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"Feeling anxious, powerless or confused about the future of our planet? This book will transform how you see our biggest environmental problems, and how we can solve them. We are bombarded by doomsday headlines that tell us the soil won't be able to support crops, fish will vanish from our oceans, that we should reconsider having children. But in this bold, radically hopeful book, data scientist Hannah Ritchie argues that if we zoom out, a very different picture emerges. The data shows we've made so much progress on these problems, and so fast, that we could be on track to achieve true sustainability for the first time in history. Packed with the latest research, practical guidance and enlightening graphics, this book will make you rethink almost everything you've been told about the environment, from the virtues of eating locally and living in the countryside, to the evils of overpopulation, plastic straws and palm oil. It will give you the tools to understand what works, what doesn't and what we urgently need to focus on so we can leave a sustainable planet for future generations. These problems are big. But they are solvable. We are not doomed. We can build a better future for everyone. Let's turn that opportunity into reality"--Publisher's description

Intro -- Thee Event -- About the Author -- Dedication -- Copyright Information © -- Acknowledgement -- Chapter 1 Miami, FL -- Chapter 2 6 Months Earlier in Albany, NY… -- Chapter 3 Present Day… -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- Chapter 9 -- Chapter 10 -- Chapter 11 -- Chapter 12 -- Chapter 13 -- Chapter 14 -- Chapter 15 -- Chapter 16 -- Chapter 17 -- Chapter 18 -- Chapter 19 -- Chapter 20.

Donald A. Ritchie, a congressional historian for forty years , takes readers on a fascinating, behind-the-scenes tour of Capitol Hill, pointing out the key players, explaining their behavior, and translating parliamentary language into plain English. He also explores the essential necessity of compromise to accomplish anything significant in the legislative arena. However, recent events show that political polarization has hardened and produced gridlock, as Ritchieexplains in this new edition. The 2020 election also produced a more diverse membership in terms of gender, ethnicity, religion, and ideology, with primary elections resulting in the defeat of moderate candidates by opponents ranging from socialists on the left to conspiracy theorists on the right,making bipartisan compromise harder to achieve. Among the most significant events since the last edition, the Senate ignored President Obama's last nomination to the Supreme Court and then adopted a "nuclear option" to streamline future Supreme Court confirmations. The House also twice impeached President Trump, processes that starkly expose the differences between the majority-rule requirements of the House and the super-majority requirements of the Senate. This new edition explains how the parties have changed in light of the unprecedentedpolitics of the past four years, culminating in the mob attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, and how this development has affected both the House and the Senate

In this concise yet comprehensive critical biography, Ritchie Robertson examines the work of Friedrich Nietzsche within the context of his life. The book traces Nietzsche's development from outstanding classical scholar to cultural critic, who measured Imperial Germany by the standards of ancient Greece. It follows him thence to prophet (in the persona of Zarathustra) and savage polemicist against modern liberal values, offering a 'philosophy of the future'. Robertson argues that Nietzsche's middle-period writings offer a subtle and searching analysis of his culture, more rewarding than the strident and often-controversial later works. The book also assesses Nietzsche's claim to be continuing the Enlightenment, and shows that he valued reason, evidence and fact, without which his historical case against Christianity would make no sense.

"Science is how we understand the world. Yet critical flaws in peer review, statistical methods, and publication procedures have rendered a shocking number of scientific studies useless-or worse, badly misleading. Drawing on surprising new data from "meta-science" (the science of how science works), Science Fictions documents the errors that have distorted our knowledge on issues as varied as cancer biology, nutrition, genetics, immigration, education, and extraterrestrial life. Stuart Ritchie's own work challenging an infamous psychology experiment helped spark what's now widely known as the "replication crisis," the realization that many supposed scientific truths cannot be relied upon. Now, he reveals the very human biases, mistakes, and deceptions that undermine the scientific endeavor: from contamination in science labs to the secret vaults of failed studies that nobody gets to see; from outright cheating with fake data to the more common but still ruinous temptation to exaggerate mediocre results for a shot at scientific fame. Yet Science Fictions is far from a counsel of despair. Rather, it's a defense of the scientific method against the pressures and perverse incentives that lead scientists to bend the rules. By illustrating the ways that science goes wrong, Ritchie gives us the knowledge we need to spot dubious research, and points the way to reforms that might save science from itself"--

