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OBSESSED: THE PRESIDENCY AND ILLINOIS SENATORS PERCY, STEVENSON III, SIMON

By: Robert E. Hartley

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OBSESSED: THE PRESIDENCY AND ILLINOIS SENATORS PERCY, STEVENSON III, SIMON

By: Robert E. Hartley

From history books, memoirs, news stories and public utterances it is known that untold numbers of serving United States senators dreamed of residing in the Oval Office. Many fewer committed to open pursuit of the office, and even fewer made it. Three Illinois senators from the 1950s to the 1990s- Republican Charles H. Percy, Democrats Adlai E.Stevenson III and Paul Simon-can be counted as actively engaged in the hunt, with widely differing outcomes. Each had internal and external pressures. Percy: Encouraged by Dwight Eisenhower and his brother Milton and dogged by media speculation. Stevenson III:Expected to follow in the footsteps of his greatgrandfather, and his father, Stevenson II. Simon: Ambitious to find ever-higher elective outlets for his policy ideas, and willing to take the risk. Circumstances aside, their common goal was to be president. Their stories include campaign images, and fresh perspectives based on documents.

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Xlibris Corporation

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ISBN 13

9798369400326

Paul Simon

The Political Journey of an Illinois Original

By: Robert E Hartley

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Paul Simon

The Political Journey of an Illinois Original

By: Robert E Hartley

With Paul Simon: The Political Journey of an Illinois Original, author Robert E. Hartley presents the first thorough, objective volume on the journalistic and political career of one of Illinois’s most respected public figures. Hartley’s detailed account offers a fully rounded portrait of a man whose ideals and tenacity not only spurred reform on both state and national levels during his celebrated forty-year career but also established the lasting legacy of a political legend. Simon first became a public figure at the age of nineteen, when he assumed the post of editor and publisher of a weekly newspaper in Troy, Illinois. From there, he used his paper to launch a fierce crusade against the crime and corruption plaguing Madison County. This battle sparked his entry into politics, helping to land him a seat in the state legislature in 1954. While serving, he campaigned tirelessly according to his principles, earning him the mass voter approval that would usher him into the seat of lieutenant governor in 1968—the first person elected to that position who did not share party affiliation with the governor. As lieutenant governor, Simon initiated many changes to the position, remaking it to better serve the citizens of the state of Illinois. The cornerstone of his reform plan was an ombudsman program designed to allow the people of the state to voice problems they had with government and state agencies. The program, extremely popular with the public and the press, solved problems and helped to make Simon a household name throughout Illinois. Although he faced challenges along the way, including racial upheaval in Cairo and the student and police riots on the Carbondale campus of Southern Illinois University, Simon’s outspoken honesty and strong support of his constituents earned him the utmost esteem and popularity. While his 1972 bid for governor of Illinois ultimately failed, this did not deter Simon from his dedication to social progress. In 1974 he began his remarkable twenty-two-year career in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate, where he earned the admiration of the country for his political integrity. Despite the praise and support Simon had earned during his time in Washington, he was unable to win the Democratic presidential nomination in 1988 and returned to the Senate, winning a second term in 1990. Simon committed time and energy to the myriad issues of interest to him, especially in the field of education, with one of his biggest successes coming with the passage of the National Literacy Act, which he sponsored. He continued to foster his ties to journalism throughout his lengthy political career, authoring numerous books, articles, and columns, all of which he used to relentlessly promote open government and social programs. This vivid account of the public life of Paul Simon reveals a man whose personal honor and dedication were unshakeable throughout nearly half a century in the political arena. Robert E. Hartley provides a candid perspective on Simon’s accomplishments and victories, as well as his mistakes and losses, revealing new insights into the life of this dynamic and widely respected public figure.

