Nation Building Economy

From Ancient Egypt, Greece and the Roman Empire to the Modern World: Unraveling Human History

With a nation seemingly more divided than ever, many worry that Americans risk losing ground on solving the complex, interrelated problems the country faces - including rising inequality, the specter of climate change, astronomical health care costs, and economic stagnation. The renowned economist Jeffrey D. Sachs offers a practical approach to move America toward a new consensus: sustainable development.

This book explores the sociocultural fallout of twentieth-century America's premier technoscientific project–the atomic bomb. Joseph Masco offers the first anthropological study of the long-term consequences of the Manhattan Project for the people that live in and around Los Alamos, New Mexico, where the first atomic bomb, and the majority of weapons in the current U.S. nuclear arsenal, were designed.

Europa Universalis II is an empire-building, computer strategy game, based on European and world history and spanning a timeline between 1419 through 1820. In the game, the player controls a single nation across many centuries, managing their nation's economy, military, political alliances, scientific development, exploration and colonization, religious affairs, and internal stability. In addition, yearly random events as well as hundreds of pre-scripted events based on historical events make for a great deal of gameplay challenge and variety. EU2 differs from many similar, turn-based strategy games in that time flows continuously during gameplay, rather than taking place in discreet turns. The player can always pause the action to ponder the situation and give orders, then speed up or slow down time to let events take their course.

Includes English Essay Papers, General Studies 1 and General Studies 2