Local Politics Matters: A Citizen's Guide to Making a Difference (Meagher Richard)(Paperback)

Local Politics Matters: A Citizen's Guide to Making a Difference (Meagher Richard)(Paperback)

A political scientist's handy, entertaining guide to influencing and being effective in local and state politics, where vital decisions are made and it's easier to make a difference. It feels like politics counts more today than it ever has. At the same time, people are frustrated by 'the mess in

Good Strategy/Bad Strategy - The difference and why it matters (Rumelt Richard)(Paperback / softback)

Why Politics Matters: Making Democracy Work (Stoker Gerry)(Paperback)

Profound social changes have made governance and political leadership more challenging than ever. The result is that politics in the democratic world faces a crisis in the 21st century. The revised edition of this highly successful text reassesses the gap between citizen expectation and the

American Difference: A Guide to American Politics in Comparative Perspective (Poloni-Staudinger Lori M.)(Paperback)

Examining democracies from a comparative perspective helps us better understand why politics--or, as Harold Lasswell famously said, 'who gets what, when, and how'--differ among democracies. American Difference: A Guide to American Politics in Comparative Perspective takes you through different

Nuclear Choices for the Twenty-First Century: A Citizen's Guide (Wolfson Richard)(Paperback)

An authoritative and unbiased guide to nuclear technology and the controversies that surround it. Are you for nuclear power or against it? What's the basis of your opinion? Did you know a CT scan gives you some 2 millisieverts of radiation? Do you know how much a millisievert is? Does irradiation

Capital Gains: Business and Politics in Twentieth-Century America (John Richard R.)(Paperback)

Recent events--the Citizens United Supreme Court decision, the Occupy Wall Street movement, and efforts to increase the minimum wage, among others--have driven a tremendous surge of interest in the political power of business. Capital Gains collects some of the most innovative new work in the

Commercial Real Estate Investing: A Creative Guide to Succesfully Making Money (de Roos Dolf)(Paperback)

Dolf de Roos's Commercial Real Estate Investing reveals all the differences between residential and commercial investing and shows you how to make a bundle. De Roos explores the different sectors--retail, office space, industrial, hospitality, or specialist--to help you discover which is right for

Good Strategy/Bad Strategy - The difference and why it matters (Rumelt Richard)(Paperback / softback)

When Richard Rumelt's Good Strategy/Bad Strategy was published in 2011, it immediately struck a chord, calling out as bad strategy the mish-mash of pop culture, motivational slogans and business buzz speak so often and misleadingly masquerading as the real thing. Since then, his original and

British Politics - A Beginner's Guide (Grayson Richard S.)(Paperback / softback)

No one saw it coming. No pundit, no pollster and no political leader predicted David Cameron's Conservative Party would win a majority of seats in Parliament and his three main opponents would resign as party leaders. The consequences of the coalition also became clear as the Liberal Democrats fell

Effortless - Make It Easier to Do What Matters Most: The Instant New York Times Bestseller (McKeown Greg)(Paperback / softback)

FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF ESSENTIALISM COMES A GUIDE TO MAKING THE MOST IMPORTANT TASKS EFFORTLESS The intricacy of modern life has created a false dichotomy between things that are 'hard and important,' and those that are 'easy and trivial.' Everything has become so much