Challenger S Hope

Author : David Feintuch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2001-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0446787248

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Challenger's Hope by David Feintuch Pdf

Author : David Feintuch
Publisher : Grand Central Pub
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0446600970

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Challenger's Hope by David Feintuch Pdf

In the aftermath of an alien attack and an admiral's traitorous desertion, Commander Nicholas Seafort is left in charge of a doomed ship that carries arrogant colonists, violent street children, and dwindling supplies. Original.

Author : David Feintuch
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781453295618

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Challenger's Hope by David Feintuch Pdf

Attacked and betrayed, Nick Seafort must lead a stranded ship to safety, in a science fiction adventure from the John W. Campbell Award–winning author. After his heroics aboard the Hibernia in Midshipman’s Hope, Nicholas Seafort wins command of his first ship, the Challenger, and joins Admiral Tremaine’s task force. Their first meeting is a rude awakening, however, as Tremaine demotes him to a smaller, overcrowded ship and blatantly ignores Seafort’s report of alien life on Hope Nation. Above all, Seafort is anxious for his pregnant wife, who’s due to have their baby on the journey. After an alien attack and an admiral’s betrayal, a wounded Seafort is left stranded aboard a ship short of weapons and fuel. Hundreds of lives hang in the balance as Seafort must find a way to survive.

Author : Khurshed Dehnugara,Claire Genkai Breeze
Publisher : Relume Limited
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781907794643

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The Challenger Spirit by Khurshed Dehnugara,Claire Genkai Breeze Pdf

Challenger organizations are those that are disrupting their market, challenging their own habits and taking on dominant competitors. They are typically innovative and radical but what of those that lead them? This book analyzes the practices and disciplines that underpin the successful Challenger organization. In particular it looks at how Challenger leadership and culture can be developed in large, complex, established businesses.

Author : Edwin Amenta
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780691221212

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When Movements Matter by Edwin Amenta Pdf

When Movements Matter accounts for the origins of Social Security as we know it. The book tells the overlooked story of the Townsend Plan--a political organization that sought to alleviate poverty and end the Great Depression through a government-provided retirement stipend of $200 a month for every American over the age of sixty. Both the Townsend Plan, which organized two million older Americans into Townsend clubs, and the wider pension movement failed to win the generous and universal senior citizens' pensions their advocates demanded. But the movement provided the political impetus behind old-age policy in its formative years and pushed America down the track of creating an old-age welfare state. Drawing on a wealth of primary evidence, historical detail, and arresting images, Edwin Amenta traces the ups and downs of the Townsend Plan and its elderly leader Dr. Francis E. Townsend in the struggle to remake old age. In the process, Amenta advances a new theory of when social movements are influential. The book challenges the conventional wisdom that U.S. old-age policy was a result mainly of the Depression or farsighted bureaucrats. It also debunks the current view that America immediately embraced Social Security when it was adopted in 1935. And it sheds new light on how social movements that fail to achieve their primary goals can still influence social policy and the way people relate to politics.

Author : J. Mallory Wober
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135037109

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The Use and Abuse of Television by J. Mallory Wober Pdf

A critical review of the harms and benefits of television that also examines systems for maximizing television's benefits. The author breaks away from the conventional jargon of audience measurement and other traditional research methods, proposing instead new and alternative European and Australian methods of evaluating programming. Typical characterizations of the television screen – broadly defined to include television, home video, movies, games, programs and computers – as either the root of all social ills or the potential savior of society are reexamined. Wober's ultimately optimistic viewpoint seeks to trigger change in the way we think about and assess television and in turn ensure that screens will serve, rather than take advantage of, their users. Originally published in 1988, this thinking-piece concerns timeless issues still of import.

Author : Jonathan S. Krasno
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1997-02-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0300068743

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Challengers, Competition, and Reelection by Jonathan S. Krasno Pdf

Why do US Senators have a harder time winning re-election than members of the House of Representatives? This text argues that Senate challengers are more likely to be experienced politicians who wage intense, costly media campaigns than are those who take on House incumbents.

