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  • Postcapitalist Futures
    This book critically engages with the proliferation of literature on postcapitalism, which is rapidly becoming an urgent area of inquiry, both in academic scholarship and in public life. It collects the insights from scholars working across the field of Critical International Political Economy to interrogate how we might begin to envisage a political economy of postcapitalism. ...
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    126,93 €

  • Mindshifts
    Shaurya Pandya
    Mindshifts is a book that explores how we can improve how the nation learns through a series of fascinating stories. Stories like, how stealing an idea from Xerox changed the economy. Or how a hedge fund analyst became the worlds’ tutor. These stories all center around one main point- how thinking like a startup can rebuild the intellectual infrastructure we need now more than ...
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    16,13 €

  • Catching Our Flag
    James Rogan
    During the scandal of the 1990s, the media force-fed America and the world a steady diet of Monica Lewinsky’s blue dress, a wagging presidential finger, and parsing phrases like the meaning of is. Now, Congressman James Rogan has opened his private diaries for both modern readers and for history by penning the ultimate insider’s story on what led a very reluctant House of Repre...
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    26,11 €

  • Addressing Urban Shrinkage in Small and Medium Sized Towns
    Hans Schlappa / Tatsuya Nishino
    The analytical tools and practical examples provided by Schlappa and Nishino are relevant for political and administrative decisionmakers, leaders of civil society and business organisations in developing locally appropriate, creative and robust strategies to shrink smart and re-grow smaller. ...
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    87,99 €

  • Bridge Makers
    April Reagan
    'Our moral responsibility is not to stop the future, but to shape it... to channel our destiny in humane directions and to ease the trauma of transition.' ― Alvin TofflerBridge Makers: Becoming a Citizen Futurist answers an echoing call for a beginner’s guide to foresight. Drawing from her decades of experience in high-tech, April Reagan presents an array of historical informat...
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    13,93 €

  • Stephen A. Douglas, Western Man
    Reg Ankrom
    It didn’t take long for freshman Congressman Stephen A. Douglas to see the truth of Senator Thomas Hart Benton’s warning: slavery attached itself to every measure that came before the U.S. Congress. Douglas wanted to expand the nation into an ocean-bound republic. Yet slavery and the violent conflicts it stirred always interfered, as it did in 1844 with his first bill to org...
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    73,67 €

  • Highlights of ADB’s Cooperation with Civil Society Organizations 2020
    Asian Development Bank
    This annual report provides insights on ADB’s cooperation with civil society organizations (CSOs) in 2020, featuring lessons and success stories in Asia and the Pacific.Partnerships with CSOs help promote community participation and social inclusion throughout the project cycle of ADB-financed operations. In 2020, ADB approved a new indicator for assessing civil society engagem...
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    26,67 €

  • Promoting Social Bonds for Impact Investments in Asia
    Asian Development Bank
    This report reviews the social bond market and explores how social bonds can help tackle a wide range of development issues in Asia and the Pacific.The social bond market has grown rapidly amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. This report explores ways of maximizing the impact of social bonds for sustainable development and of supporting a well-functioning social bo...
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    28,02 €

  • Able to Be Otherwise
    Anna Lenaker
    A true story about love, grief, resiliency, faith, and transformation despite daunting odds.California wildfires burned more than 4.2 million acres in 2020-more than double the previous record. Approximately 500,000 people have died from an opioid-involved drug overdose since the opioid epidemic started over two decades ago. Millions of children live in food-insecure households...
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    13,40 €

  • The Economic Foundations of Fascism
    Paul Einzig
    'Even the most superficial readers of the popular Press know today that Communism means the public ownership of the means of production.Fascism, on the other hand, Is still regarded principally as a political movement; The economic implications of the term are generally ignored.the meaning of the term 'corporate state’ isunkown even to people whose general intelligence and spe...
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    37,61 €

  • Preliminary Feasibility for Public Research & Development Projects
    Donghun Yoon
    Preliminary Feasibility for Public Research & Development Projects explains how to evaluate R&D business by exploring the five key features of policy implication, policy improvement, preliminary feasibility study, R&D evaluation, and R&D strategy and will help develop strategic measures for R&D preliminary feasibility studies. ...
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    88,07 €

  • Topics on Art and Money
    Adrià Harillo Pla
    The title of this book is intended to be an honest one, far from exaggerated phrases and empty meanings. Three words, a preposition, and a coordinating conjunction: ’Topics on Art and Money’. A coordinating conjunction, not a subordinating one, since this book does not intend to express a hierarchical order. As all words united by a coordinating conjunction, this book intends t...
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    45,95 €

  • Protected Children, Regulated Mothers
    Eszter Varsa
    Protected Children, Regulated Mothers examines child protection in Stalinist Hungary as a part of twentieth-century East Central, Eastern, and Southeastern European history. Across the communist bloc, the prewar foster care system was increasingly replaced after 1945 by institutionalization in residential homes. This shift was often interpreted as a further attempt to establish...
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    95,47 €

