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Managing Projects in Post Conflict Countries: The Case of Liberia

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Report copyright infringementby Dba Pmp J. Williams (Author)Management Projects in Post-Conflict Countries: The Case of Liberia" cataloged both the practical and theoretical experience of the author after more than 20 years as a senior program officer, project manager, project coordinator, and monitoring and evaluation specialist in Liberia and the United States. Contents combined literature review, theoretical knowledge gathering, and practical experience from involvement in different projec...

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Report copyright infringementby Roy A. Minet (Author)Our public elections do not function correctly. Elections have never worked as well as people thought they did, and over the past 200 years, career politicians have found multiple ways (like gerrymandering) to rig elections and insulate themselves from voters. More recently, the integrity of elections also has been eroded, thus opening the door to fraudulent manipulation.Elections are ultimately the only mechanism citizens have to maintain ...

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Report copyright infringementby Dans Hardyans (Author)"War Without Weapons: China's Strategy to Dominate the World" explores how China has transformed from a poor, colonized country into a global powerhouse. This book delves into the strategies China uses to expand its influence through investments, economic control, and strategic partnerships. It highlights the risks that come with China's growing dominance, including the use of debt-trap diplomacy and the subtle ways in which China is shapi...

Capitalism Is Dead, Long Live Controlled Success: The New Road to Wealth

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Report copyright infringementby A. a. Castor (Author)The era of capitalist uncertainty is over-structured success is the future.For generations, society has been trapped in the illusion that free markets create opportunity, individual ambition leads to wealth, and financial security can be achieved through hard work and risk-taking. But history has proven otherwise-capitalism breeds instability, economic collapse, and an ever-widening wealth gap.This book exposes the myth of self-made success...

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Report copyright infringementby Sandeep Chavan (Author)The Future Knows No Lines: Imagining a Borderless World is a thought-provoking exploration of what it means to live in a world without borders. Written by Sandeep Chavan, this book takes readers on an intellectual and imaginative journey, examining the possibilities, challenges, and implications of a unified global society.The idea of a borderless world is sparked by a simple yet profound question posed by a young student: "What if there ...

Universal Declaration of Human Rights - Hardcover

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by Eleanor Roosevelt (Author)In 1948, Eleanor Roosevelt served as chairwoman of the United Nations committee to create this declaration of moral conscience, now used by Amnesty International as their founding document. This hardcover edition contains the international document in six languages: English, Spanish, French, Chinese, Russian, and Arabic.Front JacketThe text of the 1948 United Nations proclamation in six languages: English, Spanish, French, Chinese, Russian, and Arabic. Number of P...

The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade - Paperback

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by Alfred W. McCoy (Author)The first book to prove CIA and U.S. government complicity in global drug trafficking, The Politics of Heroin includes meticulous documentation of dishonesty and dirty dealings at the highest levels from the Cold War until today. Maintaining a global perspective, this groundbreaking study details the mechanics of drug trafficking in Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and South and Central America. New chapters detail U.S. involvement in the narcotics trade in Afghanista...

By Order of the President: The Use and Abuse of Executive Direct Action - Paperback

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by Phillip Cooper (Author)Scholars and citizens alike have endlessly debated the proper limits of presidential action within our democracy. In this revised and expanded edition, noted scholar Phillip Cooper offers a cogent guide to these powers and shows how presidents from George Washington to Barack Obama have used and abused them in trying to realize their visions for the nation. As Cooper reveals, there has been virtually no significant policy area or level of government left untouched by...

The Power of Positive Deviance: How Unlikely Innovators Solve the World's Toughest Problems - Hardcover

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by Richard Pascale (Author), Jerry Sternin (Author), Monique Sternin (Author)Think of the toughest problems in your organization or community. What if they'd already been solved and you didn't even know it? In The Power of Positive Deviance, the authors present a counterintuitive new approach to problem-solving. Their advice? Leverage positive deviants--the few individuals in a group who find unique ways to look at, and overcome, seemingly insoluble difficulties. By seeing solutions where oth...

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Report copyright infringementby Jorge Mendoza Vester (Author)La mayoría de los textos de administración se inclinan hacia una orientación empresarial, centrados en el sector privado. Esta tendencia deja un hueco considerable en la educación de aquellos que aspiran a servir en el sector público. Mi objetivo con este manual es ofrecer una perspectiva que aborde de manera integral los desafíos y particularidades de la administración pública.Este libro está fundamentado en la sólida creencia de q...

