Download or read book The Doomsday Lobby written by James T. Bennett and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-09-11 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Federal patronage of science was never contemplated by the framers of the Constitution, but they did seek to “promote the Progress of Science and useful Art” by granting inventors patent rights. However, direct subvention to scientists and scientific organizations was not considered appropriate activity of the central government. In the 19th Century, American science was funded almost entirely through private investors. Since WWII, however, the federal government has become the primary patron of American science. From the race-to-space in the 1950s to current furor over global warming, Bennett traces the subtle and not-so-subtle ways in which government has co-opted scientific research and reinforced a culture in which challengers to proscribed wisdom are frozen out. Citing original documents and media reports, Bennett offers a compelling, entertaining, and thought-provoking perspective on political influence on scientific research and its implications for a democratic society. "During the Nineteenth Century, almost entirely on private funding, American science grew from practically nothing to world class. Now, however, over fifty percent of American science is funded by the federal government. Dr. Bennett traces the path, "crisis" after "crisis," by which American science became practically an arm of the federal government. His tale is a cautionary one, warning against future "crisis mongers" who would extend the government's already majority control of American science even further. His warning is a timely one, and it should be heeded." Joseph P. Martino, author of Science Funding: Politics and Porkbarrel "Bennett's latest book offers a challenging interpretation of the rise of the American federal science establishment since World War II. Focusing primarily on the growth of the space program, Bennett argues that crisis, real or imagined, is the source of state power and state funding for science. The Doomsday Lobby offers what no doubt will be viewed as a controversial contribution to the history of American science policy, and more broadly to an understanding of the role of the state in society." James D. Savage, Professor of Politics, University of Virginia, and author of Funding Science in America

Download or read book The Doomsday Lobby written by James T. Bennett and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Washington Lobby written by Congressional Quarterly, inc and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Doomsday Organism written by Stevenson Mukoro and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-03-03 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Doomsday Organism Is a lethal organism that destroys petroleum at a molecular level in the most unusual manner. It becomes a paralysing threat to the worlds oil producing nations in the hands of a grieving genius who developed it for Americas germ warfare division. It leads Susan Dax to an international chase on the heels of an elite terrorist organisation whose sole purpose is to see the west falla group she must seek and destroy before the release of the bacterium. Can Susan Dax stop The Doomsday Organism in time and save the world?

Download or read book The Doomsday Spiral written by Jon Land and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVIn Jon Land’s first novel, a crew of Arab terrorists attempts to tear America apart from the inside out—and only Alabaster, an Israeli special forces operative, can stop them/divDIV /divDIVAfter years of being presumed dead, Palestine’s most feared terrorist emerges from hiding with a plan for utter domination of the Middle East: the Shaitan Commandment. With a quartet of the region’s deadliest soldiers, he puts into motion a scheme that spells doom for the Western world. His target is not Israel, but Israel’s protector: the United States./divDIV /divDIVOn their trail is Alabaster, an Israeli special-forces agent whose true identity is buried under so many layers of deception that not even the Mossad knows who he really is. But every terrorist has heard of him, and knows to be afraid. A ruthless investigator with no time for diplomatic niceties, he may be all that stands between the United States and oblivion./divDIV /divDIVThis ebook features an illustrated biography of Jon Land including rare photos from the author’s personal collection./div

Download or read book The Doomsday Machine written by Martin Cohen and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2012-03-27 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, there are over one hundred nuclear reactors operating in our backyards, from Indian Point in New York to Diablo Canyon in California. Proponents claim that nuclear power is the only viable alternative to fossil fuels, and due to rising energy consumption and the looming threat of global warming, they are pushing for an even greater investment. Here, energy economist Andrew McKillop and social scientist Martin Cohen argue that the nuclear power dream being sold to us is pure fantasy. Debunking the multilayered myth that nuclear energy is cheap, clean, and safe, they demonstrate how landscapes are ravaged in search of the elusive yellowcake to fuel the reactors, and how energy companies and politicians rarely discuss the true costs of nuclear power plants - from the subsidies that build the infrastructure to the unspoken guarantee that the public will pick up the cleanup cost in the event of a meltdown, which can easily top $100 billion dollars.

