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Similar to Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle explores another facet of good living by outlining the best governing practices that benefit the majority, and not the minority. In The Politics, he defines various institutions and how they should operate within an established system.
The Politics provides an analysis of contemporary government as it relates to all people. Aristotle discusses the positive and negative qualities of authority and how they affect...
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"Human Nature in Politics" by Graham Wallas. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks...
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"The Constitution is the most significant document in America. But do you fully understand what this valuable document means to you? In How to Read the Constitution--and Why, legal expert and educator Kimberly Wehle spells out in clear, simple, and common sense terms what is in the Constitution, and most importantly, what it means. In compelling terms and including text from the United States Constitution, she describes how the Constitution's protections...
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Penned by American philosopher and transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau, On the Duty of Civil Disobedience examines the role of the individual's conscience in governmental rule. Thoreau argues that individual citizens must not simply be subject to the decisions of government, but should question every political act to ensure that the system remains a tool for justice and morality-a message that continues to resonate powerfully in modern times.
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ChatGPT ist in aller Munde. Künstliche Intelligenz wird für uns alle damit zum ersten Mal greif- und erlebbar. Die Chancen verblüffen … aber was ist mit den Risiken? Verdrängt die Technologie uns?
Silicon-Valley-Insider Reid Hoffman gehört zu den ersten Investoren in OpenAI, das Unternehmen, welches ChatGPT entwickelt hat. Wie schätzt jemand wie er die Chancen und die Risiken ein? Was bringt ihm ChatGPT für seine eigene Tätigkeit? Inspiration...
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La estrategia de crecimiento y el entorno macroeconómico, el desarrollo social, la tecnología y la educación, energía, petróleo, gas y biocombustibles . Al final del texto se recoge una breve recopilación de los principales ángulos del debate. Las distintas ponencias se reproducen en forma de una versión libre editorial, pero sin embargo, presenta un abanico muy amplio de opiniones.
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En las agendas de seguridad de algunos países de América Latina y el Caribe, el tráfico de drogas ilícitas y el crimen organizado constituyen una de las mayores amenazas contra el Estado y la democracia (Aravena y Jarrín, 2004; Benítez, Celi, y Diamint, 2009; Niño, 2011; Garzón, 2013). El tema también se convirtió en un eje de la agenda de Estados Unidos con la región. El régimen internacional de prohibición de drogas y la lucha contra...
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For many years, Al Gore has been an influential figure in national politics. He may soon become even more significant to the United States and the world.
We've gotten to know him via thousands of sound bites and images. For the first time, a cohesive and substantive representation of this man is available. In The World According to Al Gore, the vice president's opinions and statements on a broad spectrum of important topics are assembled in one volume.
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A black man in America is more likely to be killed by lightning than by a police officer and it's rare for police to kill anyone and when a shooting occurs, it needs to be evaluated on its own merits. Numerous scientific studies have proven when behavioral, demographic, and other contextual factors are controlled-the racial disparity in police shootings disappears.
In 2019, police shot and killed 1,003 people in the US, according to the Washington...
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He hablado extensa y, espero, claramente sobre responsabilidad política. La primera y mayor responsabilidad hoy en Colombia es por el Acuerdo Final, de protegerlo y cumplirlo. El acuerdo permitió el desarme de las FARC y representa una enorme oportunidad para el país, como las que se presentaron en 1957 y 1991, y que aprovechamos medianamente. Hay que preservar y respetar el Acuerdo en medio de un proceso de confianza que permita una implementación...
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El modelo socioeconómico vigente, fundamentado en el mercado, la industria y el capital, propone la modernización e integración de las FPC en términos de su conversión a la racionalidad empresarial-capitalista como productores agrícolas simples de mercancías en pequeña escala, con base en determinantes económicos, comerciales y tecnológicos (Piñeiro, 1986). Las propuestas modernizantes, que constituyen el paradigma dominante en América...
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In Ein deutsches Leben erzählt Brunhilde Pomsel, die frühere Sekretärin von Reichspropagandaminister Joseph Goebbels, über ihr Desinteresse angesichts des Aufstiegs der Nationalsozialisten, ihr Streben nach dem eigenen Fortkommen in Zeiten des gesellschaftlichen und moralischen Verfalls – und nicht zuletzt ihre Arbeit in einer der Schaltstellen der Nazi-Herrschaft. Der Politikwissenschaftler Thore D. Hansen nimmt die politische Einordnung ihrer...
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The book is, divided in two. The first section addresses the theoretical shortcoming that result from the predominance of capitalism. We recognize that capitalism was initially accepted as progressive and incorporated elements of democracy however slavery (the first contradiction of capitalism) was the economic activity, which produced the profits which were then invested in the industrial revolution. Successful industry ultimately destroyed slavery...
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Jeweils für einige Jahrzehnte waren Autobauer wie Ford oder Toyota das Maß aller Dinge – dann kam Tesla und übernahm mit seinen zukunftsweisenden Methoden das Ruder. Teslas Marketing-, Produktions-, Vertriebs- und Technologiestrategien verändern eine ganze Branche. Sie sind völlig anders – und extrem erfolgreich. Michaël Valentin hat sowohl diesen durch neue Technologien hervorgerufenen Wandel wie auch Tesla selbst genauer unter die Lupe...
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For the better part of a decade, the authors were part of the Washington scene, as a White House senior policy adviser, Assistant Education Secretary, consultant to Federal agencies, and commissioner of a leading international grant-making agency. They became more aware than ever of the need for a straightforward guide to the language of power, a tool to provide access to the terminology used every day inside the Beltway.
The aim of The Talk of...
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The author documents the political history of federal corn ethanol policy, showing how it has evolved from 1977 through 2008. He then offers an in-depth, fact-based look at the major assertions made by the advocates of the policy, providing the results of an evaluation of the claims made by the architects of the Renewal Fuels Standard in 2005 during its consideration by Congress.
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For the last few years, Stephen Van Evera has greeted new graduate students at MIT with a commonsense introduction to qualitative methods in the social sciences. His helpful hints, always warmly received, grew from a handful of memos to an underground classic primer. That primer has now evolved into a book of how-to information about graduate study, which is essential reading for graduate students and undergraduates in political science, sociology,...
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Ein Tesla-Motors-Insider erzählt die Geschichte des revolutionärsten Autoherstellers seit Ford und des Mannes, der ihn zum Erfolg führt. Hamish McKenzie zeigt, wie unter Elon Musks "Insane Mode"-Leitung gerade das Ende eines Zeitalters eingeläutet wird – das der Benzinmotoren. Musk hängt mit seiner Vision und seinen Autos alle anderen Hersteller der Branche ab, entgegen aller Widerstände und Rückschläge. Dies ist nicht nur die Geschichte...
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