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Second-Rate Nation

Author : Sam D. Sieber
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317252365
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book Second-Rate Nation written by Sam D. Sieber and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-03 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A scathing indictment of America's failure to keep up with other advanced nations and to achieve its own most cherished goals. The chapters of the book focus on: the media, the economy and corporations, foreign assistance and military affairs, health and health care, education, crime and punishment, the environment, inequality, and more. This is the one book to read this year about current events and the United States' many recent failures, which have demoted them to the status of a second-rate nation. The book will be useful for policymakers, journalists, teachers, students, activists and public speakers, and anyone with an interest in the U.S. today. Drawing on copious international and domestic evidence, the author shows that America lags significantly behind other advanced countries in such domains as health care, education, crime, civil liberties, racial and ethnic equality, environmental protection, foreign relations, and key features of the economy, including persistent poverty. The gap extends even to some surprising areas: press freedom and democratic representation. Sieber examines the questions of how and why the peculiar gulf between America's extraordinary self-esteem and the true state of affairs has evolved. He is concerned with understanding how the nation's idealized self-image is sustained in spite of overwhelming evidence of impairment in almost every important domain. In an election year the book is a valuable resource for assessing the challenges the U.S. faces. Apart from the author's powerful thesis, the book is a rich compendium of up-to-date statistical data on a variety of issues, presented without either technical obfuscation or oversimplification. It should therefore be useful to policymakers, journalists, commentators, teachers, students, activists, public speakers, and anyone wishing to know more about the true state of affairs in the U.S. today.

Second-rate Nation

Author : Sam D. Sieber
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9781594510915
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Second-rate Nation written by Sam D. Sieber and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sieber makes the controversial and painful claim that America is an inferior nation among advanced industrial societies, and he supports this attitude by citing statistics related to health care, education, government, and social conditions. He refutes the idea that American decline is related to one president or one political climate. Sieber advocates changing the political climate to reflect not the usual partisan preoccupations but fundamental changes in how we address policy issues.

The Nature of Sacrifice

Author : Carol Bundy
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780374120771
Total Pages : 590 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (27 download)

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Download or read book The Nature of Sacrifice written by Carol Bundy and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2005-04-13 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of Charles Russell Lowell, Jr., 1835-64.

The Middle and Working Class Manifesto Fourth Edition

Author : Rev. Paul J. Bern
Publisher : Rev. Paul J. Bern
ISBN 13 : 1731048149
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The Middle and Working Class Manifesto Fourth Edition written by Rev. Paul J. Bern and published by Rev. Paul J. Bern. This book was released on 2018-12-29 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in a combination populist and progressive style, this nonfiction book chronicles the ongoing demise of the US middle class and what pastor Bern calls, "the ticking time bomb of inequality". This prophetic 2011 book, now in its 4th edition, predicted the American people's demand for free health care, free higher education for everyone without qualification, an end to the Drug War that includes prison reform, repealing the federal income tax, and the need for a $15.00 per hour minimum wage more than thee years before they occurred. This Christian-based book is a must-read for everyone who thinks America is headed in the wrong direction.

Two Nations

Author : Andrew Hacker
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439104948
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Two Nations written by Andrew Hacker and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this groundbreaking study, Andrew Hacker offers a fresh and disturbing examination of the divisions of color and class in present-day America, analyzing the conditions that keep black and white Americans dangerously far apart in their ability to achieve the American dream. Why, despite continued efforts to increase understanding and expand opportunities, do black and white Americans still lead separate lives, continually marked by tension and hostility? In his much-lauded classic and updated version reflecting the changing realities of race in our nation, Andrew Hacker explains the origins and meaning of racism and clarifies the conflicting theories of equality and inferiority. He paints a stark picture of racial inequality in America—focusing on family life, education, income, and employment—and explores the controversies over politics, crime, and the causes of the gap between the races. Reasoned, accurate, and devastating, Two Nations demonstrates how this great and dividing issue has defined America's history and the pivotal role it will play in the future.

