Political Science - General

In accordance with the 1988 amendment to the Act, the NRC's Office of the Inspector General (OIG) was established on April 15, 1989, as an independent and objective unit to conduct and supervise audits and conduct investigations relating to NRC's programs and operations. The...

The National Park Service (NPS) was formed on August 25, 1916, and is the U.S. federal agency that manages all national parks, many national monuments, and other conservation and historical properties with various title designations. The National Park Service publishes various reports and documents...

The BiblioGov Project is an effort to expand awareness of the public documents and records of the U.S. Government via print publications. In broadening the public understanding of government and its work, an enlightened democracy can grow and prosper. Ranging from historic Congressional Bills...

A collection of documents, with commentary, which trace the day-to-day pronouncements, utterances, and reflections from all sides of the conflict in China in the spring of 1989. The 65 documents are arranged chronologically, starting in early March and ending in late June.Author: Michel C....

This work stresses the importance, in making any choice of strategies-including the decision to use or refrain from using nuclear weapons-of gauging the intent behind the opponent's military moves. Dr. Brodie also suggests that the use or threat of use of tactical nuclear weapons...

Drawing on a study of variation in the performance of four ethnic parties in India, this book develops a theory of ethnic party performance in "patronage democracies"--a family of democracies with distinct patterns of political behavior as well as a new interpretation of Indian...

From 1931 to 1936, Stalin vacationed at his Black Sea residence for two to three months each year. While away from Moscow, he relied on correspondence with his subordinates to receive information, watch over the work of the Politburo and the government, give orders,...

Business News in the Early Modern Atlantic World explores the creation, dissemination, and consumption of a specific type of news, 'business news', within early modern commercial news networks. The volume contains eleven case studies, written by scholars from a range of disciplines, which span...

Author: Dirk BaltzlyISBN-10: 131660831XISBN-13: 9781316608319Publisher: Cambridge University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/04/2024Pages: 434Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.28lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.89d

America and the West are now in the penultimate stage of a revolution defined by "wokeness." What we call "partisanship" is essentially the effect of the late but growing realization of the revolution's opponents that they face a major threat to their interests, convictions,...

Author Joe Patrina unpacks primate/alien genetics in this three-volume compendium.Volume I - Research ... fresh views of ancient writings, seeing them as "sincere accounts" of what was witnessed during the 4,000 B.C. to 1,000 B.C. expanse of the new Homo Sapient race.Volume II -...

Author: Lawrance MashigoISBN-10: 146285303XISBN-13: 9781462853038Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/05/2011Pages: 160Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.54lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.37d

This book traces the entire trajectory of the farmers' movement in Western India, especially Maharashtra, from the 1980s to the present day. It reveals the fundamental contradictions between populism as an ideology and as political power within the democratic state structure. The volume highlights...

Personal story about my four terms as mayor of Talladega, Alabama and how a scheme was designed to get me sent to prison. Sentence overturned and elected mayor again. Involves crime, sex, murder, religion, romance. A white police captain tried to rape a black...

This book is a comprehensive guide to the storage of electrical energy and researches in the effects created by currents combining quantity with high tension. Gaston Planté, a French physicist, invented the lead-acid battery in 1859 and his working principles are still used in...

We live in an era of extreme claims versus weak consensus on issues critical to the public. Is climate change a hoax, or is it destroying our planet? Were the vaccines and social distancing measures of COVID-19 designed to protect us, or were they...

Strategic Culture(s) in Latin America elucidates why many state actors in the Global South exhibit a remarkable degree of policy continuity in their external behavior despite structural incentives for change.This book contends that the theoretical notion of strategic culture is instructive to explain such...

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Introduction.- European Union Law and National Law: a Common Legal System?.- Reflections on the Principle of Mutual Trust in EU Law and Judicial Dialogue in Europe.- Broadening the Right to Personal Autonomy and Supported Decision-making: from International Ideas to National and European Legislation on...

Author: Gerrard WinstanleyISBN-10: 1849021864ISBN-13: 9781849021869Publisher: Benediction BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/29/2009Pages: 148Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.34d

This book addresses the urgent need for adequate shelter and services for the urban poor in developing countries. It not only examines the evolution and performance of policies and projects, but also analyzes factors which effect policy implementation, and identifies alternative approaches for upgrading...

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Thesis (M.A.) from the year 2016 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Development Politics, grade: Merit, London School of Economics (Department of International Development), course: MSc International Development and Humanitarian Emergencies, language: English, abstract: Land conflict in Acholi has often been...

Reflections on the Revolution in France is the most famous and popular work of Irish political writer and statesman EDMUND BURKE (1729-1797), whose 12-volume set of collected works has long been considered one of the most influential anthologies of political philosophy in the English...

From the preface: "The late convulsions in Greece and Turkey, and the consequent revival of all the mis-statements which, during the War, flowed from ignorance or malice, render the publication of this book particularly opportune. Mr. Abbott deals with his subject in all its...

