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The settling of British America was a unique event in modern
history. For the first time, an entire continent was available to
those from many cultures and religions who wished for new
opportunities free from the feudal remnants and rigid class
distinctions of Europe that still existed in the seventeenth and
eighteenth centuries. Enlightenment ideas and new challenges
combined to create documents of government that allowed a degree of
freedom and social mobility that led to a proto-democratic society,
despite the differences between the thirteen colonies. A group of
radical politicians and writers, Samuel Adams, Patrick Henry,
Thomas Paine, Richard Henry Lee, George Mason, and young Thomas
Jefferson by the mid 1700's increasingly spoke out against the
actions of the London Government and the king. The British
attempted to reassert control of the semi-independent and proud
colonial governments and then send troops to enforce a series of
arbitrary taxes decided by Parliament without input from the
colonists. This book weaves into the story the events of the
pre-revolutionary period, the lives of six radicals-and after the
war- the conflicts in writing new state and federal constitutions.
Our radicals persuaded most ordinary citizens that despite their
long held loyalty and pride of being part of the British Empire,
independence-whether peacefully or requiring force-was necessary to
maintain their prosperity and freedom. However, after the
Revolution, a new generation of leaders was required. Our radicals
remained supporters of their states and the Articles of
Confederation and were hostile to giving many powers including
taxation to a strong central government under the 1787
Constitution.Only Jefferson born a generation later would
contribute to the new nation despite early reservations while in
France. The reputations of the others have been diminished by their
resistance to forming the government we live under. Never
The global response to the Covid-19 pandemic is the greatest science policy failure in a generation. We knew this was coming. Warnings about the threat of a new pandemic have been made repeatedly since the 1980s and it was clear in January that a dangerous new virus was causing a devastating human tragedy in China. And yet the world ignored the warnings. Why?
In this short and hard-hitting book, Richard Horton, editor of the medical journal The Lancet, scrutinizes the actions that governments around the world took - and failed to take - as the virus spread from its origins in Wuhan to the global pandemic that it is today. He shows that many Western governments and their scientific advisors made assumptions about the virus and its lethality that turned out to be mistaken. Valuable time was lost while the virus spread unchecked, leaving health systems unprepared for the avalanche of infections that followed. Drawing on his own scientific and medical expertise, Horton outlines the measures that need to be put in place, at both national and international levels, to prevent this kind of catastrophe from happening again.
We're supposed to be living in an era where human beings have become the dominant influence on the environment, but Covid-19 has revealed the fragility of our societies and the speed with which our systems can come crashing down. We need to learn the lessons of this pandemic and we need to learn them fast because the next pandemic may arrive sooner than we think.
Covid-19, la catástrofe es el análisis de una crisis de salud
global que ha consumido al mundo. Richard Horton, director de la
revista médica The Lancet, analiza aquà la respuesta dada a esta
emergencia sanitaria por los diferentes gobiernos en su intento por
contener el nuevo coronavirus. Expone los errores de muchos
lÃderes polÃticos y sus asesores cientÃficos, que permitieron
que ocurrieran cientos de miles de muertes innecesarias y la peor
crisis económica mundial en tres siglos.Se supone que vivimos en
una época en que la especie humana se ha convertido en la
influencia dominante sobre el medio ambiente, pero la Covid-19 ha
revelado la fragilidad de nuestras sociedades y la rapidez con que
nuestros sistemas pueden venirse abajo. Tenemos que aprender de
esta pandemia, y aprender rápido, porque la próxima puede llegar
antes de lo que pensamos.A partir de sus conocimientos cientÃficos
y médicos, Horton explica las medidas que deberÃan ponerse en
marcha sin demora, a escala nacional e internacional, para impedir
que vuelva a ocurrir otra catástrofe de este tipo.
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Pepper (Paperback)
Richard Horton, David Horton
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Discovery Miles 7 080
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Pepper is a fine colt. Pepper learns how to be a strong cow horse
just like her mother, Patsy. She meets animals in the pastures and
learns about cows, rivers and her Owner. The Owner quickly finds a
buyer for Pepper and in the blink of an eye Pepper finds herself in
a new home without her mother. Pepper, in her new home with her new
Master, has to cope with the loss of her previous life with Patsy
and the pasture she knew so well. In her new setting, Pepper begins
to get familiar with her new Master and her surroundings. Pepper
learns that her Master is becoming a Friend. In time, Pepper
realizes that her Friend is really a Dear Friend. But, things
change in a drastic way for Pepper and her Dear Friend. A cruel
twist of fate finds them both and they must adjust to their new
path of life. Will the change be one that both Pepper and her Dear
Friend can survive?
