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A bad day for Sunshine [sound recording] : a novel / by Jones, Daryndaauthor(CARDINAL)342292; King, Loreleinarrator(CARDINAL)530555;

Read by Lorelei King.Del Sol, New Mexico is known for three things: its fry-an-egg-on-the-cement summers, its strong cups of coffee - and, now, a nationwide manhunt? Del Sol native Sunshine Vicram has returned to town as the elected sheriff - thanks to her adorably meddlesome parents who nominated her - and she expects her biggest crime wave to involve an elderly flasher named Doug. But a teenage girl is missing, a kidnapper is on the loose, and all of this is reminding Sunshine why she left Del Sol in the first place. Add to that the trouble at her daughter's new school, plus and a kidnapped prized rooster named Puff Daddy, and, well, the forecast looks anything but sunny. But even clouds have their silver linings. This one's got Levi, Sunshine's sexy, almost-old-flame, and a fiery-hot US Marshall. With temperatures rising everywhere she turns, Del Sol's normally cool-minded sheriff is finding herself knee-deep in drama and danger. Can Sunshine face the call of duty - and find the kidnapper who's terrorizing her beloved hometown - without falling head over high heels in love...or worse?Compact discs.

Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Thrillers (Fiction); Audiobooks.; Missing persons; Kidnapping; Sheriffs; Single mothers; Man-woman relationships;

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Busting the barricades : what I saw at the populist revolt / by Ingraham, Laura,author.(CARDINAL)348811;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-296) and index.Americans didn't just go to the polls in 2016. They joined a movement that swept the unlikeliest of candidates, Donald Trump, into the Oval Office. Can he complete his agenda? Or will his opponents in the media, protestor class, and political establishment block his efforts and choke off the movement he represents? In Busting the Barricades, Laura Ingraham gives readers a front row seat to the populist revolution as she witnessed it. She reveals the origins of this movement and its connection to the Trump presidency. She unmasks the opposition, forecasts the future of the Make America Great Again agenda and offers her own prescriptions for bringing real change to the swamp of Washington. Unlike most of her media colleagues, Ingraham understood Trump's appeal and defied those who wrote his political obituary. Now she confronts the president's critics and responds to those who deny the importance of his America First agenda. With sharp humor and insight she traces the DNA of the populist movement: from Goldwater's 1964 campaign, to Nixon's Silent Majority, to Reagan's smashing electoral victories. Populism fueled the insurgency campaigns of Buchanan and Perot, the election of George W. Bush, and the Tea Party rallies of the Obama presidency. But a political novice-a Manhattan billionaire-proved to be the movement's most vocal champion. This is the inside story of his victory and the fitful struggle to enact his agenda.

Subjects: Trump, Donald, 1946-; Right and left (Political science); Presidents; Populism;

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The 10 rules of successful nations / by Sharma, Ruchir,author.(CARDINAL)399862;

Includes bibliographical references and index.Population -- Politics -- Inequality -- State power -- Geography -- Investment -- Inflation -- Currency -- Debt -- Hype."The 10 Rules of Successful Nations offers a pithy guide to real-world economics, adapted from the New York Times bestseller The Rise and Fall of Nations. A wake-up call to economists who failed to foresee every recent crisis, including the cataclysm of 2008, The 10 Rules of Successful Nations is a slim primer full of pioneering insights on the political, economic, and social habits of successful nations. Distilled from Sharma's quarter century traveling the world as a writer and investor, his rules challenge conventional textbook thinking on what matters-and what doesn't-for a strong economy. He shows why successful nations embrace robots and immigrants, prefer democratic leaders to autocrats, elect charismatic reformers over technocrats, and pay no mind to the debate about big versus small government. He explains why rising stock prices matter as much or more than food prices, which measure of debt is the best predictor of economic crises, and why no one number can accurately capture the value of a currency. He also demonstrates how a close reading of the Forbes billionaire lists can offer the clearest real-time warning of populist revolts against the wealthy. Updated with brand-new data, 10 Rules reimagines economics as a practical art, giving general readers as well as political and business leaders a quick guide to the most important forces that shape a nation's future"--

Subjects: Economic history; Economic forecasting.; State, The.; Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009.;

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The end of White Christian America / by Jones, Robert P.(Robert Patrick),author.(CARDINAL)552335;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-297) and index.An obituary for White Christian America -- Who is White Christian America? -- Vital signs: a divided and dying White Christian America -- Politics: the end of the White Christian strategy -- Family: gay marriage and White Christian America -- Race: desegregating White Christian America -- A eulogy for White Christian America."The founder and CEO of Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) and columnist for The Atlantic describes how white Protestant Christians have declined in influence and power since the 1990s and explores the effect this has had on America,"--NoveList.America is no longer a majority white Christian nation. In this book, leading scholar Robert R Jones explains how this seismic change has profoundly altered the politics and social values of the United States. For most of the country's history, White Christian America--the cultural and political edifice built primarily by white Protestant Christians--set the tone for our national policy and shaped American ideals. But in recent decades new immigration patterns, changing birth rates, and religious disaffiliation have transformed the United States. The year 1993 was the last in which white Protestants constituted a majority of the population. Even when Catholics are included, white Christians make up less than half the country. Drawing on findings from one of the largest troves of survey data on contemporary politics and religion, Robert Jones shows how today's most heated controversies--the strident rise of a white "politics of nostalgia" following the election of the nation's first black president; the apocalyptic tone of arguments over same-sex marriage and religious liberty; and stark disagreements between white and black Americans over the fairness of the justice system--can be fully understood only in the context of the anxieties that white Christians feel as the racial, religious, and cultural landscape has changed around them. Today, although they still retain considerable power in the South and within the Republican Party, white Christians lack their former political and social clout. Looking ahead, Jones forecasts the ways that white Christians might adjust to their new reality--and the consequences for the country if they don't.--Adapted from dust jacket.

Subjects: Religion and politics; White people;

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Stormy passage; a personal history through two Russian revolutions to democracy and freedom: 1905-1960. / by Woytinsky, W. S.(Wladimir S.),1885-1960.(CARDINAL)156257;

