The Future Catches Up

The Future Catches Up
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Publisher : iUniverse
Total Pages : 464
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ISBN-10 : 9780595736706
ISBN-13 : 059573670X
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Synopsis The Future Catches Up by : Ralph M. Goldman

Professor Goldman has contributed articles and books in divers fields of political science. This is a partial collection of his principal published and unpublished journal articles as well as brief references to his principal books. Goldmans concern for the pathology of war is dealt with in several articles and books noted in this volume. From Warfare to Party Politics reveals the dynamics of a critical transition from civil war to nonviolent political party competition. His theory of conflict processes draws from sociology. His other books and articles relate to arms control, peacekeeping, and the institutional development of the United Nations.

The Future Catches Up

The Future Catches Up
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Publisher : iUniverse
Total Pages : 629
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ISBN-10 : 9780595240524
ISBN-13 : 0595240526
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Synopsis The Future Catches Up by : Ralph Morris Goldman

Professor Goldman has contributed articles and books in divers fields of political science. This is a partial collection of his principal published and unpublished journal articles as well as brief references to his principal books. Professor Goldman's years at Michigan State and San Francisco State Universities provided opportunities for instructional experimentation and management of educational programs: at MSU, the American Politics Graduate Training Program; at San Francisco State, experiments in small-group peer-instruction. Other experiments: self-paced instruction; an assessment program for political science majors, and simulations of disarmament conferences. His RolePlay is an innovative teaching program for K-12 social studies.

The Future Catches Up: American political parties and politics

The Future Catches Up: American political parties and politics
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Publisher : iUniverse
Total Pages : 668
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ISBN-10 : 9780595239832
ISBN-13 : 0595239838
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Synopsis The Future Catches Up: American political parties and politics by : Ralph Morris Goldman

Professor Goldman has contributed articles and books in divers fields of political science. This is a partial collection of his principal published and unpublished journal articles as well as bried references to his principal books. This volume reports Professor Goldman’s research on United States political parties and elections. His National Party Chairmen and Committees and his studies, with Paul T. David, of the party presidential nominating conventions continue to be classics on this subject. Three books are devoted to the development of the Democratic Party. Among the reforms he has proposed is electronic voting.

As the Future Catches You

As the Future Catches You
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Publisher : Crown Currency
Total Pages : 274
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ISBN-10 : 9781400047741
ISBN-13 : 1400047749
Rating : 4/5 (41 Downloads)

Synopsis As the Future Catches You by : Juan Enriquez

If you think the world has changed dramatically in the last five years, you haven’t seen anything yet. You will never look at the world in the same way after reading As the Future Catches You. Juan Enriquez puts you face to face with unprecedented political, ethical, economic, and financial issues, dramatically demonstrating the cascading impact of the genetic, digital, and knowledge revolutions on all our lives. Genetics will be the dominant language of this century. Those who can “speak it” will acquire direct and deliberate control over all forms of life. But most countries and individuals remain illiterate in what is rapidly becoming the greatest single driver of the global economy. The choice is simple: Either learn to surf new and powerful waves of change—or get crushed trying to stop them. The future is catching us all. Let it catch you with your eyes wide open.

The Junk Future

The Junk Future
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Publisher : JUAN MANUEL OCHOA TORRES
Total Pages : 164
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ISBN-10 : 9786077944034
ISBN-13 : 6077944033
Rating : 4/5 (34 Downloads)

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Catching Up with America

Catching Up with America
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Publisher : Presses Paris Sorbonne
Total Pages : 484
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ISBN-10 : 2840502402
ISBN-13 : 9782840502401
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Synopsis Catching Up with America by : Dominique Barjot

"This book is the outcome of the conference held in Caen (France) in September 1997, in preparation for the International Economic History Congress in Madrid (August 1998). This collection of essays provides, for the first time, a systematic overview of the productivity missions organised in the years following the Second World War, to investigate in situ the production and management techniques adduced to account for the American lead. Bringing together research workers from many countries (Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Norway, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, the United States), the volume addresses four successive themes. The first one concerns the part played by the United States and that country's action on the international scene. This, in turn, leads to the subsequent query: Did the productivity missions constitute tools for modernisation, or were they devices of domination? The second part considers three national experiences: the United Kingdom, France, and Japan. The third part examines a number of branches: iron and steel, electrical engineering, petrochemicals, and the tyre industry. The final part seeks to assess the impact of the missions. Ultimately, one needs must make a distinction between the rhetoric of productivity, on the one hand, and actual achievements, on the other; the missions were part of a wider process of Americanisation, wherein lies one of the keys to the economic miracles of the post-war era."--Page 4 of cover.

