Public Policy category: 4660 books
Condoleezza Rice: An American Life
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2007
Condoleezza Rice, one of most powerful and controversial women in the world, has until now remained a mystery behind an elegant, cool veneer. In this stunning new biography, New York Times reporter Elisabeth Bumiller peels back the layers and presents a revelatory portrait of the first black female...
Kingdom of the Unjust
Behind the U.S.-Saudi Connection
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
The diminutive co-founder of Code Pink has become famous for fearlessly tackling head-on subjects the left and right studiously avoid. Sometimes, she does so in person--as at President Obama's speech at the National Defense College, or in Egypt, where she was assaulted by police. Here, she's researching...
The Little Blue Book
The Essential Guide to Thinking and Talking Democratic
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
The indispensable handbook for Democrats
Voters cast their ballots for what they believe is right, for the things that make moral sense. Yet Democrats have too often failed to use language linking their moral values with their policies. The Little Blue Book demonstrates how to make that connection...
UNESCO on the Ground
Local Perspectives on Intangible Cultural Heritage
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2015
For nearly 70 years, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has played a crucial role in developing policies and recommendations for dealing with intangible cultural heritage. What has been the effect of such sweeping global policies on those actually affected...
Curators of Cultural Enterprise
A Critical Analysis of a Creative Business Intermediary
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2015
This study is based on the authors' fieldwork inside Cultural Enterprise Office, a small Scottish agency that supports creative businesses. It discusses UK policy on the creative economy, the rise of intermediaries between policy-making and the marketplace, and the playing out in the delivery of business advice services to creative microbusinesses.
by Roy W. Spencer
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
As the U.N. moves closer to a new global warming treaty, it is time to examine the calls for reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. The health and welfare of humanity has benefited from access to fossil fuels, and any drastic move to limit that access must have extraordinary evidence to support it.
While...
The Politics of Cocaine
How U.S. Foreign Policy Has Created a Thriving Drug Industry in Central and South America
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
Drawing on declassified documents and painstaking research, this exploration of the economic drug trade of Central and South America fills in historical gaps and provides a new and controversial analysis of a complex and seemingly unsolvable problem. Viewing the problem through the lens of United...
Generation Europe
How Young Europeans Need to Step Up and Save Their Continent
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
The decision of the British people to leave the EU was a political earthquake. A seemingly never-ending round of challenges – from the migration crisis, to continuing terror threats and the euro’s woes – has left the EU in a crisis of confidence. The consequent rise in nationalism and populism...
by Jean Pisani-Ferry
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
The euro's life, while only slightly more than a decade long, has been riddled by a series of challenges and crises. The eruption of the Greek crisis in 2010 took European policymakers by surprise and forced them to design responses to a quickly deteriorating situation. Even though Europe has final...
by Zephyros Press
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
ObamaCare is a complex law that will affect every single American.
Everyone has an opinion about ObamaCare, but few people actually understand how the Affordable Care Act works. ObamaCare Simplified navigates you through the intricacies of the health care law and explains...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
A major problem confronting the United States in the 21st century is the 20th century’s legacy of toxic waste. The weapons that fought the Cold War, the facilities that manufactured those weapons, and the factories that fueled a prosperous economy left behind a trail of pollution. Seven previously...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2012
This is a flowing-text ebook format reproduction of an important Department of Defense (DOD) report on Arctic operations addressing strategic national security objectives, needed mission capabilities, an assessment of changing the Unified Command Plan (UCP), needed basing infrastructure, and the status...
The Assets Perspective
The Rise of Asset Building and its Impact on Social Policy
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2014
The economy's struggles to overcome the lingering effects of the Great Recession presented unique but essential questions.The book considers a full range of data which considers how this recent experience has impacted households, providing a thorough and contemporary treatment of how the assets perspective has prompted changes within social policy.
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...