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Deflation: What Happens When Prices Fall

Collins, 2004

MAY 6, 2003, WAS AN EXTRAORDINARY DAY IN Washington, D.C. The Federal Reserve held its Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting in its two-storied chandeliered boardroom at the central bank's white marble temple on Constitution Avenue. Now, there was nothing unusual about the FOMC gathering. The committee meets...

The Foreign Office Mind: The Making of British Foreign Policy, 1865-1914

Cambridge University Press, 2011

With this pioneering approach to the study of international history, T. G. Otte reconstructs the underlying principles, elite perceptions and 'unspoken assumptions' that shaped British foreign policy between the death of Palmerston and the outbreak of the First World War. Grounded in a wide range of public and private archival...

The Rights of Public Employees, Second Edition: The Basic ACLU Guide to the Rights of Public Employees (ACLU Handbook)

Southern Illinois University Press, 1993

In this revised and updated edition of The Rights of Public Employees, Robert M. O’Neil broadens the focus from government employees to all public employees, emphasizing the public-service nature of the occupations and professions of such individuals. Using a question-and-answer format, O’Neil covers such topics as...

American Breakdown: The Trump Years and How They Befell Us

Verso, 2019

How Trump got to the Oval Office—and how both parties and the mainstream media are keeping him there

Donald Trump’s residency in the White House is not an accident of American history, and it can’t be blamed on a single cause. In American Breakdown, David Bromwich provides an essential analysis of...

The New Stock Market: Law, Economics, and Policy

Columbia University Press, 2019

The U.S. stock market has been transformed over the last twenty-five years. Once a market in which human beings traded at human speeds, it is now an electronic market pervaded by algorithmic trading, conducted at speeds nearing that of light. High-frequency traders participate in a large portion of all transactions, and a significant...

The Great Inflation and Its Aftermath: The Past and Future of American Affluence

Random House, 2008

It’s a giant gap in our history. The Great Inflation, argues award-winning columnist Robert J. Samuelson in this provocative book, was the worst domestic policy blunder of the postwar era and played a crucial role in transforming American politics, economy, and everyday life–and yet its story is hardly remembered or appreciated. In...

Building Internet Firewalls

O'Reilly, 1995

More than a million systems are now connected to the Internet, and something like 15 million people in 100 countries on all seven continents use Internet services. More than 100 million email messages are exchanged each day, along with countless files, documents, and audio and video images.Everyone is jumping on the Internet bandwagon. Once a...

The Routledge Handbook of Feminist Economics (Routledge International Handbooks)

Routledge, 2021

We are delighted to have finalized the Handbook of Feminist Economics project we began in summer 2018. We set off with the goal of taking stock of the accumulated wisdom on feminist economics from the social provisioning perspective to feminist economics, delineated by Marilyn Power in 2004. Power’s short piece inductively...

Kamikaze: Japan's Suicide Gods

Linworth Publishing, 2002

The untold story of the Kamikaze pilots, a remarkable piece of military history and one of the most dramatic developments of World War II.

* Gripping real-life stories of life & death.
* Contains original material, interviews and new sources including excerpts from a never-before published suicide manual.
* Reports...

Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Performance Tuning Cookbook

Packt Publishing, 2012

Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Performance Tuning Cookbook is divided into three major parts—Performance Monitoring, Performance Tuning, and Performance Management—that are mandatory for dealing with performance in any capacity.

Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Performance Tuning Cookbook offers a great way to manage...

Trade Facilitation Capacity Needs: Policy Directions for National and Regional Development in West Africa

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of both national and regional trade facilitation capacities, issues, challenges and lessons, with a special interest in sustainably advancing West Africa’s regional trade facilitation agenda. It examines the contributions of trade facilitation towards enhancing regional integration and economic...

The Addiction Counselor's Desk Reference

John Wiley & Sons, 2005

We prepared this book to provide addiction counselors—and others whose work
involves them with addicted people—with useful, easily accessible, up-to-date
information.

Since addicted clients challenge even the most highly skilled counselor, every
available skill and resource helps. How does one help a client who...

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