Author: Catherine Shaw
Publisher: Westview Pre
Keywords: local, elections, winning, running, manager, campaign
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2009-12-22
List price: $37.50
ISBN-10: 0813344514
ISBN-13: 9780813344515

Featuring invaluable insight from an expert author, The Campaign Manager offers the most comprehensive guide for organizing, funding, publicizing, and winning local political campaigns. Author Catherine Shaw draws on experience from her three terms as mayor of Ashland, Oregon, and dozens of campaigns to provide practical, proven advice, and her field-tested methods carry candidates through the entire process. The fourth edition offers expanded coverage of key concepts—including targeting voters, evaluating media effectiveness, setting fundraising budgets, using and developing Internet res

Authors:Stanford J. Shaw, Ezel Kural Shaw,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: modern, turkey, revolution, republic, rise, reform, volume, ottoman, history, empire
Number of Pages: 548
Published: 1977-05-27
List price: $90.00
ISBN-10: 0521291666
ISBN-13: 9780521291668

Reform, Revolution and Republic: The Rise of Modern Turkey, 1808-1975 is the second book of the two-volume History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey. It discusses the modernization of the Ottoman Empire during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the spread of nationalism among its subject peoples, and the revolutionary changes in Ottoman institutions and society that led to the Empire’s demise and the rise of the democratic Republic of Turkey. Based on extensive research in the Ottoman archives as well as Western sources, this volume analyzes the external pressures, refor

Authors:Rajib Shaw, Rajib Shaw, Hari Srinivas, Anshu Sharma,
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Keywords: risk, environment, disaster, management, community, perspective, reduction, asian, urban
Number of Pages: 230
Published: 2009-12-01
List price: $114.95
ISBN-10: 1848559062
ISBN-13: 9781848559066

As cities all over the world have urbanized rapidly after the industrial revolution, most cities have confronted environmental problems such as poor air and water quality, high levels of traffic congestion and ambient noise, poor-quality built environment, derelict land, greenhouse gas emissions, urban sprawl, generation of waste and waste-water. In particular, cities in the developing world face problems related to the living conditions in which the urban population lives. In the context of urban cities in the developing world, it can be narrowed to the quality of life of living population in

Authors:Rajib Shaw, Rajib Shaw, Juan M. Pulhin, Joy Jacquelin
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Keywords: disaster, risk, community, environment, management, challenges, reduction, change, adaptation, climate, issues
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2010-12-16
List price: $154.95
ISBN-10: 0857244876
ISBN-13: 9780857244871

The importance of Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) and Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) is increasing due, in part, to recent major disasters throughout the world. CCA and DRR are closely associated and there has been significant awareness at global and national levels to make collective focus on CCA and DRR. Although there are several books on CCA, this is the first systematic academic publication to highlight the linkages between CCA and DRR, CCA-DRR synergy and interactions. The book is divided into four parts: Part 1 focuses on the theory of CCA and DRR and its enabling environment; Part 2 foc

Authors:Gilbert M.Joseph, Catherine LeGrand, Catherine LeGra
Publisher: Duke University Press
Keywords: american, encounters, relations, interactions, latin, global, history, empire, writing, cultural, close
Number of Pages: 592
Published: 1999-02
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 0822320991
ISBN-13: 9780822320999

Concerns with the intersections of culture and power are producing new questions about the United States’ involvement with Latin America. Essays by distinguished U.S. and Latin American historians and anthropologists illuminate a wide range of subjects pertinent to the issue. 2 maps. 25 photos.

Authors:Catherine Elliott, Catherine Vernon, Eric Jeanpierre
Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
Keywords: system, legal, french
Number of Pages: 376
Published: 2006-09-30
List price: $87.50
ISBN-10: 1405811617
ISBN-13: 9781405811613

French Legal System provides a topical and highly readable introduction in English to the French legal system, covering all of the key aspects in an accessible manner. The book explains the sources of French law, the structure of the courts and professions, and the characteristics of the legal process. It provides an essential foundation for the study of more specific and substantive areas of French law.

Authors:Y. Shaw, Yisroel Shaw,
Publisher: Philipp Feldheim
Keywords: haggadah, malbim
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 1993-02
List price: $23.99
ISBN-10: 1568710070
ISBN-13: 9781568710075

First published in Warsaw in 1883, with a commentary on the Haggadah by Rabbi Naftali Maskil LeAison, in the style of the Malbim. Now presented in Hebrew with facing English text.