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Life Without Lawyers by Philip K. Howard
epub |eng | 2012-01-17 | Author:Philip K. Howard

Good teachers and principals are a gift to all society. They should be honored, not tied in legal knots and then blamed for failure. The core condition, both for attracting ...
( Category: Social Policy October 2,2015 )
Nemesis: One Man and the Battle for Rio by Misha Glenny
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2015-09-16 | Author:Misha Glenny [Glenny, Misha]

3 TAKING CARE OF BUSINESS 2004–2007 THE BUSINESS STILL requires a lot of work. The suppliers are not the only ones demanding money. Rocinha’s drugs trade employs 200–300 people, divided ...
( Category: Caribbean & Latin American October 1,2015 )
Conversations with Tocqueville: The Global Democratic Revolution in the Twenty-first Century by Craiutu Aurelian Gellar Sheldon
epub |eng | 2013-07-10 | Author:Craiutu, Aurelian,Gellar, Sheldon [Craiutu, Aurelian]

Three Possible Scenarios As a conclusion, we wish to discuss the implications of our observation in the form of three possible future scenarios. We call our first scenario managed decadence. ...
( Category: Comparative Politics October 1,2015 )
Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy by Robinson James A. & Daron Acemoglu
mobi |eng | 2005-12-18 | Author:Robinson, James A. & Daron Acemoglu [Robinson, James A.]

(6.16) so that the payoff from revolution must be greater when µH = 0. Because Vp(R, µH) is monotonically increasing and continuous in µ, by the intermediate value theorem there ...
( Category: Economic Policy September 30,2015 )
0008145156 (N) by Cathy Glass
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-09-09 | Author:Cathy Glass [Glass, Cathy]

Chapter Fifteen Doing the Right Thing Joss attended the ice-skating class on Monday – I telephoned and checked – and when she returned home at dinnertime she said she wanted ...
( Category: Child Abuse September 28,2015 )
Disposable Futures : The Seduction of Violence in the Age of Spectacle by Giroux Henry A.; Evans Brad
epub |eng | | Author:Giroux, Henry A.; Evans, Brad

Let’s take as an example here the cruelty displayed within popular Hollywood films such as Fast Five (2011) and Acts of Valor (2012). These films, only two examples of an ...
( Category: Democracy September 26,2015 )
Laughter in Ancient Rome: On Joking, Tickling, and Cracking Up (Sather Classical Lectures) by Beard Mary
mobi, azw3 |eng | 2014-07-10 | Author:Beard, Mary [Beard, Mary]

This is a simple set of connections between laughter and mimicry and mime but one that can enrich our understanding of some famous passages of Roman literature. I have already ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical September 24,2015 )
Contemporary Political Philosophy: An Introduction by Will Kymlicka
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Will Kymlicka

8. THE SOCIAL THESIS However, communitarianism is not just a doctrine about the self and its ends. Indeed, many communitarians reject Sandel’s idea of constitutive ends, and endorse the liberal ...
( Category: History & Theory September 23,2015 )
Protest by James M. Jasper
epub |eng | | Author:James M. Jasper

Rickie was not the central character in My So-Called Life, but he was a complex and sympathetic friend. Credit: Disney © Mark Selinger/American Broadcasting Companies, Inc. An emotional state of ...
( Category: Social Theory September 23,2015 )
Fire In the East by Paul Bracken
epub |eng | 1999-09-20 | Author:Paul Bracken [Bracken, Paul]

NATIONALISM: THE “HOT” SIDE OF ASIAN DEFENSE Giving atomic missiles to the Iranian Revolutionary Guards is not like deploying jets in the British air force. An irrational politics of rage ...
( Category: Asian September 21,2015 )
Six Months in 1945 by Michael Dobbs
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-10-15 | Author:Michael Dobbs

The cheers of the crowds massed outside 10 Downing Street and along Whitehall were ringing in his ears, but Winston Churchill found it difficult to share the popular elation. The ...
( Category: World War II September 19,2015 )
The Cash Nexus: Money and Politics in Modern History, 1700-2000 by Ferguson Niall
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-03-07 | Author:Ferguson, Niall [Ferguson, Niall]

FROM PRIVATE TO PUBLIC CORRUPTION Politicians have an interest in trying to limit the costs of electioneering. The public has an interest in limiting the influence of rich donors over ...
( Category: History & Theory September 19,2015 )
Kant: Political Writings (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought) by Immanuel Kant
epub, azw3 |eng | 1991-01-25 | Author:Immanuel Kant [Kant, Immanuel]

C Indirectly, i.e. in so far as he takes the duty of the people upon himself, the supreme commander has the right to impose taxes upon the people for their ...
( Category: Reference September 16,2015 )
The Economist Aug 29th 2015 by The Economist
epub |eng | 2015-08-27 | Author:The Economist [Economist, The]

In charts: Terror in western Europe The foiled train attack also raises fresh questions about Schengen. Charles Michel, the Belgian prime minister, says the rules should undergo “adaptation”. Spanish intelligence ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics September 16,2015 )
The Economist Aug 8th 2015 by The Economist
mobi |eng | 2015-08-27 | Author:The Economist

Turkish politics The gambler The president rolls the dice by calling new elections Aug 29th 2015 | ISTANBUL | From the print edition WHEN he became Turkey’s first popularly elected ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics September 16,2015 )

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