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America in Black and White: One Nation, Indivisible by Thernstrom Stephan & Thernstrom Abigail
epub |eng | 2009-07-14 | Author:Thernstrom, Stephan & Thernstrom, Abigail [Thernstrom, Stephan]

TRACKING If standardized tests are unfair to blacks—or more broadly to students from other than middle-class homes—it follows that using them to assign students to particular courses or academic tracks ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism March 28,2020 )
The Art of Cloning by Pang Laikwan
epub |eng | | Author:Pang Laikwan

The Cultural Workers This book aims to illustrate how social mimesis could be a multidimensional mechanism involving not only individual changes but also institutional transformations and cultural fissures. If I ...
( Category: Asian March 28,2020 )
Biopiracy by Vandana Shiva
epub |eng | 2016-11-30 | Author:Vandana Shiva

Biodiversity: Whose Resource? Biodiversity has always been a local common resource. A resource is property when social systems exist to use it on the principles of justice and sustainability. This ...
( Category: Environmental Policy March 28,2020 )
A Life in Error by James Reason
epub |eng | 2013-03-14 | Author:James Reason

The ‘Mental Economics’ of Violating The German psychologist Petra Klumb1 investigated the costs and benefits of non-compliance. Where the latter outweigh the former, a violation is almost certain to occur. ...
( Category: Health & Safety March 28,2020 )
Managing Critical Incidents and Large-Scale Event Security by Eloy Nuñez and Ernest G. Vendrell
epub |eng | | Author:Eloy Nuñez and Ernest G. Vendrell

SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats) Analysis Vignette 5.1 provides an example of how football teams conduct SWOT analyses of their own internal strengths and weaknesses, as well as their ...
( Category: City Planning & Urban Development March 27,2020 )
Doing Bad by Doing Good: Why Humanitarian Action Fails by Christopher J. Coyne
epub, pdf |eng | 2013-05-01 | Author:Christopher J. Coyne [Coyne, Christopher J.]

CHAPTER 6 Killing People with Kindness IN MARCH 2011, under the auspices of UN Security Council Resolution 1973, a multistate coalition began a military campaign in Libya. The intervention was ...
( Category: Economic Policy March 27,2020 )
Other People’s Money by John Kay
epub |eng | | Author:John Kay

To successfully change banking practices, we must treat finance like any other industry If we wish to change the attitudes and actions of bankers, we must change how we view ...
( Category: Economic Policy March 27,2020 )
Patience and Fortitude by Scott Sherman
epub |eng | 2015-06-22 | Author:Scott Sherman [Sherman, Scott]

Our division has been dissolved. Our reading rooms have been closed. Our librarians have been reassigned … In theory, we continue as collections, the Asian and the Baltic, but I’m ...
( Category: Public Affairs & Administration March 26,2020 )
The System by Robert B. Reich
epub |eng | 2020-03-24 | Author:Robert B. Reich [Reich, Robert B.]

CHAPTER 9 The Power Shift A SECOND SYSTEMIC CHANGE followed from the first. The move from stakeholder to shareholder capitalism altered the balance of power between corporations and workers. Shareholder ...
( Category: Economic Policy March 25,2020 )
Leading Public Design by Christian Bason
epub |eng | | Author:Christian Bason [Bason, Christian]

Methods: design as facilitator of divergence In analysing the empirical cases in this book, designing visual tools for exploration can further be broken down into three types of situations – ...
( Category: Public Affairs & Administration March 24,2020 )
The Accidental American by Rinku Sen
epub |eng | 2011-04-30 | Author:Rinku Sen

125 Mexico: Stalled Development and Emigration It’s impossible to comprehend the migration of people like Hernandez and Salas without understanding the effect of economic globalization and internal political decisions on ...
( Category: Cultural Policy March 24,2020 )
New Orleans Under Reconstruction by Carol M. Reese
epub |eng | 2014-07-07 | Author:Carol M. Reese [Sorkin, Michael]

By 2025, increase family health, leveraging regional growth to create visible and self-sustaining environmental improvements in Newark’s neighborhoods. During past planning efforts and in public conversations, residents have often cited ...
( Category: City Planning & Urban Development March 24,2020 )
Interest Groups and Lobbying by Holyoke Thomas T.;
epub |eng | | Author:Holyoke, Thomas T.; [Holyoke, Thomas T.]

FIGURE 7.2 Subgovernments and Issue Networks Subgovernment, or iron triangle, is an important concept to understand, for it is a consequence of the relationships lobbyists build with legislators discussed in ...
( Category: Cultural Policy March 24,2020 )
The Rise of the American Security State by M. Kent Bolton
epub |eng | | Author:M. Kent Bolton

Chapter 5 The Transition from the Cold War to the Post-Cold War Period The December 1989 Panama invasion, and more importantly the Gulf crisis, changed all that. The military was ...
( Category: Military Policy March 24,2020 )
Meltdown in Tibet by Michael Buckley
epub |eng | 2014-10-07 | Author:Michael Buckley [Buckley, Michael]

LHASA, SEPTEMBER 2010: ACROSS FROM THE YAK HOTEL AT THE SHANGRI-LA Restaurant, a nightly dinner-dance show for Chinese tourists is staged. Here, nomads have been reduced to a curiosity. Performers ...
( Category: Asian March 23,2020 )

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