The Policy State: An American Predicament, Hardcover

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For nation-states, the contexts for developing and implementing policy have become more complex and demanding. Yet policy studies have not fully re...

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DescriptionA textbook that examines how societies reach decisions about the use and allocation of economic resourcesWhile economic research emphasi...

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Explores American reactions to hostile world opinion, as voiced in the United Nations by representatives of the Global South from 1970 to 1984. Sea...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Claire DunningIllustration(s): 23 halftonesNumber of pages: 336Collection: Historical Studies ...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Claire DunningIllustration(s): 23 halftonesNumber of pages: 336Collection: Historical Studies ...

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This timely book presents a data-driven approach to preventing and responding to school violence. As school violence receives increasing attention ...

Legislative History of American Immigration Policy, 1798-1965, Hardcover

Traces Scarborough's path out of slavery in Macon, Georgia, to a prolific scholarly career that culminated with his presidency of Wilberforce Unive...

Reducere. In 1727, twelve nuns left France to establish a community of Ursuline nuns in New Orleans, the capital of the French colony of Louisiana. Notable f...

DescriptionIn 1898, in an era of racial terror at home and imperial conquest abroad, the United States sent its troops to suppress the Filipino str...

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A groundbreaking and endlessly surprising history of how artisans created America, from the nation's origins to the present day. At the center of t...

Reducere. In the 1970s, queer Americans demanded access not only to health and social services but also to mainstream Democratic and Republican Party politic...

This groundbreaking book argues that philosophy is not just useful, but vital, for thinking coherently about priorities in health policy and public...

COVID-19 has transformed the British welfare state. The government has created millions of new beneficiaries, spent tens of billions of pounds it d...

Publisher: World Bank PublicationsAuthor(s): Alexandra GrossIllustration(s): figs.tabs.Number of pages: 122Publication date: 2003Dimensions: 272 x ...

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Reducere. This is a major new study and celebration of the career and legacy of the modernist sculptor, painter, collagist and educator Luise Clayborn Kaish ...

Contributor(s): Author: Jordi GaliThis revised second edition of Monetary Policy, Inflation, and the Business Cycle provides a rigorous graduate-le...

Reducere. That the Blood Stay Pure traces the history and legacy of the commonwealth of Virginia's effort to maintain racial purity and its impact on the rel...

How can students best understand the ideas that animate US foreign policy decisions and the processes that facilitate them? How can they come to te...

In 1999, Texas passed a landmark clean energy law, beginning a groundswell of new policies that promised to make the US a world leader in renewable...

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Between French Modernism and the New York School: The idiosyncratic art of the pioneer of American Pop Art. The American painter, musician, and fil...

Too Smart for our Own Good: The Ecological Predicament of Humankind - Craig Dilworth

DescriptionAn accessible modern translation of essential speeches from Thucydides's History that takes readers to the heart of his profound insight...

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DescriptionA US Naval Aviator's odyssey through pivotal moments in 20th-century history The rise of Adolf Hitler, America's Great Depression in the...

Reducere. The Last Liberal Republican is a memoir from one of Nixon's senior domestic policy advisors. John Roy Price--a member of the moderate wing of the R...

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In Robert Motherwell: The Making of an American Giant, published to coincide with Motherwell's centenary, author Bernard Jacobson examines Motherwe...

Reducere. New York Times bestselling author and journalist Anderson Cooper teams with New York Times bestselling historian and novelist Katherine Howe to chr...