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  • Immigration, the Borderlands, and the Resilient Homeland

    de Lorraine McCall, Lars Karlsson, Philip Kretsedemas, Maria Burns, Thomas P.M. Barnett, Alan Bersin, Christopher M. Ellis, William Rials, Thomas Russo, Olivia A. Scriven, Meagan van Harte ...
    This title combines original research, case studies, and synoptic analysis to cover highly charged topics in America today. Each chapter in this edited volume offers conditional responses to three essential questions about the disciplinary status of homeland security: What are the domain’s central problems? What research methods are best able to address those problems? What has research ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD

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  • Points of Entry

    How Canada’s Immigration Officers Decide Who Gets in

    de Vic Satzewich ...
    Every year, over 1.3 million people apply to visit, work, or settle in Canada. It falls to visa officers to determine who gets in – and who stays out. In the face of this enormous responsibility, how do these gatekeepers use their discretionary authority to assess eligibility, credibility, and risk?Seeking answers to this question, Vic Satzewich conducted interviews with 128 visa officers, locally ... Leer más

    $29.99 USD

  • Corruption and Government

    Causes, Consequences, and Reform

    de Susan Rose-Ackerman, Bonnie J. Palifka ...
    The second edition of Corruption and Government updates Susan Rose-Ackerman's 1999 book to address emerging issues and to rethink old questions in light of new data. The book analyzes the research explosion that accompanied the fall of the Berlin Wall, the founding of Transparency International, and the World Bank's decision to give anti-corruption policy a key place on its agenda. Time has ... Leer más

    $45.99 USD

  • Global Health Law

    de Lawrence O. Gostin ...
    The international community has made great progress in improving global health. But staggering health inequalities between rich and poor still remain, raising fundamental questions of social justice. In a book that systematically defines the burgeoning field of global health law, Lawrence Gostin drives home the need for effective global governance for health and offers a blueprint for reform, ... Leer más

    $62.09 USD

  • Governing Global Health

    Who Runs the World and Why?

    de Chelsea Clinton, Devi Sridhar ...
    The past few decades have seen a massive increase in the number of international organizations focusing on global health. Campaigns to eradicate or stem the spread of AIDS, SARS, malaria, and Ebola attest to the increasing importance of globally-oriented health organizations. These organizations may be national, regional, international, or even non-state organizations-like Medicins Sans Frontieres ... Leer más

    $15.19 USD

  • About Canada: Immigration

    de Nupur Gogia, Bonnie Slade ...
    Series Libro 5 - About Canada
    Many Canadians believe that immigrants steal jobs away from qualified Canadians, abuse the healthcare system and refuse to participate in Canadian culture. In About Canada: Immigration, Gogia and Slade challenge these myths with a thorough investigation of the realities of immigrating to Canada. Examining historical immigration policies, the authors note that these policies were always ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

  • Divided Nations: Why global governance is failing, and what we can do about it

    Why global governance is failing, and what we can do about it

    de Ian Goldin ...
    With rapid globalization, the world is more deeply interconnected than ever before. While this has its advantages, it also brings with it systemic risks that are only just being identified and understood. Rapid urbanization, together with technological leaps, such as the Internet, mean that we are now physically and virtually closer than ever in humanity's history. We face a number of ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • Global Health In Practice: Investing Amidst Pandemics, Denial Of Evidence, And Neo-dependency

    de Olusoji Adeyi, Dean T Jamison ...
    Series Libro 6 - World Scientific Series In Health Investment And Financing
    The COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare the world's vulnerabilities to health and economic ruin from disease outbreaks. But the pandemic merely reveals fundamental weaknesses and contradictions in global health. What are the roots of discontents in global health? How do geo-politics, power dynamics, knowledge gaps, racism, and corruption affect global health? Is foreign aid for health due for a ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Under the Bus

    How Working Women Are Being Run Over

    de Caroline Fredrickson ...
    "Did you think you knew the facts about women and work? Think again . . . a terrific book . . . utterly gripping." —Peter Edelman, author of So Rich, So PoorFor women in professional and corporate jobs, much of the discrimination and inequity faced in the past has been confronted—and at least to some extent, conquered. But the fact is that we have a two-tiered system, where some working women have ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Miseducating for the Global Economy

    How Corporate Power Damages Education and Subverts Students’ Futures

    de Gerald Coles ...
    How the American education system became a "global economy" industryAll across the United States, corporations, politicians, economists, educators – and now, most remarkably, Ivanka Trump – cry out for new “education for the twenty-first century economy.” Meanwhile, millions of Americans face increasing difficulty finding well paying, secure jobs. But the current employment crisis is not so much ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • Better Data, Better Decisions: Towards Impactful Forest Monitoring

    de FAOoftheUN ...
    Decisions based on data and analysis are often deemed to produce a better outcome and providing decision-makers with information is seen as an important development strategy. The adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals reinforces the importance of science-policy linkages. In the forestry sector, efforts to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) have created ... Leer más

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  • Predatory Leadership

    Are Nations Getting the Governments They Deserve?

    de Chris Simms ...
    How Weak Leadership Brought Crises to the Global CommunityHow did we ever reach the point of nearly 900,000 COVID-19 deaths in the US, 5.5 million worldwide and a climate crisis that now affects 85% of the global population, yet goes largely unchallenged?The pandemic and climate crises are only part of a network of crises that coalesced about 50 years ago with roots going back 400 years. This ... Leer más

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