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'Praful Bidwai's analysis and conclusions compel serious engagement both by academics and political leaders.' - K.N. Panikkar 'Bidwai's assessments will undoubtedly trigger further discussion.' - Romila Thapar 'Praful raises the right questions and is scrupulously fair.' - Susan George India still has a significant...

Sweden is internationally renowned for its generous welfare state. However, over the past decades, changes in economic circumstances and population composition, as well as increasing population concentration in larger urban areas, have imposed new challenges to the Swedish model. What does this imply for...

Cybercrimes committed against persons include various crimes like transmission of child-pornography harassment of any one with the use of a computer such as email. The trafficking, distribution, posting and dissemination of obscene material including pornography and indecent exposure, constitutes one of the most important...

The aim of the book is to explore how the morphological system of German has evolved historically. There are several components of a morphological system that are subject to change, in particular derivation, inflection, and compounding. These components are not static over time, and...

Welcome to the battlefield of the future-where wars are fought not only with soldiers and tanks, but with artificial intelligence, autonomous drones, and cyberattacks. As the world enters the era of War 4.0, the rules of conflict are being rewritten, and the lines between...

Targeted killing of terrorists has become an established practice in the fight against terrorism. The disturbing consequences of the practice and its increasing political and societal acceptance raise questions as to its justifiability and its place in counter-terrorism. Anna Goppel explores whether targeted killing...

The book aims to explore the legal and administrative aspects of spatial governance and the challenges that their interaction entails. It does this through a number of chapters focusing on case studies located in different geographical areas of Europe and beyond. By doing this,...

This book offers an answer to the question, "Why are Presidential debates so bad?" The answer could be that the Commission on Presidential Debates ruined them, or it could be that we don't really know how to watch or judge a debate. This book...

This book addresses key challenges facing global political communication at a time in which transformations in political practice, media ecology and cultural expectations both threaten traditional democratic norms and point to potential new ways of enacting political democracy. Drawing upon the outstanding theoretical insights...

*Includes pictures *Includes Heart's own accounts of her kidnapping and case *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of contents "For me, my awakening came when I was kidnapped." - Patty Hearst "I finally figured out what my crime...

The policy manual aims at establishing a linkage through various research papers to the need for international cooperation in making policies for sustainable development goals. The papers presented in this symposium have a common objective of establishing broader networking among youth leaders and emancipators...

A cross between an academic journal and any higher-end news features magazine. It is a bi-monthly publication targeted principally at policy makers, policy makers, policy moulders, professionals, intellectuals and 'stakeholders' in African affairs. The aim is to have a platform where Africanists can engage...

This fascinating book examines 50 capital crimes committed in Great Britain in the 20th century in which the accused was found guilty and either executed or sentenced to life imprisonment.Author: John J. EddlestonISBN-10: 1851093435ISBN-13: 9781851093434Publisher: ABC-CLIOLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/26/2000Pages: 445Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.75lbsSize: 9.44h x 6.38w...

The office of Lord Chancellor is one that has frequently been questioned. However, the extent and diversity of the questioning seldom attained the proportions reached in the final years of the twentieth century, when they drew attention to the deficiencies of the position of...

Do you think you understand people? Think again. Most of us have a completely inaccurate picture of how we, and other human beings, think and behave. This leads us to set unrealistic expectations for ourselves, build societies that actually harm us, and struggle to...

"This book explores online education's optimal design and management so that more students, especially those traditionally underserved, are successful and can contribute to their communities and society. Additionally, it looks at the political/regulatory, diversity, and socioeconomic impacts on online education, especially for online education...

In today's modernized world, implementing technology into the infrastructures of communities has become a common custom. The idea of digital economy has proven to be an efficient, dynamic, and highly adaptable mode of performance, and regions across the globe have begun applying these digital...

'A wonderfully concise and caustic account of the current financial meltdown.' Big Issue in the North 'Vivid and compelling.' Tony Benn Reader, is your life dominated by Bureaucracy, Beancounters and Bullshit? Is your workplace full of Complicationists? Do you see, all around you, the...

With illustrations and photographsp in full color.Author: Jack D. Kem, Army Command and General Staff College, Us Army Combined Arms CenterISBN-10: 1782662936ISBN-13: 9781782662938Publisher: Military BookshopLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/30/2012Pages: 300Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.06lbsSize: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.63d

Late in his administration Donald Trump attempted to subvert the Department of Justice (DOJ) and bend it to his will by replacing top DOJ officials with his own cohorts and cronies. He attempted in at least nine meetings to undermine the DOJ and results...

After a startling discovery during a visit to the site if the Nazi Trials in Nuremberg, Germany, George Monroe spent six years researching and writing about his emerging discoveries revealing that hidden enemies are hard at work on a stealthy plan to kill democracy...

This unique book traces the history of climate change through published accounts dating back hundreds of years. It's like readers have subscriptions to old newspapers and are reading their predecessors' concerns firsthand. The author traces the thoughts and actions of "climate changers" from the...

In 1963 there was a French agronomist named René Dumont who published a book: False start in Africa in this book it explains the economic and development difficulties that Africa was facing so since then what is the real situation of Africa today? The...

