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Bomb Scare
The History and Future of Nuclear Weapons
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2007
Since their inception, nuclear weapons have multiplied at an alarming rate, leaving everyone from policymakers to concerned citizens wondering what it will take to slow, stop, or even reverse their spread. With clarity and expertise, Joseph Cirincione presents an even-handed look at the history of...
Me Medicine vs. We Medicine
Reclaiming Biotechnology for the Common Good
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
Personalized healthcare—or what the award-winning author Donna Dickenson calls "Me Medicine"—is radically transforming our longstanding "one-size-fits-all" model. Technologies such as direct-to-consumer genetic testing, pharmacogenetically developed therapies in cancer care,...
Security and Profit in China’s Energy Policy
Hedging Against Risk
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
China has developed sophisticated hedging strategies to insure against risks in the international petroleum market. It has managed a growing net oil import gap and supply disruptions by maintaining a favorable energy mix, pursuing overseas equity oil production, building a state-owned tanker fleet...
by Nicole Chareyron
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2005
"Every man who undertakes the journey to the Our Lord's Sepulcher needs three sacks: a sack of patience, a sack of silver, and a sack of faith."—Symon Semeonis, an Irish medieval pilgrim
As medieval pilgrims made their way to the places where Jesus Christ lived and suffered, they...
Health at Risk
America's Ailing Health System—and How to Heal It
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2008
In this volume, the nation's leading advisors on health policy and financing appraise America's ailing healthcare system and suggest reasonable approaches to its rehabilitation. Each chapter confronts a major challenge to the country's health security, from runaway costs and uneven quality of care...
Nuclear Nightmares
Securing the World Before It Is Too Late
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
There is a high risk that someone will use, by accident or design, one or more of the 17,000 nuclear weapons in the world today. Many thought such threats ended with the Cold War or that current policies can prevent or contain nuclear disaster. They are dead wrong—these weapons, possessed by states...
The Return of Bipolarity in World Politics
China, the United States, and Geostructural Realism
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the international system has been unipolar, centered on the United States. But the rise of China foreshadows a change in the distribution of power. Øystein Tunsjø shows that the international system is moving toward a U.S.-China standoff, bringing us back...
Globalized Arts
The Entertainment Economy and Cultural Identity
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2010
Our interactive world can take a creative product, such as a Hollywood film, Bollywood song, or Latin American telenovela, and transform it into a source of cultural anxiety. What does this artwork say about the artist or the world she works in? How will these artworks evolve in the global market?...
International Trade and Labor Standards
A Proposal for Linkage
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2008
Progressive governments in poor countries fear that if they undertake measures to enhance real wages and working conditions, rising labor costs would cause wealthier countries to import from and invest elsewhere. Yet if the world trading system were designed to facilitate or even reward measures to...
The Fracking Debate
The Risks, Benefits, and Uncertainties of the Shale Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2017
Over roughly the past decade, oil and gas production in the United States has surged dramatically—thanks largely to technological advances such as high-volume hydraulic fracturing, more commonly known as “fracking.” This rapid increase has generated widespread debate, with proponents touting...
Green Innovation in China
China's Wind Power Industry and the Global Transition to a Low-Carbon Economy
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
As the greatest coal-producing and consuming nation in the world, China would seem an unlikely haven for wind power. Yet the country now boasts a world-class industry that promises to make low-carbon technology more affordable and available to all. Conducting an empirical study of China's remarkable...
Work and the Workplace
A Resource for Innovative Policy and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2005
For more than twenty years Sheila H. Akabas and Paul A. Kurzman have written extensively about workers and work organizations, and given leadership to the occupational social welfare movement worldwide. Recognized as leaders in their field, Akabas and Kurzman offer an invaluable and comprehensive...
Reforming Democracies
Six Facts About Politics That Demand a New Agenda
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2013
Even well-established democracies need reform, and any successful effort to reform democracies must look beyond conventional institutions—elections, political parties, special interests, legislatures and their relations with chief executives—to do so.
Expanding a traditional vision of the...
by Xiu Ouyang
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2004
Only fragments of historical text from China's middle period have been translated into English, until now. Here at last is the first major Chinese historical work from the Song dynasty. Written by Ouyang Xiu, an intellectual giant of the eleventh century, this is a history of the preceding century...