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A Force for Nature
The Story of NRDC and Its Fight to Save Our Planet
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
The world's preeminent environmental organization began with a layer of soot on the windowsill of a Greenwich Village apartment. Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) founder John H. Adams, a pioneer of environmental action, was working as a lawyer for the U.S. Attorney's office when he and fellow...
Buying a Better World
George Soros and Billionaire Philanthropy
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2015
The incredible, inside story of the man and the organization changing the way we change the world.
George Soros is well known as the legendary speculator who made a fortune betting against the British pound in 1992, but he is also a philanthropist who has spent billions in order to promote...
The Fair Tax Book
Saying Goodbye to the Income Tax and the IRS
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Wouldn't you love to abolish the IRS ...
Keep all the money in your paycheck ...
Pay taxes on what you spend, not what you earn ...
And eliminate all the fraud, hassle, and waste of our current system?
Then the FairTax is for you. In the face of the outlandish American tax burden, talk-radio...
by Alan Murray
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2010
The Tax Reform Act of 1986 was the single most sweeping change in the history of America's income tax. It was also the best political and economic story of its time. Here, in the anecdotal style of The Making of the President, two Wall Street Journal reporters provide the first complete picture of how this tax revolution went from an improbable dream to a widely hailed reality.
Der Bruch
Ursachen und Konsequenzen des Umsturzes der Verfassungsordnung Polens 20152016
Language: German
Release Date: August 5, 2016
Der Autor untersucht die Auswirkungen der Wahlsiege der rechtspopulistischen Partei «Recht und Gerechtigkeit» in 2015. Sie gewann sowohl die Präsidentschafts- als auch die Parlamentswahlen in Polen und konnte als erste Partei nach 1989 ohne Koalitionspartner eine Regierung bilden. Mit geradezu...
Paying for Pollution
Why a Carbon Tax is Good for America
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2018
The threats posed by global climate change are widely recognized and carbon emmissions are the major source of greenhouse gases accumulating in the atmosphere. Burning fossil fuels causes long-lasting, pervasive damages, costly to those of us alive today and even more to our children and our children's...
The Divide
American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST, NPR, AND KIRKUS REVIEWS
A scathing portrait of an urgent new American crisis**
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Over the last two decades, America has been falling deeper and deeper into a statistical mystery:
Poverty...
Weapons of Math Destruction
How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
**Longlisted for the National Book Award
New York Times Bestseller
A former Wall Street quant sounds an alarm on the mathematical models that pervade modern life — and threaten to rip apart our social fabric**
We live in the age of the algorithm. Increasingly, the decisions that affect...
The Signal and the Noise
Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2012
"One of the more momentous books of the decade."—The New York Times Book Review
Nate Silver built an innovative system for predicting baseball performance, predicted the 2008 election within a hair’s breadth, and became a national sensation as a blogger—all by the time he was...
This Changes Everything
Capitalism vs. The Climate
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
The most important book yet from the author of the international bestseller The Shock Doctrine, a brilliant explanation of why the climate crisis challenges us to abandon the core “free market” ideology of our time, restructure the global economy, and remake our political systems.
In short,...
The New New Deal
The Hidden Story of Change in the Obama Era
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2012
In a riveting account based on new documents and interviews with more than 400 sources on both sides of the aisle, award-winning reporter Michael Grunwald reveals the vivid story behind President Obama’s $800 billion stimulus bill, one of the most important and least understood pieces of legislation...
Common Wealth
Economics for a Crowded Planet
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2008
In Common Wealth, Jeffrey D. Sachs-one of the world's most respected economists and the author of The New York Times bestseller The End of Poverty- offers an urgent assessment of the environmental degradation, rapid population growth, and extreme poverty that threaten global peace and prosperity....
Smarter Planet?
IBM's Climate Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
On October 19, 2011, Sharon Nunes participated in The National Climate Seminar, a series of webinars sponsored by Bard College’s Center for Environmental Policy. The online seminars provide a forum for leading scientists, writers, and other experts to talk about critical issues regarding climate...
Basic Income
A Radical Proposal for a Free Society and a Sane Economy
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
Providing a basic income to everyone, rich or poor, active or inactive, was advocated by Paine, Mill, and Galbraith but the idea was never taken seriously. Today, with the welfare state creaking, it is one of the world’s most widely debated proposals. Philippe Van Parijs and Yannick Vanderborght present a comprehensive defense of this radical idea.