5/23/2023 0 Comments Friedman capitalism and freedom![]() ![]() A negative income tax, among other measures, should replace the current inefficient social welfare systems.Īre you ready to learn some important lessons about capitalism and freedom? Let’s begin!.When the feds mess with the economy things get worse even though politicians are trying to make them better.Freedom, both political and economic, is healthier when government is small and decentralized.Here are the 3 most important lessons I got out of this book: He also reveals how monopolies, poorer living standards, and inequality all result when politicians get too involved in the economy. In this book, Friedman teaches the benefits of capitalism. ![]() ![]() Milton Friedman, author of Capitalism and Freedom: A Leading Economist’s View of the Proper Role of Competitive Capitalism, would have been worried about all of this. On the other hand, the tenets of communism are back on the rise. In the words of Margaret Thatcher, “there is no alternative.”īut now, in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, politicians and citizens are questioning whether the risks of this economic standard are worth it. Government leaders and scholars both agreed that this was the way to go. The smashing victory of the West’s capitalism over Soviet socialism in the Cold War cemented it as the leading system. ![]() Listen to the audio of this summary with a free reading.fm account*: ![]()
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5/23/2023 0 Comments Tomie revenge![]() ![]() It's free to use and each article or document can be downloaded. This is a giant online mental map that serves as a basis for concept diagrams. It gives a brief definition of each concept and its relationships. Unionpedia is a concept map or semantic network organized like an encyclopedia – dictionary. New!!: Tomie: Revenge and Tomie (film series) Is a Japanese horror film series based on Junji Ito's manga of the same name. Is a Japanese horror manga series written and illustrated by Junji Ito. ![]() Minami Hinase (美波 みなみ Hinase Minami), more popularly known in Japan as Minami (みなみ), is a half-Japanese, half-French model and actress. New!!: Tomie: Revenge and Hisako Shirata Īre comics created in Japan or by creators in the Japanese language, conforming to a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century. ![]() ħ relations: Ataru Oikawa, Hisako Shirata, Junji Ito, Manga, Minami Hinase, Tomie, Tomie (film series). Is a 2005 Japanese horror film directed by Ataru Oikawa. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Brenda’s 2011 novel A Silken Thread is scheduled to be filmed with Debbie Allen attached as director in 2015.Įmail Brenda at or visit her on her website at. In 2010, she collaborated with Five Alive Films to turn her Truly Everlasting title into a feature film. In 2013, she was recognized by the mayor and the city of Jacksonville as being a Trailblazer in the literary field. In 2012, Brenda received the Romance Writers of America’s Nora Roberts Lifetime Achievement Award-one of the highest literary awards a romance author can receive. ![]() Since then she has had more than 100 novels and novellas published (the first African-American author to accomplish such a feat) and has over 3 million books in print.Ī native of Jacksonville, Florida, Brenda is the first African-American author to have a book published by Harlequin Desire and the first African-American romance author to make the New York Times and USA TODAY bestseller lists within the series romance genre. Delaneys Desert Sheikh Paperback by Brenda Jackson (Author) 191 ratings 4.3 on Goodreads 3,106 ratings Book 1 of 30: The Westmorelands See all formats and editions Kindle 5.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Paperback from 15.67 7 Used from 15. In 1994, Brenda Jackson’s first novel, Tonight and Forever, was released. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Descender, Vol. 2 by Jeff Lemire![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Oh, and a new character was introduced that will be quite important in the not too distant future, I bet. Moreover, we're still trying to get to the bottom of the whole Harvester business though we took a relatively giant step in the right direction with this volume. This is another not-too-subtle dig at what happens if any one group is suppressed for too long (violent uprisings). However, the group is split up in the process with Tim-21 (amongst others) going with the robots to the titular Machine Moon. It's a (not too subtle) metaphor for children of the same family growing up to be completely different depending on their surroundings as genetics isn't everything.Īfter the good doctor revealed to be nothing more than a copy-cat who tempered with tech he didn't understand, the robot resistance known as Hardwire arrives and breaks them out. Yup, there's two now.Īnd yes, they are different in character. Only Tim-21 isn't the only one of his kind left. These are the further adventures of little robot Tim-21 and his two robot friends and three human companions. ![]() ![]() ![]() The temptation to embroider and elaborate, to suggest motives and deduce states of mind, is very great. ![]() Tucker tells the story as if it were a classic whodunit, bringing alive an extremely complicated and baffling series of events using La Reynie’s notes and voluminous court transcripts. Holly Tucker’s “City of Light, City of Poison” is an intriguing amalgam of historical evocation and crime narrative that places the emphasis on the investigating official, Nicolas de la Reynie, first chief of the Paris police force. The matter is known to the French as “ l’affaire des poisons,” the affair of the poisons, one of those staples of court intrigue when the Sun King ruled supreme that have led to endless speculation with no definitive resolution. The king was still consolidating his power at Versailles, and