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SIU Press

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0809386771

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The Great American Housing Bubble

The Road to Collapse

By: Robert M. Hardaway

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The Great American Housing Bubble

The Road to Collapse

By: Robert M. Hardaway

This meticulously documented work sets forth the major causes of the greatest asset bubble in world economic history—the American housing bubble, which began in 1940 and collapsed in 2007. In the aftermath of the American housing collapse in 2007, many ask why. The Great American Housing Bubble: The Road to Collapse asks a different and more fundamental question—how the bubble was created in the first place. To answer that question, it examines the causes, both political and economic, of the American housing bubble, created between 1940 and 2007. Those causes encompass everything from federal income tax subsidies for housing to local exclusionary policies, banking, accounting, real estate appraisal, and credit agency rating practices and policies. The book also takes into account the impact of greed, government regulation, speculation, and psychology—including blind faith in investment advisors—on the creation of the greatest asset bubble in the economic history of the world. The author takes a comparative historical approach, examining the current crisis in the light of notorious bubbles of the past. In the end, he concludes that the events precipitating the most recent collapse can be traced, at least in part, not to too little government regulation, but to too much.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313382298

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9780313382291

Environmentalism Unbound

Exploring New Pathways for Change

By: Robert Gottlieb

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Environmentalism Unbound

Exploring New Pathways for Change

By: Robert Gottlieb

A call for a broadened environmental movement that addresses issues of everyday life. In Environmentalism Unbound, Robert Gottlieb proposes a new strategy for social and environmental change that involves reframing and linking the movements for environmental justice and pollution prevention. According to Gottlieb, the environmental movement's narrow conception of environment has isolated it from vital issues of everyday life, such as workplace safety, healthy communities, and food security, that are often viewed separately as industrial, community, or agricultural concerns. This fragmented approach prevents an awareness of how these issues are also environmental issues. After tracing a history of environmental perspectives on land and resources, city and countryside, and work and industry, Gottlieb focuses on three compelling examples of this new approach to social and environmental change. The first involves a small industry (dry cleaning) and the debate over pollution prevention approaches; the second involves a set of products (janitorial cleaning supplies) that may be hazardous to workers; and the third explores the obstacles and opportunities presented by community or regional approaches to food supply in the face of an increasingly globalized food system.

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MIT Press

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0262262800

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9780262262804

The Financial Crisis of Our Time

By: Robert W. Kolb

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The Financial Crisis of Our Time

By: Robert W. Kolb

In 2006 residential real estate prices peaked and started to fall, then threatened the world's financial institutions in 2007, and confronted the global economy with disaster in 2008. In the past few years, millions of people have lost very substantial portions of their wealth. And while the markets have rebounded considerably, they are still far from a full recovery. Now, professional economists, policy experts, public intellectuals, and the public at large are all struggling to understand the crisis that has engulfed us. In The Financial Crisis of Our Time, Robert W. Kolb provides an essential, comprehensive review of the context within which these events unfolded, arguing that while the crisis had no single cause, housing finance played a central role, and that to understand what happened, one must comprehend the mechanism by which the housing industry came into crisis. Kolb offers a history of the housing finance system as it developed throughout the twentieth century, and especially in the period from 1990 to 2006, showing how the originate-to-distribute model of mortgage financing presented market participants with a "clockwork of perverse incentives." In this system, various participants-simply by pursuing their narrow personal interests-participated in an elaborate mechanism that led to disaster. The book then gives a narrative of the crisis as it developed and analyzes all of the participants in the housing market, from the home buyers to investors in collaterialized debt obligations (CDOs). At each step, the book explains in a nontechnical manner the essential relationships among the market participants and zeroes in on the incentives facing each party. The book also includes an extensive glossary and a detailed, authoritative timeline of the subprime financial crisis. Offering a unique look at the participants and incentives within the housing finance industry and its role in the biggest financial catastrophe in recent history, Robert W. Kolb provides one of the most comprehensive and illuminating accounts of the events that will be studied for decades to come as the financial crisis of our time.

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Oxford University Press

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0199781303

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9780199781300

Ferdinand II, Counter-Reformation Emperor, 1578–1637

By: Robert Bireley

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Ferdinand II, Counter-Reformation Emperor, 1578–1637

By: Robert Bireley

Emperor Ferdinand II (1619–37) stands out as a crucial figure in the Counter-Reformation in central Europe, a leading player in the Thirty Years War, the most important ruler in the consolidation of the Habsburg monarchy, and the emperor who reinvigorated the office after its decline under his two predecessors. This is the first biography since a long-outdated one written in German in 1978, and the first ever in English. It looks at his reign as territorial ruler of Inner Austria from 1598 until his election as emperor and especially at the influence of his mother, the formidable Archduchess Maria, in order to understand his later policies as emperor. This book focuses on the consistency of his policies and the profound influence of religion throughout his career, and follows the contest at court between those who favored consolidation of the Habsburg lands and those who aimed for expansion in the empire.

