Politics and government

The ups and downs in housing markets over the past two decades are without precedent, and the costs financial, psychological, and social have been enormous.

Presidential Lessons in Leadership crystallizes the methods of leadership from six of America's greatest presidents during moments of personal challenge and turns them into concrete lessons that business leaders, and anyone interested in becoming a more effective leader, can use each day.

A Second Appeal: A Consideration of Freedom and Social Justice engages in an analysis of the ideals of freedom and social justice.

Imaging the Other: Essays on Diversity emerged from Nancy Porter's essay in Conn and McGuire's second collection of essays, Not Etched in Stone: Essays on Ritual Memory, Soul, and Society.

A look behind the scenes of some of India's most critical foreign policy decisions by the country's former foreign secretary and national security adviser.

This ebook is now available from Bloomsbury Academic.

Meet the Billionaires: the 1,645 men and women who control a massive share of global assets worth $6.

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As baby boomers retire over the coming decades, one of the big questions facing the American economy is whether the younger, more diverse generation will be prepared to fill the demands of the workforce.

Modern presidents are CEOs with broad powers over the federal government.

One third of humanity is governed by two capitals, New Delhi and Beijing.

Bookshelves abound with theoretical analyses, how-to guides, and personal success stories by famous corporate leaders, public officials, even athletic coaches, expounding on how to lead from the top.

An Agenda for the NationWhat are the biggest issues facing the country as Donald Trump and the GOP-led 115th Congress take office?

In this gripping narrative, Carlo Bastasin reconstructs the main political decisions of the euro crisis, unveiling the hidden interests and the secret diplomacy behind the scene.

India faces a defining period.

Meet the next global currency: the Chinese renminbi, or the "e;"e;redback.

The effective and efficient management of water is a major problem, not just for economic growth and development in the Nile River basin, but also for the peaceful coexistence of the millions of people who live in the region.

There are two well-known approaches to the study of international relations: Realism and Idealism.

Scholars have questioned every aspect of the story of Mattathias in 1 Maccabees; the revisionist narrative turns Mattathias and his Maccabees from the heroes of the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah and idealistic fighters for religious freedom, into merely ambitious men who ruthlessly strove for power and usurped the high priesthood of Judaea.

Peace Education and the Adult Learner presents a survey of recent developments in adult and peace education.

Noble Cause Corruption, the Banality of Evil, and the Threat to American Democracy, 1950-2008 is a probe of the mindset of American government officials, from presidents of the United States on down, who decided that necessity required that the American democracy had to be defended by actions and policies that were contrary to the traditional ideals of the democracy.

This book addresses the climate change crisis through scientific, historical, and spiritual lenses.

The Arctic is a global bellwether for climate change and indigenous peoples' rights and traditions, as well as a "e;health check"e; on the durability of international laws and norms.

In Democracy Gone, Abele argues that the last eight years in particular have shown us that our democracy has largely disintegrated, leaving behind only an exoskeleton that was once its original vertebrae of ends and principles.

The book examines the issues of sustainability in general.

On March 27, 1933, representatives from across the American religious spectrum came to Madison Square Garden, united in a shared purpose to speak out against the rise of fascism in Germany and Adolph Hitler's seizure of power.

In the early hours of July 14, 1958, Iraqi military officers overthrew the British-installed Iraqi monarchy.

This book presents an insider's view of the federal government's dual mission to stop the flow of illegal drugs across our borders and to prevent streams of drug money from financing drug cartels, insurgents, and terrorists.

The Illusion of Ignorance examines the cultural politics of the American encounter with Porfirian Mexico as a precursor and model for the twentieth-century American encounter with the world.

Exit Narratives examines what constitutes good teaching and engaged learning and how to use this knowledge to support teachers in their efforts to create learning environments that encourage academic mastery and nourish students as social beings.

This monograph presents four case studies that make correlations between the physical and social sciences.

Postmodern Racial Dialectics is a collection of ten essays on African American philosophy.

In this deeply personal study, Hammad illuminates a deep agenda of place, meaning, and resistance in territorial struggles through the telling of a less-heard story of how women, men, and young people understand their world and their lives in the occupied Palestinian West Bank landscape.

In the vast literature on the way democratic governments work, the role of the press is often overlooked.

In the early 1980s, American complaints about unfair trade practices began to intensify.

In this book, Jacques J.

The rapid pace of technological change is placing the world's telephone companies in a very difficult position.

Over the last fifteen years, Stephen Hess has become a leading and much-quoted authority on Washington government and the media.

For Ukraine, the signing of the Association Agreement and the DCFTA with the European Union in 2014 was an act of strategic geopolitical significance.

The United States spends more on health care than any other nation in the world, yet millions of Americans cannot afford basic care for acute illnesses, few are insured against the costs of long-term care, and many frequently used medical procedures have never been fully evaluated.

Herbert Hoover and World Peace summarizes Hoover's career-long efforts to preserve peace in the world and to help America avoid unnecessary wars, from his opposition to our entry into World War I to his proposed - and rejected - Cold War strategy, which would have avoided the Vietnam War.

This book reviews the achievements of American women in the American economy; in education; in government; in religion; in the military; in law enforcement and in communications.

This work probes into the socio-political and cultural setting in South Texas (1915-1992) via data found in the private archival collection of Adela Sloss-Vento; it focuses on her role as an activist, writer and civil/human rights pioneer.

Law in early America was culturally special, not just a foundation for history but for the culture that bound the nation and its collective identity.

Naval Power in Action focuses attention to the United States' current competition with China, laying out a case for acting in three areas: strengthen the homeland to economic coercion, modernize and reorganize institutions to successfully compete, and winning the positional fight with China over markets and military posture.

From Balewa's declaration, 'Today is Independence Day,' to Azikiwe's impassioned plea, 'Let us bind the nation's wound and let us heal the breaches of the past so that in forging our nation there shall emerge on this continent a hate-free, fear-free, and greed-free people,' to Buhari's patriotic fervor, 'This generation [of Nigerians].

Borderlands are often seen as zones of instability, uncertainty, marginality, and danger.

The book makes serious theoretical contribution to the field of political economy in indigenous development, public policy, sociology and development studies.

This book argues that vegetarian and vegan people should be guaranteed the right to eat according to their beliefs.

Long before leadership became identified as the catalyst for corporate success, the Civil War''s winning general was showing the world how dynamic leadership is the crucial determinant of victory or defeat.