U.S. Health in International Perspective

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309264146
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book U.S. Health in International Perspective written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2013-04-12 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States is among the wealthiest nations in the world, but it is far from the healthiest. Although life expectancy and survival rates in the United States have improved dramatically over the past century, Americans live shorter lives and experience more injuries and illnesses than people in other high-income countries. The U.S. health disadvantage cannot be attributed solely to the adverse health status of racial or ethnic minorities or poor people: even highly advantaged Americans are in worse health than their counterparts in other, "peer" countries. In light of the new and growing evidence about the U.S. health disadvantage, the National Institutes of Health asked the National Research Council (NRC) and the Institute of Medicine (IOM) to convene a panel of experts to study the issue. The Panel on Understanding Cross-National Health Differences Among High-Income Countries examined whether the U.S. health disadvantage exists across the life span, considered potential explanations, and assessed the larger implications of the findings. U.S. Health in International Perspective presents detailed evidence on the issue, explores the possible explanations for the shorter and less healthy lives of Americans than those of people in comparable countries, and recommends actions by both government and nongovernment agencies and organizations to address the U.S. health disadvantage.

1961 United States Commission on Civil Rights Report

Author : United States Commission on Civil Rights
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book 1961 United States Commission on Civil Rights Report written by United States Commission on Civil Rights and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Report of the United States Commission on Civil Rights

Author : United States Commission on Civil Rights
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Report of the United States Commission on Civil Rights written by United States Commission on Civil Rights and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Cooking Up the Nation

Author : Lara Anderson
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1855662469
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (556 download)

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Download or read book Cooking Up the Nation written by Lara Anderson and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2013 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is the first to analyse the textual construction of a national Spanish cuisine in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. This book looks at the textual attempts to construct a national cuisine made in Spain at the turn of the last century. At the same time that attempts to unify the country were being made in law and narrated in fiction, Mariano Pardo de Figueroa (1828-1918) and José Castro y Serrano (1829-96), Angel Muro Goiri (1839 - 1897), Emilia Pardo Bazán (1851-1921) and Dionisio Pérez (1872-1935) all tried to find ways of bringing Spaniards together through a common language about food. In line with this nationalist goal, all of the texts examined in this book contain strategies and rhetoric typical of nineteenth-century nation-building projects. The nationalist agenda of these culinary textscomes as little surprise when we consider the importance of nation building to Spanish cultural and political life at the time of their publication. At this time Spaniards were forced to confront many questions relating to their national identity, such as the state's lackluster nationalizing policies, the loss of empire, national degeneration and regeneration and their country's cultural dependence on France. In their discussions about how to nationalize Spanish food, all of the authors under consideration here tap into these wider political and cultural issues about what it meant to be Spanish at this time. Lara Anderson is Lecturer in Spanish Studies at the Universityof Melbourne.

Committee Prints

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Aeronautical and Space Sciences
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1054 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Committee Prints written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Aeronautical and Space Sciences and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 1054 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Commission on Civil Rights Report

Author : United States Commission on Civil Rights
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 820 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Commission on Civil Rights Report written by United States Commission on Civil Rights and published by . This book was released on with total page 820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Excerpts from the 1961 Commission on Civil Rights Report

Author : United States Commission on Civil Rights
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book Excerpts from the 1961 Commission on Civil Rights Report written by United States Commission on Civil Rights and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Justice

Author : United States Commission on Civil Rights
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book Justice written by United States Commission on Civil Rights and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Blood of the Nation

Author : David Starr Jordan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Blood of the Nation written by David Starr Jordan and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Report

Author : United States. Congress Senate
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2860 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book Report written by United States. Congress Senate and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 2860 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Global Trends 2040

Author : National Intelligence Council
Publisher : Cosimo Reports
ISBN 13 : 9781646794973
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (949 download)

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Download or read book Global Trends 2040 written by National Intelligence Council and published by Cosimo Reports. This book was released on 2021-03 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic marks the most significant, singular global disruption since World War II, with health, economic, political, and security implications that will ripple for years to come." -Global Trends 2040 (2021) Global Trends 2040-A More Contested World (2021), released by the US National Intelligence Council, is the latest report in its series of reports starting in 1997 about megatrends and the world's future. This report, strongly influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic, paints a bleak picture of the future and describes a contested, fragmented and turbulent world. It specifically discusses the four main trends that will shape tomorrow's world: - Demographics-by 2040, 1.4 billion people will be added mostly in Africa and South Asia. - Economics-increased government debt and concentrated economic power will escalate problems for the poor and middleclass. - Climate-a hotter world will increase water, food, and health insecurity. - Technology-the emergence of new technologies could both solve and cause problems for human life. Students of trends, policymakers, entrepreneurs, academics, journalists and anyone eager for a glimpse into the next decades, will find this report, with colored graphs, essential reading.

VM/SAC, Veterinary Medicine & Small Animal Clinician

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 968 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book VM/SAC, Veterinary Medicine & Small Animal Clinician written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 968 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: