high-speed rail
description: type of rail network utilizing trains that run significantly faster than those of traditional rail
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Frommer's Memorable Walks in San Francisco
by Erika Lenkert · 15 Mar 2003 · 188pp · 57,229 words
to get uptown and downtown without any hassle. BY BART BART, an acronym for Bay Area Rapid Transit (% 415/989-2278), is a futuristic-looking, high-speed rail network that connects San Francisco with the East Bay— Oakland, Richmond, Concord, and Fremont. Four stations are located along Market Street (see “By Metro Streetcar
The Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality
by Bhaskar Sunkara · 1 Feb 2019 · 324pp · 86,056 words
goods tax mentioned earlier. The funds are invested into the economy in a variety of ways. National planning projects—like renovating the energy grid or high-speed rail networks—are the first priority. What’s left is given to regions on a per capita basis. Under capitalism, people were forced to abandon cities
Red Roulette: An Insider's Story of Wealth, Power, Corruption, and Vengeance in Today's China
by Desmond Shum · 6 Sep 2021 · 277pp · 85,191 words
aristocrats got access to monopoly businesses. An example would be the contract to provide a kind of mineral water, called Tibet 5100, on China’s high-speed rail network. That reportedly was landed by relatives of Deng Xiaoping, who paid next to nothing for the rights to bottle the water in Tibet. From
The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood
by Rashid Khalidi · 31 Aug 2006 · 357pp · 112,950 words
. Bush had just recognized as irreversible realities. “Contiguity” would be assured by linkages between separate isolated Palestinian cantons via tunnels and bridges, and perhaps a high-speed rail link.52 The net effect of such a policy might be to enable Israel to settle in and annex the choicest sections of the West
Four Futures: Life After Capitalism
by Peter Frase · 10 Mar 2015 · 121pp · 36,908 words
: “a rural ecosystem complete with post offices, well-tended roads, highly subsidized cows, and handsome villages.”15 All connected to the cities, presumably, by clean high-speed rail. The list of reconstruction needs goes on: adapting coastal areas to increased flooding, for example, a process that is already underway as Dutch engineers bring
American Marxism
by Mark R. Levin · 12 Jul 2021 · 314pp · 88,524 words
much as is technologically feasible, including through investment in— (i) zero-emission vehicle infrastructure and manufacturing; (ii) clean, affordable, and accessible public transportation; and (iii) high-speed rail; (I) mitigating and managing the long-term adverse health, economic, and other effects of pollution and climate change, including by providing funding for community-defined
The Centrist Manifesto
by Charles Wheelan · 18 Apr 2013 · 104pp · 30,990 words
—let alone expand things that will be necessary to support the world’s most vibrant economy over the next century, such as airport capacity and high-speed rail.4 As the British news magazine The Economist noted recently in a report on America’s transport infrastructure, “America, despite its wealth and strength, often
Finding Zero: A Mathematician's Odyssey to Uncover the Origins of Numbers
by Amir D. Aczel · 6 Jan 2015 · 204pp · 60,319 words
airport, still nearly empty despite the growing demand from tourists. People were talking about a new airport to be built, and the construction of a high-speed rail line from China in the north. Once these two projects were completed, the town of Luang Prabang would be full of Chinese and other tourists
Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People?
by Thomas Frank · 15 Mar 2016 · 316pp · 87,486 words
consultants and entrepreneurs. The Big Stimulus also contained many good things: subsidies for clean-energy projects, a push to update medical record-keeping, billions for high-speed rail projects, and support for a long list of state and local construction schemes—the famous “shovel ready” projects about which everyone was talking in 2009
Occupy
by Noam Chomsky · 2 Jan 1994 · 75pp · 22,220 words
make it more surreal, while this option was being avoided, the Obama administration was sending its transportation secretary to Spain to get contracts for developing high-speed rail for the United States, which could have been done right in the rust belt, which is being closed down. There are no economic reasons why
Because We Say So
by Noam Chomsky
Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy
by Quinn Slobodian · 4 Apr 2023 · 360pp · 107,124 words
The Wealth Dragon Way: The Why, the When and the How to Become Infinitely Wealthy
by John Lee · 13 Apr 2015 · 202pp · 72,857 words
Big Capital: Who Is London For?
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Lonely Planet's 2016 Best in Travel
by Lonely Planet · 30 Sep 2015 · 190pp · 50,133 words
Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age
by Vauhini Vara · 8 Apr 2025 · 301pp · 105,209 words
China's Good War
by Rana Mitter
Were You Born on the Wrong Continent?
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City 2.0: The Habitat of the Future and How to Get There
by Ted Books · 20 Feb 2013 · 83pp · 23,805 words
So Me
by Graham Norton · 2 Jan 2005 · 269pp · 95,221 words
One Billion Americans: The Case for Thinking Bigger
by Matthew Yglesias · 14 Sep 2020
Power Systems: Conversations on Global Democratic Uprisings and the New Challenges to U.S. Empire
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End This Depression Now!
by Paul Krugman · 30 Apr 2012 · 267pp · 71,123 words
Dangerous Ideas: A Brief History of Censorship in the West, From the Ancients to Fake News
by Eric Berkowitz · 3 May 2021 · 412pp · 115,048 words
How to Be Black
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The Return of Marco Polo's World: War, Strategy, and American Interests in the Twenty-First Century
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China's Future
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by Rahm Emanuel · 25 Feb 2020 · 212pp · 69,846 words
Sparks: China's Underground Historians and Their Battle for the Future
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The Alpha Masters: Unlocking the Genius of the World's Top Hedge Funds
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Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right
by Jane Mayer · 19 Jan 2016 · 558pp · 168,179 words
The Terraformers
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Boom and Bust: A Global History of Financial Bubbles
by William Quinn and John D. Turner · 5 Aug 2020 · 297pp · 108,353 words
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by Robert B. Reich · 21 Sep 2010 · 147pp · 45,890 words
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by Robert H. Frank · 31 Mar 2016 · 190pp · 53,409 words
How to Run the World: Charting a Course to the Next Renaissance
by Parag Khanna · 11 Jan 2011 · 251pp · 76,868 words
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The Data Detective: Ten Easy Rules to Make Sense of Statistics
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Chokepoint Capitalism
by Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow · 26 Sep 2022 · 396pp · 113,613 words
Politics on the Edge: The Instant #1 Sunday Times Bestseller From the Host of Hit Podcast the Rest Is Politics
by Rory Stewart · 13 Sep 2023 · 534pp · 157,700 words
Lonely Planet's Best in Travel 2020
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The Enlightened Capitalists
by James O'Toole · 29 Dec 2018 · 716pp · 192,143 words
Lonely Planet Lonely Planet's Best in Travel 2022
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The Impossible City: A Hong Kong Memoir
by Karen Cheung · 15 Feb 2022 · 297pp · 96,945 words
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by Katherine S. Newman and Hella Winston · 18 Apr 2016 · 338pp · 92,465 words
Seriously Curious: The Facts and Figures That Turn Our World Upside Down
by Tom Standage · 27 Nov 2018 · 215pp · 59,188 words
Why We Can't Afford the Rich
by Andrew Sayer · 6 Nov 2014 · 504pp · 143,303 words
The Growth Delusion: Wealth, Poverty, and the Well-Being of Nations
by David Pilling · 30 Jan 2018 · 264pp · 76,643 words
The Rise of the Outsiders: How Mainstream Politics Lost Its Way
by Steve Richards · 14 Jun 2017 · 323pp · 95,492 words
Upstream: The Quest to Solve Problems Before They Happen
by Dan Heath · 3 Mar 2020
Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology
by Anu Bradford · 25 Sep 2023 · 898pp · 236,779 words
The Raging 2020s: Companies, Countries, People - and the Fight for Our Future
by Alec Ross · 13 Sep 2021 · 363pp · 109,077 words
The Rough Guide to Sweden (Travel Guide eBook)
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Servant Economy: Where America's Elite Is Sending the Middle Class
by Jeff Faux · 16 May 2012 · 364pp · 99,613 words
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The English
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by Nicholas A. Christakis · 27 Oct 2020 · 475pp · 127,389 words
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by Matthew C. Klein · 18 May 2020 · 339pp · 95,270 words
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The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty
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Makers at Work: Folks Reinventing the World One Object or Idea at a Time
by Steven Osborn · 17 Sep 2013 · 310pp · 34,482 words
Failures of State: The Inside Story of Britain's Battle With Coronavirus
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Fall Out: A Year of Political Mayhem
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Future Perfect: The Case for Progress in a Networked Age
by Steven Johnson · 14 Jul 2012 · 184pp · 53,625 words
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by David Mitchell · 4 Nov 2014 · 354pp · 99,690 words
Israel & the Palestinian Territories Travel Guide
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Greater: Britain After the Storm
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Reset
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Elon Musk: A Mission to Save the World
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The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity
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The Age of Stagnation: Why Perpetual Growth Is Unattainable and the Global Economy Is in Peril
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