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  • Rhetoric, Persuasion, and Modern Legal Writing
    Brian L. Porto / Brian LPorto
    Focusing on the opinion writing of Justices Holmes, Jackson, Black, Brennan, and Scalia, this book assesses the influence of rhetorical techniques traceable to ancient Greece on some of the most iconic opinions in Supreme Court history. ...
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    129,26 €

  • Dangerous Science
    Daniel J. Rozell / Daniel JRozell
    The public is generally enthusiastic about the latest science and technology, but sometimes research threatens the physical safety or ethical norms of society. When this happens, scientists and engineers can find themselves unprepared in the midst of an intense science policy debate. In the absence of convincing evidence, technological optimists and skeptics struggle to find co...
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    30,61 €

  • Smokescreens
    Henry Patiño
    A Judeo-Christian Response to the Social Issues of Our Age 'Smokescreens' is a Judeo-Christian manifesto that addresses our responsibility as citizens of the United States to stand in the public square and voice intelligently the biblical position regarding social issues. It addresses a number of issues that will have dire consequences on the future of our nation should...
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    30,80 €

  • Real House Lives
    Michael Morden et al.
    'We’re not just in a sort of post-truth politics, but we’re in a post-democratic politics.' - Former Member of ParliamentDemocracy’s future has become uncertain. Politicians are viewed with deep cynicism. Political parties have lost touch with mass society. Citizens’ expectations of what their democracy should do have outstripped what their institutions can provide. All of this...
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    31,08 €

  • Real House Lives
    Michael Morden et al.
    'We’re not just in a sort of post-truth politics, but we’re in a post-democratic politics.' - Former Member of ParliamentDemocracy’s future has become uncertain. Politicians are viewed with deep cynicism. Political parties have lost touch with mass society. Citizens’ expectations of what their democracy should do have outstripped what their institutions can provide. All of this...
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    22,39 €

  • Governance, Politics and the State
    B Guy Peters / Jon Pierre
    Having started out as a new and alternative way of thinking about policy making and governing more broadly, governance is now established as a dominant paradigm in understanding national, subnational and global politics.The long-awaited second edition of this textbook takes into account the significant growth and proliferation of the field in recent years and offers a state of ...
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    57,73 €

  • CHINESE SOCIETY IN THE XI JINPING ERA
    LITAO ZHAO & DONGTAO QI
    As China has become the world's second largest economy and risen rapidly amid various internal and external challenges, its profound social transformation and changing social policies are seemingly receiving inadequate attention from both academic and policy communities, especially in the Xi Jinping era since 2013. After decades of development, new social values, behaviours...
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    93,77 €

  • The Legacy of Mayor Anthony Williams
    Ray Crawford / Ray Jr. Crawford / Ray JrCrawford
    This book examines the leadership of former Washington, DC, Mayor Anthony Williams during his tenure in the office from 1998 to 2006. Williams’s effectiveness is analyzed using a unique model for political leadership, described as the “ideal type” of mayoral leadership (ITML). ...
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    129,01 €

  • Air Forces
    Each forward-thinking air force has now to consider potential threat scenarios that are futuristic and require some degree of planning. This volume contains data on 14 nations and their attempts to modernize, mobilize and keep ahead of their adversaries. ...
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    56,96 €

  • LN STATE & LOCAL PUBLIC FIN (2P)
    JOHN YINGER
    This book is based on lectures conducted for two classes at the Maxwell School, Syracuse University: A Public Finance Seminar for PhD students in public administration and State and Local Public Finance for master's students in public administration.Topics covered include the role of voters in a federal system, the sorting of different households into different communities,...
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    178,02 €

  • LN STATE & LOCAL PUBLIC FIN (2P)
    JOHN YINGER
    This book is based on lectures conducted for two classes at the Maxwell School, Syracuse University: A Public Finance Seminar for PhD students in public administration and State and Local Public Finance for master's students in public administration.Topics covered include the role of voters in a federal system, the sorting of different households into different communities,...
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    93,30 €

  • Governance, Politics and the State
    B Guy Peters / Jon Pierre
    Having started out as a new and alternative way of thinking about policy making and governing more broadly, governance is now established as a dominant paradigm in understanding national, subnational and global politics.The long-awaited second edition of this textbook takes into account the significant growth and proliferation of the field in recent years and offers a state of ...
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    173,68 €

