens the integrity of our elections. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: Encounter Books,USA, New York, 2022
ISBN 10: 1641773340ISBN 13: 9781641773348
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. During the 1980s and 1990s, European economies went through a period of slowing economic growth and high unemployment, what some economists described as "secular decline." On the other side of the Atlantic, the United States enjoyed a robust recovery during those years by reducing taxes, eliminating regulations on business, and tightening monetary policy.Now, after two decades of subpar growth, the question is whether or not the American economy has entered into its own era of secular decline.This Broadside examines this troubling development, recognizing that there are no easy solutions to the problem. Lacking workable solutions, Americans will have to adjust to a future of slow economic growth, with all that implies for inter-generational progress, American strength abroad and political conflict at home. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: Encounter Books,USA, New York., 2006
ISBN 10: 1594031444ISBN 13: 9781594031441
Anbieter: Doss-Haus Books, Redondo Beach, CA, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover 2006 edition. Dust jacket and boards in fine condition. Binding firm. Pages unmarked and clean.
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Verlag: Encounter Books,USA, United States, New York, 2000
ISBN 10: 1893554171ISBN 13: 9781893554177
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. "Ex-Friends" is filled with brilliant portraits of some of the cultural icons who defined our time. While it has some of the elements of a personal diary, it is also a journal de combat describing the intellectual and social turbulence of the 60s and 70s and showing how the literary living room was transformed into a political battleground where the meaning of America was fought night by night. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
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Verlag: Encounter Books,USA, United States, New York, 2015
ISBN 10: 1594038155ISBN 13: 9781594038150
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. What's it like to be the son or daughter of a dictator? A monster on the Stalin level? What's it like to bear a name synonymous with oppression, terror, and evil? Jay Nordlinger set out to answer that question, and does so in this book. He surveys 20 dictators in all. They are the worst of the worst: Stalin, Mao, Idi Amin, Pol Pot, Saddam Hussein, and so on. The book is not about them, really, though of course they figure in it. It's about their children. Some of them are absolute loyalists. They admire, revere, or worship their father. Some of them actually succeed their father as dictator--as in North Korea, Syria, and Haiti. Some of them have doubts. A couple of them become full-blown dissenters, even defectors. A few of the daughters have the experience of having their husband killed by their father. Most of these children are rocked by war, prison, exile, or other upheaval. Obviously, the children have things in common. But they are also individuals, making of life what they can. The main thing they have in common is this: They have been dealt a very, very unusual hand. What would you do, if you were the offspring of an infamous dictator, who lords it over your country? An early reader of this book said, "There's an opera on every page": a drama, a tragedy (or even a comedy). Another reader said he had read the chapter on Bokassa "with my eyes on stalks." Meet these characters for yourself. Marvel, shudder, and ponder. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Verlag: Encounter Books,USA, United States, New York, 2019
ISBN 10: 1641770783ISBN 13: 9781641770781
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Paperback. Zustand: Good. The election of 2016 prompted journalists and political scientists to write obituaries for the Republican Partyor prophecies of a new dominance. But it was all rather familiar. Whenever one of our two great parties has a setback, weve heard: This is the end of the Democratic Party, or, The Republican Party is going out of existence. Yet both survive, and thrive. We have the oldest and third oldest political parties in the worldthe Democratic Party founded in 1832 to reelect Andrew Jackson, the Republican Party founded in 1854 to oppose slavery in the territories. They are older than almost every American business, most American colleges, and many American churches. Both have seemed to face extinction in the past, and have rebounded to be competitive again. How have they managed it? Michael Barone, longtime co-author of The Almanac of American Politics, brings a deep understanding of our electoral history to the question and finds a compelling answer. He illuminates how both parties have adapted, swiftly or haltingly, to shifting opinion and emerging issues, to economic change and cultural currents, to demographic flux. At the same time, each has maintained a constant character. The Republican Party appeals to typical Americans as understood at a given time, and the Democratic Party represents a coalition of out-groups. They are the yin and yang of American political life, together providing vehicles for expressing most citizens views in a nation that has always been culturally, religiously, economically, and ethnically diverse. The election that put Donald Trump in the White House may have appeared to signal a dramatic realignment, but in fact it involved less change in political allegiances than many before, and it does not portend doom for either party. How Americas Political Parties Change (and How They Dont) astutely explains why these two oft-scorned institutions have been so resilient. The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine.
