Political Science - General

Concentrating on three countries, Spain, France and the United Kingdom, and three regional case studies of Galicia, Brittany and Wales, this book offers an analysis of the development of political regionalism after regionalisation.Author: Frans SchrijverISBN-10: 9056294288ISBN-13: 9789056294281Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/30/2006Pages: 434Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.34lbsSize: 9.21h...

Johnny simply added, "You'll see, my love!!!" Just like we did before, "You'll see!!!" And then wished he could share even this with the old Time Keeper, and sent up a sigh full of gratitude!!! A gratitude that will never be measured only expressed...

From September 1990 to June 1991, the UK deployed 53,462 military personnel in the Gulf War. After the end of the conflict anecdotal reports of various disorders affecting troops who fought in the Gulf began to surface. This mysterious illness was given the name...

When a political protestor in the Middle East puts a .357 Magnum to Sunny McMurtrey's face and begins to squeeze the trigger, her view of the world instantly changes. In "Don't Put a Cat on Your Head!" (Stories from a Global Cowgirl), Sunny shares...

This three-part report, ELECTION 2000: Uncounted Votes & Election Reform, covers a number of vital issues raised concerning the U.S. presidential election process. PART 1 is a statistical analysis originally issued by the U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO) on the factors that affected uncounted...

Theory in and out of Context furthers discourse and understanding about the complex phenomenon we know as play. Play, as a human and animal activity, can be understood in terms of cultural, social, evolutionary, psychological, and philosophical perspectives.This effort necessarily includes inquiry from a...

Highlights the current chasm between teacher education theories (praxeologies) and the actual experience of teaching (praxis). Many traditional teacher education programs emphasize teaching based on reflection and deliberation; yet, when a new teacher is in a unique situation, there is not always time to...

"Deception is eating out soul. It corrupts and debases us. Whatever moral good we have stood for has been eroded by this disease. Its legacy is our resort to torture in our misapplied "war on terrorism", exhumed out of the ruins of 9/11... Our...

This book will surprise some, anger some, rekindle the human spirit in some, re-establish partnerships of the sixties and seventies, and make some laugh, but its main point is to get you to talk to your Black friends at work, politicians in your cities...

NASA's Advanced Engineering Environment (AEE) is a research and development program that will improve collaboration among design engineers for launch vehicle conceptual design and provide the infrastructure (methods and framework) necessary to enable that environment. In this paper, three major technical challenges facing the...

The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) is an independent agency that works for Congress. The GAO watches over Congress, and investigates how the federal government spends taxpayers dollars. The Comptroller General of the United States is the leader of the GAO, and is appointed...

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...

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Thermophobia means "fear of warmth" Did you know that Global Warming made civilization possible 12,000 years ago? Did you know that strong tornadoes (EF3-EF5) are on a 60-year downtrend? (NOAA) Did you know that hurricanes and typhoons are on a similar downtrend? (Dr. Ryan...

"Why Nigeria May never be a Great Nation" takes the reader through the early formation of the country and how things went wrong from inception. It discusses how the British decision during the amalgamation of northern and southern Nigeria was based on self-interests that...

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This original work combines technical analysis of the North-South, Third World debt crisis with a description of the political frameworks used to analyze this issue. . . . Business professionals who want a deeper understanding of the debt question, as well as scholars of...

Teacher professional development requires a dynamic vision of education. The authors argue that teaching and teacher education are moral rather than technical or instrumental endeavors, and describe a highly innovative master's program for practicing teachers founded in 1992. By describing important aspects of the...

Author: Francis Graham Wilson,UnknownISBN-10: 0837179807ISBN-13: 9780837179803Publisher: PraegerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/22/1975Pages: 322Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.32lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d

How does religious identity inform a person's sexual identity and vice versa? Sexual Identity Synthesis: Attributions, Meaning-Making, and the Search for Congruence answers these questions in this groundbreaking study on the development and synthesis of sexual identity among Christians who experience same-sex attraction.Author: Mark...

What is the role of the public bureaucracy in social, economic, and political development? What are the alternatives of development for newly emerging nation-states? How does a bureaucracy satisfy or inhibit the requisites of democratic development? Twelve outstanding scholars--Joseph LaPalombara, Fritz Morstein Marx, S....

Representing the first comprehensive study of its kind, this book evaluates the comparative performance of national environmental policies since the beginning of the modern environmental era. Unlike other comparative studies, it looks directly at the purpose of environmental policy: pollution reduction. Lyle Scruggs presents...

The 1995-1996 edition of the Index to International Public Opinion has even greater coverage than earlier volumes in the series. Coverage has been increased to 71 countries where surveys were conducted, and 105 countries and regions are referenced in these studies. Data compiled by...

The Armenian terrorist movement is the subject of Michael Gunter's analysis. Beginning with an introductory overview of recent Armenian terrorist attacks against Turkish diplomats and property and perceived allies of the Turks, he then examines historical motivations and goals of the Armenian terrorist movement....

