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Unregulated Work in the Global City
2007-10-01 12:54:00 Unregulated Work in the Global City By Annette Bernhardt, Siobhán McGrath, James DeFilippis Unregulated Work in the Global City was motivated by a simple premise: the many laws on the books to protect the working poor mean little if they are not enforced. Over three years of intensive research, the Brennan Center documented a city where jobs ... More About: Politics , Ebook
Campaign Finance in Minnesota
2007-10-01 12:47:00 Campaign Finance in Minnesota By Suzanne Novak, Paige Ammons FOREWORD Full participatory democracy: it’s been a national goal since America’s founding. Today citizens recognize that money sometimes plays a warping role in electoral politics and hobbles progress towards full democracy. During the past decade, with Washington, D.C. mired in stalemate and in thrall to special interests, many states ... More About: Politics , Ebook , Campaign
Ten Things You Should Know About Habeas Corpus
2007-10-01 12:22:00 Ten Things You Should Know About Habeas Corpus By Jonathan Hafetz, Brennan Center The writ of habeas corpus protects individuals against unlawful exercises of state power. Since prerevolutionary American history, habeas has guaranteed people seized and detained by the government the right to question the grounds for their detention. It has been available to citizens, non-citizens, slaves, ... More About: Politics , Ebook , Habeas Corpus
Access to Justice: Opening the Courthouse Door
2007-10-01 12:15:00 Access to Justice : Opening the Courthouse Door By David Udell and Rebekah Diller, Brennan Center ABOUT THE BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE The Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law is a non-partisan public policy and law institute that focuses on fundamental issues of democracy and justice. Our work ranges from voting rights to redistricting ... More About: Politics , Ebook , Access
Purged! (Free PDF)
2007-10-01 12:09:00 Purged! How a patchwork of flawed and inconsistent voting systems could deprive millions of Americans of the right to vote Brennan Center THE AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION is the nation’s premier guardian of liberty, working daily in courts, legislatures and communities to defend and preserve the individual rights and freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution and the laws ... More About: Politics , Free , Ebook , Urge
Buying Time 2000: Television Advertising in the 2000 Federal Elections
2007-10-01 11:57:00 Buying Time 2000: Television Advertising in the 2000 Federal Elections By Craig B. Holman and Luke P. McLoughlin, Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law As Congress prepares to return to the debate over campaign finance reform, new research from the Brennan Center shows again that the current system is urgently in need of repair. ... More About: Politics , Buying
Unconquerable Nation: Knowing Our Enemy, Strengthening Ourselves
2007-10-01 11:51:00 Unconquerable Nation : Knowing Our Enemy , Strengthening Ourselves By Brian Michael Jenkins, RAND Corporation Jennifer Hardwick, Terrorism Research Center Brian’s writing, while personable, is clear and concise; his book will appeal to the counter-terrorism expert and the novice alike. Brian Michael Jenkins presents a clear-sighted and sobering analysis of where we are today in the struggle against terrorism. Jenkins, ... More About: Politics , Ebook
Engaging Youth: Combating the Apathy of Young Americans toward Politics
2007-10-01 11:46:00 Engaging Youth : Combating the Apathy of Young Americans toward Politics By Kevin Mattson, Century Foundation Press Ohio University Professor Kevin Mattson explores the political dimensions that characterize Generation X and attributes their anti-government and right-leaning tendencies to the extensive infrastructure of conservative institutions and inactivity on the part of progressive institutions. In the face of the civic ... More About: Ebook
Russia?s Role in Europe (Free PDF)
2007-10-01 11:40:00 Russia’s Role in Europe By Sven Hirdman, The Carnegie Moscow Center The brochure is based on the lectures delivered at MGIMO University in April 2005 by Sven Hirdman, Swedish ambassador to Russia from 1994 to 2004. It also contains his broader views on Russia’s role in Europe. The many events which he and his wife Marianne held at ... More About: Politics , Free , Ebook , Russia
Sources of Conflict in the 21st Century (Free PDF)
2007-09-26 04:53:00 Sources of Conflict in the 21st Century: Regional Futures and U.S. Strategy By Zalmay Khalilzad, Ian O. Lesser, RAND Corporation The problem of global, long-range defense planning has changed enormously since the end of the Cold War. The sources and types of conflict for which the military must plan have become more varied and less predictable, ... More About: Politics , Free , Ebook , Sources
