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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.

In this reference book, we're going to discuss the alkali metals, the alkaline Earth metals and the transition metals.

Your child may probably know how the human cells work.

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At seventh grade, your child will become very busy with school lessons and extra-curricular activities.

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.

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 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.

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.

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This edited collection takes a timely and comprehensive approach to understanding Turkey's television, which has become a global growth industry in the last decade, by reconsidering its geopolitics within both national and transnational contexts.

This book examines the reasons behind the declining fortunes of public access channels.

Gary Madden was a renaissance man with respect to the nexus between information and communications technology (ICT) and economics.

This book provides a comprehensive assessment of how local corporate water strategies influence global water governance objectives.

This book asks the question, how would economics look today and into the future if one started with a blank sheet of paper?

This book explores how terrorists have been portrayed in the Western media, and the wider ideological and social functions of those representations.

This book examines the political themes and policy perspectives related to, and influencing, climate change adaptation.

This volume synthesizes research from a five year program supported by the Norwegian Agency for Development to assess how coastal communities in Tanzania can adapt to climate change impacts such as sea level rise, and better assert their rights to implement decisions regarding coastal resource management in the context of global climate change.

This book examines the role of unauthorized water use in the American West (Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming) and the coming demand for water accountability.

This book draws lessons and conclusions, based on the methodology outlined in the author's previous book, Water as a Catalyst for Peace (Routledge, 2013), and further charts the course to a more practical framework for achieving regional stability and justice.