Authors:John Birkler, Brien Alkire, Robert W. Button, Gor
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: guard, coast
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2004
ISBN-10: 0833035150
ISBN-13: 9780833035158

In November 2002, the United States Coast Guard (USCG) commissioned RAND to assess its Deepwater program, an effort the USCG is undertaking to slowly, but steadily replace or modernize nearly 100 aging cutters and more than 200 aircraft. Known more formally as the Integrated Deepwater System program, this endeavor aims to equip the USCG with state-of-the-art cutters, aircraft, helicopters, and unmanned air vehicles at an annual cost of about $500 million in fiscal year 1998 dollars, and to be completed in approximately 20 years. All of its activities will be orchestrated through an integrated

Author: David M. Marchick Alan P. Larso
Publisher: Council on Foreign Relatio
Keywords: schwartz, irene, series, american, competitiveness, bernard, right, national, investment, security, getting, balance, foreign
Number of Pages: 48
Published: 2007-12-14
ISBN-10: 0876093640
ISBN-13: 9780876093641

The Dubai Ports World controversy has shed light on the tensions between Congress and the executive branch over the appropriate balance between foreign investment and national security. In the past few months, members of Congress have met with international companies, homeland security experts, and administration officials to better understand the process of reviewing security concerns associated with foreign investment in the United States. Congress is intent on changing the process and becoming more involved; the challenge ahead is to reform the process in order to minimize the security risk

Authors:Kevin Godby, Trent Grover, Elena Maximova, Michae
Publisher: godbyk
Keywords: users, happy, shiny
Number of Pages: 251
Published: 2007-01-01
eBookDB-ID: B002ACMPF4

Shiny Happy Users is a collection of short essays that explore issues surrounding the design, development, and testing of user interfaces. These essays were produced by the participants in the graduate course entitled Scientific Methods of Human Computer Interaction offered in spring 2007 as a part of the Human Computer Interaction Program at Iowa State University. This book is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. CONTENTSPreface ixAcknowledgments xiiiAcronyms xivi typhoon: a fable 11 Another Pets.com 3ii do a usability test now 52 Usability

Author: Daniel Pipe
Publisher: Transaction Publisher
Keywords: eastern, politics, middle, islamic, views, miniatures
Number of Pages: 278
Published: 2003-11-11
ISBN-10: 0765802155
ISBN-13: 9780765802156

The volatility of Muslim and Middle Eastern politics has made these interrelated topics an overriding preoccupation of world and especially US politics. Perhaps no region of the world has ever so dominated the American public discourse as the Middle East does today. As Daniel Pipes shows, this results mainly, but not exclusively, from the attacks of September 11, 2001 and the ensuing war on terrorism. Other sources of trouble include militant Islam, Muslims in the West, the Arab-Israeli conflict, the Iraq situation, relations with Saudi Arabia, the price of oil and gas, and US policy toward al

Author: Murray N. Rothbard
Publisher: Ludwig von Mises Institute
Keywords: memos, murray, rothbard, fund, volker, confidential, private, strictly
Number of Pages: 430
Published: 2010-08-10
ISBN-10: 1933550805
ISBN-13: 9781933550800

The Private Volker Fund Memos of Murray N. Rothbard The hugely influential memos by Murray Rothbard, written in the 1950s and early 1960s, were kept under wraps for fifty years. They were commissioned by the William Volker Fund and concerned most every important thinker and book of the period. Through them, Rothbard provided guidance for the publishing and philanthropic efforts of the Fund itself, which was the main flame for liberty in these dark times. Rothbard’s writing is deeply insightful, brazenly honest, and penetrating in every way, as he treats every subject from strategy to h

Author: George Lakoff
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Keywords: values, vision, american, communicating, points, thinking
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2006-10-03
ISBN-10: 0374530904
ISBN-13: 9780374530907

Two years ago George Lakoff published the bestselling Don’t Think of an Elephant! Its account of the conservative monopoly on effective framing touched off a national discussion about political language. It also gave rise to a chorus of pleas for more: * What is the progressive vision of America; * Why progressive values are America’s values; * How frames are necessary to serve the truth; * Why sloganeering alone doesn’t work; * How progressives trap themselves and how they can escape those traps; and * How political arguments and narratives can be put together to counter the

Authors:Will Marshall, Mark Ribbing,
Publisher: Progressive Policy Insitute
Keywords: president, new, memos
Number of Pages: 233
Published: 2010-06-01
eBookDB-ID: B001R6L38E

Foreword Will Marshall and Mark Ribbing Mr. President, your election was a testament to our country’s amazing capacities for self-correction and reinvention. Those national qualities have manifested themselves not a moment too soon. With our country mired in war and a worsening economic crisis, Americans across the political spectrum sense that hyperpartisan grandstanding is a luxury they can no longer afford. They seek a new era of competence and comity, in which our people reach across old divides to find new solutions to the urgent challenges of our time. The purpose of this boo