Public Affairs category: 1291 books
Nicaragua and the Politics of Utopia
Development and Culture in the Modern State
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
The history of modern Nicaragua is populated with leaders promising a new and better day. Inevitably, as Nicaragua and the Politics of Utopia demonstrates, reality casts a shadow and the community must look to the next leader. As an impoverished state, second only to Haiti in the Americas, Nicaragua...
Globalization and Food Sovereignty
Global and Local Change in the New Politics of Food
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
In recent years, food sovereignty has emerged as a way of contesting corporate control of agricultural markets in pursuit of a more democratic, decentralized food system. The concept unites individuals, communities, civil society organizations, and even states in opposition to globalizing food regimes.
This...
by Dr. Peter Hammond
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2018
Dr. Peter Hammond has ably laid out our duties and responsibilities in light of the Word of God and also in this crisis time of impending peril to the Church. You will benefit greatly from this book. There are many areas of preparation listed in the Security and Survival Handbook. You must read the...
China Experiments
From Local Innovations to National Reform
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2012
All societies face a key question: how to empower governments to perform essential governmental functions while constraining the arbitrary exercise of power. This balance, always in flux, is particularly fluid in today's China. This insightful book examines the changing relationship between that state...
by Mika Aaltola, Cristian A. Cantir, Bjorn Olav Knutsen
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2011
Issues in E.U. and U.S. Foreign Policy, edited by MYnevver Cebeci, aims at analyzing the perceptions, interests, and policies of the EU and the US on various international issues. It portrays their convergences and divergences, and reflects on their interplay. The book has a geographical focus rather...
by Gökhan Çetinsaya
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2006
This is a study of the nature of Ottoman administration under Sultan Abdulhamid and the effects of this on the three provinces that were to form the modern state of Iraq. The author provides a general commentary on the late Ottoman provincial administration and a comprehensive picture of the nature...
Indec
Historia íntima de una estafa
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Investigación periodística acerca de los vaivenes del Indec durante el
kirchnerismo.
Gustavo Noriega pasó más de quince años trabajando en el Instituto
Nacional de Estadística y Censos, procesando datos. Renunció a ese
trabajo y se convirtió en un hombre de los medios por su labor en...
Forever Tandem
A Love Story with Ancillary Passion for the Foreign Service
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2011
Forever Tandem tells the Foreign Service story of David and Teresa (Chin) Jones, who from vastly different backgrounds found both each other and U.S. foreign policy as life-long and life-enhancing commitments. Theirs were not exotic careers in deepest/darkest Forgottenstans but rather ones devoted...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
This volume seeks to re-energise the paradigm of the New International Labour Studies by detailing how struggles over the construction, reproduction, utilisation and restructuring of labour forces are the contested social foundations upon which the global economy stands.
Through a combination...
Taiwan's Electoral Politics and Democratic Transition: Riding the Third Wave
Riding the Third Wave
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
An examination of the evolution of the democratic two-party system in Taiwan. This work explores the growth of Taiwan's competitive party system in the context of social attitudes, issue-based politics and local factions.
Justice before Reconciliation
Negotiating a ‘New Normal’ in Post-riot Mumbai and Ahmedabad
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
The book explores how Muslims in Mumbai and Ahmedabad coped with the aftermath of the violence directed against them in 1993 and 2002 respectively, and how they responded to the ethnic carnages of which they were the victims, highlighting the importance of the context and the history of the place...
An Education
How an outsider became an insider - and learned what really goes on in Irish government
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
'Fascinating' Fintan O'Toole, Irish Times
'It's a fascinating book. I ended up reading it till about four in the morning. It gives an incredible insight.' Shane Coleman, political editor, Newstalk
'Excellent' Sam Smyth, Irish Mail on Sunday
'A great read and I'd recommend it' Hugh Linehan, Irish Times
'One...
by Edward E. Rochon
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Preface explains the purpose of the essay. Chapter 1 describes the part played by Vermont, Maine and W. Virginia in the War of Independence. We explain why and how the 3 states came to exist. Chapter 2 gives reasons for 16 stripes. We note that 13 is a spooky number. Some think it jinxed. We have...
Being Good and Being Logical: Philosophical Groundwork for a New Deontic Logic
Philosophical Groundwork for a New Deontic Logic
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2015
This work represents an attempt to show that standard systems of deontic logic (taken as attempts to codify normal deontic reasoning) run into a number of difficulties. It also presents a new system of deontic logic and argues that it is free from the shortcomings of standard systems.