The First Storm over Russia : 1905. Prologue ; The Approaching Storm ; A Precocious Bookworm ; The Tocsin : Bloody Sunday ; Neophyte of the Socialist Party ; Forum of the Revolution ; The Political Parties ; A Meeting at Night ; American Guests ; Academic Affairs ; The General Strike Begins ; Before the Showdown ; The Last University Meeting ; The Soviet of Workers ; The Climax ; The Manifesto of October 17 ; After the Manifesto ; The Bolsheviks Attack the Soviet ; The Organization Drive ; Eight Hours a Day! ; The Averted Pogrom ; Revolt in Kronstadt ; The Second General Strike ; The Stalemate ; The Great Enigma ; Among Schoolteachers ; The Oath ; The Cow Death ; They Need the Tsar ; A House Divided ; The Ambush ; Trapped ; What To Do With Them? ; Eyes ; The People's Trial ; The Rescue ; In Novgorod Prison ; The Last Days of the Soviet ; In the Crosses ; Revolt in Moscow ; Back to Freedom -- Russia at the Crossroads : 1906-1907. At the Crossroads ; The First Election Campaign ; Bread and Work! ; The Duma of Wrath ; The S-D Group in the Duma ; The Duma Capitulates ; Among the Unemployed ; The End of the First Duma ; The Beginning of Public Works ; Lenin ; In the Deportation Prison ; The Second Election Campaign ; The Second Duma ; Public Works ; The Soldiers and the Second Duma ; Stolypin's Coup ; The Ebb ; I Lose the Confidence of the Unemployed ; The Last Campaign ; Arrest and Escape ; Decision -- Prisons : 1908-1912. Underground Work ; In the Castle of Ekaterinoslav ; Typhus ; An Attempt to Escape ; A Plan That Failed ; The Explosion ; Carnage ; In the Darkness ; The Tower ; An Assignment ; Facing the Gallows ; The Case of the Armed Revolt in Gorlovka ; The Case of the 103 Anarchists ; After the Sentence ; Illness ; The Trip to Novgorod ; I Learn Carpentry ; The Long Road ; Alexandrovsk Penitentiary ; In the Work Gang ; On the Threshold of Freedom -- Siberia : 1913-1916. The Land of Banishment ; Jilkino ; On Thin Ice ; The Governor General ; Return to Political Life ; A Cautious S-D ; Bolder Literary Ventures ; Exploring Siberia ; In the Wilderness ; The Chelyasin ; Lost in the Taiga ; The Beginning of the War ; Anti-Militarist Campaign ; Back to Prison ; The War Comes to Siberia ; My Marriage and Honeymoon ; Portents of the Revolution ; The Voice from the Army --The Rise and Fall of Democracy in Russia : 1917. The March Revolution in Irkutsk ; The New Order ; Return to Petrograd ; The First Days of the Revolution in Petrograd ; The Provisional Government ; Puzzles of Soviet Policy ; The Tauride Palace ; Conflict of Powers ; The Political Parties ; Meetings and Speeches ; The Campaign for Peace and National Defense ; Lenin Arrives ; The Communists Gain Ground ; A Regional Convention ; The Clash on Foreign Policy ; The Government Crisis ; The First Coalition ; War and Peace ; Conditions in the Army ; Fraternization ; Unrest in Kronstadt ; Unrest in Petrograd ; Anarchists ; The Offensive on the Front ; Rear Regiments Protest Against the Offensive ; Reverse on the Front ; The July Riots ; The Siege of the Tauride Palace ; The Tide Turns ; End of the Coalition Government ; The Impasse ; The Question of the Constituent Assembly ; Farewell to the Tauride Palace ; On the Northern Front ; The Twelfth Army and Its Commander ; A Pledge of Discipline ; A Sick Army ; Enforcement of a Warrant ; A Corps Commander ; I Pass the Test ; Anarchy at the Top ; The National Conference in Moscow ; The German Offensive ; The Fall of Riga ; The Mutiny of the Supreme Commander ; The Defense of Petrograd ; The Army After the Kornilov Mutiny ; Disintegration of the Government ; The Democratic Convention ; Agony in the Army ; A General Looks for a Civilian on a White Horse ; Transfer of Troops ; The Bolsheviks Strike ; An Attempt to Resist ; The Government Falls, Resistance Continues ; Narrow Escape ; Gatchina ; Trip to Luga ; Truce Agreement ; Taken Prisoner ; Behind Bars Again ; The Constituent Assembly ; In Retrospect -- Years of Wandering : 1918-1935. Petrograd Under the Reds ; Crossing Russia ; The Transcaucasian Maze ; In Tiflis ; Civil War in Russia ; Abbas Tumani ; The Elders of Two Nations Meet ; Russia's Last Hope of Democracy Is Crushed ; Georgia After the End of World War I ; Allah Verdi ; A Stop at Constantinople ; The European Scene ; Italy After a Futile Victory ; Mussolini Rides the Tide of Anarchy ; Our Dark Year ; France, Laurel-Crowned and Bled White ; The Fall of Georgia ; Germany Defeated and Defiant ; A Republic Without Republicans ; The World in Figures ; In the Mountains ; Economic Journalism ; Germany a Decade After World War I ; At the Headquarters of the German Labor Unions ; The Great Depression in Germany ; A Program to End Depression ; Conflict with the S-D Party ; The End of the Weimar Republic ; The Beginning of the Third Reich ; On the Road ; We Go to the United States -- We Discover America : 1935-1960. The Gateway to the New World ; The Land ; The People ; Equality ; Respect for Work ; Social Philosophy ; Materialistic America ; Violence ; A Nation on the Move ; F.D.R. ; Isolationism ; America at War ; In a Separation Center ; "Thank you, sir!" ; My Work with the U.S. Government ; Central Statistical Board ; Social Science Research Council ; Social Security Administration ; Economic Forecasts ; Study of the Changing World ; Europe Revisited ; In Japan ; In Southeast Asia ; In Latin America.Personal history through two Russian revolutions to democracy and freedom, 1905-1960.

Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Woytinsky, W. S. (Wladimir S.), 1885-1960.; Politicians;

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There was nothing you could do : Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the U.S.A." and the end of the heartland / by Hyden, Steven,1977-author.(CARDINAL)352128;

