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Introducing Public Relations
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2011
Introducing Public Relations is your guide to the basics of public relations: where it came from, what it means and what issues the industry faces today. It takes readers from the origins of PR all the way to the newest theoretical debates, explaining along the way the changes and development of the...
Public Relations in Britain
A History of Professional Practice in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2004
In this book the author asks a big question: how did public relations develop in Britain and why? The question is answered through a broad ranging narrative which links the evolution of British public relations in the early twentieth century to key political, economic, social, and technological developments....
Canada Lives Here
The Case for Public Broadcasting
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
Canada Lives Here tells the tumultuous story of public broadcasting in Canada, from its inception in 1933 to the CBC’s current, controversial attempts to adapt to collapsing revenues and new technologies. It explores in detail the struggle to preserve public space and foster community in an environment...
Theology and Public Philosophy
Four Conversations
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2012
This volume brings together eminent theologians, philosophers and political theorists to discuss the relevance of theology and theologically grounded moral reflection to contemporary America’s public life and argument. Avoiding the focus on hot-button issues, shrill polemics, and sloganeering that...
The Private Sector's Role in Disasters
Leveraging the Private Sector in Emergency Management
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
This book examines the role of the private sector in emergency management and how that role is changing through private sector intersections with government, government agencies, and the public sectors in all phases of emergency management. It particularly focuses on the areas in which government...
Hydrocarbon Hucksters
Lessons from Louisiana on Oil, Politics, and Environmental Justice
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
Hydrocarbon Hucksters is the saga of the oil industry's takeover of Louisiana--its leaders, its laws, its environment, and, by rechanneling the flow of public information, its voters. It is a chronicle of mindboggling scientific and technical triumphs sharing the same public stew with myths about...
Thinking Together
Lecturing, Learning, and Difference in the Long Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2018
Changes to the landscape of higher education in the United States over the past decades have urged scholars grappling with issues of privilege, inequality, and social immobility to think differently about how we learn and deliberate. Thinking Together is a multidisciplinary conversation about how...
Planning with Complexity
An Introduction to Collaborative Rationality for Public Policy
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2018
In an era of rapid change, uncertainty, and hyperpartisanship, when wicked problems abound, tools for solving public problems are more essential than ever. The authors lay out a new theory for collaborative practice in planning, public administration, and public policy. Planning with Complexity provides...
Ethics in Public Relations
Responsible Advocacy
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2006
Ethics in Public Relations: Responsible Advocacy is the first book to identify universal principles of responsible advocacy in public relations. In this engaging book, editors Kathy Fitzpatrick and Carolyn Bronstein bring together prominent authorities in the field to address theoretic and practical...
by Jocelyne Bourgon
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2011
In an increasingly interconnected environment, shocks, crises, cascading failures, and surprising breakthroughs are features of our age. The ability to anticipate, intervene, innovate, and adapt is now seen as essential for governments. Public officials serve in an expanded public space that is being...
by Louis Kaplow
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2011
The Theory of Taxation and Public Economics presents a unified conceptual framework for analyzing taxation--the first to be systematically developed in several decades. An original treatment of the subject rather than a textbook synthesis, the book contains new analysis that generates novel results,...
by Gagandeo Prasad Yadava
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Money is any item or verifiable record that is generally accepted as payment for goods and services and repayment of debts in a particular country or socio-economic context. A bank is a financial intermediary and money creator that creates money by lending money to a borrower, thereby creating a corresponding...
Don't Suck on a Straw During Your Speech
And Other Observations from a Public Speaking Coach
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
In this humorous and practical guide to public speaking, Mary Milla offers tips for moving your presentations out of the PowerPoint weeds. Drawing on more than two decades as a public speaking coach, Mary debunks common excuses and offers strategies to make your next speech poised and polished. These...
by M. Mr. Cangiano, Teresa Ms. Curristine, Michel Mr. Lazare
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2013
The first two decades of the twenty-first century have witnessed an influx of innovations and reforms in public financial management. The current wave of reforms is markedly different from those in the past, owing to the sheer number of innovations, their widespread adoption, and the sense that they...