Dissent Grows as Scientists Oppose NASA's New Moon Mission
NASA's current plan for manned space exploration focuses on establishing a base on the moon, as a vital stepping stone for a visit to Mars. The initiative has been trumpeted by the Bush administration, which wants the first mission to launch by ... [... more]
Popular Mechanics |
Revolt of the Misesians
This story of the political dissent begins in Guatemala City, the capital of a country that is deeply troubled economically. The problems are familiar. There are mercantilist trade policies designed to enrich the politically well-connected at the ... [... more]
Ludwig von Mises Institute |
Benjamin Kunkel
Benjamin Kunkel grew up in Colorado. He has written for Dissent, The Nation, and the The New York Review of Books, and is a founding editor of n+1 magazine. Dwight B. Wilmerding is only twenty-eight, but he's having a midlife crisis. He lives a ... [... more]
Random House |
Vaclav Havel
Václav Havel was born in Czechoslovakia in 1936. His plays have been produced around the world, and he is the author of many influential essays on totalitarianism and dissent. He was a founding spokesman for Charter 77 and served as president of .. [... more]
Random House |
Leslie Perlow
How Silencing Conflict Wrecks Relationships and Companies... and What You Can Do About It We live in a culture-especially at work-that prefers harmony over discord, agreement over dissent, speed over deliberation. We often smile and nod to each ... [... more]
Random House |
Plain Folk in a Rich Man's War: Class and Dissent in ...
 This compelling and engaging book sheds new light on how planter self-interest, government indifference, and the very nature of southern society produced a rising tide of dissent and disaffection among Georgia's plain folk during the Civil War. The [... more]
$86.94
A1 Books |
How to Teach a Husband to Fish
You can teach your husband to fish if you tread carefully. There are few things that can create dissent in a marriage more than a woman knowing more about a "man's area of expertise." How you handle teaching that novice fisherman can make all [... more]
eHow |
Dissent in the Heartland
This grassroots view of student activism in the 1960s chronicles the years of protest at one Midwestern university. Located in a region of farmland, conservative politics, and traditional family values, Indiana University was home to antiwar protestors, [... more]
$11.95
eBooks |
American Voices Of Dissent: The Book From Xxi Century, A ...
American Voices Of Dissent: The Book From Xxi Century, A Film By Gabriele Zamparini And Lorenzo Meccoli [... more]
$90.62
A1 Books |
The Perils of Conflict and Dissent
Yes-men are widely scorned. Yet entire organizations often do no better at examining all sides of a problem, raising potential shortcomings of a proposed solution or suggesting alternatives, says Michael Roberto, assistant professor at Harvard ... [... more]
CIO |
Masters of War: Military Dissent and Politics in the ...
Book Description: Military Leadership and the Vietnam War convincingly disproves the claim that America's defeat in Vietnam was the result of a failure of will because national leaders forced the troops to "fight with one hand tied behind their [... more]
$37.99
Amazon.com |
Decision and Dissent: With Halsey at Leyte Gulf
Reasons Why: Carl Solberg's book looks deep into the critical decisions of FADM William Halsey at the Battle of Leyte Gulf. Solberg is well qualified to do so as he was on Halsey's staff at the time. He finds that Halsey's "kitchen cabinet" [... more]
$28.95
Amazon.com |
