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Guides state and local mental health public officials in creating emergency preparedness plans for human or natural disasters, including bioterrorism. Stresses integrating health and mental health response and conducting epidemiological surveillance.ISBN-10: 1286869072ISBN-13: 9781286869079Publisher: BibliogovLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/01/2012Pages: 68Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.31lbsSize: 9.69h x 7.44w x 0.14d

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

Objective jail classification (OJC) is a process of assessing every jail inmate's custody and program needs and is considered one of the most important management tools available to jail administrators and criminal justice system planners. An effective system of inmate classification will reduce escapes...

The U.S. Army Center of Military History develops and leads staff rides for U.S. Army groups (with priority going to the HQDA staff). We also support other official government agencies and departments including the Department of Defense, U.S. Congress, Air Force, Navy, and Marines,...

The United States Air Force (USAF) is the aerial warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces. The USAF was initially a part of the U.S. Army, but was formed as a separate branch of the military in 1947 under the National Security...

The Department of Transportation (USDOT or DOT) is a federal cabinet department of the United States government. The office's main concerns are those associated with transportation and transportation needs across the country. Established in 1967, the DOT is administered by the United States Secretary...

The National Park Service (NPS) was formed on August 25, 1916, and is the U.S. federal agency that manages all national parks, many national monuments, and other conservation and historical properties with various title designations. The National Park Service publishes various reports and documents...

This document is part of the United States Department of Agriculture's Organic Roots Collection. Organic Roots is a collection of the historic United States Department of Agriculture. The collection contains publications related to organic agriculture. The collection contains documents published before 1942 (before synthetic...

The BiblioGov Project is an effort to expand awareness of the public documents and records of the U.S. Government via print publications. In broadening the public understanding of government and its work, an enlightened democracy can grow and prosper. Ranging from historic Congressional Bills...

A groundbreaking book that offers concrete ways for Jews and Palestinians to speak (and listen) differently to each other. The Wall Between is a book about the wall that exists between Jewish and Palestinian communities in the Diaspora. Distrust, enmity, and hate are common...

Vladimir PutinIntroduction - To EvilJust as the COVID-19 pandemic was coming to an end, everyone beganto take a breath of relief. The world was finally at peace and could returnto normal. This breath was cut short by Vladimir Putin spearheading thecampaign and invasion of...

A chronological discriminatory events in author's life while growing up in a dictatorial country including his participation and experience for a successful revolution of Bangladesh is articulated. All parents have a dream to leave some legacy for their children. My parents had the dream...

This is a narration of the excruciating torture the author went through in a Chieftaincy of Military Intelligence (CMI) dungeon as a result of his published novel, The Greedy Barbarian, which is a political fiction that mirrors gerontocratic, kleptocratic, nepotistic and murderous African regimes.Author:...

This book updates and adds to the classic Social Movements of the Sixties and Seventies, showing how social movement theory has grown and changed_from an earlier emphasis on collective behavior, to the resource mobilization approach, and currently to analyses that emphasize culture, ideology, and...

In the spring of 1861, Virginians confronted destiny--their own and their nation's. Pivotal decisions awaited about secession, the consequences of which would unfold for a hundred years and more. But few Virginians wanted to decide at all. Instead, they talked, almost interminably. The remarkable...

We are living in unprecedented times. The rights and freedoms American citizens have enjoyed for generations are under attack. The foundation of our nation is being shaken. The U.S. Constitution has been trampled and spit upon. The blood of our forefathers who won us...

"How do we apply Chairman Mao's Thought to get fat pigs?" Squad Leader Ho (who knew the most about pigs) replied that, according to Chairman Mao, one must investigate the problem fully from all sides, and then integrate practice and theory. Ho concluded that...

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This book explains why citizens sometimes comply with and sometimes disobey the demands of democratic governments. It argues that citizens are more likely to comply and even give active consent when they perceive government as procedurally fair in both decisionmaking and implementation processes and...

From 1958 to 1986, Colombian politics were characterised by a series of coalition governments. This book analyses the historical antecedents, establishment and subsequent evolution of the political regime created in 1958. For most of this period, the country was governed by a National Front...

Was the leading psychologist of his time a Nazi sympathiser? This was the question asked by many after the Second World War, as they sought to explain Jung's actions and publications during Nazi rule. So great was the controversy that his reputation risked being...

This book explores the concept of cultural chauvinism as the sense of superiority that ethnic or national groups have of themselves relative to others, particularly in the context of international relations. Author: Minabere IbelemaISBN-10: 036771003XISBN-13: 9780367710033Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/31/2023Pages: 140Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.41lbsSize: 8.50h x...

This anthology brings together scholarship in the field of Friendship Studies. In recent decades, friendship has been a site of analysis for understanding the connections between people and groups, and as a fabric for holding the political and social together. Starting with the theoretical...

Political Lives is an intimate history of image-making and image-breaking in national politics.What was the story behind Bob Hawke's famed biography? Why does Paul Keating think biographies of serving politicians are 'like Polaroids of a busy life' while John Howard considers them a big...

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Appellate judges wield enormous influence in the United States. Their decisions define the scope of legislative and executive power, adjudicate relationships between the federal government and the states, and determine the breadth of individuals' rights and liberties. But, compared to their colleagues on trial...

