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National Issues Forums Institute
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The immigration issue affects virtually every American, directly or indirectly, often in deeply personal ways. This guide is designed to help people deliberate together about how we should approach the issue. The three options presented here reflect different ways of understanding what is at stake and force us to think about what matters most to us when we face difficult problems that involve all of us and that do not have perfect solutions. This...
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Publisher
Regnery Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
America's immigration crisis is out of control!
Unregulated immigration has led to an increase in crime, a loss of working class jobs, an inflated welfare state, and an elevated amount of terror threats on our home territory. The clash of differing emotions, facts, and opinions reveal that this issue is not simply a nationwide disagreement; it is an American crisis.
In The Politically Incorrect Guide to Immigration, authors John Zmirak and Al...
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Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
The Biggest Untold Economic Story of Our Time. Here is the truth that the powerful Dirty Energy public relations machine doesn't want you to know: the ascent of solar energy is upon us. Solar-generated electricity has risen exponentially in the last few years and employment in the solar industry has doubled since 2009. Meanwhile, electricity from coal has declined to pre-World War II levels as the fossil fuel industry continues to shed jobs. Danny...
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Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Can a cell phone cause a major explosion at a gas station? What would happen if the 3 oz rule at airports was abolished? And are all the child protection measures really making children safer? These rules exist in the name of our own protection, but has anyone ever stopped to consider exactly how and why? In Playing by the Rules , authors Tracey Brown and Michael Hanlon dig deeper to discover the real reasons behind many of the global safety rules...
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Publisher
National Issues Forums Institute
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Health Care: How Can We Reduce Costs and Still Get the Care we Need? clarifies this difficult challenge and offers three options to address issues through changes in the way hospitals and doctors function, end-of-life-care, unhealthy lifestyles, smoking habits, employee wellness, health insurance, childbirth procedures, the pharmaceutical industry and reforms in Medicare, Medicaid, and the Affordable Care Act. It's a balanced, open-minded look at...
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Publisher
National Issues Forums Institute
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Projections in 2013 showed that the Social Security Trust Fund could run out of money in 2033. Growing federal deficits and a rising national debt have made many wonder whether Social Security will soon become too great a burden on the workers who have to pay for it... Many Americans are reexamining the principles on which Social Security is based and are thinking anew about the nature of individual responsibility. What does the government owe the...
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Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Solutions ... not theories. Political progress ... not political posturing. Instead of the constant jockeying for political advantage, in What Works , author and columnist Cal Thomas focuses on what promotes the general welfare, regardless of which party or ideology gets the credit. Thomas probes and provides answers to questions like, Why must we constantly fight the same battles over and over? Why don't we consult the past and use common sense in...
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Publisher
Big Kid Science
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Is human-induced global warming a real threat to our future? Most people will express an opinion on this question, but relatively few can back their opinions with solid evidence. Many times we've even heard pundits say "I am not a scientist" to avoid the issue altogether. But the truth is, the basic science is not that difficult. Using a question and answer format, this book will help readers achieve three major goals: To see that anyone can understand...
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Publisher
Baraka Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
At a time when austerity is claimed by some to be the only answer to today's economic woes, a close look at the best practices used in Scandinavia is edifying. Decision makers everywhere dispose of ample evidence showing that social determinants have an impact on health and wellbeing. Yet governments develop policies that diverge enormously. Scandinavian countries are often cited as models for their egalitarian social and health policies but are also...
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Publisher
Independent Institute
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Providing students of economics, politics, and policy with a concise explanation of public choice, markets, property, and political and economic processes, this record identifies what kinds of actions are beyond the ability of government. Combining public choice with studies of the value of property rights, markets, and institutions, this account produces a much different picture of modern political economy than the one accepted by mainstream political...
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Publisher
Republic Book Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"The good name of true science, which has transformed the world we live in marvelous ways over the last 200 years, has been hijacked for several decades by politicians seeking to employ science and scientists in support of dubious political goals. They have used their power over grants to universities and their power over federal regulatory agencies and United Nations initiatives to this end. Bogus Science examines a series of scares perpetrated by...
Author
Publisher
National Issues Forums Institute
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
For many Americans, the recovery from the 2007 recession, a recovery that officially began in 2009, feels very remote, or nonexistent. Even as the stock market surges and millions of jobs have been created, they see a very different picture. Many Americans still believe in the basic notion that anyone who works hard should be able to support a family and get ahead. What can we do to make that happen?
13) Soaring Above Co-Addiction: Helping your loved one get clean, while creating the life of your dreams
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Publisher
Twin Feather Publishing
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
In this memoir-style self-help book, the author shares her own experience of how she overcame the obstacles of co-addiction by utilizing tools such as affirmations and visualization. The reader learns all of the traditional methods of recovery, such as detachment and tough love, while also learning to master the power of the mind.
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Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Climate change is causing larger and more frequent weather disasters. Floods are the most frequent and costly in the United States, causing $17 billion annually in damages between 2010 and 2018 -- and experts predict damages will double by 2051. How should we respond? Climate change expert Bill Becker argues we should not respond by building more flood-control structures like dams, levees, and seawalls. That was the policy of the last century. The...
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English
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Corporations have a huge influence on the life of every citizen -- this book offers a visionary but practical plan to give every citizen a say in how corporations are run while also gaining some supplemental income. It lays out a clear approach that uses the mechanisms of the private market to hold corporations accountable to the public. This would happen through the creation of what the authors call the Universal Fund, a kind of national, democratic,...
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"For nearly 70 years, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has played a crucial role in developing policies and recommendations for dealing with intangible cultural heritage. What has been the effect of such sweeping global policies on those actually affected by them? How connected is UNESCO with what is happening every day, on the ground, in local communities? Drawing upon six communities ranging across three...
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Publisher
Indiana University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"A study of Botswana's dual face of prosperity and poverty and that relates to its land use policies. Transformations on the Ground considers the ways in which power in all its forms -- local, international, legal, familial -- affects the collision of global with local concerns over access to land and control over its use. In Botswana's struggle to access international economies, few resources are as fundamental and fraught as control over land. On...
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Publisher
Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Retirement shouldn't be just for the rich: "Finally, a practical plan to address Americans' lack of adequate retirement savings."--Michael Bloomberg Everyone deserves to be able to retire with dignity, but this core feature of the social contract is in jeopardy. Companies have swerved away from pensions, and most of the workforce has woefully inadequate retirement savings. If we don't act to fix this broken system, rates of impoverishment for senior...
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Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Four entirely new chapters take up where the current edition leaves off to tell the story behind what president Bill Clinton calls "the most astonishing thing politically in the world we're living in today." Estabrook reveals how a rag-tag group of migrant tomato pickers in Florida convinced the world's largest restaurant chains and food retailers to join forces to create a model for labor justice, and then took the necessary steps to make sure that...
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Publisher
New Society Publishers
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
"A sustainability expert goes beyond renewables, calling on us to combat the climate crisis with a new, low-energy way of life. Concerns over climate change and energy depletion are increasing exponentially. Mainstream solutions still assume that some miracle will cure our climate ills without requiring us to change our energy-intensive lifestyle. But switching from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources isn't enough. We need a Plan C. In response...
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