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This essay unscrambles the gross misconceptions that have made rational debates about tax policies virtually impossible for decades.

Focuses on the major environmental constraints that limit US food production without necessarily improving environmental quality. Each chapter documents a specific issue, discusses the regulatory response, and offers ideas for reform.

These twenty-five essays, covering a range of areas from religion and immigration to family structure and crime, examine America's changing racial and ethnic scene. They clearly show that old civil rights strategies will not solve today's problems and offer a bold new civil rights agenda based on today's realities.

The majority of Latin American revolutionaries and guerrillas have laid down their weapons and opted to participate in that region's democratic processes. What brought about this transformation? When the AK-47s Fall Silent brings together for the first time many of these former Latin revolutionaries to tell their own stories, in their own words.

Brings together the views of leading thinkers - in science, medicine, international and constitutional law, law enforcement, intelligence, and crisis management - on all diverse aspects of the threat of biological and chemical weapons.

In this collection of thoughtful, hard-hitting essays, Walter Williams takes on the left wing's most sacred cows with provocative insights, brutal candour, and an uncompromising reverence for personal liberty and the principles laid out in our Declaration of Independence and Constitution.

A collection of essays that discusses such issues as the media, immigration, the minimum wage and multiculturalism.

Columnist Walter E. Williams is chairmain of the economic department at George Mason University. This thought-provoking book contains nearly one hundred of William's most popular essays on race and sex, government, education, environment and health, law and society, international politics, and other controversial topics.

Walter Williams offers his sometimes controversial views on education, health, the environment, government, law and society, race, and a range of other topics. Although many of these essays focus on the growth of government, many others demonstrate how the tools of freemarket economics can be used to improve lives in ways ordinary people can understand.

Prolific author Walter E. Williams recalls some of the highlights and turning points of his life. From his lower middle class beginnings in a mixed but predominantly black neighbourhood in West Philadelphia to his department chair at George Mason University, Williams tells an `only in America' story of a life of achievement.

One of conservatism's most articulate voices dissects today's most important economic, racial, political, education, legal, and social issues, sharing his entertaining and thought-provoking insights on a wide range of contentious subjects.

The culmination of an extraordinary literary project that Herbert Hoover launched during World War II, his magnum opus - at last published nearly fifty years after its completion - offers a revisionist reexamination of the war and its cold war aftermath and a sweeping indictment of the 'lost statesmanship' of Franklin Roosevelt.

Thoughts on issues of character, leadership, integrity, personal and public virtue, and ethics, the selections in this volume converge around the central theme of how man can rise with dignity to prevail in the face of adversity - lessons just as valid for the challenges of present-day life as they were for the author's Vietnam experience.

"Williams applies an economic analysis to the problems black Americans have faced in the past and present to show that free-market resource allocation, as opposed to political allocation, is in the best interests of minorities"--Jacket.

In this first up-do-date, single volume history of the Czechs, Agnew provides an introduction to the major themes and contours of Czech history for the general reader-from prehistory and the first Slavs to the Czech Republic's entry into the European Union.

Sowell challenges all the assumptions of contemporary liberalism on issues ranging from the economy to race to education in this collection of controversial essays, and captures his thoughts on politics, race, and common sense with a section at the end for thought-provoking quotes.

Thomas Sowell takes aim at a range of legal, social, racial, educational, and economic issues in this latest collection of his controversial, never boring, always thought-provoking essays. From 'gun control myths' to 'mealy mouth media' to 'free lunch medicine', Sowell gets to the heart of matters with his characteristically unsparing candour.

Takes a hard look at the state of education in American schools and universities. Dr. Thomas Sowell's imperative is to test the assumptions underlying contemporary educational policies and innovations against the historical and contemporary evidence.