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Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
This edited collection critically explores the efforts of the apparel industry to improve safety conditions and suggests governance reforms that will resolve lingering issues. The volume examines two consortia: the Alliance and the Accord, which set up cooperative auditing systems of supplying factories...
Why Public Service Matters
Public Managers, Public Policy, and Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2014
Why Public Service Matters conveys the importance, purpose, and nobility of a career as a civil servant in the United States. It does so, however, with an unflinching eye on the realpolitik that drives public administration in America's "compensatory state" and on the pitfalls of reformers'...
Restoring Justice in Colombia
Conciliation in Equity
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2013
Examining the 'Conciliation in Equity' program in Colombia, this book provides a dramatic, cross-cultural example of community justice and a model for developing alternative methods of resolving crime and conflict.
Democracy Deferred
Civic Leadership after 9/11
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
The day after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, civic leaders began to organize four coalitions that aimed to give ordinary citizens a chance to meet, to heal, and to be heard in rebuilding decisions. This book tells the inside story of the civic renewal movement they founded.
Increasing Effectiveness of the Community College Financial Model
A Global Perspective for the Global Economy
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2011
This book seeks to explore thematic and pragmatic applications of financing the community college to help facilitate educational reform, to assist efforts related to internationalization and to create systemic support systems to maintain the mission.
by Joseph Kaifala
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
This book is a historical narrative covering various periods in Sierra Leone’s history from the fifteenth century to the end of its civil war in 2002. It entails the history of Sierra Leone from its days as a slave harbor through to its founding as a home for free slaves, and toward its political...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2016
This book presents an interdisciplinary exploration of the governance of public procurement reform in Africa. Through a bottom-up approach to case studies and comparative analyses, scholars, practitioners, and social activists write about the organizational mechanisms and implementation gaps in public...
American War Cinema and Media since Vietnam
Politics, Ideology, and Class
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
No other cinematic genre more sharply illustrates the contradictions of American society - notions about social class, politics, and socio-economic ideology - than the war film. This book examines the latest cycle of war films to reveal how they mediate and negotiate the complexities of war, class, and a military-political mission largely gone bad.
Mediterranean Labor Markets in the First Age of Globalization
An Economic History of Real Wages and Market Integration
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2015
Scholars have studied the nineteenth century's unprecedented labor flows in global and specific country contexts, but have lacked a comprehensive analysis of the world's old economic core, the Mediterranean. This work provides answers to important questions, such as: If the Mediterranean labor market...
The Mobilization of the Unemployed in Europe
From Acquiescence to Protest?
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2012
In the face of high unemployment in Europe for the past thirty years, the unemployed have organized themselves and mobilized at levels ranging from the local to the transnational. This work explores why, when, and how the unemployed move from acquiescence to protest.
Religion and Ethics in a Globalizing World
Conflict, Dialogue, and Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2011
Around the world religion is an increasingly vital and pervasive force in both personal and public life. Though this trend has been widely noted, its long-term implications are as yet only dimly perceived. Will this be a force for healing or for violence? To express the question to its most dramatic,...
by Susanne N. Beechey
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2016
This book seeks to understand the politics of deservingness for future Social Security reforms through an interpretive policy analysis of the 2005 Social Security privatization debates. What does it mean for politics and policymaking that Social Security recipients are widely viewed as deserving...
Corpus Anarchicum
Political Protest, Suicidal Violence, and the Making of the Posthuman Body
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
Dabashi's newest book is a meditation on suicidal violence in the immediate context of its most recent political surge and a critical examination of the radical transformation of the human body, supported by close readings of cinematic and artistic evidence.
The Comprehensive Public High School
Historical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2006
This book traces the decline of the public comprehensive high school. New educational markets emphasized school diversity and parental choice rather than social equity through common schooling, and they were criticized for declining standards. The book also considers government education policies and their regional manifestations.