Agent Josephine: American Beauty, French Hero, British Spy - Paperback

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by Damien Lewis (Author)The New Yorker, Best Books of 2022 Vanity Fair, Best Books of 2022 Booklist, Best Books of 2022 Singer. Actress. Beauty. Spy. During WWII, Josephine Baker, the world's richest and most glamorous entertainer, was an Allied spy in Occupied France. Prior to World War II, Josephine Baker was a music-hall diva renowned for her singing and dancing, her beauty and sexuality; she was the highest-paid female performer in Europe. When the Nazis seized her adopted city, Pari...

Asynchronous Exchange: The End of Capitalism

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Report copyright infringementby Anders Baerbock (Author)During centuries now capitalism sustained and expanded a human world based on monetary fraud, systemic disadvantages, and failed democracies, which massively squandered the Earth's material resources and irreversibly destroyed countless ecosystems. By the aforesaid means, capitalism severely conditioned the future of humankind on Earth and engendered a factually plutocratic world order. This book aims to replace capitalism by building a ...

EMERGENCE Rational Optimism in the Age of Hyper-Progress

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Report copyright infringementby Horton (Author)In a world saturated with dire predictions and cultural cynicism, Emergence offers a compelling counter-narrative. Dr. Anthony Horton weaves insights from Steven Pinker, Peter Zeihan and Yuval Noah Harari into an optimistic exploration of humanity's trajectory. By combining empirical data, historical analysis and critical synthesis, this essay challenges readers to reconsider their perspectives on progress, resilience and the potential of human i...

The King's Two Bodies: A Study in Medieval Political Theology - Paperback

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by Ernst Kantorowicz (Author), Conrad Leyser (Introduction by), William Chester Jordan (Preface by)Originally published in 1957, this classic work has guided generations of scholars through the arcane mysteries of medieval political theology. Throughout history, the notion of two bodies has permitted the postmortem continuity of monarch and monarchy, as epitomized by the statement, "The king is dead. Long live the king." In The King's Two Bodies, Ernst Kantorowicz traces the historical dilemm...

Korea: A New History of South and North - Paperback

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by Victor Cha (Author), Ramon Pacheco Pardo (Author)A major new history of North and South Korea, from the late nineteenth century to the present day "Cha and Pacheco Pardo have years of expertise in Korean international relations. . . . A crisp and balanced account."--Christopher Harding, The Telegraph Korea has a long, riveting history--it is also a divided nation. South Korea is a vibrant democracy, the tenth largest economy, and is home to a world-renowned culture. North Korea is ruled b...

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Report copyright infringementby Fabian Vartez (Author)The Royal Academy of the Spanish Language defines wealth (in its first meaning) as "the abundance of goods or precious things." And this is the concept that we all have in mind. A person is rich when he has wealth: a luxurious house, an expensive car (or two or three!), Expensive clothes, trips in first-class ... You know what I'm talking about. But it is helpful to make the distinction between (a) having wealth and (b) being rich. To expl...

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Report copyright infringementby Nancy Gomez (Author), Patrick Pasin (Author)In just ten years, the revolution of bitcoin and blockchain technology has brought about a hundred central banks on every continent to study their applications and consequences. Several countries are already in the process of launching their own sovereign cryptocurrency, which will have profound implications for the world and will change it forever.Geopolitics of Cryptocurrencies analyzes the various strategies in pro...

Regional Dynamics in a Decentralized Indonesia

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Report copyright infringementby Hal Hill (Editor)This volume features contributions by over 40 writers with deep expertise on Indonesia. The book provides a timely, comprehensive and analytical assessment of the country's regional development dynamics in the post-decentralization environment. It explores historical, political and development patterns at the regional level; the relationship between decentralization and governance; local-level perspectives; migration, cities and connectivity; a...

Politics in Land and Water Management: Study in Kilimanjaro, Tanzania

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Report copyright infringementby Fred Simon Lerise (Author)Tanzania is famous for its post-independence efforts to effect rural development, as one of the few Africans countries that nationalised and centralised access to and use of land, water and other natural resources. The policies were however broadly unsuccessful: land-use intensification is still low; there is little equity in access to land; disputes over property rights are increasing, whilst concerns about environmental degradation a...

Becoming Digital Nations: Reimagining Countries for the Digital Era

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Report copyright infringementby Mohammad J. Sear (Author)We are living in an era of digital transformation, where governments, economies, and societies must evolve or risk being left behind. Becoming Digital Nations is a groundbreaking exploration of how countries can embrace digital technologies to create a future-ready governance system, economy, and society.Author Mohammad J. Sear, a digital futurist and public sector strategist, delves deep into how nations across the world are leveraging...

