Conservative icon Steve Forbes returns with his most powerful and provocative ideas yet
The United States has been through one of the most tumultuous decades in recent history. Polls show people on both sides of the ideological divide believe that the country has gone off track. If something isn’t done quickly, Americans face a bleak future—continuing decline and disarray in a world that grows ever more dangerous.
Steve Forbes, two-time candidate for the GOP presidential nomination and Forbes Media Chairman, explains how today’s malaise has been caused by years of Obama’s destructive policies, a broken tax system, and the Federal Reserve’s Soviet-style controls over credit and money.
The problems are challenging. But Forbes tells us that, with the right policies, the country can bounce back faster than people think. In this compelling and much-needed book, he sets forth a three-part plan to revive America.
Patient-Driven Healthcare: The problem with healthcare, Forbes says, is that Big Government, health insurance companies, and employers are in control, not you, the patient. The key to getting high-quality, affordable healthcare is increasing competition and choice, and putting patients in charge.
Enact a Flat Tax: Today’s complex, corrupt tax code must be scrapped. The best answer is a simple Flat Tax. Forbes shows how this very bold reform would free America from the IRS and unleash an unprecedented wave of prosperity.
A Sound Dollar as Good as Gold: With its ever-fluctuating “fiat” dollar, the Federal Reserve has blocked a real recovery and is the prime cause of today’s stagnant, crisis-ridden economy. The answer? Take the dollar out of the hands of the Washington politicians by returning to a monetary system with the value of the dollar linked to gold.
A clear and vital guide, Reviving America shows how the United States can recover the optimism and entrepreneurial dynamism that made it the greatest nation in history. These are 21st century solutions—not the failed ideas of the recent past. Forbes offers specific ideas and plans, not generalities and bromides, and is challenging policy makers to do the same.
Steve Forbes is the coauthor of Money, the New York Times bestseller Power Ambition Glory, and the Wall Street Journal bestseller How Capitalism Will Save Us. Forbes is the Chairman and Editor-in-Chief of Forbes Media, which published Forbes magazine, with a circulation of nearly 1 million readers. Combined with Forbes Asia and Forbes Europe, and the company’s licensee editions, the magazine reaches close to 6 million global readers. Forbes.com reaches almost 70 million unique monthly visitors.
Elizabeth Ames has co-authored three previous books with Steve Forbes: Money: How The Destruction of the Dollar Threatens The Global Economy—And What We Can Do About It; Freedom Manifesto: Why Free Markets Are Moral and Big Government Isn’t; and the Wall Street Journal bestseller, How Capitalism Will Save Us: Why Free People and Free Markets Are The Best Answer In Today’s Economy.
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Author: Steve Forbes; Elizabeth Ames Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education ISBN: 9781259641138 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: December 2015 224 pages
How to minimise your tax debt and maximise your return from one of Australia’s leading tax experts Everyone has to pay tax, but why should you ever pay more than you owe? Don’t let the government take more hard-earned dollars than it’s entitled to. Without even knowing it, you could be giving away hundreds, even thousands! In this year’s edition of 101 Ways to Save on Your Tax-Legally!, Adrian Raftery, also known as Mr. Taxman, gives you proven tips to help you minimise your tax debt while maximising your return. No matter how old you are or how much you earn, you can keep more of your money with vital tax deductions related to family, employment and education, investments, superannuation, small business, and much more.
Written by one of Australia’s leading tax and finance experts
Comprehensively updated for the 2013 – 2014 tax year
Packed with moneysaving tax tips and answers to frequently asked questions
With Mr. Taxman’s expert tips and bonus resources, you’ll be able to better manage your tax issues 365 days a year and save a bundle at tax time!
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Author: Adrian Raftery Publisher: Wiley ISBN: 9781118621882 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: May 2013 340 pages
An in-depth and fascinating study of one of Hollywood’s most popular icons – fully updated and including previously unreleased pictures.
Doris Day is almost always portrayed as the sunny, squeaky-clean girl next door. This wholesome image kept her at the top for twenty-four years and thirty-nine films.
But behind the effervescent, ever-cheerful image that Doris Day portrayed through dozens of classic Hollywood movies was an extraordinary story of private pain. Her dazzling smile hid a tormented personal life that included four marriages, and a terrifying accident that nearly ended her life. And yet for generations of movie-goers Doris Day remained the embodiment of innocent beauty and apple-pie homeliness, and even today she exerts a powerful fascination for millions of fans around the world.
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Author: Eric Braun Publisher: Orion ISBN: 9781409105695 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: December 2010 240 pages
Molybdenum (Mo) deficiencies in field-grown plants were first recorded more than 50 years ago and this book condenses all the information currently available on the subject of molybdenum as it relates to soils, crops and livestock. The book reviews our knowledge of the chemistry and mineralogy of Mo, the extraction of available Mo from various soils, the various analytical methods of determining Mo in soils and plants, the biochemical role of Mo in crop production, the technology and application of Mo fertilizers to crops, the response to Mo of various temperate and tropical crops, Mo deficiency and toxicity in various plant species, the interaction of Mo with other plant nutrients, and the distribution of Mo within the plant. Factors affecting the availability of soil Mo to plants and Mo status in the semi-arid and sub-humid tropics are also discussed.
