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Book Free Riding

    Book Details:
  • Author : Richard TUCK
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2009-06-30
  • ISBN : 0674033892
  • Pages : 232 pages

Download or read book Free Riding written by Richard TUCK and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A proposition of contemporary economics and political science is that it would be an exercise of reason, not a failure of it, not to contribute to a collective project if the contribution is negligible, but to benefit from it nonetheless.Tuck makes careful distinctions between the prisone's dilemma problem, threshold phenomena such as voting, and free riding. He analyzes the notion of negligibility, and shows some of the logical difficulties in the idea - and how the ancient paradox of the sorites illustrates the difficulties.

Book Talent Wants to Be Free

Download or read book Talent Wants to Be Free written by Orly Lobel and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-30 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a set of positive changes in corporate strategies, industry norms, regional policies, and national laws that will incentivize talent flow, creativity, and growth.

Book Spirit Riding Free  The Adventure Begins

Download or read book Spirit Riding Free The Adventure Begins written by Suzanne Selfors and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2017-05-02 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The thrilling world of DreamWorks Animation's Spirit Riding Free is brought to life in award-winning author Suzanne Selfors's original novel! Twelve-year-old Lucky Prescott craves adventure, but as a young lady of society she's only been allowed to experience adventure through books. That is, until one fateful day when Lucky, her father, and her aunt leave their neat-and-tidy city life and travel to their new home out west-the Wild West. At first Lucky is excited, but during the long train ride to her new hometown of Miradero, she begins to worry. What if she doesn't make any new friends? Everyone in the West rides horses, but she's never been allowed to even sit on one. How can she possibly fit in? Anxious about the future, Lucky looks out the train window and sees a majestic wild stallion. When their eyes meet, she senses a connection. But when the stallion is caught by wranglers, Lucky's heart breaks. And when she next sees the stallion, he's tied to a post, refusing to be "broken in." Spirit Riding Free: The Adventure Begins is the story of a girl and a wild horse, equally out of place in a strange, new world, but equally fierce and brave. With each other to lean on, will these two free spirits be able to find a home together?

Book Riding Fear Free

    Book Details:
  • Author : Laura Daley
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2012-07-01
  • ISBN : 9780615671581
  • Pages : 148 pages

Download or read book Riding Fear Free written by Laura Daley and published by . This book was released on 2012-07-01 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you a fearful rider? Have you been searching for help in overcoming your fear so that you can finally achieve your horseback riding dreams? Or are you a riding instructor who struggles to convince your students that they can ride with confidence? If so, Riding Fear Free can help. Riding Fear Free goes beyond the traditional equitation and horse training advice and goes straight to the heart of the matter by addressing the true problem: fear. Learn how the scientific principles of fear extinction and memory replacement can be applied at the barn and under saddle so that you will never have another fearful ride. You will learn to: * Rate your fear level * See the reality of your situation * Deal with emotions * Replace fear memories This book features full color images and illustrations to inspire readers as they take the journey to Riding Fear Free. Please Note: Riding Fear Free is available in two paperback editions to suit any budget. This is the full-color edition.

Book Social Contract  Free Ride

Download or read book Social Contract Free Ride written by Anthony De Jasay and published by Collected Papers of Anthony de. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a novel account of the public goods dilemma. The author shows how the social contract, in its quest for fairness, actually helps to breed the parasitic 'free riding' it is meant to suppress. He also shows how, in the absence of taxation, many public goods would be provided by spontaneous group co-operation. This would, however, imply some degree of free riding. Unwilling to tolerate such unfairness, co-operating groups would eventually drift from voluntary to compulsory solutions, heedless of the fact that this must bring back free riding with a vengeance. The author argues that the perverse incentives created by the attempt to render public provision assured and fair are a principal cause of the poor functioning of organised society.

Book Free Ride

    Book Details:
  • Author : Robert Levine
  • Publisher : Anchor
  • Release : 2011-10-25
  • ISBN : 0385533772
  • Pages : 347 pages

Download or read book Free Ride written by Robert Levine and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2011-10-25 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did the newspaper, music, and film industries go from raking in big bucks to scooping up digital dimes? Their customers were lured away by the free ride of technology. Now, business journalist Robert Levine shows how they can get back on track. On the Internet, “information wants to be free.” This memorable phrase shaped the online business model, but it is now driving the media companies on whom the digital industry feeds out of business. Today, newspaper stocks have fallen to all-time lows as papers are pressured to give away content, music sales have fallen by more than half since file sharing became common, TV ratings are plum­meting as viewership migrates online, and publishers face off against Amazon over the price of digital books. In Free Ride, Robert Levine narrates an epic tale of value destruction that moves from the corridors of Congress, where the law was passed that legalized YouTube, to the dorm room of Shawn Fanning, the founder of Napster; from the bargain-pricing dramas involving iTunes and Kindle to Google’s fateful decision to digitize first and ask questions later. Levine charts how the media industry lost control of its destiny and suggests innovative ways it can resist the pull of zero. Fearless in its reporting and analysis, Free Ride is the busi­ness history of the decade and a much-needed call to action.