Terrorism, the Laws of War, and the Constitution (Free PDF)
2007-09-24 05:24:00 Terrorism, the Laws of War, and the Constitution: Debating the Enemy Combatant Cases By Peter Berkowitz, Hoover Press The modern laws of war that emerged in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were developed with a particular concept of war in mind-one that does not apply to the conflict with our current adversaries. With the September 11 attacks ... More About: Politics , Terrorism , Free , Ebook
Legal Standards and Autonomy Options for Minorities in China: THE TIBETAN C
2007-09-24 05:18:00 Legal Standards and Autonomy Options for Minorities in China : THE TIBETAN CASE Theodore C. Sorensen, Project Chairman David L. Phillips, Project Director Legal Standards and Autonomy Options for Minorities in China: The Tibetan Case is a special publication of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs (BCSIA). BCSIA is the hub of the John F. Kennedy School ... More About: Politics , Ebook , Report
Cuba: The Morning After
2007-09-11 12:04:00 Cuba: The Morning After: Confronting Castro’s Legacy By Mark Falcoff, AEI Press “A painstaking historical analysis . . . a detailed investigation of Cuba’s current realities . . . what sober, scholarly assessments are for.” — Mary Anastasia O’Grady, Wall Street Journal “A sobering account of precisely what Fidel Castro’s legacy is and what Cuba has to ... More About: Politics , Cuba , Ebook
Oil for the Lamps of China
2007-09-11 11:58:00 Oil for the Lamps of China : Beijing’s 21st-Century Search for Energy By Cole, Bernard D, National Defense University In l933, Alice Tisdale Hobart wife of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey manager in Nanking, published Oil for the Lamps of China. Hobart had traveled widely in China and proved to be a very observant imperialist. Her ... More About: Politics , Ebook
Russia?s Decline and Uncertain Recovery
2007-08-09 08:00:00 Russia’s Decline and Uncertain Recovery By Thomas Graham, Jr. The precipitous decline of Russian power and influence in the world may stand as the most significant development for international relations of the last quarter of the 20th century. Never in modern history has a great power fallen so far so fast during peacetime. This decline initially brought ... More About: Politics , Ebook , Russia , Cert
The United States and Asia
2007-08-04 11:40:00 The United States and Asia : Toward a New U.S. Strategy and Force Posture By: Zalmay Khalilzad, David T. Orletsky, Jonathan D. Pollack, Kevin L. Pollpeter, Angel Rabasa, David A. Shlapak, Abram N. Shulsky, Ashley J. Tellis The past 20 years have been a time of relative peace in Asia and, notwithstanding the 1997-1998 financial crisis, a period ... More About: Politics , Ebook
An Analytic Assessment of U.S. Drug Policy
2007-08-04 11:34:00 An Analytic Assessment of U.S. Drug Policy By David Boyum, Peter Reuter In this latest publication from the American Enterprise Institute’s Evaluative Studies series on public policy issues, health policy consultant David Boyum and University of Maryland drug policy scholar Peter Reuter examine US drug policy largely on its own terms. That means there is no talk ... More About: Politics , Ebook
India as a New Global Power
2007-08-04 11:28:00 India as a New Global Power : An Action Agenda for the United States By Ashley J. Tellis The numerous important controversies that have surrounded U.S. foreign policy over the past four years have obscured a strategic success with major implications for the future balance of power in Asia: the transformation of relations between the United States and ... More About: Politics , India , Ebook
Protecting Emergency Responders, Volume 4
2007-08-03 05:06:00 Protecting Emergency Responders, Volume 4: Personal Protective Equipment Guidelines for Structural Collapse Events By Henry H. Willis, Nicholas G. Castle, Elizabeth M. Sloss, James T. Bartis This monograph serves as a technical source for National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) incident commander guidelines for emergency response immediately following large structural collapse events. It characterizes response ... More About: Politics , Ebook , Prot , Merge
Thoughts on Children
2007-08-03 04:38:00 Thoughts on Children By Johann Christoph Blumhardt and Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt It is sometimes said that each child is a thought in the mind of God. But even if we believe this, and approach the children entrusted to us with reverence, we may often feel helpless-whether in the face of a two-year-old’s tantrum or a teenager’s silence. In ... More About: Religion , Education , Ebook , Thoughts
Rachoff: A True Story
