Administration category: 6852 books
Basic Income
A Transformative Policy for India
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2015
Would it be possible to provide people with a basic income as a right? The idea has a long history. This book draws on two pilot schemes conducted in the Indian State of Madhya Pradesh, in which thousands of men, women and children were provided with an unconditional monthly cash payment. In a context...
by Frederick Denny
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015
An Introduction to Islam, Fourth Edition, provides students with a thorough, unified and topical introduction to the global religious community of Islam. In addition, the author's extensive field work, experience, and scholarship combined with his engaging writing style and passion for the subject...
How the Democrats Can Win by Leading America to a Better Future in 2010 and Beyond
An Update to The Audacity to Win (A Penguin Group eSpecial from Penguin Books)
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2010
Since David Plouffe helped design the plan that brought candidate Obama to the White House, the lessons of that plan have become only more relevant. Today, conservative forces led by figures like Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck threaten to derail the tremendous promise of Democrats’ recent gains, making...
Las identidades nacional populares
De la resistencia noventista a los años kirchernistas
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 9, 2016
La asunción de Kirchner al gobierno nacional en 2003 trajo consigo la implementación de una política transversal que incluyó algunos movimientos “piqueteros” en sus filas y abrió un período signado por importantes cambios en las acciones y alineamientos de varias organizaciones. Este libro...
The Politics of Historic Districts
A Primer for Grassroots Preservation
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2006
The worst thing in politics is to be right and to lose. This how-to guide will give citizens who are fighting to designate a local historic district the political know-how to win the support of fellow residents and city hall. Everything is here: learning to think politically, mastering the political...
by The Iraq Study Group, James A. Baker, III
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2006
On March 15, 2006, members from both parties in Congress supported the creation of the bipartisan Iraq Study Group to review the situation on the ground and propose strategies for the way forward. For more than eight months, the Study Group met with military officers, regional experts, academics,...
Take Up Your Pen
Unilateral Presidential Directives in American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
Executive orders and proclamations afford presidents an independent means of controlling a wide range of activities in the federal government—yet they are not mentioned in the U.S. Constitution. In fact, the controversial edicts known as universal presidential directives seem to violate the separation...
E-Government in Canada
Transformation for the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2006
The rapid expansion of the Internet has fueled the emergence of electronic government at all levels in Canada. E-government's first decade featured online service underpinned by a technically secure infrastructure. This service-security nexus entails internal governance reforms aimed at realizing...
In Lies We Trust
How Politicians and the Media Are Deceiving the American Public
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
What politicians and the media don't want you to know.
Millions of Americans at both ends of the political spectrum are angry and fed up with being lied to by politicians and the media. The emergence of “outsider” presidential candidates Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders is proof that people...
by Mollie Ziegler Hemingway
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
How bad is the problem of media bias? The answer can be summed up in a few words: President Donald J. Trump. Whether you love him or hate him, there’s no question that Trump gained a huge amount of support for his willingness to criticize the media in harsh and unsparing terms. The media seems...
by William H. Sleeman
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013
Sir William Henry Sleeman (8 August 1788 – 10 February 1856) was a British soldier and administrator in British India.A great admirer of India's rich natural beauty, he was born in Stratton, Cornwall, the son of Philip Sleeman, a yeoman and supervisor of excise of St Tudy. In 1809 William joined...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2014
E-Government describes the utilization of technologies to improve the lives of citizens and business organizations while facilitating the operation of the government. With the rise of new technologies, governments need to consider implementing Web 2.0 and mobile technologies as a way to offer relevant...
by Jennifer Toelle
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2017
On September 15, 1886, Kansas Wesleyan University opened its doors for the purpose of higher education. Through strategic plans and successful fundraising campaigns, the campus has grown and evolved remarkably over the past 130 years. The university has employed numerous skilled and passionate faculty...
All the Pope's Men
The Inside Story of How the Vatican Really Thinks
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
A fascinating and enlightening look at the world’s oldest and most mysterious institution, written by an American journalist with unparalleled knowledge about the Vatican's past and present.
The sexual abuse scandals that shook American and British Catholicism in 2002 brought to light a long-standing...