Book The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Strategic Management

Download or read book The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Strategic Management written by and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2018-05-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Strategic Management has been written by an international team of leading academics, practitioners and rising stars and contains almost 550 individually commissioned entries. It is the first resource of its kind to pull together such a comprehensive overview of the field and covers both the theoretical and more empirically/practitioner oriented side of the discipline.

Book Spirit Riding Free  Lucky and the Mustangs of Miradero

Download or read book Spirit Riding Free Lucky and the Mustangs of Miradero written by Suzanne Selfors and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2017-10-31 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this second novel based on DreamWorks Animation's Spirit Riding Free by award-winning author Suzanne Selfors, it's Lucky Prescott's first winter in the West! After Miradero Mel, the town's weather-predicting pig, forecasts that this winter is going to be one of the harshest Miradero's had in decades, Lucky and her best friends, Pru and Abigail, are excited to see what kind of adventures they can have in the snow. Their excitement quickly shifts to concern for the townspeople, who might not have enough food to last the season, and for Miradero's animals, like Lucky's wild stallion Spirit, who has a new foal in his herd. Will they be able to survive the worst that winter has to offer? The cold winter winds are also the winds of change at home for Lucky and her single father, Jim. It seems everyone has an opinion about Jim's marriage prospects. But Lucky likes their new life just the way it is. She isn't ready for a new mom....But what if her dad is ready for a new wife? Lucky's first winter in Miradero promises to be one that she, her best friends, and Spirit will never forget! DreamWorks Spirit Riding Free © 2017 DreamWorks Animation LLC. All Rights Reserved.

Book How Trade with China Threatens Western Institutions

Download or read book How Trade with China Threatens Western Institutions written by Robert Gmeiner and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-07-12 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book evaluates the institutional environments of China and the United States, and the West more broadly, and how they affect their trading relationship, with specific emphasis on intellectual property theft and other allegations of unfair competition. The economic and political characteristics of the two countries affect the balance of power in their trading relationship, with ramifications far beyond jobs and output. The major theme is China’s ability to free ride on Western institutions through intellectual property theft and extortion. This free riding is far more than just infringing patents and reaping profits; it creates a combination of incentives for political pressures in the West that diminish the free market and liberal Western values. The result is the classic result of free riding – underprovision, or degeneration, of the Western institutions that made the West prosperous and free. At the same time, China’s economic might, military prowess, and global soft power increase, often with deleterious effects for freedom and free markets. This book is distinctive because it integrates public choice ideas about economic institutions, state action, and strategic behavior into international trade. It also takes account of the economic characteristics of China and the West and explains why they present a situation that is fundamentally different from other trade disputes. Institutions and political influence are central to this book’s analysis of trade, which can be more dangerous and more disguised than the welfare gains from trade. Providing a concise and lucid distillation of pressing issues, this book is critical reading for scholars studying trade with China and its effects on both global and Western innovation, economic output, soft power, and freedom more broadly.

Book Riding Freedom

    Book Details:
  • Author : Pam Muñoz Ryan
  • Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
  • Release : 2013-10-29
  • ISBN : 0545360293
  • Pages : 148 pages

Download or read book Riding Freedom written by Pam Muñoz Ryan and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2013-10-29 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reissue of Pam Munoz Ryan's bestselling backlist with a distinctive new author treatment.In this fast-paced, courageous, and inspiring story, readers adventure with Charlotte Parkhurst as she first finds work as a stable hand, becomes a famous stage-coach driver (performing brave feats and outwitting bandits), finds love as a woman but later resumes her identity as a man after the loss of a baby and the tragic death of her husband, and ultimately settles out west on the farm she'd dreamed of having since childhood. It wasn't until after her death that anyone discovered she was a woman.

Book Free Riding in Avalanche Terrain

Download or read book Free Riding in Avalanche Terrain written by James Bruce Jamieson and published by Revelstoke, B.C. : Canadian Avalanche Association. This book was released on 1999 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide on backcountry safety for snowboarders: riding techniques for reducing risks, methods for recognizing avalanche hazards, procedures for conducting field tests for recognizing unstable snow, methods for selecting low-risk routes, and telephone numbers for avalanche conditions in the United States and Canada.

