Private State

A thrilling, eye opening investigation into private equity, a secretive wing of the finance industry that is so relentlessly destructive, it could potentially undermine our way of life. For decades, private equity firms have infiltrated every corner of modern life. Wielding debt as a weapon...

In this sharp and controversial international best seller, an award-winning economist debunks the pervasive myth that the government is sluggish and inept, and at odds with a dynamic private sector. She reveals in detailed case studies that the opposite is true: The state is, and has been, our boldest and most valuable innovator. Denying this history is leading us down the wrong path. A select few get credit for what is an intensely collective effort, and the US government has started disinvesting from innovation.

The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State is an 1884 treatise by Friedrich Engels. The work is partially based on notes by Karl Marx to Lewis H. Morgan's book Ancient Society and is regarded as one of the first major works on family economics. Engels argued that the traditional monogamous household was a recent construct, closely bound up with capitalism. He called it a patriarchal system in which women were servants and claimed that communism would herald the dawn of communal living and a new sexual freedom. The role of the state would then become superfluous.

Your 20% Deduction Disappears As Your Practice Grows. No Structure Brings It Back. Tax Year 2026 Filing Season 2027 Health is on the excluded list, and therapy is health. Below $201,750 of taxable income you get the full 20% qualified business income deduction. Above $276,750 you get nothing — and unlike every other profession, W-2 wages, owned property and an S corporation are all powerless to save it. But one thing does work, and it works unusually well. A therapist at $258,000 of profit who contributes $25,256 to a retirement plan saves $10,920 in tax — 43% of the contribution, ...

Christina Delaine's spot-on performance ensures that Box's story and dialogue are as entertaining as ever." —AudioFile on C.J. Box's The Bitterroots #1 New York Times bestselling author C. J. Box's Treasure State finds Cassie Dewell in Montana on the trail of a con man. Private Investigator...

The apparatus has a runway. It does not have a throne. Revelation 13:17 names the mechanism the terminal generation walks into: a three-fold apparatus of mark, name, and number. Identity, allegiance, and movement, deploying together as one operational trinity across every register of covenantal human life. That three-fold spine extends into seven Legs of enclosure: The Panopticon: digital identity as the foundation stone of the Beast System The Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC): the Babylonian magic money that ends transactional freedom The 15-Minute City: the enclosure of movement ...

In the Deep South, guilt isn’t proven. It’s inherited. When Montgomery defense attorney Ryan Ashcroft heads an hour down the highway to Marlow, Alabama, he believes he’s taking another pro bono case: a young landscaper accused of murdering the county’s hometown hero. But inside Marlow’s courthouse, justice isn’t blind. It’s bought. The sheriff runs the county like a family business. The judge is on the take. The prosecutor has already been paid. The deeper Ashcroft digs, the clearer it becomes that Jaylan Washington isn’t on trial for murder. He’s the cover-up. As storms ...

Steve Coll investigates the largest and most powerful private corporation in the United States, revealing the true extent of its power. ExxonMobil’s annual revenues are larger than the economic activity in the great majority of countries. In many of the countries where it conducts business...

For the first time ever, the intimate thoughts and political decisions of Abraham Lincoln’s entire presidency - day by day. In a startlingly innovative format, journalist Stephen A. Wynalda has constructed a painstakingly detailed day-by-day breakdown of president Abraham Lincoln’s decisions in office - including his signing of the Homestead Act on May 20, 1862; his signing of the legislation enacting the first federal income tax on August 5, 1861; and more personal incidents like the day his 11-year-old son, Willie, died.

This lawful-living guidebook gives you a complete roadmap to reclaim your God-given right to travel freely — without fear, contracts, or commercial entanglement. Written by Steve Bardi, Kenneth Plaster, Ashley Rocks, and Gwendolyn Morris, this educational handbook empowers you to understand the lawful foundations of status correction, constitutional liberty, and peaceful interaction with law enforcement. When you open How to Travel in the Private, you’ll discover a step-by-step awakening into what it truly means to move as a Living Man or Woman — not a corporate fiction bound by codes...

This program is read by the author. From the detective who found the Golden State Killer, a memoir of investigating America’s toughest cold cases and the rewards–and toll–of a life solving crime. I order another bourbon, neat. This is the drink that will flip the switch. I don’t even...

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Entrepreneurial State by Mariana Mazzucato, read by Amy Finegan. According to conventional wisdom, innovation is best left to the dynamic entrepreneurs of the private sector, and government should get out of the way. But what if all this was wrong?...

Like the Rockefellers and the Kennedys, the Kochs are one of the most influential dynasties of the modern age, but they have never been the subject of a major biography -- until now. Not long after the death of his father, Charles Koch, then in his early 30s, discovered a letter the family...

The residents of Alaska's largest national park are stunned by the death of one of their oldest members, eighty-seven-year-old Old Sam Dementieff…Even private investigator Kate Shugak. Sam, a lifelong resident, dubbed the "father" of all of the Park rats—even though he had no children of his...

'Francis is doing for teaching what This is Going to Hurt did for medicine. Brutal, honest and laugh-out-loud funny.' Jimmy Carr 'A great subject covered by a guy unafraid to tell it like it is' Geoff Norcott The class weren't laughing with me, they were laughing at me and there is no lonelier...

New York Times bestseller Dana Stabenow returns with her most outstanding novel yet, teaming up two of her most beloved characters, Aleut private investigator Kate Shugak and Alaska state trooper Liam Campbell, in the same story for the first time. Alaska aviation entrepreneur Finn Grant died in...

A festive fairground becomes an unexpected backdrop for a grade A murder in a deliciously funny mystery by Edgar Award–nominated author Jess Lourey. The Minnesota State Fair wows again with 4-H exhibits, rides, a Neil Diamond concert, and deep-fried everything on a stick. Covering it is a...

Friedrich Engels (1820-1895) was a German businessman, journalist philosopher, historian, political scientist, and revolutionary socialist. Engels developed Marxism together with Karl Marx. In 1848, Engels coauthored The Communist Manifesto (originally the Manifesto of the Communist Party) with Marx.

New York Times bestselling author Dana Stabenow's latest, Bad Blood, finds Kate Shugak entangled in a bitter tribal rivalry and murder In Alaska, one hundred years of bad blood between the villages of Kushtaka and Kuskulana come to a boil when the body of a young Kushtaka ne'er-do-well is found...

This lecture took place in the largest auditorium of the Moscow State University (named after M. V. Lomonosov). This special event was organized for the staff of the university. It was likely the classified nature of Buteyko’s research during the 1960s (for first Soviet spaceship missions or Soviet Cosmos) and exclusiveness of his discoveries that predetermined the organization of this lecture. Hence, it was definitely a very large and significant event for the scientific staff of the Moscow State University, the most famous and prestigious university of the USSR.