Local Government category: 1701 books
California Greenin'
How the Golden State Became an Environmental Leader
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
A political history of environmental policy and regulation in California, from the Gold Rush to the present
Over the course of its 150-year history, California has successfully protected its scenic wilderness areas, restricted coastal oil drilling, regulated automobile emissions, preserved...
TAKE A SEAT
WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR WHAT HAPPENED ON UNITED AIRLINES FLIGHT 3411?
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2017
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” -- George Santayana
On December 1, 1955, four black passengers were ordered by a Montgomery City Lines bus driver to vacate their paid-for seats in favor of late arriving white passengers who had no place to sit. Three complied,...
Taiwan's Relations with Mainland China
A Tail Wagging Two Dogs
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2008
Taiwan's Relations with Mainland China is the first book to deal with the role of Taiwan’s leadership politics, including the personal political styles of Lee Teng-hui and Chen Shui-bian, in the development of Taiwan’s mainland policy and the consequences for U.S.-Taiwan relations.
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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
This invaluable collection of information provides an in-depth guide to the regional dimension of the politics and economy of this vast and complex country. Incomparable in its coverage, which includes a detailed chronology for India as a whole, a bibliography, contact details for leading officials,...
Mississippi Moonshine Politics
How Bootleggers & the Law Kept a Dry State Soaked
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2015
For most states, the repeal of prohibition meant a return to a state of legally drunken normalcy, but not so in Mississippi. The Magnolia State went dry over a decade before the nation, leaving bootleggers to establish political and financial holds they were unwilling to lose. For nearly sixty years,...
Voices of Decline
The Postwar Fate of US Cities
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
[FOR HISTORY CATALOGS]Drawing on the pronouncements of public commentators, this book portrays the 20th century history of U.S. cities, focusing specifically on how commentators crafted a discourse of urban decline and prosperity peculiar to the post-World War II era. The efforts of these commentators...
by Steve Werle
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
A new investigation of the meteoric rise, lifetime of achievements, and unique persona of "boy wonder" and perennial candidate Harold E. Stassen.
In ten unsuccessful runs at the U.S. presidency, Harold E. Stassen became infamous as a perennial candidate. But his lifetime of achievements,...
by Christopher Snedden
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
In 1846, the British created the state of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) - popularly called "Kashmir" - and then quickly sold this prized region to the wily and powerful Raja, Gulab Singh. Intriguingly, had they retained it, the India-Pakistan dispute over possession of the state may never have arisen, but...
by william chin
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2018
“ Determining What Abundance And The Art Of Giving Is About Can Have Amazing Benefits For Your Life And Business!”
Learn About The True Definition Of Abumdance- And Learn ThatThe More You Give, The More You Will Receive To Create Amazing Results!
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by Sylvia Wrigley
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2014
Malaysia Airlines flight 370 departed from Kuala Lumpur airport shortly after midnight, full of passengers flying to Beijing. Half an hour later, the greatest mystery in aviation history had begun.
Though most of us will board an aircraft at some point in our lives, we know little about how...
Wards of the State
A Society without Baby Boomers
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
what does it take to be a survivor in the world today? Or in the future? Are world issues becoming so large and common that no one hears them anymore? How can Our Country, as a nation, evolve from ‘victim’ mentality to ‘survivor’?
Paula Laureen Henderson, author/novelist...
The Paradox of Tar Heel Politics
The Personalities, Elections, and Events That Shaped Modern North Carolina
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
How can a state be represented by Jesse Helms and John Edwards at the same time? Journalist Rob Christensen answers that question and navigates a century of political history in North Carolina, one of the most politically vibrant and competitive southern states, where neither conservatives nor liberals,...
The Sensible Prepper
Practical Tips for Emergency Preparedness and Building Resilience
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
As the news reports an endless array of chaotic events from summers of record-setting wildfires, floods, heat waves and droughts or winter polar vortexes, Hurricane Sandy convinced many that climate change is real and that catastrophic weather events are the new norm. Many people resolved to be better...
Power, Greed, and Hubris
Judicial Bribery in Mississippi
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
From 2003 to 2009 sensational judicial bribery scandals rocked Mississippi's legal system. Famed trial lawyers Paul Minor and Richard (Dickie) Scruggs and renowned judge and former prosecutor Bobby DeLaughter proved to be the nexus of these scandals. Seven attorneys and a former state auditor were...