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  • The GovCon Winners Way
    Dr. Kizzy M. Parks / Dr. Myron Golden
    Unlock government contract success with the exclusive GovCon Winners™ Way strategy! This book outlines the steps Dr. Kizzy Parks took to win over $50 Million in Federal Government contracts.  In the GovCon Winners™ Way, Dr. Kizzy Parks wrote this book to show you step-by- step everything you need to know to get started in government contracting and to win profitable contracts. ...
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    16,06 €

  • From Ronald to Donald
    Alan Axelrod / Edwin G. Oswald
    On November 4, 1980, American voters gave Ronald Reagan a 41-state Electoral College landslide. The man this mandate carried into the White House was largely compounded of mythology. Like most compelling mythologies, Reagan’s was a synthesis of celebrity as well as emotional, intellectual, and cultural streams. Throughout his eight years in the oval office, the 'Great Commun...
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    42,66 €

  • Understanding China’s New Common Prosperity
    Liu Yuanchun / Song Yang / Wang Fei
    This book explains China’s new common prosperity policies-their significance, connotations, and goals-and explains the economic logic behind these often misunderstood policies. First, the authors explain the theory behind common prosperity. Why is the Chinese government changing its economic policies now, and what is its objectives and metrics? The authors then go on to explain...
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    169,27 €

  • SOURCE-The Multilateral Platform for Sustainable Infrastructure
    Asian Development Bank
    Quality and sustainable infrastructure investments are needed to rebuild smartly and create a more resilient, inclusive, and equitable world. Digital transformation has become an urgent need for governments.This publication presents the SOURCE platform, a digital transformation tool that is financed and led by multilateral development banks. SOURCE is a key tool for governments...
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    32,25 €

  • Democratization of Africa and Its Impact on the Global Economy
    Democratization of Africa and Its Impact on the Global Economy delves into the intricate relationship between democracy, governance, and development in Africa, shedding light on the continent’s progress and its implications for the global economy. From its historical context rooted in colonialism and apartheid regimes to the present-day challenges of weak governance and underde...
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    236,38 €

  • Intersecting Environmental Social Governance and AI for Business Sustainability
    As the interplay of environmental, social, and governance factors becomes increasingly crucial, the global business landscape faces a monumental challenge. Climate change, social inequities, and economic uncertainties loom large, demanding immediate attention. The integration of Environmental Social Governance (ESG) principles and Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies emerg...
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    275,17 €

  • The Open World, Hackbacks and Global Justice
    A. Jean Thomas
    This book explores the current impasse that global regulators face in the digital sphere. Computer technology has advanced human civilization tenfold, but the freedom to interact with others in cyberspace has made individuals, discrete communities, organizations and governments more vulnerable to abuse.  In consequence, political decision-makers are seriously considering granti...
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    145,83 €

  • From Isolation to Leadership
    John Holladay Latane
    The first edition of this book appeared in October, 1918, a few weeks before the signing of the Armistice, when the United States was at the high tide of its power and influence. In view of the subsequent course of events, some of my readers may question the propriety of the original title. In fact, one of my friends has suggested that a more appropriate title for the new editi...
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    15,23 €

  • STRATEGIC CURRENTS
    JAMES CHAR BERNARD F W LOO
    The advent of the 4th Industrial Revolution amidst the increasingly intensified global competition between the United States and China promises to be a major inflection point in human history. The authors assembled in this volume provide a sober assessment of this techno-nationalist contest and their implications for the rest of the world. ...
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    69,52 €

  • How Autocrats Rise
    Ali Riaz / Md Sohel Rana
    For the past decade and a half, the world has witnessed a precipitous decline of democratic countries and the consequent rise of autocrats. How Autocrats Rise: Sequences of Democratic Backsliding challenges the conventional wisdom and offers an institutional-ideological approach to understand the phenomenon, examines the steps of emergent autocrats, and analyzes the methods of ...
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    157,24 €

