Central / national / federal government policies

Learning about the senses is perhaps the lesson in science that a child can learn.

On January 22, 2009, President Obama issued an executive order calling for the Guantanamo Bay detention facility to be closed within one year.

On the Edge grew out of a lifetime spent living and traveling across the American Southwest, from San Antonio to Los Angeles.

Tar Sands critically examines the frenzied development in the Canadian tar sands and the far-reaching implications for all of North America.

So who really started the war?

This is a huge history book for fifth graders because of the topics discussed here.

The spirit of Christmas was strong between the soldiers fighting in 1914.

The relationship between environmental regulation and economic growth has gone from dysfunctional to disastrous under the leadership of Barack Obamas USEPA Administrator, Lisa Jackson.

The Great Global Warming Blunder unveils new evidence from major scientific findings that explode the conventional wisdom on climate change and reshape the global warming debate as we know it.

Expanding school choice and competition is the single most important action we can take to improve America's schools.

This is a beautiful book that will show you how a seed grows into a plant.

President Obama and his allies have made no secret about their immigration goals: easy amnesty, loose enforcement, and ever-higher levels of legal immigration.

San Antonio boasts one of the countrys fastest-growing metropolitan regions, thanks to visionary personalities, key politicians, a vibrant citizenry, and a bit of luck.

Since the beginning of the New Deal, American liberals have insisted that the government must do moremuch moreto help the poor, to increase economic security, to promote social justice and solidarity, to reduce inequality, and to mitigate the harshness of capitalism.

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This edited volume reveals how a permanent war economy has made the United States unable to spread democracy abroad and has worsened domestic problems.

Car Safety Wars is a gripping history of the hundred-year struggle to improve the safety of American automobiles and save lives on the highways.

Government-workers unions have been political juggernauts in the U.

Society was not prepared in 1981 for the appearance of a new infectious disease, but we have since learned that emerging and reemerging diseases will continue to challenge humanity.

Today, when India is certainly once more emerging as one of the most important social experiments in the world, it is more than ever incumbent to explore and re-discover the underlying reasons and philosophy that marginalized the Indian consciousness in terms of caste, ethnicity, religion and the like.

The author of the well-received, A Guide to Federal Contracting, Dan Lindner provides in one volume, a concise yet comprehensive treatment of defense contracting requirements and regulations.

Science is fun, especially for little scientists.

For over three decades, China exercised unprecedented control over the reproductive habits of its billion citizens.

Once held up as a 'poster child' for untrammeled capitalist globalisation, the Irish Republic has more recently come to represent a cautionary tale for those tempted to tread the same neoliberal path.

A passionate and meticulously researched argument against the Harper government's war on scienceIn this arresting and passionately argued indictment, award-winning journalist Chris Turner contends that Stephen Harper's attack on basic science, science communication, environmental regulations, and the environmental NGO community is the most vicious assault ever waged by a Canadian government on the fundamental principles of the Enlightenment.

For a growing number of people, democracy has become synonymous with broken promises and abandoned commitments.

Chinese President Xi Jinping launched the Silk Road Economic Belt component of the One Belt One Road (OBOR) initiative at Kazakhstan in 2013.

What role does the protection of citizens abroad play in motivating states' policies?

The introduction of FOI in Ireland was a watershed moment in Irish democracy.

From the 1870s to the 1950s, waves of immigrants to Toronto Irish, Jewish, Chinese and Italian, among others landed in The Ward in the centre of downtown.

Originally released by Basil Blackwell in 1986, and then re-released by Manchester University Press in 1998, Casino capitalism is a cutting-edge discussion of international financial markets, the way they behave and the power they wield.

This book presents eight separate essays and provides the reader with a unique perspective and objective judgement of where China will stand by the end of the current decade.

The Ethics and Politics of Immigration provides an overview of the central topics in the ethics of immigration with contributions from scholars who have shaped the terms of debate and who are moving the discussion forward in exciting directions.

The Bush Administration, sex and the moral agenda considers White House policy towards issues such as abortion, sex education, obscenity and same-sex marriage.

This fascinating study reveals the desperate plight of the poor, illegitimate and abused children in an Irish society that claimed to "e;cherish"e; and hold them sacred, but in fact marginalised and ignored them.

The technological revolution presents a massive barrier to the development of countries that do not have access to the cutting-edge systems enjoyed in the developed world.

The notion of social policy as a productive investment and a prerequisite for economic growth became a core feature in the ideology of Swedish social democracy, and a central component of the universalism of the Swedish welfare state.

A multitude of factors affect how the European media industry is governed, including commercialisation, concentration, convergence and globalisation.

This is a book about the risk politics of food safety.

Public policy debates often turn on how to get things done once we know our policy objectives.

For millennia, we lived in harmony with the Earth, taking only what we required to survive.

A book that vigorously defends heroin users and sex workers?

An incisive critique of Canadas drinking water gatekeepers.

For decades the partnership between North America and Europe has been a steady anchor in a world of rapid change.

During the 1960s and 1970s, teachers, sanitation workers and many other public employees rose up to demand collective bargaining rights in one of the greatest upsurges in labor history.

In Trump's Populist America, author Steven Rosefielde argues that the policies Trump fashions are not half measures, but stem from an understanding of his supporters and their desire for an elected government that is attuned to the common man's concerns.

This book explores the different ways Francophone research on news media has faced the challenges of dependence and independence from three complementary perspectives.

This book assesses the effectiveness of changes in watershed interventions in one of the most fragile resource regions of India.

Using a phenomenological and multi-sited ethnographic approach, this book focuses on children's uses of digital media in three sites-London, Casablanca and Beirut-and situates the study of Arab children and screen media within a wider frame, making connections between local, regional and global media content.