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What Kansas really tells us about red state AmericaNo state has voted Republican more consistently or widely or for longer than Kansas.

The book provides a comprehensive overview of recent developments in Turkey's labour dispute resolution system, and helps compare the Turkish system especially with those in European countries.

This book chronicles the intersection of chaplaincy, autopathography (illness narratives), and stigmatized illness through the observations and stories of a chaplain working at a facility for people with HIV and AIDS.

This volume proposes a capacity-centered approach for understanding American bureaucracy.

This proceedings addresses the challenges of urbanization that gravely affect the world's ecosystems.

This book investigates how actors organize in order to solve a water quality problem.

Beyond devolution and decentralisation compares the politics, policies and polity-building dynamics of devolution in Wales and decentralisation in the French region of Brittany.

Performance accountability has been the dominant trend in education policy reform since the 1970s.

How Tory Governments Fall is a landmark study of the forces that shape - and ultimately destroy - political power.

New York Times Bestseller: The U.

Grounded in the Foucauldian literature on governmentality and drawing on a broad range of disciplines, this book examines the government of childhood in the West from the early modern period to the present.

When parents form families by reaching across social barriers to adopt children, where and how does race enter the adoption process?

Americans are increasingly concerned about the privacy of personal datayet we demand more and more information for public decision making.

Thatcher's Grandchildren explores sociological and political issues about childhood that have that have become increasingly significant in the twenty first century within a political landscape framed by neo-liberalism.

Understanding Risk addresses a central dilemma of risk decisionmaking in a democracy: detailed scientific and technical information is essential for making decisions, but the people who make and live with those decisions are not scientists.

During the early years of the AIDS epidemic, thousands of Americans became infected with HIV through the nation's blood supply.

Seeking Solutions: Maximizing American Talent by Advancing Women of Color in Academia is the summary of a 2013 conference convened by the Committee on Women in Science, Engineering and Medicine of the National Research Council to discuss the current status of women of color in academia and explore the challenges and successful initiatives for creating the institutional changes required to increase representation of women of color at all levels of the academic workforce.

Europe's "e;Black Death"e; contributed to the rise of nation states, mercantile economies, and even the Reformation.

Driven by community-based organizations and supported by a growing body of literature, the environmental justice movement contends that poor and minority populations are burdened with more than their share of toxic waste, pesticide runoff, and other hazardous byproducts of our modern economic life.

An estimated forty million people carry the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), and five million more become newly infected annually.

The number of people infected with HIV or living with AIDS is increasing at unprecedented rates as various scientists, organizations, and institutions search for innovative solutions to combating and preventing the disease.

Successful scientists must be effective communicators within their professions.

The strengths and abilities children develop from infancy through adolescence are crucial for their physical, emotional, and cognitive growth, which in turn help them to achieve success in school and to become responsible, economically self-sufficient, and healthy adults.

An informative mix of data and discussion, this book presents conclusions and recommendations for policies that can respond to the new conditions shaping America's working families.

Understanding Risk addresses a central dilemma of risk decisionmaking in a democracy: detailed scientific and technical information is essential for making decisions, but the people who make and live with those decisions are not scientists.

An informative mix of data and discussion, this book presents conclusions and recommendations for policies that can respond to the new conditions shaping America's working families.

Many coastal communities have built structures at their beaches and added quantities of sand in contoured designs to combat erosion.

Driven by community-based organizations and supported by a growing body of literature, the environmental justice movement contends that poor and minority populations are burdened with more than their share of toxic waste, pesticide runoff, and other hazardous byproducts of our modern economic life.

An estimated forty million people carry the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), and five million more become newly infected annually.

HIV is spreading rapidly, and effective treatments continue to elude science.

In an increasingly interconnected world, science and technology research often transects international boundaries and involves researchers from multiple nations.

In 2010 the Deepwater Horizon explosion and fire in the Gulf of Mexico caused the largest offshore oil spill in U.

In Uniting America, some of the country’s most prominent social thinkers—among them Francis Fukuyama, Daniel Yankelovich, Amitai Etzioni, Alan Wolfe, Uwe Reinhardt, and Thomas E.

A new book from the National Research Council recommends changes in how the federal government evaluates the efficiency of research at EPA and other agencies.

The number of people infected with HIV or living with AIDS is increasing at unprecedented rates as various scientists, organizations, and institutions search for innovative solutions to combating and preventing the disease.

A new book from the National Research Council recommends changes in how the federal government evaluates the efficiency of research at EPA and other agencies.

Many coastal communities have built structures at their beaches and added quantities of sand in contoured designs to combat erosion.

This book provides a vision for environmentalism's future, based on the success of environmental entrepreneurs around the world.

In 1997, Mexico launched a new incentive-based poverty reduction program to enhance the human capital of those living in extreme poverty.

This book offers a deep insight into the genesis and development of the European Commission's energy and climate legislation, focusing on the interplay of politics and science.

Stuck in the Middle examines both economic and social public policy initiatives in its assertion that enhancing the welfare of people in developed and developing nations requires an explicit focus on the middle class.

Nach dem Kampf gegen die Arbeitslosigkeit droht nun ein Arbeitskräftemangel.

This book provides a timely and insightful analysis of the expansion of biofuels production and use in recent years.

There are millions of children experiencing parental imprisonment all over the world.

Is your company delivering products to customers at the right time, place, and pricewith the best possible availability and lowest possible cost and working capital?

Yoshimatsu explores the causes and implications of the diverse degree of institution-building in East Asia by examining two processes of initiating and developing multilateral institutions in five policy areas: trade, finance, food security, energy security, and the environment.

Monique Taylor analyses the policy rationale and institutional underpinnings of China's state-led or neomercantilist oil strategy, and its development, set against the wider context of economic transformation as the country transitions from a centrally planned to market economy.