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...take less than a century to create the largest contiguous empire in world history. 10. Mongols Open the Way They open the gate blocking direct h... ...lly until Mergenthaler built his Linotype. But Ottmar’s name fell through history’s cracks. 18. ―The Eighth Wonder of the World‖ Although as lat... ...p to the start of the Epilogue. This is because my own perspective on the history of the written word is tied so powerfully to the history of eBooks... ... immediately captivated me. During the heyday of Linotypes—from the late 1940s into the late 1980s—I worked at city editor and managing editor jobs... ...once worked well for poet-singers‘ stories failed to meet the needs of an economic species that irrigated fields, planted crops, and raised livestock... ...and commercial centers of their age. As temple complexes grew into major economic enterprises, many workers were needed to handle large quantities ... ...ldboard plow and the three-field planting system had brought considerable economic stability, and the Black Death pandemic had peaked near the middl... ...ntinue to send out new growth. More Electronic InfoTech chronologically 1940s  First digital programmable electronic computer. (Digital computer... ...uy paperbacks, back around 1955, shows that during pretty much the entire 1940s–1950s the price we paid for a paperback as well as for a gallon of g...

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...take less than a century to create the largest contiguous empire in world history. 10. Mongols Open the Way They open the gate blocking direct h... ...lly until Mergenthaler built his Linotype. But Ottmar’s name fell through history’s cracks. 18. ―The Eighth Wonder of the World‖ Although as lat... ...to the start of the Epilogue. This is because my own perspective on the history of the written word is tied so powerfully to the history of eBooks... ...mmediately captivated me. During the heyday of Linotypes—from the late 1940s into the late 1980s—I worked at city editor and managing editor jobs... ...once worked well for poet-singers‘ stories failed to meet the needs of an economic species that irrigated fields, planted crops, and raised livestock... ...nd commercial centers of their age. As temple complexes grew into major economic enterprises, many workers were needed to handle large quantities ... ...ldboard plow and the three-field planting system had brought considerable economic stability, and the Black Death pandemic had peaked near the middl... ...inue to send out new growth. More Electronic InfoTech chronologically 1940s  First digital programmable electronic computer. (Digital computer... ...uy paperbacks, back around 1955, shows that during pretty much the entire 1940s–1950s the price we paid for a paperback as well as for a gallon of g...

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...The history of four terrorist organizations in the Balkans and a general introduction to terrorism and freedom fighting. Also includes essays about religious co-existence in the Balkans and about pathological narcissism as a prec...

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...cause (in most cases, the freedom of a group of people). They base their claims on history - real or hastily concocted, on a common heritage, on a ... ...balanced personalities and project them to great effect. They are the footnotes of history that assume the role of text. And they rarely enjoy the ... ...ree nations: the Greeks, the Bulgarians, and the Serbs. Each invoked ethnicity and history and all conjured up the apparition of the defunct Treaty... ...both passionate and auspicious. The new King was of the reforming kind and keen on economic progress and wealth formation. Regretfully, his impleme... ...scism (and, less so, Nazism) were viable ideological alternatives in the 1930s and 1940s. Variants of fascist ideology sprang all over the world, f... ...t. These were natural - though nefarious - reactions to dislocation, globalization, economic crisis and cultural pluralism. A set of compensatory me... ...transforming their Yugo Slav brethren into sworn adversaries. This was true in the economic sphere as well as in the political realm. Serbia declar...

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...to the Minister of Labour and Social Policy By: Dr. Sam Vaknin Formerly Economic Advisor to the Government of the Republic of Macedonia Skopje... ...set wages. Wages and unemployment benefits are perceived as complementary economic stabilizers (contra the business cycle). Another possibility ... ...ll – as is the case in Belgium (though only for up to 2 months). It makes economic sense, because their activities replace social outlays. In Bri... ..., with the result that monetary policy was not tried very much during the 1940s. It was often forgotten during the policy discussions of the time th... ...f job insecurity is high, even after the most prosperous decade in recent history. Witness the sparse movement of labour among members of the EU, de... ...d." A recent tome by Kevin Phillips - "Wealth and Democracy: A Political History of the American Rich" - claims: "The top 1 percent pocketed 42 p... ...sy to point at immigration-free periods of unparalleled prosperity in the history of nations - or, conversely, at recessionary times coupled with a ...

