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The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution

Reconstructing the Economic Foundations of American Democracy

by Joseph Fishkin, William E. Forbath ...

Narrated by Daniel Henning ...

Unabridged

21 hours 44 min

Oligarchy is a threat to the American republic. When too much economic and political power is concentrated in too few hands, we risk losing the "republican form of government" the Constitution requires. But as Joseph Fishkin and William Forbath show in this retelling of constitutional history, a commitment to prevent oligarchy once stood at the center of a robust tradition in American political ... Read more

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Oligarchy is a threat to the American republic. When too much economic and political power is concentrated in too few hands, we risk losing the "republican form of government" the Constitution requires. But as Joseph Fishkin and William Forbath show in this retelling of constitutional history, a commitment to prevent oligarchy once stood at the center of a robust tradition in American political
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Adaptively Radiant

by Joseph E. Henning ...

"the mix of traditional Japanese and Hawaiian folklore with some contemporary sci-fi and fantasy elements makes for a fresh and distinctive read." ―Kirkus ReviewsAdaptively Radiant is a fast paced, adventure packed supernatural story of discovery and exploration―with a mix of traditional Japanese and Hawaiian folklore.While on a summer vacation in Japan, Justin Toshi Blackwood attends a birthday ... Read more

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"the mix of traditional Japanese and Hawaiian folklore with some contemporary sci-fi and fantasy elements makes for a fresh and distinctive read." ―Kirkus ReviewsAdaptively Radiant is a fast paced, adventure packed supernatural story of discovery and exploration―with a mix of traditional Japanese and Hawaiian folklore.While on a summer vacation in Japan, Justin Toshi Blackwood attends a birthday
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Adaptively Radiant

by Joseph E. Henning ...

Adaptively Radiant is an adventure packed supernatural story of discovery and exploration, blended with aspects of culture and mythology.While on a summer vacation in Japan, Justin Toshi Blackwood attends a lavish twenty-first birthday party for his cousin Kaito Saito. The two young men share a great-grandfather and soon realize they have each inherited a mysterious family heirloom with one ... Read more

$3.99 USD

Adaptively Radiant is an adventure packed supernatural story of discovery and exploration, blended with aspects of culture and mythology.While on a summer vacation in Japan, Justin Toshi Blackwood attends a lavish twenty-first birthday party for his cousin Kaito Saito. The two young men share a great-grandfather and soon realize they have each inherited a mysterious family heirloom with one
... Read more
Adaptively Radiant

by Joseph E. Henning ...

"the mix of traditional Japanese and Hawaiian folklore with some contemporary sci-fi and fantasy elements makes for a fresh and distinctive read." ―Kirkus ReviewsAdaptively Radiant is a fast paced, adventure packed supernatural story of discovery and exploration that blends aspects of culture and mythology into a modern fairy-tale.While on a summer vacation in Japan, Justin Toshi Blackwood attends ... Read more

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"the mix of traditional Japanese and Hawaiian folklore with some contemporary sci-fi and fantasy elements makes for a fresh and distinctive read." ―Kirkus ReviewsAdaptively Radiant is a fast paced, adventure packed supernatural story of discovery and exploration that blends aspects of culture and mythology into a modern fairy-tale.While on a summer vacation in Japan, Justin Toshi Blackwood attends
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Outposts of Civilization

Race, Religion, and the Formative Years of American-Japanese Relations

by Joseph M. Henning ...

Civilization and progress, Gilded Age Americans believed, were inseparable from Anglo-Saxon heritage and Christianity. In rising to become the first Asian and non-Christian world power, Meiji Japan (1868-1912) challenged this deeply-held conviction, and in so doing threatened racial and cultural hierarchies central to American ideology and foreign policy.To reconcile Japan's stature with American ... Read more

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Civilization and progress, Gilded Age Americans believed, were inseparable from Anglo-Saxon heritage and Christianity. In rising to become the first Asian and non-Christian world power, Meiji Japan (1868-1912) challenged this deeply-held conviction, and in so doing threatened racial and cultural hierarchies central to American ideology and foreign policy.To reconcile Japan's stature with American
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Interpreting the Mikado's Empire

The Writings of William Elliot Griffis

Edited by Joseph M. Henning ...

For more than fifty years, William Elliot Griffis (1843–1928) chronicled a rapidly changing Meiji Japan and its people. He was unequaled in the length of his writing career and the breadth of his work, which illuminated the entire sweep of Meiji history and reached a multiplicity of American audiences. A teacher in the provincial city of Fukui and later in Tokyo, he reported in magazine essays on ... Read more

$89.99 USD

For more than fifty years, William Elliot Griffis (1843–1928) chronicled a rapidly changing Meiji Japan and its people. He was unequaled in the length of his writing career and the breadth of his work, which illuminated the entire sweep of Meiji history and reached a multiplicity of American audiences. A teacher in the provincial city of Fukui and later in Tokyo, he reported in magazine essays on
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Rutgers Meets Japan

A Trans-Pacific Network of the Late Nineteenth Century

by James Mitchell Hommes, Fuji Takagi, Noriko Ochiai, Satoshi Shiozaki, Andrew Hamish Ion, Naoto Tsuji, Rui Kohiyama, Ryuhei Hosoya, Professor Benjamin Duke, Professor Koji Nakajima, Professor Joseph Michael Henning, Professor John Everett Van Sant ...

Series series CERES: Rutgers Studies in History
In 1867 Kusakabe Taro, a young samurai from Fukui, Japan, began studying at Rutgers as its first foreign student. Three years later, in 1870, his former tutor, friend, and Rutgers graduate, William Elliot Griffis, left for Japan to teach English and Science for three and a half years. The year 2020 marked the 150th anniversary of two landmark events in the history of the Rutgers-Japan relationship ... Read more

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In 1867 Kusakabe Taro, a young samurai from Fukui, Japan, began studying at Rutgers as its first foreign student. Three years later, in 1870, his former tutor, friend, and Rutgers graduate, William Elliot Griffis, left for Japan to teach English and Science for three and a half years. The year 2020 marked the 150th anniversary of two landmark events in the history of the Rutgers-Japan relationship
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Managing in the Gray

Five Timeless Questions for Resolving Your Toughest Problems at Work

by Joseph L. Badaracco, Jr. ...

Narrated by Daniel Henning ...

Unabridged

4 hours 36 min

Every manager makes tough calls—it comes with the job. And the hardest decisions are the "gray areas"—situations where you and your team have worked hard to find an answer, you've done the best analysis you can, and you still don't know what to do. But you have to make a decision. You have to choose, commit, act, and live with the consequences and persuade others to follow your lead. Gray areas ... Read more

$12.99 USD

Every manager makes tough calls—it comes with the job. And the hardest decisions are the "gray areas"—situations where you and your team have worked hard to find an answer, you've done the best analysis you can, and you still don't know what to do. But you have to make a decision. You have to choose, commit, act, and live with the consequences and persuade others to follow your lead. Gray areas
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Step Back

How to Bring the Art of Reflection into Your Busy Life

by Joseph L. Badaracco ...

Narrated by Daniel Henning ...

Unabridged

2 hours 54 min

Four simple rules for using reflection to find clarity despite the turbulence of work and life.We all wish we had more time to pause and reflect about small decisions and big goals—and everything in between. But since we live and work in a vortex of tasks, meetings, decisions, and serious responsibilities, we rarely get the chance to step back.In this practical guide, bestselling author and ... Read more

$19.99 USD

Four simple rules for using reflection to find clarity despite the turbulence of work and life.We all wish we had more time to pause and reflect about small decisions and big goals—and everything in between. But since we live and work in a vortex of tasks, meetings, decisions, and serious responsibilities, we rarely get the chance to step back.In this practical guide, bestselling author and
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Poverty Reduction in a Changing Climate

by Hari Bansha Dulal, Craig Johnson, Nora Lustig, Luis F. López-Calva, Subrata Mitra, Jivanta Schöttli, Markus Pauli, Kate Bird, Kate Higgins, George Joseph0, Quentin Wodon1, Enrique Hennings2, Arup Mitra3, John Weiss4, Sergei Soares5, Dilys Roe6, Terry Sunderland7, Bryan R. Bushley8, Rishikesh R. Bhandary9, Roberto Foa0, Milo Vandemoortele1 ...

Poverty reduction challenges in the twenty-first century are not the same as those from the previous century. The shift is due in no small part to climate change and climate-related weather disasters, such as extreme flood and drought. The magnitude and frequency of such events are only expected to increase in the coming decades, affecting more and more impoverished people across the globe.Poverty ... Read more

$60.99 USD

Poverty reduction challenges in the twenty-first century are not the same as those from the previous century. The shift is due in no small part to climate change and climate-related weather disasters, such as extreme flood and drought. The magnitude and frequency of such events are only expected to increase in the coming decades, affecting more and more impoverished people across the globe.Poverty
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What It Took to Win

A History of the Democratic Party

by Michael Kazin ...

Narrated by Lee Goettl ...

Unabridged

1 hour 22 min

In What It Took to Win, the eminent historian Michael Kazin identifies and assesses the Democratic Party's long-running commitment to creating "moral capitalism"—a system that mixed entrepreneurial freedom with the welfare of workers and consumers. And yet the same party that championed the rights of the white working man also vigorously protected or advanced the causes of slavery, segregation, ... Read more

$24.99 USD

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In What It Took to Win, the eminent historian Michael Kazin identifies and assesses the Democratic Party's long-running commitment to creating "moral capitalism"—a system that mixed entrepreneurial freedom with the welfare of workers and consumers. And yet the same party that championed the rights of the white working man also vigorously protected or advanced the causes of slavery, segregation,
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Citizen

An American Lyric

by Claudia Rankine ...

* Finalist for the National Book Award in Poetry ** Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry * Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism * Winner of the NAACP Image Award * Winner of the L.A. Times Book Prize * Winner of the PEN Open Book Award *ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR:The New Yorker, Boston Globe, The Atlantic, BuzzFeed, NPR. L... ... Read more

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* Finalist for the National Book Award in Poetry ** Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry * Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism * Winner of the NAACP Image Award * Winner of the L.A. Times Book Prize * Winner of the PEN Open Book Award *ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR:The New Yorker, Boston Globe, The Atlantic, BuzzFeed, NPR. L...
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