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In this Third Edition of STATE AND LOCAL POLITICS: INSTITUTIONS AND
REFORM, Donovan, Mooney, and Smith go beyond the purely descriptive
treatment usually found in state and local texts. Offering an
engaging comparative approach, the Third Edition shows students how
politics and government differ between states and communities, and
points out the causes and effects of those variations. The text
also focuses on what social scientists know about the effects of
rules and institutions on politics and policy. This comparative,
institutional framework enables students to think more analytically
about the impact of institutions on policy outcomes, asks them to
evaluate the effectiveness of one institutional approach over
another, and encourages them to consider more sophisticated
solutions. Written by three young, high-profile specialists who
have contributed significantly to the field in the last decade,
STATE AND LOCAL POLITICS: INSTITUTIONS AND REFORM incorporates the
most recent scholarship available into the course, giving students
access to perspectives that no other textbook on the market
currently provides.
Remembered for his leadership during the Second World War,
Churchill’s commitment to 'never surrender', along with his
stirring speeches and radio broadcasts, helped inspire British
resistance to the Nazi threat when Britain stood alone against an
occupied Europe. But as well as a hugely successful politician,
Churchill was also an officer in the British Army, a journalist,
historian and a writer, winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in
1953. How to Think Like Churchill reveals the essential principles
behind this fascinating leader, exploring the defining moments and
enduring speeches that have made him one of the most esteemed
figures of the twentieth century.
Scientists have recently made startling discoveries about plastic
pollution and our food supply. Could we really be eating
microscopic pieces of plastic every day? What does this mean for
our health? And what can we do about it? In this book, readers will
get practical tips on how they can get involved to solve the
problem and become part of the solution.
Weighing as much as a small car, a rover named Curiosity rolls
quietly around Mars. Scientific instruments pack its body and
cluster at the end of a mechanical arm. An arrangement of lenses
and instruments tops its mast, like a face. To the many NASA
workers involved in Curiosity's mission on Mars, the rover is not
simply a robot, but an astronaut bravely exploring an alien place.
Curiosity's instruments collect data and its cameras take images of
the Mars landscape, including self-portraits, in vivid color and
detail. As it roams and explores, Curiosity will help find the
answers to such age-old questions as has there ever been life on
Mars? Could there be one day?
How to Think Like an Entrepreneur presents the
ideas and methods of the business greats, allowing the reader to
expand their understanding of what drives and informs successful
entrepreneurship.
To the untrained eye, Photo 51 was simply a grainy black and white
image of dark marks scattered in a rough cross shape. But to the
eye of a trained scientist, it was a clear portrait of a DNA fiber
taken with X-rays. And to young scientists James Watson and Francis
Crick, it confirmed their guess of deoxyribonucleic acid's
structure. In 1953 the pair was racing toward solving the mystery
of DNA's structure before other scientists could beat them to it.
They and others believed that finding the simple structure of the
DNA molecule would answer a great mystery, how do organisms live,
grow, develop, and survive, generation after generation? Photo 51
and subsequent models based on the photo would prove to be the key
to unlocking the secret of life.
Designed as a city dwelling for the modern age, Dolphin Square
opened in London's Pimlico in 1936. Boasting 1,250 hi-tech flats, a
swimming pool, restaurant, gardens and shopping arcade, the complex
quickly attracted a long list of the affluent and influential. But
behind its veneer of respectability, the Square has become one of
the country's most notorious addresses; a place where the private
lives of those from the highest of high society and the lowest
depths of the underworld have collided and played out over the best
part of a century. This is the story of the Square and its people,
an ever-evolving cast of larger-than- life characters who have
borne witness to, and played pivotal roles in, some of the most
scandalous episodes of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
From Oswald Mosley and the Carry On gang to allegations of
systematic sexual abuse, it is a saga replete with mysterious
deaths, exploitation, espionage, illicit love affairs and glamour,
shining a light on the changing nature of British politics and
society in the modern age.
