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This book offers an assessment of the performance, impact, and welfare implications of the world’s largest employment guarantee programme, the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA). Launched by the Indian government, the programme covers...
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Springer
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2018-06-08
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‘One of the most compelling stories I’ve seen about what it’s actually like to serve the American people’ BARACK OBAMA A revelatory, behind-the-scenes account of the Obama presidency and a political memoir about the power of words to change our world This is a book...
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Vintage Digital
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2018-06-07
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Die Beiträge in diesem Band entwickeln eine neuartige Perspektive auf Arbeit und Arbeitsmärkte, welche den nationalstaatlichen Referenzrahmen überschreitet. Drei Phänomene sind für die Transnationalisierung von Arbeit von besonderer Bedeutung: (1) die...
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Springer VS
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2018-06-07
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Einheit und Vielfalt. Mit diesem Begriffspaar wird gemeinhin das Verhältnis zwischen Zentral- und Gliedstaaten in der Bundesrepublik beschrieben. Auch die vorliegende Studie, die Daten aus einem von der DFG finanzierten Forschungsprojekt aufnimmt, arbeitet auf...
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Springer VS
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2018-06-07
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Der Band dokumentiert die Ergebnisse des Braunschweiger Projekts ‚Stadtteil in der Schule‘. Ziel des Projektes ist es, Teilhabechancen für Kinder in sozialen Brennpunkten zu erhöhen, indem GrundschülerInnen und deren Familien der Zugang zu vorhandenen sozialen und...
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Springer VS
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2018-06-07
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How should we live: how should we care for one another; grow our capabilities to work, to learn, to love and fully realise our potential? This exciting and ambitious book shows how we can re-design the welfare state for this century. The welfare state was...
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Virago
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2018-06-07
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Britain's Brexit voters are right. They have been shamefully neglected. But the answer is to change Britain, not to leave Europe. This book sets out how we can radically improve the lives of people and communities shut out from prosperity.The EU, despite its frailties...
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Abacus
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2018-06-07
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Based on close to two hundred interviews with decision-makers, government officials, and industry stakeholders, Karoline Steinbacher presents the first in-depth enquiry into Germany’s efforts of “exporting” its sustainable energy policies. The book closes the empirical...
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Springer VS
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2018-06-06
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Nicolas Fromm explores norm-based strategies small states can use to distinguish themselves internationally in order to compensate for their lesser geopolitical weight. Using the example of Qatar, the author shows that such strategies might include a sort of norm...
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Springer VS
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2018-06-06
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What is Vladimir Putin up to? This book shows how the mentality of Putin and his team - the code of Putinism - has shaped Russian politics over the past two decades. It explains not only the thoughts and ideas that motivate Putin's decisions, but also the set of...
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Oxford University Press
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2018-06-06
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This book shows how an encounter with everyday nationhood in the northern United Arab Emirates can make us revisit the classics of sociology as continuous analytical world-views. Through the textual universe of Georg Simmel, and in particular his analysis of modern life...
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Palgrave Pivot
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2018-06-06
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The global food system is the largest segment of the world's economy. As agribusiness-studies pioneer Ray Goldberg suggests, it is also the largest health system on the planet. And it is changing fast. Its size and importance to human, environmental, and economic health...
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Oxford University Press
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2018-06-06
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There may be no story today with a wider gap between fact and fiction than the relationship between the United States and Mexico. Wall or no wall, deeply intertwined social, economic, business, cultural, and personal relationships mean the US-Mexico border is more like...
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PublicAffairs
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2018-06-05
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An incisive account of the tumultuous relationship between Alexander Hamilton and James Madison and of the origins of our wealthy yet highly unequal nation In the history of American politics there are few stories as enigmatic as that of Alexander Hamilton and James...
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Basic Books
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2018-06-05
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'Reporter is just wonderful. Truly a great life, and what shines out of the book, amid the low cunning and tireless legwork, is Hersh's warmth and humanity. Essential reading for every journalist and aspiring journalist the world over' John le CarréIn the early 1950s,...
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Penguin
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2018-06-05
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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Understanding Trump, this "essential" book reveals the truth about the Trump presidency and explains his groundbreaking plans for our nation and world (Rush Limbaugh).No one understands the "Make America Great Again"...
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Center Street
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2018-06-05
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What do Beppe Grillo, Silvio Berlusconi, Emmanuel Macron (and also Donald Trump) have in common? They are prime examples of the personalization of politics and the decline of political parties.
This volume systematically examines these two prominent developments in...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-06-04
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Modern societies set limits, on everything from how fast motorists can drive to how much waste factory owners can dump in our rivers. But incomes in our deeply unequal world have no limits. Could capping top incomes tackle rising inequality more effectively than...
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Polity
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2018-06-04
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Human rights have fallen on hard times, yet they are more necessary than ever. People all over the world – from Amazonian villages to Iranian prisons – need human rights to gain recognition, campaign for justice, and save lives. But how can we secure a brighter future...
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Polity
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2018-06-04
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If states are not to go to war, what should they do instead? In The Alternatives to War, James Pattison considers the case for the alternatives to military action to address mass atrocities and aggression.
The volume examines the normative issues raised by measures...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-06-04
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