  • Organizing Insurgency
    Immanuel Ness
    Workers in the Global South are doomed through economic imperialism to carry the burden of the entire world. While these workers appear isolated from the Global North, they are in fact deeply integrated into global commodity chains and essential to the maintenance of global capitalism. Looking at contemporary case studies in India, the Philippines and South Africa, this book af...
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    127,07 €

  • For the Love of Community Engagement
    Becky Hirst
    Becky Hirst is a skilled community engagement practitioner who is willing to tell it how it is. And she has grave concerns for the future of public participation. To have a thriving society, we need people and communities who are actively involved in civic life. For politicians, public servants, corporations, or planners to engage with communities in any positive way, they need...
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    22,01 €

  • Toward More Effective Science and Technology Advice for Congress
    Peter D. Blair / Peter DBlair
    Toward More Effective Science and Technology Advice for Congress traces the historical roots of science and technology advice for Congress and chronicles the creation and evolution of the four organizations that provided this advice over the past half century -- (1) the National Research Council, (2) the Congressional Research Service, (3) the former Office of Technology Assess...
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    136,18 €

  • The future of U.S.-India security cooperation
    This book provides an analytical overview of the state of the US-India strategic partnership from the U.S. and Indian perspectives. ...
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    36,56 €

  • The future of U.S.-India security cooperation
    This book provides an analytical overview of the state of the US-India strategic partnership from the U.S. and Indian perspectives. ...
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    157,00 €

  • By Executive Order
    Andrew Rudalevige
    How the executive branch-not the president alone-formulates executive orders, and how this process constrains the chief executive’s ability to act unilaterallyThe president of the United States is commonly thought to wield extraordinary personal power through the issuance of executive orders. In fact, the vast majority of such orders are proposed by federal agencies and shaped ...
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    43,00 €

  • The Rise of Majority Rule in Early Modern Britain and Its Empire
    William J. Bulman / William JBulman
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    120,27 €

  • Imagining the Fed
    Nicolas Thompson
    Traces the six-decade struggle for power within the Federal Reserve System from the perspective of the central bankers who shaped the Fed. ...
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    121,84 €

  • The COVID-19 Pandemic
    Laurie Hillstrom
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    55,33 €

  • The Presidency
    Lori Han
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    55,40 €

  • The European Union and Global Politics
    Richard Youngs
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    193,41 €

  • UFO Briefing Book
    James P. Lough / James PLough
    Congress is scheduled to receive a report from the Director of National Intelligence on efforts of the Defense Department and intelligence agencies to understand a potential threat from unknown objects that interacted with aircraft from the U.S.S. Nimitz and U.S.S. Roosevelt in 2004 and 2014-2015. This briefing book demonstrates how Congress can conduct its first serious revie...
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    13,33 €

  • Public-Private Partnership Monitor
    Asian Development Bank
    This guide contains a detailed overview of Indonesia’s public-private partnership (PPP) landscape, with more than 500 qualitative and quantitative indicators for national, sector-specific, and local projects in the country.Through Presidential Regulation 38/2015, the cornerstone of Indonesia’s robust PPP enabling framework, PPPs are expected to continue playing a pivotal role i...
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    55,50 €

  • CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY IN TRANSFORMATION, THE
    LANCE L P GORE
    The book is part of the recent effort to catch up with the research on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Despite its omnipresence and pivotal role in running the country, there has been a conspicuous shortage of references to the Party in most studies related to China. In its stead, the academic literature as well as popular discussions has too often treated the CCP as a type ...
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    81,63 €

  • CHINA’S INDUSTRIAL POLICY TRANSFORMATION
    HANQUAN HUANG
    The debate on industrial policy has been in full swing among the academic circles in recent years. The crux of this debate is not whether China needs industrial policies, but rather, the kind of industrial policies it wants. Given the profound changes to the domestic and international environments, and institutional background during China’s industrial development, industrial p...
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    154,41 €

  • Public-Private Partnership Monitor
    Asian Development Bank
    This publication presents a detailed overview of the current state of the public-private partnership (PPP) environment in the Philippines, which has a relatively mature market among ADB developing member countries.In over three decades, the Philippines developed a robust PPP enabling framework through the Build-Operate-Transfer Law of 2012 and the PPP Center, witnessing 116 fin...
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    54,10 €

  • Public-Private Partnership Monitor
    Asian Development Bank
    This publication provides an overview of the public-private partnership (PPP) market in Papua New Guinea. It explores the PPP Act implementation in line with financing and investment opportunities in the country.Papua New Guinea has witnessed six financially closed projects with an investment of $433 million and predominantly in the energy sector. The lack of a robust enabling ...
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    47,93 €


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