We are searching for a man who is referred to by the public as the Juggernaut. He is known for the home invasion of over one hundred families in the last twenty years, a monstrosity throughout the whole United Kingdom, extremely violent and very brutal yet with no casualties. Each of his victims are of better or upper social class, yet there are no signs of robbery. We have yet to figure out his motive. The year is 1849, and London is still in the grips of the industrial revolution. Gabriel Turner is the chief inspector assigned to the case of investigating one of the nations most notorious criminals while at the same time seeking revenge for the murder of his adoptive fatherJulian. Set over twenty years and portrayed through the alternate perspectives of four characters, The Juggernaut explores the lives of the same young siblings saved from slavery at Cressbrook Mill and tortured by the infamous Tom the Devil. All four form relationships and experience tragedy and loss at varying levels that impact their lives in adulthood. They witness their adoptive father fall victim to patricide, and each characters perspective slowly unravels the truth behind the horrendous murder.
The author explains why the modern system has become so unwiedly and explains what must be done to correct it. He takes readers on an epic journey, from the dawn of Free-market Capitalism during the Age of Exploration, through the Industrial Revolution and Adam Smith, to the rise of Keynesianism and the dominance of the Welfare State. -- from back cover.
In Juggernaut, Uri Dadush and William Shaw explore the major trends associated with the rise of developing countries, including increased manufacturing, expansion in world trade, and, ultimately, improved living and working conditions, as well as the broad challenges those trends pose.
Lindsey Grant examines the human condition as population and consumption levels approach the edges of the Earth's ability to support them. The book is a unique synopsis of the interactions among population, food production, the energy transition, air pollution and climate change, technology, trade policies, productivity and unemployment. It describes the different ways that the current population explosion plays out in the poorest countries, the emerging countries and the old industrial nations - and shows how they will shape each other's future. It relates that growth to U.S. policies on foreign affairs, agriculture, trade, immigration, unemployment and health care, and proposes some specific changes in thinking and policies.
Collects Juggernaut (2020) #1-5. Can’t stop, won’t stop! A mystic gem. An avatar of destruction. A force of overwhelming power. An embittered man with a life of regret. Nothing can stop the Juggernaut — except himself! Buildings fall, chaos reigns and the Juggernaut does what the mystical Cyttorak empowered him to do — but Cain Marko, the man beneath the helmet, is done letting others pick up the pieces of the things he’s destroyed. It’s time for the Juggernaut to take some responsibility! But when Cain stands trial, will justice catch up with him — or will he tear down the system? Plus: Who is D-Cel, and how will she change Cain’s life? And what happens when Juggy decides the Immortal Hulk needs to answer for his own lifetime’s worth of smashing? It’s a bold new direction for the unstoppable Juggernaut!
A “funny, contemplative” memoir of working at Amazon in the early years, when it was a struggling online bookstore (San Francisco Chronicle). In a book that Ian Frazier has called “a fascinating and sometimes hair-raising morality tale from deep inside the Internet boom,” James Marcus, hired by Amazon.com in 1996—when the company was so small his e-mail address could be [email protected]—looks back at the ecstatic rise, dramatic fall, and remarkable comeback of the consummate symbol of late 1990s America. Observing “how it was to be in the right place (Seattle) at the right time (the ’90s)” (Chicago Reader), Marcus offers a ringside seat on everything from his first interview with Jeff Bezos to the company’s bizarre Nordic-style retreats, in “a clear-eyed, first-person account, rife with digressions on the larger cultural meaning throughout” (Henry Alford, Newsday). “Marcus tells his story with wit and candor.” —Booklist, starred review
Biotech Juggernaut: Hope, Hype, and Hidden Agendas of Entrepreneurial BioScience relates the intensifying effort of bioentrepreneurs to apply genetic engineering technologies to the human species and to extend the commercial reach of synthetic biology or "extreme genetic engineering." In 1980, legal developments concerning patenting laws transformed scientific researchers into bioentrepreneurs. Often motivated to create profit-driven biotech start-up companies or to serve on their advisory boards, university researchers now commonly operate under serious conflicts of interest. These conflicts stand in the way of giving full consideration to the social and ethical consequences of the technologies they seek to develop. Too often, bioentrepreneurs have worked to obscure how these technologies could alter human evolution and to hide the social costs of keeping on this path. Tracing the rise and cultural politics of biotechnology from a critical perspective, Biotech Juggernaut aims to correct the informational imbalance between producers of biotechnologies on the one hand, and the intended consumers of these technologies and general society, on the other. It explains how the converging vectors of economic, political, social, and cultural elements driving biotechnology’s swift advance constitutes a juggernaut. It concludes with a reflection on whether it is possible for an informed public to halt what appears to be a runaway force.