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For a piece of legislation to become an official law in the United States, it must first undergo a long and complex process involving two branches of the government: the legislative and executive. This work puts students right where the law-making action is by tracking the progress of laws. It also includes photographs, sidebars, and a glossary

A handbook on how to live right and an antidote for today's Prozac society, the book decries today's evasions and prevarications, the "poor-little-me" mentality that allows us to cop out when we should be taking responsibility for shaping our lives

In the wake of September 11, 2001, the US government felt the need to establish a special department to handle national security - the Department of Homeland Security. This title traces the history of the efforts to maintain national security in the United States and explains how one of the government's most crucial departments is organized

After the restoration of democracy in 1990, Nepal witnessed collective political struggles-identity and gender movements, public protests and strikes, and the Maoist rebellion.This volume examines the causes, consequences and effectiveness of such contentious politics, and their relationship to democratization. Contradicting the popular thesis that contentious politics generally promotes democratization, this topical book shows that some forms of contentious politics can hinder it, even as other forms strengthen democracy. It also suggests that the nature of activities-whether they are coerciv

Globalisation has emerged as a very powerful force affecting the whole world. In case of Third World Countries it is manifest in the introduction of a set of neoliberal reforms at the behest of multilaterals such as the World Bank and International Monetary fund under the tutelage of the trinity of advanced capitalist countries headed by u.s. representing the interests of global finance and corporates, but also with the cooperation of ruling regimes in many instances. Such reforms have been introduced in India starting with the BoP crises of 1991, which marks a clear shift in the model of deve

Focusing on key issues, themes and concepts within victimology, this edited collection provides an accessable and comprehensive critical analysis of crucial areas within victimisation. The main theories are related to, and integrated with, empirical research in an engaging style.' - Dr Anette Ballinger, Keele University. 'This book achieves the rare feat of helping its readers without patronising them. The aids to the reader - tables, boxes, glossaries, questions, and suggestions for further reading - will prove genuinely helpful to students and their teachers, but they appear within a text th

Questions concerning the quality of media performance and the effectiveness of media policymaking often revolve around the extent to which the media system fulfills the values inherent in diversity and localism principles. Media Diversity and Localism

Based on a five-year research project, Therapeutic Groups for Obese Women introduces an innovative approach to overcoming the growing socio-economic burden of morbidity and mortality resulting from emotionally-driven female obesity. Julia Buckroyd and Sharon Rother (both of the Obesity and Eating Disorders Research Unit at the University of Hertfordshire), offer a complete 36-week programme based on emotional intelligence and the removal of barriers to improvement, along with learning tools for clinicians to use with participants. Worksheets and a range of other tools are provided as appendice

A defence of ethical intuitionism where (i) there are objective moral truths; (ii) we know these through an immediate, intellectual awareness, or 'intuition'; and (iii) knowing them gives us reasons to act independent of our desires. The author rebuts the major objections to this theory and shows the difficulties in alternative theories of ethics

Includes the latest and best dive and snorkel sites, each rated for visual excellence and marine life. The author's knowledge of the Caribbean sites is unparalleled. From sunken planes and snorkel trails to blue holes, the best destinations beneath the waves are covered. Covers Anguilla, Antigua, Barbados, Belize, Bonaire, the US and British Virgin Islands, the Caymans, Curaçao, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, St Kitts, St Lucia, St Vincent & the Grenadines, and Tobago. "I have bought both editions of this book, mostly because the first edition got