Intro -- Adventures of a Ginger Kid -- About the Author -- Dedication -- Copyright Information © -- Acknowledgment -- Almost at the Beginning -- Infants School -- A Greenstick Facture in the Junior School -- Sports Day at Infants School -- Nativity at the Infants School -- The Corner Shop -- Walking to School -- Telegraph Poles -- The Train Journey -- Grandma Knows Best -- Learning to Swim -- Jigsaws -- What Is Mrs Brown Doing to Nathaniel? -- Tying Shoelaces -- Nursery -- Birthday Party -- The Two Peters -- Broken Leg (Someone Else's) -- Ballet, Tap, Brownies and All Things After School -- Bruce and the Suitcase -- Priory Park -- Trustee Savings Bank -- Fanny by Gaslight -- All Sorts of Anomalies -- Shopping with Grandma -- By the Seaside -- Independence Day in Boots -- Left and Right -- Bangers and Mash -- More Big Knickers.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- ONE. A Populist Moment -- TWO. Community Organizing as Inclusive Populism -- THREE. Engaging the Theoretical Debate I: A Critique of Liberalism -- FOUR. Community Organizing: Six Challenges -- FIVE. Integration, Islam, and Immigration -- SIX. Engaging the Theoretical Debate II: Traditions, Pluralism, and Populism -- SEVEN. Inclusive Populism and the Renewal of Politics -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Intro -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- What Is Populism? -- Case Selection -- Research Methodology -- Between Movements and the State, the Rational and the Irrational -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2: The Negative Proof of the Discursive Model: Populism as a Conceptual and Empirical Problem -- Introduction -- Dislocation and Terrain -- Epistemological Contours -- Populism and Latin America -- Populism in the United States -- Populism in Western Europe and Other Comparisons -- Laclau -- Discourse Theory, the Unconscious, and Social Movements -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3: From Betancourt to Chávez: Interpreting Venezuelan Populism in Two Revolutionary Governments -- Introduction -- Populist Discourse During the Trienio Period of AD Rule -- The Populist Discourse of Chávez and the Chavista Movement -- Antonymy, Fantasy, and Collective Memory -- Further Comparisons Between Trienio AD and Chávez in Historical Context -- Conclusion: The Royal Road of Populism -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4: Anti-Leftist Populism in McCarthyism and the Tea Party -- Introduction -- McCarthyism in the Populism Literature -- The Tea Party in the Media -- Overcoming the Conceptual Dilemma of Populism -- Discursive Applications -- Internal and External Threats -- The Big Différance -- Populism as the Political -- New Institutionalized Populism in Comparative Perspective -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 5: Comparing Populism in Venezuela and the United States -- Introduction -- Betancourt and AD -- McCarthyism -- Chávez and the Chavistas -- The Tea Party -- Institutionalization -- The Wedding of Clear Discourse and Clear Policy -- Bibliography -- Chapter 6: Everything in History Happens: Further Problems with Populism as a Comparative-­Historical Phenomenon -- Bibliography

Using the conceptual framework of populism as discourse, Ritchie Savage provides a comparative analysis of U.S. and Latin American speeches and articles covering Betancourt's Acción Democrática, Chávez, McCarthyism, and the Tea Party. In so doing, he reveals an essential structure to populist discourse: reference to the "opposition" as a representation of the persistence of social conflict, posed against a collective memory of the origins of democracy and struggle for equality, is present in all cases. This discursive formation of populism is carried out in comparisons of political discourse in the United States and Venezuela, two countries that are typically classified as empirically specific in their economic and political development and ideological orientation. Populist Discourse in Venezuela and the United States explores how instances of populism, once exceptional phenomena within modern forms of political rule, are becoming increasingly integrated with the structure of democratic politics.--

Exploring institutional complexity in a less formal context -- The ubiquity of institutions: shaping economic development -- Afghanistan : persisting instability, informality and tradition -- Transforming norms towards unlocking societal barriers -- Constructing institutions in enterprise -- Unwrapping agency: interests, power and networks -- Towards a dynamic and inter-disciplinary theory of institutional change

Aufgaben, Organisationsform, Ausbildung. Ausrüstung, Bezahlung und Rangordnung der kaiserlichen Wachen sowie die Garden der Kaiser vom 1. bis zum 4. Jahrhundert n.Chr. werden ausführlich beschrieben. Rezension: Nach einer Einleitung in Aufgaben, Organisationsform, Ausbildung und Ausrüstung sowie Bezahlung und Rangordnung der kaiserlichen Wachen führt der Autor ("Die Traianssäule in Rom", gleicher Verlag, 2012) detailliert die verschiedenen Garden der Kaiser vom 1. bis zum 4. Jahrhundert n.Chr. auf. Orientierung bieten zahlreiche Quellentexte von Cassius Dio bis Aurelian, eingebettet in einige Abbildungen von Münzen, Grabstelen, Mosaiken, aber auch Fotos von heute in Deutschland stattfindenden Römerfestspielen. Interessant: Die Bilder von Reliefs sind nachkoloriert, um eine gröt︢mögliche Anschaulichkeit zu gewährleisten. Der Archäologe Pogorzelski macht die historischen Zusammenhänge deutlich, die einigen Garden den Ruf von "Kaisermachern", anderen den Ruf von "Kaisermördern" einbrachten und gibt in einer Schlussbetrachtung das Bild des aktuellen Forschungsstands wieder. Das letzte Werk zum Thema ist 20 Jahre alt ("Die Prätorianer" von Hans D. Stöver, 1995). Mit Glossar und Literaturhinweisen. (2)