Social Policy category: 9249 books
Roma capitale 2.0
La nuova questione romana un riformismo civico per la capitale
Language: Italian
Release Date: August 27, 2014
Roma può tornare a essere un modello? Il sindaco Ignazio Marino ha raccolto da un anno la pesante eredità del Campidoglio dopo cinque anni di governo della destra. E tenta di risollevare la Capitale che mai, nella storia unitaria, ha attraversato un momento di così grave distacco dalla coscienza...
Abitare il futuro
Competenze per vivere da cittadini responsabili
Language: Italian
Release Date: December 3, 2014
Frutto di una lunga ricerca in ambito comunitario, il testo ci descrive come sia possibile identificare un insieme di competenze di primaria importanza per partecipare in modo attivo e consapevole alla propria vita dal punto di vista economico, politico, sociale, familiare, delle relazioni interpersonali...
The Cannabis Manifesto
A New Paradigm for Wellness
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
Written bythe founder and CEO of the world's largest medical cannabis dispensary, The Cannabis Manifesto delivers a clear, concise history of cannabis as a medicine, details the unintended consequences of prohibition, and considers its future as a regulated consumer product. Steve DeAngelo draws on...
by Winston Churchill
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2014
These are the principal speeches I have made within the last four years. They have been chosen and collected with the idea of presenting a consistent and simultaneous view of the general field of British politics in an hour of fateful decision. I have exercised full freedom in compression and in verbal correction necessary to make them easier to read.-Winston Churchill
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Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
While globalization undermines ideas of the nation-state in the Mediterranean, conversions reveal how religion can unsettle existing political and social relations. Through studies of conversions across the region this book examines the challenges that conversions represent for national, legal and policy ways of dealing with religious minorities.
With Liberty and Dividends for All
How to Save Our Middle Class When Jobs Don't Pay Enough
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2014
Peter Barnes argues that because of globalization, automation, and winner-take-all capitalism, there won’t be enough high-paying jobs to sustain America’s middle class in the future. Therefore, to survive economically, our middle class needs—and deserves—a supplementary source of nonlabor...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
The purpose of this volume is to explore sustainable innovation and “fair development” in China. It examines various existing problems currently faced in China, such as food safety, education, healthcare, employment, housing, the environment and censorship, among others, and provides different...
Creating Better Futures
Scenario Planning as a Tool for a Better Tomorrow
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2002
As a founder and managing director of Global Business Network, James Ogilvy helped develop the technique of scenario planning, which has become an integral part of strategic thinking in both business and government. Now Ogilvy shows how we can use this cutting-edge method for social change in our...
The Family, the Market or the State?
Intergenerational Support Under Pressure in Ageing Societies
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
This book touches upon a few of the major challenges that all modern societies will have to face in the near future: how to set up a resilient pay-as-you-go pension system; whether the current balance between expenses and revenues in social expenditure is viable in the future, and, if not, what changes...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2016
This book aims to explore the nature and extent of the 'care deficit' problem in European societies and how effective the different care systems are in dealing with these problems through policy innovation. It combines theoretical and conceptual debates, cross-national comparisons and analytically-driven case studies.
by Juliet Schor
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
In this groundbreaking pamphlet, Juliet Schor, author of The Overworked American, examines how Americans can begin making the shift away from a resource-destructive society to one that values the environment, community, and quality of life above business and profit. She a traces back how after W.W.II,...
The Post-Racial Society is Here
Recognition, Critics and the Nation-State
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
In a provocative and controversial analysis, Wilbur C. Rich’s The Post-Racial Society is Here conclusively demonstrates that nation is in midst of a post-racial society. Yet many Americans are skeptical of this fundamental social transformation. The failure of recognition is related to the remnants...
The War on Choice
The Right-Wing Attack on Women's Rights and How to Fight Back
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Accessible and impassioned, here is an eye-opening look at the right wing strategy to reverse the gains American women have made over the past 50 years. The War on Choice chronicles the actions being taken at the highest levels of government to turn back the clock on women's rights.
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The Hero's Fight
African Americans in West Baltimore and the Shadow of the State
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
Baltimore was once a vibrant manufacturing town, but today, with factory closings and steady job loss since the 1970s, it is home to some of the most impoverished neighborhoods in America. The Hero's Fight provides an intimate look at the effects of deindustrialization on the lives of Baltimore’s...