Download or read book Plundered Promise written by Richard W. Behan and published by Shearwater Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Subsidized liquidation of old-growth forests. Grazing rights leased at below-market rates. Mineral resources extracted with trifling royalty payments, or none at all. Water developments built with interest-free loans." "These and other actions serve private interests extremely well but inflict massive costs on society at large. They are but the most visible signs of the fundamental flaws in the current system of federal lands management. In Plundered Promise, leading resource management scholar Richard W. Behan presents a thought-provoking history and analysis of public lands management in the United States, as he describes how we arrived at the current situation and examines what we can do to rectify it."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Download or read book Silent Theft written by David Bollier and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-03-15 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'They hang the man and flog the woman That steal the goose from off the common, But let the greater villain loose That steals the common from the goose.' - Traditional nursery rhyme Until a 1998 federal court decision, a Minnesota publisher claimed to own every federal court decision, including Roe v. Wade and Brown v. Board of Education. A Texas company was recently allowed to calm a patent on basmati rice, a kind of rice grown in India for hundreds of years. The Mining Act of 1872 is still in effect, allowing companies to buy land from the government at USD5 and acre if they pan to mine it. These are resources that belong to al of use, yet they are being given away to companies with anything but the common interest in mind. Where was the public outcry, or the government intervention, when these were happening? The answers are alarming. Private corporations are consuming the resources that the American people collectively own at a staggering rate, and the government is not protecting the commons on our behalf. In Silent Theft , David Bollier exposes the audacious attempts of companies to appropriate medical breakthroughs, public airwaves, outer space, state research, and even the DNA of plants and animals. Amazingly, these abuses often go unnoticed, Bollier argues, because we have lost our ability to see the commons. Publicly funded technological innovations create common wealth (cell phone airwaves, internet addresses, gene sequences) at blinding speed, while an economic atmosphere of deregulation and privatization ensures they will be quickly bought and sold. In an age of market triumphalism, does the notion of the commons have any practical meaning? Crisp and revelatory, Silent Theft is a bold attempt to develop a new language of the commons, a new ethos of commonwealth in the face of a market ethic that knows no bounds.

Download or read book Traces on the Water Mirror Volume II The Biggest Plunder Ever written by Captain C and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2020-05-04 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces on the Water Mirror: Volume II, The Biggest Plunder Ever By: Captain C This is the second volume of the trilogy promised by Captain C: Traces on the Water Mirror. The prose writer from Constanta creates a story based on history and fiction, able to win readers. The dynamic plot suggests a policier, with an unpredictable confrontation between an oppressive system and a man with a strong personality; there are also strange adventures, in searching for huge values “transported” by the leaders of Securitate over the borders, passionate love affairs and scenes of the last days in Ceausescu’s epoch. These all complete a vibrating picture described with an overflowing imagination. The writer was trained as sea captain and he was taught that a self-respecting author should follow the safe way to the shore of the Good Hope Literary Critic Ioan Adam People will be always interested in the stories with navigators and about the sea, like in the present volume, even adventures are extended on land. The events are exciting, adventurous, mysterious, full of strain and unpredictable risks, presented in a film development. The unmistakable captain Cristian Răuţă is the main character of the story and he is a demanding and sensitive witness of the confuse, dramatic and unrest contemporary society. The novel Traces on the Water Mirror is a book expected by all the people who love literature. Novelist Ovidiu Dunăreanu

Download or read book Voyage of Plunder written by Michele Torrey and published by Yearling. This book was released on 2009-03-12 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daniel Markham loved his father’s mysterious friends, visiting in the dead of night but always gone by morning. He never imagined they could be pirates. But when the Markhams’ merchant vessel is plundered by the pirate ship Tempest Galley and his father shot dead in an act of revenge, Daniel can’t deny the truth. And now, orphaned and alone, Daniel is trapped and faced with a choice: Join the crew or die. Unprepared for the temptations of pirate life and for the captain’s inexplicable kindness toward him, Daniel knows only one thing for certain: One false step on a pirate ship could be deadly, and he’ll do anything to stay alive.

