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Learn how to protect business profitability during a recession or financial downturn.
When an organization experiences a financial downturn, it should start looking for proactive ways to improve profitability. In this course, consultant and economist Jason Schenker explains how to cut costs and improve cash flow to survive an economic decline and set up the business for long-term success. Learn about the biggest challenges companies face in a downturn,...
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Modern Britain is forged through the redeployment of structures that facilitated and legitimized slavery, exploitation and extermination. This is the 'empire at home' and it is inseparable from the strategies of neo-colonial extraction and oppression of subjects abroad.
Here, James Trafford develops the notion of internal colonies, arguing that methods and structures used in colonial rule are re-deployed internally in contemporary Britain in...
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It seems hard to imagine a concept more significant to modern thought than critique. Critique involved distancing oneself from religious explanations and theological argumentation and came to represent the essence of secular consciousness's potential to deliver modernity's promise of human progress through rational inquiry and scientific development. Critiques of Theology debunks this common understanding. Based on a novel reading of previously less-discussed...
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Early modern thought was haunted by the unknowable character of the fallen world. The sometimes brilliant and sometimes baffling fusion of theological and scientific ideas in the era, as well as some of its greatest literature, responds to this sense that humans encountered only an incomplete reality.
Ranging from Paradise Lost to thinkers in and around the Royal Society and commentary on the Book of Job, The Unknowable in Early Modern Thought explores...
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Having abstained from killing for almost a year, the Highwayman is coming unglued.
Unsure if the FBI is watching, Lance Belanger spends his days and nights in a paranoid malaise, longing to kill again. Meanwhile, in Bucharest, Romania, an Interpol raid leads to clues and a witness who can identify the Highwayman. Armed with new evidence, newly promoted SAC FBI Agent, Dave Maxwell heads for Bucharest, as his team of investigators redeploys their investigation...
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Just over 2 years ago I began my journey with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD. Through the struggles there have been times where I thought I would be unable to continue the things I enjoyed: work, soccer, volunteering, socializing. The triggers of April 6, 2020 continued but lessened. I am still brought back to that day by everyday triggers that act as a reminder. When it happens I revisit that beautiful, sunny day where I was redeployed...
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Stephen J. Collier is professor of city and regional planning at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Post-Soviet Social: Neoliberalism, Social Modernity, Biopolitics (Princeton). Andrew Lakoff is professor of sociology at the University of Southern California. He is the author of Unprepared: Global Health in a Time of Emergency.
The origins and development of the modern American emergency state
From pandemic disease, to...
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Philip Wood is Professor of History at Aga Khan University's Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations in London. He is the author of The Chronicle of Seert: Christian Historical Imagination in Late Antique Iraq and We Have No King but Christ: Christian Political Thought in Greater Syria on the Eve of the Arab Conquest, c. 400–585. Twitter @DrPhilipWood
How Christian leaders adapted the governmental practices and political thought of their...
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"Honorable Mention for the 2011 PROSE Award in Sociology & Social Work, Association of American Publishers" Robert Wuthnow is the Gerhard R. Andlinger '52 Professor of Social Sciences at Princeton University. His many books include Red State Religion and America and the Challenges of Religious Diversity (both Princeton).
The social transformation of the American Midwest in the postwar era
For many Americans, the Midwest is a vast unknown. In Remaking...
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"Winner of the 2002 Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Book in Government and Political Science, Association of American Publishers" "Finalist for the 2002 Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize" Selig S. Harrison is a former Washington Post Bureau Chief in Northeast Asia and the author of five books about the continent. He served as Senior Fellow and Director of Asian Studies at the Brookings Institution and, for twenty-two years, as a Senior Associate...
11) Sorting Out the Mixed Economy: The Rise and Fall of Welfare and Developmental States in the Americas
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"Winner of the Alice Amsden Book Award, Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics" "Winner of the Murdo J. MacLeod Book Prize, Latin American and Caribbean Section of the Southern Historical Association" "Co-Winner of the EHS First Monograph Prize, Economic History Society" "Co-Winner of the Michael H. Hunt Prize in International History, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations" "Honorable Mention for the Stuart L. Bernath Book Prize,...
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