2007-08-03 04:31:00 Rachoff: A True Story By Karl Josef Friedrich A collection of seventy short but striking meditations to battle weariness and despair. Meet an upstart who disarms his wealthy parents by taking in a homeless man (he is robbed, of course); who receives accolades for teaching illiterates to read and write but gets run out of town for telling ... More About: Religion , Ebook , True Story
Protecting Emergency Responders, Volume 3
2007-08-02 06:04:00 Protecting Emergency Responders, Volume 3: Safety Management in Disaster and Terrorism Response By Brian A. Jackson, John C. Baker, M. Susan Ridgely, James T. Bartis, Herbert I. Linn In the wake of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the risk of terrorism and the demands of homeland security are a central component of any discussion of protecting ... More About: Politics , Ebook , Prot , Merge
Protecting Emergency Responders, Volume 2
2007-08-02 05:55:00 Protecting Emergency Responders, Volume 2: Community Views of Safety and Health Risks and Personal Protection Needs By Tom LaTourrette, D. J. Peterson, James T. Bartis, Brian A. Jackson, Ari Houser The results of the study will help shape research and development on a number of fronts. Examines the hazards that emergency responders face and the personal protective ... More About: Politics , Ebook , Prot , Merge
Protecting Emergency Responders
2007-07-27 15:35:00 Protecting Emergency Responders: Lessons Learned from Terrorist Attacks By Brian A. Jackson, D. J. Peterson, James T. Bartis, Tom LaTourrette, Irene T. Brahmakulam, Ari Houser, Jerry M. Sollinger This report presents a summary of a December 2001 working conference, sponsored by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Attending were emergency workers who responded to the ... More About: Politics , Ebook , Prot , Merge
Salt and Light: Living the Sermon on the Mount
2007-07-26 16:34:00 Salt and Light : Living the Sermon on the Mount By Eberhard Arnold Seventeen challenging talks and essays on the Sermon on the Mount, by a writer who believes their demands are viable and inescapable - and must be lived out today. As Christians, we have the responsibility of representing the Kingdom of God to our generation. Each of ... More About: Religion , Ebook
Winning The Future: A 21st Century Contract with America
2007-07-25 15:56:00 Winning The Future : A 21st Century Contract with America By Newt Gingrich In the twenty-first century, America could be destroyed. The dangers are manifold: terrorism, judges who think they’re God (and who are anti-God), rising economic challenges from China and India, and immigrants and young Americans who know little about American history and values. Can America ... More About: Politics , Ebook , The Future
Constitution of the United States and the Declaration of Independence
2007-07-25 15:48:00 Constitution of the United States and the Declaration of Independence The U.S. House of Representatives House Document 108-96. 21st (Reprint) edition. Publication measures 7 x 4 in. In addition to the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, this edition includes: an index to the Constitution and its amendments; and a chronology of early dates to remember. Also ... More About: Politics , Ebook , Constitution
The Political Economy of World Mass Migration
2007-07-24 15:39:00 The Political Economy of World Mass Migration: Comparing Two Global Centuries By Jeffrey G. Williamson This monograph examines the political economy of immigration backlash and immigration policy in two global centuries. In The Political Economy of World Mass Migration, Jeffrey G. Williamson examines the political economy of immigration backlash and immigration policy in two global centuries. The ... More About: Politics , Ebook
Be Not Afraid: Overcoming the Fear of Death
2007-07-23 15:35:00 Be Not Afraid: Overcoming the Fear of Death By Johann Christoph Arnold In this hope-filled book, stories of real men and women offer hard-won insights on dealing with uncertainty, loss, grief, and the fear of death. Arnold knows that the biggest challenges in life are the ones that won’t fit the script. All the same, he is ... More About: Religion , Ebook , Ming
Iran: Time for a New Approach
More articles from this author:2007-07-16 15:06:00 Iran: Time for a New Approach By Zbigniew Brzezinski, Robert M. Gates The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have positioned American troops along Iran’s borders, making the United States and Iran wary competitors and neighbors who nonetheless possess overlapping interests. Meanwhile, questions continue to be raised about Iran’s nuclear program and its involvement with terrorism. Clearly, contending ... More About: Politics , Iran , Ebook , Report 1, 2 |
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