Although religious fundamentalism is often thought to be confined to monotheistic "religions of the book," this study examines the emergence of a fundamentalism rooted in the Shinto tradition and considers its role in shaping postwar Japanese nationalism and politics. Over the past half-century, the...

The IMF and World Bank were created to help countries survive financial crises and to help them develop into prosperous economic actors. But their 75-year track record shows the opposite: their loans and structural adjustment policies have plunged poor countries into impossibly large debt...

"The present crisis is felt more acutely than previous crisis situations," observes Dutch security expert Marcel van Herpen, largely because human beings are now projecting responsibility into history on all fronts--past and future, in addition to the present. Learning from the past has become...

It is the eve of outer space development, but few people are aware of this. In the absence of awareness, people cannot prepare for the opportunities that will arise; and so the vast wealth likely to flow to Earth from outer space will cause...

The BiblioGov Project is an effort to expand awareness of the public documents and records of the U.S. Government via print publications. In broadening the public understanding of government and its work, an enlightened democracy can grow and prosper. Ranging from historic Congressional Bills...

The BiblioGov Project is an effort to expand awareness of the public documents and records of the U.S. Government via print publications. In broadening the public understanding of government and its work, an enlightened democracy can grow and prosper. Ranging from historic Congressional Bills...

One of the most debated topics in law and politics is the role that science should play in setting policy. What does it mean to demand that politicians and the People themselves "follow the science" if science deals with questions of fact, not matters...

Author: Derek DavisISBN-10: 0879756497ISBN-13: 9780879756499Publisher: Prometheus BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/01/1991Pages: 221Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.79lbsSize: 8.38h x 5.96w x 0.76dReview Citation(s): Library Journal 04/01/1991Publishers Weekly 03/15/1991Choice 06/01/2006 pg. 1755

This book analyses the response of the Indonesian state to violence against Ahmadiyah and Shi'a minority communities by foregrounding the close connections between state officials and vigilante groups, which influenced the way the post-Soeharto democratic Indonesian governments addressed the problem of violence against religious...

Lucilius A. Emery (July 27, 1840 - August 26, 1920), of Portland, Maine, was a Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court from October 5, 1883 to July 27, 1911. Born in Carmel, Maine, Emery graduated from Bowdoin College in 1861 and read law...

A groundbreaking logic-based approach to bridging the scientific-constructivist divide in social science The Logic of Social Science offers new principles for designing and conducting social science research. James Mahoney uses set-theoretic analysis to develop a fresh scientific constructivist approach that avoids essentialist biases in...

Political Science: An Introduction to Global Politics: Political Theory and Philosophy, is a book on World Politics. The book is an introduction to Political Science and International relations. In political theory, the book deals with the study of political instructions along with the theories...

Rational Choice and Criminal Behavior is a collection of essays by experts in the field of criminal justice examines various aspects of the rational choice framework, which deals with the degree to which criminal behavior represents a rational choice. The editors also include essays...

Must-read classic from the brilliant French economist and philospher.Author: M. Frederic BastiatISBN-10: 1600960596ISBN-13: 9781600960598Publisher: Waking Lion PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/30/2008Pages: 112Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.39lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.27d

From George Washington to Martin Luther King to George W. Bush--inspiring speeches from American history. Author: Alex BarnettISBN-10: 1592287956ISBN-13: 9781592287956Publisher: Lyons PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/01/2006Pages: 336Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.94lbsSize: 6.74h x 6.76w x 0.97dReview Citation(s): Kliatt 09/01/2006 pg. 38

****The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), or the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS or DAISH/DAESH in Arabic), is a militant group that has called itself the Islamic State. ****A terrorist group, as designated by Security Council under Resolution 2170,...

The oldest of human institutions, monarchy has been tried in a range of variations through the ages. The absolute power of kings and emperors gave way to constitutional monarchy before losing popularity in the modern age. This compelling guide traces the history of monarchs...

"We can win the war without killing a single person." Just days prior to deploying to combat in Afghanistan, Lieutenant Colonel Walter Piatt, commander of the 2nd Battalion, 27th Infantry "Wolfhounds," announced this visionary statement in front of an assembly of 800 infantrymen and...

We see the bloodshed, the hatred, the greed, the ruthless brutality, and then we look to see who is making or letting this madness happen. We find that male excesses, not male needs-certainly not women's and children's needs-drive the world. Clive James, the well-known...

This is a new edition of Locke's timeless classic.Author: John LockeISBN-10: 145375427XISBN-13: 9781453754276Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/07/2010Pages: 98Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.47lbsSize: 10.00h x 7.99w x 0.20d

Wokeness, cancel culture, identity politics, political correctness, multiculturalism--terms unsettling but also somehow inescapable. Thomas F. Powers shows how these are all one thing, elements of one broad political phenomenon--the anti-discrimination regime---that has since 1964 been working to challenge and undermine America's defining liberal democratic...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you...

This is a curated and comprehensive collection of the most important works covering matters related to national security, diplomacy, defense, war, strategy, and tactics. The collection spans centuries of thought and experience, and includes the latest analysis of international threats, both conventional and asymmetric....