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Author: Umesh C. Gupta Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9780511822582 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: February 1997 288 pages
Viewing a variety of narratives through the lens of inebriation imagery, this book explores how such imagery emerges in colonial Peru as articulator of notions of the self and difference, resulting in a new social hierarchy and exploitation. Reading Inebriation evaluates the discursive and geo-political relevance of representations of drinking and drunkenness in the crucial period for the consolidation of colonial power in the Viceroyalty of Peru, and the resisting rhetoric of a Hispanicized native Andean writer interested in changing stereotypes, fighting inequality, and promoting tolerance at imperial level in one of the main centers of Spanish colonial economic activity in the Americas. In recognizing and addressing this imagery, Mónica Morales restores an element of colonial discourse that hitherto has been overlooked in the critical readings dealing with the history of sixteenth and early seventeenth-century Andes. She presents drinking as the metaphorical site where Western culture and the New World collide and define themselves on the grounds of differing drinking rituals and ideas of moderation and excess. Narratives such as dictionaries, legal documents, conversion manuals, historical writings, literary accounts, and chronicles frame her context of analysis.
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Author: Mónica P. Morales Publisher: Taylor and Francis ISBN: 9781317071143 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: April 2016 156 pages
18th International Conference, Genoa, Italy, September 7-11, 2015, Proceedings, Part II
The two-volume set LNCS 9279 and 9280 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing, ICIAP 2015, held in Genoa, Italy, in September 2015. The 129 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 231 submissions. The papers are organized in the following seven topical sections: video analysis and understanding, multiview geometry and 3D computer vision, pattern recognition and machine learning, image analysis, detection and recognition, shape analysis and modeling, multimedia, and biomedical applications.
Author: Vittorio Murino; Enrico Puppo Publisher: Springer International Publishing ISBN: 9783319232348 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: August 2015 760 pages
Charities, Civil Society and the Voluntary Sector since 1945
The ‘Big Society’, announced by the Cameron government in 2010, has changed the way we talk about the voluntary sector, charities, NGOs, civil society, or the third sector. The names might be different, but the accompanying debate remains the same. It revolves around a series of questions that have been discussed for decades: what is the relationship between the governmental and the non-governmental sectors? What is the overall contribution of voluntarism to society? How has it changed over time? Have citizens become more apathetic, and are they less likely to ‘join’ in? What motivates citizens to unite and work together in organisations? This volume will give the reader a greater and more informed historical consciousness of how the NGO sector has grown and influenced.
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Author: Matthew Hilton; Nick Crowson; Jean-François Mouhot; James McKay Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan ISBN: 9781137029027 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: July 2012 428 pages
Master performance enhancement practices for Docker, and unlock faster and more efficient container deployment that will improve your development workflow
About This Book
Implement a scalable Docker infrastructure that has been optimized for greater efficiency
Tackle the challenges of large-scale container deployment with this fast-paced guide
Extend your capabilities as a developer to take full advantage of Docker and containerization
Who This Book Is For
If you are a software developer with a good understanding of managing Docker services and the Linux file system and are looking for ways to optimize working with Docker containers, then this is the book for you.
What You Will Learn
Tune your Dockerfiles and optimize the performance and size of your Docker containers
Configure and tune your Docker hosts at scale with Chef
Deploy containers without downtime using load balancers
Listen to your Docker container and host logs with an ELK stack
Monitor the performance of your Docker containers with collectd
Benchmark the performance of your web application containers with Apache JMeter
Troubleshoot and diagnose containers using standard Linux diagnostic tools
Prepare for production with the most effective DevOps practices
In Detail
Docker is a portable container format that allows you to run code anywhere from your desktop to the cloud. The workflow around Docker makes development, testing, and deployment much easier and much faster. However, it’s essential that you know the best practices most techniques for optimization so Docker can help you deploy your application most effectively.
This comprehensive guide will improve your Docker workflows and will ensure your application’s production environment runs smoothly. It starts with a short refresher on working with Docker, then you will learn how to take this basic knowledge to the next level by optimizing your Docker infrastructure and applications at scale. At the end of the book, we will put the concepts and everything you have learned about Docker’s features into practice by rolling out supplementary monitoring and troubleshooting instrumentation to your infrastructure. All of these things will ensure your application succeeds using Docker.
Style and approach
This is a comprehensive guide on real-world Docker workflows, and each topic is explained in an easy step-by-step format, accompanied by screenshots where required.
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Author: Allan Espinosa Publisher: Packt Publishing ISBN: 9781785888328 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release:
IT’S TIME TO GIVE THOSE SKINNY B!TCHES A RUN FOR THEIR MONEY
‘You’ll be up and running in no time at all’ Grazia
Is there a large arse-shaped dent in your sofa? An eye-wateringly expensive (and rarely used) gym membership burning a hole in your bank account? Does the sight of your wobbly thighs leave you cowering under the duvet?
Then it’s time you face the truth: the only option is to lace up your trainers and hit the ground running.
Funny and brutally honest, Ruth Field and her straight-talking alter-ego The Grit Doctor will give you – yes, you – the push you need to start pounding the pavements and shedding pounds in no time.
*Locate your inner grit and long-lost energy with a completely foolproof beginners’ programme
*Enjoy carbs without guilt with The Grit Doctor’s tasty and nutritious recipes
*Now includes marathon training plan to transform you from casual jogger to elite(ish) athlete
If you want to lose weight, get fit and become and ass-kicking, gets-things-done superwoman, there’s only one thing left to do . . . RUN!
‘Ruth is an inspiring running buddy’ Daily Express
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Author: Ruth Field Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group ISBN: 9780748131754 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: January 2012 288 pages
