Cyberprotestexplores the effects of the synergy between ICTs and people power, analyzing the implications for politics and social policy at both a national and a global level.

However, the continuing buildup of assets in the sovereign wealth fund and the increasing share of the mainland economy that is supplying goods and services to the oil sector are leading to competitiveness pressures in other industries ...

The current cyclical upswing underscores the potential of the Polish economy with regard to EU accession and in the face of favorable global growth prospects.

Contents: Foreword; Introduction; How this book came to be written; Elements of Rocket Propulsion; U.S. Government Experience in Secret Operations; the Search for Apollo Secrets; the Apollo Project as Political Expediency; Steps to ...

In recent years, the IMF has released a growing number of reports and other documents covering economic and financial developments and trends in member countries.

Chronicling the years 146-78 BC, The Storm Before the Storm dives headlong into the first generation to face this treacherous new political environment.

A major study of interest groups in America

Uno de los títulos más emblemáticos del catálogo de Taurus, Derecha e izquierda, un auténtico best-seller del pensamiento político. ¿Existen aún la izquierda y la derecha?

Discusses the early history of Jews and Arabs and traces the emergence and history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from the early twentieth century to the beginning of peace negotiations in the early 1990s Mark Tessler's timely, ...

Spanning the crucial years of Dewey's move from the University of Chicago to Columbia University, Volume 3 col­lects thirty-six essays and reviews pub­lished at the very time Dewey deter­mined that his professional future would lie in ...

This book examines how the Internet can improve public communications and enrich democracy.

Stephen Ball provides a substantive account of current education policy trends and offers a way to make sense of what is happening to our experience of education, as learners, as teachers, as parents and as citizens.

Finally, the book clarifies a central question in political economy: How can national economic policy be conducted in both a democratic and a competent fashion?

This new edition includes notes on the principal events in Machiavelli's life, and on the vocabulary of The Prince, as well as biographical notes on characters in the text.

Hans-Werner Sinn hat wie kein anderer in den letzten Jahrzehnten die wirtschafts- und sozialpolitischen Debatten in Deutschland und Europa geprägt.

This book demonstrates the destructive relationship between corruption and the abrogation of economic freedoms and entrepreneurship, a system that has clearly left Africa as one of the most deprived regions in the world.

Thoreau's Nature: Ethics, Politics, and the Wild explores how Thoreau crafted a life open to 'the Wild, ' a term that marks the startling element of foreignness in every object of experience, however familiar.

His TED talk, "Everything You Think You Know About Addiction Is Wrong,†? has been viewed more than eight million times and revolutionized the global debate. This book will do the same.

Filled with fresh insights and information, this biography the first Soviet leader delves deeply into this heavily mythologized life to show why he was so feared, respected, and loved in Russia.