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    by Christopher Hood ...
    The book of peace that will open doors to new realities. Written in poetry form, short stories, a book of spells, bringing back old folk heroes Robin Hood and little Miss Riding Hood, along with shamans, angels, wizards and magicians. Questioning the way of life and its current state of affairs, whilst creating an opening for the reader to question their own mind and existence. The reader will be ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Shinkansen

    From Bullet Train to Symbol of Modern Japan

    by Christopher Hood ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Japan Series
    The image of the shinkansen – or ‘bullet train’ – passing Mount Fuji is one of the most renowned images of modern Japan. Yet, despite its international reputation for speed and punctuality, little is understood about what makes it work so well and what its impact is.This is a comprehensive account of the history of the shinkansen, from its planning during the Pacific War, to its launch in 1964 and ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • A Government that Worked Better and Cost Less?

    Evaluating Three Decades of Reform and Change in UK Central Government

    by Christopher Hood, Ruth Dixon ...
    The UK is said to have been one of the most prolific reformers of its public administration. Successive reforms have been accompanied by claims that the changes would make the world a better place by transforming the way government worked. Despite much discussion and debate over government makeovers and reforms, however, there has been remarkably little systematic evaluation of what happened to ... Read more

    $56.69 USD

  • The Way the Money Goes

    The Fiscal Constitution and Public Spending in the UK

    by Christopher Hood, Maia King, Iain McLean, Barbara Maria Piotrowska ...
    The Way the Money Goes traces out what happened to the UK's fiscal constitution - the framework for planning and controlling public spending - under three different governments (Conservative, Labour, Conservative/Liberal Democrat) from the early 1990s to the mid-2010s. The book tells the story of what happened under each government and combines narrative with vignettes that range from the funding ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • A Century of Fiscal Squeeze Politics

    100 Years of Austerity, Politics, and Bureaucracy in Britain

    by Christopher Hood, Rozana Himaz ...
    This volume identifies and compares 'fiscal squeezes' (major efforts to cut public spending and/or raise taxes) in the UK over a century from 1900 to 2015. The authors examine how different the politics of fiscal squeeze and austerity is today from what it was a century ago, how (if at all) fiscal squeezes reshaped the state and the provision of public services, and how political credit and blame ... Read more

    $85.49 USD

  • Telecommunications Regulation

    Culture, Chaos and Interdependence Inside the Regulatory Process

    by Clare Hall, Christopher Hood, Colin Scott ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies
    Using unprecedented access to the key actors inside the UK Office of Telecommunications (OFTEL) and supporting interviews, this book explores how telecommunications regulation works from the inside. ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Reward for High Public Office

    Asian and Pacific Rim States

    Edited by Christopher Hood, B. Guy Peters ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Comparative Politics
    The choices made by governments about how to reward their top employees reveal a great deal about their values and their assumptions about governing. This book examines rewards of high public office in seven Asian political systems, a particularly rich set of cases for exploring the causes and consequences of the rewards of high public office, having some of the most generous and most meagre ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Dealing with Disaster in Japan

    Responses to the Flight JL123 Crash

    by Christopher Hood ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Japan Series
    Just as the sinking of the Titanic is embedded in the public consciousness in the English-speaking world, so the crash of JAL flight JL123 is part of the Japanese collective memory. The 1985 crash involved the largest loss of life for any single air crash in the world. 520 people, many of whom had been returning to their ancestral home for the Obon religious festival, were killed; there were only ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • The Blame Game

    Spin, Bureaucracy, and Self-Preservation in Government

    by Christopher Hood ...
    The blame game, with its finger-pointing and mutual buck-passing, is a familiar feature of politics and organizational life, and blame avoidance pervades government and public organizations at every level. Political and bureaucratic blame games and blame avoidance are more often condemned than analyzed. In The Blame Game, Christopher Hood takes a different approach by showing how blame avoidance ... Read more

    $22.39 USD

  • Paradoxes of Modernization

    Unintended Consequences of Public Policy Reform

    Edited by Helen Margetts, Christopher Hood, Perri 6 ...
    This book explores the unintended and unanticipated effects associated with 'modernization' projects and tackles the key question that they provoke - why do policy-makers persist in such enterprises in the face of evidence that they tend to fail? Paradoxes of Modernization first discusses what is meant by 'modernization' and 'unintended consequences', placing public policy reform within more ... Read more

    $66.59 USD

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    Cupping: The Complete Guide to the Health Benefits Them Work for You (How It Works, Benefits, Techniques and Surprising Treatments You Can Do at Home)

    by Christopher Hood ...
    Narrated by Digital Voice Mason G ...

    Unabridged

    33 min

    This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Cupping is a popular treatment that comes from ancient Chinese and Middle Eastern medicine. Recently, it has become more well-known because of its use in sports and pop culture. For example, famous Olympians like Michael Phelps have been seen with cupping marks. In the movie The Karate Kid, Jackie Chan performed Fire cupping.This therapy is usually ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    My Thirty Years In Baseball (Unabridged)

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    by John McGraw ...
    Narrated by Earline Foulks, Christopher Hood, Joseph Rosenblatt, Phyllis Beauchamp ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 57 min

    The autobiography of John Joseph McGraw, another one of the "greats" of baseball. McGraw, along with Casey Stengel, has managed the most league pennants, with ten. He also holds the NL record for seasons managed, with 31 (thirty with the Giants and one with the original Orioles). He is third among major league managers in wins with 2,763, behind Connie Mack and Tony La Russa, though, at .586, ... Read more

    $4.99 USD