Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 928
Book Description
CIS Annual
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 928
Book Description
Code of Federal Regulations
Author: Code of Federal Regulations, Title 40, Protection of Environment, Pt. 72-80, Revised as of July 1, 2011
Author: U. s. Government Printing OfficePublisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN: 9780160889172
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1220
Book Description
In Praise of Commercial Culture
Author: Tyler COWENPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674029933
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Does a market economy encourage or discourage music, literature, and the visual arts? Do economic forces of supply and demand help or harm the pursuit of creativity? This book seeks to redress the current intellectual and popular balance and to encourage a more favorable attitude toward the commercialization of culture that we associate with modernity. Economist Tyler Cowen argues that the capitalist market economy is a vital but underappreciated institutional framework for supporting a plurality of co-existing artistic visions, providing a steady stream of new and satisfying creations, supporting both high and low culture, helping consumers and artists refine their tastes, and paying homage to the past by capturing, reproducing, and disseminating it. Contemporary culture, Cowen argues, is flourishing in its various manifestations, including the visual arts, literature, music, architecture, and the cinema. Successful high culture usually comes out of a healthy and prosperous popular culture. Shakespeare and Mozart were highly popular in their own time. Beethoven's later, less accessible music was made possible in part by his early popularity. Today, consumer demand ensures that archival blues recordings, a wide array of past and current symphonies, and this week's Top 40 hit sit side by side in the music megastore. High and low culture indeed complement each other. Cowen's philosophy of cultural optimism stands in opposition to the many varieties of cultural pessimism found among conservatives, neo-conservatives, the Frankfurt School, and some versions of the political correctness and multiculturalist movements, as well as historical figures, including Rousseau and Plato. He shows that even when contemporary culture is thriving, it appears degenerate, as evidenced by the widespread acceptance of pessimism. He ends by considering the reasons why cultural pessimism has such a powerful hold on intellectuals and opinion-makers.
Code of Federal Regulations
Author: United States. Department of the TreasuryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural laws and legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
Special edition of the Federal register, containing a codification of documents of general applicability and future effect as of Apr. 1 ... with ancillaries.
The Pig Book
Author: Citizens Against Government WastePublisher: St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN: 146685314X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
The federal government wastes your tax dollars worse than a drunken sailor on shore leave. The 1984 Grace Commission uncovered that the Department of Defense spent $640 for a toilet seat and $436 for a hammer. Twenty years later things weren't much better. In 2004, Congress spent a record-breaking $22.9 billion dollars of your money on 10,656 of their pork-barrel projects. The war on terror has a lot to do with the record $413 billion in deficit spending, but it's also the result of pork over the last 18 years the likes of: - $50 million for an indoor rain forest in Iowa - $102 million to study screwworms which were long ago eradicated from American soil - $273,000 to combat goth culture in Missouri - $2.2 million to renovate the North Pole (Lucky for Santa!) - $50,000 for a tattoo removal program in California - $1 million for ornamental fish research Funny in some instances and jaw-droppingly stupid and wasteful in others, The Pig Book proves one thing about Capitol Hill: pork is king!
Code of Federal Regulations, Title 7, Agriculture, PT. 27-52, Revised as of January 1, 2013
Author: U S Office of the Federal RegisterPublisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN: 9780160916465
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 636
Book Description
The Code of Federal Regulations is a codification of the general and permanent rules published in the Federal Register by the Executive departments and agencies of the United States Federal Government.
Code of Federal Regulations, Title 12, Banks and Banking, PT. 300-499, Revised as of January 1, 2012
Author: Office of the Federal Register (U.S.) StaffPublisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN: 9780160900877
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1136
Book Description
Code of Federal Regulations, Title 14, Aeronautics and Space, Pt. 1200-End, Revised As of January 1 2013
Author: National Archives and Records AdministrationPublisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN: 9780160916823
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Code of Federal Regulations, Title 39, Postal Service, Revised As of July 1 2012
Author: Office of the Federal Register (U.S.) StaffPublisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN: 9780160911835
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
The Code of Federal Regulations is a codification of the general and permanent rules published in the Federal Register by the Executive departments and agencies of the United States Federal Government.