On the planet Terranu, two families have established a research
base to look for extraterrestrial life. One day four young friends
spot a watery tentacle slither out of the nearby river... and a
pair of eyes watching from across the water! Soon the two families
meet the planet's natives, but they aren't pleased by the humans'
presence. The aliens challenge them to a contest. If the humans
win, they can stay on Terranu. But if they lose, they must leave
immediately. It's up to the young friends and their special powers
to win the contest. Will their families be forced to leave the
planet forever? Or will the humans and aliens learn to live
together in peace?
In July 1964, the Sunday Mirror ran a front-page story headlined:
PEER AND A GANGSTER: YARD ENQUIRY. While the article withheld the
names of the subjects, the newspaper reported that the Commissioner
of the Metropolitan Police had ordered an investigation into an
alleged homosexual relationship between 'a household name' from the
House of Lords and a leading figure in the London underworld. Lord
Boothby was the Conservative lord in question, and Ronnie Kray the
infamous gangster. Yet within a couple of weeks the story had been
killed off, vanishing as suddenly as it had appeared. Lord Boothby
and the Krays carried on with business as usual. For the first time
the full saga of the cover-up and its consequences can be revealed.
Drawing upon recently released MI5 files, government papers,
extensive interviews, and a wide array of contemporary reports and
secondary sources, Daniel Smith pieces together how eminent figures
from the political firmament, the Security Service, the
Metropolitan Police, the legal profession and the media saw to it
that the Sunday Mirror's story was crushed almost as soon as it
emerged.
So you're good at the pub quiz ... you always have the right answer
... you're known for the depth and breadth of your knowledge ...
well, why not put those skills to the test with Think You Know It
All? Genius Edition. In this fiendish and at times infuriating book
of general knowledge questions, you'll find a vast range of topics
are covered, to give you a real challenge on subjects from maths to
history, music to literature, cinema to sport. With all sorts of
different types of question to keep you on your toes (and all the
answers at the back for when you need them) this book will give you
entertainment and be head-scratchingly annoying in equal measure
... ... But then that's the thing about knowledge: if you know the
answer, it's easy!
For years, Daniel Smith suffered from bouts of acute anxiety,
extended episodes without any apparent cause that seized control of
his body and mind, leaving him an emotional wreck. Sleep was
impossible and headaches and nausea haunted his days. Anxiety
threatened his sanity and jeopardized his relationships. He had a
prestigious job, a comfortable apartment, and caring friends-but,
according to his therapists, nothing seemed to be wrong. Now in
paperback, Monkey Mindis the story of how one man finally learned
to live with-and laugh at-his own anxiety issues. Smith shares his
own hilarious and heart-wrenching story from his first severe
episode at age sixteen to his discovery of the author Philip Roth,
who made anxiety seem noble, to his first job, which nearly drove
him to distraction, to his struggle to give up the endless cycle of
hand-wringing angst in order to keep the love of his life. Through
medication, endless psychoanalysis, self-imposed isolation, and
meditation, Smith finally makes peace with his restless mind and
becomes the husband and father he longs to be. Whether you suffer
from clinical anxiety or an overdose of modern life in our "Age of
Anxiety," Monkey Mind's combination of wit, candour, and serious
advice will help you live in the moment instead of inside your own
head.
Deeply religious, the ancient Greeks honored many gods and
goddesses. The ancient Greeks believed these gods and goddesses had
great power over the weather and the Earth. But they weren't
all-powerful, and they had flaws. From Zeus to Athena, read about
the family of gods and goddesses that the ancient Greeks believed
watched over them.
From Socrates to Sartre, Avicenna to Angela Davis, this accessible
guide will get you up to speed on the world's greatest minds and
help you to think like them. You've heard of Plato, but do you
understand his Theory of Forms? What does Rene Descartes' maxim 'I
think, therefore I am' actually mean? And how is philosophy
relevant to modern life? Drawing on the thoughts and words of
iconic philosophers from the ancient world right through to the
present day, each chapter deals with a specific philosophical
theory. Explore the conflict between free will and determinism, the
political concept of Machiavellianism, the difference between
metaphysics and epistemology, and what dialectics actually is in
this accessibly-written guide to the smartest minds in history.
