Political Science - General

The Ontology of Pain: A New Metaphysics of Existence by Muhammad Taha Alam redefines pain as the foundation of Being, challenging traditional metaphysical views that equate existence with harmony or perfection. ​ Pain is presented as the first vibration of existence-the strain that makes...

This edition presents the GDPR - General Data Protection Regulation, including the full, unabridged text of Regulation (EU) 2016/679, adopted by the European Parliament and the Council on 27 April 2016. Clear, organized, and fully faithful to the official document, this volume offers a...

Sid Corelli: A Life of Significance is a moving, multi-volume memoir that celebrates a lifetime of faith, perseverance, and purpose. From humble beginnings shaped by family, faith, and the quiet strength of mentors, to a journey across America and beyond-from New York and Virginia...

Unless you're Robinson Crusoe or a hermit, all of us must build relationships with other people every day, at work and at home. Every country, one way or another, has a set of rules that dictate how to do this successfully. Some people explain...

This book discusses the concept of environmental policy in the context of the property market. It presents debates between the environment, property market interfaces and urban impacts. The real estate market's relationship with natural space points to central issues that should be reflected on...

This book explores migrant students' struggles for equitable access to higher education in Canada, focusing on a first-of-its-kind bridging program at York University.Through the concepts of "bordering" and "countering," Villegas and Aberman examine how students excluded due to immigration status resisted systemic barriers by...

This book explores the transformative role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the field of drug development. It examines how AI accelerates drug discovery by predicting molecular interactions, identifying promising compounds, and reducing time and cost. The book delves into AI-powered mechanisms for analysing drug...

The largest group of gun purchasers today are liberals and Democrats. Their reasons vary, but most want to be ready because many radical far-right Trump supporters have gotten them in recent years. Uncertainty about our democracy is a real fear. Many far-right Trump supporters...

Europe has been in the most complex crisis since the Second World War. Once the world's bastion of liberal, democratic values, Europe has to confront demons it thought it had laid to rest. The old pathologies of populist nationalism, anti-Semitism, and territorial aggression are...

Constitutional political economy is a research program that directs inquiry to the working properties of rules and institutions within which individuals interact and to the processes through which these rules and institutions are chosen or come into being. This book makes the case for...

Agricultural pollution (with nitrates and pesticides) is one of the biggest threats to drinking water resources. At many places regional and local water authorities, together with the water supply industry, are involved in preventive action aimed at farming practices. Three national case studies (Germany,...

The intertwinement of EC law and national law may create unforeseeability in situations where EC law invades the national cases, which gives rise to the very question of legal certainty in EC law. This study contributes to the contemporary discussion, which wrestles with the...

where Jeremy Richardson, Albert Weale and Hugh Ward were excellent hosts at the Department of Government and Thomas Christiansen a very good roommate. Having included the UK as a country where decision processes were far less participatory (and thus 'worse' in my own view)...

In Visual Political Communication in Popular Chinese Television Series, Florian Schneider analyses political discourses in Chinese TV dramas, the most popular entertainment format in China today.Author: Florian SchneiderISBN-10: 9004221484ISBN-13: 9789004221482Publisher: BrillLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/14/2012Pages: 308Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.30lbsSize: 9.50h x 6.30w x 0.90d

A Refreshingly Sensible Book about an Optimistic Future for Humanity!Evolutionary science doesn't answer it. Religion generally doesn't seem to answer it. The elephant in the room is a question that demands a response: What is the practical purpose of the earth? Does one exist?If...

WaSai! You are suddenly planning to go to China and have no idea what will happen there to you? You only have a few hours to prepare yourself for this journey no matter whether you're going there for studying, business, traveling, or any other...

Depending on their national level of income, development and modernization, all countries in the world can be generally categorized as either advanced or developing. Studies on why advanced countries continue to develop, how they maintain their level of development, and how developing countries enter...

On July 30, 2002, President George W. Bush signed into law the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, also known as the Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act of 2002. At the heart of the Act is the mandate for corporate reform from the...

This Brief explores the role of social crime prevention as a crime reduction strategy in the developing world. "Social crime prevention" focuses on the social and economic factors that may contribute to violence and criminal behavior in a community. Particularly in the developing world,...

