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Cover of Political Incompetence: What's Wrong With Our System and How To Fix It
by Olin Bray
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012

Our political system is in trouble. Myths and opinions often override facts, data, and analysis in determining policy and elections. This book identifies one of our problems, political incompetence in both the electorate and officials. It identifies critical political competence skills, such as political...
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Cultural Policy and Industries of Identity

Québec, Scotland, & Catalonia

by Devin Beauregard
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2018

This book explores the cultural policies of sub-states with strong nationalist inclinations–in particular, Québec, Scotland, and Catalonia–and their trend, in recent years, towards promoting and supporting the cultural industries as a means of not just preserving their respective cultural identities,...
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Coming to Terms

The Collected Works of Jane Blankenship

by Jane Blankenship, Barbara Sweeney, Don Paul Abbott
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2011

Coming to Terms: The Collected Works of Jane Blankenship, an edited collection from Jane Blankenship and Janette Kenner Muir, is the story of one academic journey through self-discovery, intellectual development, and mentorship. It is a conversation that illustrates how, in Mary Catherine Bateson’s...
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Resisting Injustice and the Feminist Ethics of Care in the Age of Obama

“Suddenly,…All the Truth Was Coming Out”

by David A.J. Richards
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014

David A. J. Richards’s Resisting Injustice and The Feminist Ethics of Care in The Age of Obama: "Suddenly,…All The Truth Was Coming Out" builds on his and Carol Gilligan’s The Deepening Darkness to examine the roots of the resistance movements of the 1960s, the political psychology...
Cover of Understanding American Identity: An Introduction - Comparison with Roman and Soviet Identity, Role of Patriotism, Nationalism, Separable Identities, National Service, Civic Education, and Technology
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2018

This important December 2017 report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. Why are Americans' identity narratives important for national security? This thesis utilizes a qualitative approach to analyze American identity narratives in U.S. history...
Cover of Alabama Politics in the Twenty-First Century
by William H. Stewart
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016

Why does Alabama rank so low on many of the indicators of quality of life? Why did some of the most dramatic developments in the civil rights revolution of the 1960s take place in Alabama? Why is it that a few interest groups seem to have the most political power in Alabama? William H. Stewart’s...
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The Principality of Wales in the Later Middle Ages

The Structure and Personnel of Government: South Wales 1277-1536

by Ralph A. Griffiths
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018

This is a study of royal government in the southern counties of the principality of Wales between the beginning of Edward I’s conquest in 1277 and Henry VIII’s ‘act of Union’. This reprinted edition of the book, first published in 1972, includes a new introduction to incorporate recent writings...
Cover of Los Estados Unidos y la PROMESA para Puerto Rico: un análisis de la Ley para la Supervisión, Administración y Estabilidad Económica de Puerto Rico
by Maria de los Angeles Trigo
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017

Su guía para entender por qué la junta de control existe y cuáles serán sus prioridades al gobernar a Puerto Rico ¿CUÁL FUE LA PROMESA? Bajo la PROMESA, a pesar de que los puertorriqueños elegiremos al Gobernador y a los miembros de la Asamblea Legislativa, las leyes, reglamentos,...
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Administrative Law and Politics

Cases and Comments

by Christine B. Harrington, Lief H. Carter
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014

In the Fifth Edition of Administrative Law and Politics, authors Christine B. Harrington and Leif H. Carter show the scope and power of administrative government and demonstrate how the legal system shapes administrative procedure and practice. Using accessible language and examples, the casebook...
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Santé humaine

Création d'un laboratoire

by xavier jaffré
Language: French
Release Date: March 12, 2014

Vers un allongement illimité de la durée de la vie: -Le retard de l'intelligence artificielle -Création d'un laboratoire Il n'est pas sacrilège de parler d'immortalité humaine en raison des progrès des sciences et de l'ingénierie robotique. Tout ou presque se trouve...
Cover of Smaller is Better
by John McCutcheon
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2018

This is my take on how we can make the world a better place to live. Much of the 20th and 21st Century has been about "Bigger is Better" or "Get Big or Get Out". All well and good for the top 5% but how has it worked out at the grassroots level. My book "Smaller is...
Cover of Reflecting Malcom X :Wordings of the Detroit Red
by Sreechinth C
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2019

Malcom X the activist and outspoken public voice of the Black Muslim faith challenged the mainstream civil rights movement and the nonviolent pursuit of integration championed by Martin Luther King Jr. He urged followers to defend themselves against white aggression “by any means necessary”. For...
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The Smart Society

Strengthening America’s Greatest Resource, Its People

by Peter D. Salins
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014

The Smart Society offers a detailed blueprint for how the United States can recast its human capital policies to make all Americans-not just a privileged elite-smarter and more successful than ever before, at the same time stemming the size and cost of the nation’s “safety net.” The spectacular,...
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Voluntary Environmental Programs

A Policy Perspective

by Allen Blackman, Aseem Prakash, Charles Koerber
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2009

Protecting the environment is often not the primary objective of businesses. As the world has become more environmentally aware, the necessity of environmental regulations becomes apparent. Voluntary Environmental Programs: A Policy Perspective examines different approaches to environmental protection...
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