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Success Stories in Asian Aquaculture

Edited by Sena S. De Silva, F. Brian Davy ...

Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
case studies of successful governance models could be referred to by others in order to improve the management of the sector. This is the initial step toward compiling stories of aquaculture successes, and the editorial team is to be congratulated for its great efforts. In approaching this difficult assignment, the team benefited from the leadership of the Network of Aquaculture Centres for Asia ... Read more

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case studies of successful governance models could be referred to by others in order to improve the management of the sector. This is the initial step toward compiling stories of aquaculture successes, and the editorial team is to be congratulated for its great efforts. In approaching this difficult assignment, the team benefited from the leadership of the Network of Aquaculture Centres for Asia
... Read more
Electoral System Incentives for Interparty and Intraparty Politics

by Brian F. Crisp, Patrick Cunha Silva, Santiago Olivella, Guillermo Rosas ...

Series series Comparative Politics
Electoral systems are sets of formal rules that create incentives for strategic behavior on the part of voters, (pre-) candidates, party elites, and elected representatives, including legislators and their chamber leaders. Most simply, they translate the choices made by voters into seats won by candidates and parties. In the process, rules influence both how many and which parties are viable and ... Read more

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Electoral systems are sets of formal rules that create incentives for strategic behavior on the part of voters, (pre-) candidates, party elites, and elected representatives, including legislators and their chamber leaders. Most simply, they translate the choices made by voters into seats won by candidates and parties. In the process, rules influence both how many and which parties are viable and
... Read more
The Senses and the History of Philosophy

Edited by Brian Glenney, José Silva ...

Series series Rewriting the History of Philosophy
The study of perception and the role of the senses have recently risen to prominence in philosophy and are now a major area of study and research. However, the philosophical history of the senses remains a relatively neglected subject. Moving beyond the current philosophical canon, this outstanding collection offers a wide-ranging and diverse philosophical exploration of the senses, from the ... Read more

$69.99 USD

The study of perception and the role of the senses have recently risen to prominence in philosophy and are now a major area of study and research. However, the philosophical history of the senses remains a relatively neglected subject. Moving beyond the current philosophical canon, this outstanding collection offers a wide-ranging and diverse philosophical exploration of the senses, from the
... Read more
The Everyday Warrior

A No-Hack, Practical Approach to Life

by Mike Sarraille, Brian Gordon, George Silva, Jason Boulay ...

WE ALL STRIVE FOR A LIFE OF PURPOSE AND FULFILLMENT, yet few achieve it. Why? Because it's hard. Relationships, careers, physical fitness—they all take effort. Despite our best intentions, it's easy to lose focus. In today's digital culture, we're inundated with quick fixes and false promises: take this pill and lose fifteen pounds; buy this app and be more productive. The truth is, you can't buy ... Read more

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WE ALL STRIVE FOR A LIFE OF PURPOSE AND FULFILLMENT, yet few achieve it. Why? Because it's hard. Relationships, careers, physical fitness—they all take effort. Despite our best intentions, it's easy to lose focus. In today's digital culture, we're inundated with quick fixes and false promises: take this pill and lose fifteen pounds; buy this app and be more productive. The truth is, you can't buy
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Latin America's Middle Class

Unsettled Debates and New Histories

by Abel Ricardo López-Pedreros, J. Pablo Silva, Bill French, Brian P. Owensby, Fredrick B. Pike, John J. Johnson, Mario Benedetti, Andrew Hunter Whiteford, Charles Wagley, Francisco López-Cámara, Rodolfo Barros ...

As middle classes in developing countries grow in size and political power, do they foster stable democracies and prosperous, innovative economies? Or do they encourage crass materialism, bureaucratic corruption, unrealistic social demands, and ideological polarization? These questions have taken on a new urgency in recent years but they are not new, having first appeared in the mid twentieth ... Read more

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As middle classes in developing countries grow in size and political power, do they foster stable democracies and prosperous, innovative economies? Or do they encourage crass materialism, bureaucratic corruption, unrealistic social demands, and ideological polarization? These questions have taken on a new urgency in recent years but they are not new, having first appeared in the mid twentieth
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The People's Victory

Stories from the Front Lines in the Fight for Marriage Equality

by Jamila Tharp, Brian Maschka, Will Scott, Michael Farino, Ellen Pontac, Colleen Mewing, Robert Sullivan, Baltimore Gonzalez, Mike Goettemoeller, Sean Chapin, Leslie Stewart, Amos Lim, Anne Tischer, Laurie York, Kate Burns, Del Shores, Joe Capley-Alfano, Simon van Kempen, Sam Thoron, Zack Lyons, Jolene Mewing, Geoff Callan, Cheryle Lambert-Rudd, Martha McDevitt-Pugh, Michael Sabatino, Shelly Bailes, Jan Thompson, Kirsten Berzon, Tracy Hollister, Cathy Marino-Thomas, Matthew Baume, J. Scott Coatsworth, Gender Offenders, Mir Reyad, Brian Silva, Mark "Major" Jiminez, Stuart Gaffney, Alex McCord, Michael Boyajian, Jokie X Wilson, Mike Shaw, Stephanie Stolte, Carmen Goodyear, Scott Smith, Tim Garcia, Roland Stringfellow, Billy Bradford, Kitty Lambert-Rudd, Beau Chandler, Molly McKay, Christine Allen, Peter Mesh, Edie Windsor, Frank Capley-Alfano, John Lewis, David Thompson, David Cameron Strachan, Davina Kotulski, PhD, Marriage Equality USA, Fred Anguera, Joy O'Donnell, Marvin Burrows, Michael Markiewicz, Joseph Vitale, Robert Voorheis, Charlie Scatamacchia ...

