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The political economy landscape has shifted as multinational corporations increase their investment efforts, changing the geographies of extraction.

Falling somewhere between childhood and adulthood, 'Youth' is a key period of transition.

The most trusted and comprehensive guide to the healthcare system-fully updated with the latest changes and trendsA Doody's Core Title for 2022!

This book examines sustainability in European environmental policy and explores the related challenges of governance and knowledge.

Immigration is perhaps the most enduring and elemental leitmotif of America.

In One Economics, Many Recipes, leading economist Dani Rodrik argues that neither globalizers nor antiglobalizers have got it right.

The story of GDP and why we need a better measurement of growthIn one lifetime, GDP, or Gross Domestic Product, has ballooned from a narrow economic tool into a global article of faith.

Modern war is law pursued by other means.

What can straight people do to support gay rights?

In recent years, debate on the state's economic role has too often devolved into diatribes against intervention.

A groundbreaking classic that lays out and defends a democratic theory of educationWho should have the authority to shape the education of citizens in a democracy?

For many, Thomas Carlyle's put-down of economics as "e;the dismal science"e; rings true--especially in the aftermath of the crash of 2008.

Charles Prow has brought together an impressive lineup of businessmen and women, reporters, and experts to show how the United States can be more competitive in the global economy.

Millions of people around the world live in and travel through the shadows.

Lurking in the back of the minds of many students of American government is the question, "e;How well does the American political system work?

A World in Chaos: Social Crisis and the Rise of Postmodern Cinema traces the evolution of postmodern cinema through its multiple and overlapping expressions.

State failure, ethnopolitical war, genocide, famine, and refugee flows are variants of a type of complex political and humanitarian crisis, exemplified during the 1990s in places like Somalia, Bosnia, Liberia, and Afghanistan.

False charges of racial profiling threaten to obliterate the crime-fighting gains of the last decade, especially in America's inner cities.

The principles of health reform are actually simple, but remain formidable due to the size and complexity of the necessary implementation.

In the unique style that has endeared him to one of Canadas largest and most loyal radio audiences, best-selling author Lowell Green launches an all-out expose on those Canadians he says are wrecking our country.

Documents from the late FBI director's secret files reveal for the first time the shocking extent of FBI activities in spying on prominent Americans and political groups.

In this incisive collection of essays which appeared originally in The New Criterion, ten distinguished critics and observers examine the origins and prospects of liberalism, from its roots in thinkers such as Rousseau and Mill to its troubled legacy in twentieth-century pursuits, and its compromising effects in the moral and intellectual life of our culture.

Why do so many different people with widely dissimilar ideas and customs get along as Americans?

Girls and boys are different.

Captain Ernie Blanchard left for work January 10, 1995, a successful officer.

At a time when mass shootings in schools and other public spaces have become commonplace, it might seem surprising that American college campuses are not magnets for murderers but sanctuaries from them.

Why and how was the term 'built environment' first introduced?

This book presents a comprehensive examination of the complex journey toward achieving environmental resilience in the twenty-first century.

Many Americans believe that foreign military intervention is central to protecting our domestic freedoms.

Most of us are familiar with free-market competition: the idea that society and the economy benefit when people are left to self-regulate, testing new ideas in pursuit of profit.

Federal entitlement programs are strewn throughout the pages of U.

People everywhere are more dependent than ever on foreign migrants, products, and ideas-and more xenophobic.

Today, the concept of "e;the refugee"e; as distinct from other migrants looms large.

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The Poverty of Privacy Rights makes a simple, controversial argument: Poor mothers in America have been deprived of the right to privacy.

Votes for Women.

In recent decades, laws and workplace policies have emerged that seek to address the "e;balance"e; between work and family.

"e;A really, really good book .

Microfinance is the business of giving small, collateral-free loans to poor borrowers that are paid back in frequent intervals with interest.

In Selfish Libertarians and Socialist Conservatives?

The fight against ObamaCare is just beginning.

Once the quaint province of European cities such as Amsterdam, daily cycling is currently exploding in North American cities.

Women are riding out the recession more easily than men, with a lower unemployment rate and a higher percentage attaining high school diplomas and Bachelor and Master degrees.

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.

So who really started the war?

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

Of course, anyone would want to wake up from a really bad dream - especially one that seemed like it may never end, while successively stripping away joys and conveniences of our modern living.

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.