This book offers the first historical account of Kurdish women's politicization in Turkey, starting from the mid-1980s. Çağlayan presents a critical feminist analysis through women's everyday experiences, incorporating women's self-narrations with her own autoethnographic reflections. The author provides an account of the socio-political dynamics...

When HIV hit America in the 80s, it decimated the LGBT communities, and it forever changed the course of national sex education. But what happened to the people who survived the epidemic? What happens to people who are diagnosed today?This book tracks the lives...

A striking new book about Western Philosophy and the Arab Spring that dares to ask readers, if you don't understand the essential tenets of freedom and democracy, what are you fighting for? The Lantern is a political and philosophical think piece, exploring the complex...

This book offers a broad reconstruction of the modern notion of sovereignty, a comprehensive critique of state-inflicted violence, and a concept of non-coercive law for our contemporary world society. Author: Daniel LoickISBN-10: 1786600390ISBN-13: 9781786600394Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield PublishersLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/06/2018Pages: 278Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.97lbsSize: 8.90h...

NO RIGHTS questions what freedom is. It's a coming of age tale about a young Tajik girl tragically hit by a car, then as she recovers in the hospital has to worry about war just outside the hospital walls. This girl's life spirals into...

Risky readingSo how many family gatherings have been ruined by someone bringing up a particularly touchy subject and obnoxiously pressing it until relatives and friends either fled or committed assault and battery?How many Thanksgiving dinners have been spoiled by ugly political conversations or graphic...

Here is a cry for feminist revolution. In this work, Charlotte Perkins Gilman details how male-dominated culture has, through the very social devices that keep it in place, conspired to produce greater human suffering than is truly necessary. In this landmark work she explains...

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...

Politicking and campaigning are carried out in specific standard ways with just one purpose in mind although it has several ramifications and diversifications. No matter how different the situations may be, the frameworks are all the same: to confuse, deceive, or bamboozle, with the...

​​​This book examines hybrid tribunals created in Sierra Leone, Kosovo, Cambodia, East Timor, and Lebanon, in terms of their origins (the political and social forces that led to their creation), the legal regimes that they used, their various institutional structures, and the challenges that...

As both the twenty-first century and the new millennium opened and the old eras passed into history, individuals and organizations throughout the world advanced their listings of the most significant people and events in their respective specialties. Possibly more important, the tum of the...

This book covers the Bush Administration's last two years in office. The essays focus primarily on the federal government's handling of the crises perpetrated by the preemptive invasion of Iraq. This includes the misinformation coming from the White House, the incompetence of the military,...

National Politics Is Everybody's Business is a compilation of newspaper columns and letters written by John D. Rigazio, a former businessman from Barrington, NH, who ran for President of the United States in 2004. It gives his insight on many problems facing the United...

The tragedy of September 11, 2001, rocked the American world. Families were torn apart; innocent lives were lost by the thousand. It is a day that will stand in infamy for the American people. However, it is so easy to forget that 9/11 did...

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The United States Government Printing Office (GPO) was created in June 1860, and is an agency of the U.S. federal government based in Washington D.C. The office prints documents produced by and for the federal government, including Congress, the Supreme Court, the Executive Office...

In the 1970's the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) was made to manage our oceanic and atmospheric resources. The Southwest Fisheries Science Center is the research arm of NOAA's Southwest Region. Scientists study all areas from the Pacific Ocean to the Antarctic to...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was introduced on December 2, 1970 by President Richard Nixon. The agency is charged with protecting human health and the environment, by writing and enforcing regulations based on laws passed by Congress. The EPA's struggle to protect health...

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Poli Sci Fi: An Introduction to Political Science through Science Fiction allows readers, students, and instructors to explore the multiple worlds of science fiction while gaining a firm grasp of core political science concepts. This carefully composed text is comprised of sixteen brief chapters,...

The Soviet Space Programme (1988) presents a comprehensive over-view of the Soviet space programme from its beginnings up to the end of the 1980s. One important theme explored is the degree to which the Soviet space programme was oriented towards military capabilities, and concludes...

Varieties of Clientelism makes the case that clientelistic politics takes different forms in different countries, and that this variation matters for understanding democracy, elections and governance. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Democratization.Author: Edward AspinallISBN-10: 1032402733ISBN-13: 9781032402734Publisher:...

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