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Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018

It is beyond doubt that the interconnectedness between food, energy, water security and environmental sustainability exists and is getting amplified with increased globalization. It has been recognized that efforts to address only one part of a systemic problem by neglecting other inherently interlinked...
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Playing by the Rules

How Our Obsession with Safety Is Putting Us All at Risk

by Tracey Brown, Michael Hanlon
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016

Can a cell phone cause a major explosion at a gas station? What would happen if the 3 oz rule at airports was abolished? And are all the child protection measures really making children safer? These rules exist in the name of our own protection, but has anyone ever stopped to consider exactly...
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The Next Multiannual Financial Framework

From National Interest to Building a Common Future

by Stefaan de Corte, Nico Groenendijk, Corina Suceveanu
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012

The Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) is the budget of the European Union and the most important tool to finance common policy areas, actions and strategies. Upon a proposal from the European Commission, it has to be approved by the majority of the members of the European Parliament, before it...
Cover of Intelligent Designer: Evolution for Politicians
by John Janovy Jr
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2011

In the United States today, four words are political hot buttons that no elected official in his or her right mind responds to with deep and honest understanding, although all respond in ways that seem to reveal strong beliefs they hope are congruent with those of the voting majority. These words...
Cover of Organizing for Community Controlled Development
by Patricia Watkins Murphy, Mr. James V. Cunningham
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2003

"This book is both important and timely. Written by practitioners who are also academics, the book combines solid research, observation and practical experience that speak forcefully to the need for both local place-based development and greater citizen involvement. The examples they give of...
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The Ipinions Journal

Commentaries on the Global Events of 2016—Volume Xii

by Anthony Livingston Hall
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017

ANTHONY L. HALL takes aim at the global events of 2016 with a unique and refreshing perspective. Here are some topics in this twelfth volume of his writings: Hillary Calling Half of Trumps Supporters a Basket of Deplorables Hillary was only half right But the most troubling thing is not how...
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The Ontario Municipal Board

From Impact to Subsistence 1971-2016

by Peter H. Howden
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017

The Ontario Municipal Board attracted power to it from the time it was formed in 1906 as a railway overseer and thereafter until 1932 when it became the regulatory tribunal for municipal financing and urban and regional planning applications. By 2006, the same government of Ontario that had entrusted...
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The Politics and Civics of National Service

Lessons from the Civilian Conservation Corps, VISTA, and AmeriCorps

by Melissa Bass
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2013

In 1933 President Franklin D. Roosevelt created America's first domestic national service program: the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). As part of this program-the largest and most highly esteemed of its kind-nearly three million unemployed men worked to rehabilitate, protect, and build the nation's...
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Evidence-Based Policy

A Practical Guide to Doing It Better

by Nancy Cartwright, Jeremy Hardie
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012

Over the last twenty or so years, it has become standard to require policy makers to base their recommendations on evidence. That is now uncontroversial to the point of triviality--of course, policy should be based on the facts. But are the methods that policy makers rely on to gather and analyze...
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Politics of Indignation: Imperialism, Postcolonial Disruptions and Social Change.

Imperialism, Postcolonial Disruptions and Social Change.

by Peter Mayo
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2012

Politics of Indignation is a challenging, accessible and exciting book. Not only does it provide a critical analysis of the neoliberal onslaught on public education in many countries including Cuba, Nicaragua and the Arab world, it also offers new insights into the dynamics of control, while demonstrating how and where resistance has succeeded.
Cover of Try Common Sense: Replacing the Failed Ideologies of Right and Left
by Philip K. Howard
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2019

Award-winning author Philip K. Howard lays out the blueprint for a new American society. In this brief and powerful book, Philip K. Howard attacks the failed ideologies of both parties and proposes a radical simplification of government to re-empower Americans in their daily choices. Nothing...
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Courting Peril

The Political Transformation of the American Judiciary

by Charles Gardner Geyh
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2016

The rule of law paradigm has long operated on the premise that independent judges disregard extralegal influences and impartially uphold the law. A political transformation several generations in the making, however, has imperiled this premise. Social science learning, the lessons of which have been...
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The Trump Secret

Seeing Through the Past, Present, and Future of the New American President

by Ryuho Okawa
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017

Donald Trump’s victory in the 2016 presidential election surprised almost all major vote forecasters who predicted Hillary Clinton’s victory. But 10 months earlier, in January 2016, Ryuho Okawa, Global Visionary, a renowned spiritual leader, and international best-selling author, had already foreseen...
Cover of First Amendment Institutions
by Paul Horwitz
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012

Addressing a host of hot-button issues, Horwitz argues that rigidly doctrinal interpretation renders First Amendment law inept in the face of messy, real-world situations. Courts should let institutions with a stake in these freedoms do more work to enforce them. Self-regulation and public criticism should be the key restraints, not judicial fiat.
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