Book Centered Riding

Download or read book Centered Riding written by Sally Swift and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1985-01-15 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Widely known for her innovative teaching philosophy stressing body awareness, the value of "soft eyes," proper breathing, centering, and balance, Sally Swift has been a pioneering riding instructor for half a century. In book form for the first time, her methods enable horse and rider to achieve harmony, working together naturally, without pain. Unlike traditional teachers, Sally Swift does not believe in forced training techniques that cause stiff bodies and tense riding. Instead, through the use of vivid, unusual, and highly creative images that transcend mechanics ("Pretend you're a spruce tree; the roots grow down from your center as the trunk grows up"), plus a thorough knowledge of human and equine anatomy, this wise and inspiring teacher enables the conscientious equestrian to reassess habitual responses, in order to ride in natural positions, break through frustrating plateaus, and achieve ever-rising goals with comfort, vitality, and precision. Precise illustrations and photographs never before used in riding books explain anatomy and image work to give mind and body new and relaxed approaches to the inner process of riding. Centered Riding is for those with little experience all the way up to world class.

Book Spirit Riding Free  The Spring Filly

Download or read book Spirit Riding Free The Spring Filly written by G. M. Berrow and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2020-02-04 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join Miradero's favorite PALs as they explore the frontier and beyond in the second installment of an adventurous original fiction chapter book series inspired by DreamWorks Spirit Riding Free. Spring is the season of change, and things are changing in Miradero--Lucky, Pru, and Abigail will soon be heading off to Palomino Bluffs Riding Academy! Before they go, the PALs want to become Frontier Fillies Trail Trainers. But to do that, the girls need to find and train a brand-new horse--something Lucky has never done! It seems as if everything is coming together when the PALs fall in love with a mini horse named Sandy and are given the chance to train her before the Miradero Founders' Day Parade. But training a horse turns out to be more difficult than Lucky could have imagined. Sandy likes kicking, doesn't like being ridden, and refuses to listen to any of the PALs! Can the PALs and their new friend Caroline find a way to reach Sandy and teach her how to be the best horse she can be before it's too late? DreamWorks Spirit Riding Free © 2020 DreamWorks Animation LLC. All Rights Reserved.

Book Riding Free

    Book Details:
  • Author : Andrea Eschbach
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2011
  • ISBN : 9781570764844
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Riding Free written by Andrea Eschbach and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A how-to guide for horseback riders who wish to ride their equine partners with minimal tack and equipment. Teaches riders how to safely control their mount without a bit, bridle, or saddle"--

Book Riding Free

Download or read book Riding Free written by Imtiaz Anees and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2021-07-22 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'My heart was pounding ... yet I was sitting still! This was the most exciting moment in my life and the culmination of my boyhood dream. I was where thousands of eventing riders around the world had dreamt of being-the Olympics.' This is the story of a young boy with an impossible dream - competing at the Olympics. From the age of four, Imtiaz Anees took to horse-riding like fish to water. It soon became a passion, one that continued through his life, beginning with his first competitive win at the age of six, eventually winning multiple equestrian events both nationally and internationally. Imtiaz is the only Indian rider to complete an equestrian three-day event at the Olympics, in Sydney in 2000, at the age of thirty, in an elite sport long associated with royalty and wealth and primarily the army in India. In Riding Free, Imtiaz re-traces the major milestones of his riveting twenty-year-long journey. The stories he tells are heartfelt, emotional and inspirational for the next generation of dreamers-a way to 'give back', in small measure, the enormous goodwill and help he received from all kinds of people in his Olympics journey. Behind Imtiaz's success are also the struggles and setbacks that pushed him to work harder and achieve peak performance. In a sport where the result depends on both man and animal, the deep bond Imtiaz shares with his horses will leave animal lovers spellbound. Here is a story that will inspire every athlete to 'never give in'.

Book  WeAreRent Book 1

    Book Details:
  • Author : Fred Harrison
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2021-01-04
  • ISBN : 9780995635197
  • Pages : 238 pages

Download or read book WeAreRent Book 1 written by Fred Harrison and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-04 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To overcome the economic aftermath of Covid-19 and empower people to "build back better", our world needs a new social paradigm. That model would need to launch humanity on to a moral growth path by enabling societies to survive the looming existential crises which, Fred Harrison reveals, will converge as a result of the peak in house prices in 2026. That paradigm exists, explains the author, in the form of a financial anti-dote to what economists call "rent seeking". In testing his thesis, the author discovered that the world's systemic crises originated in a single cause. Free riding is an anti-social form of behaviour that incubated the social, demographic and environmental threats to life on Earth. A single financial reform would deliver the synergy to simultaneously neutralise the cannibalistic phase into which free riding has consigned our world. It would do so by transforming governance to serve the common good. The author provides an enriched theory of evolution, which reveals the blueprint that would empower people to reframe behaviour and heal the damage inflicted on nature and society.

Book Resistance free Riding

Download or read book Resistance free Riding written by Richard Zambeck and published by Breakthrough Publications. This book was released on 1993 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Shrake, one of America's most popular clinicians, uses his step-by-step program relying on word pictures to help riders form a winning partnership with their horse. Using Resistance Free Riding techniques a good rider will help and improve even a mediocre horse. Whether you own a top horse or wish you did, his teaching will be a great help.