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81) Government 2.0
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This book uses some common sense analysis of both technological advances and people's changing attitudes toward the role of government. The author also looks at the way the banks have controlled the government up to this point. This financial model is shown to be at the breaking point for various reasons. The author gets the reader to see that we are at a tipping point whether we are ready for it or not. Rather than a doom and gloom book this is an...
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Se trata de una descripción y revisión crítica de cómo funcionan las organizaciones de nuestro tiempo.
Los dos primeros capítulos están dedicados a delimitar la sociología de las organizaciones y a precisar el contexto de su emergencia.
Los siguientes se orientan al examen de diferentes modelos de organización, desde el burocrático industrial hasta nuevas formas más flexibles y menos formales.
Tal examen se hace desde la óptica de la...
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"Seamos realistas: pidamos lo imposible", aquella consigna inspiradora del Mayo francés, perdió en las últimas décadas una sílaba y todo su sentido. Hoy, la mayoría de la clase dirigente en los países occidentales suscribiría a la módica aspiración de negociar lo posible. ¿Negociar con quién? La cultura del capital financiero domina desde hace décadas la política, la economía y el sentido común, y ha logrado convencer a buena parte...
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Have you ever pictured your life as a secret shopper? Do you share my old attitude of 'that's a job for a bored homemaker's pin money' or 'that's all a scam'? Surprise! It's neither, if you know how to play your cards right.
True Secret Shopper Diaries is a tell all book that paints a picture in words of what a secret shopper actually does; where one has to live; what special tools and skills are required; how to make more than pin money shopping;...
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Our nation was, founded on basic principles of capitalism, independence and most importantly, democracy (one person, one vote). But in the last forty years (since President Ronald Reagan), we have gradually seen our democratic form of government erode; replaced by a cabal of huge moneyed corporations, special interest groups, lobbyists and the ultra-wealthy, all of them free to spend whatever it takes to get our elected officials to do their bidding....
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Also known as "the free market economy" or " free enterprises", capitalism represents and economic system which encompasses factories, production lines, shipping agencies and many other work fields where several people can own their private practices while employing others. Even the world "capital" is interconnected with all the different types of resources, such as human and material resources.
This book will present the reader with a brief history...
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Are the rich bad for society? The author of this book, a successful Canadian entrepreneur who made his fortune and created 3000 jobs, has written a manifesto celebrating the achievements of people who have earned their wealth. He says that many of the critics are overlooking one crucial thing: We need business people to build companies and generate wealth to keep the economy going. That's the only way to generate the wealth that pays for government...
89) Chalcot Crescent
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269 pages ; 21 cm
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By 2013, capitalism has collapsed in Europe, and England has turned to protectionist policies, communal farms, and an intrusive National Unity Government that feeds its citizens National Meat Loaf and monitors people by street-corner CiviCams. In this bleak near-future, Frances Prideaux, once a successful writer of feminist novels and a proud product of the era of sexual liberation, is rehashing the sins of her past. As bailiffs try to repossess her...
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ix, 301 pages ; 25 cm
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A sparklingly strange odyssey through the kaleidoscope of America's new spirituality: the cults, practices, high priests and prophets of our supposedly post-religion age.
Fifty-five years have passed since the cover of Time magazine proclaimed the death of God and while participation in mainstream religion has indeed plummeted, Americans have never been more spiritually busy. While rejecting traditional worship in unprecedented numbers, today's Americans...
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"A groundbreaking exploration of the relationship between humans and the natural world where two great economic ideologies converge. Along the Bering Strait, through the territories of the Inupiat and Yupik in Alaska, and the Yupik and Chukchi in Russia, Bathsheba Demuth explores an ecosystem that has long sustained human beings. Yet when Americans and Europeans arrived with self-serving ideas of human progress, the Chukchi and Seward Peninsulas and...
92) Trump
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v, 68 pages ; 19 cm
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"The election of Donald Trump as President of the United States sent shockwaves across the globe. How was such an outcome even possible? And how can we move beyond the deep crisis of Western democracy that the election of Trump represents? In two lectures given at American universities in the immediate aftermath of the election, the leading French philosopher Alain Badiou helps us to make sense of this extraordinary event. He argues that Trump's victory...
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1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
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After twelve years of suffering mysterious disappearances of society's most-productive individuals, the nation's economy is on the verge of collapse. As the government pursues policies imposing even greater brutality against those remaining, Dagny Taggart, Vice President of Taggart Transcontinental, must make a choice between saving the nation's collapsing infrestructure or the man she has come to love - the man who would stop the motor of the World....
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xxi, 340 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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"Over the past two centuries or so, capitalism has undergone profound changes--economic cycles that veer from boom to bust--from which it has always emerged transformed and strengthened. Surveying this turbulent history, Paul Mason's Postcapitalism argues that we are on the brink of a change so big and so profound that this time capitalism itself, the immensely complex system within which entire societies function, will mutate into something wholly...
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Two educated, experienced people start a new business. Both are well-funded, in good locations and advertise brilliantly. One grows, the other fails. After 40 years of small business ownership, and observing other small businesses, Fran learned the most important factor for business survival is attitude. Fran shares what inspires her business "survive & thrive" attitude.
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There are two types of people on planet earth today.
• Native Analogs: These are Baby Boomers and Gen Xers born anywhere from the 1940s all the way up to the early '80s.
• Native Digitals: These are Millennials and Gen Zers born between the early 1980s to as recently as the 2010s.
The difference?
Native Analogs grew up in a time when technology was an addition, or better yet, a distraction from their real lives. Whereas Native Digitals grew...
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In the heart of Africa's quest for progress and prosperity, a groundbreaking solution emerges to combat the age-old adversaries of greed and corruption. "The AI Solution: The Rise of AI Against Greed and Corruption" embarks on a gripping journey that fuses cutting-edge technology with Africa's indomitable spirit. Through the captivating lens of Artificial Intelligence (AI), this book unravels the historical roots of corruption and wealth disparities,...
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In a long history of ruination and destruction, neoliberalism is the most recent and virulent form of capitalism. This book is a call to action against the most persistent and pestilent disease of our time. Translated into over twenty different languages, the book offers a call to action that transcends local contexts and speaks to the violent global conditions of our neoliberal age.
Fuck Neoliberalism: Translating Resistance is a worldwide middle...
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'When I had to give up my university studies 35 years ago I was so angry that I wanted to leave South Africa, get military training and an AK47 and come back to kill evil white people ... I'm just as angry now as I feel my economic freedom is under threat, but I'm staying to fight for what I believe in.'When Nelson Mandela became South Africa's president in 1994, Herman Mashaba thought his struggle for personal and economic freedom was over, the battle...
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Imagine a capitalist paradise. An island utopia governed
solely by the rules of the market and inspired by the fictions
of Ayn Rand and Robinson Crusoe. Sound far-fetched? It may not
be. The past half century is littered with the remains of such
experiments in what Raymond Craib calls
"libertarian exit." Often dismissed as little more than the
dreams of crazy, rich Caucasians, exit strategies have been
tried out from the southwest Pacific to the Caribbean,...
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