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Performance Politics and the British Voter

Cambridge University Press, 2009

What matters most to voters when they choose their leaders? This book suggests that performance politics is at the heart of contemporary democracy, with voters forming judgments about how well competing parties and leaders perform on important issues. Given the high stakes and uncertainty involved, voters rely heavily on partisan cues and party...

The Secret Wars of Judi Bari: A Car Bomb, the Fight for the Redwoods, and the End of Earth First

Encounter Books, 2005

Takes the reader inside the often bizarre world of the Earth First! Movement and the back to nature counterculture of California's North Coast.

Kate Coleman traces Judi Bari's rise from college activist to would-be Mother Jones of the Redwoods. Drawing on extensive interviews with Bari's friends and comrades as well as critics, Coleman...

Reframing Organizations: Artistry, Choice, and Leadership

Jossey-Bass, 2003

Become a More Versatile Manager and a More Artistic Leader

In this third edition of their best-selling classic, authors Lee Bolman and Terrence Deal explain the powerful tool of "reframing." The authors have distilled the organizational literature into a comprehensive approach for looking at situations from more than one angle. Their...

Encyclopedia of Junk Food and Fast Food

Greenwood Press, 2006

Eating junk food and fast food is a great all-American passion. American kids and grownups love their candy bars, Big Macs and supersized fries, Doritos, Twinkies, and Good Humor ice cream bars. The disastrous health effects from the enormous appetite for these processed fat- and sugar-loaded foods are well publicized now. This was particularly...

The Troubled Dream of Genetic Medicine: Ethnicity and Innovation in Tay-Sachs, Cystic Fibrosis, and Sickle Cell Disease

The Johns Hopkins University, 2006

Why do racial and ethnic controversies become attached, as they often do, to discussions of modern genetics? How do theories about genetic difference become entangled with political debates about cultural and group differences in America? Such issues are a conspicuous part of the histories of three hereditary diseases: Tay-Sachs, commonly...

America's Secret Establishment: An Introduction to the Order of Skull & Bones

Trine Day, 2004

The book began with an anonymous donation to the author of an 8-inch package of documents in the early 1980s. Nothing less than the membership list and supporting documents for a truly secret society the Yale Skull and Bones.

The late Johnny Johnson, of Phoenix Arizona was the spark that moved me to write first a...

The Rough Guide to Romania 5 (Rough Guide Travel Guides)

Rough Guides, 2008

Make the most of your time with The Rough Guide to Romania, the ultimate guide to one of the most beautiful countries in Southeast Europe. The full-colour section introduces the country’s highlights, from the monumental Palace of Parliament in Bucharest to the majestic Bicaz gorges. Using informed accounts, clue-up on all the top sights...

Social Evolution, Political Psychology, and the Media in Democracy: The Invisible Hand in the U.S. Marketplace of Ideas

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

This book analyzes why we believe what we believe about politics, and how the answer affects the way democracy functions. It does so by applying social evolution theory to the relationship between the news media and politics, using the United States as its primary example. This includes a critical review and integration of...

The Interplay Between Political Theory and Movies: Bridging Two Worlds

Springer, 2018

This book presents essays and scientific contributions examining the link between popular media and politics. The essays focus on the question of how political and social change, concepts of power, and utopian elements are reflected in selected films and television series. The book applies a political science perspective, covering...

The Definitive Guide to HR Communication: Engaging Employees in Benefits, Pay, and Performance

FT Press, 2011

Two experienced HR communications consultants show how to dramatically improve the effectiveness of every HR message. HR professionals know their programs are pivotal to organizational success, but they also know how difficult it is to communicate those programs effectively. Hampered by legal restrictions, highly complex...

The EU’s Policy on the Integration of Migrants: A Case of Soft-Europeanization? (Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

This book addresses a timely, yet largely overlooked, issue in political science: the integration of migrants in a multilevel polity. In a context characterised by the increasing salience of migration-related questions, and despite the gradual construction of a European Union immigration policy over the past two decades, no competence...

Cracking DES: Secrets of Encryption Research, Wiretap Politics & Chip Design

O'Reilly, 1998

Sometimes you have to do good engineering to straighten out twisted politics. The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a nonprofit organization that was founded to ensure that the principles embodied in the Constitution and Bill of Rights are protected as new communications technologies emerge, and O"Reilly, the premier publisher of computer...

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