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Fat Chance
Beating the Odds Against Sugar, Processed Food, Obesity, and Disease
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2012
New York Times Bestseller
Robert Lustig’s 90-minute YouTube video “Sugar: The Bitter Truth”, has been viewed more than three million times. Now, in this much anticipated book, he documents the science and the politics that has led to the pandemic of chronic disease over the last 30 years.
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The World Is Fat
The Fads, Trends, Policies, and Products That Are Fatteningthe Human Race
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2008
A compelling look at the global trends that have led to today's obesity crisis
The planet's 1.6 billion overweight people by far outnumber the 700 million who are undernourished. This figure would have seemed ludicrous just fifty years ago. As a result of unprecedented trends in technology,...
Summary of A Passion for Leadership
by Robert Gates | Includes Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
Summary of A Passion for Leadership by Robert Gates | Includes Analysis Preview: A Passion for Leadership is an advice manual for those who want to enact reform from a position of leadership in a bureaucratic organization. It also examines the challenges of reforming...
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 Mark R. Levin in his book “Ameritopia, The Unmaking of America”. This summary offers a concise overview of the entire book in less than 30 minutes reading time. However this work does not replace in any case Mark R....
Hot Property
The Stealing of Ideas in an Age of Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
The problem of pirating and counterfeiting has grown from small-scale imitations of Levi’s jeans and Zippo lighters to a phenomenon that costs the United States an estimated $200 billion dollars per year. Pirated DVDs, computer software, designer clothes, and machinery flood global markets, inflicting...
Il più grande crimine
Ecco cosa è accaduto veramente alla democrazia e alla ricchezza comune. E a vantaggio di chi.
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 2, 2013
Era la fine dell’estate 2010 quando Paolo Barnard, giornalista, denunciò per la prima volta in Italia con forza e determinazione la truffa rappresentata dal sistema dell’Euro, la moneta unica. Lo fece sul proprio sito www.paolobarnard.info, pubblicando proprio lì la prima versione...
Nonna, ti spiego la crisi economica
"Il più grande crimine" spiegato agli anziani, agli adolescenti e a persone del tutto digiune di economia
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 2, 2013
Nonna: «Ah! E le tasse allora? Non è con le tasse che poi ci toccava di ripagare il debito pubblico? Sai quante tasse abbiamo pagato io e tuo nonno?».
Paolo: «No! Le tasse non sono mai servite a ripagare alcunché. Nonna! Ti ho detto che il debito dello Stato...
In alto il deficit!
Superare la crisi uscendo dall’Euro ed emettendo moneta per finanziare occupazione e servizi
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 21, 2013
Warren Mosler conosce il funzionamento della moneta come pochi, e ne ha una visione del tutto non convenzionale: in poche parole spazza via tutti i falsi miti economici (diffusi tra i molti, a vantaggio di pochi), quali la carenza di denaro o l’inevitabilità dei tagli alla spesa pubblica,...
by John David
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
"John David's satirical style and clever sense of humor succinctly put in to words, how many of us feel about the electoral process."
"This writer is spot on . . . making him one of the biggest dreamers in America at the present time. His writing is eloquent and concise."...
Pages From My Life
A Liberal Arts Background for a Fundraising Career
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2010
Pages From My Life emphasizes how a general liberal arts background can serve as a basis for a successful career with voluntary organizations that require grants from foundations, corporations, government, and individuals, obtained by the submission of fundraising proposals drafted by associates....
Greedy Bastards
How We Can Stop Corporate Communists, Banksters, and Other Vampires from Sucking America Dry
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012
The host of the eponymous MSNBC show, Dylan Ratigan offers a bold and original post-partisan program to resuscitate the American Dream.
At a time of deep concern with the state of America’s economy and government, it seems that all the media can give us is talking (or screaming) heads who...
Economic Politics in the United States
The Costs and Risks of Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2013
Employing macroeconomic performance as a lens to evaluate democratic institutions, the author uses models of political behavior that allow for opportunism on the part of public officials and shortsightedness on the part of voters to see if democratic institutions lead to inferior macroeconomic performance....
by Yerzhan Dosmukhamedov
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2011
Kazakhstan's Assassinated Democracy describes how the highest levels of government in Kazakhstan are attempting to suppress the country's genuine democratization particularly through the case of a political party Atameken. It is based on extensive interviews with Dr. Yerzhan K. Dosmukhamedov...
Welfare for the Wealthy
Parties, Social Spending, and Inequality in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
How does political party control determine changes to social policy, and by extension, influence inequality in America? Conventional theories show that Democratic control of the federal government produces more social expenditures and less inequality. Welfare for the Wealthy re-examines this relationship...