The Grand Option

The Grand Option

Author: Beatrice Bruteau

Publisher:

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780268010416

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Suggests a new pathway to social order through personal transformation based on heightened consciousness and Christian spirituality. -- Dust jacket.


Grand Illusion

Grand Illusion

Author: Theresa A. Amato

Publisher: The New Press

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 402

ISBN-13: 1595583947

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A narrative critique of how two-party campaigns are compromising democracy identifies key flaws in the electoral process, ballot access laws, partisan administration, and other systems, in a report that argues for federal standards that lift barriers against third-party and independent candidates.


The Turing Option

The Turing Option

Author: Harry Harrison

Publisher: Hachette UK

Published: 2013-11-28

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 0575115912

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A young genius is hunted by killers. His sole hope for survival lies in the brain power of the intelligent being he has created. The Earth's first machine intelligence becomes the key to a harrowing battle.


Public Choice Theory and the Illusion of Grand Strategy

Public Choice Theory and the Illusion of Grand Strategy

Author: Richard Hanania

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-12-28

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 100051403X

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This book argues that while the US president makes foreign policy decisions based largely on political pressures, it is concentrated interests that shape the incentive structures in which he and other top officials operate. The author identifies three groups most likely to be influential: government contractors, the national security bureaucracy, and foreign governments. This book shows that the public choice perspective is superior to a theory of grand strategy in explaining the most important aspects of American foreign policy, including the war on terror, policy toward China, and the distribution of US forces abroad. Arguing that American leaders are selected to respond to public opinion, not necessarily according to their ability to formulate and execute long-terms plans, the author shows how mass attitudes are easily malleable in the domain of foreign affairs due to ignorance with regard to the topic, the secrecy that surrounds national security issues, the inherent complexity of the issues involved, and most importantly, clear cases of concentrated interests. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of American Studies, Foreign Policy Analysis and Global Governance.


Great by Choice

Great by Choice

Author: Jim Collins

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2011-10-11

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 0062121006

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Ten years after the worldwide bestseller Good to Great, Jim Collins returns withanother groundbreaking work, this time to ask: why do some companies thrive inuncertainty, even chaos, and others do not? Based on nine years of research,buttressed by rigorous analysis and infused with engaging stories, Collins andhis colleague Morten Hansen enumerate the principles for building a truly greatenterprise in unpredictable, tumultuous and fast-moving times. This book isclassic Collins: contrarian, data-driven and uplifting.


The Grand Purpose

The Grand Purpose

Author: Mark D. Colafranceschi

Publisher: Dr Colas Pllc

Published: 2018-05-31

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 9780692113592

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The Grand Purpose challenges and calls out the shortcomings of both natural and medical intervention while showing a different path to healing. This path requires the ability to confront your addiction and be open to change. All health conditions have an addiction and emotion link that must be addressed to heal.


The Grand Illusion

The Grand Illusion

Author: Brendan D Murphy

Publisher:

Published: 2017-08-04

Total Pages: 606

ISBN-13: 9780646973357

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The Grand Illusion synthesizes the best consciousness research with decades of cutting-edge discovery and hard science, empowering you with an intelligent new paradigm and new direction for humanity. This acclaimed book destroys the materialist notion of humans as "meat computers" and lays the foundation for a scientifically-based metaphysics.


Grand Expectations

Grand Expectations

Author: James T. Patterson

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 2924

ISBN-13: 019507680X

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Interweaving key cultural, economic, social, and political events, a history of the United States in the post-World War II era ranges from 1945, through a turbulent period of economic growth and social upheaval, to Watergate and Nixon's 1974 resignation


Building the Benedict Option

Building the Benedict Option

Author: Leah Libresco

Publisher: Ignatius Press

Published: 2018-08-07

Total Pages: 170

ISBN-13: 1642290432

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Building the Benedict Option is a combination spiritual memoir and practical handbook for Christians who want to build communities of prayer, socialization, and evangelization in the places where they live and work. Beginning when the author was a new convert, she desired more communal prayer and fellowship than weekly Mass could provide. She surveyed her friends--busy, young, urban professionals like herself--and created unique enriching or supportive experiences that matched their desires and schedules. The result was a less lonely and more boisterous spiritual and social life. No Catholic Martha Stewart, Libresco is frank about how she plans events that allow her to feed thirty people on a Friday night without feeling exhausted. She is honest about the obstacles to prayer and the challenge to make it inviting and unobtrusive. Above all, she communicates the joy she has experienced since discovering ways to open her home (even when it was only a small studio apartment). The reader will close this book with four or five ideas for events to try over the next few weeks, along with the tools to make them fruitful. From film nights to picnics in the park to resume-writing evenings, there are plenty of ideas to choose from and loads of encouragement to make more room in one's life for others.