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...ERS ................................................................. 127 ECONOMIC CONCERNS WHEN ESTABLISHING YOUR IDEAL SOCIETY ............... 128 ... ...CONOMIC CONCERNS WHEN ESTABLISHING YOUR IDEAL SOCIETY ............... 128 ECONOMIC EFFICIENCY .......................................................... ...ANCING THE BUDGET—TAXES FOR YOUR IDEAL SOCIETY ...................... 152 ECONOMIC GROWTH RATE ......................................................... ...uld it vary? 19 Should every rule be universal—never changing through history? The Ten Commandments are such a universal moral code. What if Hit... ... devil? Global warming is an alarmist misreading of a natural blip in the history of climate. There is no overpopulation problem—there is plenty roo... ... not depend on an air of confidence or a posture of certainty. Throughout history progress has been stymied because ignorant people have been in lead... ...nvened a conference on whether or not the Nazi holocaust of the 1930s and 1940s existed, huge numbers of Muslims had never heard of it. It may not h... ...? If so are Palestinian terrorists excused? Were Jewish terrorists in the 1940s, both before and after being given part of Palestine, justified in t...

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... much of what we love about today’s information ecosystem. Understanding its history sheds light on different possible futures and helps us to recogniz... ... debates about Internet policy. Yet increasingly the box has come to matter. History shows that the box had competitors—and today they are back. The e... .... Hush-A-Phone was followed by more sweeping outside innovations. During the 1940s, inventor Tom Carter sold and installed two-way radios for com- pan... ...uld CompuServe hold to the same line that AT&T tried to draw? After all, the economic model for almost every service was the connect charge: a per-min... ...r growth in the uses to which it was put. It is as if the bizarre social and economic configuration of the quasi-anarchist Burn- ing Man festival turne... ...illegal drugs. Graffiti is comparatively easier to combat because there are no economic incentives for its creation. 48 The demand for illegal drugs cre... ... that would not have been produced in a firm-mediated market model. The brief history of the Internet and PC illustrates how often the large and After ...

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...ce 60 FOUR TYPES O F SOCIAL PRICE 61 Time 61 Effort 62 Lifestyie 62 Psyche 62 ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVES 63 IMPORTANCE OF SOCIAL PRICE IN MARKETING ... ...oked by the Congress. This book is timely. It is difficult to imagine a period in history when restrictions on the spread of ideas have been so rel... ...ead of ideas, good as well as bad, across vast regions on a scale unprecedented in history. So it is time for the trade in ideas, as perceived by Ho... ...r than the idea it supersedes. The degree of relative advantage may be measured in economic terms, but often social prestige factors, convenience an... ...n to make delivery. Other factors are beyond the marketer's control, for example, economic conditions, government regulation, labor union activity ... ...is not new," comment Allport and Postman (1947). They go on to ask: How much of history, . . . can be regarded as the reactions of important group... ...approach to communications resulted from clues out of rural sociology in the early 1940s. One concern, for example, of agricultural researchers in t...

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...ge of sick individualism to an age of healthy collectivism. Social movements began their long march back into the mainstream—social movements against economic injustice, the most fundamental kind of oppression. The recent evolution of economic power-structures— the institutions around which society pivots—is responsible not only for the brute material horrors of increasing...

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...In the absence of a strong protest organization in the African American community, the police in the 1930s and 1940s were happy to demonstrate their power by victimizing many hapless individuals. And yet individuals did resist. Ms. Henderson, for example, acted against her powerlessness to stop a grisly lynching by becoming an officia...

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... to others, but to me they are very special indeed. For me, the molds mean history, family history. From the early 1940s until the late 1960s, my mate... ...ial indeed. For me, the molds mean history, family history. From the early 1940s until the late 1960s, my maternal grandparents made ci- gars by hand.... ...e from. Even- tually, I will pass them on to my chil- dren, and the family history will con- tinue. Best of Freshman Writing 7 Adam Shaffer English 4... ...tever keeps us talking and keeps us close, has nothing to do with work and economic class” (249). It is what keeps families connected that matters ove... ...ging to their sides. The city is a strange mixture of old and new, and the history of the city is depicted in the painted murals on its walls. The cit...

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...eptember 11, 2001, was a day of unprecedented shock and suf- fering in the history of the United States.The nation was unprepared. How did this happen... ...s report as a foundation for a better under- standing of a landmark in the history of our nation. We have listened to scores of overwhelming personal ... ...thousands of followers and some degree of approval from millions more? The history, culture, and body of beliefs from which Bin Ladin has shaped and s... ...draws from multiple sources—Islam, history, and the region’s political and economic malaise. He also stresses griev- ances against the United States w... ...ent by the Egypt- ian government to study in the United States in the late 1940s, Qutb returned with an enormous loathing of W estern society and hist... ...ect unwelcome modernization, and adhere strictly to the Sharia. Social and Economic Malaise In the 1970s and early 1980s, an unprecedented flood of we... ...se of social obligations. By the late 1980s, diminishing oil revenues, the economic drain from many unprofitable development projects, and population ... ...n and women of the W orld W ar II generation rose to the challenges of the 1940s and 1950s.They restructured the government so that it could protect t... ...afford to reorganize in midstream. But some of the main innovations of the 1940s and 1950s, including the creation of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and ev...