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Big White Ghetto

Dead Broke, Stone-Cold Stupid, and High on Rage in the Dank Woolly Wilds of the "Real America"

By: Kevin D. Williamson

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Big White Ghetto

Dead Broke, Stone-Cold Stupid, and High on Rage in the Dank Woolly Wilds of the "Real America"

By: Kevin D. Williamson

You can't truly understand the country you're living in without reading Williamson." —Rich Lowry, National Review "His observations on American culture, history, and politics capture the moment we're in—and where we are going." —Dana Perino, Fox News An Appalachian economy that uses cases of Pepsi as money. Life in a homeless camp in Austin. A young woman whose résumé reads, “Topless Chick, Uncredited.” Remorselessly unsentimental, Kevin D. Williamson is a chronicler of American underclass dysfunction unlike any other. From the hollows of Eastern Kentucky to the porn business in Las Vegas, from the casinos of Atlantic City to the heroin rehabs of New Orleans, he depicts an often brutal reality that does not fit nicely into any political narrative or comfort any partisan. Coming from the world he writes about, Williamson understands it in a way that most commentators on American politics and culture simply can’t. In these sometimes savage and often hilarious essays, he takes readers on a wild tour of the wreckage of the American republic—the “white minstrel show” of right-wing grievance politics, progressive politicians addicted to gambling revenue, the culture of passive victimhood, and the reality of permanent poverty. Unsparing yet never unsympathetic, Big White Ghetto provides essential insight into an enormous but forgotten segment of American society.

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Simon and Schuster

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1621579948

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9781621579946

Kant’s Theory of Emotion

Emotional Universalism

By: D. Williamson

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Kant’s Theory of Emotion

Emotional Universalism

By: D. Williamson

Williamson explains, defends, and applies Kant's theory of emotion. Looking primarily to the Anthropology and the Metaphysics of Morals, she situates Kant's theory of affect within his theory of feeling and focuses on the importance of moral feelings and the moral evaluation of our emotions.

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Springer

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1137498102

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9781137498106

The Origins of Larvae

By: D. Williamson

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The Origins of Larvae

By: D. Williamson

Many biological facts are irreconcilable with the assumption that larvae and adults evolved from the same genetic stock. The author of this book draws attention to these, and presents his alternative hypothesis that larvae have been transferred from one taxon to another. In his previous book (Larvae and Evolution, 1992), the author used larval transfer to explain developmental anomalies in eight animal phyla. In the present book, he claims that the basic forms of all larvae and all embryos have been transferred from foreign taxa. This leads to a new, comprehensive theory on the origin of embryos and larvae, replacing the discredited 'recapitulation' theory of Haeckel (1866). Metamorphosis, previously unexplained, represents a change in taxon during development.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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9401703574

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9789401703574

What Doomed Detroit

By: Kevin D. Williamson

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What Doomed Detroit

By: Kevin D. Williamson

Many cities have struggled with the decline of key industries, from Philadelphia’s shipyards to New York’s textile industry, but Detroit—which is now in bankruptcy—is both a victim of the decline of the Michigan automobile industry and a cause of it. A city with a history of civil disorder—it is the only American city occupied on three separate occasions by federal troops—its poisonous blend of race-based politics and union domination has left it impoverished and diminished. Once the fourth-largest city in the country, it is today smaller than Fort Worth. Once the nation’s most prosperous city, it is today the poorest. Even in its reduced state, it is the largest U.S. city ever to file for bankruptcy—and yet its city payroll maintains twice as many government employees per resident as does San Jose. More terrifying is the fact that the imbalance between public-sector consumption and private-sector production that helped make Detroit what it is today is by no means limited to the Motor City—in fact, there are four large U.S. cities that are in arguably worse shape. Detroit is not just a case study, but a portent.

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Encounter Books

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1594037477

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9781594037474

Nationalized Politics

Evaluating Electoral Politics Across Time

By: Jamie L. Carson,Joel Sievert,Ryan D. Williamson

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Nationalized Politics

Evaluating Electoral Politics Across Time

By: Jamie L. Carson,Joel Sievert,Ryan D. Williamson

Nationalized Politics asks and answers the question, "how has nationalization influenced US elections across different political eras?" Jamie L. Carson, Joel Sievert, and Ryan D. Williamson look at historical variation in nationalization through an analysis of congressional elections from 1840 to 2020. By examining roughly 180 years of elections, the authors leverage considerable differences in electoral competition, electoral rules, nationalization, polarization, and partisan advantage via the incumbency advantage. Moreover, Carson, Sievert, and Williamson employ a unique survey design to capture citizen attitudes toward the nationalization of politics to further consider the question of how nationalization is currently shaping politics.

