Campaign Finance and American Democracy: What the Public Really Thinks and Why It Matters, Primo David M., Milyo Jeffrey D.
Автор: Weintraub Pamela Название: The Meaning of Meow: What Your Cat Really Thinks! ISBN: 1951274156 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781951274153 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 13720.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Some of the world's top experts, including devoted veterinarians, open a window into the minds of our feline freinds. Cats have become so beloved in recent years that some 75 million live in American homes as family pets. Another quarter million are community cats, increasingly serving us in barns, breweries, warehouses and more to keep rodents and other unwanted wildlife under control. Yet the cat has often seemed mysterious--compared to dogs, our cats can feel bit more aloof and difficult to truly "get." But new research into our feline friends now reveals their love for us, their secret language, including accents and dialects, and their inner depths. In a series of engaging stories featuring the world's top experts, veterinarians and pet-owners themselves, this premium book opens a window into the minds of our feline friends. Among the features: How to raise a kitten to become a great cat; how to understand your cat's purrs, meows and body language; how to teach your cat tricks; and how to rescue a stranded cat and make it your own. A bonus feature covers favorite breeds and the advantages each confers.
Автор: Weintraub Pamela Название: The Meaning of Woof: What Your Dog Really Thinks! ISBN: 1951274164 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781951274160 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 17230.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Barks, licks, growls and wags--get a greater understanding of what your dog is trying to communicate to you, and why Learn how to decipher all the barks, licks, growls and wags--and get a greater understanding of what your dog is trying to communicate to you, and why. Plus, discover how our longstanding codependency makes for happier, healthier humans and their pooches. This book explores the nature of our relationship with our four-legged friends including personal tales, scientific explorations and inspiring stories of how dogs can make us better people.
Christ's letters to the seven churches still resonate today. Like those ancient churches, most churches today lie somewhere on the continuum between flourishing and withering, between faithfulness and faithlessness, between comfort and persecution. Using seven key themes, John Stott illustrates the timeless relevance of Christ's exhortations and warnings to the universal church, while pointing to Christ, the Lamb turned Shepherd, who knows the unique opportunities and challenges that face each church. This is a helpful guide for preachers looking to feed their flock with this often visited passage from John's vision of the apocalypse.
Find out inside exactly what every Labrador thinks about apart from food.....
Many a research paper has been penned trying to determine the inner workings and mind of the Labrador Retriever. Forever a scavenger and ferocious devourer of anything remotely related to food. In this ground breaking book Professor Syling Schmidt uncovers the secrets of the Labrador brain. After years of painstaking research and countless PhD research projects he has precisely identified exactly what Labradors think about apart from food.
The Labrador Retriever has long been known to breeders, veterinarians and owners as having a voracious appetite, renowned for eating anything and everything. Whether it is a dug up 3-year-old bone, compost, dirty undergarments or just garden rocks the Labrador labels them all as 'food'. In this book we uncover what is 'not food' in the Labradors evolved brain and the secrets to unlocking their brain. Training your Labrador will never be a problem again after reading the penetrating insights and pointed anecdotes in this book.
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Автор: Baring Maurice Название: Maurice Baring - Overlooked: `If you would know what the Lord God thinks of money, you have only to look at those to whom he gives it`` ISBN: 178780450X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781787804500 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 11770.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Maurice Baring OBE was born on 27th April 1874 in Mayfair, London. He was the fifth son of eight children to Edward Charles Baring, first Baron Revelstoke, of the Baring banking family, and his wife Louisa Emily Charlotte Bulteel.
After the obligatory years at Eton College he went to Trinity College, Cambridge.
His early career in the diplomatic service was cut short but it gave him a thirst for travel and he did so widely, particularly in Russia. During the Russo-Japanese war of 1904/5 he reported as an eye-witness for the London Morning Post.
In 1909 Baring, who thought of himself as agnostic, converted to Roman Catholicism. A decision which he stated was "the only action in my life which I am quite certain I have never regretted."
When the horror of World War I enveloped Europe in 1914 he enlisted with the Royal Flying Corps, and served as an assistant to David Henderson and Hugh Trenchard (the two responsible for establishing the RFC) on the Western Front in France.
In 1918, Baring served as a staff officer in the Royal Air Force and was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 1918 Birthday Honours List.
With the end of the war came his development as a writer. Before the war his works had mainly centrered on journalism, short stories and poetry. Now Baring began to write novels.
In 1925 he gained an honorary commission as a wing commander in the Reserve of Air Force Officers. After his death, Trenchard was to write, "He was the most unselfish man I have ever met or am likely to meet. The Flying Corps owed to this man much more than they know or think."
The last decades of his life proved to be a descent into chronic health problems. For the final 15 years of his life he was debilitated by the increasing onset of Parkinson's Disease.
He was widely known socially, and especially frequented with some of the Cambridge Apostles (an intellectual society at the University founded in 1820), The Coterie (a fashionable group of aristocrats and intellectuals of the 1910s). Baring was staunch in his anti-intellectualism with respect to the arts, and often displayed a lighter side with his pranks on others.
"By all accounts, the real Baring was a charming, affable gentleman who knew how to laugh and had no fear of making a fool of himself."
Maurice Baring, dramatist, poet, novelist, translator, essayist, travel writer and war correspondent, died at Beaufort Castle on 14th December 1945 at the age of 71.
