Contents: 1. The next industrial revolution 2. Reinventing the wheels: Hypercars and neighborhoods 3. Waste not 4. Making the world 5. Building blocks 6. Tunneling through the cost barrier etc.
This new edition of the preeminent history of Latin America has been brought up to date in all areas, examining the implications of the end of the Cold War on U.S.-Latin America realtions, such recent developments as international drug trafficking, and the ongoing trend away from authoritarian regimes toward civilian leaders and elected goverments.
The contents of this book: Part 1 - Defining Human Rights And Delimiting The Scope of Freedom of Expression Part 2 - The Core of Freedom Of Expression: Government Regulations and Acts Taken to Affect Messages Part 3 - Theoretical Perspectives on Freedom of Expression
Inside the Pentagon Papers addresses legal and moral issues that resonate today as debates continue over government secrecy and democracy’s requisite demand for truthfully informed citizens. In the process, it also shows how a closer study of this signal event can illuminate questions of government responsibility in any era. Contents: 1. Creating the Pentagon papers 2. Publishing the paper…
This book will be a wake-up call, describing in jaw-dropping detail the story of what the anti-choice movement is doing to the rights to birth control, abortion, and privacy.
In each generation, for different reasons, America witnesses a tug of war between the instinct to suppress and the instinct for openness. Today, with the perception of a mortal threat from terrorists, the instinct to suppress is in the ascendancy. Part of the reason for this is the trauma that our country experienced on September 11, 2001, and part of the reason is that the people who are in ch…
Paul Krugman's popular guide to the economic landscape of the 1990s has been revised and updated to take into account economic developments of the past three years. New material in the third edition includes: - A new chapter—complete with colorful examples from Lloyds of London and Sumitomo Metals—on how risky behavior can lead to disaster in private markets. - An evaluation of the Federa…
In this vivid portrait of the new business world, Thomas L. Friedman shows how technology, capital, and information are transforming the global marketplace, leveling old geographic and geopolitical boundaries. With bold reporting and acute analysis, Friedman dramatizes the conflict between globalizing forces and local cultures, and he shows why a balance between progress and the preservation of…
In the post-Cold War world, U.S.-Asian relations remain central to U.S. policy. Fault lines in the Taiwan Straits and on the Korean peninsula require the daily vigilance of U.S. and Asian policymakers. Asia's continued recovery from the 1997 financial crisis depends in part upon the health of the American economy. And as domestic political change accelerates across Asia, relations must be recal…
The current global financial crisis carries a “made-in-America” label. In this forthright and incisive book, Nobel Laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz explains how America exported bad economics, bad policies, and bad behavior to the rest of the world, only to cobble together a haphazard and ineffective response when the markets finally seized up. Drawing on his academic expertise, his years spent …