  • STRATEGIC CURRENTS
    JAMES CHAR BERNARD F W LOO
    The advent of the 4th Industrial Revolution amidst the increasingly intensified global competition between the United States and China promises to be a major inflection point in human history. The authors assembled in this volume provide a sober assessment of this techno-nationalist contest and their implications for the rest of the world. ...
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    33,96 €

  • Das politische System der Slowakei
    Der Band bietet einen umfassenden Überblick über das politische System der Slowakei. Gegenstand sind seine Entstehung und Struktur, die politischen und gesellschaftlichen Entwicklungen im europäischen Kontext sowie wichtige Politikfelder. Herausgearbeitet werden nationale Besonderheiten - darunter die wiederkehrenden Kurswechsel der Politik -, Anpassungsprozesse, Erfolge sowie ...
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    87,14 €

  • American Diplomacy’s Public Dimension
    Bruce Gregory
    This is the first book to frame U.S. public diplomacy in the broad sweep of American diplomatic practice from the early colonial period to the present. It tells the story of how change agents in practitioner communities - foreign service officers, cultural diplomats, broadcasters, citizens, soldiers, covert operatives, democratizers, and presidential aides - revolutionized trad...
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    46,83 €

  • Restorative Justice in the Classroom
    Crystena A. H. Parker-Shandal
    This book focuses on how teachers can transmit and practice values through classroom circles that attend to and empower all students’ voices. A growing number of teachers are using relational pedagogy, drawing on Indigenous circle practice, as a pedagogical tool. Done well, circles can build and sustain dialogue and peaceful relations. Done poorly, circles reflect and reinforce...
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    170,67 €

  • Culture, Participation and Policy in the Municipal Public Park
    Abigail Gilmore
    This book concerns the values and practices of participation in municipal public parks, and the connections they have with cultural policy, urbanism, and social life. Adopting a critical cultural policy lens, it identifies the park as a mundane but extraordinarily treasured place for the production and exchange of cultural values, regulation, resistance, and the practising of c...
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    52,62 €

  • Economic and Societal Impact of Organized Crime
    Alicia Danielsson
    Organized crime, a hidden and pervasive threat, casts its dark shadow over societies globally, impacting countless lives through activities like human trafficking, illegal drug trade, and cybercrime. This intricate web of criminality leaves lasting scars on individuals, families, and entire communities, with its true cost remaining obscured. Amidst this dilemma, the question ar...
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    314,84 €

  • Economic and Societal Impact of Organized Crime
    Alicia Danielsson
    Organized crime, a hidden and pervasive threat, casts its dark shadow over societies globally, impacting countless lives through activities like human trafficking, illegal drug trade, and cybercrime. This intricate web of criminality leaves lasting scars on individuals, families, and entire communities, with its true cost remaining obscured. Amidst this dilemma, the question ar...
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    235,92 €

  • The Future of Inclusive Education
    Brent C. Elder / Valentina Migliarini
    This book addresses the tensions of existing theories and practices of inclusive education from an international perspective. Adopting Disability Critical Race Theory in Education (DisCrit) and Critical Disability Studies (CDS), the authors expose how race neutral knowledge characterizes inclusive education and exhorts readers to consider how intersectional perspectives provide...
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    169,47 €

  • From Colonial Seaports to Modern Coastal Cities
    Edmund Li Sheng
    This book explores China’s ambition to build itself into a maritime power. Despite having a continental coastline of 18,000 kilometers and territorial waters that cover an area one-third the size of its land mass, China has traditionally been considered a continental power. However, Beijing is currently trying to change this historical situation through two national strategies....
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    170,21 €

  • The Crisis-Mobility Nexus
    Leandros Fischer
    Situated at the intersections of anthropology, migration, citizenship, and social movement studies, this volume theorises a crisis-mobility nexus by focusing on empirical case studies. These concern migration struggles; the entanglements of crisis, social mobility, and citizenship; as well as the impact of COVID-19 (im)mobility on social movements. By highlighting examples from...
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    52,86 €

