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Open Access to STM Information: Trends, Models and Strategies for Libraries (Ifla Publications)
This book contains a plethora of different viewpoints and research results from all over the world, bringing them together to provide a global perspective on the various issues that comprise 'open access'. Topics include copyright, best practices and management, open access and society, repositories, journals, publications and publishing, services and technology, quality and evaluation. The [...]
Fraud Examiners Manual(PDF)
Your Essential Resource as an Anti-Fraud Professional The Fraud Examiners Manual is the global standard for the anti-fraud profession. Because no other work provides such a comprehensive guide, every fraud fighter should keep a copy in the library. This 2,000 page guide is divided into four main sections: Section I: Financial Transactions and Fraud Schemes: [...]
American Foreign Policy: Pattern and Process
Now in its Seventh Edition, AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY has been thoroughly revised and updated to include several completely new sections, reflecting the most recent developments and scholarship related to American foreign policy. This Seventh Edition provides considerable attention to how the Bush administration sought to reshape national strategy, policies and structures; its domestic and international [...]
The Everything Guide to Understanding Socialism: The political, social, and economic concepts behind this complex theory
The word 'socialism' has exploded in modern society, and is a hot issue in the political world. Despite its sudden infamy, socialism's complex history stretches back nearly three centuries. This informative and impartial guide takes the reader through socialism's origins to its modern day interpretations, discussing: modern socialism's 18th century beginnings; types of socialism; basic [...]
Funding Evil: How Terrorism is Financed and How to Stop it
This is the book that led to strengthening Americans' free speech rights. In this updated edition of Funding Evil, Dr. Ehrenfeld describes what it took to successfully stop "Libel Tourism," from the silencing of American writers and publishers. It details how a single Saudi billionaire financier of al- Qaeda, managed to silence more than 45 [...]
Modern Islamist Movements: History, Religion, and Politics
Modern Islamist Movements provides a clear and accessible examination of the history, beliefs and rationale of Islamist Groups and their grievances with the West and governments within the majority-Muslim world, while examining some of these groups' visions for a global Islamic empire.
It Is Dangerous to Be Right When the Government Is Wrong: The Case for Personal Freedom
Judge Andrew P. Napolitano examines the concept the government hates and fears the most: Freedom. The United States of America was born out of a bloody revolt against tyranny. Yet almost from its inception, the government here has suppressed liberty. In his sixth book on the Constitution and human freedom, Judge Andrew P. Napolitano asks: Where does freedom [...]
Politics: An Introduction
This textbook has been carefully designed to meet the needs of students taking introductory courses in Politics. It is accessible and exciting, and by taking the widest possible definition of what is political it offers unrivalled coverage of the subject. Specially designed as an interactive text, it includes think points, exercises and extracts as well [...]
The Limits of Transnationalism: Collective Identities and EU Integration
Through the application of public opinion, interview, and print-media analyses, this book provides evidence that the state of transnational identification among citizens in the EU as a result of post-Maastricht integration measures, such as the completion of the Common Market, the introduction of the Euro, the initiation of the Common Foreign and Security Policy etc. [...]
National Belonging and Everyday Life: The Significance of Nationhood in an Uncertain World
This bookanalyzes the current debates around national identity and multiculturalism byaddressing three key questions; why do so many people treat as common sense the idea that they live in and belong to nations? And, why, and for whom, might this idea be significant, notably in an era of increasing global uncertainty?