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Why Obamacare Is Wrong for America

How the New Health Care Law Drives Up Costs, Puts Government in Charge of Your Decisions, and Threatens Your Constitutional Rights

by Grace-Marie Turner, James C. Capretta, Thomas P. Miller, Robert E. Moffit ...

Why ObamaCare is Wrong for America is the first in-depth examination of the impact of the new national health care law on American individuals, families, and businesses. Written by an esteemed quartet of experts and former health policy officials, Why ObamaCare is Wrong for America demystifies the convoluted plan that the Obama administration and a Democratic Congress pushed through, exploring its ... Read more

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Why ObamaCare is Wrong for America is the first in-depth examination of the impact of the new national health care law on American individuals, families, and businesses. Written by an esteemed quartet of experts and former health policy officials, Why ObamaCare is Wrong for America demystifies the convoluted plan that the Obama administration and a Democratic Congress pushed through, exploring its
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Public Debt Sustainability

International Perspectives

by Xavier Debrun, Pablo Guidotti, Lars Jonung, Carlos Newland, Emilio Ocampo, Jan-Egbert Sturm, Steve H. Hanke, Fredrik Ng Andersson, Charles Paul Blahous0, James C. Capretta1, Vera Z. Eichenauer2, Lars P. Feld3, Norbert J. Michel4, Wolf Heinrich Reuter5, Thomas R. Saving6, Kurt Couchman7, John Merrifield8, Barry Poulson0 ...

As countries recover from the coronavirus pandemic, they are confronted with an even more challenging debt crisis. Xavier Debrun argues in the foreword that in deciding where we go from here that there is no longer a consensus regarding the optimum design and enforcement of fiscal rules. Rather we must address a series of questions and challenges to the conventional wisdom. This book provides an ... Read more

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As countries recover from the coronavirus pandemic, they are confronted with an even more challenging debt crisis. Xavier Debrun argues in the foreword that in deciding where we go from here that there is no longer a consensus regarding the optimum design and enforcement of fiscal rules. Rather we must address a series of questions and challenges to the conventional wisdom. This book provides an
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Science, Virtue, and the Future of Humanity

by James C. Capretta, J. Daryl Charles, Patrick J. Deneen, William English, Benjamin Hippen, Adam Keiper, Charles T. Rubin, Ari N. Schulman, Benjamin Storey, Ronald Bailey, Marc D. Guerra0, Robert P. Kraynak2, Peter Augustine Lawler3 ...

Science, Virtue, and the Future of Humanity addresses each of the key public policy issues of our techno-future from the perspective of deeply informed and philosophically inclined public intellectuals. Among the issues addressed are the detachment of our idea of justice from any credible foundation; Tocqueville’s prescience on how a “cognitive elite” might be the aristocracy to be most feared in ... Read more

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Science, Virtue, and the Future of Humanity addresses each of the key public policy issues of our techno-future from the perspective of deeply informed and philosophically inclined public intellectuals. Among the issues addressed are the detachment of our idea of justice from any credible foundation; Tocqueville’s prescience on how a “cognitive elite” might be the aristocracy to be most feared in
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Kid's Treasury: 99 Classic Children's Books to Enlighten and Educate

