Political Science - General

After defining the aims and requirements to be set for a control system of gas-turbine power plants for aircraft, the report will deal with devices that prevent the quantity of fuel supplied per unit of time from exceeding the value permissible at a given...

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 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 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...

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 professional development school (PDS) is a unique educational reform initiative that attempts the simultaneous reform of education at the school and the university. By conducting reform at both levels of education, the PDS is a solution to the piecemeal reforms of the past,...

Author: SwainISBN-10: 173741984XISBN-13: 9781737419846Publisher: Be the People BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/02/2025Pages: 132Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.31d

"AGGIE GOES TO AFRICA" is a wonderful book that describes Mike Pavelka's experiences in the remote part of Western Africa. When Mike's job took him to Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, he would never have thought having to work in such a unique environment, entirely different...

Author: Harley T. BlakemanISBN-10: 1979972826ISBN-13: 9781979972826Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/15/2017Pages: 102Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.27lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.24d

REL036000 This book is a Retired U. S. Marine's common sense, plain language review of the 2008 Historic U. S. Elections. It is also a critical analysis of Conservatives who sarcastically crowned President Obama "Messiah" and "The Anointed One" but didn't realize that he...

This book grapples with the challenges inherent in an uncertain period for global human rights and explores the future of international human rights law and practice.Many Western scholars are increasingly pessimistic about the future of international human rights law. However, the contributions to this...

An illuminating history of religious and political controversy in nineteenth-century Bengal, where Protestant missionary activity spurred a Christian conversion "panic" that indelibly shaped the trajectory of Hindu and Muslim politics. In 1813, the British Crown adopted a policy officially permitting Protestant missionaries to evangelize...

Brace yourself for a seismic shift in economic thinking with "ASEAN UNBOUND" - a groundbreaking manifesto that dares to challenge conventional wisdom and unleash the shockwaves of transformation upon the ASEAN region.Drawing inspiration from China's meteoric rise as the world's manufacturing powerhouse, this audacious...

Evidence Based Policing (EBP) exerts significant influence on how actors think, act and speak about UK policing to the point that it is becoming institutionalised. Inspired by the insights of Michel Foucault into power-knowledge, governmentality and institutional reform over time, this book provides a...

Narrative Medicine in Action: Lessons from the Maternal Mortality Project addresses the United States's ongoing maternal health crisis by extracting findings from eighteen underrepresented women's interviews using narrative medical research that is analyzed through the reproductive justice framework. To mitigate obstetric abuse and adverse...

The book explores the psychological-cultural dimension of the United States-Canada relationship by analyzing how each country has viewed the other. Drawing on a wide range of data the books explores how Americans and Canadians have viewed one another from the moment they were launched...

In recent decades, the Netherlands and Flanders have faced challenges in how to deal with a multicultural society. As far as worldviews are concerned, the question arises whether the state should guarantee a maximum level of choice concerning religion and humanism to individuals or...

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,...

"Obafemi Awolowo was an individual who was not only ahead of his time; he was ahead of his environment and light-years ahead of his peers. As a social philosopher, he was not content merely to see ahead but to prescribe confidently ahead."- Professor Wole...

This handbook advances the interdisciplinary field of Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE) by identifying thirty-five topics of ongoing research. Instead of focusing on historically significant texts, it features experts talking about current debates. Individually, each chapter provides a resource for new research. Together, the...

Manufacturing jobs once abundant in our cities across the nation have left the country leaving the American worker unemployed. Many have never recovered. They went from living productive lives to becoming victims of lifetime disability, poverty, mental illness, drug addiction, and homelessness leading to...

Why do US and EU think tanks diverge in their roles, priorities, and main constituencies? Providing the first substantive analytical comparison of think tanks in Washington and Brussels, this book explores the differences that exist and why they developed. Two principal variables are identified...

Founded in 1935 by a young publisher disillusioned with the class prejudices of the interwar publishing trade, Penguin Books set out to make good books available to all. The 'Penguin Specials', a series of current affairs books authored by leading intellectuals and politicians, embodied...

The period since the end of the Cold War has been characterised by an acceleration in the European integration process, a changing pattern of political ideologies and the emergence of new political parties and issues. This book assesses the impact of these phenomena on...