Includes bibliographical references and index.Born in Born in the U.S.A. -- Man at the top -- Man in a room -- Mansion on the hill -- Growing pains -- Bossmania -- Bruced out -- Reborn in the U.S.A."A thought-provoking exploration of Bruce Springsteen's iconic album, Born in the U.S.A.--a record that both chronicled and foreshadowed the changing tides of modern America. On June 4, 1984, Columbia Records issued what would become one of the best-selling and most impactful rock albums of all time. Bruce Springsteen's Born in the U.S.A. would prove itself to be a landmark not only for the man who made it, but rock music in general and even the larger American culture over the next 40 years. Because thisrecord ended up being much more than just an album-it is a document of what this country was in its moment, a dream of what it might become, and a prescient forecast of what it actually turned into decades later. In There Was Nothing You Could Do, veteran rock critic Steven Hyden explores the essential questions that explain this classic album - what it means, why it was made, and how it changed the world. By mixing up his signature blend of personal memoir, criticism, and journalism, Hyden digs deep into the songs that made Born In The U.S.A. as well as the scores of tunes that didn't, including the tracks that make up the album's sister release, 1982's Nebraska. He investigates how the records before Born In The U.S.A. set the table for the album's tremendous success, following Springsteen as he tries to balance his commercial ambitions with his fear of losing artistic control and being co-opted by the machine. Hyden also takes a closer look how Springsteen's work after Born In The U.S.A. reacted to that album, discussing how "The Boss" initially ran away from his most popular (and most misunderstood) LP until he learned to once again accept his role as a kind of living national monument. But the book doesn't stop there. Hyden also looks beyond Springsteen's career, placing Born In The U.S.A. in a larger context in terms of how it affected rock music as well as America. Though he aspired to be as big as Elvis and as profound as Dylan, he was equally aware of his heroes' shortcomings and eager to avoidtheir mistakes-all while navigating the tumultuous aftermath of Vietnam and Watergate, a time when America was coming apart at the seams. Born In The U.S.A. simultaneously chronicles that coming apart and pushes for a more united future, a duality that made him a hero to a younger generation of bands - from Arcade Fire to The Killers to The War On Drugs - who openly emulated the sound of Born In The U.S.A. in the hopes of somehow, in their own way, achieving a measure of that album's impact in the 21st century. By the aughts, when Springsteen fan (and future podcast partner) Barack Obama entered the White House, it appeared that the hopeful promise of Born In The U.S.A. might be realized. But the election of Donald Trump seemed to confirm an opposite truth that was closer to the darkness of songs like "My Hometown" and "Born In The U.S.A." than Springsteen's revival-like shows. As Springsteen himself reluctantly conceded, the working-class middle American progressives he wrote about in 1984 had turned into the resentful and scored Trump voters of the 2010s. How did we lose Springsteen's heartland? And what can listening to these songs teach us about the American decline that Born In The U.S.A. forecasted? In There Was Nothing You Could Do, Hyden takes readers on a journey to find out."--

Subjects: Biographies.; Springsteen, Bruce; Springsteen, Bruce.; Rock music; Rock music;

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Historical aspects of the immigration problem; select documents / by Abbott, Edith,1876-1957.(CARDINAL)129000;

