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The Idea of America

In their new book, visionaries Pierre Lemieux and William Bonner invite readers to reexamine long accepted notions of what America is and what it means to be an American. Lemieux and Bonner carefully chose each of the written works included in the striking anthology to spark imagination, thought, and debate. Each of the selections–some well-known …

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Gun Saint

In 1860, St. Gabriel Possenti rescued the villagers of Isola,Italy from a gang of terrorists with a striking, one-shot, lizard-slaying demonstration of handgun marksmanship. St. Gabriel Possenti died two years later. In 1920, Pope Benedict XV canonized him in Rome. This volume relates the story of St. Gabriel Possenti and of the author’s campaign to …

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Banco Central o caja de conversión.

(Publication Date: 1991) Hanke, profesor de la Universidad John Hopkins de Baltimore y Schuler, dedicado a temas monetarios en la UniversidadGeorge Mason, proponen para Argentina el reemplazo del Banco Central por una caja de conversión que mantiene el tipo de cambio fijo. Prólogo: Vivanco.

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