The law on criminal procedure in Kenya has tremendously changed after the Constitution of Kenya of 2010. New institutions with an impact on the criminal process such as the National Police Service, the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions, and the Supreme Court...

This Reader provides a structurally coherent explanation and review of the magnified role conception and organizational task expansion for the Nigerian military establishment in foreign policy. It argues essentially that one of the most problematic and intractable areas of public policy in Nigeria since...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was introduced on December 2, 1970 by President Richard Nixon. The agency is charged with protecting human health and the environment, by writing and enforcing regulations based on laws passed by Congress. The EPA's struggle to protect health...

I establish stylized empirical facts about the trading behavior of New York Stock Exchange specialists. Specifically, I look at the effect of future price movements, the specialist's explicit role, and the specialist's inventory levels on specialist trading behavior. The motivation for this empirical study...

The United States Geological Survey (USGS) is a scientific organization created in 1879, and is part of the U.S. government. Their scientists explore our environment and ecosystems, to determine the natural dangers we are facing. The agency has over 10,000 employees that collect, monitor,...

If history has shown anything, it has underlined both the importance and difficulty of preparing for the unexpected. A trained and ready Army must possess a sound doctrine, competent leaders, and effective, rugged equipment. Just as important to success is the Army's capacity to...

This document contains information on the operations preparatory to the invasion (attacks on airfields, communications targets, coastal batteries, reconnaissance activities), tactical redeployment, provision of facilities for air ground cooperation (conferences ground liaison officers, air support parties, cooperation with units afloat, coordination facilities at Uxbridge,...

The National Park Service (NPS) was formed on August 25, 1916, and is the U.S. federal agency that manages all national parks, many national monuments, and other conservation and historical properties with various title designations. The National Park Service publishes various reports and documents...

How did the concept of the secular state emerge and evolve in Australia and how has it impacted on its institutions? This is the most comprehensive study to date on the relationship between religion and the state in Australian history, focusing on the meaning...

She was rich, beautiful, and happily married, but Blanche Ames was also a political reformer par excellence who created political cartoons to defend the right of women to vote, attacked male politicians who opposed woman suffrage through political action committees, and pursued the right...

From early in his career Jacques Derrida was intrigued by law. Over time, this fascination with law grew more manifest and he published a number of highly influential analyses of ethics, justice, violence and law. This book brings together leading scholars in a variety...

A team of experts view the relationship between rulers and their leading subjects across Europe and further afield. If God-derived authority legitimized a monarch's rule, it did not necessarily prevent opposition to perceived arbitrary government as subjects put forward the counter-concept of consensual rule....

For almost three-quarters of a century, the countries of Western Europe have abandoned national sovereignty as an ideal. Nation states are being dismantled: by supranationalism from above, by multiculturalism from below. This book explains why supranationalism and multiculturalism are in fact irreconcilable with representative...

In the United States of America we annually celebrate our independence on July 4th, commemorating the 1776 congressional approval of the Declaration of Independence. The Constitution of the United States of America was completed several years later. It was signed by members of the...

This impressive work sheds light on the recent history of the UN Security Council (UNSC), examining how the penchant for UN-backed humanitarian intervention in the 1990s has given way to an impotent UNSC, unable to play a meaningful role in the war in Iraq.Author:...

Offering an amazing variety of themes, taken from life and society itself, Fortunet L. Wilson leads the reader through episodes, thoughts, facts, like a roller coaster ride - not in the intension of creating drama, but to make the reader question things to wake...

Scientific Healing Affirmations is a beloved 1924 classic by the great yoga master Paramhansa Yogananda, author of Autobiography of a Yogi. This pioneering work of self-healing and self-transformation empowers you to create a new reality by shifting the dynamic thought patterns of your mind....

Going to a foreign land and entering a war zone as a civilian and not as a soldier can take its toll on an individual or have its good and bad times, which will leave one scarred for the remainder of his/her life. Growing...

The bible of cesarean prevention. Wall Street Journal A landmark event, which will change the course of obstetric care by giving parents the informtion they need to make the decisions that are best for their own families. Comprehensive, highly readable, sensitive . . ....

This colossal work is the outcome of a lengthy, vivid painstaking and strenuous effort undertaken by me. It has been a long-desired need of researchers and students of translation to have Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Qur'anic Rhetoric in the English Language which will be...

Presenting an ethnographic account of the emergence and application of critical political alternatives in the Global South, this book analyses the opportunities and challenges of decolonizing and transforming a modern, hierarchical and globally-immersed nation-state on the basis of indigenous terminologies.Alternative development paradigms that represent...

Proactive use of artificial intelligence for the development: space satellites as a key infrastructure.- Satellite data as evidences before the mechanisms of international courts.- Earth and extra-terrestrial sustainable development: the challenges of Post-2030 Earth and Space Regime.- Towards total water awareness: a technology framework.-...

One of history's most important political works. Mill declares that "over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign". If you are interested in political philosophy - this is a must readAuthor: John Stuart MillISBN-10: 1975614607ISBN-13: 9781975614607Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage:...