21st Century FEMA Study Course: National Incident Management System (NIMS) – An Introduction (IS-700.a) [EPUB ebook] 

Do Democrats have greater difficulty maintaining party unity than Republicans? William Mayer argues that they do, chiefly because the Democrats are a more ideologically diverse, less cohesive party. …

Ole Holsti, one of the deans of US foreign policy analysis, examines the complex factors involved in the policy decision-making process including the beliefs and cognitive processes of foreign policy …

This collection brings together essays by distinguished political philosophers which reflect on the detailed arguments of What We Owe to Each Other, and comment critically both on Scanlon”s contract …

Governing Global Derivatives analyzes the role of the most important financial innovation of the last two decades – financial derivatives – in a global dimension. The evolution of derivatives, especi …

This book describes how American society has evolved over the past half century by examining the cultural context for political change. It explores the profound alterations that have occurred in Amer …

This book tells how our welfare is ever more intimately tied up with the welfare of the millions of species that share the One Earth home with us. It presents a synoptic review of the contributions t …

This book examines the frequent reasonable disagreements of U.S. senators Paul Sarbanes and Dick Lugar, and finds in aspects of their life experiences reasons why they take particular positions and c …

First published in 1995. The text is technically precise but at the same time accessible, and is carried forward by numerous examples. The chapters focus on vote counting rules, voting agendas, voter …

From The Conversation.com, an exploration of the devastating gun violence in the United States—and possible ways to stop it. In The Conversation on Guns, editor James Densley brings together a group …

First published in 1981, The Third World Calamity is a controversial book on the social conditions, politics, economics and cultural barriers that have, according to the author, stagnated Western-sty …