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Governing Fables
Learning from Public Sector Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Governing Fables: Learning from Public Sector Narratives advocates the importance of narrative for public servants, exemplifies it with a rigorously selected and analyzed set of narratives, and imparts narrative skills politicians and public servants need in their careers. Governing Fables turns to narratology,...
Globalization and the Challenges of Public Administration
Governance, Human Resources Management, Leadership, Ethics, E-Governance and Sustainability in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
This book is an attempt to understand the challenges of globalization and governance in the public sector. Written from the perspectives of both developed and developing countries, it uses governance and public administration interchangeably to argue that the tasks of implementation require the cooperation...
Phobia
5 Keys To Overcoming Your Fear of Public Speaking
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2013
BE THE GREAT PUBLIC SPEAKER YOU ALWAYS WISHED YOU COULD BE!
No one is born with the ability to be a great public speaker. Like all things, it is learned.
This practical book will help you on your journey to overcoming the number one fear of all people: the fear of public speaking,...
No Place Distant
Roads and Motorized Recreation on America's Public Lands
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013
While many of the roads on public lands provide a great service with relatively little harm, others create significant problems -- from habitat fragmentation to noise pollution to increased animal mortality -- with little or no benefit.In No Place Distant, author David Havlick presents for the first...
by Robert J. Montgomery
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
The fear of public speaking is one of the top fears that people have. Statistics show that over 41% of people have some level of fear or anxiety with regards to speaking in front of an audience. This fear often manifests as excessive sweating, sweaty palms, increased heart rates, blanking...
The floor is yours!
public speaking
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2010
Having to speak in public ranks as number four in the top ten list of most frightening things in life - according to reliable research carried out in the Netherlands. Not being in control is a frequent cause of anxiety. This makes the fear of speaking in public the odd one out in this top ten, because...
Social Neuroscience and Public Health
Foundations for the Science of Chronic Disease Prevention
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2013
The field of public health is primarily concerned with understanding and improving physical health from a large group perspective (i.e., communities and whole populations). The field of social neuroscience, on the other hand, is primarily concerned with examining brain-behavior relationships that...
Islam and the Everyday World
Public Policy Dilemmas
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2006
This is a new examination of how Shari’a law affects public policy both theoretically and in practice, across a wide range of public policy areas, including for example human rights and family law.
The process by which public policy is decided - through elections, debates, political processes,...
Democracy When the People Are Thinking
Revitalizing Our Politics Through Public Deliberation
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2018
Democracy requires a connection to the 'will of the people'. What does that mean in a world of 'fake news', relentless advocacy, dialogue mostly among the like-minded, and massive spending to manipulate public opinion? What kind of opinion can the public have under such conditions? What would democracy...
Public Confidence in Criminal Justice
A History and Critique
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2017
In this book, Liz Turner argues that survey methods have gained an unwarranted and unhealthy level of dominance when it comes to understanding how the public views the criminal justice system. The focus on measuring public confidence in criminal justice by researchers, politicians and criminal justice...
by Sidney Waldman
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2007
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 religious beliefs on the American political system. The influence of public opinion on our...
News, Public Affairs, and the Public Sphere in a Digital Nation
Rise of the Audience
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
Missing from the ongoing conversation about the titanic forces reshaping national journalism is the meaning of daily professional journalism in communities where the majority of Americans live. Edgar Simpson spent a year intimately engaged with all the news streams available in two Midwest counties—one...
Selling War
The Role of the Mass Media in Hostile Conflicts from World War I to the "War on Terror"
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2013
This book is the first collection of essays to explore the changing relationships between war, media, and the public from a multidisciplinary perspective and over an extended historical period. It is also the first textbook for students in this field, discussing a wide range of theoretical concepts...
Development and Public Finance
Essays in Honour of Raja J Chelliah
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
Development and Public Finance is a commemorative volume on late Dr Raja J. Chelliah, one of the foremost Public Finance experts of India. It is designed as a compendium of essays on contemporary issues of Public Finance and Development, focusing on the rapidly globalizing Indian economy. Well-known...