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This book is a blue print on the steps that must be taken to
make America great again.
It addresses America's problems from war to health care; from
energy and nuclear power to global warming; from illegal immigrants
to reinstitution of the draft of all young Americans; from a
national registration system for all Americans to a practical
solution to the financial difficulties of Social Security. The
views and solutions to these problems are expressed through the
eyes of Richard Michael White, a seventy-one year old man who holds
advanced degrees in both engineering and mathematics. As Richard's
life progresses from being a student in high school, to serving as
an Army Officer on active duty, to a thirty year professional
career, to his eventual, early retirement at the age of
fifty-seven, his view of America's most pressing problems changes
and solidifies into a coherent and detailed plan on solving these
problems.
The book begins as Richard describes the differences in the
current world from 1957 when he graduated from high school to the
present. He discusses Christianity and concludes that he might, or
might not, be a Christian depending or your definition what it
takes to be a Christian. He deals with the topics of love, sex,
marriage, and divorce, and shows that although they are all
related, they are all different. He believes that the most pressing
problem facing the world is population growth.
Richard addresses the subject of America's energy dependence and
pushes for an expansion of nuclear power. He also presses for the
development of nuclear power from the element Thorium. He lays out
a detailed blueprint to address Thorium's usage in power generation
as well as using government owned Thorium nuclear reactors for coal
gasification, shale oil extraction, and seawater desalination.
While the role of metaphor in economics and business has produced
multiple research articles, no comprehensive book-length study has
yet appeared. The present book is a timely attempt to fill this
gap, giving a global coverage of the role of metaphor in business
and economics. It spans time (from Classical Greece to the current
business network meeting-room), space (from Europe through the
Americas to Asia), cultures and languages (from continental
European languages, Brazilian Portuguese to Chinese). The
theoretical grounding of the book is the Conceptual Theory of
Metaphor taken in a dynamic sense as evolving with on-going
research. The theory is thus used, adapted and refined in
accordance with the evidence provided. Metaphor is shown to be
theory constitutive in the elaboration of economic thinking down
through the ages while, at the same time, the emphasis on evidence
open to historical, cross-cultural and cross-linguistic
considerations align with the current notion of situatedness. The
book is a rich source of information for researchers and students
in the fields of Metaphor Studies, Economics, Discourse Analysis,
and Communication Studies, among others.
Fiction or Nonfi ction, You read it and decide yourself... I don't
have to try to justify my story... for I lived thru and experienced
this chain of events.
- Accessible essays that are designed to serve as a touchstone for
discussion in the classroom both at postgraduate and advanced
undergraduate levels. - Addresses historical anti-feminisms as a
means of framing, situating, and interrogating the relationship
between contemporary feminisms and anti-feminist manipulations and
denigrations. - Engages with the quandary of how to define feminism
and live feminist lives in relation to a dense web of pejorative
language and concepts that flourish in popular culture. - Actively
explores feminist struggles to acknowledge and incorporate people
of color, anti-racist and LGBTQIA+ individuals and politics, and
relates this to the ways anti-feminists have strategically deployed
these debates to thwart the associated movements.
- Accessible essays that are designed to serve as a touchstone for
discussion in the classroom both at postgraduate and advanced
undergraduate levels. - Addresses historical anti-feminisms as a
means of framing, situating, and interrogating the relationship
between contemporary feminisms and anti-feminist manipulations and
denigrations. - Engages with the quandary of how to define feminism
and live feminist lives in relation to a dense web of pejorative
language and concepts that flourish in popular culture. - Actively
explores feminist struggles to acknowledge and incorporate people
of color, anti-racist and LGBTQIA+ individuals and politics, and
relates this to the ways anti-feminists have strategically deployed
these debates to thwart the associated movements.
Partisan or Neutral? critically examines the Rawlsian ideal of a
public, supposedly neutral, political theory meant to justify
contemporary constitutional democracies. Placing this
ideal-appealed to by neo-natural law theorists and advocates of
'public theology' as well as by political theorists-against the
background of the history of political liberalism, White shows its
contradictory nature. He argues that any such legitimating theory
will be 'partisan,' in the sense of appealing to convictions
concerning the human good that will not be universally accepted. He
concludes that all politics must be imperfect-a matter of
pragmatism and prudence in forming the most workable compromises
possible and in acquiescing, where our principles allow us to do
so, in situations that are often far from optimal.
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