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A restaurant critic can tell you about the chef.A menu can tell you about the farm-sourced ingredients. Now who's going to tell you about the people preparing your meal?
From 2015 James Beard Leadership Award winner Saru Jayaraman, Forked is an enlightening...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-01-14
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This book discusses a development in institutional economics and management science, which provides engineering methods for institution design. Based on the “Sun Diagram” created by the author, it uses graphics and calculations to explain that there are only five...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-01-12
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The economic and geopolitical implications of China's rise have been the subject of vast commentary. However, the institutional implications of China's transformative development under state capitalism have not been examined extensively and comprehensively. Regulating...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-10-19
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Is China building a new empire in rural Africa? Over the past decade, China's meteoric rise on the continent has raised a drumbeat of alarm. China has 9 percent of the world's arable land, 6 percent of its water, and over 20 percent of its people. Africa's savannahs and...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-10-07
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This is the first book to define the philosophical and practical parameters of critical animal studies (CAS). Rooted in anarchist perspectives that oppose all systems of domination and authoritarianism, CAS both challenges anthropocentrism and presents animal liberation...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2015-03-02
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When examining the relationship between urban governance and improved service provision in the Global South, there is frequently a gap between the rhetoric and the reality. Informal, practice-based local governance processes that aim to produce better urban services...
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P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
Parution :
2015-01-19
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State failure takes many forms. Somalia offers one extreme. The country's prolonged civil war led to the collapse of central authority, with state control devolving to warlord-led factions that competed for the spoils of local commerce, political power, and...
Editeur :
Hurst
Parution :
2015-01-03
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One of the most ambitious legacies of the 20th century was the universal commitment to ensure freedom from want as a human right. But to what extent are countries across the world living up to this commitment? This path breaking book develops an innovative,...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-01-02
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Transition and Justice examines a series of cases from across the African continent where peaceful ‘new beginnings’ were declared after periods of violence and where transitional justice institutions helped define justice and the new socio-political order. Offers a new...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2014-12-23
Collection :
Development and Change Special Issues
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Europeans use 'social models' to refer to the combination of welfare state, industrial relations, and educational institutions jointly structuring what we can think of as the supply-side of the labor market. The dominant view in controversy over the social models has...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-12-19
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Why was the slum upgrading project in Kibera, Kenya, facing resistance? This study uses both qualitative and quantitative methods in data collection to reveal that politics revolving around the interests of local politicians, slum dwellers and business operators as well...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-12-09
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The bestselling citizen’s guide to economics “Thomas Sowell is the nation’s greatest living economist.” —American Spectator Basic Economics is a citizen’s guide to economics, written for those who...
Editeur :
Basic Books
Parution :
2014-12-02
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Moderne Seilbahnstationen auf den höchsten Gipfeln, Kunstschneeherstellung auf den schwindenden Gletschern, Wellnessanlagen, gefüllt mit dem Wasser aus dem Berginneren, und Freizeitparks in den Talebenen: Die touristischen Projekte in den Alpentälern suggerieren...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-12-02
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The two great financial crises of the past century are the Great Depression of the 1930s and the Great Recession, which began in 2008. Both occurred against the backdrop of sharp credit booms, dubious banking practices, and a fragile and unstable global financial...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2014-12-01
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This book offers a comprehensive political analysis of the Euro crisis that erupted in Greece in 2010 and subsequently threatened the very survival of the Euro area. It has left a profound mark on democratic politics all over Europe, changing public attitudes and voting...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-11-20
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This carefully annotated selection features the main analysis of the operation of an economic system, the introductory chapter of the great attack on mercantilism, and portions of the analysis of the functions of the state-Books I, IV, and V. Edited by George J....
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2014-08-26
Collection :
Crofts Classics
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Im Zuge der Föderalismusreform 2006 wurde die bisherige Rahmengesetzgebung abgeschafft und die Kompetenz zur Gesetzgebung für den Naturschutz und die Landschaftspflege der konkurrierenden Gesetzgebung zugeordnet. Hat der Bund von seinem Gesetzgebungsrecht Gebrauch...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-07-08
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The 2008 financial crisis was the worst since the Great Depression and many voices argued that it would transform global financial governance. Analysts anticipated a "Bretton Woods moment", referring to the 1944 conference that established the postwar international...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2014-06-19
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Maßnahmen zur Vermeidung von Klimaänderungen sind gesellschaftsfähig und werden deshalb kaum hinterfragt. Die genauere Analyse der Zusammenhänge zeigt jedoch, dass die Bemühungen zur Stabilisierung der Lebensbedingungen das Risiko von katastrophalen Veränderungen...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-06-11
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Most discussions of India's recent economic growth focus on progress and policies at the national level. But with a population of 1.2 billion, several of the states in India are larger than many of the countries in the world. Therefore, a more complete understanding of...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2014-04-01
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