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Cambridge University Press

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1316165205

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9781316165201

Fubarnomics

A Lighthearted, Serious Look at America's Economic Ills

By: Robert E. Wright

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Fubarnomics

A Lighthearted, Serious Look at America's Economic Ills

By: Robert E. Wright

In this witty, informative overview of contemporary economic ills, Wright takes a fresh approach to public policy by finding fault with both the government and the market, and with both Democrats and Republicans, and offers practical solutions.

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Prometheus Books

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1616143061

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9781616143060

Contours of Descent

U.S. Economic Fractures and the Landscape of Global Austerity

By: Robert Pollin

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Contours of Descent

U.S. Economic Fractures and the Landscape of Global Austerity

By: Robert Pollin

The concepts of modernity and modernism are among the most controversial and vigorously debated in contemporary philosophy and cultural theory. In this new, muscular intervention, Pollin explores these notions in a fresh and illuminating manner.

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Verso

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1859846734

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Game Plans: Sports Strategies for Business

By: Robert Keidel

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Game Plans: Sports Strategies for Business

By: Robert Keidel

This fast paced book reveals in vivid terms the parallels between baseball, football, and basketball and different types of business organizations.

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Beard Books

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1587982862

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Marketing Planning Guide, Second Edition

By: Robert E. Stevens,David L. Loudon,Bruce Wrenn,William E. Warren

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Marketing Planning Guide, Second Edition

By: Robert E. Stevens,David L. Loudon,Bruce Wrenn,William E. Warren

This newly revised book presents systematic approaches to developing marketing plans for products, services, and other situations. Philosophically sound and practically oriented, Marketing Planning Guide, Second Edition examines principles and their applications to provide a complete understanding of the marketing planning process. All aspects of marketing planning, including situation analysis, objectives, strategy, control, and implementation are thoroughly treated. Worksheets at the end of each chapter guide you in creating your own plan--once all the worksheets are completed you will have roughed out a complete marketing plan. Marketing Planning Guide, Second Edition is a valuable resource for the practitioner of marketing who is involved in the planning process and the student who is interested in learning more about what the marketing plan should contain and how to prepare it. This book shows you how to: analyze the market, consumers, the competition, and opportunities develop strategy and marketing objectives make product, place, promotional, and price decisions realize the financial impact of marketing strategies implement, audit, and control your marketing plan Changes for this second edition include more tables, more (and newer) references, and updated case studies to open each chapter. The final chapter, “Marketing Plan Implementation,” is also all-new. The material in this book has been classroom-tested for both readability and comprehension, as well as usefulness in preparing a marketing plan as part of a course assignment. The accompanying instructor’s package to Marketing Planning Guide includes a helpful150-page instructor’s manual and over 175 slide transparencies. The manual provides a detailed sample course syllabus along with a test bank featuring a muliple-choice or true-false test for each chapter, along with an answer key. The transparencies are prepared to reinforce the key points of each chapter and includes many charts, figures, and lists. This helpful instructor’s pack will save you time and will help make your course effective and thorough.

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CRC Press

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1000525082

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9781000525083

Human Resource Management

By: R. Wayne Mondy,Robert M. Noe

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Human Resource Management

By: R. Wayne Mondy,Robert M. Noe

A balance of practical and applied material which also underpins the crucial theoretical concepts that are being applied in today's human resources. For undergraduate/graduate courses in Human Resource Management.