Catching Up And Falling Behind: Post-communist Transformation In Historical Perspective

Catching Up And Falling Behind: Post-communist Transformation In Historical Perspective
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Publisher : World Scientific
Total Pages : 388
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ISBN-10 : 9781783260799
ISBN-13 : 1783260793
Rating : 4/5 (99 Downloads)

Synopsis Catching Up And Falling Behind: Post-communist Transformation In Historical Perspective by : David A Dyker

In this collection of essays David A Dyker explores some of the most difficult and fascinating aspects of the process of transition from autocratic “real socialism” to a capitalism that is sometimes democratic, sometimes authoritarian. The stress is on the economic dimension of transformation, but the author sets the economic drama firmly within a political economy framework and a historical perspective. Trends in key economic variables are analysed against the background of the struggle between different social and political groups for power and command over resources. While the book pays due attention to topical issues like EU enlargement, the underlying perspective is a long-term one. Transition is viewed not as a set of once-and-for-all institutional changes or a process of short-term stabilisation, but as a historic opportunity to solve the inherited problem of poverty and underdevelopment in Central-East Europe and the former Soviet Union. The book ends with a critical assessment of how economics, as a discipline, has coped with the challenge of that historic opportunity.

DESTROYING THE YOKES

DESTROYING THE YOKES
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Publisher : AuthorHouse
Total Pages : 208
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ISBN-10 : 9798823030113
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Synopsis DESTROYING THE YOKES by : Carlton Foster

DESTROYING THE YOKES is the continuation of THE POWER OF THE YOKES. While THE POWER OF THE YOKES exposes the many devices the enemy uses to derail you from the path to fulfilling your destiny, DESTROYING THE YOKES gives you the tools to break free and fulfill your destiny. God will take you through a life transformation process, and what is inside you will manifest on the outside. God uses the dark places to protect you while He mends the cracks in your life. God will allow you to be on an unfamiliar route so that you will have no choice but to trust Him. Life has its difficulties, but it is good for you. When you are broken, God does His best work in you, and the things that try to destroy you are the catalysts to accelerate you into your destiny.

Conversations with William Gibson

Conversations with William Gibson
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Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Total Pages : 254
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ISBN-10 : 9781626740938
ISBN-13 : 1626740933
Rating : 4/5 (38 Downloads)

Synopsis Conversations with William Gibson by : Patrick A. Smith

“After reading Neuromancer for the first time,” literary scholar Larry McCaffery wrote, “I knew I had seen the future of [science fiction] (and maybe of literature in general), and its name was William Gibson.” McCaffery was right. Gibson's 1984 debut is one of the most celebrated SF novels of the last half century, and in a career spanning more than three decades, the American-Canadian science fiction writer and reluctant futurist responsible for introducing “cyberspace” into the lexicon has published nine other novels. Editor Patrick A. Smith draws the twenty-three interviews in this collection from a variety of media and sources—print and online journals and fanzines, academic journals, newspapers, blogs, and podcasts. Myriad topics include Gibson's childhood in the American South and his early adulthood in Canada, with travel in Europe; his chafing against the traditional SF mold, the origins of “cyberspace,” and the unintended consequences (for both the author and society) of changing the way we think about technology; the writing process and the reader's role in a new kind of fiction. Gibson (b. 1948) takes on branding and fashion, celebrity culture, social networking, the post-9/11 world, future uses of technology, and the isolation and alienation engendered by new ways of solving old problems. The conversations also provide overviews of his novels, short fiction, and nonfiction.

Cinema at the Margins

Cinema at the Margins
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Publisher : Anthem Press
Total Pages : 238
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ISBN-10 : 9781783080168
ISBN-13 : 1783080167
Rating : 4/5 (68 Downloads)

Synopsis Cinema at the Margins by : Wheeler Winston Dixon

More and more, just a few canonical classics, such as Michael Curtiz’s “Casablanca” (1942) or Victor Fleming’s “Gone With The Wind” (1939), are representing the entire film output of an era, to a new generation that knows little of the past, and is encouraged by popular media to live only in the eternal present. What will happen to the rest of the films that enchanted, informed and transported audiences in the 1930s, 1940s, and even as recently as the 1960s? This collection of essays aims to highlight some of the lesser-known treasures of the past – those titles that have been pushed aside by today’s wave of cinema amnesia.