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Robert Ball and the Politics of Social Security

By: Edward D. Berkowitz

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Robert Ball and the Politics of Social Security

By: Edward D. Berkowitz

Berkowitz tells the inside story of Social Security politics, including controversies during the 1970s, Congressional rescue of the program in 1983, and the ongoing debates about structure and solvency that have enveloped the program since the 1990s. He looks at how the Social Security Administration gained and nearly lost a reputation for administrative competence, how Medicare was put into operation, and why campaigns to create national health insurance have failed."--Jacket.

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Univ of Wisconsin Press

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0299189546

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9780299189549

Irreducible Mind

Toward a Psychology for the 21st Century

By: Edward F. Kelly,Emily Williams Kelly,Adam Crabtree

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Irreducible Mind

Toward a Psychology for the 21st Century

By: Edward F. Kelly,Emily Williams Kelly,Adam Crabtree

Current mainstream opinion in psychology, neuroscience, and philosophy of mind holds that all aspects of human mind and consciousness are generated by physical processes occurring in brains. Views of this sort have dominated recent scholarly publication. The present volume, however, demonstrates empirically that this reductive materialism is not only incomplete but false. The authors systematically marshal evidence for a variety of psychological phenomena that are extremely difficult, and in some cases clearly impossible, to account for in conventional physicalist terms. Topics addressed include phenomena of extreme psychophysical influence, memory, psychological automatisms and secondary personality, near-death experiences and allied phenomena, genius-level creativity, and 'mystical' states of consciousness both spontaneous and drug-induced. The authors further show that these rogue phenomena are more readily accommodated by an alternative 'transmission' or 'filter' theory of mind/brain relations advanced over a century ago by a largely forgotten genius, F. W. H. Myers, and developed further by his friend and colleague William James. This theory, moreover, ratifies the commonsense conception of human beings as causally effective conscious agents, and is fully compatible with leading-edge physics and neuroscience. The book should command the attention of all open-minded persons concerned with the still-unsolved mysteries of the mind.

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836

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1442202068

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9781442202061

Running Through the Ages, 2d ed.

By: Edward S. Sears

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Running Through the Ages, 2d ed.

By: Edward S. Sears

Beginning with prehumans running down prey, this book describes how ancient, medieval and modern runners have come to run ever faster. Writers of antiquity left few detailed accounts of running but in the early 1800s detailed accounts of running feats and matches appeared in newspapers, journals and books. Nineteenth century pioneers like George Seward, Harry Hutchens, Walter George and Bernie Wefers are here given long-deserved recognition. The six-day Go-as-You-Please races of the 1870s and 1880s--featuring running's first great female performer, Amy Howard--are discussed. Twentieth century luminaries Helen Stephens, Jesse Owens, Paavo Nurmi, Emil Zatopek, Bob Hayes, Abebe Bikila and Joan Benoit-Samuelson are included, along with the Bunion Derby races of 1928-1929. New material for this revised and expanded second edition includes coverage of the 1970s running boom, women marathon pioneers, the impact of drugs on running, and the feats of 21st century runners such as Usain Bolt, Paula Radcliffe and Haile Gebrselassie.

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341

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McFarland

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0786473398

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9780786473397

Louis Trezevant Wigfall

The Disintegration of the Union and Collapse of the Confederacy

By: Edward S. Cooper

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Louis Trezevant Wigfall

The Disintegration of the Union and Collapse of the Confederacy

By: Edward S. Cooper

Biography of Louis Trezevant Wigfall who, as United States Senator from Texas, did more than any other man to cause the disintegration of the Union, and as Confederate States Senator from Texas, did more than any other man to cause the collapse of the Confederacy.

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213

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1611475643

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9781611475647

Firm Value and Optimal Levels of Liquidity

By: J. Edward Graham

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Firm Value and Optimal Levels of Liquidity

By: J. Edward Graham

First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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176

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Psychology Press

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0815338023

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9780815338024

Making Social Welfare Policy in America

Three Case Studies since 1950

By: Edward D. Berkowitz

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Making Social Welfare Policy in America

Three Case Studies since 1950

By: Edward D. Berkowitz

American social welfare policy has produced a health system with skyrocketing costs, a disability insurance program that consigns many otherwise productive people to lives of inactivity, and a welfare program that attracts wide criticism. Making Social Welfare Policy in America explains how this happened by examining the historical development of three key programs—Social Security Disability Insurance, Medicare, and Temporary Aid to Needy Families. Edward D. Berkowitz traces the developments that led to each program’s creation. Policy makers often find it difficult to dislodge a program’s administrative structure, even as political, economic, and cultural circumstances change. Faced with this situation, they therefore solve contemporary problems with outdated programs and must improvise politically acceptable solutions. The results vary according to the political popularity of the program and the changes in the conventional wisdom. Some programs, such as Social Security Disability Insurance, remain in place over time. Policy makers have added new parts to Medicare to reflect modern developments. Congress has abolished Aid to Families of Dependent Children and replaced with a new program intended to encourage work among adult welfare recipients raising young children. Written in an accessible style and using a minimum of academic jargon, this book illuminates how three of our most important social welfare programs have come into existence and how they have fared over time.