Author : John Gray Geer
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0801858461

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Politicians and Party Politics by John Gray Geer Pdf

Focusing on politicians as individuals rather than their political parties, thirteen essays from a distinguished group of contributors examine how politicians as party members motivate voters, how they conduct campaigns, and how they behave in government. 36 illustrations.

Author : Andrew Lindsay
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2004-07-27
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780786418008

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Boxing in Black and White by Andrew Lindsay Pdf

Professional sports in America offer numerous examples of equal opportunity and broken down racial barriers. These developments call for pride and celebration. Yet skin color continues to have an influence in how Americans experience sport. From Al Campanis' statement about the under-representation of blacks in baseball front offices to the almost exclusively white ownership of professional teams, one sees that sports, though admirably more equitable than other societal institutions, are hardly a colorblind American pursuit. Choosing the racially charged sport of boxing for investigation, the author has compiled dozens of statistics measuring whether or not America's racial majority still yearns for a white champion--a Great White Hope. Drawing upon data from The Ring Magazine and its annual record books, this study endeavors to bolster or refute the popular perception in boxing circles that white fighters of lesser ability are helped along to their sports elite level, as a result of being promotional gold in the eyes of the public.

Author : Roger C. Schank,Ellen Langer
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781134781621

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Beliefs, Reasoning, and Decision Making by Roger C. Schank,Ellen Langer Pdf

It is not unusual for a festschrift to include offerings from several areas of study, but it is highly unusual for those areas to cross disciplinary lines. This book, in doing just that, is a testimony to Bob Abelson's impact on the disciplines of social psychology, artificial intelligence and cognitive science, and the applied areas of political psychology and decision-making. The contributors demonstrate that their association with Abelson, whether as students or colleagues, has resulted in an impressive intellectual cross-fertilization.

Author : Robert G Boatright
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780472118700

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Getting Primaried by Robert G Boatright Pdf

The recent rise of “primarying” corresponds to the rise of national fundraising bases and new types of partisan organizations supporting candidates around the country

Author : Rebecca Moesta,Kevin J. Anderson
Publisher : WordFire +ORM
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-08
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781614750956

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Star Challengers: Moonbase Crisis by Rebecca Moesta,Kevin J. Anderson Pdf

In this YA adventure, student visitors to the Challenger Center are sent on a mission to the moon—where the fate of humanity hangs in the balance. After an exhilarating space simulation field trip at the local Challenger Center, a group of students are hand-picked by the mysterious Commander Zota for a special adventure: to travel to the future. A real moon base is in trouble, and these new “Star Challengers” will need to learn skills to save the human race./

Author : H.E. Baber,Denise Dimon
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 668 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781554810123

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Globalization and International Development by H.E. Baber,Denise Dimon Pdf

This new anthology offers a wide selection of readings addressing the contemporary moral issues that arise from the division between the Global North and South—“the problem of the color-line” that W.E.B. Du Bois identified at the beginning of the twentieth century and which, on a scale that Du Bois could not have foreseen, is the problem of the twenty-first. The book is interdisciplinary in scope. In addition to standard topical essays in ethical theory by philosophers such as Anthony Appiah, Martha Nussbaum, and Peter Singer, it contains essays from economists such as Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, and Thomas DeGregori, as well as current empirical data from the World Bank, IMF, United Nations, and other sources.

Author : Wilbur Cross
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Submarine boats
ISBN : STANFORD:36105035277206

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Challengers of the Deep by Wilbur Cross Pdf

Author : Jeff Goodwin,James M. Jasper
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 29 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781118729953

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The Social Movements Reader by Jeff Goodwin,James M. Jasper Pdf

Providing a unique blend of cases, concepts, and essential readings The Social Movements Reader, Third Edition, delivers key classic and contemporary articles and book selections from around the world. Includes the latest research on contemporary movements in the US and abroad, including the Arab spring, Occupy, and the global justice movement Provides original texts, many of them classics in the field, which have been edited for the non-technical reader Combines the strengths of a reader and a textbook with selected readings and extensive editorial material Sidebars offer concise definitions of key terms, as well as biographies of famous activists and chronologies of several key movements Requires no prior knowledge about social movements or theories of social movements