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Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
This book provides an overview of private real estate markets and investments. The 14 chapters are divided into three sections for conventional and alternative real estate investments and regulatory issues. Conventional investable real assets examined are retail spaces, apartments, offices, and industrial...
Knowledge Actors and Transnational Governance
The Private-Public Policy Nexus in the Global Agora
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
Diane Stone addresses the network alliances or partnerships of international organisations with knowledge organisations and networks. Moving beyond more common studies of industrial public-private partnerships, she addresses how, and why, international organisations and global policy actors need to...
Matters of Life and Death
Public Health Issues in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2017
Health issues have long occupied top headlines in Canadian media, and no journalist has written on public health with more authority or for as many years as André Picard. Matters of Life and Death collects Picard's most compelling columns, covering a broad range of topics including Canada's right-to-die...
Public Relations Research Annual
Volume 3
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Published in book form, this is a scholarly periodical of academic research in public relations, containing refereed reviews and reports of original studies. It follows the current trend toward more solidly grounded, theoretical research in a field that has only begun to mature. The studies and reviews...
Unhealthy Politics
The Battle over Evidence-Based Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
How partisanship, polarization, and medical authority stand in the way of evidence-based medicine
The U.S. medical system is touted as the most advanced in the world, yet many common treatments are not based on sound science. Treatments can go into widespread use before they are rigorously...
Promoting Nonprofit Organizations
A Reputation Management Approach
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
Promoting Nonprofit Organizations is a practical guide to developing and implementing a strategic public relations program to enhance a nonprofit’s reputation. The ways in which businesses – both for-profit and not-for-profit – communicate with customers has changed dramatically in recent years....
Noncommunicable Diseases in the Developing World
Addressing Gaps in Global Policy and Research
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs)—including cardiovascular disease, diabetes, asthma and other chronic respiratory conditions, and cancers—are the leading causes of death worldwide. An estimated 36 million people die from such diseases each year; this represents roughly two out of three deaths globally....
Traversing Digital Babel
Information, E-Government, and Exchange
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
A groundbreaking approach to information sharing among government agencies: using selective incentives to “nudge” them to exchange information assets.
The computer systems of government agencies are notoriously complex. New technologies are piled on older technologies, creating layers that...
by Edward Ebert II, Darlene M Maxwell
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
This inexpensive PRIMER introduces the cultural identity crisis in the United States and the myth of educational reform as explored, explained, and opened for dialogue in “Culture X Goes to School: Public Education and the American Culture.” Essentially two books in one, the full text of “Culture...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
Fully revised and updated for the third edition, the Oxford Handbook of Public Health Practice remains the first resort for all those working in this broad field. Structured to assist with practical tasks, translating evidence into policy, and providing concise summaries and real-world issues from...
E-Government and Websites
A Public Solutions Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
This book presents a citizen-centric perspective of the dual components of e-government and e-governance. E-government refers to the practice of online public reporting by government to citizens, and to service delivery via the Internet. E-governance represents the initiatives for citizens to participate...
Politics and Public Policy
Strategic Actors and Policy Domains
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
Getting beyond the traditional policy cycle discussed in most textbooks, the fully updated fourth edition of Politics and Public Policy offers a more comprehensive and realistic view of policymaking in the United States—one that looks beyond the jockeying between presidents and members of Congress,...
E-Government for Public Managers
Administering the Virtual Public Sphere
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2016
This handy guide and supplemental text examines trends in information and communication technology (ICT) that impact the day-to-day operations of federal, state, and local government. It seeks to improve service delivery, human resource administration, political participation, education, and citizen...
Advanced Public Speaking
Dynamics and Techniques
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2015
The text provides instruction on how to give different types of presentations and how to improve upon other communication skills including listening. Topics include harnessing the fear of public speaking, applying immediacy, storytelling, motivating others, listening actively, interviewing successfully,...