Download or read book Pirate s Plunder written by Stephanie Flynn and published by Small Fish Publishing. This book was released on 2022-01-18 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A police officer desperate to save lives. A reckless pirate captain looking to self-destruct. By dating colleagues, Robin Hall had broken the cardinal rule at work, and now that mistake is following her around like a buzzing bee. Robin wants an escape, but she’d promised her friends she’d join them at the Tall Ships festival. While desperately searching for them, a handsome but disheveled man spouts crazy details of a historical world, and she’s determined to help the mentally ill enthusiast. But what if he’s telling the truth? Reputation, a pirate’s most valuable prize, but not to Captain Riley. He only wants to give his crew the ultimate prize—both showering the crew in riches and bringing him to his long-lost family. But a traitor from his past reappears, and before Riley can stop yet another betrayal, he’s transported to a foreign world of shiny beasts, amazing cooling devices, and strange food. When his rescuer follows him home, can he protect her from the plan he’d already set in motion? If you like real history, swashbuckling cinnamon roll pirates, bold women who know what they want, a steamy forbidden romance, and an adventure on the high seas, you'll love the Pirates in Time trilogy. Each book is a standalone with a guaranteed HEA, but best if read in order. Buy now and anchor yourself for a thrilling adventure on the high seas! Keywords: m/f romance, beta male, beta hero, cinnamon roll hero, pirate, pirates, pirate adventure, pirate romance, pirate romance series, pirate time travel romance, time travel romance, time travel adventure, female protagonist, romantic suspense, paranormal romantic suspense, paranormal romance, paranormal romance series for adults, pranormal romance, paranormal romance hea, sweet paranormal romance, sweet fantasy romance, fantasy, strong heroine, feisty heroine, historical fantasy books, historical fantasy romance, paranormal, supernatural, fantasy, action adventure, action & adventure, action, adventure, book, books, ebook, read, complete series, romance series, novel, secret, suspense, story, stories, hero, fiction, romance, seduction, sensual, historical, 18th century, eighteenth century, hea romance, sea adventure, beach read, Caribbean ocean, tropical island romance, tropical island romance, tropical escape, tropical island, hot guy, love book, love stories, romance novels for women, romance series, romances, romancing saga, romantic saga, sassy, sassy heroine, seduction, seduction romance, sensual, sensual books, sensual romance, series

Download or read book Our Common Ground written by John D. Leshy and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2022-03 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The little-known story of how the U.S. government came to hold nearly one-third of the nation's land primarily for recreation and conservation.

Download or read book Days of Plunder written by Diana Lynn Rogers and published by LifeRich Publishing. This book was released on 2018-04-05 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dedicated to military and those in service. You see a friend or a stranger, and they are sufferingand perhaps you think, If only I could tell them the secret of what I knowthen they could be healed. Diana Lynn Rogers wrote this book for that very reason: She wants others to rediscover hope by coming to know the Lord in ways they have never imagined. She shares how shes overcome challenges and tragedies by relying on the Lords strength. God alone was with her during these times, and He never left her side. The insights she shares from her amazing journey will help you develop a stronger bond with the Heavenly Father find strength in the Lord to overcome setbacks and obstacles keep your focus on God during troubling times resist temptation from the devil. Throughout the book, Rogers shares lessons from her journey of self-discoveryone that included finding out that she was a twin torn from her family, suffering a debilitating accident, and losing a marriage. Join the author as she shares hard-won lessons and looks to Scripture and the Lord to find wisdom from her Days of Plunder. Diana has shared some of her most intimate and painful life experiences as she has come to know God in greater ways and become an overcomer in the midst of crisis. She shares how she has walked through tragedies, turning them into triumph by the strength of God in her midst. She has experienced personally, and worked directly with those in crisis as both a caregiver and on crisis emergency management teams. She has a keen understanding of pain and losses as she has walked through much of lifes trials personally. Her greatest desire is to give back to those who are hurting and broken to see them overcome as well as experience God, while finding peace and rest in the storms of life. Available to speak.

Download or read book Forest Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Plunder written by Arthur Somers Roche and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Plunder Room written by John Jeter and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-01-20 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moments before Edward Duncan dies, the colorful World War II hero leaves a mandate for his grandson Randol--to safeguard the family's proud Southern legacy. Randol, paralyzed and in a wheelchair after a car accident, buries his grandfather, and learns that his father, a Vietnam veteran, is running an illicit empire with Randol's half-brother, Jerod. A wise-cracking music critic, Randol already has his hands full with his pot-smoking Goth son. When Jerod brings the gorgeous Annie down South and parks her in their South Carolina home, the family maid Volusia, "quick to ram a bar of soap into any foul mouth," sizes up Annie in short order. Jerod, his father, and Randol, are blind to what Volusia sees so easily, making it that much harder for Randol to bring the family together and salvage their dignity. John Jeter's debut is a powerfully compelling story about one man's mission to preserve his family's ideals of honor and loyalty.

Download or read book The Politics of Plunder written by Doug Bandow and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This slashing critique charges that the federal government and interest groups have badly mismanaged the political process for private ends. Transcending conventional ideologies, Bandow sees the root of the problem as our failure to honor the Founding Fathers' intention to establish a limited government with severely circumscribed powers in all areas. People abuse power; it is human nature. Only limited state authority will keep the political process from disintegrating into petty fighting among factions, each competing for its own limited self-interest. The demise of the original restraints has created an overgrown federal government that is ever more wasteful, inefficient, and unjust. Doug Bandow spares no sacred cows. He considers state interference in the free market responsible for an ethic of legalized theft, which allows interest groups to use the state to enrich themselves through subsidies, competitive restrictions, and other protectionist measures. He sees a judiciary that has aided the other branches of government in manipulating human conduct and restricting personal freedom for both liberal and conservative reasons. And in foreign policy he sees the development of an interventionist consensus, whereby Washington attempts to remake foreign nations in its image through military intervention and foreign aid, with disastrous results. "The Politics of Plunder "is written by an insider who combines theoretical and analytical skill with practical political experience. Bandow served in the most conservative administration of recent years yet freely criticizes the nostrums of the Right. He is an evangelical Christian yet dislikes the tactics of the Religious Right. His unique background--campaign worker, lawyer, presidential aide, magazine editor, policy analyst, and journalist--enables him to go far beyond the usual Washington commentary. Bandow's objective is to develop a new political perspective that transcends both conservative and liberal boundaries and emphasizes individual liberty, skepticism of state power, and tolerance of others. Those interested in the world of ideas will find this an accessible, practical guide to libertarian thought. Those interested in the world of public policy will find here a detailed discussion of scores of recent controversies.

