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Development Asia looks at the lessons learned from a decade of dealing with natural disasters in Asia and the Pacific and at how the region's economic growth could suffer unless it acts collectively on disaster risk.

Research indicates that up to 28% of crashes are due to the road environment.

This book explores the theoretical contribution of peace ecology to the understanding and practice of environmental and conventional peacebuilding.

Proven to reduce bad behaviour and exclusions, and encourage happier, safer school environments, restorative justice is an effective approach to conflict resolution.

Mediation and Dispute Resolution addresses contemporary challenges and new developments in mediation.

This book stems from the joint effort of 25 research teams across Europe, representing a dozen disciplines from the social sciences and humanities, resulting in a radically novel perspective to the challenges of multilingualism in Europe.

Understand how the healthcare system works - and how you can succeed in itA Doody's Core Title for 2019!

This series of absorbing case studies focuses on the portrayal of Pakistani women in the global media.

Winifred Black worked in journalism from 1888 to 1936, often writing under the pseudonym Annie Laurie.

Religious liberty is often called "e;the first freedom.

With considerable turmoil in international trade and logistics it is more important than ever to understand trade and customs issues and their impact on logistics operations.

An account of George W.

This book is a slightly revised version of the Thesis titled 'Post Globalisation Politics of Language in Maharashtra' submitted to the University of Mumbai for Ph.

Over the past two decades, the United States has seen an intense debate about the composition of the federal judiciary.

A host of catastrophes, natural and otherwise, as well as some pleasant surpriseslike the sudden end of the cold war without a shot being firedhave caught governments and societies unprepared many times in recent decades.

This book examines how business, the social sciences, science and technology will impact the future of ASEAN.

This book analyses the principle of equality from three perspectives: public international law, private international law and EU law.

Today the integrity and unity of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution are under attack by the Progressive political movement.

This knowledge based edited book titled 'Khap Panchayat, Women and Honour Killing' is collection of 20 chapters categorised in to 04 sections A) Understanding the Khap Panchayats, B) Khap Panchayats and Discrimination against Women, C) Khap Panchayats, Honour Crime and Laws, D) Khap and other Non State Agencies.

Encyclopaedia of Indian Government: Programmes and Policies imparts authoritative information on about fifty departmental policies and their future developmental programmes.

At a time in history when global challenges are becoming more intractable and threatening, it makes sense to draw on the specialist expertise of our universities.

At a time in history when global challenges are becoming more intractable and threatening, it makes sense to draw on the specialist expertise of our universities.

This volume addresses important questions related to the well-being and quality of life of emerging adults during crisis periods.

Encyclopaedia of Indian Government: Programmes and Policies imparts authoritative information on about fifty departmental policies and their future developmental programmes.

This book is the first study on the work of the Eurogroup - monthly informal meetings between euro area finance ministers, the Commission and the European Central Bank.

Once held up as a 'poster child' for untrammeled capitalist globalisation, the Irish Republic has more recently come to represent a cautionary tale for those tempted to tread the same neoliberal path.

This book discusses the framing of referendum campaigns in the news media, focusing particularly on the case of the 2014 Scottish independence referendum.

This book discusses the framing of referendum campaigns in the news media, focusing particularly on the case of the 2014 Scottish independence referendum.

This book examines the gradually increasing role of national parliaments in the European Union and asks how and why this came about.

The introduction of FOI in Ireland was a watershed moment in Irish democracy.

The global race for skilled immigrants seeks to attract the best global workers.

The people who run our government are affected by money just like the rest of us.

How the NRA became a political juggernaut by influencing the behaviors and beliefs of everyday AmericansThe National Rifle Association is one of the most powerful interest groups in America, and has consistently managed to defeat or weaken proposed gun regulations-even despite widespread public support for stricter laws and the prevalence of mass shootings and gun-related deaths.

Give and Take looks at local drug manufacturing in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda, from the early 1980s to the present, to understand the impact of foreign aid on industrial development.

Vital perspectives for the divided Trump era on what the Constitution's framers intended when they defined the extent-and limits-of presidential powerOne of the most vexing questions for the framers of the Constitution was how to create a vigorous and independent executive without making him king.

One of the most profound changes in British public life over the last twenty years has been the increasing concern with probity and standards.

This fascinating study reveals the desperate plight of the poor, illegitimate, and abused children in an Irish society that claimed to cherish and hold them sacred, but in fact marginalized and ignored them.

Encyclopaedia of Indian Government: Programmes and Policies imparts authoritative information on about fifty departmental policies and their future developmental programmes.

This book examines the gradually increasing role of national parliaments in the European Union and asks how and why this came about.

A candid explanation of how the labor market really works and is central to everything-and why it is not as healthy as we thinkRelying on unemployment numbers is a dangerous way to gauge how the labor market is doing.

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How access to resources and policymaking powers determines the balance of power between the legislative and executive branchesThe specter of unbridled executive power looms large in the American political imagination.

From one of the leading policy experts of our time, an urgent rethinking of how we can better support each other to thriveWhether we realize it or not, all of us participate in the social contract every day through mutual obligations among our family, community, place of work, and fellow citizens.

Was Japan's economic miracle generated primarily by the Japanese state or by the nation's dynamic private sector?

Should a liberal democratic state permit religious schools?

The global race for skilled immigrants seeks to attract the best global workers.

This is a book about the risk politics of food safety.

At the beginning of the twentieth century, the British Labour Party was broadly supportive of Irish home rule.

Contrary to what news reports might suggest, the majority of politicians behave ethically and are never subject to investigations.

From New York Times bestselling author and economics columnist Robert Frank, bold new ideas for creating environments that promise a brighter futurePsychologists have long understood that social environments profoundly shape our behavior, sometimes for the better, often for the worse.