Agriculture and the Environment

Terry L Anderson, Bruce Yandle

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• U.S. agriculture is the envy of the world. Although output from U.S. farms is high, there is a growing gap between what is being produced and what cou... Lees meer

Eight Questions You Should Ask about Our Health Care System (Even If the Answers Make You Sick)

Charles E Phelps

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• Charles E. Phelps provides a comprehensive look at our health-care system, including how the current system evolved, how the health-care sector behave... Lees meer

Up from the Projects

Walter E Williams

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• Nationally syndicated columnist and prolific author Walter E. Williams recalls some of the highlights and turning points of his life. From his lower m... Lees meer

Education

Thomas Sowell

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• In the papers collected in Education: Assumptions versus History, Dr. Thomas Sowell takes a hard look at the state of education in our schools and uni... Lees meer

Living with the UN

Kenneth Anderson

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• What exactly is the United Nations? For that matter, why is there still a United Nations at all? In Living with the UN , international legal scholar K... Lees meer

Reacting to the Spending Spree

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• Few doubt the seriousness of the recent crisis afflicting the financial systems of the United States and the world, and still fewer claim that nothing... Lees meer

Advancing Student Achievement

Herbert J Walberg

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• A renowned educator-psychologist explains how children learn and how family, classroom, and school practices can help them learn more effectively. In ... Lees meer

Conserving Liberty

Mark Blitz

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• Originating in Hoover Institution discussions held under the auspices of the Boyd and Jill Smith Task Force on Virtues of a Free Society, Conserving L... Lees meer

More Liberty Means Less Government

Walter E Williams

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• In this collection of thoughtful, hard-hitting essays, Walter E. Williams once again takes on the left wing's most sacred cows with provocative insigh... Lees meer

China and Japan

Chae-Jin Lee

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• On the basis of a judicious use of indigenous materials and field research conducted in China and Japan, the author examines Sino-Japanese economic di... Lees meer

The Unbearable Heaviness of Governing

Morton Keller

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• We tend to view the character of an administration through the persona of its president, especially that of Barack Obama, with his unique baggage of r... Lees meer

Social Security

Charles Blahous

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• Drawing on more than fifteen years of work on Social Security policy, first in the U.S. Senate and later in the White House, Chuck Blahous argues that... Lees meer

Revolution

Martin Anderson

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• Revolution: the Reagan Legacy gives a vivid account of how Reagan came to power, the way he governed, and the people around him--Bush, Haig, Deaver, W... Lees meer

Technology and Civility

Heinz Eulau

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• The scientific approach to understanding of human affairs and to the solving of social problems is equally threatened by the enthusiastic advocates of... Lees meer

Patterns of Deprivation in the Soviet Union Under Brezhnev and Gorbachev

Mervyn Matthews

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• This study focuses on important aspects of daily life--food, clothing, housing, education, occupational and educational mobility, employment, and the ... Lees meer

Reforming America's Health Care System

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• Amid much controversy in March 2010, Congress passed President Barack Obama's sweeping legislation to fundamentally transform America's health care sy... Lees meer

Discovering the Hidden Listener

R Eugene Parta

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• A pariah during the Cold War, Radio Liberty was ultimately accepted as a legitimate participant on the Russian media scene by the authorities themselv... Lees meer

Reykjavik Revisited

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• Drawn from presentations made at the Hoover Institution's October 2007 conference, this collection of essays examines the practical steps necessary to... Lees meer

Islamic Extremism and the War of Ideas

John Hughes

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• John Hughes examines lessons learned from the practice of public diplomacy--especially international broadcasting--in the cold war and tells how the U... Lees meer

Corn Ethanol

Ken G Glozer

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• In this in-depth, fact-based evaluation, Ken G. Glozer provides a detailed political history of how the United States ended up with current federal co... Lees meer

Death Grip

Clint Bolick

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• In an 1873 decision, the Supreme Court by a 5-4 vote--highly unusual in those days--upheld a bribery-procured Louisiana slaughterhouse monopoly that h... Lees meer

Boris Pasternak

Boris Leonidovich Pasternak

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• This selection of Boris Pasternak's correspondence with his parents and sisters from 1921 to 1960--including more than illustrations and photos--is an... Lees meer

Syria Through Jihadist Eyes

Nibras Kazimi

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• The regime in Syria is in league with the theocrats in Iran, facilitating their access to Lebanon and to the Palestinian territories, but hints that i... Lees meer