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“brian j gerber”

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  • Racing the Storm

    Racial Implications and Lessons Learned from Hurricane Katrina

    by Terri Adams-Fuller, Meera Adya, Duke Austin, Angela P. Cole, O Jackson Cole, Allison Cotton, Brian J. Gerber, Angela Glymph, Arie Kruglanski, Michelle Miles, Monica K. Miller, Joshua B. Padilla, Susan C. Pearce, Everette B. Penn, Jennifer Reich, Julie Singer, Susan Sterett, Rebecca M. Thomas, Ganesh K. Trichur, Nicole Trujillo-Pagan, Rachael A. Woldoff ...
    On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina hit land and gravely affected the lives of many people in the states along the Gulf Coast. Katrina went beyond demonstrating the devastating natural effects of a hurricane by exposing the continuing significance of race relations and racial stereotyping in U.S. society.Racing the Storm serves to highlight the race-based perceptions of and responses to Katrina ... Read more

    $49.39 USD

  • Public Administration Research Methods

    Tools for Evaluation and Evidence-Based Practice

    by Warren S. Eller, Brian J. Gerber, Scott E. Robinson ...
    The best decisions made by public managers are based not on instinct, but on an informed understanding of what’s happening on the ground. Policy may be directed by ideology, but it must also be founded on reality. The challenge of making the right decisions as a public manager is often, therefore, based on the need for rigorous, actionable research. Now in a thoughtfully revised second edition, ... Read more

    $126.99 USD

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  • Driving Miss Daisy

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  • The Strange Career of Jim Crow

    by C. Vann Woodward;William S. McFeely ...
    C. Vann Woodward who died in 1999 at the age of 91 was America's most eminent Southern historian the winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Mary Chestnut's Civil War and a Bancroft Prize for The Origins of the New South. Now to honor his long and truly distinguished career Oxford is pleased to publish this special commemorative edition of Woodward's most influential work The Strange Career of Jim Crow. ... Read more

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  • The Political Economy of Public Sector Governance

    by Anthony Michael Bertelli ...
    In The Political Economy of Public Sector Governance, Anthony Michael Bertelli introduces core ideas in positive political theory as they apply to public management and policy. Though recent literature that mathematically models relationships between politicians and public managers provides insight into contemporary public administration, the technical way these works present information limits ... Read more

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  • Is Everyone Really Equal?

    An Introduction to Key Concepts in Social Justice Education

    by Robin DiAngelo, Özlem Sensoy ...
    Series series Multicultural Education Series
    This award-winning guide to social justice education is appropriate for students from high school through graduate school.Based on the authors’ extensive experience in a range of settings in the United States and Canada, the book addresses the most common stumbling blocks to understanding social justice. This comprehensive resource includes new features such as a chapter on intersectionality and ... Read more

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  • Enterprise Architecture Patterns

    Practical Solutions for Recurring IT-Architecture Problems

    by Thierry Perroud, Reto Inversini ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    Every enterprise architect faces similar problems when designing and governing the enterprise architecture of a medium to large enterprise. Design patterns are a well-established concept in software engineering, used to define universally applicable solution schemes. By applying this approach to enterprise architectures, recurring problems in the design and implementation of enterprise ... Read more

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  • Public Administration in the Globalisation Era: The New Public Management Perspective

    by Uma Medury ...
    This book explores the transformative effect of globalisation on the theory and practice of public administration in the twenty-first century. It outlines on the complex dynamics of worldwide changesthe reformulation of the fundamental premises of the discipline, restructuring actual administrative models and rapid technological advancement with accompanying changes in the traditional hierarchical ... Read more

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  • Blood at the Root

    A Racial Cleansing in America

    by Patrick Phillips ...
    "[A] vital investigation of Forsyth’s history, and of the process by which racial injustice is perpetuated in America." —U.S. Congressman John LewisForsyth County, Georgia, at the turn of the twentieth century, was home to a large African American community that included ministers and teachers, farmers and field hands, tradesmen, servants, and children. But then in September of 1912, three young ... Read more

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  • Barack Obama and the Jim Crow Media

    The Return of the Nigger Breakers

    by Ishmael Reed ...
    Angry and hilarious, this collection of satirical essays about Barack Obama confronts the racial tensions that have dogged the president during his campaign and first year in office. Some of the pieces include "Ma and Pa Clinton Flog Uppity Black Man," "Crazy Rev. Wright," and "Obama Scolds Black Fathers, Gets Bounce in Polls." Previously unpublished material also addresses the controversies ... Read more

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  • Shots on the Bridge

    Police Violence and Cover-Up in the Wake of Katrina

    by Ronnie Greene ...
    A harrowing story of blue on black violence, of black lives that seemingly did not matter.On September 4, 2005, six days after Hurricane Katrina’s landfall in New Orleans, two groups of people intersected on the Danziger Bridge, a low-rising expanse over the Industrial Canal. One was the police who had stayed behind as Katrina roared near, desperate to maintain control as their city spun into ... Read more

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