Download or read book Plundered Empire written by Michael Greenhalgh and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-07-01 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing extensive documentation, the book examines the mechanics, trials and tribulations of plundering the Ottoman East for private and public collections in Europe. It helps document the continuing debate about the ethics of museum collections.

Download or read book The Plundered Planet written by Paul Collier and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Collier's The Bottom Billion was greeted as groundbreaking when it appeared in 2007, winning the Estoril Distinguished Book Prize, the Arthur Ross Book Award, and the Lionel Gelber Prize. Now, in The Plundered Planet, Collier builds upon his renowned work on developing countries and the world's poorest populations to confront the global mismanagement of natural resources. Proper stewardship of natural assets and liabilities is a matter of planetary urgency: natural resources have the potential either to transform the poorest countries or to tear them apart, while the carbon emissions and agricultural follies of the developed world could further impoverish them. The Plundered Planet charts a course between unchecked profiteering on the one hand and environmental romanticism on the other to offer realistic and sustainable solutions to dauntingly complex issues. Grounded in a belief in the power of informed citizens, Collier proposes a series of international standards that would help poor countries rich in natural assets better manage those resources, policy changes that would raise world food supply, and a clear-headed approach to climate change that acknowledges the benefits of industrialization while addressing the need for alternatives to carbon trading. Revealing how all of these forces interconnect, The Plundered Planet charts a way forward to avoid the mismanagement of the natural world that threatens our future.

Download or read book Natural Areas Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book How History s Greatest Pirates Pillaged Plundered and Got Away With It written by Benerson Little and published by Quarto Publishing Group USA. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who were the world’s most successful pirates, and why? “Interesting and very readable . . . Little clearly knows his subject well.” —International Journal of Naval History More than just simple retellings of tried-and-true stories of buccaneers on the high seas, this book focuses on pirating tactics of the 1500s through the 1800s to give an in-depth view of how pirates functioned through history. Stories of the thirteen most famous pirates as they raid major ships and pillage coastal villages reveal how the pirates approached such invasions—and how they managed to elude authorities and sometimes whole navies. In addition, vivid firsthand descriptions recreate the excitement, fear, and fury of the most famous raids by these outlaws of the ocean. Delving deep to show piracy’s profound impact on trade, politics, military strategy, culture, and individual lives, the book sifts truth from myth, carefully reconstructs the geopolitical context of each story, and analyzes the tactics that brought the pirates glory, or led to their downfall. Also included are archival images gathered from around the world by the author, a former Navy SEAL and consultant on maritime security.

Download or read book Plunder written by Pat Croce and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2015-11-17 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: England, 1713—The height of the Golden Age of Piracy. Charlie Drake boards the heavily-armed British fighting ship, the Churchill, on the morning after his sixteenth birthday in possession of a mysterious three-lock box left to him by his father. The contents of the box could change Charlie’s life forever, but there’s a catch—the box is booby-trapped, and he doesn’t have the keys. Aboard the Churchill, young Charlie must earn the respect of a skeptical captain and a disreputable crew who will do anything for a single gold coin while searching for clues to unlock his destiny. In this coming-of-age tale, Charlie will fight enemies of the Crown, visit exotic locales, and make allies of fearsome pirates while proving that he is worthy of his father’s legacy. His first order of business: Don’t get killed trying.

Download or read book Plunder written by Brendan Ballou and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2023-05-02 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authoritative exposé of private equity: what it is, how it kills businesses and jobs, how the government helps, and how we stop it Private equity surrounds us. Firms like Blackstone, Carlyle, and KKR are among the largest employers in America and hold assets that rival those of small countries. Yet few understand what these firms are or how they work. In Plunder, Brendan Ballou explains how private equity has reshaped American business by raising prices, reducing quality, cutting jobs, and shifting resources from productive to unproductive parts of the economy. Ballou vividly illustrates how many private equity firms buy up retailers, medical practices, prison services, nursing-home chains, and mobile-home parks, among other businesses, using little of their own money to do it and avoiding debt and liability for their actions. Forced to take on huge debts and pay extractive fees, companies purchased by private equity firms are often left bankrupt, or shells of their former selves, with consequences to communities that long depended on them. Perhaps most startling is Ballou’s insight into how this is happening with the active support of various arms of the government. But, as Ballou reveals in an agenda for reining in the industry, private equity can be stopped from wreaking further havoc.