Basic Economics is a citizen’s guide to economics-for those who want to understand how the economy works but have no interest in jargon or equations. Sowell reveals the general principles behind any kind of economy-capitalist, socialist, feudal, and so on. In readable language, he shows how to critique economic policies in terms of the incentives they create, rather than the goals they proclaim. With clear explanations of the entire field, from rent control and the rise and fall of businesses to the international balance of payments, this is the first book for anyone who wishes to understand how the economy functions

New York. The state of diversity-from crowded cities to lazy towns to beautiful backwoods. Home to America

Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells—taken without her knowledge—became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first “immortal” human cells grown in culture, they are still alive today, though she has been dead for more than sixty years. If you could pile all HeLa cells ever grown onto a scale, they’d weigh more than 50 million metric tons—as much as a hundred Empire State Buildings. HeLa cells were vital for developing the polio vaccine; uncovered secrets of cancer, viruses, and the atom bomb’s effects; helped lead to important advances like in vitro fertilization, cloning, and gene mapping; and have been bought and sold by the billions

A different time...a different place...What if you were there? If you lived at the time of Martin Luther King, you would have seen important changes brought about by the civil rights movement

This brilliant multiple biography is centered on Lincoln

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Easy-to-Assemble 3-D Maps That Students Make and Manipulate to Learn Key Facts and Concepts-in a Kinesthetic Way!

This book describes in detail the history of “the Rite to Royal Ancestors”, the general background of Confucian sacrificial music and dance, and the musical characteristics of two types of sacrificial music transmitted in Korea. To help readers understand the procedures and the content of the ceremony and music, illustrations and a music CD are included.

This book aims to examine media coverage of North Korea between 2001 and 2003, looking at the frames used by four newspapers, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Chosun IlboHankyoreh Sinmon. This book also analyzes President George W. Bush’s 2002 State of the Union Address and the respective responses from the four newspapers. Consequently, this book analyzes how framing is used by Bush and the international newspapers through examining newspaper coverage and presidential rhetoric in texts about North Korea.

This book provieds a global perspective on the critical importance of North Korea