"" The People's Victory is a mirror for each of us to see our own power to fight for justice and create the change we want to see in our world." – Gavin Newsom, Lieutenant Governor of CaliforniaIn 1996, a small group of Americans from all walks of life banded together to create one of the most miraculous political victories in modern American history. Opponents attacked the issue of marriage ... Read more

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"" The People's Victory is a mirror for each of us to see our own power to fight for justice and create the change we want to see in our world." – Gavin Newsom, Lieutenant Governor of CaliforniaIn 1996, a small group of Americans from all walks of life banded together to create one of the most miraculous political victories in modern American history. Opponents attacked the issue of marriage
... Read more

Poor Numbers

How We Are Misled by African Development Statistics and What to Do about It

by Morten Jerven ...

Series series Cornell Studies in Political Economy
One of the most urgent challenges in African economic development is to devise a strategy for improving statistical capacity. Reliable statistics, including estimates of economic growth rates and per-capita income, are basic to the operation of governments in developing countries and vital to nongovernmental organizations and other entities that provide financial aid to them. Rich countries and ... Read more

$21.99 USD

One of the most urgent challenges in African economic development is to devise a strategy for improving statistical capacity. Reliable statistics, including estimates of economic growth rates and per-capita income, are basic to the operation of governments in developing countries and vital to nongovernmental organizations and other entities that provide financial aid to them. Rich countries and
... Read more
Africa

Why Economists Get It Wrong

by Morten Jerven ...

Series series African Arguments
'A valuable corrective to the fraying narrative of [African] failure.'Foreign AffairsNot so long ago, Africa was being described as the hopeless continent. Recently, though, talk has turned to Africa rising, with enthusiastic voices exclaiming the potential for economic growth across many of its countries.What, then, is the truth behind Africa's growth, or lack of it? In this provocative book, ... Read more

$22.99 USD

'A valuable corrective to the fraying narrative of [African] failure.'Foreign AffairsNot so long ago, Africa was being described as the hopeless continent. Recently, though, talk has turned to Africa rising, with enthusiastic voices exclaiming the potential for economic growth across many of its countries.What, then, is the truth behind Africa's growth, or lack of it? In this provocative book,
... Read more
Veto Players

How Political Institutions Work

by George Tsebelis ...

Political scientists have long classified systems of government as parliamentary or presidential, two-party or multiparty, and so on. But such distinctions often fail to provide useful insights. For example, how are we to compare the United States, a presidential bicameral regime with two weak parties, to Denmark, a parliamentary unicameral regime with many strong parties? Veto Players advances an ... Read more

$35.99 USD

Political scientists have long classified systems of government as parliamentary or presidential, two-party or multiparty, and so on. But such distinctions often fail to provide useful insights. For example, how are we to compare the United States, a presidential bicameral regime with two weak parties, to Denmark, a parliamentary unicameral regime with many strong parties? Veto Players advances an
... Read more
Code Red: Computerized Election Theft And The New American Century

Post - E2012 Edition

by Jonathan D. Simon ...

CODE RED is about what has happened to American elections, American politics, and America since computers took over the vote counting just a few short years ago. It identifies red flags and offers accessible examinations of why those flags are red. It is a disturbing and provocative call to action. It is about saving our democracy and our country. Now, before it's all gone. Free and fair elections ... Read more

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CODE RED is about what has happened to American elections, American politics, and America since computers took over the vote counting just a few short years ago. It identifies red flags and offers accessible examinations of why those flags are red. It is a disturbing and provocative call to action. It is about saving our democracy and our country. Now, before it's all gone. Free and fair elections
... Read more
Revolving Door Lobbying

Public Service, Private Influence, and the Unequal Representation of Interests

by Timothy M. LaPira, Herschel F. Thomas III ...

In recent decades Washington has seen an alarming rise in the number of “revolving door lobbyists”—politicians and officials cashing in on their government experience to become influence peddlers on K Street. These lobbyists, popular wisdom suggests, sell access to the highest bidder. Revolving Door Lobbying tells a different, more nuanced story. As an insider interviewed in the book observes, ... Read more

$39.99 USD

In recent decades Washington has seen an alarming rise in the number of “revolving door lobbyists”—politicians and officials cashing in on their government experience to become influence peddlers on K Street. These lobbyists, popular wisdom suggests, sell access to the highest bidder. Revolving Door Lobbying tells a different, more nuanced story. As an insider interviewed in the book observes,
... Read more
The Pseudo-Democrat's Dilemma

Why Election Observation Became an International Norm

by Susan D. Hyde ...

Why did election monitoring become an international norm? Why do pseudo-democrats—undemocratic leaders who present themselves as democratic—invite international observers, even when they are likely to be caught manipulating elections? Is election observation an effective tool of democracy promotion, or is it simply a way to legitimize electoral autocracies? In The Pseudo-Democrat's Dilemma, Susan ... Read more

$22.99 USD

Why did election monitoring become an international norm? Why do pseudo-democrats—undemocratic leaders who present themselves as democratic—invite international observers, even when they are likely to be caught manipulating elections? Is election observation an effective tool of democracy promotion, or is it simply a way to legitimize electoral autocracies? In The Pseudo-Democrat's Dilemma, Susan
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