Gangs of America: The Rise of Corporate Power and the Disabling of Democracy
Where did this powerful institution come from? How did it get so much power? In Gangs of America: The Rise of Corporate Power and the Disabling of Democracy, author Ted Nace probes the roots of corporate power, finding answers in surprising places.
A key revelation of the book is the wariness of the Founding Fathers toward corporations. That wariness was shaped by rampant abuses on the part of British corporations such as the Virginia Company, whose ill-treatment killed thousands of women and children on forced-labor tobacco plantations, and the East India Company, whose attempt to monopolize American commodities led to the merchant-led rebellion known as the Boston Tea Party.
Ted Nace worked as a researcher on electric utility policy for the Environmental Defense Fund and as staff director of the Dakota Resource Council, a grassroots group seeking to protect farms and ranches from strip mines and other energy projects. In 1985, he founded Peachpit Press, the world’s leading publisher of books on computer graphics and desktop publishing. After selling Peachpit Press to British publishing conglomerate Pearson, Nace felt driven to understand the historical roots of corporate political power. Gangs of America, the result of that quest, features Nace’s engaging, personal, and complex voicethat of a writer, a businessman, and an activist.
The reproducible, high-energy Power
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From one of the leading international experts on life-long learning, "Power Up Your Mind" will revolutionize our understanding of how our brains are pre-wired to learn and the practical steps we can take to prepare ourselves (emotionally and physically) to participate fully in the process.
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TTC - War, Peace, and Power: Diplomatic History of Europe, 1500–2000 Taught by Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius Course No. 8820 36 lectures, 30 minutes/lecture
For much of the past five centuries, the history of the European continent has been a history of chaos, its civilization thrown into turmoil by ferocious wars or bitter religious conflicts—sometimes in combination—that have made and remade borders, created and eliminated entire nations, and left a legacy that is still influencing our world.
The Reign of Cleopatra by Stanley M. Burstein
Book Description
Ambitious, intelligent, and desired by men
and Emperors, Cleopatra VII came to power at a time when Roman and
Egyptian interests increasingly tended to concern the same object: the
Egyptian Empire itself. Cleopatra lived her whole life at the center of
this complex and persistent power struggle, and her death
simultaneously heralded the end of the Ptolemaic dynasty, the loss of
Egyptian political independence, and the beginning of Caesar Augustus's
Roman rule in Egypt. Cleopatra's legacy has since lost much of its
former political significance, as she has come to symbolize instead the
potent force of female sexuality and power. In this engaging and
multifaceted account, however, Stanley M. Burstein displays Cleopatra
in the full manifold brilliance of the several cultures, countries, and
people that surrounded her throughout her compelling life, and in so
doing develops a stunning picture of a legendary Queen, and a deeply
historic reign. Designed as an accessible introduction to Cleopatra VII
and her time, this book offers readers and researchers an appealing mix
of descriptive chapters, biographical sketches, and annotated primary
documents. An overview of the Ptolemaic Dynasty is presented in the
introduction, and is followed by chapters on Cleopatra's life, the
reality of Ptolemaic Egypt, Cleopatra's multicultural Egyptian society,
and Alexandria's culture and conflicts. The narrative chapters conclude
with a section discussing Cleopatra's significance as a person, a
queen, and a symbol. An annotated bibliography and index are also
included in this work.