Author: National Board of Trade (U.S.)
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 220

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Author: Abdul El-Sayed
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN: 1683358139
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 286

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A memoir about restoring the health of our people, and our democracy, from a physician and “one of the brightest young stars” of the progressive movement (Sen. Bernie Sanders). A child of immigrants, Abdul El-Sayed grew up feeling a responsibility to help others. He threw himself into the study of medicine and excelled—winning a Rhodes Scholarship, earning two advanced degrees, and landing a tenure-track position at Columbia University. At thirty, he became the youngest city health official in America, tasked with rebuilding Detroit’s health department after years of austerity policies. But El-Sayed found himself disillusioned. He could heal the sick—even build healthier, safer communities—but that wouldn’t address the social and economic conditions causing illness in the first place. So he left health for politics, running for Governor of Michigan and earning the support of progressive champions like Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Bernie Sanders. This memoir traces the life of a young idealist, weaving together powerful personal stories and fascinating forays into history and science. Marrying his unique perspective with the science of epidemiology, El-Sayed diagnoses an underlying epidemic afflicting our country, an epidemic of insecurity. And to heal the rifts this epidemic has created, he lays out a new direction for the progressive movement. This is a bold, personal, and compellingly original book from a prominent young leader. “In Healing Politics, Abdul El-Sayed doesn’t just diagnose the causes of our broken politics; he gives us a prescription and treatment plan.” —Representative Pramila Jayapal

Author: Madeleine Fairbairn
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501750097
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 311

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Fields of Gold critically examines the history, ideas, and political struggles surrounding the financialization of farmland. In particular, Madeleine Fairbairn focuses on developments in two of the most popular investment locations, the US and Brazil, looking at the implications of financiers' acquisition of land and control over resources for rural livelihoods and economic justice. At the heart of Fields of Gold is a tension between efforts to transform farmland into a new financial asset class, and land's physical and social properties, which frequently obstruct that transformation. But what makes the book unique among the growing body of work on the global land grab is Fairbairn's interest in those acquiring land, rather than those affected by land acquisitions. Fairbairn's work sheds ethnographic light on the actors and relationships—from Iowa to Manhattan to São Paulo—that have helped to turn land into an attractive financial asset class. Thanks to generous funding from UC Santa Cruz, the ebook editions of this book are available as Open Access volumes from Cornell Open (cornellpress.cornell.edu/cornell-open) and other repositories.

Author: K. Rashid Nuri
Publisher: Nuri Group, LLC
ISBN: 9781733987806
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 310

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Managing agricultural operations in the U.S., Europe, Asia and Africa. Rashid saw, up close, the abuses and inefficiencies of Big Ag. Growing Out Loud is an uncompromising, unapologetic polemic, offering solutions for America's antiquated food system, as well as arguments that demonstrate its failures.

Author: N. G. Brain
Publisher: iSmithers Rapra Publishing
ISBN: 9780080417387
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 144

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Author: United States. Ship Structure Committee
Publisher:
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Category : Naval research
Languages : en
Pages : 344

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Author: National Conference of Charities and Correction (U.S.)
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Category : Charities
Languages : en
Pages : 156

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Category : Drug abuse
Languages : en
Pages : 344

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Author: Michele Bugliesi
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3540359052
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 752

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The two-volume set LNCS 4051 and LNCS 4052 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 33rd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming, ICALP 2006, held in Venice, Italy, July 2006. In all, these volumes present more 100 papers and lectures. Volume I (4051) presents 61 revised full papers together with 1 invited lecture, focusing on algorithms, automata, complexity and games, on topics including graph theory, quantum computing, and more.

Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on National Security
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1008

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