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Saving Our Nation and Ourselves
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2011
The United States, as well as most of the world, is sitting upon a precipice of economic collapse, which will likely lead not only to the loss of our affluence but of our freedoms.
When I was a child in the fifties, despite the problems that existed, our nation was more honest, unified and...
Explaining Sweden's Baltic Policy
Construction of Regionalism in Northeastern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2012
Diploma Thesis from the year 2010 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Region: Other States, grade: 1, University of Salzburg (Fachbereich für Politikwissenschaft und Soziologie), language: English, abstract: The deep geopolitical changes, which shattered Europe between 1985 and 2004,...
Nova Scotia
A Health System Profile
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
Despite notable variation in health care policy from province to province, most scholarship published on the health care system in Canada uses a broad national perspective. Focusing on the health care systems of individual Canadian provinces and territories, our new series, Health System Profiles,examines...
Administrative Law
The Sources and Limits of Government Agency Power
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2015
Administrative Law: The Sources and Limits of Government Agency Power explains the sources of administrative agency authority in the United States, how agencies make rules, the rights of clients and citizens in agency hearings, and agency interaction with other branches of government. This concise...
by T. J. Hill
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2015
Infamy discusses Kennedy’s murder, and the 9/11 attacks, to understand grounds for true belief in politics. Three questions ensue: 1) What shapes political opinions, in particular beliefs about consequential political crimes? 2) How do we distinguish truth from untruth in politics? 3) How do we...
Congress and Crime
The Impact of Federalization of State Criminal Laws
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2014
Congress in the latter part of the nineteenth century decided to enact a series of statutes facilitating state enforcement of their respective criminal laws. Subsequently, Congress enacted statutes federalizing what had been solely state crimes, thereby establishing federal court and state court concurrent...
Awake America
Ii Chronicles 7:14
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2011
The United States entered the third century of its existence facing many social, political, and religious issues. Socialism, Communism, and terrorism are such threats. Christianity is not practiced as in the past. Many US citizens neglect the Word of God, and moral decay has risen rapidly. May our...
A Radically Democratic Response to Global Governance
Dystopian Utopias
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
This book presents a critique of dominant governance theories grounded in an understanding of existence as a static, discrete, mechanistic process, while also identifying the failures of theories that assume dynamic alternatives of either a radically collectivist or individualist nature. Relationships...
Sezession im Voelkerrecht Faktisches Phaenomen oder reale Utopie
Die Geschichte eines Prinzips im Lichte eines ungluecklichen Praezedenzfalls
Language: German
Release Date: July 10, 2017
Das Selbstbestimmungsrecht der Völker ist eines der komplexesten, ambivalentesten und zugleich erfolgreichsten rechtlich-politischen Konzepte. Dieses Buch wirft einen Blick zurück auf das 20. Jahrhundert – dabei erscheint dieses als Jahrhundert der Selbstbestimmung und seine zweite Hälfte als...
Speaking Justice to Power
Ethical and Methodological Challenges for Evaluators
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Efficiency, economy, and equity are policy goals pursued by governments around the world, but analysts and evaluators have devoted more effort to measuring and evaluating the first two. In Speaking Justice to Power, contributors examine the concept of equity, the role it plays, and its application...
by James Kemoli Amata
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Politicians went round and round in many places for prayers to defeat ICC. They say theirs were prayers to the God that hears the innocent. on the other hand there were the IDPs who were crying for justice. They lost their property and even loved ones. Now that there are no more accused, there have been prayers to thank God for having heard the prayers.What next?
Culture Incarnate: Native Anthropology from Russia
Native Anthropology from Russia
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
This collection of studies uses the processes of analysis and self-analysis to examine the social, political and spiritual forces at work in the post-Soviet world. The text includes discussions of ethnohistory, political anthropology and ethnic conflict, and symbolic anthropology.
The Book : the Story of Red Tail Hawk
One Family’s Journey Through Addiction
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2016
This is a story of how one family was rocked by addiction and how they stuck together through it all.
Resilience in the post-welfare inner city
Voluntary sector geographies in London, Los Angeles and Sydney
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2016
'Resilience' has become one of the first fully fledged academic and political buzzwords of the 21st century. Within this context, Geoffrey DeVerteuil proposes a more critically engaged and conceptually robust version, applying it to the conspicuous but now residual clusters of inner-city voluntary...