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Ever wondered how Wentworth Miller rose to stardom? Prior to reaching A-list status, Wentworth Miller struggled for years to make ends meet in Hollywood. His rugged good looks may entice one to think that he was born and raised for the film industry. In realty, Miller was born into a world far removed from the glitz and glamour of Tinsel Town. He was born in Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, England on June 2nd, 1972. Despite his birth country, Miller’s parents are both American, and so he earned dual citizenship. His father, Wentworth Earl Miller Jr. is a lawyer, teacher and Rhodes scholar, while his mother, Joy Marie, is a special education teacher. His mixed ancestry is perhaps what lends him such physical appeal to television watchers and filmgoers. On his father’s side, Miller’s ancestry is a mixture of African-American, Caribbean, English and German. He inherited a completely different mix from his mother, who is Swedish, French, Polish, Austrian, and Middle Eastern. For more interesting facts you must read his biography. Grab Your biography book NOW!
This book implements a conceptual framework for examining the post-modern, sociocultural Israeli scene that facilitates and triggers a search for meaning among its contemporary citizens. It combines theory, data, and illustrative case studies to unravel a variety of significant and fundamental manifestations of this quest as it is seen under existential duress.
A benchmark in the history of economics and of political ideas, Rothschild shows us the origins of laissez-faire economic thought and its relation to political conseratism in an unquiet world.
This book attempts to correct the impression created by Western media that Sub-Saharan Africa is in a state of anarchy. The text analyzes and shows that while many Sub-Saharan African nations are experiencing the worst time of their history, others are enjoying their best times. Thus, the text argues that although some parts of Africa are experiencing crisis, the continent is also a fine region of major new experiments in governance, peace building and free market transformation programs. Finally, the text focuses some of its analyses on the colonial legacy, economic and ethnic transformation, indigenous institutions and other forces that seem to influence the governance of Sub-Saharan African nations.
A provocative history of the changing values that have given rise to our present discontents. We pursue power, pleasure, and profit. We want as much as we can get, and we deploy instrumental reasoning—cost-benefit analysis—to get it. We judge ourselves and others by how well we succeed. It is a way of life and thought that seems natural, inevitable, and inescapable. As David Wootton shows, it is anything but. In Power, Pleasure, and Profit, he traces an intellectual and cultural revolution that replaced the older systems of Aristotelian ethics and Christian morality with the iron cage of instrumental reasoning that now gives shape and purpose to our lives. Wootton guides us through four ...
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This open access book examines the chronic underperformance of economies with respect to inclusion, sustainability and resilience. It finds that the standard liberal economic growth and development model has evolved over the past century in a fundamentally unbalanced manner that underemphasizes the crucial role of institutions – legal norms, policy incentives and public administrative capacities – in translating market-based growth in the production of goods and services into broad and sustainable gains in social welfare at the household level. Correcting this imbalance of emphasis in economic theory and policy between markets and institutions, production and distribution, and national i...