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by Jennifer L. Hochschild, Nathan Scovronick
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2004
The American Dream and the Public Schools examines issues that have excited and divided Americans for years, including desegregation, school funding, testing, vouchers, bilingual education, and ability grouping. While these are all separate problems, much of the contention over them comes down to...
Online Public Relations
A Practical Guide to Developing an Online Strategy in the World of Social Media
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2009
The internet has totally revolutionized the practice of public relations. This revolution has not only affected the way PR professionals communicate but has changed the nature of communication itself. This thoroughly revised, second edition of ***Online Public Relations***shows readers how to use...
Oxford Textbook of Creative Arts, Health, and Wellbeing
International perspectives on practice, policy and research
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
There is growing interest internationally in the contributions which the creative arts can make to wellbeing and health in both healthcare and community settings. A timely addition to the field, the Oxford Textbook of Creative Arts, Health, and Wellbeing is the first work of its kind to discuss the...
Policy Analytics, Modelling, and Informatics
Innovative Tools for Solving Complex Social Problems
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
This book provides a comprehensive approach to the study of policy analytics, modelling and informatics. It includes theories and concepts for understanding tools and techniques used by governments seeking to improve decision making through the use of technology, data, modelling, and other analytics,...
Enough Said
What's Gone Wrong with the Language of Politics?
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
There’s a crisis of trust in politics across the western world. Public anger is rising and faith in conventional political leaders and parties is falling. Anti-politics, and the anti-politicians, have arrived. In Enough Said, President and CEO of The New York Times Company Mark Thompson argues that...
by Michael Donnelly
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
This book is about Freedom of Speech and public discourse in the United States. Freedom of Speech is a major component of the cultural context in which we live, think, work, and write, generally revered as the foundation of true democracy. But the issue has a great deal more to do with social norms...
Defiant Publics
The Unprecedented Reach of the Global Citizen
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2013
Social activism and dissent have become global phenomena for our times. Ordinary people across the world are fighting back. This newly potent political force has defeated governments in India and Spain, and has brought down the EU draft constitution. Disaffected by the triumph of markets, public goods,...
by Kirk Emerson, Tina Nabatchi
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Whether the goal is building a local park or developing disaster response models, collaborative governance is changing the way public agencies at the local, regional, and national levels are working with each other and with key partners in the nonprofit and private sectors. While the academic literature...
The Public Relations Writer's Handbook
The Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2010
The second edition of the Public Relations Writer’s Handbook offers a simple, step-by-step approach to creating a wide range of writing, from basic news releases, pitch letters, biographies, and media alerts, to more complex and sophisticated speeches, media campaign proposals, crisis responses,...
by Shea K. Robison
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
The exciting field of epigenetics offers novel and unanticipated science-based insights into human origins and development. This book presents one of the first detailed examinations of the political implications of epigenetics.
• Focuses on the latest developments in epigenetics, a subject...
Communicating Climate Change and Energy Security
New Methods in Understanding Audiences
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
This book, drawing on new research conducted for the UK Energy Resource Centre (UKERC), examines the contemporary public debate on climate change and the linked issue of energy security. It analyses the key processes which affect the formation of public attitudes and understanding in these areas,...
Open Innovation in Firms and Public Administrations
Technologies for Value Creation
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
Economic globalization and the application of information and communication technologies have offered firms the opportunity to develop and distribute new knowledge. Open Innovation in Firms and Public Administrations: Technologies for Value Creation analyzes open innovation in a global context and proposes...
by J. Steets
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2010
A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via the OAPEN Library platform, www.oapen.org . This book presents a new model of accountability which ensures that public-private partnerships don't erode public accountability. It defines concrete accountability standards for different types of partnerships.
by Michael O'Neill
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
The public service: home of the lengthy lunch and the idle underworked and overpaid. Right?
Wrong. Michael, we really have to talk . . . details a public service more likely to be a place of over-work, overt and covert bullying and denial of obvious dysfunction.
This book is an...