![]() ![]() The apology concerns the particular state at which I have decided to submit the results of my efforts to the reader. The reader will have to decide whether he wants to accept the values in the service of which I have used that knowledge. I believe I have made honest use of what I know about the world in which we live. For this, scientific discussion is a means, not an end. My aim is to picture an ideal, to show how it can be achieved, and to explain what its realization would mean in practice. Though I could not have written it if I had not devoted the greater part of my life to the study of economics and had not more recently endeavored to acquaint myself with the conclusions of several other social sciences, I am not concerned here exclusively with facts, nor do I confine myself to statements of cause and effect. ![]() This book is not concerned mainly with what science teaches us. ![]() All that remains for me to do here is to issue a warning and to present an apology. ![]() Copyright © 1960 by The University of Chicago Reprinted from the English Edition by The University of Chicago Press 1978 Preface The aim of this book is explained in the Introduction, and my chief obligations are acknowledged in the few paragraphs preceding the notes. FRIEDRICH A.HAYEK THE CONSTITUTION OF LIBERTY CHINA SOCIAL SCIENCES PUBLISHING HOUSE CHENGCHENG BOOKS LTD. ![]()
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![]() ![]() For they never found him… no ransom demands, no leads, nothing. Though she and her husband Derek are both wealthy business people, Marin finds that there is little in life worth anything without her beloved son. Her marriage has turned distant and cold. She has unsuccessfully tried to end her own life, and is still entertaining thoughts of suicide. In just a few seconds he is gone! Now, fourteen months later, Marin is a wreck and depends on prescription pills to get her through each day. ![]() Three days before Christmas, at Seattle’s very busy Pike Place Market, Marin Machado lets go of her four year old son’s hand to answer a text on her phone. With characters that were not that likeable, I was surprised that they kept me riveted to their story, but they definitely did. What a page turner! I thought at first that this would be like all the other ‘abducted child’ thrillers, but it couldn’t have been more different. ![]() I always fulfill my review commitments, even if it is not always in a timely fashion.) I’ve had a ‘hold’ on this title for quite some time and my hold finally became available. ![]() “ Sometimes someone else’s pain is the only thing that makes yours better“ (I downloaded this title from Minotaur Books via Edelweiss but the book expired before I had a chance to read it – SO… at long last, I ended up reading a library copy on the Libby app. ![]() ![]() He also confesses to crimes he hasn’t committed and in return the prison chaplain and deputy governor – both corrupt – facilitate his heroin-induced Nirvana. He listens to the confessions of the other prisoners like some sort of latter day apostle. Sonny is an enigma – despite the needle he’s physically strong, youthful and filled with inner calm. Everybody believed Ab to have been the mole who was tipping off Oslo’s criminal fraternity. His father, Ab, was a police detective who committed suicide. The Son of the title is Sonny Lofthus, a heroin addict who ended up in prison not long after both his parents died. It has been optioned for cinema by Warner Brothers. The Son, meanwhile, is a standalone crime epic set in Oslo with a similar feel to the Harry Hole series and plenty of literary ambition behind it. ![]() ![]() ![]() There are also two Blood on Snow books on the way. He’s working on his own rendition of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, and we understand the Harry Hole book The Snowman is being turned into a film. Best known for his Harry Hole series, Jo Nesbo is Scandinavia’s pre-eminent crime author at the moment and the last couple of years have seen him branching out in all sorts of ways. ![]() ![]() The small Pennsylvania town of Shudder-to-Think turns out to have a lot more strangeness to it than a few lost memories, as this story by writer Carmen Maria Machado and artist Dani soon makes clear. In practice, however, the mystery of the cinema turns out to be a MacGuffin that tugs El and Vee along as they, in turn, pull us through their surroundings. This, at least, is the easily-summarised hook to The Low, Low Woods the sort of thing that makes a good, catchy back-of-the-book synopsis. The Low, Low Woods Tamra Bonvillain (Colourist), Sam Wolfe Connelly (Cover artist), Dani (Artist), Carmen Maria Machado (Writer), Steve Wands (Letterer) Clearly, something has happened – something stranger than two girls falling asleep in a cinema – and so El and Vee must find out what happened during the missing slice of time. They soon find that Vee has unexplained mud on her shoes, no-one else went to see the film, and the sole staff member present is behaving oddly. Sitting in a cinema together, teenage friends El and Vee realise that neither of them has any memory of the film that has just ended. ![]() ![]() ![]() The traveling circus ends up visiting near Mayzie's new Palm Beach residence. ![]() ![]() An elephant's faithful, one hundred per cent!" However, despite his hardships and Mayzie's clear intent not to return, Horton refuses to leave the nest because he insists on keeping his word, often repeating, "I meant what I said, and I said what I meant. Naturally, the absurd sight of an elephant sitting atop a tree makes quite a scene - Horton is exposed to the elements, laughed at by his jungle friends, captured by hunters, forced to endure a terrible sea voyage, and finally placed in a traveling circus. The book centers on Horton, a genial elephant, who is convinced by Mayzie, a lazy, irresponsible bird, to sit on her egg while she takes a short "break", which turns into her permanent relocation to Palm Beach. ![]() ![]() ![]() In four decades, the Hanford plant near Richland and the Maiak plant near Ozersk each issued at leastĢ00 million curies of radioactive isotopes into the surrounding environment-equaling four Chernobyls-laying waste to hundreds of square miles and