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Pearson Educación

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9702606411

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9789702606413

Cook County Manual of Emergency Procedures

By: Robert R. Simon,Christopher Ross,Steven H. Bowman,Pierre E. Wakim

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Cook County Manual of Emergency Procedures

By: Robert R. Simon,Christopher Ross,Steven H. Bowman,Pierre E. Wakim

Written by senior faculty at Cook County Hospital, Cook County Manual of Emergency Procedures presents over 100 procedures performed in the emergency department in a templated, bulleted format. This text is an invaluable guide for the clinician who may confront a wide range of emergencies, both common and less common. Key illustrations guide the reader through topics ranging from airway management to nerve blocks, suturing, splinting, dental emergencies, and ultrasound-guided procedures. The text is supplemented with step-by-step videos of select techniques, which are available on the companion website.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1451154488

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9781451154481

Before I Wake

By: Robert J. Wiersema

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Before I Wake

By: Robert J. Wiersema

They say there are three sides to every story. Yours, mine and the truth. In Before I Wake, debut novelist Robert J. Wiersema cleverly introduces a multitude of voices to tell this astonishing story of loss, redemption and forgiveness. And the truth? Well, when miracles start happening around Sherry Barrett, a three-year-old girl in a coma, explanations of a rational kind no longer seem important. Injured by a hit-and-run driver while crossing the street, Sherry Barrett lies in a hospital where her doctors say she will never wake up. Her distraught parents, Karen and Simon, make the painful decision to take her off life support. But when they do, Sherry spontaneously begins breathing on her own, the first of many miraculous events to occur. Henry Denton, the driver who struck Sherry, is haunted by the accident and attempts to take his own life, only to be saved by an unexplained force. Sherry’s nurse discovers that the little girl has the power to heal. When word of her gift leaks, the sick begin lining up to be saved and a mysterious stranger sets his sights on vanquishing the believers and the Barretts. Before I Wake delicately brings together grandiose leaps of faith with the fragility of every day moments. There’s a fly-on-the-wall quality in Wiersema’s observations, as his realistically flawed characters struggle with guilt, self-loathing and belief while they go about their daily lives. The novel’s fractured narrative style is propulsive and unexpected at every turn, and succeeds in raising questions about times of great faith, and what happens when they happen to the most unlikely of people. “I believe in miracles — we see them around us all the time,” Wiersema says. “I believe in not having the answers, in there being forces beyond our understanding.”

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Vintage Canada

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0307371131

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9780307371133

Above the Dreamless Dead

World War I in Poetry and Comics

By: Pat Mills,Garth Ennis,Thomas Hardy,Charles Hamilton Sorley,Isaac Rosenberg,Wilfrid Wilson Gibson,Rudyard Kipling,Siegfried Sassoon,Patrick MacGill,Wilfred Owen,Osbert Sitwell,Rupert Brooke,Edward Thomas,Robert Graves,Francis Ledwidge

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Above the Dreamless Dead

World War I in Poetry and Comics

A collection of World War I poetry interpreted by cartoonists.

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Macmillan

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1626720657

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9781626720657

The Bible in Music

By: Robert Ignatius Letellier

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The Bible in Music

By: Robert Ignatius Letellier

This book explores the relationship between the Bible and the world of music, an association that is recorded from ancient times in the Old Testament, and one that has continued to characterize the cultural self-expression of Western Civilization ever since. The study surveys the emergence of this close relationship in the era following the end of the Roman Empire and through the Middle Ages, taking particular note of the role of Gregorian chant, folk music and the popularity of mystery, morality and passion plays in reflection of the Sacred Scripture and its themes during those times. With the emergence of polyphony and the advent of the Reformation in the sixteenth century, the interaction between the Bible and music increased dramatically, culminating in the evolution of opera and oratorio as specific genres during the Renaissance and the Early Baroque period. Both these genres have proved essential to the interplay between sacred revelation and the various types of music that have come to determine cultural expression in the history of Europe. The book initially provides an overview of how the various themes and types of Biblical literature have been explored in the story of Western music. It then looks closely at the role of oratorio and opera over four centuries, considering the most famous and striking examples and considering how the music has responded in different ages to the sacred text and narrative. The last chapter examines how biblical theology has been used to dramatic purpose in a particular operatic genre – that of French Grand Opera. The academic apparatus includes an iconography, a detailed bibliography and an index of biblical and musical references, themes and subjects.

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