A Treasury of Fairy Tales, Adventures, Nature Studies, Myths, and Moral Classics

by C. E. Smith, Louey Chisholm, Harrison Weir, Harriet Putnam, Thomas Lambert Sappington, Carl Sandburg, Patten Beard, Margaret Warner Morley, Hector Malot, Charles Dickens, Catharine Shaw, Evelyn Sharp, Johanna Spyri, Heinrich Hoffmann, Roy Rutherford Bailey, Pamela Grey, E. Nesbit, Edward Stratemeyer, Loïs Bates, Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Josephine Daskam Bacon, John Habberton, James Otis, Padraic Colum, Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb, E. Louise Smythe, F. J. Cross, Vesta J. Farnsworth, Douglas English, Francis Rolt-Wheeler, Ella Rodman Church, H. Lee M. Pike, Luna May Ennis, Claire Martha Coburn, Florence Emma Voigt Mendel, Mary F. Nixon-Roulet, Mary Hazelton Blanchard Wade, Wm. H. Meadowcroft, Etta Blaisdell McDonald, James H. Shaw, Georgia Eldridge Hanley, W. Harcourt Bath, Paul B. Du Chaillu, Norman F. Langford, Jean M. Thompson, W. Warde Fowler, Katharine Elizabeth Dopp, Joseph Grinnell, Elizabeth Grinnell, Alfred John Church, Homer, A. L. O. E., C. M. Stevens, Francis La Flesche, Karl Friedrich Becker, George P. Upton, Paul Hume, Ruth Fox Hume, Rebecca Deming Moore, Helen Mildred Owen, L. WÃ¼rdig, Elisha Noyce, Julia Dalrymple, Henry C. McCook, Jim Kjelgaard, William Shakespeare, Mary Elting, Edith M. Patch, Mary Proctor, Olive Thorne Miller, Kathrine Lois Scobey, Olive Brown Horne, H. R. Hall, Ray Stannard Baker, Bernadine Bailey, E. F. Buckley, Rupert Sargent Holland, Benjamin Brewster, Neltje Blanchan, Burren Laughlin, L. L. Flood, Sarath Kumar Ghosh, Dorothy Crain, Oliver Optic, Dillon Wallace, Charles H. L. Johnston, G. E. Mitton, Mary Macgregor, John Bunyan, Jesse Lyman Hurlbut, Josephine Pollard, May Farinholt Jones, Harriet Pearl Skinner ...

Kid's Treasury: 99 Classic Children's Books to Enlighten and Educate surveys the capacious educational imagination of children's literature, bringing together moral tales, folklore, adventure narratives, animal studies, historical retellings, poetry, drama, and popular fiction. Its range moves from domestic realism and cautionary fantasy to natural-history writing and inherited classical ... Read more

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Kid's Treasury: 99 Classic Children's Books to Enlighten and Educate surveys the capacious educational imagination of children's literature, bringing together moral tales, folklore, adventure narratives, animal studies, historical retellings, poetry, drama, and popular fiction. Its range moves from domestic realism and cautionary fantasy to natural-history writing and inherited classical
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The Ultimate Submarine Compendium: 36 Captivating Reads

Undersea Adventures, Naval History, Invention, and Wartime Tales from the Victorian Age to World War I

by A. Frederick Collins, Virgil D. Collins, Edward Stratemeyer, Willis J. Abbot, Charles William Sleeman, Thomas W. Corbin, Charles W. Domville-Fife, Georg-GÃ¼nther Freiherr von Forstner, Robert Fulton, Herbert C. Fyfe, Henry John Sir Newbolt, Freiherr von E. Spiegel, Farnham Bishop, Harold Wheeler, William Barclay Parsons, Paul KÃ¶nig, Ajax, Jules Verne, Luis Senarens, T. D. Hallam, Victor G. Durham, Donald Grayson, A. Hyatt Verrill, Clair W. Hayes, H. Irving Hancock, Percy F. Westerman, James R. Driscoll, G. Harvey Ralphson, Elmer Tracey Barnes, John Blaine, Roy Rockwood ...

The Ultimate Submarine Compendium: 36 Captivating Reads charts the submarine's emergence as both technological marvel and literary emblem of modernity. Ranging from technical exposition, naval history, and eyewitness-inflected discussion to adventure fiction, juvenile serials, and speculative romance, the volume reveals how undersea navigation inspired dreams of scientific mastery alongside ... Read more

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The Ultimate Submarine Compendium: 36 Captivating Reads charts the submarine's emergence as both technological marvel and literary emblem of modernity. Ranging from technical exposition, naval history, and eyewitness-inflected discussion to adventure fiction, juvenile serials, and speculative romance, the volume reveals how undersea navigation inspired dreams of scientific mastery alongside
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Aftershock

The Next Economy and America's Future

by Robert B. Reich ...

