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Value Capture and Land PoliciesValue capture refers to a type of public financing where increases in private land values generated by public investments are "captured" or recouped by the public sector, rather than by individuals, to help pay for the initial investment needed for that development. This approach...
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Cultural Revolution and Revolutionary CultureIn Cultural Revolution and Revolutionary Culture, Alessandro Russo presents a dramatic new reading of China's Cultural Revolution as a mass political experiment aimed at thoroughly reexamining the tenets of communism. Russo explores four critical phases of the Cultural Revolution, each with its own reworking...
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Ignored Racism: White Animus Toward LatinosAlthough Latinos are now the largest non-majority group in the United States, existing research on white attitudes toward Latinos has focused almost exclusively on attitudes toward immigration. This book changes that. It argues that such accounts fundamentally underestimate the political power of whites' animus...
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Keenie Meenie: The British Mercenaries Who Got Away With War CrimesKeenie Meenie Services - the most powerful mercenary company you've never heard of - was involved in war crimes around the world from Sri Lanka to Nicaragua for which its shadowy directors have never been held accountable. Like its mysterious name, Keenie Meenie Services...
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Fashioning China: Precarious Creativity and Women Designers in Shanzhai Culture'Shanzhai' from Cantonese slang, refers to the production of fake goods in China, which enjoy an anti-authoritarian-like dissemination across the global market. Starting with mobile phones, now fashion brands are subverted in this way, with many women at the helm of design and production....
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The University and Social Justice: Struggles Across the GlobeHigher education has long been contested terrain. From student movements to staff unions, the fight for accessible, critical and quality public education has turned university campuses globally into sites of struggle. Whether calling for the decommodification or the decolonisation of education, many of these...
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Public Leadership Ethics: A Management ApproachDesigned to help midlevel and senior managers in organizations dedicated to public purposes, this book provides trained self-awareness to deploy values to guide decisions and build the culture of their organizations. The book explores how all managing involves leading and identifies the levels of...
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Conflict and Cooperation in the Indo-Pacific: New Geopolitical RealitiesThis book explores the most important strategic questions about the emerging Indo-Pacific region by offering an incisive analysis on the current and future patterns of competition and cooperation of key nations in the region.Examining emerging policies of cooperation and conflict adopted by Indo-Pacific states...
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Away from Chaos: The Middle East and the Challenge to the WestThe Middle East is one of the world's most volatile regions. In recent years, from the optimism and then crushing disappointment of the Arab uprisings through the rise and fall of the Islamic State, it has presented key international security challenges. With the resilient...
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The Death of Idealism: Development and Anti-Politics in the Peace CorpsPeace Corps volunteers seem to exemplify the desire to make the world a better place. Yet despite being one of history's clearest cases of organized idealism, the Peace Corps has, in practice, ended up cultivating very different outcomes among its volunteers. By the time...
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Women, Politics, and Public Policy: The Political Struggles of Canadian WomenNow in its third edition, Women, Politics, and Public Policy continues to incorporate uniquely Canadian perspectives on the intersectionality of feminism, womenas politics, and public policy-making. This third edition balances historical content and contemporary politics and offers completely updated statistical data and the latest...
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Financing AfricaFinancing Africa's development requires ingenuity, discipline, and an understanding of fiscal systems - the entirety of government revenues and expenditures, including taxation and debt. This book makes fascinating what might seem at first glance complex. It describes diverse approaches that have been adjusted to...
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Entrepreneurship in the Gulf Cooperation Council Region: Evolution and Future PerspectivesThis book looks at the current state of entrepreneurship development in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region, consisting of Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates. It is a comprehensive state-of-the-art coverage of entrepreneurship and small business management issues, supported...
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EPSO CAST Political affairs / EU policies: How to succeed in the selection procedureThis book will help you to prepare the EPSO CAST Political affairs / EU policies tests of any function group to be selected as a contract agent by the EU Institutions. It includes a guide for the whole selection procedure, support to your self-motivation,...
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"If We Had Wings We Would Fly to You": A Soviet Jewish Family Faces Destruction, 1941-42This is the first work in any language that offers both an overarching exploration of the flight and evacuation of Soviet Jews viewed at the macro level, and a personal history of one Soviet Jewish family. It is also the first study to examine...
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Toxic Tales: A Caustic Collection of Donald J. Trump's Very Important LettersAfter crashing his way to the presidency with the subtlety of a sledgehammer, Donald J. Trump was now faced with tackling the most important job stretched out before him during the next four years: proving he was indeed magnificent. There had to be a...
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Why Nation-Building Matters: Political Consolidation, Building Security Forces, and Economic Development in Failed and Fragile StatesNo one likes nation-building. The public dismisses it. Politicians criticize it. The traditional military disdains it, and civilian agencies lack the blueprint necessary to make it work. Yet functioning states play a foundational role in international security and stability. Left unattended, ungoverned spaces can...
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The Transpacific Experiment: How China and California Collaborate and Compete for Our FutureA timely, vital account of California's unique relationship with China, told through the exploits of the entrepreneurs, activists, and politicians driving transformations with international implications. Tensions between the world's superpowers are mounting in Washington, D.C., and Beijing. Yet, the People's Republic of China and...
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The Enduring DemocracyThe Enduring Democracy by Kenneth Dautrich, David A. Yalof, and Christina Bejarano examines the current state of American politics through the lenses of American history and the nation's changing demographics. This two-pronged approach encourages students to place current issues and controversies into historical perspective,...
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Britain, Portugal and South America in the Napoleonic Wars: Alliances and Diplomacy in Economic Maritime ConflictIn the maelstrom of Napoleonic Europe, Britain remained defiant, resisting French imperial ambitions. This Anglo-French rivalry was, essentially, a politico-economic conflict for pre-eminence fought on a global scale and it reached a zenith in 1806-1808 with France's apparent dominance of Continental Europe. Britain reacted...
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