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PublicAffairs The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the
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PublicAffairs The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the
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PublicAffairs Good Economics for Hard Times
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PublicAffairs Which Country Has the World's Best Health Care?
Book SynopsisThe preeminent doctor and health policy expert Ezekiel J. Emanuel gives an incisive tour of eleven health care systems across the globe, including our own, in search of whose is best—and how we can be more like them.One thing we can all agree on: the United States does not have the world’s best health care, at least not for all its citizens across fifty very different states. But which country does, and what can they teach the US?After analyzing the US and ten other countries—Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, Switzerland, Taiwan, and the UK—the results are in. No health care system is perfect, whether the problem is too many hospital beds in Germany or treating chronic illness in France, and some problems are shared across many countries, from addressing mental health care to containing the rising costs of chronic care. With a new coda that examines the handling of COVID-19 around the world, Dr. Emanuel offers evidence of the flaws and triumphs of health systems in the US and globally, and the lessons we can learn from each other.
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Author Solutions Inc Iran and Cultural Centers in Europe
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Author Solutions Inc Iran and Cultural Centers in Europe
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Center Street Defend the Border and Save Lives
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Brill Media and Conflict: Framing Issues, Making Policy, Shaping Opinions
Book SynopsisThis is the first book to focus on media and conflict - primarily international conflict - from multidisciplinary, cross-national and cross-cultural perspectives. Twenty-two contributors from around the globe present original and thought provoking research on media and conflict in the United States, Central America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Russia, and Asia. Media and Conflict includes works both on the traditional print and electronic media and on new media including the Internet. It explores the role media play in different phases of conflict determined by goal and structure including conflict management, conflict resolution, and conflict transformation. Published under the Transnational Publishers imprint.Trade ReviewREVIEWS An important and diverse collection.... This book brings the study of media and conflict to a new level of sophistication. -- Robert M. Entman, Professor and Head, Department of Communication, North Carolina State University. A wonderful, multi-discipline attempt to understand the complicated intersection of communications and political strife. -- Susan Herbst, Professor and Chair, Department of Political Science, Northwestern UniversityTable of ContentsAbout the Authors; World Perspectives on Media and Conflict, Eytan Gilboa; Part I: Framing; Chapter 1: Media and the New Post-Cold War Movements, Andrew Rojecki; Chapter 2: The Battle in Seattle: How Nongovernmental Organizations Used Websites in Their Challenge to the WTO, Melissa A. Wall; Chapter 3: Spiral of Violence? Conflict and Conflict Resolution in International News, Christopher Beaudoin and Esther Thorson; Chapter 4: Relational Ripeness in the Oslo I and Oslo II Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations, William A. Donohue and Gregory D. Hoobler; Chapter 5: Framing International Conflicts in Asia: A Comparative Analysis of News Coverage of Tokdo, Young Chul Yoon and Gwangho E.; Chapter 6: Framing Environmental Conflicts: The Edwards Aquifer Dispute, Linda L. Putnam; Part II: Media and Policy; Chapter 7: Sources, the Media and the Reporting of Conflict ,Howard Tumber; Chapter 8: An Exploratory Model of Media-Government Relations in International Crises: U.S. Involvement in Bosnia 1992–1995, Yaeli Bloch and Sam Lehman-Wilzig; Chapter 9: Global Television and Conflict Resolution: Defining the Limits of the CNN Effect, Piers Robinson; Chapter 10: Media Diplomacy in the Arab-Israeli Conflict, Eytan Gilboa; Chapter 11: The Russian Media Role in the Conflicts in Afghanistan and Chechnya: A Case Study of Media Coverage by Izvestia Olga V. Malinkina and Douglas M. McLeod; Chapter 12: Effects of Ambiguous Policies on Media Coverage of Foreign Conflicts: The Cases of Eritrea and Southern Sudan, Meseret Chekol Reta; Part III: Media and the Public; Chapter 13: The South African Press: No Strangers to Conflict, Arnold S de Beer;Chapter 14: Cultural Conflict in the Middle East: The Media as Peacemakers, Dov Shinar; Chapter 15: The Media and Reconciliation in Central America, Sonia Gutiérrez-Villalobos; Chapter 16: The Crisis in Kosovo: Photographic News of the Conflict and Public Opinion, Kimberly L. Bissell; Chapter 17: Internet Public Relations: A Tool for Crisis Management, Shannon B. Campbell; Index.
