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Environmental Ethics and International Policy
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Henk A. M. J. Ten Have |
Environmental concerns figure prominently in the work of the United Nations, and especially in the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. One focus of UNESCO has to do with… |
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American juvenile justice
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Franklin E. Zimring |
American Juvenile Justice is a definitive volume for courses on the criminology and policy analysis of adolescence. The focus is on the principles and policy of a separate and distinct system of juve… |
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Sputnik
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Paul Dickson |
"On October 4, 1957, as Leave It to Beaver premiered on American television, the Soviet Union launced the first man-made object into space, a 184-pound satellite carrying only a radio transmitter. Wh… |
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Transatlantic environment and energy politics
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Miranda A. Schreurs |
Greater economic interdependence and the internationalization of trade in a number of products and services have intensified transnational relationships. But, where does the transatlantic divide lie?… |
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The new inflation
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Slawson, W. David |
Won't economists eventually solve the inflation problem? Slawson shows that supply-siders, Marxists and pragmatric middle-of-the-roaders are all basing their ideas on out-of-date assumptons. Most pri… |
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Housing and Social Change
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Ray Forrest |
This book aims to provide a wide-ranging exploration of the key contemporary relationships between social change and housing. It is both policy-oriented and theoretical and draws on a group of intern… |
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There is No Such Thing as a Natural Disaster
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Chester Hartman |
There is No Such Thing as a Natural Disaster is the first critical scholarly book on the catastrophic impact of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans. The disaster will go down in record as one of the wor… |
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Transforming Power
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Judy Rebick |
In Transforming Power, veteran activist Judy Rebick champions new ways of achieving political goals by emphasizing co-operation and consensus over confrontation and partisanship. Rebick argues that t… |
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Transportation Systems Planning
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Konstadinos G Goulias |
Transportation engineering and transportation planning are two sides of the same coin aiming at the design of an efficient infrastructure and service to meet the growing needs for accessibility and m… |
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Fighting for air
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Eric Klinenberg |
An investigative work on the corporate takeover of local news and what it means for all Americans. Sociologist Klinenberg takes us into the world of preprogrammed radio shows, empty television news s… |
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An inconvenient truth
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Al Gore |
With this book, the author, former Vice President Al Gore brings together leading-edge research from top scientists around the world; photographs, charts, and other illustrations; and personal anecdo… |
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Climate policy foundations
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William C. Whitesell |
"This book provides a thorough grounding in the science and economics of climate policy issues and draws key lessons from the longer experiences of central banks in grappling with related challenges.… |
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The handbook of global media and communication policy
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Marc Raboy,Robin Mansell |
"The Handbook of Global Media and Communication Policy offers insights into the boundaries of this field of study, assesses why it is important, who is affected, and with what political, economic, so… |
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History, memory, and state-sponsored violence
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Berber Bevernage |
"Modern historiography embraces the notion that time is irreversible, implying that the past should be imagined as something "absent" or "distant." Victims of historical injustice, however, in contra… |
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The technological state in Indonesia
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Sulfikar Amir |
"Using a historical sociology approach, this book presents an account of the formation of the technological state in Indonesia during the New Order period (1966-1998). It explores the nexus between p… |
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The Doomsday Machine
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Daniel Ellsberg |
From the legendary whistle-blower who revealed the Pentagon Papers, an eyewitness exposé of the dangers of America's Top Secret, seventy-year-long nuclear policy that continues to this day.
Here, … |
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Australia
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Vincent Vandenberghe |
This report on Australia contains a survey of the main barriers to employment for young people, an assessment of the adequacy and effectiveness of existing measures to improve the transition from sch… |
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How to thrive in the next economy
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John Thackara |
John Thackara has spent a lifetime roving the globe in search of design that serves human needs in a sustainable way. He believes that in our eagerness to find technological solutions to the big chal… |
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Towards a labour market in China
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Knight, John |
Introduction: Setting the stage -- Labour policy and progress: overview -- The urban labour market -- Increasing wage inequality -- The spatial behaviour of wages -- Rural migrants in urban enterpris… |
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No Friend But the Mountains
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Behrouz Boochani |
"In 2013, Kurdish journalist Behrouz Boochani was illegally detained on Manus Island, a refugee detention centre off the coast of Australia. He has been there ever since. This book is the result. Lab… |
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