In Interdependent Economy, author Liem Giok In investigates the causes of today's imbalanced world economy. In her analysis, she frees macroeconomic thinking from the straitjacket of the micro-logic of growth, opening up a whole new space where policy proposals can unfold. Furthermore, she does...

This book calls for the formation of a Real Party of America to represent the Middle Class. It is an Indictment of both the Democratic and the Republican Parties for the devisive political chaos they created in America today. Both parties are controlled by...

The 1948 Declaration of Human Rights demanded a collaboration among exponents from around the world. Embodying many different cultural perspectives, it was driven by a like-minded belief in the importance of finding common principles that would be essential for the very survival of civilization....

New Paths Dissects the Legal Trends of Late 1940s. Notable for their conservatism, which became more pronounced in subsequent publications, these lectures reflect on developments in the international legal order during the late 1940s. Pound detected three legal "paths" those of liberty, humanitarianism and...

Bertrand Russell, a Welsh atheist, wore many hats including philosopher, historical, logician, mathematician, and social reformist. In 1950 he won a Nobel Prize in literature for his humanitarianism and freedom of thought. In this book Russell attempts to give an easily accessible look at...

The Rights of War and Peace establishes a system of international law based on the concept of natural law. Natural law, as Grotius describes it, is law that applies to all people, regardless of country or nationality. This law establishes concepts like "justifiable war"...

This book is the THE source for information on virtual worlds, covering every aspect of this intriguing and fast-changing social practice and the technologies upon which it rests. Virtual Lives: A Reference Handbook describes the history, development, and role of virtual worlds, also known...

New Paths Dissects the Legal Trends of Late 1940s Notable for their conservatism, which became more pronounced in subsequent publications, these lectures reflect on developments in the international legal order during the late 1940s. Pound detected three legal "paths" those of liberty, humanitarianism and...

An innovative narrative approach combines history, politics, and legal doctrine to explore the origin and evolution of Americans' constitutional right to free speech. In a field dominated by jargon-filled texts and march-of-progress treatments, this book presents an insightful introduction to freedom of speech, skillfully...

The unification of Germany is the most important change in Central Europe in the last four decades. Understanding this rapid and unforeseen development has raised old fears as well as inspired new hopes. In order to make sense out of the bewildering process and...

The True Cost of Conflict is the first book to show in clear and accessible terms the vast price of conflict to the human race. The result of a unique collaboration among six international humanitarian organizations, this book reveals not only the number of...

The Saudi Kingdom: Between the Jihadi Hammer and the Iranian Anvil presents a candid and insightful analysis of Saudi Arabia's political instability in light of the mounting domestic and international challenges facing the country today. Directly addressing Saudi Arabia's inert monarchical ruling system, its...

The volume focuses on the cultural, economic, demographic, and political dimensions of changing social and spatial boundaries that both separate and link urban and rural America.Author: Daniel T. LichterISBN-10: 1544302363ISBN-13: 9781544302362Publisher: Sage Publications, IncLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/08/2017Pages: 96Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.96lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.65d

Aristotle was a student of Plato and a teacher of Alexander the Great. His writings include philosophy, logic, rhetoric, government, biology and zoology. This treatise is one of the most influential texts on the history of political thought. By examining how societies are run...

Today, when natural disasters such as hurricanes and earthquakes seem to be regular occurrences, it can be hard to hold out hope for a better tomorrow. But in Save Our Troubled World, author James Chen dares to dream of a new era where the...

Today, when natural disasters such as hurricanes and earthquakes seem to be regular occurrences, it can be hard to hold out hope for a better tomorrow. But in Save Our Troubled World, author James Chen dares to dream of a new era where the...

The book discusses the economic problems we face in the world today, especially in developed countries--the stagnation and decline of household incomes and productivity growth and the growing threat to western political systems. The book clarifies how the established framework of liberal economics has...

The conflict between conservatives and liberals over public economic policy appears to have become a permanent feature of the American political landscape. Conservatives seek economic solutions with the market as virtually the sole organizing economic principle, invoking individualism inspired by the Declaration of Independence's...

Applications have transformed the collaboration environment from a mere document collection into a highly interconnected social space. These systems interoperate within a social and organizational context that drives their everyday use and provides a rich context for understanding the role of nodes that represent...

Author: Martin CowenISBN-10: 151448689XISBN-13: 9781514486894Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/26/2016Pages: 196Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.45d

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire...

Residential Inequality in American Neighborhoods and Communities. Volume 660, The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, July 2015. This volume, edited by Barrett Lee, Glenn Firebaugh, John Iceland, and Stephen Matthews, consists of 17 papers first presented at the Penn...

This book outlines the procedures used in many Commonwealth countries in key areas of the legislative process, especially on the executive side of government. It also covers the procedures in the legislature and the entry into force of different types of legislation. The jurisdictions...

The main theme of this study is chosen in response to the general consensus on the importance of conducting a comprehensive study that may shape the economic policies and promote the business sector as well as the government and other organizations. However, the key...

Is the government driving people crazy? Liberty & Mental Health - You Can't Have One Without the Other - gives ways to restore sanity both to individuals - and to government. The situation those with mental health problems find themselves in can be considered...

Is the government driving people crazy? Liberty & Mental Health - You Can't Have One Without the Other - gives ways to restore sanity both to individuals - and to government. The situation those with mental health problems find themselves in can be considered...