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Although much has been written about the Korean public administration, the international academic community has little knowledge about it as most of the literature has been written in Korean. This book aims to provide more accessible knowledge internationally by filling that gap, covering both the...

Is fake news being spread through social media as part of an information war? Are political operatives publishing disinformation to smear the opposition and help their own agendas? Who creates fake news, how does it spread, and can it be stopped? What are the real world effects of fake news...

While foreign correspondent Peter Greste is free in Australia following his deportation from Egypt in February, he was convicted on terrorism charges in absentia on August 29, 2015. The campaign to clear his name and those of imprisoned Al Jazeera colleagues Baher Mohamed and Mohamed Fahmy continues. After...

This book addresses market demand-based permitting and building planning in municipalities and counties. It reviews implications for property rights, protecting the local economy, and preventing development in excess of market needs. The book shows how market demand-based planning and permitting could...

First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Le "Comunità Ospitali" ci mettono la faccia: 36 racconti per scoprire i borghi dove le persone sono i veri monumenti e l’ospite diventa un “cittadino temporaneo”. Questo libro raccoglie la storia di 36 “Comunità Ospitali”, che fanno parte della rete dei Borghi Autentici...

An encyclopedia of virtuallyl every fraud and scam that exists, people behind them and how they work. Contents include: Advance-Fee Fraud / ʹʹ419ʹʹ Nigerian Scams Common Scams Today Affects On Scammed Victims Counterfeiters Credit Card Fraud Credit Card Fraud Methods Credit Card...

After 20 years of dedicated research and hundreds of personal interviews concerning the increasing, global power of women, this timely work is finally available. If you've read "Lean In" by Sheryl Sandberg or "The End of Men - The Rise of Women" by Hanna Rosin, The "New Power...

A Chestertonian Halloween, Manumitted Animals, & Occultic Reagan: American Wordlview Alert #16

Tales of Terra Ocean Long before the distant past, Earth was an organic whole without form and void。 A divine goddess named Pan Gu separated Earth from Heaven to form Terrestrial continents。Once every sixty six thousand six hundred and sixty six year, a disastrous scourge would be...

"A Texas governor has only two happy days: the day he is inaugurated and the day he retires." So spoke Joseph D. Sayers at the beginning of the twentieth century. Now, in an analysis of the Texas governorship by Fred Gantt, Jr., the reader learns why Governor Sayers' remark remains true many years after...

Torture, according to the United Nations Convention Against Torture (an advisory measure of the UN General Assembly) is: ...any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person for such purposes as obtaining from him, or a third person,...

An icon of transgender activism for three decades, Riki Wilchins is the author of four influential books on genderqueer, trans politics, and queer theory. Riki Wilchins has been a pioneering and influential thinker and writer for a quarter of a century. Now this single volume offers a selection of...

This is a wide ranging collection of contemporary poetry. Some of the themes are ambitious, dealing with, in part, a grandfather's Holocaust, finding your longitude without a good watch, the melancholy of a generation, seventh grade science class, and falling off the edge of the earth with a Rabbi....