Product Description: Emily McFarland was sixteen years old and fascinated with her family tree. She loved researching and locating stories about her ancestors. But she never, ever expected to meet any of them.

Provides a comprehensive introduction to the policymaking processes in the European Union. This book covers the vital elements of EU courses including: theory; history; institutions; policy; relations with member states; external relations; and enlargement. It is useful for the students of politics and the European Union.

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Product Description: Proponents of big business involvement in local job creation projects in partnership with the public sector have been keen to claim the success of such collaboration. However, there has been little objective analysis of the workings of the local partnership model...read more

Product Description: In recent years there have been considerable changes in the ways in which politics and policy making are studied. The student is faced not only by a diversity of theoretical approaches but also with competing vocabularies and specialist terminologies...read more

Product Description: Economic recession has caused problems for most Western democracies. Achieving full employment, low inflation, steady economic growth, stable exchange rates, and a reasonable balance of payments has become either incompatible or impossible...read more

Product Description: Economic recession has caused problems for most Western democracies. Achieving full employment, low inflation, steady economic growth, stable exchange rates, and a reasonable balance of payments has become either incompatible or impossible...read more