Download or read book The Doomsday Drifter written by Mark DaSilva and published by First Edition Design Pub.. This book was released on 2019-03-06 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Apocalypse. Loss. Regret. Evil. Injustice. Find out how one man, an unlikely hero, must battle through a dystopian nightmare to find his missing family in this deep, dark and provocative thriller. Included is a free sneak peek at book two – Wrecking Man Included is a free sneak peek at book two – The Wrecking Man Keywords: Apocalypse, Family, Gas, Combat, Survival, Devil, Executive, Terrorist, Quest, Hero

Download or read book The Doomsday Genie written by Frank P Ryan and published by FPR-Books Ltd. This book was released on 2007-04 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Doomsday Genie is a fast-paced action thriller by bestselling writer, Frank P. Ryan. Set in America, it describes the desperate response of a small group of heroes to a presumed W.M.D. attack featuring a genetically engineered bioweapon. It is grounded on real understanding of modern science as you would expect from a bestselling author who is also happens to be a gold-medallist physician and distinguished biological scientist. Ryan came to widespread acclaim with thrillers such as Goodbye Baby Blue and Tiger Tiger. His The Forgotten Plague was a Book of the Year for the New York Times, Virus X was an Amazon com best-seller and Darwin's Blind Spot was the Amazon Featured Book recommended by Charlie Munger at the 2003 Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting. His books have been translated into many languages and have been the subject of more than a dozen television features and documentaries.

Download or read book Three Thrillers written by Jon Land and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2018-08-28 with total page 1030 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A trio of pulse-pounding thrillers from the USA Today–bestselling author and “one of the best all-out action writers in the business” (Los Angeles Review of Books). “Nobody writes action like Jon Land,” and in these three edge-of-your-seat international thrillers, the stakes have never been higher (John Lescroart). No wonder James Rollins says: “Jon Land proves yet again that suspense has a new king.” The Valhalla Testament: After his sister—an American undercover operative masquerading as a journalist in Nicaragua—is murdered and he is imprisoned, NFL running back Jamie Skylar must escape to the United States to warn the government of an impending terrorist attack. Vortex: Vietnam special-forces veteran Joshua Bane must wage a one-man war to stop a government conspiracy from completing a superweapon that could alter the very fabric of reality. Project Vortex would make the atom bomb look like a bow and arrow—and push the world into a devastating global conflict. The Doomsday Spiral: An Israeli special-forces operative whose true identity is buried under so many layers of deception that not even the Mossad knows who he really is, Alabaster may be all that stands between a terrorist plot targeting the US and total oblivion.

Download or read book The Doomsday Connection written by Sherwood Eliot Wirt and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 1460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)

Download or read book Lobbying America written by Benjamin C. Waterhouse and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-24 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lobbying America tells the story of the political mobilization of American business in the 1970s and 1980s. Benjamin Waterhouse traces the rise and ultimate fragmentation of a broad-based effort to unify the business community and promote a fiscally conservative, antiregulatory, and market-oriented policy agenda to Congress and the country at large. Arguing that business's political involvement was historically distinctive during this period, Waterhouse illustrates the changing power and goals of America's top corporate leaders. Examining the rise of the Business Roundtable and the revitalization of older business associations such as the National Association of Manufacturers and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Waterhouse takes readers inside the mind-set of the powerful CEOs who responded to the crises of inflation, recession, and declining industrial productivity by organizing an effective and disciplined lobbying force. By the mid-1970s, that coalition transformed the economic power of the capitalist class into a broad-reaching political movement with real policy consequences. Ironically, the cohesion that characterized organized business failed to survive the ascent of conservative politics during the 1980s, and many of the coalition's top goals on regulatory and fiscal policies remained unfulfilled. The industrial CEOs who fancied themselves the "voice of business" found themselves one voice among many vying for influence in an increasingly turbulent and unsettled economic landscape. Complicating assumptions that wealthy business leaders naturally get their way in Washington, Lobbying America shows how economic and political powers interact in the American democratic system.