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Prometheus Books The Nationalism Reader
Book SynopsisThe proclamation of a "New World Order," hailed at the end of the cold war, coincided with an eruption of nationalism. The withering of the bipolar balance of power has created a vacuum that has been filled by a new tide of ethnic conflict in the former Soviet Union, the Balkans, Somalia, and elsewhere. Despite general recognition of this resurgent phenomenon, there is neither widespread awareness nor expert consensus on the meaning and origins of nationalism. The Nationalism Reader depicts the historical evolution of nationalist thought in the words of leading political actors and thinkers. But this anthology is more than merely a useful reference book. By classifying the questions of nationalism according to conflicting political perspectives, its introductory essay and organization show that liberalism, conservatism, and socialism oscillate between a universalist (or a semi-universalist) conception of human rights and nationalism. In this respect, the selection of texts presented here sheds new theoretical light on the study of nationalism, as well as presenting major European, American, and Third World contributions to nationalist thought.
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Monthly Review Press,U.S. Wall Street's Think Tank: The Council on Foreign
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Monthly Review Press,U.S. The Lie of Global Prosperity: How Neoliberals
Book SynopsisA deconstruction of the neoliberal placations about global capitalism, exposing the inequalities of global poverty "We're making headway on global poverty," trills Bill Gates. "Decline of Global Extreme Poverty Continues," reports the World Bank. "How did the global poverty rate halve in 20 years?" inquires The Economist. Seth Donnelly answers: "It didn't!" In fact, according to Donnelly, virtually nothing about these glad tidings proclaiming plummeting global poverty rates is true. It's just that trend-setting neoliberal experts and institutions need us to believe that global capitalism, now unfettered in the wake of the Cold War and bolstered by Information Technology, has ushered in a new phase of international human prosperity. This short book deconstructs the assumption that global poverty has fallen dramatically, and lays bare the spurious methods of poverty measurement and data on which the dominant prosperity narrative depends. Here is carefully researched documentation that global poverty--and the inequalities and misery that flourish within it--remains massive, afflicting the majority of the world's population. Donnelly goes further to analyze just how global poverty, rather than being reduced, is actually reproduced by the imperatives of capital accumulation on a global scale. Just as the global, environmental catastrophe cannot be resolved within capitalism, rooted as it is in contemporary mechanisms of exploitation and plunder, neither can human poverty be effectively eliminated by neoliberal "advances."Trade Review"[An] accessible critique that will be of use to revolutionary social movements and activists the world over."-Christopher Feise, Professor Emeritus, Washington State University
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Monthly Review Press,U.S. The Lie of Global Prosperity: How Neoliberals Distort Data to Mask Poverty and Exploitation
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PublicAffairs,U.S. Who Gets What: Fair Compensation after Tragedy and Financial Upheaval
Book SynopsisAgent Orange, the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund, the Virginia Tech massacre, the 2008 financial crisis, and the Deep Horizon gulf oil spill: each was a disaster in its own right. What they had in common was their aftermath- each required compensation for lives lost, bodies maimed, livelihoods wrecked, economies and ecosystems upended. In each instance, an objective third party had to step up and dole out allocated funds: in each instance, Presidents, Attorneys General, and other public officials have asked Kenneth R. Feinberg to get the job done. In Who Gets What? , Feinberg reveals the deep thought that must go into each decision, not to mention the most important question that arises after a tragedy: why compensate at all? The result is a remarkably accessible discussion of the practical and philosophical problems of using money as a way to address wrongs and reflect individual worth.Trade ReviewKirkus Reviews "An insider's account of how compensation decisions are made after major