'You see, but you do not observe. The distinction is clear.' Such
were the words of the master detective Sherlock Holmes to Dr
Watson, as he noted how his friend failed to implement Holmes's
techniques. In How to think like Sherlock you will learn how to
increase your powers of observation, memory, deduction and
reasoning using the tricks and techniques of the world's most
famous detective, Sherlock Holmes. The book incorporates the latest
techniques and theories across a range of topics: NLP, memory
mapping, body language, information shifting and speed reading -
this is a supremely practical book that will make you look at the
world in a new light, and more importantly, impress those around
you. Packed full of case studies, quotes and trivia from Arthur
Conan Doyle's original novels and short stories, How to think like
Sherlock also includes a series of fun tasks and games for you to
complete that will ensure that when you reach the end of the book
you will be thinking like Sherlock Holmes, the master of the
science of deduction. You will never look at a shirt cuff, trouser
hem or scuff of dirt on a shoe in the same way again! Other books
in the series include: How to Think Like Stephen Hawking, How to
Think Like Churchill and How to Think Like Steve Jobs
'You see, but you do not observe. The distinction is clear.' Such
were the words of the master detective Sherlock Holmes to Dr
Watson, as he noted how his friend failed to implement Holmes's
techniques. In How to Think Like Sherlock you will learn how to
increase your powers of observation, memory, deduction and
reasoning using the tricks and techniques of the world's most
famous detective, Sherlock Holmes. The book incorporates the latest
techniques and theories across a range of topics: NLP, memory
mapping, body language, information shifting and speed reading -
this is a supremely practical book that will make you look at the
world in a new light, and more importantly, impress those around
you. Packed full of case studies, quotes and trivia from Arthur
Conan Doyle's original novels and short stories, How to Think Like
Sherlock also includes a series of fun tasks and games for you to
complete that will ensure that when you reach the end of the book
you will be thinking like Sherlock Holmes, the master of the
science of deduction. You will never look at a shirt cuff, trouser
hem or scuff of dirt on a shoe in the same way again!
The book has a unique status as an emblem of human culture and
civilization. It is a vessel for sharing stories, dispersing
knowledge, examining the nature of our extraordinary species and
imagining what lies beyond our known world. Books ultimately
provide an invaluable and comprehensive record of what it means to
be human. This volume takes a curated list of fifty of the most
influential books of all time, putting each into its historical
context. From ancient game-changers like the Epic of Gilgamesh,
through sacred texts and works of philosophical rumination by the
likes of Confucius and Plato, via scientific treatises, historic
'firsts' (like the first printed book) and cultural works of
enduring impact (think Shakespeare, Cervantes and Joseph Heller),
these are volumes that are at once both products of their societies
and vital texts in moulding those same civilizations. It would take
a lifetime and more to read and absorb all of them. But this volume
allows you to become ridiculously well read in just a fraction of
the time. This isn't a celebration of the canon, it's about the
books that have changed how we think and live - and which have
changed the course of history.
Tender, moving, heartfelt and warm (and sporadically scandalous and
outrageous too), these are the private messages between people in
love. Yet they are also correspondence between the rulers of
nations. From Henry VIII's lovelorn notes to Anne Boleyn and George
IV's impassioned notes to his secret wife, to Queen Victoria's
tender letters to Prince Albert and Edward VIII's extraordinary
correspondence with Wallis Simpson - these letters depict romantic
love from its budding passion to the comfort and understanding of a
long union (and occasionally beyond to resentment and
recrimination), all set against the background of great affairs of
state, wars and the strictures of royal duty. Here is a chance to
glimpse behind the pomp and ceremony, the carefully curated images
of royal splendour and decorum, to see the passions, hopes,
jealousies and loneliness of kings and queens throughout history.
By turns tender, moving, heartfelt and warm (and sporadically
scandalous and outrageous too), these are the private messages
between people in love. Yet they are also correspondence between
the rulers of nations, whose actions (and passions) changed the
course of history, for good and bad. This morning I received your
dear, dear letter of the 21st. How happy do you make me with your
love! Oh! my Angel Albert, I am quite enchanted with it! I do not
deserve such love! Never, never did I think I could be loved so
much. Queen Victoria to Prince Albert (28 November 1839)
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