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The urgent need to professionalize Mexican police has been recognized since the early 1990s, but despite even the most well-intentioned promises from elected officials and police chiefs, few gains have been made in improving police integrity.

This book offers a detailed account of the way that social democracy today makes sense of capitalism.

The rise and fall of a feminist reform powerhouse Jan Doolittle Wilson offers the first comprehensive history of the umbrella organization founded by former suffrage leaders in order to coordinate activities around women's reform.

Declaring a War on Poverty in 1964, President Lyndon Baines Johnson proclaimed: We shall not rest until that war is won.

The American Revolution was the longest colonial war in modern British history and Britains most humiliating defeat as an imperial power.

The euro crisis, Japan's sluggish economy, and partisan disagreements in the United States about the role of government all have at least one thing in common: worries about high levels of public debt.

Desde octubre de 2019, el debate sobre una nueva Constitución se ha polarizado entre los críticos extremos y los defensores a ultranza del modelo político y económico.

Urbanization will become one of the defining trends of Asia's transformation in the coming decades.

Al Gore is bad for the planet.

Die in zunehmenden Maße vernetzte, schnelllebige, unüberschaubare und unvorhersehbare Welt bringt eine nie dagewesene Vielfalt an bekannten und noch unbekannten Herausforderungen sowie Risiken mit sich.

This concise yet comprehensive volume gives a compelling introduction to the politics, society, economy and culture of France.

Beyond the Voting Rights Act movingly recounts over 30 years of contemporary voting rights battles in the United States from the 1980s to the present day.

A rallying cry for equitable education informed by a revolutionary re-reading of Brown v.

The book is one of the first ones focussing on how organisations (civil society, corporations, and public sector ones) are contributing to sustainability.

The book discusses sustainability and law in a multifaceted way.

The environmental crisis is the most prominent challenge humanity has ever had to battle with, and humanity is currently failing.

This book takes a critical look at solar geoengineering as an acceptable means for addressing climate change.

Explore the Shadows of the American Justice SystemDelve into the unspoken transgressions deeply embedded in the very fabric of Americas legal landscape.

This book gives an overview of key themes domestically and internationally from the 19th Communist Party Congress held in Beijing in October 2017, setting out the main policy priorities for the Xi government in China as the country moves towards fulfillment of the first Centenary Goal, the hundredth anniversary of the Communist Party of China in 2021.

A radical new approach to economic policy that addresses the symptoms and causes of inequality in Western society todayFueled by populism and the frustrations of the disenfranchised, the past few years have witnessed the widespread rejection of the economic and political order that Western countries built up after 1945.

Discover the history, causes, impacts, and potential future of global food shortages-a problem for all of humanity, not just the developing world.

This report is the first country review undertaken as part of the OECD work on LGBTI+ inclusion.

Media of the Masses investigates the social life of an everyday technology-the cassette tape-to offer a multisensory history of modern Egypt.

In a world experiencing unprecedented urbanization and drastic climate change, there is immense demand for creative solutions to the environmental, social, and economic obstacles faced by burgeoning cities in the developing world.

In 2001, Ethiopian Television aired a documentary about a small, rural village called Awra Amba, where women ploughed, men worked in the kitchen, and so-called harmful traditional practices did not exist.

A landmark rhetorical theory of the formation and functioning of opinions in social media contexts Entitled Opinions: Doxa After Digitality offers a rhetorical theory of opinions, especially as opinions operate within social media.

This book serves as a comprehensive and insightful guide to the strategies and mechanisms that underpin effective climate governance on a global scale.

This report calls on policy makers to step up the policy response to increase physical activity.

Discover a modern approach to understanding threats and hazards that are more complex, costly, and devastating than ever before.

This edited volume explores the media and political discourses during the COVID-19 crisis across thirteen nations.

'Her story is one that needs to be told and Zara does so with courage, insight and beauty' - Nicky CampbellZara H.

Learn from one of our leading conservative voices how we can return to the biblical values our nation was founded upon, especially the vital importance of the family, in order to secure a prosperous future for generations to come.

This book will help policy makers, university students, and the general public understand how the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) is intended to work, and how it can be used to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in order to combat global warming.

After decades of hand-wringing and well-intentioned efforts to improve inner cities, ghettos remain places of degrading poverty with few jobs, much crime, failing schools, and dilapidated housing.

An essential reference to all facets of the world economyIncreasing economic globalization has made understanding the world economy more important than ever.

This book combines practical guidance and theoretical background for analysts using empirical techniques in competition and antitrust investigations.

From New York Times bestselling author and economics columnist Robert Frank, a compelling book that explains why the rich underestimate the importance of luck in their success, why that hurts everyone, and what we can do about itHow important is luck in economic success?

Who Votes Now?

How governments can do a better job of supporting entrepreneurship and venture capitalSilicon Valley, Singapore, Tel Aviv-the global hubs of entrepreneurial activity-all bear the marks of government investment.

The right of governments to employ capital controls has always been the official orthodoxy of the International Monetary Fund, and the organization's formal rules providing this right have not changed significantly since the IMF was founded in 1945.

Will to Live tells how Brazil, against all odds, became the first developing country to universalize access to life-saving AIDS therapies--a breakthrough made possible by an unexpected alliance of activists, government reformers, development agencies, and the pharmaceutical industry.

Rethinking Europe's Future is a major reevaluation of Europe's prospects as it enters the twenty-first century.

Public opinion in recent years has soured on multiculturalism, due in large part to fears of radical Islam.

This book compiles research from leading experts in the social, behavioral, and cultural dimensions of sustainability, as well as local and global understandings of the concept, and on lived practices around the world.