Bibliographical footnotes.I. Causes of emigration: emigration conditions in the United Kingdom and northern Europe : 1. Recruiting German immigrants 1749-50 -- 2. Stimulating emigration in London in the eighteenth century -- 3. What America offered to the poor of Europe -- 4. A letter from America 1796 -- 5. An attempt to discourage emigration 1796 -- 6. Letter from Welsh immigrants in Pennsylvania 1800 -- 7. French immigrants in the wilderness -- 8. Emigration from England in 1816 -- 9. Letters from emigrants -- 10. Opportunities of a farmer in Illinois -- 11. Words of caution to immigrants -- 12. Emigration conditions in Germany and Switzerland -- 13. Emigration for political reasons -- 14. Attractions of pioneer life in Missouri -- 15. Germans ask to come as "redemptioners" 1827 -- 16. Emigration conditions in certain English counties -- 17. Emigration proposed for scotch weavers -- 18. Emigration conditions in Ireland 1824-26 -- 19. Some newspaper comments on emigration -- 20. Letters from pauper immigrants -- 21. Emigration form the United Kingdom -- 22. Emigration and Irish destitution 1836-37 -- 23. Methods of stimulating emigration 1837 -- 24. Overpopulation and emigration in the United Kingdom -- 25. General causes of German emigration -- 26. Why the United States attracts emigrants -- 27. State aid for Irish emigration condemned -- 28. Colonization preferred to emigration -- 29. The Irish famine exodus of 1847 -- 30. The distressed condition of Ireland -- 31. Irish emigration assisted by Irish landlords -- 32. The continuing emigration from the United Kingdom -- 33. Stimulation of emigration by American states : Report of the Wisconsin commissioner of emigration ; Report of the Wisconsin committee on immigration -- 34. The work of A German emigration society -- 35. What does North America offer to the German emigrant? -- 36. Advice to immigrants -- 37. Difficulty of regulating emigration -- 38. Causes of European emigration -- 39. Causes of Swiss emigration -- 40. Emigration of capital and labor -- 41. A later view of emigration from the United Kingdom -- 42. A Swedish immigrant in his old home -- 43. Efforts to attract immigrants to a western state -- 44. Emigration as a remedy for economic distress -- 45. Effect of "hard times" on emigration -- 46. Emigration from Württemberg 1870-80 -- 47. Review of German emigration --II. Economic aspects of the immigration problem : 1. Redemptioners and indentured servants : Comments of a Swedish traveler ; Comments of an English traveler ; Contracts of immigrant "redemptioners" ; Public opinion and the redemptioners -- 2. Opportunities in England and America compared -- 3. British opinion of the dangers of emigration -- 4. Immigration following the peace of 1815 -- 5. How an emigrant may succeed in the United States -- 6. English pioneers in Illinois -- 7. Advice to emigrants -- 8. An Englishman in the western country -- 9. Letters of English paupers -- 10. Emigration of skilled workmen -- 11. Economic opportunities of the United States and Canada -- 12. "Reflections on the subject of emigration" -- 13. Economic advantages of emigration to the mother country -- 14. Opportunities for immigrants in agriculture -- 15. Advice to German emigrants -- 16. Voluntary and state-aided emigration discussed -- 17. Proposals for a Canadian agent in New York -- 18. Employment for newly arrived immigrants -- 19. Influence of emigration upon labor and prices in England -- 20. Immigration and wages -- 21. Immigration harmful to the American laborer -- 22. An Irish view of the immigrant's opportunities -- 23. Advice to emigrants -- 24. Advice to Germans contemplating emigration -- 25. The educated German in America -- 26. Emigration and population statistics -- 27. Emigration in relation to overpopulation in Germany -- 28. Occupations of immigrants viewed unfavorably -- 29. Immigration and labor: a know nothing-view -- 30. Immigrants in New York City -- 31. Distribution of immigrants -- 32. The foreign element in Massachusetts -- 33. Report on the encouragement of immigration -- 34. Common labor in New York -- 35. Scarcity of skilled labor in New York -- 36. Immigration and the labor in the United States -- 37. Immigration and the labor market -- 38. The effects of continuous emigration upon Ireland -- 39. Occupations of immigrants -- 40. Capital value of immigration -- 41. An official estimate of the value of an immigrant -- 42. Opportunities for emigrants 1870 -- 43. The rationale of emigration -- 44. Effect of the industrial development of Germany on emigration -- 45. The effects of emigration in Europe and America -- 46. Immigration and American prosperity -- III. Early problems of assimilation : 1. Colonial misgivings -- 2. What is an American? -- 3. The Pennsylvania Germans -- 4. Thoughts on the policy of encouraging migration -- 5. The population of New York 1812 -- 6. The "anglicizing" of the Germans in America -- 7. A German political exile on the problem of assimilation -- 8. Difficulties of assimilation -- 9. A "Native American" view -- 10. A German traveler's impressions -- 11. Difficulties of adjustment -- 12. A plea for the Irish immigrant -- 13. Irish attitude to know-nothingism -- 14. The disbanding of foreign militia companies -- 15. "The foreign vote" a reply to the know-nothings -- 16. Irish nationalism in the United States -- 17. Loyalty of immigrants to the home country -- 18. A German criticism of German-Americans -- 19. The German emigrant in America -- 20. The Germans in Texas -- 21. Immigrant organizations in politics -- 22. Difficulties of the Irish in the New Anglo-American world -- 23. Isolation of the Irish in America -- 24. The foreign element in American society -- 25. The immigrant's obligations in the "old country" -- 26. The importance of the German language and the German press 1869 -- 27. The Irish-American -- 28. Position of the Irish in America: an English view -- IV. Pauperism and crime and other domestic immigration problems : 1. An attempted exclusion of convicts in the colonial period : Virginia ; Maryland ; Pennsylvania -- 2. Pauper and convict immigration: a colonial statute -- 3. Demand for an immigrant hospital 1741 -- 4. Sick Germans in Philadelphia 1754 -- 5. Charitable schools for immigrants -- 6. A society for assisting emigrants -- 7. Destitution among immigrants in New York -- 8. Importation of paupers -- 9. A Baltimore protest against foreign pauperism -- 10. Irish laborers charged with violence -- 11. The problem of foreign pauperism -- 12. Naturalizing by the job -- 13. Destitution among immigrants -- 14. A demand for control of foreign pauperism in Massachusetts -- 15. Cholera in the Boston slums 1849 -- 16. Recommendations of Massachusetts sanitary commission -- 17. Immigration and crime -- 18. Foreign pauperism -- 19. Destitute foreigners at the New York dispensary -- 20. Insanity in Massachusetts among the native and foreign-born -- 21. Immigration and "juvenile vacancy" -- 22. Immigrant pauperism vied tolerantly -- 23. Election riots -- 24. The "know-nothing" demand for a change in naturalization -- 25. The immigrant and the tenement house problem -- 26. A German prisoners' aid Society -- 27. Protest against the immigration of foreigner criminals -- 28. Misuse of naturalization privileges -- 29. The government of our great cities -- 30. Immigration, indigence, and crime in New York -- 31. Foreign convicts in New York -- 32. Mortality of immigrants -- 33. The "Molly Maguires" -- 34. Alien paupers in New York -- 35. Further complaints of the burden of alien pauperism 1880 -- 36. Evils indecent to immigration --V. Public opinion and the immigrant : 1. Complaints of the Pennsylvania colonial assembly -- 2. A statement's calculations -- 3. Immigration and the needs of the new nation -- 4. A charity sermon for poor emigrants -- 5. Congressional opinion 1797 -- 6. Prejudice against aliens -- 7. Hints to immigrants -- 8. Congress petitioned by Irish immigrants -- 9. Too many immigrants -- 10. The spirit of our government as it relates to foreigners -- 11. Immigrants welcomed in western Pennsylvania -- 12. Immigrants the dupes of demagogues -- 13. Dangers of immigration suggested -- 14. A sympathetic view of the Irish immigrant -- 15. A congressman's view of naturalization -- 16. The "Native American" declaration principles -- 17. An American criticism of "Native Americans" -- 18. The "Native American" in congress -- 19. Anxiety about immigration: a moderate view -- 20. A liberal view of the alien and American life -- 21. Opinion in the south -- 22. A western forecast of the results of emigration -- 23. The immigrant and public lands 1852 -- 24. A sympathetic view of immigration -- 25. The position of the "American party" -- 26. America for Americans -- 27. Who are the Americans? -- 28. "Know-nothingisms" contrary to American tradition -- 29. National hospitality -- 30. Immigrants welcomed -- 31. The humbug of know-nothings -- 32. A democratic reply to the know-nothings -- 33. A German view of the know-nothing movement -- 34. An Irish view of "know-nothingism" -- 35. European immigration- the Grecian horse of the American republic -- 36. Conclusions of a federal investigating committee 1856 -- 37. Immigrants in New York City -- 38. Federal encouragement of immigration -- 39. Free trade in men -- 40. A businessman's views of "our duties to immigrants" 1875 -- 41. Views of state charitable officials -- 42. Importance of the increase in immigration -- 43. Current opinion 1882-83 -- 44. Federal control recommended.