A brilliant new reading of the economic crisis—and a plan for dealing with the challenge of its aftermath—by one of our most trenchant and informed experts.When the nation’s economy foundered in 2008, blame was directed almost universally at Wall Street. But Robert B. Reich suggests a different reason for the meltdown, and for a perilous road ahead. He argues that the real problem is structural: ... Read more

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A brilliant new reading of the economic crisis—and a plan for dealing with the challenge of its aftermath—by one of our most trenchant and informed experts.When the nation’s economy foundered in 2008, blame was directed almost universally at Wall Street. But Robert B. Reich suggests a different reason for the meltdown, and for a perilous road ahead. He argues that the real problem is structural:
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Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Delphi Classics)

by Henry David Thoreau, Delphi Classics ...

Series Book 13 - Delphi Series Three
For over a hundred and fifty years, the essays, poetry and journals of the leading transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau have won the admiration of readers, due to the author’s natural observation, symbolic meanings, poetic sensibility, philosophical austerity and practical detail. This comprehensive eBook presents the complete published works of Henry David Thoreau, with numerous illustrations, ... Read more

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For over a hundred and fifty years, the essays, poetry and journals of the leading transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau have won the admiration of readers, due to the author’s natural observation, symbolic meanings, poetic sensibility, philosophical austerity and practical detail. This comprehensive eBook presents the complete published works of Henry David Thoreau, with numerous illustrations,
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One of Our Submarines

by Edward Young ...

Series series Pen & Sword Military Classics
"[Young] immortalized his distinguished war service as a submariner in the bestselling autobiography, One of Our Submarines . . . [a] gripping memoir."— The Guardian"In the very highest rank of books about the last war. Submarines are thrilling beasts, and Edward Young tells of four years' adventures in them in a good stout book with excitement on every page. He writes beautifully, economically ... Read more

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"[Young] immortalized his distinguished war service as a submariner in the bestselling autobiography, One of Our Submarines . . . [a] gripping memoir."— The Guardian"In the very highest rank of books about the last war. Submarines are thrilling beasts, and Edward Young tells of four years' adventures in them in a good stout book with excitement on every page. He writes beautifully, economically
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13 Bankers

The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown

by Simon Johnson, James Kwak ...

In spite of its key role in creating the ruinous financial crisis of 2008, the American banking industry has grown bigger, more profitable, and more resistant to regulation than ever. Anchored by six megabanks whose assets amount to more than 60 percent of the country’s gross domestic product, this oligarchy proved it could first hold the global economy hostage and then use its political muscle to ... Read more

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In spite of its key role in creating the ruinous financial crisis of 2008, the American banking industry has grown bigger, more profitable, and more resistant to regulation than ever. Anchored by six megabanks whose assets amount to more than 60 percent of the country’s gross domestic product, this oligarchy proved it could first hold the global economy hostage and then use its political muscle to
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Sea Warfare

by Rudyard Kipling ...

"Sea Warfare" by Rudyard Kipling is a compelling exploration of naval conflict and the experiences of sailors at sea. Through vivid imagery and powerful language, Kipling captures the essence of maritime battles, highlighting the bravery and camaraderie of those who serve on the ocean's front lines. The work reflects Kipling's deep understanding of the sea and its challenges, as well as the ... Read more

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"Sea Warfare" by Rudyard Kipling is a compelling exploration of naval conflict and the experiences of sailors at sea. Through vivid imagery and powerful language, Kipling captures the essence of maritime battles, highlighting the bravery and camaraderie of those who serve on the ocean's front lines. The work reflects Kipling's deep understanding of the sea and its challenges, as well as the
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Beyond Outrage: Expanded Edition

What has gone wrong with our economy and our democracy, and how to fix it

by Robert B. Reich ...

America’s economy and democracy are working for the benefit of an ever-fewer privileged and powerful people. But rather than just complain about it or give up on the system, we must join together and make it work for all of us.In this timely book, Robert B. Reich argues that nothing good happens in Washington unless citizens are energized and organized to make sure Washington acts in the public ... Read more

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America’s economy and democracy are working for the benefit of an ever-fewer privileged and powerful people. But rather than just complain about it or give up on the system, we must join together and make it work for all of us.In this timely book, Robert B. Reich argues that nothing good happens in Washington unless citizens are energized and organized to make sure Washington acts in the public
... Read more
The U-boat hunters

by James Brendan Connolly ...

What a great thing if we could do away with war! ... Read more

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What a great thing if we could do away with war!
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