Political Science - General

By carrying out a groundbreaking analysis of their design and diffusion, this book covers all the major carbon market systems in operation: the EU, RGGI, California, Tokyo, New Zealand, Australia, China, South Korea and Kazakhstan. Author: Jørgen WettestadISBN-10: 0415785421ISBN-13: 9780415785426Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/18/2017Pages: 264Format:...

Redefinitions of EU borders (enlargements, Brexit), geopolitical challenges (conflicts, migrations, terrorism, environmental risks) and the economic and financial crises have triggered debates on the common values that hold European countries and citizens together, justify public action and ensure the sustainability of European governance. This...

A study of the Bosnian Muslims, who are unique in Europe as indigenous Slavic Muslims. The book looks at their history, from being victims of crusades during the Middle Ages to their present plight in former Yugoslavia. It considers how ethnic tolerance turned to...

List of Tables and Figures Introduction PART I: STRATEGIC VISIONS Culture, Human Development and Economic Growth Globalization and the Shape of Things to Come Human Development: Origins, Evolution and Impact The Distribution of Wealth and the Pace of Development (with Amy Ickowitz) PART II:...

This book looks at neo-classicism as a context for understanding early-modern English historical writing, and traces the implications of neo-classical history for English political culture at large. By paying close attention to historical genres and audiences, it reassesses both the famous and lesser-known historians...

Author: Sir Austin RobinsonISBN-10: 0333346475ISBN-13: 9780333346471Publisher: Palgrave MacMillanLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/11/1983Pages: 396Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.43lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.00d

Product information not available.Author: Julian R. FriedmanISBN-10: 0313247676ISBN-13: 9780313247675Publisher: GreenwoodLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/12/1985Pages: 868Format: HardcoverWeight: 3.10lbsSize: 9.46h x 6.36w x 1.90d

People around the world are agitating for democracy and individual rights, but there is no consensus on a theory of liberal democracy that might guide them. What are the first principles of a just society? What political theory should shape public policy in such...

This pioneering study focuses on an area of Soviet and socialist studies until now largely neglected in the literature: social change. The author contends that while most standard analyses of communist regimes purport to be about social change, they are in fact analyzing economic...

Over the past three decades, scholars, government analysts and terrorism experts have examined the relationship between Islam and politics. But specialists have tended to limit their analysis to a specific country or focus. Few works have provided a geographically comprehensive, in-depth analysis. Since 9/11,...

Over three decades have passed since the first wave of Indochinese refugees left their homelands in search of a better life elsewhere. By investigating the Vietnamese diaspora in Asia, and in particular in Hong Kong, this book sheds new light on refugee settlement and...

This edition originally published in 1962. The problems of life and government which are still the central theme of the Republic are still with us but the views presented in it were the outcome of strenuous discussion and they come to the modern reader...

Disappointed by the public reception to "A Treatise of Human Nature", published anonymously between 1739 and 1740, David Hume decided to produce a shorter more polemic version of that work nearly ten years later. That revision, which was published in 1748, would be entitled...

First Published in 1920, "Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil" is the first of three autobiographical works by W. E. B. Du Bois, the American sociologist, educator, author, historian, and civil rights activist. Presented as a collection of essays, poems, and spiritual songs, "Darkwater"...

FINALIST, RELIGION NEWS ASSOCIATION "EXCELLENCE IN RELIGION REPORTING" BOOK AWARD Donald Trump's weaponization of Islamophobia in his first campaign for U.S. president shocked the world. Yet his promise to end the Gaza war rallied many American Muslims to his side in the 2024 election....

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...

In 1901 the National Bureau of Standards (NBS) was founded to provide standard weights and measures and to be the national physical laboratory for the United States of America. The NBS conducted a lot of research in the fields of science and technology which...

This PATH (Partnership for Advancing Technology in Housing) document focuses on technologies that affect cost impacts and environmental issues associated with the land development process. It provides a brief introduction to low impact development and discusses conventional and alternative techniques and technologies that developers...

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...

Official AAR contains a monthly accounting of over-all army operations in the European theater. Supplemented with maps and supporting documents. In 2 volumes with volume II a compilation of general and special staff sections operations reports.Author: Company B. 942nd Engi 652nd Engineer BnISBN-10: 1288559259ISBN-13:...

The Colorado State Publications Library (CoSPL) was established by the General Assembly in 1980 as a part of the Colorado State Library and the Colorado Department of Education. The mission of the library is to provide Colorado residents with permanent public access to information...

The United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE, also sometimes shortened to CoE) is a U.S. federal agency under the Department of Defense and a major Army command made up of some 38,000 civilian and military personnel, making it the world's largest public engineering,...

"Santo Domingo is a volcano that is going to envelop all Latin America in flames." These words, spoken by a professed latin communist at a meeting of the Dominican Republic's Castroite 14th of June Movement, turned world attention to the island known as Hispaniola....

Report by Major Charles Lynch of the medical department detailing Japanese medical procedures used during the war. Covers the organization of the Japanese Army, its medical services, medicine and surgery procedures, hospitals, sanitation, transportation, and medical statistics.Author: War Department General StaffISBN-10: 1288231385ISBN-13: 9781288231386Publisher: BibliogovLanguage:...