Verlag: Encounter Books, New York, NY, U.S.A., 2006
ISBN 10: 1594031401ISBN 13: 9781594031403
Anbieter: Beaver Bridge Books, Holiday Island, AR, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. SECOND PRINT. Clean, tight and bright. Mild dust jacket edge wear. Bump to upper rear board near spine. No creases, tears or stains. Mylar-protected. Not price clipped, remaindered or library withdrawn. Shipped padded in a box with tracking number provided on domestic shipping.
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Verlag: Encounter Books,USA, United States, New York, 2008
ISBN 10: 1594032238ISBN 13: 9781594032233
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. After spending decades as a deep cover officer in the CIA, Ishmael Jones conveys a true feel for the facts of real clandestine work. He tells his story straight and with dry wit. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Verlag: Encounter Books, New York, New York, U.S.A., 2009
ISBN 10: 159403253XISBN 13: 9781594032530
Anbieter: The Book House, Inc. - St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA
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Hard Cover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Very good hardcover, very good dust jacket.
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Verlag: Encounter Books,USA, United States, New York, 2020
ISBN 10: 1641771828ISBN 13: 9781641771825
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Paperback. Zustand: Fine. With private space companies launching rockets, satellites, and people at a record pace, and with the U.S. and other governments committing to a future in space, Glenn Harlan Reynolds looks at how we got here, where we're going, and why it matters for all of humanity.
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Verlag: Encounter Books,USA, New York, 2000
ISBN 10: 1893554104ISBN 13: 9781893554108
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Each of Siegel's three urban portraits--New York, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles,-- shows the desperate remedies undertaken by cities searching for a lifeline back to the future whose promise they once seemed to embody. In a narrative that acknowledges the large historical forces that have remade the face of America over the last three decades, but insists that social policies are not merely foregone conclusions waiting to happen, Siegel holds up a mirror to our urban naure and tells us much about the way we live now. Each of the author's three urban portraits - New York, Washington, DC, and Los Angeles, - shows the desperate remedies undertaken by cities searching for a lifeline back to the future whose promise they once seemed to embody. This book holds up a mirror to our urban naure and tells us much about the way we live. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: Encounter Books,USA, New York, 2000
ISBN 10: 1893554120ISBN 13: 9781893554122
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. A huge success in hardcover, The Killing of History argues that history today is in the clutches of literary and social theorists who have little respect for or training in the discipline. He believes that they deny the existence of truth and substitute radically chic theorizing for real knowledge about the past. The result is revolutionary and unprecedented: contemporary historians are increasingly obscuring the facts on which truth about the past is built. In The Killing of History, Windschuttle offers a devastating expose of these developments. This fascinating narrative leads us into a series of case histories that demonstrate how radical theory has attempted to replace the learning of traditional history with its own political agenda. Offers an expose of attempts to substitute radically chic theorizing for real knowledge about the past. This book presents a series of case histories that demonstrate how radical theory has attempted to replace the learning of traditional history with its own political agenda. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: Encounter Books,USA, New York, 2017
ISBN 10: 1594039682ISBN 13: 9781594039683
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Violent crime has been rising sharply in many American cities after two decades of decline. Homicides jumped nearly 17 percent in 2015 in the largest 50 cities, the biggest one-year increase since 1993. The reason is what Heather Mac Donald first identified nationally as the Ferguson effect: Since the 2014 police shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, officers have been backing off of proactive policing, and criminals are becoming emboldened. This book expands on Mac Donalds groundbreaking and controversial reporting on the Ferguson effect and the criminal-justice system. It deconstructs the central narrative of the Black Lives Matter movement: that racist cops are the greatest threat to young black males. On the contrary, it is criminals and gangbangers who are responsible for the high black homicide death rate. exposes the truth about officer use of force and explodes the conceit of mass incarceration. A rigorous analysis of data shows that crime, not race, drives police actions and prison rates. The growth of proactive policing in the 1990s, along with lengthened sentences for violent crime, saved thousands of minority lives. In fact, Mac Donald argues, no government agency is more dedicated to the proposition that black lives matter than todays data-driven, accountable police department. Mac Donald gives voice to the many residents of high-crime neighborhoods who want proactive policing. She warns that race-based attacks on the criminal-justice system, from the White House on down, are eroding the authority of law and putting lives at risk. This book is a call for a more honest and informed debate about policing, crime, and race. New York Times Best Seller Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: Encounter Books,USA, New York, 2015
ISBN 10: 1594037620ISBN 13: 9781594037627