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209

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Oxford University Press

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0197669662

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9780197669662

Politically Incorrect Guide to Socialism

By: Kevin D. Williamson

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Politically Incorrect Guide to Socialism

By: Kevin D. Williamson

In The Politically Incorrect Guide™ to Socialism, Kevin Williamson reveals the fatal flaw of socialism—that efficient, complex economies simply can’t be centrally planned. But even in America, that hasn’t stopped politicians and bureaucrats from planning, to various extents, the most vital sectors of our economy: public education, energy, and the most arrogant central–planning effort of them all, Obama’s healthcare plan.In this provocative book, Williamson unfolds the grim history of socialism, showing how the ideology has spawned crushing poverty, devastating famines, and horrific wars. Lumbering from one crisis to the next, leaving a trail of economic devastation and environmental catastrophe, socialism has wreaked more havoc, caused more deaths, and impoverished more people than any other ideology in history—especially when you include the victims of fascism, which Williamson notes is simply a variant of socialism.

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Simon and Schuster

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1596981741

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9781596981744

First Steps toward Détente

American Diplomacy in the Berlin Crisis, 1958–1963

By: Richard D. Williamson

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First Steps toward Détente

American Diplomacy in the Berlin Crisis, 1958–1963

By: Richard D. Williamson

Richard Williamson’s First Steps toward Détente provides a history of negotiations conducted from 1958-1963 between the United States, its Western allies in Europe, and the Soviet Union, in order to resolve the Berlin crisis. These negotiations established ongoing patterns of backchannel, ambassadorial, foreign minister and heads of state discussions. From Khrushchev's visit to the United States in 1959 and the difficult Paris 1960 and Vienna 1961 summits to the construction of the Berlin Wall, disarmament remained a parallel concern dependent on Berlin’s resolution. Throughout most of 1962, the United States and Soviets made rigorous attempts to break a stalemate at Checkpoint Charlie, though neither side was truly ready to forfeit. Ultimately, the renewal of Berlin harassments and the Cuban missile crisis put an end to these efforts, but the closer relations that had developed through Berlin talks helped to enable the Limited Test Ban Treaty in 1963. The Berlin Crisis signaled a transition away from multilateral East-West relations to a bilateral U.S.-Soviet relationship, remaining oriented to military positions in Germany. In this book, Williamson explores the significance of these events and shows how the negotiations held between 1958 and 1963 provided the templates for détente.

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Lexington Books

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0739168819

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9780739168813

The Principalship from A to Z

By: Ronald D. Williamson,Barbara R. Blackburn

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The Principalship from A to Z

By: Ronald D. Williamson,Barbara R. Blackburn

Like the other books in the A-Z series, this book provides practical tools and activities that can be used immediately to improve your practice. This guide offers specific strategies that will help you become a more effective principal. There are 26 chapters in this book, one for each letter of the alphabet. Companion Study Guide Available

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Eye On Education

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159667105X

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9781596671058

The Case Against Trump

By: Kevin D. Williamson

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The Case Against Trump

By: Kevin D. Williamson

Donald Trump, who rocketed to the top of the polls in the early GOP primary race, is an unlikely Republican front-runner: a longtime supporter of Democratic politicians with a history of taking views opposed to those of mainstream conservatives. A household name for his reality-television show and his tawdry tabloid history, he has connected with an underappreciated strain of right-wing populists by focusing his fire on a single issue: immigration. In this Broadside, Kevin D. Williamson takes a hard look at the Trump phenomenon and the failures of the national Republican leadership – and defects in our national character – that gave it life. Trump may or may not be in the race for the long haul, but in either case, Trumpism will remain a force.

