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The Science and Politics of Global Climate Changeby Andrew Dessler; Edward A. Parson
Cambridge University Press 2010; US$ 38.00Second edition of an acclaimed book provides up-to-date, integrated overview of climate change issue - science, technology, economics, policy, and politics. more...
Police Union Power, Politics, and Confrontation in the 21st Centuryby Ron Delord; Jon Burpo; Michael R. Shannon
Charles C Thomas 2008; US$ 54.95This all new book brings new perspectives and ideas for police labor leaders to succeed in these challenging times; and includes major revisions and updates of the 1997 book Police Association Power, Politics, and Confrontation, including a title change. The book is an expansive and comprehensive text on police unions, encompassing the vast and intricate changes that have taken place in the field since the authors last book. There are principles at work in every community, which, if understood by police labor leaders, will allow them to drive their organizations to greatness. These principles concern the accumulation and effective use of power as the primary means of achieving a police labor organizations goals. The book is divided... more...
A Course in Public Economicsby John Leach
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 39.00This textbook in public economics explores the government's role in the economy. It is intended for third or fourth year undergraduate students and first year graduate students. The core topics covered include markets, externalities, public goods, imperfect competition, asymmetric information and efficiency, and asymmetric information and income redistribution. more...
Full Disclosureby Archon Fung; Mary Graham; David Weil
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 16.00Full Disclosure is the first analysis of national and international transparency policies. more...
The Australian Policy Handbookby Catherine Althaus; Peter Bridgman; Glyn Davis
Allen & Unwin 2007; US$ 40.90A thoroughly revised new edition of the authoritative guide to the process of policy making in government. more...
The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight: Revised and Updatedby Thom Hartmann
Crown Publishing Group 2007; US$ 11.99While everything appears to be collapsing around us -- ecodamage, genetic engineering, virulent diseases, the end of cheap oil, water shortages, global famine, wars -- we can still do something about it and create a world that will work for us and for our children’s children. The inspiration for Leonardo DiCaprio’s web movie Global Warning, The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight details what is happening to our planet, the reasons for our culture’s blind behavior, and how we can fix the problem. Thom Hartmann’s comprehensive book, originally published in 1998, has become one of the fundamental handbooks of the environmental activist movement. Now, with fresh, updated material and a focus on political activism and its effect... more...
The Corporate Greenhouseby Yda Schreuder
Zed Books 2009; US$ 34.95This timely book argues that treaties that fail to account properly for the activities of TNCs will preclude effective, equitable solutions to the urgent issue of global climate change. more...
Pushing the Agendaby Matthew N. Beckmann
Cambridge University Press 2010; US$ 22.00Pushing the Agenda reveals the predictable nature of presidents' policy making opportunities and the strategies presidents employ to exploit those opportunities. more...
Dereliction of Dutyby H. R. McMaster
HarperCollins 2011; US$ 12.99"The war in Vietnam was not lost in the field, nor was it lost on the front pages of the New York Times or the college campuses. It was lost in Washington, D.C." - H. R. McMaster (from the Conclusion) Dereliction Of Duty is a stunning new analysis of how and why the United States became involved in an all-out and disastrous war in Southeast Asia. Fully and convincingly researched, based on recently released transcripts and personal accounts of crucial meetings, confrontations and decisions, it is the only book that fully re-creates what happened and why. It also pinpoints the policies and decisions that got the United States into the morass and reveals who made these decisions and the motives behind them, disproving the published... more...
Designing Public Policiesby Michael Howlett
Taylor & Francis 2010; US$ 45.95This textbook provides a concise and accessible introduction to the principles and elements of policy design in contemporary governance. Howlett seeks to examine in detail the range of substantive and procedural policy instruments that together comprises the toolbox from which governments select specific tools expected to resolve policy problems. more...