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University of Chicago Press

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022669237X

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9780226692371

Kennedy and Oswald

The Big Picture

By: Judyth Baker,Edward Schwartz

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Kennedy and Oswald

The Big Picture

By: Judyth Baker,Edward Schwartz

Unraveling the many strands of hidden history behind the assassination of President Kennedy is not an easy task. Co-authors Baker and Schwartz guide us toward the conclusion that ultimately, the motivation was total governmental control, a coup d'état, changing us from a democratic republic to a oligopoly – a corporatocracy. With help from new witnesses regarding the "Crime of the Century," we are led to the realization that the "War of Terror" and the Patriot Act were predesigned to undermine our US Constitution and our Bill of Rights. The very moment Kennedy died our own government turned against "We the People." Baker and Schwartz provide a compelling narrative showing Oswald's innocence and a condemnation of the conspirators who planned and carried out the assassination of our 35th president and our Republic.

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548

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TrineDay

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1634240979

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9781634240970

Traitors

The Secession Period, November 1860-July 1861

By: Edward S. Cooper

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Traitors

The Secession Period, November 1860-July 1861

By: Edward S. Cooper

Offers documentation that officers on active duty in the army and navy of the United States secretly negotiated for positions in the Confederacy, surrendered their ships, forts, and posts to state authorities, conspired in the seizure of other forts, and deserted their posts and advised their subordinates to join them.

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Associated University Presse

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083864144X

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9780838641446

The Diversity of Life

By: Edward O. Wilson

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The Diversity of Life

By: Edward O. Wilson

This classic by the distinguished Harvard entomologist tells how life on earth evolved and became diverse, and now, how diversity and life are endangered by us, truly. While Wilson contributed a great deal to environmental ethics by calling for the preservation of whole ecosystems rather than individual species, his environmentalism appears too anthropocentric: "We should judge every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity." And: "Signals abound that the loss of life's diversity endangers not just the body but the spirit." This reprint of the 1992 Belknap Press publication contains a new foreword. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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468

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393319407

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9780393319408

Genealogy of Some Early Families in Grant and Pleasant Districts, Preston County, West Virginia, Also the Thorpe Family of Fayette County, Pennsylvania, and the Cunningham Family of Somerset County, Pennsylvania

By: Edward Thorp King

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Genealogy of Some Early Families in Grant and Pleasant Districts, Preston County, West Virginia, Also the Thorpe Family of Fayette County, Pennsylvania, and the Cunningham Family of Somerset County, Pennsylvania

By: Edward Thorp King

Grant and Pleasant Districts, in Preston County, West Virginia, were formed in 1852. The early families of Grant and Pleasant Districts, like their Maryland and Pennsylvania neighbors, were among the first to endure the rigors of mountain life. The genealogy of some of these families--Christopher, Connor, Cunningham, King, Metheny, Ryan, Street, Thorpe, Walls, Wheeler, and Wolf, those mostly of early 19th-century provenance--is the basis of this book.

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Genealogical Publishing Com

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0806307617

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9780806307619

Encyclopedia of the Blues: K-Z, index

By: Edward M. Komara

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Encyclopedia of the Blues: K-Z, index

By: Edward M. Komara

First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Taylor & Francis US

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0415927013

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9780415927017

Davy Crockett

Frontier Legend

By: George Edward Stanley

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Davy Crockett

Frontier Legend

By: George Edward Stanley

Chronicles the life and legend of American scout and explorer, Davy Crockett, including his service as a member of the House of Representatives and his death at the Alamo.