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
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imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
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++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields
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++++ Supplement To Arrangements Between Debtors And Creditors Under
The Bankruptcy Act, 1861 Sir John Peter De Gex, Richard Horton
Smith Stevens and Sons, 1868 Law; Bankruptcy & Insolvency;
Bankruptcy; Law / Bankruptcy & Insolvency
A unique blend of consciousness theory, satire and contemporary
science fiction, The Undernet is a fast-paced thriller set in the
cultural wasteland of modern Los Angeles. Decadent Uncle Ray dies
of an apparent heart attack, just minutes before Arthur French
walks in the door from Tucson, Arizona to start his new career as
an artist. This sets into motion a series of unfortunate
interactions with the men and women of Ray's life -Sharon his
unstable girlfriend, Marc, his steroidally-enhanced lawyer, and the
mysterious Detective Turing, a voice on the phone which Arthur soon
discovers is in fact a computer program that Ray built to influence
the Federal Reserve's prime lending rate. Despite all evidence to
the contrary, Turing insists it's not self-conscious, just highly
suspicious about the death of its creator. Teaming up with the
manic (if oddly self-effacing) computer program, Arthur
investigates the circumstances behind Ray's death, uncovering a
plan, and an entity, of mindbending comic proportions.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
A wry comic mystery set in Los Angeles --the land where dreams go
to die-- The Naked Raving Empty is the story of one desperate man's
attempt to win the love of a fickle and perhaps sociopathic woman
through a single act of brazen fraud. But in a culture where lying
to yourself can be the only way to survive, fraud can sometimes
reveal a deeper truth. Our hero's girlfriend has a boyfriend of her
own, the other woman in his life is a drug-addled agoraphobic, and
his only remaining friend is a fast-talking aggressively gay
hustler with a penchant for dangerous stock swindles. The future
looks bleak. So in a desperate act to revive his flagging career,
Randy resorts to fraud. He creates a mystery, a wholly manufactured
conspiracy around the sudden death of failed television actor Jack
Kane, and he tries to sell this story to the highest bidder. But if
the conspiracy is a lie, then why are so many people suddenly
trying to stop him? "We believe in what we want after all; and we
want what we cannot have. This I knew all too well from experience.
But what came new on the floor of the holding cell was the final
lock-step end to this reasoning--we believe in what we cannot have.
So I would give them what they wanted, a conspiracy to grace their
past with interest. I would pretend I had a mystery and interview
the men and women of Jack Kane's life, recording their real
responses to a mythical plot --the gold dildo that killed him and
its mysterious disappearance."
This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This
IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced
typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have
occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor
pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original
artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe
this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections,
have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing
commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We
appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the
preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
The settling of British America was a unique event in modern
history. For the first time, an entire continent was available to
those from many cultures and religions who wished for new
opportunities free from the feudal remnants and rigid class
distinctions of Europe that still existed in the seventeenth and
eighteenth centuries. Enlightenment ideas and new challenges
combined to create documents of government that allowed a degree of
freedom and social mobility that led to a proto-democratic society,
despite the differences between the thirteen colonies. A group of
radical politicians and writers, Samuel Adams, Patrick Henry,
Thomas Paine, Richard Henry Lee, George Mason, and young Thomas
Jefferson by the mid 1700's increasingly spoke out against the
actions of the London Government and the king. The British
attempted to reassert control of the semi-independent and proud
colonial governments and then send troops to enforce a series of
arbitrary taxes decided by Parliament without input from the
colonists. This book weaves into the story the events of the
pre-revolutionary period, the lives of six radicals-and after the
war- the conflicts in writing new state and federal constitutions.
Our radicals persuaded most ordinary citizens that despite their
long held loyalty and pride of being part of the British Empire,
independence-whether peacefully or requiring force-was necessary to
maintain their prosperity and freedom. However, after the
Revolution, a new generation of leaders was required. Our radicals
remained supporters of their states and the Articles of
Confederation and were hostile to giving many powers including
taxation to a strong central government under the 1787
Constitution. Only Jefferson born a generation later would
contribute to the new nation despite early reservations while in
France. The reputations of the others have been diminished by their
resistance to forming the government we live under. Never
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