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Public policy is language use -- Communicating in policymaking -- Definition: describe the problem -- Evaluation: analyze and advise -- Legislative history: know the record -- Position paper: know the arguments -- Petition, proposal, letter: request action -- Brief opinion, ordinance: inform governance -- Testimony: witness in a public hearing -- Public comment: influence administration -- Conclusion: ethics for policy communicators.

1. Parties and Members in the 21st Century -- 2. Institutional Design and Party Membership -- 3. The Functions of Party Members in Estonia -- 4. The Functions of Party Members in Lithuania -- 5. The Functions of Party Members in Slovakia -- 6. Electoral Systems and Active Members.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Prologue -- 1. War On Food Waste -- 2. Farmed Waste -- 3. Manufactured Waste -- 4. Supermarket Waste -- 5. Restaurant Waste -- 6. Consumer Waste -- 7. Food-Related Waste -- Epilogue -- References -- Food Waste Resources -- Index.

The history of gangs and the military connection -- The emergence of gangs in the military -- Contemporary issues with military gangs -- Prohibitions and prevention measures -- Gangs with members in the military -- Military-trained gang members in civilian communities -- Afterword : when gangs and the U.S. military collide

Lisa Smith was a bright, young lawyer at a prestigious firm in NYC in the early nineties when alcoholism started to take over her life. What was once a way of escaping her insecurity and negativity became a means of coping with the anxiety and stress of an impossible workload. Girl Walks Out of a Bar is Smith's darkly comic and wrenchingly honest story of her formative years, the decade of alcohol and drug abuse, divorce, and her road to recovery. Smith describes how her spiraling circumstances conspired with her predisposition to depression and self-medication, nurturing an environment ripe for addiction to flourish. Girl Walks Out of a Bar is a candid portrait of alcoholism through the lens of gritty New York realism. Beneath the façade of success lies the reality of addiction

Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- 1. "The people . . . cannot help themselves": The Failure of War Mobilization and the Call for a National Weapons Program -- 2. "Laboratories . . . ordnance . . . artificers [and] Ammunition": The Department of the Commissary General of Military Stores -- 3. "On the same plan as . . . Woolwich": Adopting The Industrial Revolution in America -- 4. "Regiment of Artillery Artificers" and "hired men": Promoting a Manufacturing Revolution in Philadelphia -- 5. "ARTIFICERS, WHO prefer LIBERTY to SLAVERY": Manufacturing Innovation at Carlisle and Springfield -- 6. "Devise ways and means for procuring [cannon]": Directing Private Manufacturers: Inspection and Instruction -- 7. "We manufactured all the articles necessary for our defence": Directing Private Manufacturers: Providing Resources -- 8. "The American Foundery": Military Stores Activities After the Revolution -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

An unsettling question -- Plant sentience -- Animism -- The closed loop -- Two objections, one accommodation -- Loose ends