In this essay collection, a variety of authorities explore the significance of parent-child interaction and its implications for all stages of family life. Numerous aspects of this socialization process in changing societies throughout the world are represented, for relatively uniform societies, such as in...

This book examines the role of the military in the wave of democratization that has swept through Latin America in the past decade. Although much of the leading literature on the transition to democracy recognizes the importance of hardline and softline factions within the...

The overall economic performance of Caribbean countries has declined markedly in recent times. The weak export performance of these trade-oriented economies is highlighted as the principal factor responsible for the economic deterioration. The author attempts to identify the major determinants of their export performance....

Seth Carus's book is a unique combination of scholarly discipline and astute political judgment. This is a succinct and insightful analysis of one of the most vital security challenges of this century. Janne E. Nolan Senior Fellow The Brookings Institution Since the vivid images...

Here is the first book to look at African politics and the new problems facing the military leadership. The contributors to The Military in African Politics have divided the regimes into three categories or case studies. These studies focus on the characteristics of the...

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Author: James OntraISBN-13: 9798218861933Publisher: Pragmatic PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/11/2025Pages: 194Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.51lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.41d

The Abraham Alliance: The False Promise of Peace is a timely and prophetic examination of the Middle East's rapidly shifting alliances and the global push toward a new era of political unity. As world leaders promote diplomacy, treaties, and regional cooperation, the Bible offers...

Practical Anarchy - A Guide To Self Determination is both a history lesson and a survival guide. It takes the word "anarchy" out of the gutter of tabloid headlines and puts it back where it belongs - in the everyday acts of solidarity, resistance...

ANDREW J. POPPLETON: FIGHTER for Omaha City, the Union Pacific Railroad, and Chief Standing BearDiscover the incredible life of Andrew J. Poppleton and how he shaped Omaha's first fifty years. This biography will inspire and amaze you with its tales of perseverance, courage, and...

This monograph reconstructs the dynamics of treaty changes in 1950-2014 and presents the prospects for EU treaty reform after Russia's aggression against Ukraine in 2022. It also assesses treaty reforms in the European Communities and the EU in 1950-2024 and identifies which member states...

This book explores the effect of the pandemic on human rights; civil and political rights (CPR); economic, social, and cultural rights (ESCR); and freedoms around the world.The COVID-19 pandemic radically changed many aspects of the lives of individuals and entire societies. This crisis and...

What would Marx make of artificial general intelligence? In this provocative and accessible book, Alvaro Rivas reexamines the classic Marxian questions of value, class, and ideology in the era of AI, autonomous agents, and data extraction. Marx argued that surplus-value is created only through...

1975 The Ballads of the Whitlam Dismissal uses bush ballads and investigative journalism to commemorate the Whitlam Dismissal in 1975 with forensic detail, smoking guns, the guilty called to account and Australian democracy given a gentle push to maintain our independence.Gough was confronted by...

This book focuses on one of the all-time primary interests of all researchers--finding new perspectives and research topics--and expands it. What new routes could aesthetics, philosophy of art and the aesthetic take today and in the future? Thirteen authors open new doors for the...

The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), comprising Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, Oman, and Bahrain, is of unparalleled geopolitical importance. Its vast oil reserves, strategic location at the crossroads of three continents, and increasingly assertive foreign policy make it a key player in global...

This Data Guide provides the documentation of a national survey on religious and secular attitudes and behaviour in Dutch society 2011-2012.Author: R. EisingaISBN-10: 9085550777ISBN-13: 9789085550778Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/2012Pages: 184Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.01lbsSize: 11.69h x 8.27w x 0.40d

Submitted Assignment from the year 2021 in the subject Politics - Topic: Public International Law and Human Rights, grade: 71, University of East London, course: INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAW, language: English, abstract: This essay seeks to examine the impact and application of the Rome Statute...

The purpose of this volume is to bring together a set of chapters that investigate the communication practices through which Chinese societies are creating their civil foundations for the next millennium. Civic Discourse, Civil Society, and Chinese Communities, reflects both the emphasis on analyzing...

From clones, family, abortion, terrorism, and the concept of the collective to economics, nuclear power, cap and trade, renewable energy, and the politics of climate change, Everest and Bedogne do something much needed and remarkably absent in today's media. They strip away the layers...

CAPITALISM, DEMOCRACY & EMERGING CHRISTIANITY As the world seems to be self-destructing with war, social upheaval, terrorism, rapid ecological damage, global warming, financial meltdowns, dire poverty, and increasing disparities of wealth, humankind is being forced to mend its ways or become an extinct species....

Jonathan Kozol has been a leading educational critic and social activist since 1967 when Death at an Early Age, his book about racism in Boston's schools, was published and won a National Book Award. Since then, Kozol has written eleven more books which focus...

In this gripping narrative, Bob Polk explores what national security is at its essence and how it can be improved to solve the problems that haunt the world today. Looking through the eyes of a fictional president, White House staff and other key participants,...

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This account is based on records of the U.S. Marine Corps, selected records of other services, and appropriate published works. The study provides insight into the mechanics of the battle from the highest echelon of command to the smallest unit. This is a story...