contaminating rivers, fields, forests, and food supplies. Brown shows that the plants' segregation of permanent and temporary workers and of nuclear and non-nuclear zones created a bubble of immunity, where dumps and accidents were glossed over and plant managers freely embezzled and polluted. Fully employed and medically monitored, the residents of Richland and Ozersk enjoyed all the pleasures of consumer society, while nearby, migrants, prisoners, and soldiers were banned from plutopia-they lived in temporary "staging grounds" and often performed the most dangerous work at the plant. ![]() To contain secrets, American and Soviet leaders created plutopias-communities of nuclear families living in highly-subsidized, limited-access atomic cities. In Plutopia, Brown draws on official records and dozens of interviews to tell the extraordinary stories of Richland, Washington and Ozersk, Russia-the first two cities in the world to produce plutonium. While many transnational histories of the nuclear arms race have been written, Kate Brown provides the first definitive account of the great plutonium disasters of the United States and the Soviet Union. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Steering was by braked differential assisted by compressed air at 80 psi although the compressor had to be hand charged with a manually operated pump. It was powered by a two-cylinder Ackroyd heavy oil engine rated at 80hp and was also one of the largest vehicles built for military service at the time. This makes it the first tracked vehicle to enter service with the British Army. ![]() ![]() In 1907 Hornsbys had fitted tracks to the 1905 military tractor that had proved so successful in the War Office trials as a wheeled vehicle. It is said that the term Caterpillar was coined by soldiers who watched it moving along although the name was later adopted by an American company and is now world famous. One of these was tested by the War Office in 1907 and in 1909 this machine was ordered from Hornsbys for military use. In 1904 David Roberts, Managing director of the firm Richard Hornsby & Sons of Grantham, patented a new form of crawler track which was applied to various prototype vehicles. The oldest item in The Tank Museum is the Hornsby tracklayer or tractor, Little Caterpillar – a steam-powered tracked vehicle, trialled by the War Office for potential use in a combat situation. ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s this kind of honest advice, plus the humorous ups and downs of her rise in online retail, that make the book so appealing.” - Los Angeles Times It’s about trusting your instincts and following your gut knowing which rules to follow and which to break when to button up and when to let your freak flag fly. #GIRLBOSS proves that being successful isn’t about where you went to college or how popular you were in high school. Sophia was never a typical CEO, or a typical anything, and she’s written #GIRLBOSS for other girls like her: outsiders (and insiders) seeking a unique path to success, even when that path is windy as all hell and lined with naysayers. It was in that lobby that Sophia decided to start selling vintage clothes on eBay.įlash forward to today, and she’s the founder of Nasty Gal and the founder and CEO of Girlboss. By age twenty-two she had dropped out of school, and was broke, directionless, and checking IDs in the lobby of an art school-a job she’d taken for the health insurance. Amoruso spent her teens hitchhiking, committing petty theft, and scrounging in dumpsters for leftover bagels. ![]() ![]() ![]() Eight enchanting illustrations on coated full-color plates by Milo Winter. String-bind solid, straight hinges intact. Unique monochromatic impressionistic scene of Danish neighborhood at endpapers. Pages fine, sharp, even tone to text no writing. Silver bordered, full-color pictorial plate by Milo Winter at front, small ding. Black pebbled, full-cloth boards, ornate silver spine design and titles, lt. Stated copyright 1916 by Rand McNally & Co., Edition of 1938. First Rand McNally edition, early printing. ![]() ![]() Please email with questions or to request photos. It's unusual for an early DJ like this to survive, as they were considered entirely disposable at the time. ![]() DJ is faded and has small chips at the edges and creases. Plain offwhite paper with black lettering, and advertisements on the back. Illustrated with black and white drawings throughout. It appears to be from about 1900 or slightly before. No date on the title page and no publication information on the copyright page. Personal bookplate on inside front cover. Page edges have faint marbled paper pattern. Front cover has a full color chromolithograph pastedown illustration, which is bright and crisp. Bound in full red cloth with black lettering on the spine and black border on the cover. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As Brian Deese - the midwife of its US resurgence and former Director of Biden’s National Economic Council - recently explained, industrial strategy takes as given that “the private market on its own, private actors operating to maximise their own utility, will end up under investing in areas of the economy that have strategic and economic significance.” Public investment and, in Sullivan’s words, “a deliberate, hands-on investment strategy” mark a new, green era of US state-led developmentalism.ĭecarbonisation at required pace and scale fundamentally depends upon the extent to which democratic planning displaces market coordination - private control - of investment. ![]() In its stead, industrial strategy has returned. In a (decidedly and perilously China-hawkish) Brookings Institution speech last month, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan declared the end of the Washington Consensus, which had rested on the “embedded assumption” that markets invest productively and efficiently “no matter what.” Decades of economic policy informed by this delusion - per Sullivan - have eroded infrastructural and productive capacity, driven financialisation, stagnation and inequality, and failed to (even begin to) deliver decarbonisation. The Biden Administration has taken to waging rhetorical war on the primacy of market-led capital allocation. ![]() |