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. American society has become anti-male. Men are sensing the backlash and are consciously and unconsciously going "on strike." They are dropping out of college, leaving the workforce and avoiding marriage and fatherhood at alarming rates. The trend is so pronounced that a number of books have been written about this "man-child" phenomenon, concluding that men have taken a vacation from responsibility simply because they can. But why should men participate in a system that seems to be increasingly stacked against them? As Men on Strike demonstrates, men aren't dropping out because they are stuck in arrested development. They are instead acting rationally in response to the lack of incentives society offers them to be responsible fathers, husbands and providers. In addition, men are going on strike, either consciously or unconsciously, because they do not want to be injured by the myriad of laws, attitudes and hostility against them for the crime of happening to be male in the twenty-first century. Men are starting to fight back against the backlash. Men on Strike explains their battle cry. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: Encounter Books,USA, New York, 2021
ISBN 10: 1641771267ISBN 13: 9781641771269
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Part history, part political analysis, and part memoir, Mexifornia is an intensely personal work by one of our most important writers. Victor Davis Hanson, known for his military histories and his social commentary, is a fifth-generation Californian who lives on a family farm in the Central Valley and has written eloquent elegies on the decline of agrarianism, Fields Without Dreams and The Land Was Everything. Here too, he ponders what has changed in California over the past quarter century, examining how the state and the Southwest more broadlyindeed, the entire nationhave been altered by hemorrhaging borders.Hanson admires the ambition and vigor of immigrants who have helped make California strong, but he indicts the disordered immigration policies that led to the present mess. He also illuminates the ways those policies are harmful to people who have come from Mexico and Central America seeking a better life in the United States.Nearly twenty years after the first publication of Mexifornia, Hanson offers an update on the continuing tragedy of illegal immigration. At the same time, he remains hopeful that our traditions of integration, assimilation, and intermarriage may yet remedy a predicament created by politicians and ideologues. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: Encounter Books,USA, New York, 2023
ISBN 10: 1641773014ISBN 13: 9781641773010
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. For the better part of a century, the Left has been waging a slow, methodicalbattle for control of the institutions of Western civilization. During most of that time, business and American Big Business, in particular remained the last redoubt for those who believe in free people, free markets, and the criticality of private property. Over the past two decades, however, that has changed, and the Left has taken its long march to thelast remaining non-Leftist institution. Over the course of the past two years or so, a smallhandful of politicians on the Right Senators Tom Cotton, Marco Rubio, and Josh Hawley, to name three have begun to sense that something is wrong with American business and have sought to identify the problem and offer solutions to rectify it. While the attention of high-profile politicians to the issue is welcome, to date the solutions they have proposed are inadequate, for a variety of reasons, including a failure to grasp the scope of the problem, failure to understand the mechanisms of corporate governance, and an overreliance on state-imposed, top-down solutions. This book provides a comprehensive overview of the problem and the players involved, both on the aggressive, hardcharging Left and in the nascent conservative resistance. It explains what the Left is doing and how and why the Right must be prepared and willing to fight back to save this critical aspect of American culture from becoming another, more economically powerful version of the woke college campus. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: Encounter Books,USA, New York, 2023
ISBN 10: 1641773138ISBN 13: 9781641773133
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. We live in the democratic age. So wrote Alexis de Tocqueville in 1835, in his magisterial work, Democracy in America. Tocqueville thought this meant that as each nation left behind the vestiges of its aristocracy, life for its citizens or subjects would be increasingly isolated and lonely.In America, we know of our growing isolation and loneliness. What of the Middle East? In the Middle East today, citizens and subjects live amid a profound tension: Familial and tribal linkages hold them fast, and at the same time rapid modernization has left them as isolated and lonely as so many Americans are today. The looming question, anticipated so long ago by Tocqueville, is how they will respond to this isolation and loneliness.Joshua Mitchell has spent years teaching Tocquevilles social theory, in America and the Arab Gulf, and with Tocqueville in Arabia, he offers a profound account of how the crisis of isolation and loneliness is playing out in similar and in different ways, in America and in the Middle East. We live in a time rife with mutual misunderstandings between America and the Middle East. Tocqueville in Arabia offers a guide to the present, troubled times, leavened by the authors hopes about the future. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: Encounter Books,USA, New York, 2020
ISBN 10: 1641771887ISBN 13: 9781641771887
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. In Admirable Evasions, Theodore Dalrymple explains why human self-understanding has not been bettered by the false promises of the different schools of psychological thought. Most psychological explanations of human behavior are not only ludicrously inadequate oversimplifications, argues Dalrymple, they are socially harmful in that they allow those Dalrymple explains why human self-understanding has not been bettered by the promises of psychological thought. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.