The civil rights movement of the United States was a struggle to bring equality under the law to all Americans. To achieve these goals, groups would partake in acts of civil resistance aimed at achieving change by nonviolence. The movement has had a lasting...

The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) is an office that is part of the Cabinet departments and independent agencies of the United States federal government as well as some state and local governments. Each office includes an Inspector General and employees charged with...

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...

This title was first published in 1991: This collection focuses on the concepts and measurements of inequality, poverty, the concentration of wealth, and the implications of these issues for social policies. A special feature of this work is the international comparisons of the evidence...

This title was first published in 1978. This book offers examples of the writings of Renato Constantino, one of the Philippines' most prolific essayists. Editor Meszaros summarizes their unifying theme: 'The colonial strangehold on consciousness is the crucial factor through which the whole society...

Strife has raged about Karl Marx for decades, and never had it been so embittered as at the time of this book's first publication, 1936. Marx had impressed his image on the time as not other had done. To some he was - and...

This book contains several constitutional essays, speeches, letters, and judicial opinions. It shows how Holmes's speeches of criticisms that were directed against the Court at the time and how he lived at the center of lashing intellectual storms, presenting responses to these storms.Author: Frederick...

The accelerating technological transformation in learn- ing has necessitated an ability to search and differentiate among the one billion web pages, libraries, databases, books, newspapers, magazines, radio and television stations, and opinion columns available onlineAuthor: Roberto BrambillaISBN-10: 1138527084ISBN-13: 9781138527089Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/06/2017Pages: 146Format: HardcoverWeight:...

Five decades ago, award-winning author Herbert Gold traveled to Haiti on a Caribbean version of the Fulbright ScholarshipAuthor: Herbert GoldISBN-10: 1138524670ISBN-13: 9781138524675Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/13/2017Pages: 336Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.36lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d

In the past, African American aspirations for political offi ce were assumed to be limited to areas with sizeable black population basesAuthor: Georgia A. PersonsISBN-10: 1138519529ISBN-13: 9781138519527Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/20/2017Pages: 284Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.57lbsSize: 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.69d

Key documents and essential facts, combined with a strong theoretical framework - this new textbook clarifies the Gulf War of 1991, puts it in the context of the changing international order and identifies long-term consequences.Author: Ken MatthewsISBN-10: 1138161551ISBN-13: 9781138161559Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/27/2017Pages: 352Format: HardcoverWeight:...

This title was first published in 1990. The high theme of these writings is that we live in an economy of concentrated economic power. Textbook theory fails to explain this economy; it deals with bygone days. Galbraith's job is to push, drag, cajole and...

Transforming your life and understanding the true nature of power is just one of the incredible results you'll experience from reading The Prince: Adapted for the Contemporary Reader by James Harris.In this modern adaptation of a 16th-century political treatise, author Niccolò Machiavelli will guide...

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,...

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,...

The story of a journalist held captive by guerrillas in Cambodia.Author: Richard DudmanISBN-10: 0871402599ISBN-13: 9780871402592Publisher: Liveright Publishing CorporationLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/1972Pages: 196Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.68lbsSize: 8.24h x 5.30w x 0.87d

Investigates the circumstances and processes required to establish the new Ogene Revolutiono in which genetically modified crops are tailored to address chronic agricultural problems in specific regions of the world.Author: Felicia WuISBN-10: 0833036467ISBN-13: 9780833036469Publisher: RAND CorporationLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/03/2004Pages: 102Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.14w...

Examines Acquisition Reform and Acquisition Excellence initiatives undertaken in the U.S. Department of Defense over the period 1990-2003.Author: Christopher HanksISBN-10: 0833037072ISBN-13: 9780833037077Publisher: RAND CorporationLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/30/2005Pages: 263Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.67lbsSize: 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.36d

Kent School's experience suggests that information technology can be used to enrich teaching and learning for both faculty and students.Author: Phillip D. DevinISBN-10: 083303555XISBN-13: 9780833035554Publisher: RAND CorporationLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/09/2004Pages: 54Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.16d

In this innovative book, Kyle Sinisi explores a little-known chapter in the history of American politics--the struggle between states and the federal government over the costs of fighting the Civil War. At stake was the disposition of some 8 million. Focusing on Kansas, Kentucky,...

On the night of November 9, 1989, an electrified world watched as the Berlin Wall came down. Communism was dead, the Cold War was over, and freedom was on the rise-or so it seemed. We Were the People tells the story behind this momentous...

Viewing poverty as a condition that is fed and renewed on a daily basis by social and economic structures, this book focuses on the ways in which poor residents can be helped to improve their own situations, their living conditions, and the central city...

This chronologically organized text provides comprehensive historical coverage of Latin America's politics and development from colonial times to the twenty-first century.Author: Ronald M. SchneiderISBN-10: 0813343410ISBN-13: 9780813343419Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/26/2006Pages: 712Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.99lbsSize: 8.94h x 6.14w x 1.72d

From 1891 to 1941, Santiago--Chile's capital and its largest and most important city--experienced rapid urbanization, industrialization, and administrative expansion along with a massive internal migration that had significant social and economic consequences for the city. This book is the first study to focus on...

The diversity of Latin American trade agreements established since the mid-1980s reflects a broadening range of strategic perceptions and orientations. The argument of this volume is that this increasing divergence among the arrangements reflects fundamental and growing differences among their broader strategic perceptions and...