  • Parliament the Mirror of the Nation
    Gregory Conti
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    41,03 €

  • First Century of the International Joint Commission
    The International Joint Commission oversees and protects the shared waters of Canada and the United States. Created by the Boundary Waters Treaty of 1909, it is one of the world's oldest international environmental bodies. A pioneering piece of transborder water governance, the IJC has been integral to the modern Canada-United States relationship.This is the definitive hist...
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    51,84 €

  • For the President’s Eyes Only
    Christopher Andrew
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    18,49 €

  • Energy Economics
    Thomas R. Sadler / Thomas RSadler
    Energy Economics: Science, Policy, and Economic Applications explains various energy systems from an economics perspective. Specifically, the author uses the tools of economics to analyze the development of modern energy systems, the world’s reliance on fossil fuels, and the components of a transition to cleaner energy resources. ...
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    156,24 €

  • Social Protection in Africa
    Social Protection is an area of policy and development in Africa responsible for ensuring inclusive growth and the provision of social needs which sustain human well-being. This book contains essays which analyse the role of government and non-government organisations in the provision of social protection needs for citizens in Africa, and reflect the socio-political and economi...
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    70,63 €

  • Legislating Morality in America
    Donald Haider-Markel
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    140,83 €

  • Examining Ethics and Intercultural Interactions in International Relations
    The need for intercultural communication and understanding has never been greater. The unstoppable confluence of technology continues to unsympathetically disrupt, distort, and exert consequential changes to nation states and to the breadth, depth, and scope of sociocultural institutions. Such changes have foregrounded the need to understand and relate to the diverse ethical un...
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    282,08 €

  • Organizing for Transgender Rights
    Anthony J. Nownes / Anthony JNownes
    Illuminates transgender activists’ successful strategies to organize for social and political change in the US. ...
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    42,18 €

  • Neo-race Realities in the Obama Era
    Considers the impact of neo-racism during the Obama presidency. ...
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    41,08 €

  • One America?
    Nathan Angelo
    Reveals how presidents deploy a rhetoric that attempts to attract many racial and ethnic groups, but ultimately directs itself to an archtypal white, Middle-American swing voter. ...
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    41,80 €

  • Property Rights in Contemporary Governance
    Examines how our diverse understandings of property impact real-world governing strategies. ...
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    42,18 €

  • Interdisciplinary Approaches to Public Policy and Sustainability
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    216,20 €

  • Interdisciplinary Approaches to Public Policy and Sustainability
    In today’s global economy, the role of public policy in managing and ensuring sustainability is an emerging area of research considering modern day issues such as climate change and the depletion of energy resources. The impact that these environmental concerns have on human life has brought to light a new era of economic theories and initiatives to promote a better lifestyle. ...
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    282,05 €

  • Assessing the Role of the Federal Government in the Development of New Products, Industries, and Companies
    Donald S. Siegel / Donald SSiegel / Sandra E. Price / Sandra EPrice
    Assessing the Role of the Federal Government in the Development of New Products, Industries, and Companies examines the role of the federal government in the development of major innovations. This is done in a purely descriptive manner, specifically identifying and describing major products, industries, and firms resulting from U.S. government funding of research in the years s...
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    103,26 €

  • The American Environment Revisited
    This innovative book provides a dynamic—and often surprising—view of the range of environmental issues facing the United States today. Distinguished scholars examine the growing temporal, spatial, and thematic breadth of topics historical geographers are now exploring, giving a fascinating look at our changing relationship with nature. ...
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    66,02 €

  • The Paradox of Fiscal Austerity
    Justin Vélez-Hagan
    When financial crises initiated a global recession in 2008, massive public debt forced policymakers in the developed world to impose tough fiscal consolidations to counter growing deficits. The most effective solutions, however, were often the ones most counterintuitive and least politically feasible, catching policymakers in a fiscal paradox. ...
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    129,05 €

  • Character and Consequence
    Robert A. Strong / Robert AStrong
    In this book Robert A. Strong reviews six case studies of significant foreign policy decisions during the presidency of George H. W. Bush and explores the ways in which the president’s personality and character influenced those decisions. ...
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    122,49 €

  • The 2016 American Presidential Campaign and the News
    This book examines issues such as fake news, media bias, visual meme depictions of the candidates, and social media as news during the 2016 presidential campaign. The contributors offer insights into how the campaign coverage affected the health of the American republic. ...
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    54,28 €


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