Diploma Thesis from the year 2011 in the subject Politics - Environmental Policy, grade: 1,0, University of Potsdam (Lehrstuhl für Internationale Politik), language: English, abstract: The problem of deforestation and forest degradation is currently highly prominent on the international agenda. In September 2001, the...

Existing literature on Vietnam's ASEAN membership causes not few puzzles. This book endeavors to throw new light on the problem, investigating the dynamics of Vietnam's ASEAN-based integration policy since the late 1980s to pursue the three mutually reinforcing strategic goals: economic development and industrialization...

Just what we want to hear: "Thank you for a job well done" or "I really appreciate the kindness and patience you showed me" or "Your act of generosity helped me at a critical time in my life" or "You are a great example...

This is a new release of the original 1935 edition.Author: Charles D'YdewalleISBN-10: 1494079798ISBN-13: 9781494079796Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/27/2013Pages: 312Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.92lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.65d

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 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 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...

Charger design that is 2-fault tolerant to catastrophic has been achieved for the Spacesuit Li-ion Battery with key features. Power supply control circuit and 2 microprocessors independently control against overcharge. 3 microprocessor control against undercharge (false positive: Go for EVA) conditions. 2 independent channels...

Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed economic sanctions, focusing on the: (1) political goals economic sanctions can and cannot achieve; (2) socioeconomic, political, and psychological effects of sanctions; and (3) circumstances in which sanctions are likely to succeed or fail. GAO found that:...

In 1913 Russia and France had arranged that the Russians should make a rapid advance against the Germans in East Prussia in order to create a diversion to relieve the pressure against the French on the Western Front. This advance into East Prussia was...

The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) is a federal freedom of information law that allows for the full or partial disclosure of previously unreleased information and documents controlled by the United States government. The Act defines agency records subject to disclosure, outlines mandatory disclosure...

This report describes work conducted by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) as part of the Wind Technology Partnership (WTP) sponsored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). This project has developed methods that the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) intends to use...

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 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...

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...

Between 2000 and 2005, colour revolutions swept away authoritarian and semi-authoritarian regimes in Serbia, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan and Ukraine. Yet, after these initial successes, attempts to replicate the strategies failed to produce regime change elsewhere in the region. The book argues that students of democratization...

Over recent decades International Relations scholars have investigated norm dynamics processes at some length, with the 'norm entrepreneur' concept having become a common reference point in the literature. The focus on norm entrepreneurs has, however, resulted in a bias towards investigating the agents and...

The international debt crisis that erupted in 1982 threatened the world financial system and turned the 1980s into a lost decade for Latin America. But the crisis jolted governments throughout the region into adopting sweeping economic reforms. By the early 1990s inflation was lower,...

This lively book examines the major issues raised by the emergence and transformation of various political identities in the contemporary world. The contributors bring together many current trends of thought--Lacanian psychoanalysis, deconstruction, neo-Hegelianism and political philosophy--that are relevant to the question of identity, as...

'Is politics gendered? Wendy Brown things so, and argues for this point with elegance, imagination and pungent phrases. Brown's book is challenging, provocative and...original; it does force us to question the degree to which gender controls our politics.'-THE REVIEW OF POLITICSAuthor: Wendy L. BrownISBN-10:...

This insightful study offers the first comprehensive overview of the theology and praxis of Roman Catholic theologian Heribert M?hlen.Author: Wolfgang VondeyISBN-10: 0761828176ISBN-13: 9780761828174Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/BloomsburyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/13/2004Pages: 440Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.23lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.98d

European cities are on the rise, taking advantage of the opportunities of the European integration and globalization processes. But they also face economic changes, social inequalities, poverty, and a new set of constraints. Taking examples through the European Union, the new book shows the...

Sport is frequently considered to be an aspect of popular culture that is, or should be, untainted by the political. However, there is a broad consensus among academics that sport is often at the heart of the political and the political is often central...

Factual misinformation is spread in conflict zones around the world, often with dire consequences. But when is this misinformation actually believed, and when is it not? Seeing is Disbelieving examines the appeal and limits of dangerous misinformation in war, and is the go-to text...