disasters...An opportunity to get to know a man whose work has affected thousands." Newsweek Daily Beast"When bad things happen and damages are due, it has frequently fallen on Washington lawyer Kenneth Feinberg to decide how much cash goes to whom--thus his unlikely career as America's King Solomon." Washington Post"A clearly written and emotionally contained new book" Washington Post "In Who Gets What," lawyer and master of disaster Kenneth R. Feinberg dissects the complicated business of settling claims after calamity... A glance at recent headlines may indicate a long shelf life for Feinberg's book -- who will compensate the victims of Jerry Sandusky? "Who Gets What" indeed." Reed Richardson, Eric Alterman's blog on The Nation "An interesting prism through which to view what kind of lives and livelihoods our democracy sees fit to value... This peek into a world 99 percent of us will never experience is perhaps the most powerful lesson of Feinberg's book. It reveals how our society's values have been radically skewed to greatly reward those who take excessive risks in creating impenetrable 'vehicles' that have almost no intrinsic societal value." Eric Posner, New Republic on line "A helpful reminder that many institutions that we take for granted flourish only because the public does not pay attention to them. When political ruptures expose this machinery, savvy figures such as Kenneth Feinberg are called upon to play a paradoxical role. They convince the public that these institutions are fair by temporarily suspending their operation and using ad hoc procedures that better comport with public notions of fairness, until public attention wanders elsewhere.
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TheCapitol.Net The Federal Budget Process 2e: A Description of the Federal and Congressional Budget Processes, including Timelines
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Sentinel Keeping The Republic
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Vandeplas Pub. Lobbying: Business, Law and Public Policy, Why and How 12,000 People Spend $3+ Billion Impacting Our Government
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Chelsea Green Publishing Co Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a
Book SynopsisA Financial Times "Best Book of 2017: Economics” 800-CEO-Read “Best Business Book of 2017: Current Events & Public Affairs” Economics is the mother tongue of public policy. It dominates our decision-making for the future, guides multi-billion-dollar investments, and shapes our responses to climate change, inequality, and other environmental and social challenges that define our times. Pity then, or more like disaster, that its fundamental ideas are centuries out of date yet are still taught in college courses worldwide and still used to address critical issues in government and business alike. That’s why it is time, says renegade economist Kate Raworth, to revise our economic thinking for the 21st century. In Doughnut Economics, she sets out seven key ways to fundamentally reframe our understanding of what economics is and does. Along the way, she points out how we can break our addiction to growth; redesign money, finance, and business to be in service to people; and create economies that are regenerative and distributive by design. Named after the now-iconic “doughnut” image that Raworth first drew to depict a sweet spot of human prosperity (an image that appealed to the Occupy Movement, the United Nations, eco-activists, and business leaders alike), Doughnut Economics offers a radically new compass for guiding global development, government policy, and corporate strategy, and sets new standards for what economic success looks like. Raworth handpicks the best emergent ideas—from ecological, behavioral, feminist, and institutional economics to complexity thinking and Earth-systems science—to address this question: How can we turn economies that need to grow, whether or not they make us thrive, into economies that make us thrive, whether or not they grow? Simple, playful, and eloquent, Doughnut Economics offers game-changing analysis and inspiration for a new generation of economic thinkers.Trade Review“I read this book with the excitement that the people of his day must have read John Maynard Keynes’s General Theory. It is brilliant, thrilling, and revolutionary. Drawing on a deep well of learning, wisdom, and deep thinking, Kate Raworth has comprehensively reframed and redrawn economics. It is entirely accessible, even for people with no knowledge of the subject. I believe that Doughnut Economics will change the world.”—George Monbiot, author; columnist at The Guardian“Raworth’s magnum opus. . . . A fascinating reminder to business leaders and economists alike to stand back at a distance to examine our modern economics."—Forbes, “Best Business Books of 2017”“An admirable attempt to broaden the horizons of economic thinking.”—Financial Times, Martin Wolf, “Best Books of 2017: Economics” “This is truly the book we’ve all been waiting for. Kate Raworth provides the antidote to neoliberal economics with her radical and ambitious vision of an economy in service to life. Given the current state of the world, we need Doughnut Economics now more than ever.”—L. Hunter Lovins, president and founder, Natural Capitalism Solutions“[A] sharp, insightful call for a shift in thinking . . . Raworth’s energetic, layperson-friendly writing makes her concept accessible as well as intriguing.”—Publishers Weekly“Can anyone seriously suppose that today’s economic orthodoxies are going to bring the world back from the brink of chaos? We need to fundamentally rethink the way we create and distribute wealth, and Kate Raworth’s Doughnut Economics provides an inspiring primer as to how we must now set about that challenge. I hope it ushers in a period of intense debate about the kind of economy we now so urgently need.”—Jonathon Porritt, author of The World We Made; founding director, Forum for the Future“What if it were possible to live well without trashing the planet? Doughnut Economics succinctly captures this tantalising possibility and takes up its challenge. Brimming with creativity, Raworth reclaims economics from the dust of academia and puts it to the service of a better world.”—Tim Jackson, author of Prosperity without Growth“Not long ago, well-known development economist Kate Raworth’s Doughnut graphic became an overnight sensation. Now this marvelous book clearly and succinctly explains her re-envisioning of the economy. On a bookshelf crowded with attempts to reframe economic thinking and the way forward, this book stands out—brilliantly.”—Juliet Schor, author of Plentitude“Economics rightly is under the microscope. Kate Raworth’s insightful Doughnut is what every budding economist should see when they first peer down the lens.” —John Fullerton, founder and president, Capital InstituteTable of ContentsWho wants to be an economist? 1. Change the goal from endless growth to thriving in balance 2. See the big picture from self-contained market to embedded economy 3. Nurture human nature from rational economic man to social adaptable humans 4. Get savvy with systems from mechanical equilibrium to dynamic complexity 5. Design to distribute from ‘growth will even it up’ to distributive by design 6. Create to regenerate from ‘growth will clean it up’ to regenerative by design 7. Be agnostic about growth from growth as a must to growth as a maybe not We are all economists now Annex: The Doughnut and its data Acknowledgements Notes Bibliography
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SMK Books Culture and Anarchy
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Wilder Publications Public Opinion by Walter Lippmann
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes
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Xynapse Traces Solar Expansion
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Xynapse Traces Energy Access
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W. Frederick Zimmerman Grid Modernization
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W. Frederick Zimmerman Global Renewables
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Loving Healing Press Homeless Outreach & Housing First: Lessons Learned
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Maha Books Hands Off My Food
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Notion Press, Inc. IDEAz4INDIA-2.0: Practical & Implementable Prescriptions for a NEW INDIA
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Murphy & Moore Publishing Currency Economics: Exchange Rate Policy
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Murphy & Moore Publishing Government and Politics: The Essentials
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Go to Publish Citizen Power: A Mandate for Change
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BookLogix Court Martial Cases
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Lexington Books Scenes from the American Working Class
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Independently Published Trickle-Up Economics: The Best Tax Policy for ANY Economy at ANY Time!
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Stroud House Publishing Omniocracy
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Www.Thelifeyoucansave.Org 10th Anniversary Edition The Life You Can Save: How To Do Your Part To End World Poverty
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Carnot Communications Shorting the Grid: The Hidden Fragility of Our Electric Grid
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Trafalgar Publishing Views to Die For
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Soft Power Fabrique Flavours of Influence
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Wilfrid Laurier University Press Governing Cities Through Regions: Canadian and European Perspectives
Book SynopsisThe region is back in town. Galloping urbanization has pushed beyond historical notions of metropolitanism. City-regions have experienced, in Edward Soja's terms, "an epochal shift in the nature of the city and the urbanization process, marking the beginning of the end of the modern metropolis as we knew it." Governing Cities Through Regions broadens and deepens our understanding of metropolitan governance through an innovative comparative project that engages with Anglo-American, French, and German literatures on the subject of regional governance. It expands the comparative angle from issues of economic competiveness and social cohesion to topical and relevant fields such as housing and transportation, and it expands comparative work on municipal governance to the regional scale. With contributions from established and emerging international scholars of urban and regional governance, the volume covers conceptual topics and case studies that contrast the experience of a range of Canadian metropolitan regions with a strong selection of European regions. It starts from assumptions of limited conversion among regions across the Atlantic but is keenly aware of the remarkable differences in urban regions' path dependencies in which the larger processes of globalization and neo-liberalization are situated and materialized.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Section A: Conceptual, Comparative, and General Considerations 1 Regional Governance Revisited: Political Space, Collective Agency, and Identity / Roger Keil, Pierre Hamel, Julie-Anne Boudreau, Stefan Kipfer, and Ahmed Allahwala 2 Social Agency and Collective Action in the Structurally Transformed Metropolis: Past and Future Research Agendas / Julie-Anne Boudreau and Pierre Hamel 3 Movements and Politics in the Metropolitan Region / Margit Mayer 4 Governing the Built Environment in European Metropolitan Regions: Financialization, Responsibilization, and Urban Competition / Susanne Heeg 5 The Global City-Region: A Constantly Emerging Scalar Fix / Bernd Belina and Ute Lehrer Section B: Canadian Regions 6 Internalized Globalization and Regional Governance in the Toronto Region / Roger Keil and Jean-Paul D. Addie 7 Governing the Networked Metropolis: The Regionalization of Urban Transportation in Southern Ontario / Jean-Paul D. Addie 8 âBuild Torontoâ (Not Social Housing): Neglecting the Social Housing Question in a Competitive City-Region / Teresa Abbruzzese 9 Shortcomings and Promises of Governing City-Regions in the Canadian Federal Context: The Example of Montreal / Pierre Hamel 10 Winnipeg: Aspirational Planning, Chaotic Development / Christopher Leo 11 Sustainability Fix Meets Growth Machine: Attempting to Govern the Calgary Metropolitan Region / Byron Miller 12 Provincial Distrust Weighs on Vancouverâs Regional Governance / Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly and Ãve Arcand Section C: European Regions 13 The Global City Comes Home: Internalized Globalization in Frankfurt Rhine-Main / Roger Keil and Christoph Siegl 14 Grand Paris: The Bumpy Road toward Metropolitan Governance / Stefan Kipfer, Julie-Anne Boudreau, Pierre Hamel, and Antoine Noubouwo 15 Genealogies of Urban-Regional Governance: Journeys in a Post-Socialist City-Region / Mark Whitehead 16 Building Narratives of City-Regions: The Case of Barcelona / Mariona TomÃs 17 The Resistible Rise of Italyâs Metropolitan Regions: The Politics of Sub-National Government Reform in Postwar Italy / Simon Parker 18 The Uncertain Development of Metropolitan Governance: Comparing Englandâs First and Second City-Regions / Ian Gordon, Michael Harloe, and Alan Harding 19 Conclusion: North Atlantic Urban and Regional Governance / Julie-Anne Boudreau, Pierre Hamel, Roger Keil and Stefan Kipfer Notes on Contributors Index
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Centre for Addiction and Mental Health Journey to Healing: Aboriginal People with Addiction and Mental Health Issues: What Health, Social Service and Justice Workers Need to Know
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Nimbus Publishing (CN) Living Treaties: Narrating Mi'kmaw Treaty Relations
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