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Reading Our Minds
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The Imperator
The Imperator introduces us to an eerily familiar yet decidedly distinct parallel universe, where a fascinating collection of personalities live and love, lie and cheat, plot and scheme, and desperately try to solve their world’s problems. Samuel Sopra, a wealthy businessman harboring a quiet certitude that he’d look particularly dashing in a military uniform, has decided to run for president of a country called Columbusa. His adult daughter Juliet, a teacher who prefers to live a “real life,” has moved across the country, far from the shadow of her famous, larger-than-life father. Columbusa is a country beset with paradoxes. Many of its own making. Some adhere to political and social positions that conflict with their own best interests. During a series of informal gatherings, Juliet’s new friends and neighbors begin sharing thoughts on solving problems. They want to make a difference. One will decide to run for the Senate. Others suggest forming a new party. But outside, and in secret, powerful self-interested forces are at play...and Columbusa is on the verge of autocracy.
Bulletin
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Operation Solo
Operation Solo is America's greatest spy story. For 27 years, Morris Childs, code name "Agent 58", provided the United States with the Kremlin's innermost secrets. Repeatedly risking his life, "Agent 58" made 57 clandestine missions into the Soviet Union, China, Eastern Europe, and Cuba. Because of his high ranking in the American communist party and his position as editor of its official paper, the Daily Worker, he was treated like royalty by communist leaders such as Khrushchev, Brezhnev, and Mao Tse-tung. Through first-hand accounts, Operation Solo tells the story of the conflicts within the FBI and American intelligence about the operation, and how the FBI, through extraordinary measures, managed to keep that operation hidden from everyone, including the CIA. Operation Solo will appeal to movie audiences looking forward to Steven Spielberg's upcoming blockbuster movie, Bridge of Spies.
The Leap of Faith
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Why are citizens in some countries more willing to pay taxes than in other countries? This book examines the history of the relationship between citizens and their states in five countries, (Sweden, Britain, Italy, Romania, and the United States), and demonstrates how and why people in in some countries have come to trust the government with their money while in other countries they do not. The book explores the evolution of this relationship in detail, in each case showing how some governments developed the fiscal and technical capacity to tax their citizens fairly and deliver public services efficiently. In short, how and why some countries became more trustworthy than others. The volume concludes by examining the implications of these five cases for developing countries today and the lessons that can be learned.
Farmland
In Bicentennial America, prominent families vie to fill the power vacuum soon anticipated to be left behind by the ailing "Granny" Adeline Gable, a matriarch who has ruled rural Ashford County for decades from her hilltop mansion, and who has long been rumored to have devious dealings with a clandestine cabal. But the longer Adeline lingers the more impatient the families get and soon plots are contrived that could speed along her demise and free up much of the land and resources she has controlled over her time in power. By forming secret alliances and weaponizing sex, deception, and even God, can the families navigate into an uncertain future or will their lust for fortune and power spell their downfall? Residents of Ashford County know its long and haunted history and they know that choosing to live within its rustic confines means playing a dark and dangerous game. Who will come out victorious? And who will lose everything, including innocence, inheritance, and everlasting love?
Hearings
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