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William Taggart has over thirty years as a professional engineer in industry. He has travelled the world, building some of industry’s biggest projects and solving some of their thorniest problems. Now, he has applied analytical skills developed in industry, coupled with his natural inquisitiveness and thirst for creative solutions, to the problems of modern-day American politics. Seeking answers to questions many of us have been asking, he has focused his keen mind on researching these, and other big issues. He invites everyone to think about what America really needs.

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Fixing America: An Engineer’s Solution to Our Social, Cultural, and Political Problems

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The Counterfactual Baseline case (formerly known as the Reference case) represents how U.S. and world energy markets would operate through 2050 under laws an

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Post Captain (Aubrey & Maturin, #2)

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Between Two Worlds

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