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Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology

Chip War The Fight for the Worlds Most Critical Technology

The destroyer USS Mustin slipped into the northern end of the Taiwan Strait on August 18, 2020, its five-inch gun pointed southward as it began a solo mission to sail through the Strait and reaffirm that these international waters were not controlled by China—at least not yet. A stiff southwestern breeze whipped across the deck […]

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The Big Fix: Seven Practical Steps to Save Our Planet

The Big Fix Seven Practical Steps to Save Our Planet

The world is on fire. The flames are hard to see, because we hide them so well. But you can hear them—in the whine of jet engines as planes streak across the sky, in the rumble of power plants as they send electricity surging over power lines, in the purr of your car engine as […]

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A Civil Action by Jonathan Harr

A Civil Action by Jonathan Harr

A Note on Sources I began working on this project in February 1986, before the start of trial, at the suggestion of a friend, Tracy Kidder, who knew I was looking for a book topic. After some initial research that consisted largely of reading news accounts, I met with Jan Schlichtmann and his partners in […]

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Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century

Slouching Towards Utopia An Economic History of the Twentieth Century

What I call the “long twentieth century” started with the watershed-crossing events of around 1870—the triple emergence of globalization, the industrial research lab, and the modern corporation—which ushered in changes that began to pull the world out of the dire poverty that had been humanity’s lot for the previous ten thousand years, since the discovery […]

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Confronting Capitalism: How the World Works and How to Change It

Confronting Capitalism How the World Works and How to Change It

Across the advanced capitalist world, something very significant has been unfolding over the past five years or so—the ideological legitimacy of the neoliberal model of capitalism has collapsed. After almost four decades of unchallenged hegemony, free market fundamentalism is under attack, not just among marginal left groupings, but in the political mainstream. Working people of […]

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The Politically Incorrect Guide to Economics

The Politically Incorrect Guide to Economics

In the academic world, university economics departments are usually where you will find the most conservatives and the least politically correct foolishness. Understanding even the most elementary economic principles inoculates one against the utopian fantasies of liberals and socialists—such as curing poverty with minimum wage laws (why not make it $1,000 per hour and end […]

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Horngren’s Financial & Managerial Accounting, The Managerial Chapters, Global Edition 7th Edition

Horngrens Financial & Managerial Accounting, The Managerial Chapters, Global Edition 7th Edition

What’s New to the EditionUPDATED! End of Chapter exercises and problems have been updated with new years and company financial information.UPDATED! Chapter openers and Tying It All Together features have been updated with current company financial information.NEW FEATURE ON DATA ANALYTICS! Data Analytics is becoming critically important in business—specifically inaccounting. A new feature called Data […]

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Economics for Healthcare Managers 4th Edition

Economics for Healthcare Managers 4th Edition

A fourth edition of Economics for Healthcare Managers was needed for three main reasons. The principal reason is the dramatic changes underway. Health insurance and healthcare have already changed, partly because of the implementation of the Affordable Care Act of 2010 and partly because of the increasing ability of insurers and sponsors to identify efficient […]

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Managerial Economics & Organizational Architecture 7th Edition (International Edition)

Managerial Economics & Organizational Architecture 7th Edition (International Edition)

The past few decades have witnessed spectacular business failures and scandals. In 2019, German prosecutors criminally charged top executives at Volkswagen for allegedly misleading shareholders in the months before the so-called Diesel-Gate Scandal became public. Wells Fargo has continued to struggle to regain the confidence of consumers, regulators, and the general public following its 2016 […]

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How the World Became Rich: The Historical Origins of Economic Growth

How the World Became Rich The Historical Origins of Economic Growth

The world is rich, although it may not always seem like it. Poverty is still all too prevalent. Approximately one billion people around the world barely have enough to survive. The fate of millions of people living in poverty and violence in places like Venezuela, Syria, Burundi, or the Democratic Republic of Congo is deplorable. […]

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Export/Import Procedures and Documentation

Export Import Procedures and Documentation

The world of international trade changes daily and staying current with those changes is complex. Unrest in the Ukraine and the Middle East results in sanctions by the United Nations, the United States, and the European Union. Tensions ease in countries formerly sanctioned by the United States and new general licenses are issued. Defense articles […]

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Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail

Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order Why Nations Succeed and Fail

WITH APPRECIATION To all who helped me learn, you each have my deep gratitude for giving me valuable bits and pieces that I could put together to make this book. If it wasn’t for the conversations we had, the thoughts you shared in your writings, and the histories and statistics that you dug out from […]

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