Subjects: Noncitizens; Old State Library Collection.;

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The deals that made the world: reckless ambition, backroom negotiations, and the hidden truths of business. by Peretti, Jacques,1967-(CARDINAL)430840;

Filled with startling observations and thought-provoking findings, an award-winning BBC investigative reporter’s compelling and informative look at twelve business deals that have transformed the modern world. While the laws that guide our lives are written by the politicians we elect, much of the world around us—from the food we eat to the products we buy to the medications we take—is shaped by private negotiations and business deals few of us know about. In The Deals That Made the World, Jacques Peretti takes us inside the world of the powerful dealmakers who influence our daily lives as he examines a dozen groundbreaking business deals that have transformed our society. Peretti reveals how diet company executives engineered an entire industry built on failure; how PayPal came to conquer the online payment world (and the specific behavioral science that underpins its success); and the plan concocted by pharmaceutical executives to successfully market medications to healthy people. For twenty years, Peretti has interviewed the people behind the decisions that have altered our world, from CEOs of multinational corporations to politicians, economists, and scientists. Drawing on his vast knowledge, Peretti reveals a host of fascinating and startling connections, from how Wall Street’s actions on food commodities helped spark the Arab Spring to the link between the AIDS epidemic in 1980s San Francisco and the subprime mortgage crisis of 2008. He proves a sure guide, combining both eye-opening on-the-ground reporting and a narrative flair that makes esoteric financial and business concepts clear and understandable.

Subjects: Economic history; Economic forecasting.;

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