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  • Food Insecurity, the Obesity Crisis, and Exploitation in the US Food System

    by Clement Loo, Robert A. Skipper, Jr. ...
    Series series Palgrave Series in Bioethics and Public Policy
    This book argues that the factors contributing to obesity as a product of food insecurity have risen largely from the exploitation of vulnerable communities. In the past, food insecurity has been understood as primarily a matter of famine, hunger, and undernutrition. Such an understanding is no longer accurate: food insecurity is now also associated with obesity, the rates of which have increased ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

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    Why Faith Is Always Personal but Never Private

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  • Beginning Apache Cassandra Development

    by Vivek Mishra ...
    Series series Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
    Beginning Apache Cassandra Development introduces you to one of the most robust and best-performing NoSQL database platforms on the planet. Apache Cassandra is a document database following the JSON document model. It is specifically designed to manage large amounts of data across many commodity servers without there being any single point of failure. This design approach makes Apache Cassandra a ... Read more

    $63.99 CAD

  • Political Journalism in Transition

    Western Europe in a Comparative Perspective

    Edited by Raymond Kuhn, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen ...
    Series series Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
    The 21st century has already seen dramatic changes affecting both journalism and politics. The rise of a range of new digital and networked communication technologies combined with the stagnation and decline of many traditional mass media has had a profound impact on political journalism. The arrival of new digital media has affected the ways in which political actors communicate with the public, ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Death by a Thousand Cuts

    The Fight over Taxing Inherited Wealth

    by Ian Shapiro, Michael J. Graetz ...
    This fast-paced book by Yale professors Michael Graetz and Ian Shapiro unravels the following mystery: How is it that the estate tax, which has been on the books continuously since 1916 and is paid by only the wealthiest two percent of Americans, was repealed in 2001 with broad bipartisan support? The mystery is all the more striking because the repeal was not done in the dead of night, like a ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Public Service Efficiency

    Reframing the Debate

    by Rhys Andrews, Tom Entwistle ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Studies in Public Management
    The current economic and political climate places ever greater pressure on public organizations to deliver services in a cost-efficient way. Focused on the costs of service delivery, governments across the world have introduced a series of business like practices – from performance management to public-private partnership – in the belief that these will increase the efficiency of their public ... Read more

    $105.80 CAD

  • Dams and Development in China

    The Moral Economy of Water and Power

    by Bryan Tilt ...
    Series series Contemporary Asia in the World
    China is home to half of the world's large dams and adds dozens more each year. The benefits are considerable: dams deliver hydropower, provide reliable irrigation water, protect people and farmland against flooding, and produce hydroelectricity in a nation with a seeimingly insatiable appetite for energy. As hydropower responds to a larger share of energy demand, dams may also help to reduce the ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Paths to Making a Difference

    Leading in Government

    by Mark A. Abramson, Paul R. Lawrence ...
    To understand the challenges of political leadership and how top executives succeed in accomplishing an administration's objectives, business in government experts Paul R. Lawrence and Mark A. Abramson present the findings of a two year's study of top political appointees in the Obama administration.The participants—deputy secretaries and agency heads—provide case studies of how each approaches ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Reconsidering religion, law and democracy : new challanges for society and research

    Edited by Anna-Sara Lind, Maria Lövheim, Ulf Zackariasson ...
    Hur hanterar västerländska, sekulariserade samhällen en alltmer komplex och mångsidig religion? I Reconsidering Religion, Law, and Democracy har författarna undersökt samspel och förhandlingar mellan å ena sidan religiösa organisationer och medborgare, å andra sidan staten, det juridiska systemet, media och sekulariserade medborgare.Religion påverkar fortfarande många delar av det moderna ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Macro Socio-economics: From Theory to Activism

    From Theory to Activism

    by David Sciulli ...
    Contributors to this volume respond to the normative capsule framing economic behaviour that Amitai Etzioni has explored. The text also looks at his works on organisations, public policy, socio-economics and communitarianism. ... Read more

    $48.08 CAD

  • Apache Solr

    A Practical Approach to Enterprise Search

    by Dikshant Shahi ...
    Series series Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
    Build an enterprise search engine using Apache Solr: index and search documents; ingest data from varied sources; apply various text processing techniques; utilize different search capabilities; and customize Solr to retrieve the desired results. Apache Solr: A Practical Approach to Enterprise Search explains each essential concept-backed by practical and industry examples--to help you attain ... Read more

    $68.99 CAD

  • Local Government Budget Stabilization

    Explorations and Evidence

    Edited by Yilin Hou ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book is the first comprehensive, full-scale treatment of the politics, law, and economics with regard to the policies and policy instruments for budget stabilization at the local level. It examines budget stabilization in the United States from the 1910s to 2010 (from adoption of public budgeting in this country through the Great Recession). In addition, it provides details on the methods and ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD