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Provocative First Amendment ConflictsIn Politics, Taxes, and the Pulpit, Nina J. Crimm and Laurence H. Winer examine the provocative mix of religion, politics, and taxes involved in the controversy over houses of worship engaging in electoral political speech. The authors analyze the dilemmas associated with federal tax subsidies benefiting...

Power, Resistance, and the InternetDigital Dilemmas looks at the dynamics of power and resistance surrounding the internet. It focuses on how publics, nation-states, and multilateral institutions are being continually reinvented in local and global decision-making domains that are accessed and controlled by a relative few. Importantly it unpacks...

The Rise and Decline of the Pharmaceutical IndustryExamines the cases of several historic and high-profile drugs in order to discuss the future of the pharmaceutical industry....

What Everyone Needs to KnowRGJapan is one of the world&'s wealthiest and most technologically advanced nations, and its rapid ascent to global power status after 1853 remains one of the most remarkable stories in modern world history. Yet it has not been an easy path; military catastrophe, political atrophy, and economic upheavals have made regular...

Construction TheoremsA theft amounting to AGBP1 was a capital offence in 1260 and a judge in 1610 affirmed the law could not then be applied since AGBP1 was no longer what it was. Such association of money with a date is well recognized for its importance in very many connections. Thus arises the need to know how to convert an amount at one date...

Policy, Planning, and DeploymentThe Transportation Experience explores the historical evolution of transportation modes and technologies. The book traces how systems are innovated, planned and adapted, deployed and expanded, and reach maturity, where they may either be maintained in a polished obsolesce often propped up by subsidies, be displaced...