  • Resilience vs Pandemics
    'Resilience vs Pandemics: Innovations in Public Places and Buildings' explores innovative solutions for architecture and public places during and after the pandemic. Additionally, the authors contribute to the documentation of architectural and social transformations that have been prompted by previous transmissible diseases, as this knowledge can inform responses to future pan...
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    208,32 €

  • A Guide to Writing a Capstone Public Policy Report
    Raymond Scheppach
    In my 10 plus years of teaching, I have found that students struggle with two major challenges in writing a quality capstone paper. First, they have difficulty creating a rigorous analytical framework. Too often, the papers tend to be more descriptive in nature, which means that the final policy recommendation may be flawed. This book attempts to fill that gap by discussing in ...
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    10,25 €

  • Democratization of Africa and Its Impact on the Global Economy
    Democratization of Africa and Its Impact on the Global Economy delves into the intricate relationship between democracy, governance, and development in Africa, shedding light on the continent’s progress and its implications for the global economy. From its historical context rooted in colonialism and apartheid regimes to the present-day challenges of weak governance and underde...
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    315,30 €

  • The End of the American Empire
    Patrick Watts
    'Empire' carries huge historical baggage, but America is undeniably an imperial superpower - and yet all empires must end. Whether the US collapses swiftly from internal and external pressures, or declines and dissolves more peacefully over several centuries, depends on what its citizens and leaders do today. The present moment has never been more perilous.Written from a sympat...
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    14,07 €

  • Entangled Gridlock
    Olivia K
    In the perplexing embroidery of present day legislative issues, where disparate philosophies frequently impact, an unavoidable gridlock has arisen, entrapping progress and smothering cultural development. The trap of political impasse has turned into an imposing hindrance, blocking the acknowledgment of answers for squeezing worldwide difficulties. Notwithstanding, inside this ...
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    23,94 €

  • Democratic Policy Implementation in an Ambiguous World
    Luke Fowler
    Explains the complexities of policy implementation and why attempts to translate new laws into effective and enduring policy sometimes succeed and sometimes fail.The hard part of government is not passing new laws but implementing those laws. Implementation is where high-minded ideas are pushed and prodded into the chaos that is the real world. Often, this leads to unintended c...
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    44,70 €

  • Portraits of Public Service
    Reveals the often-untold stories of front-line public servants.Community health workers, elections officers, emergency managers, air traffic controllers, government meteorologists, US federal service photographers, and arts and cultural workers perform critical roles, though rarely receive public attention. Their stories told here help reveal this hidden world to provide a rare...
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    47,08 €

  • Convergence as Adaptivity
    Zhiyuan Wang
    Argues that states substitute unwanted policy changes dictated by globalization with politically feasible ones, leading to policy convergence.Convergence as Adaptivity explores under what conditions policy convergence may be seen an indication of policy autonomy. Zhiyuan Wang advances a theory that argues states substitute unwanted policy changes dictated by globalization with ...
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    44,84 €

  • Crewed Moon Landing Faces Multiple Challenges
    General Accountability Office
    By 2030, either China or the US, or both, will be on the Moon with permanently crewed bases. This will draw a lot of attention when it happens. 'China lands on the Moon' will be an epochal headline. Now is the time to start paying attention. This GAO report is a good place to start.This document provides an overview of the NASA Artemis program, focusing on the development of ...
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    30,71 €

  • Women’s Empowerment and Public Policy in the Arab Gulf States
    Rabia Naguib
    This open access book explores the various dimensions of women’s empowerment in public policy in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region, with a particular focus on Qatar, comparing the country to the other Gulf states. Through its rich compilation of empirical qualitative research, the text unpacks the various ways in which women’s empowerment materializes in the GCC context...
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    73,22 €