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  • Post-Traditional Public Administration Theory

    For Better Governmental Praxis

    by David Farmer ...
    This book describes what is argued to be the most effective way of doing public administration thinking. Its aim is to encourage governments to govern fundamentally better in terms of policy and administration.A better understanding of context and identities, imaginization, epistemic pluralism, anti-administration, and the context of economics are examples of what is critical for high ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Saints, Fifth Edition Revised

    by David Farmer ...
    Series series Oxford Quick Reference
    Far more than a dry hagiographical account of the lives of saints, this entertaining and authoritative dictionary breathes life into its subjects and is as browsable as it is informative. First published in 1978, the Oxford Dictionary of Saints offers more than 1,700 fascinating and informative entries covering the lives, cults, and artistic associations of saints from around the world, from the ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • Fractured Weapons

    by David Farmer ...
    Embittered by preventable bloodshed and enthralled by their own historic goals, the nine nations of the world strain the peace of their deeply flawed federation.In this fractured world, a band of animal limbed raiders set a small border village to the torch, butchering its defenders. Having escaped the carnage, four people watch their home burn:Born with a detestable elite name, Vernon Meyorter ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Procurement Principles and Management in the Digital Age

    by Peter Baily, David Farmer, Barry Crocker, David Jessop ...
    Gain a comprehensive insight into the ideas and approaches to purchasing and procurementNow in its 12th edition, Procurement Principles and Management in the Digital Age by Baily, Farmer, Crocker and Jessop has been essential reading for practitioners and students of purchasing, procurement and supply chain management for nearly 50 years. The text has been updated to cover the continuous ... Read more

    $46.09 USD

  • Jack Rittenhouse

    A Western Literary Life

    by David R. Farmer ...
    The first biography of Jack D. Rittenhouse, the pioneering twentieth-century writer, printer, publisher, Western historian, antiquarian bookman, advertising executive, and chronicler of the golden age of Route 66.Jack Rittenhouse was a multi-dimensional individual for whom books were a way of life. He helped establish and elevate printing arts, writing, editing, and publishing in the emerging ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Beyond Public Administration

    Contemplating and Nudging Government-in-Context

    by David John Farmer ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Public Administration and Public Policy
    How can public administration (P.A.) nudge government to govern fundamentally better in terms of policy? How critical is P.A. contemplation and nudges – prods, shoves or hammer blows - to government-in-context?In this book, David John Farmer argues that government-in-context refers to government-in-totality, to what governs even if not called government and to what constrains government action. ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Dictionary of Geography

    by Malcolm Skinner, David Redfern, Geoff Farmer ...
    Geography as a subject covers a very wide range of topics, and the concepts are constantly being updated and revised. Dictionary if Geography , designed to aid understanding of a sometimes complex field, is an A-Z guide to key geographical terms. Each entry begins with a clear, one-sentence definition and is then developed in line with the relative importance of the concept covered, often through ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • The Language of Public Administration

    Bureaucracy, Modernity, and Postmodernity

    by Dr. David John Farmer, Ph.D. ...
    Coping with the practical problems of bureaucracy is hampered by the limited self-conception and the constricted mindsets of mainstream public administration thinking. Modernist public administration theory, although valuable and capable of producing ever more remarkable results, is limiting as an explanatory and catalytic force in resolving fundamental problems about the nature, size, scope, and ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Cloud Foundry for Developers

    Deploy, manage, and orchestrate cloud-native applications with ease

    by Rick Farmer, David Wu, Rahul Kumar Jain ...
    Deploy and scale applications on Cloud FoundryKey Features?Gain hands-on experience using Cloud Foundry?Implement deployment, management and scaling of applications on Cloud Foundry?Learn best practices and troubleshooting tips for running applications on Cloud FoundryBook DescriptionCloud Foundry is the open source platform to deploy, run, and scale applications. Cloud Foundry is growing rapidly ... Read more

    $34.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Art and Archaeology of Challuabamba, Ecuador

    by Terence Grieder, James D. Farmer, David V. Hill, Peter W. Stahl, Douglas H. Ubelaker ...
    Challuabamba (chī-wa-bamba)—now a developing suburb of Cuenca, the principal city in the southern highlands of Ecuador—has been known for a century as an ancient site that produced exceptionally fine pottery in great quantities. Suspecting that Challuabamban ceramics might provide a link between earlier, preceramic culture and later, highly developed Formative period art, Terence Grieder led an ... Read more

    $67.49 USD

  • Public Administration in Perspective

    Theory and Practice Through Multiple Lenses

    by David John Farmer ...
    Throughout its history, public administration has used a number of different perspectives for analyzing the discipline's theory and practice, and both mainstream and alternative lenses have produced valuable insights and prescriptions. At the same time, an individual way of looking at PA can be misleading. Alone, a solitary lens can miss critical aspects and often gives only part of the picture. ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • To Kill the King

    Post-Traditional Governance and Bureaucracy

    by David John Farmer ...
    To Kill the King sketches post-traditional consciousness in terms of three rejuvenating concepts - thinking as play, justice as seeking, and practice as art. In a series of critical essays on each of these concepts, the book describes a post-traditional consciousness of governance that can yield enormous improvement in the quality of life for each individual. To Kill the King will appeal to any ... Read more

    $72.99 USD