mobi, epub |eng | 2010-11-16 | Author:Evgeny Morozov

No Such Thing as Virtual Politics The danger that “slacktivism” poses in the context of authoritarian states is that it may give young people living there the wrong impression that ...

mobi |eng | 2011-02-28 | Author:Hannan, Daniel [Hannan, Daniel]

EUROPE IS DYING The state has assumed control over functions that were once discharged within families: health, education, day care, provision for the elderly. So it is perhaps no surprise ...

mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 1900-12-01 | Author:Thomas Sowell

Risk and Time To take an extreme example of how risk can vary over time, while a dollar invested in bonds in 1801 would be worth nearly a thousand dollars ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-11-01 | Author:Condoleezza Rice

Being served a strawberry drink in Dubai during a visit with Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahyan, foreign minister of the United Arab Emirates and a member of the ruling family. ...

mobi |eng | 2010-01-02 | Author:Maziar Bahari; Aimee Molloy

Chapter Thirteen The next morning, Brown Sandals came to my cell early, and with my breakfast, he gave me a pen and six pieces of paper with the names of ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-08-17 | Author:Dan Morrison

Malakal owed its largesse to the Nile. The city’s location on a high bank ten miles below the river’s confluence with the Sobat made it an ideal spot for British ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-12-27 | Author:Glenn Greenwald

Part of the rule of law is security of property rights—if you owe money on your house, for example, the bank can’t simply take it away without following the prescribed ...

epub, mobi | | | Author:James Grippando

33 At 8 A.M. Jack was ready to leave for the courthouse. Cindy had gone into the studio two hours earlier, something about morning light being best for an outdoor ...

epub |eng | 2009-03-04 | Author:Henry Patterson

Her Majesty's Government is not allowing the Northern Ireland Government to do what they want to do: to issue statements about a timetable for proper action against the Catholic barricades ...

epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Amanda Ripley

“i want to think about them as all the same.” Finland was a homogeneous place, but getting less so. The number of foreigners had increased over 600 percent since 1990, ...

epub |eng | | Author:de Mesquita Bueno & de Mesquita Bueno [Bueno, de Mesquita, Bruce & Smith, Alastair]

Dealing with Good Deed Doers We commented earlier that “Successful leaders are not above repression, suppression, oppression, or even killing their rivals, real and imagined.” The truth of this statement ...

epub, azw3 |eng | | Author:Andrew Blum

The next day I visited Witteman at the AMS-IX offices. On the wall behind his desk was a homemade mash-up of the movie poster from 300, based on the bloody ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2013-11-05 | Author:Goodwin, Doris Kearns [Goodwin, Doris Kearns]

CHAPTER NINETEEN “To Cut Mr. Taft in Two!” This Mar. 18, 1906, cartoon, “Reinforcing the Bench,” shows Roosevelt using a “Big Stick” to persuade Taft to take a seat on ...