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This book is written by prominent academics and practitioners, exploring problems and opportunities of growth in different aspects of sustainable development.

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The OECD series Recruiting Immigrant Workers comprises country studies of labour migration policies.

This review contributes to a better understanding of the gender wage gap in Germany and puts forward key elements of a policy package to reduce gender pay gaps.

Realists have long argued that the international system must be based on hard calculations of power and interest.

Discussions about the meaning of terrorism are enduring in everyday language, government policy, news reporting, and international politics.

The 9/11 attacks, the U.

Engineering Expansion examines the U.

A corporate lawyer's manifesto on maintaining America's economic superpower status and protecting our country's future.

Immigration Reform is an in-depth discussion of immigration reform in America.

Although organ transplants provide the best, and often the only, effective therapy for many otherwise fatal conditions, the great benefits of transplantation go largely unrealized because of failures in the organ acquisition process.

Pages From My Life emphasizes how a general liberal arts background can serve as a basis for a successful career with voluntary organizations that require grants from foundations, corporations, government, and individuals, obtained by the submission of fundraising proposals drafted by associates.

Courts, like other government institutions, shape public policy.

Green growth has proven to be politically popular, but economically elusive.

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Historians of wilderness have shown that nature reserves are used ideologically in the construction of American national identity.

It would be easy to cheat someone on eBay.

Franco-American diplomatic relations were tested at pivotal moments in world history.

William Galston explores the difficulties market democracies face in an era of diminished growth and a weakened middle class.

The Economics of Excess discusses both standard and behavioral economics as they apply to addiction, indulgence, and social policy.

The first book to tell the whole story of SNAP and to explain why all Americans should support it.

Practical Aviation Security: Predicting and Preventing Future Threats, Third Edition is a complete guide to the aviation security system, from crucial historical events to the policies, policymakers, and major terrorist and criminal acts that have shaped the procedures in use today, as well as the cutting edge technologies that are shaping the future.

The Handbook of Traffic Psychology covers all key areas of research in this field including theory, applications, methodology and analyses, variables that affect traffic, driver problem behaviors, and countermeasures to reduce risk on roadways.

Möchten Sie Ihre Finanzen endlich in den Griff bekommen und systematisch Vermögen aufbauen?

Transportation and Health provides state-of-the-art knowledge on the many linkages between transport and health, the available tools needed to estimate and evaluate the health impacts of transport, future technologies, the developments that can change the direction and magnitude of the health impacts, and the policy and education issues that can result in better practice and knowledge translation.

This volume covers the latest advances in the mechanisms of pathogenesis of the HIV-1 virus on target cells.

Contested Memories in Chinese and Japanese Foreign Policy explores the issue of memory and lack of reconciliation in East Asia.

Bus Transport: Demand, Economics, Contracting, and Policy examines in one source the most critical and current research themes of public transport relevant to regulators, planners, operators, researchers and educators.

Shared Mobility offers a current view on one of the most significant economic activities in recent years.

In the flush of enthusiasm to make government work better, reformers from both left and right have urged government to turn as many functions as possible over to the private sector and to allow market competition instill efficiency and choice.

The American economy is in many ways uniquely unfettered.

This book analyses the diverse and complex interactions between the emancipatory practices of precarious (i.

Without our consent and often without our knowledge, the government can constantly monitor many of our daily activities, using closed circuit TV, global positioning systems, and a wide array of other sophisticated technologies.

For over twenty-five years, Charles C.

Using the latest empirical and conceptual research for readers in economics, business, and policy, this volume surveys the key components of innovation policy and the social returns to innovation investment.

The impact of sibling relationships on how people develop has been dramatically under-emphasised in the literature on child development.

Mention the phrase Homeland Security and heated debates emerge about state uses and abuses of legal authority.

Beginning in the late 1950s and continuing through the 1970s, the United States experienced a vast expansion in national policy making.

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"e;A popular Government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy or perhaps both.

This book moves the discussion of affirmative action beyond the United States to other countries that have had similar policies, often for a longer time than Americans have.

The first available textbook on the rapidly growing and increasingly important field of government analytics This first textbook on the increasingly important field of government analytics provides invaluable knowledge and training for students of government in the synthesis, interpretation, and communication of “big data,” which is now an integral part of governance and policy making.

A unique examination of the civic use, regulation, and politics of communication and data technologies City life has been reconfigured by our use-and our expectations-of communication, data, and sensing technologies.

Over the past six decades federal regulatory agencies have attempted different strategies to regulate the natural gas industry in the United States.

This study of educational policy from Lyndon Johnson through Bill Clinton focuses on three specific issues--public school aid, non-public (especially Catholic) school aid, and school desegregation--that speak to the proper role of the federal government in education as well as to how education issues embody larger questions of opportunity, exclusion, and equality in American society.

A compelling account of how women shaped the common law right to privacy during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries Drawing on a wealth of original research, Jessica Lake documents how the advent of photography and cinema drove women—whose images were being taken and circulated without their consent—to court.