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The Greatest Story Oversold: Understanding Economic Globalization
""Free trade"" was touted as a way to make economies more efficient and productive, and a strategy that would also benefit small businesses and workers. Instead, as author Stan Duncan says, ""Corporate and political powers have contorted and stacked the decks of the financial machinery that runs the earth in such a way that rewards the rich and extracts payments from the poor.""
The Greatest Story Oversold helps general readers understand the various global economic forces at work today. In non-technical language Duncan explains the ""rules"" and general practices of transnational corporations and global lenders like the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. He connects the dots between what happens ""here"" and what happens ""there,"" addressing the impact of specific issues like the global banking crisis, third world debt, NAFTA, and immigration.
The Black Horse Pike
The Black Horse Pike, like many roads in southern New Jersey, developed along a route forged by the Leni-Lenape, and its path remains virtually unchanged today. The pike follows the contours of Timber Creek, with towns established at landings and not the usual crossroads, making it unique. Lumber and charcoal were loaded onto flatboats and floated up the creek to market. Churches and stores soon joined the mills and taverns clustered along the banks. Over time, trains replaced flatboats, but no mode of transportation could compete with cars and trucks for flexibility and convenience. Progress rapidly established the many towns along the Black Horse Pike, and it just as quickly dimmed their future. While the high-speed roads that bypass the Black Horse Pike towns may have quashed their commercial futures, generations of citizens have worked tirelessly to preserve the essence of these historic towns.
The Developer: Phase III (Avenue into the Abyss)
In this third novel of “The Developer” trilogy, real estate developer, Alexander “Xander” Kellogg, is confronted with his murder conspiracy trial and a series of complications that threaten his legacy as an office building tycoon. Kellogg is determined to overcome the challenges by initiating several lawsuits as well as resorting to bribery and extortion plots. Through his desperate maneuvers, Kellogg creates many enemies.The rapid expansion of risky loans at Kellogg’s bank causes regulatory problems while plummeting oil prices drive office building vacancy rates to record high levels. Kellogg’s clever finance schemes and strategic marriage results in an unexpected fateful twist.
Human Rights and Structural Adjustment
'Structural adjustment' has been a central part of the development strategy for the 'third world'. Loans made by the World Bank and the IMF have been conditional on developing countries pursuing rapid economic liberalization programmes as it was believed this would strengthen their economies in the long run. M. Rodwan Abouharb and David Cingranelli argue that, conversely, structural adjustment agreements usually cause increased hardship for the poor, greater civil conflict, and more repression of human rights, therefore resulting in a lower rate of economic development. Greater exposure to structural adjustment has increased the prevalence of anti-government protests, riots and rebellion. It has led to less respect for economic and social rights, physical integrity rights, and worker rights, but more respect for democratic rights. Based on these findings, the authors recommend a human rights-based approach to economic development.
Who Killed Alexander Kellogg?: The Developer Epilogue
Denver office developer, Alexander Kellogg, is likely murdered in a powerful home explosion. His wife, Maggie Donaldson; a South American drug cartel; a ruthless bookmaker; and a prominent U.S. congressman are the prime suspects. Alexander's brother, Robert, desperately tries to save Kellogg Development Company after its default on a $350 million office portfolio loan, as well as defending several lawsuits. Maggie, who has fled to Switzerland, has stolen $70 million from the development company, plus $9 million of the cartel's partnership funds. Maggie enlists her daughter, Chanelle, in the caper to share in the wealth. The FBI and Interpol decline to get involved in Maggie's disappearance, although Robert Kellogg, a private investigator, a dedicated police detective, and a crafty district attorney collaborate to solve the murder mystery. The Department of Justice ultimately intercedes in the investigation and its ambitious U.S. Attorney issues an arrest warrant.
Building a Man
Is there a single decision or discovery that makes an adult out of a child? Follow the adventures and misadventures of a young urban American Indian as he fumbles his way toward answers to that question. Born fatherless and impoverished, Ravenspeaker must learn the secrets of responsibility and self-determination without the guidance of a very young mother in need of these lessons herself. He must navigate horrific circumstances, incredible humiliation, and seemingly insurmountable hopelessness to get there. Along the way, he meets very special people who show him pieces of the puzzle he is missing. With each new discovery, he gets closer to understanding what life-changing principle they all have in common. Building a Man has the potential to change lives for the better. Read it.
Courting Democracy in Mexico
This book documents Mexico's gradual transition to democracy, written from a perspective which pits opposition activists' post-electoral conflicts against their usage of regime-constructed electoral courts at the centre of the democratization process. It addresses the puzzle of why, during key moments of Mexico's 27-year democratic transition, opposition parties failed to use autonomous electoral courts established to mitigate the country's often violent post-electoral disputes, despite formal guarantees of court independence from the Party of the Institutional Revolution (PRI), Mexico's ruling party for 71 years (preceeding the watershed 2000 presidential elections). Drawing on hundreds of author interviews throughout Mexico over a three-year period and extensive archival research, the author explores choices by the rightist National Action Party (PAN) and the leftist Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) between post-electoral conflict resolution via electoral courts and via traditional routes - mobilization and bargaining with the PRI-state.
Which School? for Special Needs 2009/2010
This guide offers parents a comprehensive directory of independent and non-maintained schools in Britain which provide for children with sensory or physical impairment, learning difficulties, and emotional or behavioural problems.
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