Автор: Kawakami K. K. Название: What Japan Thinks ISBN: 1089570538 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781089570530 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 11440.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: From the PREFACE.THE articles put together between these covers have been chosen by the editor with a view to presenting what may be called representative opinions of representative Japanese on the foremost questions of the world to-day, such as the Monroe Doctrine and the League of Nations, imperialism and liberalism, democracy and autocracy, militarism and navalism, armament and disarmament, race equality and race discrimination, the "white peril" and the "yellow menace." The Japanese side of the Yap controversy is also fully presented.Of the fourteen articles composing this book all but two are culled from newspapers, magazines, and books published in Japan or China. Most of them were originally written in Japanese for Japanese publications, and were later translated into English for various English publications in the Orient.The value of these articles lies in the fact that they were, with a few exceptions, addressed primarily or exclusively to the Japanese. None of them was prepared especially for this book. They were not written for foreign consumption. Their respective authors had no eye upon the American or European gallery. They show just what the Japanese are talking among themselves on the vital problems of the world and their bearing upon Japan.Some of the views expressed in the following articles may be found unpleasant to sedate readers in America and Europe. The editor has not shrunk from such views, believing that in the end straightforwardness is more conducive to clear understanding than evasive diffidence.In selecting these articles from the mass of current literature in Japan, the editor purposely avoided articles written by "professional" statesmen or diplomats, whose utterances are usually characterized by what the journalistic wit of America gracefully calls "pussyfooting." They are often deliberately superficial or platitudinous, often too subtle or too vague to be of much value as a measure of real public sentiment. The editor has, however, taken an article from the pen of Premier Hara, the "Great Commoner," a second by Marquis Okuma, the "Grand Old Man," and a third by Baron Goto, the "Roosevelt of Japan." Because of their great distinction and widespread reputation, the world is eager to listen to them, whatever they may have to say.From a literary point of view these articles, whether originally written in English or translated from the Japanese, leave much room for improvement. But the editor, conscious of his own limitations, has resisted the temptation to rewrite them. He has, however, taken the liberty of making such emendations as he thought absolutely necessary in order to avoid overtaxing the imagination of the reader. Only to that extent is he responsible for the English of this book. He presents this volume not as a work of literature, but as a symposium of opinions of grave international significance which, due to the vehicle by which they were originally conveyed, have remained more or less unknown to Europe and America.Acknowledgment is due to the editors or publishers of the journals and books, in which these articles originally appeared, for permission to reprint them in the present form.-K. K. Kawakami, New York, May, 1921.
Автор: Tomoo Ueda Название: Telling What She Thinks: Semantics and pragmatics of propositional attitude reports ISBN: 3110438801 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783110438802 Издательство: Walter de Gruyter Цена: 99110.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Frege’s puzzle concerning belief reports has been in the middle of the discussion on semantics and pragmatics of attitude reports: The intuition behind the opacity does not seem to be consistent with the thesis of semantic innocence according to which the semantic value of proper names is nothing but their referent. Main tasks of this book include providing truth-conditional content of belief reports. Especially, the focusis on semantic values of proper names. The keyaim is to extend Crimmins’s basic idea of semantic pretense and the introduction of pleonastic entities proposed by Schiffer. They enable us to capture Frege’s puzzle in the analysis without giving up semantic innocence. To reach this conclusion, two issues are established. First, based on linguistic evidence, the frame of belief reports functions adverbially rather than relationally. Second, the belief ascriptions, on which each belief report is made, must be analyzed in terms of the measurement-theoretic analogy.
Автор: LeDoux Usn (Ret) Cdr Jack Название: What One Man Thinks ISBN: 148095845X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781480958456 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 20230.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
During his 94 years, John LeDoux has had a very interesting life and has learned many lessons. Based on his experiences and current events, he lists different topics in his books and presents his ideas. From education to fixing Social Security, there are many intriguing views that are presented in LeDoux's book.
About the Author
CDR Jack LeDoux USN (Ret) is a veteran, spending 24 years in the Navy. While in the Navy, he was in about two-thirds of the world. During his time in the Navy, he married his wife of over 60 years and had eight children.
Have campaign finance reform laws actually worked? Is money less influential in electing candidates today than it was thirty years ago when legislation was first enacted? Absolutely not, argues Rodney A. Smith in this passionately written, fact-filled, and provocative book. According to Smith, the laws have had exactly the opposite of their intended effect. They have increased the likelihood that incumbents in the House and Senate will be reelected, and they have greatly diminished the chances that candidates who are not wealthy will be elected. Smith's claims are supported by convincing data; he collected and analyzed information about all federal elections since 1920. These data show clearly that money matters now more than ever.
Smith thinks that reform legislation has created a new inequality for candidates that, if left unchecked, threatens to destroy the American electoral process by obliterating the foundational principle of free speech. He argues that "money buys speech" and when candidates lack money to buy media time and space they are effectively silenced. Their inability to "speak freely" violates the most significant intentions of our nation's founders: that a sovereign citizenry elect its own leaders based on a free exchange of ideas. For Smith, campaign finance reform has unwittingly unbalanced the checks and balances created by the Framers of the Constitution.
After presenting a detailed historical overview of how we have reached the present crisis, Smith proposes a simple solution: institute a process that completely discloses relevant information about campaign donors and recipients of donations. All disclosures would be available to the media, which would be able to investigate and report them fully. Only then, Smith believes, will the United States have the opportunity to be the democratic republic that its founders intended.
Автор: Wendy Wagner Название: Incomprehensible!: A Study of How our Legal System Encourages Incomprehensibility, Why It Matters, and What We Can Do About It ISBN: 1107400880 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107400887 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 33790.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Contracts, patents, regulations, disclosures, and legislation are often premised on the foundational assumption that `more information is better`. These legal programs do not insist, however, that the information and associated communications be comprehensible. This book outlines the problem of incomprehensibility across legal fields and offers suggestions for reform.
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