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Encounter Books

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1594038783

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The Smallest Minority

Independent Thinking in the Age of Mob Politics

By: Kevin D. Williamson

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The Smallest Minority

Independent Thinking in the Age of Mob Politics

By: Kevin D. Williamson

The most profane, hilarious, and insightful book I've read in quite a while." — BEN SHAPIRO "Kevin Williamson's gonzo merger of polemic, autobiography, and batsh*t craziness is totally brilliant." — JOHN PODHORETZ, Commentary "Ideological minorities – including the smallest minority, the individual – can get trampled by the unity stampede (as my friend Kevin Williamson masterfully elucidates in his new book, The Smallest Minority)." — JONAH GOLDBERG “The Smallest Minority is the perfect antidote to our heedless age of populist politics. It is a book unafraid to tell the people that they’re awful.” — NATIONAL REVIEW "Williamson is blistering and irreverent, stepping without doubt on more than a few toes—but, then again, that’s kind of the point." — THE NEW CRITERION "Stylish, unrestrained, and straight from the mind of a pissed-off genius." — THE WASHINGTON FREE BEACON Kevin Williamson is "shocking and brutal" (RUTH MARCUS, Washington Post), "a total jack**s" (WILL SALETAN, Slate), and "totally reprehensible" (PAUL KRUGMAN, New York Times). Reader beware: Kevin D. Williamson—the lively, literary firebrand from National Review who was too hot for The Atlantic to handle—comes to bury democracy, not to praise it. With electrifying honesty and spirit, Williamson takes a flamethrower to mob politics, the “beast with many heads” that haunts social media and what currently passes for real life. It’s destroying our capacity for individualism and dragging us down “the Road to Smurfdom, the place where the deracinated demos of the Twitter age finds itself feeling small and blue.” The Smallest Minority is by no means a memoir, though Williamson does reflect on that “tawdry little episode” with The Atlantic in which he became all-too-intimately acquainted with mob outrage and the forces of tribalism. Rather, this book is a dizzying tour through a world you’ll be horrified to recognize as your own. With biting appraisals of social media (“an economy of Willy Lomans,” political hustlers (“that certain kind of man or woman…who will kiss the collective ass of the mob”), journalists (“a contemptible union of neediness and arrogance”) and identity politics (“identity is more accessible than policy, which requires effort”), The Smallest Minority is a defiant, funny, and terrifyingly insightful book about what we human beings have done to ourselves.

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Simon and Schuster

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1621579778

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The End Is Near and It's Going to Be Awesome

How Going Broke Will Leave America Richer, Happier, and More Secure

By: Kevin D. Williamson

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The End Is Near and It's Going to Be Awesome

How Going Broke Will Leave America Richer, Happier, and More Secure

By: Kevin D. Williamson

In The End Is Near and It’s Going to Be Awesome, Kevin Williamson, a National Review Online contributor, makes the bold argument that the United States government is disintegrating—and that it is a good thing! Williamson offers a radical re-envisioning of government, a powerful analysis of why it doesn’t work, and an exploration of the innovative solutions to various social problems that are spontaneously emerging as a result of the failure of politics and government. Critical and compelling, The End Is Near and It’s Going to Be Awesome: How Going Broke Will Leave America Richer, Happier, and More Secure lays out a thoughtful plan for a new system, one based on success stories from around the country, from those who home-school their children to others who have successfully created their own currency.

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Harper Collins

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0062220705

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9780062220707

Larvae and Evolution

Toward a New Zoology

By: D. Williamson

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Larvae and Evolution

Toward a New Zoology

By: D. Williamson

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9401580774

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9789401580779

Macroeconomics

By: Stephen D. Williamson

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Macroeconomics

By: Stephen D. Williamson

The Williamson text provides a modern approach to macroeconomics in which core economic theory is explained with a focus on the micro foundations of macroeconomic theory. Williamson uses the fundamental concepts learned in microeconomics to understand macroeconomics. KEY TOPICS: Introduction; Measurement; Business Cycle Measurement; Consumer and Firm Behaviour: The Work-Leisure Decision and Profit Maximization; A Closed-Economy One-Period Macroeconomic Model; Search and Unemployment; Economic Growth: Malthus and Solow; Income Disparity Among Countries and Endogenous Growth; A Two-Period Model: The Consumption-Savings Decision and Credit Markets; Credit Market Imperfections: Credit Frictions, Financial Crises, and Social Security; A Real Intertemporal Model with Investment; Money, Banking, Prices, and Monetary Policy; Business Cycle Models with Flexible Prices and Wages; New Keynesian Economics: Sticky Prices; Inflation: Phillips Curves and Neo-Fisherism; International Trade in Goods and Assets; Money in the Open Economy; Money, Inflation, and Banking MARKET: Appropriate for intermediate macroeconomics courses.

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0133847144

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9780133847147

eBook Instant Access - for Macroeconomics, International Edition

By: Stephen D. Williamson

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By: Stephen D. Williamson

For undergraduate Macroeconomics courses. A modern approach to macroeconomics. Williamson’s Macroeconomics uses a thoroughly modern approach by showing students how to build macroeconomic models from microeconomic principles. This approach helps to make the text consistent with the way macroeconomic research is conducted today.

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1292000465

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Book's by D. Williamson

Big White Ghetto

Big White Ghetto

Kant’s Theory of Emotion

Kant’s Theory of Emotion

The Origins of Larvae

The Origins of Larvae

What Doomed Detroit

What Doomed Detroit

Nationalized Politics

Nationalized Politics

Politically Incorrect Guide to Socialism

Politically Incorrect Guide to Socialism

First Steps toward Détente

First Steps toward Détente

The Principalship from A to Z

The Principalship from A to Z

The Case Against Trump

The Case Against Trump

The Smallest Minority

The Smallest Minority

The End Is Near and It's Going to Be Awesome

The End Is Near and It's Going to Be Awesome

Larvae and Evolution

Larvae and Evolution

Macroeconomics

Macroeconomics

eBook Instant Access - for Macroeconomics, International Edition

eBook Instant Access - for Macroeconomics, International Edition

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