Download or read book Coming Back to Earth written by James Clarke and published by Jacana Media. This book was released on 2002 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a current, comprehensive and holistic assessment of the challenges facing a developing African state within the global context and is an up-to-the-minute review of the state of the South African environment.

Download or read book Lobbying for Zionism on Both Sides of the Atlantic written by Ilan Pappe and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-06-11 with total page 631 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1896, a Jewish state was a pipe dream. Today the overwhelming majority of Jews identify as Zionists. How did this happen? Ilan Pappe unveils how a lobby changed the map of the Middle East. Zionists exerted pressure on the Congress, cracked down on dissent in the Labour Party and relentlessly smeared critics. Groups funded by the Israeli state pushed for unprecedented military aid, recognition of unlawfully occupied territories and the erasure of Palestinian rights. Lobbying for Zionism shows us how a dangerous consensus was built – and how it might be dismantled.

Download or read book Handbook on Population written by Robert L. Sassone and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Formerly published as "Report to the California Legislature on Population at the request of the Office of the Senate Majority Leader."

Download or read book Social Philosophy and Ecological Scarcity written by Keekok Lee and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-09-18 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1989 Social Philosophy and Ecological Scarcity presents a systematic study of the implications of ecological scarcity for social philosophy. The book argues for a new social philosophy based on a conception of the ‘good society’ and the ‘good life’ which makes fewer, rather than more demands on scarce ecological resources. The book shows that the two major competing social philosophies in modern philosophical thought – the bourgeois liberal and the state socialist – are both forms of capitalism. Despite their obvious differences, they both pursue the logic of capitalism, of ever-increasing accumulation, growth and consumption. This pursuit is carried out by means of modern science and its technology, which assume that Nature’s resources are inexhaustible and can be exploited to meet infinite human wants or needs, ignoring ecological scarcity. The recognition of ecological scarcity would lead to a social philosophy, based on a frugal mode of socialism which has more affinities with the social visions of Fourier and Morris than with that of Marx. Their theories, far from being too ‘utopian’, are shown as more ‘realistic’ and less ‘fantastic’ than either bourgeois capitalism or state capitalism based on the Marxist model.

Download or read book They Play You Pay written by James T. Bennett and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-05-10 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They Play, You Pay is a detailed, sometimes irreverent look at a political conundrum: despite evidence that publicly funded ballparks, stadiums, and arenas do not generate net economic growth, governments keep on taxing sales, restaurant patrons, renters of automobiles, and hotel visitors in order to build ever more elaborate cathedrals of professional sport—often in order to satisfy an owner who has threatened to move his team to greener, more subsidy‐happy, pastures. This book is a sweeping survey of the literature in the field, the history of such subsidies, the politics of stadium construction and franchise movement, and the prospects for a re‐privatization of ballpark and stadium financing. It ties together disparate strands in a fascinating story, examining the often colorful cases through which governments became involved in sports. These range from the well‐known to the obscure—from Yankee Stadium and the Astrodome to the Brooklyn Dodgers’ move to Los Angeles (to a privately built ballpark constructed upon land that had been seized via eminent domain from a mostly Mexican‐American population) to such arrant giveaways as Cowboys Stadium. It examines alternatives that might lessen the pressure for public subsidies, whether the Green Bay Packers model (in which the team’s owners are local stockholders) or via league expansions. It also takes a look at little-known, yet significant, episodes such as President Theodore Roosevelt’s intervention in the collegiate football crisis of 1905—a move that indirectly put the federal government on the side of such basic rule changes as the legalization of the forward pass. They Play, You Play is a fresh look at a political and economic puzzle: how it came to be that Joe and Jane Sixpack in the Bronx and Dallas subsidize the Steinbrenners and Jerry Joneses of professional sport.