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Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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1402760574

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9781402760570

Bush

By: Jean Edward Smith

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Bush

By: Jean Edward Smith

A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of the Year Distinguished presidential biographer Jean Edward Smith offers a “comprehensive and compelling” (The New York Times) account of the life and presidency of George W. Bush, showing how he ignored his advisors to make key decisions himself—most disastrously in invading Iraq—and how these decisions were often driven by the President’s deep religious faith. George W. Bush, the forty-third president of the United States, almost singlehandedly decided to invade Iraq. It was possibly the worst foreign-policy decision ever made by a president. The consequences dominated the Bush Administration and still haunt us today. In Bush, a “well-rounded portrait…necessary and valuable in this election year” (The Christian Science Monitor), Jean Edward Smith demonstrates that it was not Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, or Condoleezza Rice, but President Bush himself who took personal control of foreign policy. Bush drew on his deep religious conviction that important foreign-policy decisions were simply a matter of good versus evil. Domestically, he overreacted to 9/11 and endangered Americans’ civil liberties. Smith explains that it wasn’t until the financial crisis of 2008 that Bush finally accepted expert advice. As a result, he authorized decisions that saved the economy from possible collapse, even though some of those decisions violated Bush’s own political philosophy. “An excellent initial assessment of a presidency that began in controversy…and ended with the international and domestic failures that saddled Bush with the most sustained negative ratings of any modern president” (Dallas Morning News), this comprehensive evaluation will surely surprise many readers. “Written in sober, smooth, snark-free prose, with an air of thoughtful, detached authority, the book is nonetheless exceedingly damning in its judgments about George W. Bush’s years in office” (The Washington Post).

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832

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Simon and Schuster

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1476741212

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9781476741215

Index of American Periodical Verse 1978

By: Sander W. Zulauf,Edward M. Cifelli

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Index of American Periodical Verse 1978

By: Sander W. Zulauf,Edward M. Cifelli

The Index of American Periodical Verse is an important work for contemporary poetry research and is an objective measure of poetry that includes poets from the United States, Canada, and the Caribbean as well as other lands, cultures, and times. It reveals trends in the output of particular poets and the cultural influences they represent. The publications indexed cover a broad cross-section of poetry, literary, scholarly, popular, general, and "little" magazines, journals, and reviews.

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Scarecrow Press

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0810813017

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9780810813014

The Regulatory State

By: Lisa Schultz Bressman,Edward L. Rubin,Kevin M. Stack

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The Regulatory State

By: Lisa Schultz Bressman,Edward L. Rubin,Kevin M. Stack

Distinguished by a practical focus on how federal administrative agencies make decisions and how political institutions influence and courts review those decisions, with coverage tailored to 1L or upper-level courses on the regulatory state or legislation and regulation. Uses primary source materials drawn from agency rules, adjudicatory orders, and guidance documents to show how lawyers engage agencies. Uses an accessible central example (auto safety) throughout to make the materials cohesive and accessible. Presents legislation with attention to modern developments in the legislative process. Presents statutory interpretation in useful terms, highlighting the “tools” that courts employ as well as the theories that judges and scholars have offered. New to the 4th Edition: Significant New Supreme Court decisions, with detailed Notes, on: textual statutory interpretation (Bostock v. Clayton County) the Major Questions Doctrine (West Virginia v. EPA) and the shifting Chevron framework arbitrary and capricious review (FCC v. Prometheus Radio Project) New Presidential and OIRA documents reshaping regulatory review, including: Executive Order on Modernizing Regulatory Review (Exec. Order 14094) Draft Revisions to Circular A-4 on Regulatory Analysis Updated coverage on scientific analysis in agency decision making New treatment of distributional analysis and consideration of equity in agency decision making Benefits for instructors and students: Tools-based approach that highlights the methods of analysis that agencies, courts, and lawyers utilize Use of an accessible central example as a familiar entry point into a complex legal area Primary source materials—agency documents, including notice-and-comment rules, adjudicatory orders, agency guidance, and more Empirical data, normative/theoretical questions, practical examples

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Aspen Publishing

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ISBN 13

9798886142044

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Robert Ball and the Politics of Social Security

Robert Ball and the Politics of Social Security

Irreducible Mind

Irreducible Mind

Running Through the Ages, 2d ed.

Running Through the Ages, 2d ed.

Louis Trezevant Wigfall

Louis Trezevant Wigfall

Firm Value and Optimal Levels of Liquidity

Firm Value and Optimal Levels of Liquidity

Making Social Welfare Policy in America

Making Social Welfare Policy in America

Kennedy and Oswald

Kennedy and Oswald

Traitors

Traitors

The Diversity of Life

The Diversity of Life

Genealogy of Some Early Families in Grant and Pleasant Districts, Preston County, West Virginia, Also the Thorpe Family of Fayette County, Pennsylvania, and the Cunningham Family of Somerset County, Pennsylvania

Genealogy of Some Early Families in Grant and Pleasant Districts, Preston County, West Virginia, Also the Thorpe Family of Fayette County, Pennsylvania, and the Cunningham Family of Somerset County, Pennsylvania

Encyclopedia of the Blues: K-Z, index

Encyclopedia of the Blues: K-Z, index

Davy Crockett

Davy Crockett

Bush

Bush

Index of American Periodical Verse 1978

Index of American Periodical Verse 1978

The Regulatory State

The Regulatory State

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