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Voices from the Inside: Case Studies from a Tennessee Women's Prison

by Chinyere Ogbonna & Ross Nordin

This book takes readers into the cells of a maximum security prison to reveal the personal accounts of over sixty women that are incarcerated for drug crimes. The stories will shock and entertain, and will certainly...


Foreign Policy Begins at Home: The Case for Putting America's House in Order

by Richard N. Haass

America must confront an increasingly turbulent world in the near future, as the destabilizing forces of globalization, rapid technological change, demographic imbalance, and financial meltdown merge to create...


Code Red: An Economist Explains How to Revive the Healthcare System without Destroying It

by David Dranove

The U.S. healthcare system is in critical condition--but this should come as a surprise to no one. Yet until now the solutions proposed have been unworkable, pie-in-the-sky plans that have had little chance...


The Politics of Historic Districts: A Primer for Grassroots Preservation

by Bill Schmickle

Politics of Historic Districts is your political battle plan in a fight to designate a local historic district. Thirty-four brief chapters cover everything you need to know about the politics of organizing a...


Disarmed: The Missing Movement for Gun Control in America

by Kristin A. Goss

More than any other advanced industrial democracy, the United States is besieged by firearms violence. Each year, some 30,000 people die by gunfire. Over the course of its history, the nation has witnessed the...


The EU as International Environmental Negotiator

by Tom Delreux

This examination of the EU's participation in international environmental negotiations reveals the internal decision-making process behind multilateral environmental agreements. The book's empirical evidence...


Real Green: Sustainability after the End of Nature

by Manuel Arias-Maldonado

It is generally accepted that we must advance towards a sustainable society to survive. By challenging conventional wisdom about the ecological crisis and reframing the traditional values of Green Politics,...


EU Energy Security in the Gas Sector: Evolving Dynamics, Policy Dilemmas and Prospects

by Filippos Proedrou

This book fills an important gap in the literature on energy security in the gas sector in the European Union, shedding light on the state of EU energy security in the gas sector, its interdependence with external...


The Approaching Great Transformation: Toward a Livable Post Carbon Economy

by Joel Magnuson & Helena Norberg-Hodge

How should we act and think economically in the world as the era of cheap oil comes to an end? The Approaching Great Transformation begins to answer this massive question, focusing on the people and communities...


Sustainable Practices: Social Theory and Climate Change

by Elizabeth Shove & Nicola Spurling

Climate change is widely agreed to be one the greatest challenges facing society today. Mitigating and adapting to it is certain to require new ways of living. Thus far efforts to promote less resource-intensive...


America's 'War on Terrorism': New Dimensions in U.S. Government and National Security

by John E. Owens & John W. Dumbrell

America's 'War on Terrorism': New Dimensions in US Government and National Security offers an original and multifaceted analysis of the Bush administration's responses to 9/11. The book brings together American...


America and the Limits of the Politics of Selfishness

by Sidney Waldman

America and the Limits of the Politics of Selfishness examines Congress, the Presidency, the public, and public policy, demonstrating the important impact of the public's selfishness, morality, compassion, and...


Europe, Globalisation and Sustainable Development

by John Barry, Brian Baxter & Richard Dunphy

This edited volume considers the ways in which European states and the European Union can and should organize themselves economically and socially in order to address the challenges of sustainable development....


Emissions Trading

by Blas Luis Pérez Henríquez

Market-based solutions to environmental problems offer great promise, but require complex public policies that take into account the many institutional factors necessary for the market to work and that guard...


The Lilliputians of Environmental Regulation: The Perspective of State Regulators

by Michelle C. Pautz & Sara R. Rinfret

When we think about environmental policy and regulation in the U.S., our attention invariably falls on the federal level and, more specifically, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.  Although such a focus...


China's Climate Change Policies

by Wang Weiguang, Guoguang Zheng & Jiahua Pan

China is becoming a rising star in global economical and political affairs. Both internationally and within China itself, people have great expectations of its future role. This book aims to clarify many aspects...


The Routledge Companion to Public-Private Partnerships

by Piet de Vries & Etienne B. Yehoue

A public-private partnership (PPP) is a contractual arrangement with appropriate risk sharing between public and private partners for the delivery of public infrastructure or services, which is intended to create...


Five Myths About Nuclear Weapons

by Ward Wilson

Expanded from an article that created a stir in foreign policy circles, Five Myths About Nuclear Weapons makes an explosive case that these weapons just don't work.


Climate Change, Forests and REDD: Lessons for Institutional Design

by Joyeeta Gupta, Nicolien van der Grijp & Onno Kuik

A search for new methods for dealing with climate change led to the identification of forest maintenance as a potential policy option that could cost-effectively reduce greenhouse gas emissions, with the development...


In Search of Progressive America

by Michael Kazin, Frans Becker & Menno Hurenkamp

The era of conservative dominance in the U.S. appears to be stumbling. But is the Left ready to step into the breach? In Search of Progressive America is a collection of ten essays by prominent writers that...