Competition Among Financial Centres in Asia-Pacific: Prospects, Benefits, Risks and Policy Challenges

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Report copyright infringementby Soogil Young (Editor), Dosoung Choi (Editor), Jesus Seade (Editor)Many cities in the Asia-Pacific region serve as financial centres in their respective national jurisdictions or local areas. Noting that most were engaged in efforts to become premier international financial centres (IFCs) in competition with one another, the Korea National Committee for Pacific Economic Cooperation (KOPEC) convened an international conference in Seoul, Korea in October 2007 to e...

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How on Earth Do We Live Now? Natural Capital, Deep Ecology and the Commons

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Report copyright infringementby David Ciscel (Author), Keith Helmuth (Author), Sandra Lewis (Author)This pamphlet takes up the question, "how on Earth do we live now?" as both a cry of alarm and a call to action, through the lenses of "natural capital" and "deep ecology." In the course of this study, the commons emerged as a third point of reference. This study explores two essential parts of Earth's commons: property and water. It continues with a close look at systems of governance for the ...

Metropolitan Circles Development and the Future of Urbanization

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Report copyright infringementby Wei Shan (Editor), Lijun Yang (Editor)This book discusses lessons and challenges of metropolitan circles development and urbanization in Asia, Europe, North America, Latin America and Africa. The book examines the effects of local governance systems, central-local relations, and administrative borders on metropolitan area development. It surveys economic, social and environmental issues, with an emphasis on how interconnectivity, circular economy, and climate i...

The Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel Culture Undermines Trust and Threatens Us All--But There Is a Solution - Hardcover

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by Greg Lukianoff (Author), Rikki Schlott (Author)A "galvanizing" (The Wall Street Journal) deep dive into cancel culture and its dangers to all Americans from the team that brought you Coddling of the American Mind. Cancel culture is a new phenomenon, and The Canceling of the American Mind is the first book to codify it and survey its effects, including hard data and research on what cancel culture is and how it works, along with hundreds of new examples showing the left and right both worki...

Mediator In Political Economy: Islamic and Modern and Corporate System: Islamic and Modern

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Report copyright infringementby Ahmed Lissane El Haq (Author) The book on Islamic and modern political economy and the system of Islamic and modern companies deals with the subject of political economy from an Islamic and modern perspective. The book also deals with the system of Islamic and modern companies. The book contains a careful research on these topics of interest to readers interested in this field. The study aims to put the Islamic and modern economy on two parallel sides within th...

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Report copyright infringementby Richard Henry Tawney (Author)The Agrarian Problem In The Sixteenth Century This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature. In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards: 1. Type-setting & Reformatting: The complete work has been re-designed via professional layout, formatting and type-setting tools to re-create the same e...

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Report copyright infringementby Ganesh Natarajan (Author) For ages, we have been hearing phrases like "There is no such thing as a free lunch". Free Ice Cream disproves it. Free Ice Cream shows people how everything can be made ABSOLUTELY FREE for everyone. We are talking free energy, free food, free manufactured goods from shoes to TVs, umbrellas to furniture to cars and so on; free everything to everyone. Is this real? Is this possible? Is this too good to be true? Yes, Yes and No. There is...

China's One Belt One Road: Initiative, Challenges and Prospects

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Report copyright infringementby B. K. Sharm (Editor), Nivedita Das Kundu (Editor)The Chapters in this book are written by Chinese and Indian academics and researchers from United Service Institution of India and Sichuan University, explaining the inter-disciplinary approaches and comparative perspectives, that may help to understand the essence and implication of China's 'One Belt One Road', initiative by identifying the convergences of interest in terms of social and economic development, po...

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Report copyright infringementby Musabekov Sherali (Author)This book "Economic Political and Financial Analyses" is written by Musabekov Sherali on the topic of the development of the economy in Uzbekistan, and consists of an introduction, a main chapter and a conclusion, which are covered in the form of economic accounts and specific facts. Number of Pages: 112 Dimensions: 0.23 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: August 24, 2023

Public-Private Partnership Monitor: Sri Lanka

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Report copyright infringementby Asian Development Bank (Author)This publication provides a detailed overview of the public-private partnership (PPP) landscape in Sri Lanka, outlines challenges, and explains how rebuilding a national PPP policy can help meet its substantial infrastructure needs. The publication shows how Sri Lanka has completed nearly 179 PPP projects worth $5.3 billion since 1990 with many in the port and power sectors. It analyzes how tackling funding and regulatory constrai...

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Report copyright infringementby Bailee Skeen (Author)Brexit, short portmanteau of British exit from the European Union, is the impending withdrawal of the United Kingdom (UK) from the European Union (EU). It follows from the referendum of 23 June 2016 when a majority of 52% of British voters supported leaving the EU. On 29 March 2017, the UK government invoked Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union. The United Kingdom is due to leave the EU on 29 March 2019 at 11 p.m. UK time (midnight Ce...