Central government books

The problems created by metropolitanization have become increasingly apparent. Attempts to limit growth, disperse populations and plan neighbourhoods have been largely unsuccessful. Strategies are needed to improve the world's...

#1 bestselling author, Robert Ringer, explains what it takes for an entrepreneur to succeed in an environment that has become increasingly hostile towards small businesses under the Obama adminstration.

As the progressives now...

Should marijuana be legalized? The latest Gallup poll reports that exactly half of Americans say yes ; opinion couldn't be more evenly divided.
Marijuana is forbidden by international treaties and by national and local laws...

Organize! links local organising with global struggles to make a better world. In over 20 chapters written by a diverse range of organisers, activists, academics, lawyers, artists and researchers, this book weaves a rich and...

This book analyses the planning and policy world of major infrastructure as it is moving now in Europe and the UK. How can decisions about large infrastructure projects be taken better? Have some countries managed to generate...

This book analyses the planning and policy world of major infrastructure as it is moving now in Europe and the UK. How can decisions about large infrastructure projects be taken better? Have some countries managed to generate...

This book, an updated version of Sheahen's original 1983 work, is a comprehensive look at a Basic Income Guarantee (BIG) and what it would mean for the United States today.

Continues: The Argumentative turn in policy analysis and planning.

Continues: The Argumentative turn in policy analysis and planning.

Derrick Jensen has spent years on the front lines resisting environmental devastation with one acclaimed work after another. Now, newcomers and die-hard fans alike find can find his most electrifying writings in this single volume...

James Howard Kunstler's critically acclaimed and best-selling The Long Emergency, originally published in 2005, quickly became a grassroots hit, going into nine printings in hardcover. Kunstler's shocking vision of our post-oil...

It is often argued that land registration is the answer to insecurity of real estate ownership in sub-Saharan Africa. This book critically analyses the theoretical principles that underpin land registration systems in order to...

Provides a comparative overview of the similarities and differences between the Empowerment Zones (EZs), Enterprise Communities (ECs), and Renewal Communities (RCs) programs, and reviews congressional policy choices to target and...

Much progress has been made in achieving the ambitious goals that Congress established more than 35 years ago in the Clean Water Act (CWA) to restore and maintain the chemical, physical, and biological integrity of the nation's...

Climate change is a complex, crosscutting issue that poses risks to many existing environmental and economic systems, including agriculture, infrastructure, ecosystems, and human health. A 2009 assessment by the United States...

The government of Louis XIV developed two taxes during the last thirty years of the king's reign that forced the privileged to pay. This book is a study of how those taxes developed and what caused them to be adopted.

Complexity theory has become popular in the natural and social sciences over the last few decades as a result of the advancements in our understanding of the complexities in natural and social phenomena. Concepts and methods of...

Agent Orange, the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund, the Virginia Tech massacre, the 2008 financial crisis, and the Deep Horizon gulf oil spill: each was a disaster in its own right. What they had in common was their...