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Mount Pleasant (Paperback)
Melissa Fulgham, James McGregor, Rex Allen
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Companies from around the globe are flocking to China to buy, sell,
manufacture, and create new products, but as former "Wall Street
Journal" China bureau chief turned successful corporate executive
James McGregor explains, business in China is never quite what it
seems. "One Billion Customers" offers compelling narratives of
personalities, business deals, and lessons learned, creating a
coherent pictures of China's emergence as a global economic power
with a dog-eat-dog business climate that has turned bureaucrats
into billionaires and left many foreign business executives with
their pockets turned inside out.
All over the world, political parties are being born and political
pluralism is being fostered. Ironically, here in the United States,
the parties are blurring together ideologically, and the political
process is suffering. One of the messages of this book is that a
vital two-party system is essential to America's political health.
The last thing this country needs, the authors argue, is two
Republican parties. At this critical moment in history, the
Democratic party has the opportunity to offer the nation a real
political choice, a sense of direction, and a program to address
the needs of Americans in a changing world. It is time, they say,
for a change-a change that only the Democrats can provide. As
recounted here, a generation of Republican administrations have had
their chance. The results have not been happy: deepening social
divisions, heightened inequalities in income distribution, a
decaying educational system, environmental exploitation, an
insensitivity to the concerns of the less powerful, the largest
public debt in history, and a foreign policy based on force.
Recurring constitutional crises have also erupted, as epitomized by
the Iran-Contra affair. The record is a sorry one. Alternatives
exist, and the best ones rest with the Democratic party. The
Democrats must lead. It is their responsibility to offer a new
vision of the future and the means for achieving it-to provide a
program that is compassionate, just, and inclusive of all. The
politics of greed, exploitation, self-promotion, and militarism
must be put behind us. Such are the themes of this extraordinary
book. Leading academicians, each an expert in his or her area,
emphasize the need for new leadership, propose contributions that a
progressive Democratic party could make, and suggest what this
party should stand for as well as how it can win in 1992. They urge
the Democrats to be both brave and principled-brave in defying the
conventional wisdom that Democrats must be moderate to win, and
principled in sticking to progressive ideals. The book provides
analysis of such areas as the political impact of an
issue-oriented, liberal party; the campaign and media choices
required to get a progressive message across; the role and concerns
of women, blacks, Hispanics, and other 262underrepresented groups;
electoral and legislative strategies for success; and the substance
of what a progressive policy agenda should contain. Challenging and
thought-provoking, these essays will help reshape political
thinking during this critical period in the nation's history. Their
objective is creation of a society that represents and responds to
human needs, and the authors indicate the way to achieve these
goals through an invigorated, forward-looking Democratic party.
All over the world, political parties are being born and political
pluralism is being fostered. Ironically, here in the United States,
the parties are blurring together ideologically, and the political
process is suffering. One of the messages of this book is that a
vital two-party system is essential to America's political health.
The last thing this country needs, the authors argue, is two
Republican parties. At this critical moment in history, the
Democratic party has the opportunity to offer the nation a real
political choice, a sense of direction, and a program to address
the needs of Americans in a changing world. It is time, they say,
for a change-a change that only the Democrats can provide. As
recounted here, a generation of Republican administrations have had
their chance. The results have not been happy: deepening social
divisions, heightened inequalities in income distribution, a
decaying educational system, environmental exploitation, an
insensitivity to the concerns of the less powerful, the largest
public debt in history, and a foreign policy based on force.
Recurring constitutional crises have also erupted, as epitomized by
the Iran-Contra affair. The record is a sorry one. Alternatives
exist, and the best ones rest with the Democratic party. The
Democrats must lead. It is their responsibility to offer a new
vision of the future and the means for achieving it-to provide a
program that is compassionate, just, and inclusive of all. The
politics of greed, exploitation, self-promotion, and militarism
must be put behind us. Such are the themes of this extraordinary
book. Leading academicians, each an expert in his or her area,
emphasize the need for new leadership, propose contributions that a
progressive Democratic party could make, and suggest what this
party should stand for as well as how it can win in 1992. They urge
the Democrats to be both brave and principled-brave in defying the
conventional wisdom that Democrats must be moderate to win, and
principled in sticking to progressive ideals. The book provides
analysis of such areas as the political impact of an
issue-oriented, liberal party; the campaign and media choices
required to get a progressive message across; the role and concerns
of women, blacks, Hispanics, and other 262underrepresented groups;
electoral and legislative strategies for success; and the substance
of what a progressive policy agenda should contain. Challenging and
thought-provoking, these essays will help reshape political
thinking during this critical period in the nation's history. Their
objective is creation of a society that represents and responds to
human needs, and the authors indicate the way to achieve these
goals through an invigorated, forward-looking Democratic party.
Manufacturing systems rarely perform exactly as expected and
predicted. Unexpected events, such as order changes, equipment
failures and product defects, affect the performance of the system
and complicate decision-making. This volume is devoted to the
development of analytical methods aiming at responding to
variability in a way that limits its corrupting effects on system
performance. The book includes fifteen novel chapters that mostly
focus on the development and analysis of performance evaluation
models of manufacturing systems using decomposition-based methods,
Markovian and queuing analysis, simulation, and inventory control
approaches. They are organized into four distinct sections to
reflect their shared viewpoints: factory design, unreliable
production lines, queuing network models, production planning and
assembly.
Think you know about British history and the causes of the First
World War? Think again. This fascinating and gripping study of
events at the turn of the Twentieth Century is a remarkable insight
into how political and social factors that we widely accept to be
the causes of The Great War, were really just a construct put
together by a very small, but powerful, political elite...
'Thought-provoking . . . Docherty and Macgregor do not mince their
words . . . their arguments are powerful' -- Britain at War 'Simply
astonishing' -- ***** Reader review 'Very illuminating' -- *****
Reader review 'You simply MUST read this book' -- ***** Reader
review 'This is a page-turner' -- ***** Reader review
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Hidden History uniquely exposes those responsible for the First
World War. It reveals how accounts of the war's origins have been
deliberately falsified to conceal the guilt of the secret cabal of
very rich and powerful men in London responsible for the most
heinous crime perpetrated on humanity. For ten years, they plotted
the destruction of Germany as the first stage of their plan to take
control of the world. The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
was no chance happening. It lit a fuse that had been carefully set
through a chain of command stretching from Sarajevo through
Belgrade and St Petersburg to that cabal in London. Our
understanding of these events has been firmly trapped in a web of
falsehood and duplicity carefully constructed by the victors at
Versailles in 1919 and maintained by compliant historians ever
since. The official version is fatally flawed, warped by the volume
of evidence they destroyed or concealed from public view. Hidden
History poses a tantalising challenge. The authors ask only that
you examine the evidence they lay before you . . .
Vegetables are a significant component of agricultural farming
systems in Africa and have recently moved into the focus of
research organizations, development partners and policy makers.
Beyond income generating opportunities for producers, vegetable
production for domestic and export markets is an important driver
for growth due to employment opportunities in production,
processing and trade. Providing the latest socioeconomic research
methodologies alongside empirical examples, this volume explores
the potential for vegetable production to alleviate poverty, the
impact of food production standards on various stakeholders, an
assessment of markets and marketing potential for different crops
and advanced economic approaches to production.
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Mount Pleasant (Hardcover)
Melissa Fulgham, James McGregor, Rex Allen
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