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Populism and World Politics: Exploring Inter- and Transnational Dimensions (Global Political Sociology)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

This volume is the first to analyze populism’s international dimension: its impact on, and interaction with, foreign policy and international politics. The contributions to this volume engage conceptual theoretical issues and overarching questions such as the still under-specified concept of populism or the importance of leadership and the...

IAEG/AEG Annual Meeting Proceedings, San Francisco, California, 2018 - Volume 4: Dams, Tunnels, Groundwater Resources, Climate Change

Springer, 2018

This book is one out of six IAEG XIII Congress and AEG 61^st Annual Meeting proceeding volumes, and deals with topics related to dams, tunnels, groundwater resources, and climate change.

The theme of the IAEG/AEG Meeting, held in San Francisco from September 17-21, 2018, is Engineering Geology for a...

Throwaway Nation: The Ugly Truth about American Garbage

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2019

Americans are burying ourselves in our own waste. It’s befouling our air, land, waters, food, and bodies. The US tosses out enough foodstuff to feed the rest of the world. America is the largest buyer of fashion and cosmetics, the second dirtiest industry in the world. We lead the planet in transportation usage and waste,...

Web Searching and Mining (Cognitive Intelligence and Robotics)

Springer, 2019

This book presents the basics of search engines and their components. It introduces, for the first time, the concept of Cellular Automata in Web technology and discusses the prerequisites of Cellular Automata. In today’s world, searching data from the World Wide Web is a common phenomenon for virtually everyone. It is also a...

Where the Lost Dogs Go: A Story of Love, Search, and the Power of Reunion

Houghton Mifflin Co, 2019

From a New York Times best-selling author, an important and heartfelt exploration into the world of lost dogs and the power of reunion

One in six dogs go missing at some point in their lives, leaving bereft owners to search high and low, hang missing posters, check shelters, and hope for good news....

We Want to Negotiate: The Secret World of Kidnapping, Hostages and Ransom

Columbia Global Reports, 2019

"A wise and thorough investigation." - Lawrence Wright, author of The Looming Tower and The Terror Years

Starting in late 2012, Westerners working in Syria -- journalists and aid workers -- began disappearing without a trace. A year later the world learned they had been taken hostage by the...

City of Omens: A Search for the Missing Women of the Borderlands

Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019

For decades, American hungers sustained Tijuana. In this scientific detective story, a public health expert reveals what happens when a border city’s lifeline is brutally severed.

Despite its reputation as a carnival of vice, Tijuana was, until recently, no more or less violent than neighboring San...

The Making of a Democratic Economy: How to Build Prosperity for the Many, Not the Few

Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2019

Our economy is designed by the 1 percent, for the 1 percent. This book offers a compelling vision of an equitable, ecologically sustainable alternative that meets the essential needs of all people.

We live in a world where twenty-six billionaires own as much wealth as half the planet's population. The extractive...

Calculated Risks: How to Know When Numbers Deceive You

Simon & Schuster, 2003

At the beginning of the twentieth century, H. G. Wells predicted that statistical thinking would be as necessary for citizenship in a technological world as the ability to read and write. But in the twenty-first century, we are often overwhelmed by a baffling array of percentages and probabilities as we try to navigate in a world dominated...

Trends in Corrections: Interviews with Corrections Leaders Around the World (Interviews with Global Leaders in Policing, Courts, and Prisons)

CRC Press, 2012

Offering rare insiders’ perspectives, Trends in Corrections: Interviews with Corrections Leaders Around the World is a comprehensive survey of correctional programming and management styles used across nations. Twelve chapters present transcribed interviews of corrections leaders along with a brief portrait of the...

The Montessori Toddler: A Parent's Guide to Raising a Curious and Responsible Human Being

Workman Publishing Company, 2019

Turn your home into a Montessori home—and become a more mindful, attentive, and easygoing parent.

It’s time to change the way we see toddlers. Using the principles developed by the educator Dr. Maria Montessori, Simone Davies shows how to turn life with a “terrible two” into a mutually rich...

Political Trials in an Age of Revolutions: Britain and the North Atlantic, 1793?1848 (Palgrave Histories of Policing, Punishment and Justice)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

This collection provides new insights into the ’Age of Revolutions’, focussing on state trials for treason and sedition, and expands the sophisticated discussion that has marked the historiography of that period by examining political trials in Britain and the north Atlantic world from the 1790s and into the...

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