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If California were its own country, it would have the world's fifth largest immigrant population.

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"e;The Evolving Presidency selects primary sources useful for tracing the development of the presidency and places them in a single reader, making it a vital resource for students and instructors.

This is the first book-length treatment of the concepts, designs, methods, and tools needed to conduct effective advocacy and policy change evaluations.

The first step to getting your child involved in gardening is to learn about the principles of botany.

Shelby Scatess thirty-five-year career as a prize-winning journalist and columnist for International News Service, United Press International, the Associated Press, and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer has taken him to centers of action across this country and to wars and conflicts in many of the worlds danger zones.

Of the original Gilded Age, historian Richard Hofstadter wrote: There is no other period in the nations history when politics seems so completely dwarfed by economic changes, none in which the life of the country rests so completely in the hands of the industrial entrepreneur.

Few provisions of the American Constitution have had such a tumultuous history as the contract clause.

How much power does a president really have?

Transport is key to our daily lives.

A look at the American health care system through analysis of consumer and provider behavior.

Barack Obama has made it clear that he thinks the world would be a better and more peaceful place if the United States were too weak to affect the course of events.

For scholars, pundits, the public, and presidents themselves, presidential approval is an evergreen subject.

During the Cold War, the U.

Government are governed by laws.

So why does a flower smell good while a garbage truck doesn't?

This volume inquires into the working mechanisms, the inner logic, and the durability of authoritarian rule in Arab countries.

This book presents peer-reviewed articles from the 1st International Conference on Advanced Materials for Sustainable Innovation (IC-AMSI 2024) held on Aug 28–30 in New Delhi, India.

Food insecurity rates, which skyrocketed with the Great Recession, have yet to fall to pre-recession levels.

A classic and bestselling work by one of Americas top Constitutional scholars, Presidential War Power garnered the lead review in the New York Times Book Review and raised essential issues that have only become more timely, relevant, and controversial in our post-9/11 era.

In 1787, British philosopher and social reformer Jeremy Bentham conceived of the panopticon, a ring of cells observed by a central watchtower, as a labor-saving device for those in authority.

The Republic of the Marshall Islands is a relatively new nation, with half of its population under the age of 18 years.

This guidebook helps ensure that community training investments are optimized and yield the desired results.

The Allied Powers and the Central Powers were fighting tooth and nail during the World War 1.

This case study report describes the comprehensive approach to gender inclusiveness resettlement in the Song Bung 4 Hydropower Project in a remote mountainous region of Quang Nam Province, Viet Nam.

This publication helps guide investment planning and financing across key urban infrastructure sectors of Azerbaijan to improve the performance of cities---with a focus on economy, equity, and environment.

Asia's population is aging and old-age income support and social services is an emerging challenge.

The poor and vulnerable populations suffer disproportionately from the adverse impacts of climate change and disasters, which result in loss of life, damage to household and community assets, disruption of livelihoods, and loss of income.

In Nepal, deeply embedded structural conditions determined by gender, caste or ethnicity, religion, language, and even geography have made access to and benefits from energy resources highly uneven.

Reliable supply of 24-hour electricity in the State of Madhya Pradesh since 2014 has transformed the lives of many, including women from low-income households.

This publication suggests solutions that can be built into the design of urban development projects undertaken by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to address the common problems and grievances of the urban poor, and to improve urban governance overall.

This publication is the annual report of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Asia's progress in regional cooperation and integration.

Climate and disaster risk is increasing in the Asia and Pacific region, exacerbating existing vulnerabilities and creating new ones.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is committed to developing and updating a comprehensive set of comparable and accessible data to help measure performance of social protection programs in Asia and the Pacific.

The adoption of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in 2000 by the United Nations (UN) General Assembly was a major breakthrough in the fight against poverty.

This publication explains the evaluation and strategic investment priorities of the Government of the Lao People's Democratic Republic and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in the agriculture, natural resources, and rural development sector.

This publication launches the Inclusive Green Growth Index, a new comprehensive metric that captures the key dimensions of economic growth, social equity, and environmental sustainability.

In Highway Robbery Peter Kinzler delivers a fast-paced behind-the-scenes account of two federal legislative efforts twenty years apartone from the political left and one from the rightto reform Americas auto insurance system to make it fairer and more affordable.

An eye-opening portrait of the gun sellers who navigated the social turmoil leading up to the January 6 Capitol attackGun sellers sell more than just guns.

From ISIS propaganda videos to popular regime-backed TV series and digital activism, the Syrian conflict has been dramatically affected by the production of media, at the same time generating in its turn an impressive visual culture.

Public-sector employees enjoy much more generous pay and benefit packages than private-sector workers, including guaranteed pensions and retiree health benefits whose long-term costs threaten to break the backs of state and local taxpayers.

The power of unions in workers' lives and in the American political system has declined dramatically since the 1970s.

The growth of global urbanization places great strains on energy, transportation, housing and public spaces needs.

Intermodal Maritime Security: Supply Chain Risk Mitigation offers every stakeholder involved in international transactions the tools needed to assess the essential risks, threats and vulnerabilities within the global supply chain.

Handbook of Commercial Policy explores three main topics that permeate the study of commercial policy.

Inclusive growth needs to be achieved to reduce poverty and other disparities and raise economic growth.

To promote evidence-based policy making, the Asian Development Bank partnered with Innovations for Poverty Action and the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab in 2012 to deliver a 3-day conference on impact evaluation and public policy in Bangkok.