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Dying and Living in the Neighborhood
A Street-Level View of America’s Healthcare Promise
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Even as US spending on healthcare skyrockets, impoverished Americans continue to fall ill and die of preventable conditions. Although the majority of health outcomes are shaped by non-medical factors, public and private healthcare reform efforts have largely ignored the complex local circumstances...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2014
By bringing together top-notch demographers, sociologists, economists, statisticians and public health specialists from Asia, Africa, Europe, and North America to examine a wide variety of public and private issues in applied demography, this book spans a wide range of topics. It evaluates population...
Work and the Welfare State
Street-Level Organizations and Workfare Politics
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Work and the Welfare State places street-level organizations at the analytic center of welfare-state politics, policy, and management. This volume offers a critical examination of efforts to change the welfare state to a workfare state by looking at on-the-ground issues in six countries: the US, UK,...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
In this book, nine thought-leaders engage with some of the hottest moral issues in science and ethics. Based on talks originally given at the annual "Purdue Lectures in Ethics, Policy, and Science," the chapters explore interconnections between the three areas in an engaging and accessible...
Professing Rhetoric
Selected Papers From the 2000 Rhetoric Society of America Conference
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2005
Representing current theory and research in rhetoric, this volume brings together scholarship from a variety of orientations--theoretical, critical, historical, and pedagogical. Some contributions cover work that has previously been silenced or unrecognized, including Native American, African American,...
Crossing Borders, Drawing Boundaries
The Rhetoric of Lines across America
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
With growing anxiety about American identity fueling debates about the nation’s borders, ethnicities, and languages, Crossing Borders, Drawing Boundaries provides a timely and important rhetorical exploration of divisionary bounds that divide an Us from a Them. The concept of “border” calls...
Disentitlement?
The Threats Facing Our Public Health Care Programs and a Right-Based Response
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2003
No developed nation relies exclusively on the private sector to finance health care for citizens. This book begins by exploring the deficiencies in private health insurance that account for this. It then recounts the history and examines the legal character of America's public health care entitlements...
by Leiyu Shi, Gregory Stevens
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2010
Based on the authors' teaching and research at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, the second edition of this landmark text offers a general framework for students, researchers, practitioners, and policymakers...
Rhetorical Democracy
Discursive Practices of Civic Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2004
This collection presents theoretical, critical, applied, and pedagogical questions and cases of publics and public spheres, examining these contexts as sources and sites of civic engagement. Reflecting the current state of rhetorical theory and research, the contributions arise from the 2002 conference...
by Julie Milne
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2014
A short, snappy, comprehensive guide to developing and successfully executing a PR action plan, including sections on PR in a crisis and de-marketing. Don't waste your opportunities, learn how to make your key messages central to every communication with your audiences. Public Relations - Getting...
Evidence for Public Policy Design
How to Learn from Best Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2013
Learning from the successes and failures of others is a necessity in the field of public sector innovation. This book develops guidelines for policymakers, practitioners and policy analysts to understand what drives policy success and to transfer innovations from a source case to a target case with a view to assisting effective policy design.
True Green
Executive Effectiveness in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2012
Drawing on the careers of senior executives of the US Environmental Protection Agency, True Green identifies the concrete actions that work in protecting our nation’s environment. By examining the exquisitely difficult tasks of executive leadership in environmental protection, one of the most conflicted...
Just Remembering
Rhetorics of Genocide Remembrance and Sociopolitical Judgment
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
Just Remembering: Rhetorics of Genocide Remembrance**and Sociopolitical Judgment analyzes a set of influential discourses of genocide remembrance to explain how public memory discourses inform sociopolitical judgment. Within this explanatory context, Just Remembering additionally asks how we might...
by Leila Witkin, Barbara Eubanks
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2013
A Practical Guide to Overcoming Stage Fright and the Fear of Public Speaking. Jerry Seinfeld: ‘According to most studies, people’s number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death is number two. Does that seem right? That means to the average person, if you have to go to a funeral,...