Practical Politics category: 1369 books
Il vecchio che avanza
I fatti, le storie, i protagonisti
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 12, 2018
“Programmi, programmi, programmi. Lasciateli perdere. Intanto non saranno realizzati, soprattutto questa volta. Tutti fanno promesse. Non tenetene conto. Guardate invece alle persone, alla loro storia, a quello che hanno detto prima e fatto poi. E a qualche numero indispensabile. Solo così possiamo...
Un suicidio imperfetto
Raul Gardini: storia di una vita da corsaro e di una morte sospetta
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 26, 2013
23 luglio 1993. Secondo la ricostruzione ufficiale quella mattina Raul Gardini, uno dei più grandi industriali italiani del dopoguerra, si sveglia presto nella sua abitazione milanese. Ha un appuntamento a cui non vuole mancare: lo aspettano i giudici del pool di Mani Pulite Antonio Di Pietro e Francesco...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2015
This Handbook offers a comprehensive treatment of transformations of the state, from its origins in different parts of the world and different time periods to its transformations since World War II in the advanced industrial countries, the post-Communist world, and the Global South. Leading experts...
by Donald F. Stevens
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 1991
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 1991
In the decades following independence, Mexico was transformed from a strong, stable colony into a republic suffering from economic decline and political strife. Marked by political instability—characterized by Antonio López de Santa Anna’s rise to the presidency on eleven distinct occasions—this...
by Antulio J. Echevarria, II
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2017
Distilling the ideas of the greatest military theoreticians of history, including Sun Tzu, Niccolò Machiavelli, and Carl von Clausewitz, Antulio J. Echevarria II presents a fascinating account of the "art of the general." Drawing on historical examples, from Hannibal's war against Rome to Napoleon's...
Empowering the Public-Private Partnership
The Future of America’s Local Government
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
America’s cities are increasingly acknowledged as sites of renewal and economic opportunity—but how can city leaders facing physical and financial constraints harness this positive energy to create sustainable development? The story of Cleveland in the early 1980s provides the necessary roadmap....
Developing E-Government Projects
Frameworks and Methodologies
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2013
The emergence of e-government allows for effective governance, increased transparency, better management, and efficient services through the use of the internet and information and communication technologies. Therefore, world governments are mobilizing large amounts of resources in order to implement...
by Geoffrey K. Fry
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
First published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Aspiration and Ambivalence
Strategies and Realities of Counterinsurgency and State-Building in Afghanistan
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2012
After more than a decade of great effort and sacrifice by America and its allies, the Taliban still has not been defeated, and many Afghans believe that a civil war is coming. Aspiration and Ambivalence analyzes the U.S. and international efforts in Afghanistan and offers detailed recommendations...
by Njabulo Ndebele
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2011
From the beginniong Fine Lines from the Box traces a journey of the mind and an ongoing exercise of reading and writing by one of South Africa's most incisive commentators. Taken with Njabulo Ndebele's earlier Rediscovery of the Ordinary, this collection challenges, entreats, cajoles and prods one...
The Cultural Left and the Reagan Era
U.S. Protest and Central American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2015
The Reagan era is usually seen as an era of unheralded prosperity, and as a high-watermark of Republican success. President Ronald Reagan's belief in “Reaganomics”,his media-friendly sound-bites and “can do”personality have come to define the era.However, this was also a time of domestic protest...
by Hernán F. Gómez Bruera
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
While scholars, activists and pundits from around the world have heralded the Lula years as a breakthrough for poverty reduction and the forthcoming emergence of Brazil as a dynamic economic superpower, many of their counterparts in the country as well as a number of Brazilianists elsewhere, have...
by Barbara from Harlem
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
I was a liberal by default. I asked no questions. I had no answers. I just pulled the lever to vote for Democrats as was expected of me. Most of my fellow Black Americans do not fully understand what the term “liberal” means, or who or what they are voting for. And, in turn they don’t realize...
Maverick, Maverick, Maverick
How to Live a Maverick Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2014
The two party system tries to suppress and silence us independents and mavericks. The two party system tries to discredit and demean us independents and mavericks. But we independents and mavericks can succeed as we have succeeded before; we just need encouragement and empowerment. When you feel ready...