02112nim 2200385Ka 450 991015771440332120240912110950.61-4708-6325-1(CKB)3710000001002308(ODN)ODN0003035073(EXLCZ)99371000000100230820161207d2016 uy 0enguruna---|||||spwrdacontentsrdamediacrdamediacrrdacarrierLion /Saroo BrierleyUnabridged.Ashland Blackstone Publishing20161 online resource (7 audio files) digitalUnabridged.At only five years old, Saroo Brierley got lost on a train in India. Unable to read or write or recall the name of his hometown or even his own last name, he survived alone for weeks on the rough streets of Calcutta before ultimately being transferred to an agency and adopted by a couple in Australia. Despite his gratitude, Brierley always wondered about his origins. Eventually, with the advent of Google Earth, he had the opportunity to look for the needle in a haystack he once called home and pore over satellite images for landmarks he might recognize or mathematical equations that might further narrow down the labyrinthine map of India. One day, after years of searching, he miraculously found what he was looking for and set off to find his family. A media sensation, #1 international bestseller, and now an Academy Award-nominated motion picture, Lion is a moving, poignant, and inspirational true story of survival and triumph against incredible odds. It celebrates the importance of never letting go of what drives the human spirit: hope.NonfictionOverDriveBiography & AutobiographyOverDriveNonfiction.Biography & Autobiography.BIO026000bisacshBrierley Saroo1244799Adam Vikas1775123AUDIO9910157714403321Lion4289394UNINA04999nam 22006375 450 991048417630332120230810133529.09783030622817303062281910.1007/978-3-030-62281-7(CKB)5460000000008530(DE-He213)978-3-030-62281-7(MiAaPQ)EBC6449913(PPN)25946595X(EXLCZ)99546000000000853020210102d2021 u| 0engurnn|008mamaatxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierAmerican Democracy in Crisis The Case for Rethinking Madisonian Government /by Jeanne Sheehan1st ed. 2021.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2021.1 online resource (XXXIII, 280 p. 17 illus., 15 illus. in color.) 9783030622800 3030622800 Includes bibliographical references and index.1. The Dispersion of Power -- 2. A Republic - If You Can Keep It -- 3. 'Trias Politica' -- 4. A Most Unsure Grip -- 5. The Object of the Government or Systems Failure -- 6. A Necessary Evil -- 7. The Strategy of Majority Rule -- 8. A Failure to Act of What's Most Remarkable -- 9. Nothing Human Can Be Perfect: Constitutional Change and the Limits of the Remedies Thereafter -- 10. Restructuring by Rewriting or Towards a More Responsible Government -- 11. The 'Two Modes' - Proposal by Congress and 'The Other Way' -- 12. Return to First Solutions or Extra-Constitutional Means of Bridging the Divide.Public disenchantment with and distrust of American government is at an all-time high and who can blame them? In the face of widespread challenges-everything from record levels of personal and national debt and the sky high cost of education, to gun violence, racial discrimination, an immigration crisis, overpriced pharmaceuticals, and much more-the government seems paralyzed and unable to act, the most recent example being Covid-19. It's the deadliest pandemic in over a century. In addition to an unimaginable sick and death toll, it has left more than thirty million Americans unemployed. Despite this, Washington let the first round of supplemental unemployment benefits run out and for more than a month were unable to agree on a bill to help those suffering. This book explains why we are in this situation, why the government is unable to respond to key challenges, and what we can do to right the ship. It requires that readers "upstream," stop blaming the individuals in office and instead look at the root cause of the problem. The real culprit is the system; it was designed to protect liberty and structured accordingly. As a result, however, it has left us with a government that is not responsive, largely unaccountable, and often ineffective. This is not an accident; it is by design. Changing the way our government operates requires rethinking its primary goal(s) and then restructuring to meet them. To this end, this book offers specific reform proposals to restructure the government and in the process make it more accountable, effective, and responsive. Jeanne Zaino is Professor of Political Science and International Studies at Iona College, USA. She is the author of three previous books and appears regularly as a commentator in the national and international media. In addition to her teaching and research, she is currently serving as a political contributor at Bloomberg News. Research in the field of political science stretches into an impressive number of areas, but it seems that most examines the personal aspects of governing. Perhaps it is human nature to want to connect a face to a problem, but much of the recent scholarship has focused on how individual actors or political groups have influenced American politics. In this wonderful book, Jeanne Zaino makes the compelling argument that much of our national frustration with gridlock, polarization, and low levels of political efficacy are the fault of the very system that confounds us. -Alison Dagnes, Professor, Shippensburg University, USA.Political scienceWorld politicsExecutive powerElectionsPolitical SciencePolitical HistoryExecutive PoliticsElectoral PoliticsPolitical science.World politics.Executive power.Elections.Political Science.Political History.Executive Politics.Electoral Politics.320.973320.473Zaino Jeanne613991MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910484176303321American democracy in crisis2596807UNINA01482nam 2200361z- 450 9910768486103321202401299783495993903(CKB)5690000000251137(oapen)doab133723(EXLCZ)99569000000025113720231226h19981998 |u| |gerurmn|---annantxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierPolitische VernunftIhre Struktur und DynamikBaden-BadenNomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG1998Baden-BadenAlber[1998]1 online resource (344 p.)Praktische PhilosophieBand 533-495-47872-8 Das vorliegende Werk ist von doppeltem Wert: Es entfaltet eine Theorie der politischen Vernunft, die sowohl der Maximierung des Allgemeinwohls verpflichtet ist, als auch Fragen der nationalen Selbstbestimmung und der internationalen Gerechtigkeit berücksichtigt. Desweiteren informiert es die Leser des deutschen Sprachraums über den aktuellen Stand der Auseinandersetzung zwischen der Vertragstheorie Rawls' und den utilitaristischen Gegenpositionen von Parfit, Hare sowie Hardin.HPbicsscPhilosophieHPRinderle Peter782565CH-ZuSLS UZB ZBBOOK9910768486103321Politische Vernunft3907470UNINA