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Make or Break
How the next three years will shape South Africa’s next three decades
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2016
The next three years will determine whether South Africa succeeds or fails in the long term. • Jacob Zuma’s term as president is due to end in 2019, though he could go earlier. Who will succeed him and what will be the impact on policy? • The ANC’s dominance has been significantly dented after...
by Barbara Goodwin
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
This book is about the virtues and social justice of random distribution. The first chapter is a utopian fragment about a future country, Aleatoria, where everything, including political power, jobs and money, is distributed by lottery. The rest of the book is devoted to considering the idea of the lottery...
by Nick de Bois
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
Shortlisted for the Political Books Awards ‘Best Parliamentary Memoir 2018’
You are not an executive who can make and enforce decisions. You are a legislator who votes on making laws.
You are not a counsellor, a housing officer, benefits clerk, bank or trading standards officer,...
Why the Third Way failed
Economics, morality and the origins of the 'Big Society'
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2010
In the wake of the economic crash, public policy is in search of a new moral compass. This book explains why the Third Way's combination of market-friendly and abstract, value-led principles has failed, and shows what is needed for an adequate replacement as a political and moral project. It criticises...
Reforming Federal Land Management
Cutting the Gordian Knot
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2012
For over a century, American have created laws, processes, objectives, priorities, and rules for federal land management that often conflict, contradict, and undermine each other. We now find ourselves with inconsistent laws, unclear priorities, procedural mazes, and an antiquated bureaucratic structure....
The Politics of Health Policy Reform in the UK
England’s Permanent Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2016
This book explains the politics of thirty years of ‘market reform’ in the English NHS, with the rest of the UK a counter-factual. Paton shows how each subsequent reform has been shaped by the confusion left by the previous reform. The long-term ideology has been anti-statist but policy-making...
Internal Improvement
National Public Works and the Promise of Popular Government in the Early United States
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2002
When the people of British North America threw off their colonial bonds, they sought more than freedom from bad government: most of the founding generation also desired the freedom to create and enjoy good, popular, responsive government. This book traces the central issue on which early Americans...
Occupy
Dissecting Occupy Wall Street
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Danny Schechter the "News Dissector," a veteran journalist, filmmaker, and participant in many social movements, began covering Occupy Wall Street for Al Jazeera and other leading websites, international TV News programs, and Progressive Radio Network shows. Occupy collects his essays, blog reports,...
Bet You Didn't See That One Coming
Obama, Trump, and the End of Washington's Regular Order
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
The 24/7 media circus that follows President Trump distracts from the fundamental issue of what his election means for America going forward.
Bet You Didn’t See That One Coming explains how Barack Obama’s progressive policies helped ignite the ultimate anti-Obama political warrior—and...
Look for the Union Label: History of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union
History of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
This work provides a history of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. Topics covered include: the union's influence on political legislation and global economy; the story of the East European immigrants at the turn of the 20th century; and the union's spirit of social reform.
The Beautiful Tree
A personal journey into how the world's poorest people are educating themselves
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
Upon its release several years ago, The Beautiful Tree was instantly embraced and praised by individuals and organizations across the globe. James Tooley's extraordinary ability to braid together personal experience, community action, individual courage, and family devotion, brought readers to the very...
See Me After Class
Advice for Teachers by Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
The Most Dog-Eared "Teacher's Edition" You'll Have in Your Classroom
Teaching in tough. And teachers, like the rest of the population, aren't perfect. Yet good teaching happens, and great teachers continue to inspire and educate generations of students. See Me After Class helps those...
by W. Michael Kelley
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2011
Navigate politics, paperwork, and legal issues
Find your instructional style and make learning fun for your students!
Gain the upper hand on your first day of school! This friendly guide reveals what they didn't teach you in your education classes, offering practical advice and tons...
The Behavior Code
A Practical Guide to Understanding and Teaching the Most Challenging Students
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Based on a collaboration dating back nearly a decade, the authors—a behavioral analyst and a child psychiatrist—reveal their systematic approach for deciphering causes and patterns of difficult behaviors and how to match them with proven strategies for getting students back on track to learn.
The Behavior Code includes user-friendly worksheets and other helpful resources.