jealous nobles were suspected of threatening members of his entourage, and the monarch himself. Poisoners were at work - many of them, it seemed - and their victims included magistrates, aged and rich husbands, and, possibly, members of the king’s court at Versailles. From 1679 to 1682, there transpired in the Paris of Louis XIV a series of sudden deaths that touched the public imagination in a deep and lasting way. ![]() ![]() Yes, it has a long way to go, but justice did prevail in rooting out the corruption of the Kilpatrick regime, and the city continues to make strides. Thankfully, the intervening years have proven LeDuff’s proclamation false. “ Detroit: An American Autopsy ,” published in 2013, chronicles one of the more corrupt periods in Detroit history, during the reign of mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, who resigned in disgrace in 2008 before being found guilty of perjury and obstruction of justice.Ĭharlie is a talented writer who elicits powerful emotions in his readers: anger, disgust, and even despondency.īut he’s prone to some hyperbole, and seems resigned to declare the city dead-an understandable position, given what he witnessed and wrote about every day. ![]() Writer and reporter Charlie LeDuff moved his family from Los Angeles back to his native Detroit, where he went to work exposing corruption, violence, and incompetence for the Detroit News. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Mississippi Sissy by Kevin Sessums![]() ![]() In fact, my first Christmas Eve I ever spent in New York was spent with Henry all around Times Square.īut first some background. My first gay mentor in New York after I arrived here in 1975 was Henry Geldzahler, who had left his job as Curator of 20th Century Art for the Metropolitan Museum to become Mayor Ed Koch’s Commissioner of Cultural Affairs. The late Brian Bedford, in an interview I did with him back in 2011, talked about the special relationship he had with his gay mentor John Gielgud. Nathan Lane remembered the mentorship of George C. Throughout this week, I have talked about the importance of mentorship. ![]() ![]() We will share these installments, prepared throughout the month, during the week leading up to World Pride on June 30. On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Stonewall, we asked Kevin Sessums - former Executive Editor of Andy Warhol’s Interview, Contributing Editor at Tina Brown and Graydon Carter's Vanity Fair, theater critic at, author of the New York Times best-selling memoirs Mississippi Sissy and I Left It On the Mountain, and current editor-in-chief of, an online magazine of culture, conversation and current events - to reflect on his intersections with Times Square, LGBT history, and the theater over the years, drawing on his life and work. Tales of Times Square: Sessums on the City Pride Month reflections by celebrated author and journalist Kevin Sessums ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Nell painter sojourner truth![]() ![]() Like Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass, she is regarded as a radical of immense and enduring influence yet, unlike them, what is remembered of her consists more of myth than of personality. ![]() Straight-talking and unsentimental, Truth became a national symbol for strong black women-indeed, for all strong women. Sojourner Truth: ex-slave and fiery abolitionist, figure of imposing physique, riveting preacher and spellbinding singer who dazzled listeners with her wit and originality. Environmental History, Digitization & GISĪ monumental biography of one of the most important black women of the nineteenth century.Late Antique, Medieval, and Byzantine Workshop.Committee for the Study of Books and Media.Colonial and Revolutionary Americas Workshop.Center for Collaborative History Submenu.The Saturated Jungle and The New York Times.Undergraduate History of Science Submenu.Colonial / Revolutionary / Early National America. ![]() ![]() ![]() But Riley warms to Aaron’s seduction quicker than you can say “all-you-can-eat buffet!” Who knew her mild-mannered best friend was so hot in the sack? Of course, thanks to Riley’s penchant for picking up strays, the newlyweds will have to sneak in some honeymoon boom-boom whenever they can. Tracking her down, Aaron finally gets his wish-after he drags a drunken Riley to a chapel and makes it legit, of course.To say she’s shocked is putting it mildly. No surprise Aaron’s been watching Riley’s ass forever-and he’s wanted to spank it for even longer. Once again, it’s Aaron Young to the rescue. Synopsis: Wild Irish, Book SixSaturday’s child works hard for a living.What do you get when you cross a gold-digging stripper, a down-on-her-luck hooker, an estranged husband, his knocked-up wife, a Wayne Newton lookalike taxi driver and one beleaguered Baltimore cop?A typical night in the life of Riley Collins-Vegas style.Riley’s always been the wildest of the Collins clan, but even she bites off more than she can chew during an impromptu trip to Sin City. ![]() ![]() ![]() There is more of not-writing than writing. No discipline, no schedule, sometimes even no pleasure. ![]() Because writing, my version of it, is just too indefinite. ![]() This is like a sort of a variation on the theme of ‘who are you?’. Sometimes they ask, ‘and what do you do?’. This people are willing to tell you as much of their story as can possibly fit into their mouth. I often meet people that are on their way somewhere, under a bus shelter, on a marshrutka, on a train. This word, like a little stone, like a little piece of glass – ‘writer’ – just doesn’t come out of my mouth. Kurz i Krew was published in September 2013. She writes a blog Rejmer: skraje i skrawki on. In 2009, she published her debut novel Toksymia, which earned her a nomination to the Gdynia Literature Award in 2010. 1985) – writer, PhD student at the Institute of Polish Culture, University of Warsaw. ![]() |