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TEEN LIFE SKILLS 101
THE ULTIMATE INVESTMENT IN YOURSELF
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2012
In Teen Life Skills 101 author Dennis Clayton give teens and young adults the tools and principles needed to become responsible adults. Claytons methods will insure any parent that their teen will make less mistakes and greater success. Every parent wants their teen or young adult to be well rounded...
The New Harvest
Agricultural Innovation in Africa
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2011
African agriculture is currently at a crossroads, at which persistent food shortages are compounded by threats from climate change. But, as this book argues, Africa faces three major opportunities that can transform its agriculture into a force for economic growth: advances in science and technology;...
Citizen Wealth
Winning the Campaign to Save Working Families
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2009
America’s safety net is torn and tattered. Income inequality continues to grow—the gap between rich and poor has expanded fivefold in the last 25 years. For millions of working families achieving basic middle class comforts has begun to seem as distant a dream as winning the lottery. What is needed,...
The Logic of Discipline
Global Capitalism and the Architecture of Government
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2010
Even before the global economic crisis of 2007-2009, the logic of discipline was under assault. Faced with many failed reform projects, advocates of discipline realized that they had underestimated the complexity of governmental change. Opponents of discipline emphasized the damage to democratic values...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2017
This book highlights the use of an outcome-oriented view of performance to frame and assess the desirability of the effects produced by adopted policies, so to allow governments not only to consider effects in the short, but also the long run. Furthermore, it does not only focus on policy from the...
The Nature State
Rethinking the History of Conservation
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
This volume brings together case studies from around the globe (including China, Latin America, the Philippines, Namibia, India and Europe) to explore the history of nature conservation in the twentieth century. It seeks to highlight the state, a central actor in these efforts, which is often taken...
Local Action on Climate Change
Opportunities and Constraints
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
There is growing interest in analysing the role and effectiveness of the local scale in responding to the global challenge of climate change. However, while accounts of urban climate change governance are growing, there is now a real need for further conceptual and empirical work to better understand...
Cultural Policy
Management, Value and Modernity in the Creative Industries
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Contemporary society is complex; governed and administered by a range of contradictory policies, practices and techniques. Nowhere are these contradictions more keenly felt than in cultural policy. This book uses insights from a range of disciplines to aid the reader in understanding contemporary...
The New Regulation and Governance of Food
Beyond the Food Crisis?
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
Major questions surround who, how, and by what means should the interests of government, the private sector, or consumers hold authority and powers over decisions concerning the production and consumption of foods. This book examines the development of food policy and regulation following the BSE...
Contested Tastes
Foie Gras and the Politics of Food
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
Who cares about foie gras? As it turns out, many do. In the last decade, this French delicacy—the fattened liver of ducks or geese that have been force-fed through a tube—has been at the center of contentious battles between animal rights activists, artisanal farmers, industry groups, politicians,...
Food Security, Agricultural Policies and Economic Growth
Long-term Dynamics in the Past, Present and Future
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
Using a political-economic approach supplemented with insights from human ecology, this volume analyzes the long-term dynamics of food security and economic growth. The book begins by discussing the nature of preindustrial food crises and the changes that have occurred since the 19th century with...
The Hybrid Media System
Politics and Power
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2013
The diffusion and rapid evolution of new communication technologies has reshaped media and politics. But who are the new power players? Written by a leading scholar in the field, The Hybrid Media System is a sweeping and compelling new theory of how political communication now works. Politics is increasingly...
The Econocracy
On the Perils of Leaving Economics to the Experts
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
A century ago, the idea of 'the economy' didn't exist. Now economics is the supreme ideology of our time, with its own rules and language. The trouble is, most of us can't speak it.
This is damaging democracy. Dangerous agendas are hidden inside mathematical wrappers; controversial policies are presented...
by Lawrence Malkin
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1987
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1987
What, exactly, is the National Debt--and to whom do we owe the money--two trillion dollars worth? That's a pile of one thousand dollar bills 134 miles high, and climbing. Just paying the interest costs is equivalent to the entire federal income tax collected west of the Mississippi.
How did...