Independent: 429 books
Nature Unbound
Bureaucracy vs. the Environment
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
What if what we think we know about ecology and environmental policy is just wrong? What if environmental laws often make things worse? What if the very idea of nature has been hijacked by politics? What if wilderness is something we create in our minds, as opposed to being an actual description of...
by Julie Monahan
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2014
A memoir of a tough Irish childhood and a mother’s love In a dank Dublin tenement in 1942, Julie meets a stranger – her father. Like her severely ill sisters, her father is on the periphery of her early family life, whereas her ma is her bedrock – a feisty hard-working woman who singlehandedly struggles...
by
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2006
The quest for freedom has always been as much a battle of ideas as it is a popular struggle. Classical liberal pioneers such as John Locke and Adam Smith stressed the inherent worth of the individual, inalienable rights, and the benevolent consequences of the cooperative, peaceful pursuit of one's...
by
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2007
Broken into four sections, this book illustrates the history of American foreign policy and demonstrates the current applicability of a non-interventionist model. For the past century, U.S. foreign policy has rested on the assumption that Americans’ interests are best served by active intervention...
Future
Economic Peril or Prosperity?
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
What will the economy look like in fifty years? How will our lives as consumers and workers be transformed by the coming innovations in technology, the marketplace, and the workplace? How will changes in demographics and dependency affect our political system? Will economic freedom rise or fall? What,...
Recarving Rushmore
Ranking the Presidents on Peace, Prosperity, and Liberty
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Evaluating presidents on the merits of whether their policies promoted peace, prosperity, and liberty, this ranking system takes a distinctly new approach. Historians and scholars have long tended to give higher rankings to presidents who served during wartime, were well spoken, or exceeded in expanding...
Vietnam Rising
Culture and Change in Asia's Tiger Cub
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2008
From Vietnam’s recent acceptance into the World Trade Organization to its post-Vietnam War reform and socialist ideals, this overview concisely examines the cultural, political, and economic changes currently at work in Vietnam within a historical context and then discusses the effects such changes...
by Independent Forum for Faith and Media
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
This series of e-booklets was commissioned by the IFFM to provide media professionals with quick reference material on the religious traditions in South Africa. They will be published in the order in which we receive them from the representatives of the faith traditions. This does not imply that it...
Gun Control in the Third Reich
Disarming the Jews and "Enemies of the State"
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Based on newly discovered secret documents from German archives, diaries, and newspapers of the time, Gun Control in the Third Reich presents the definitive yet hidden history of how the Nazi dictatorship made use of gun control to disarm and repress its enemies and consolidate its power. The countless...
by Independent Forum for Faith and Media
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
This series of e-booklets was commissioned by the IFFM to provide media professionals with quick reference material on the religious traditions in South Africa. They will be published in the order in which we receive them from the representatives of the faith traditions. This does not imply that it...
Boom and Bust Banking
The Causes and Cures of the Great Recession
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Exploring the forceful renewal of the boom-and-bust cycle after several decades of economic stability, this book is a research-based review of the factors that caused the 2008 recession. It offers cutting-edge diagnoses of the recession and prescriptions on how to boost the economy from leading economists. The...
Judge and Jury
American Tort Law on Trial
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2006
Is the United States tort system in crisis? CBS television’s 60 Minutes has said the tort system metes out "jackpot justice," and Newsweek has called America a "Lawsuit Hell." Other observers of the legal system, however, argue that the tort crisis is a myth. Although both sides...
Plowshares & Pork Barrels
The Political Economy of Agriculture
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2005
Agricultural subsidies in grains, cotton, milk, sugar, tobacco, honey, wool, and peanuts are analyzed in this examination of U.S. farm policy. Looking at such programs as food stamps, crop insurance, subsidized credit, trade credit, trade subsidies and import restrictions, conservation, agricultural...
Regulation and the Reagan Era
Politics, Bureaucracy and the Public Interest
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Was the so-called “Reagan Revolution” a disappointment regarding the federal systems of special-interest regulation? Many of that administration's friends as well as its opponents think so. But under what criteria? To what extent? And why? When Ronald Reagan was elected in 1980, the popular belief...