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Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2013
Choice Outstanding Academic Title! 4 Stars - Doody's!
Praise for the Third Edition:
"This work will be one that students and clinicians keep on their shelves as the gold-standard reference for health behavior change. Summing up: Essential"
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Cures vs. Profits
Successes in Translational Research
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2016
Did you ever wonder whether doctors want cures, or just treatments?
Did you know ...
Grapefruit can interact with over 100 drugs, but it may be useful for reducing blood pressure and for weight loss?
ADHD over diagnosis is now recognized widely as a fact, and there are existing — and...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
Presently, the healthcare industry is grappling with many challenges both nationally and globally, including escalating costs, a move to a preventative care environment and a technology savvy patient with high expectations. To accommodate the changing health demands of the current global population,...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
Crime in the United States has fluctuated considerably over the past thirty years, as have the policy approaches to deal with it. During this time criminologists and other scholars have helped to shed light on the role of incarceration, prevention, drugs, guns, policing, and numerous other aspects...
Bureaucracy and Self-Government
Reconsidering the Role of Public Administration in American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
In this new edition of his provocative book Bureaucracy and Self-Government, Brian J. Cook reconsiders his thesis regarding the inescapable tension between the ideal of self-government and the reality of administratively centered governance. Revisiting his historical exploration of competing conceptions...
Emerging and Potential Trends in Public Management
An Age of Austerity
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2012
Challenging some of the established practices of public policy and administration, which have been called into question in recent years by the financial and banking crises of 2008, the authors specifically seek to investigate current public sector management and the public managers acting in the interests of civil society to get to the heart of best practice.
by Bill Hulet
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
The human race is facing an existential crisis in the form of climate change, yet most of humanity---even if it believes in global warming---seems incapable of making the lifestyle changes necessary to prevent the worst from taking place. _Walking the Talk_ argues that this is because the traditional...
Making Public Policy Decisions
Expertise, skills and experience
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
To understand public policy decisions, it is imperative to understand the capacities of the individual actors who are making them, how they think and feel about their role, and what drives and motivates them. However, the current literature takes little account of this, preferring instead to frame...
Public-Private Partnership Operational Plan 2012-2020
Realizing the Vision for Strategy 2020: The Transformational Role of Public-Private Partnerships in Asian Development Bank Operations
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
The Public-Private Partnership Operational Plan 2012-2020 provides a consistent analytical and operational framework for scaling up public-private partnerships (PPPs) in support of Strategy 2020. The PPP operations of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) are based on four pillars: (i) advocacy and capacity...
The Style and Rhetoric of Elizabeth Dole
Public Persona and Political Discourse
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
This book analyses the public discourse of Elizabeth Dole. It explores the way in which this trail-blazing public figure navigated the double binds that confront women who obtain and exercise political power. The text argues that Dole crafted a conservative, feminine persona in which she depicted...
by Rohan G. Bansie
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
Rohan Bansie has combined his love of teaching with his love of psychology in this public speaking guide for professionals. The necessary skills and their development are informed by personality theory, specifically introversion and extroversion. As a busy professional, you will find this guide useful...
Public Administration's Final Exam
A Pragmatist Restructuring of the Profession and the Discipline
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2011
Examines why public administration’s literature has failed to justify the profession’s legitimacy as an instrument of governance.
Michael Harmon employs the literary conceit of a Final Exam, first “written” in the early 1930s, in a critique of the field’s answers to the...
Public Administration and the State
A Postmodern Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2016
In this critical examination of public administration's pervasive vision of a powerful state, Spicer thoughtfully reconsiders the relationship between activities of governance and concepts of the state.
Woodrow Wilson argued for a state led by a powerful government, guided by science and enlightened...
Public Relations
Critical Debates and Contemporary Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2006
This new text for students and practitioners in public relations has been built on the acclaimed Critical Perspectives in Public Relations, also edited by Jacquie L'Etang and Magda Pieczka, which is no longer in print. Many of the liveliest minds on the public relations scene have contributed fresh ideas and diverse perspectives: their locatio