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  • The Federal Management Playbook

    Leading and Succeeding in the Public Sector

    by Ira Goldstein ...
    Series series Public Management and Change series
    Stories of government management failures often make the headlines, but quietly much gets done as well. What makes the difference? Ira Goldstein offers wisdom about how to lead and succeed in the federal realm, even during periods when the political climate is intensely negative, based on his decades of experience as a senior executive at two major government consulting firms and as a member of ... Read more

    $53.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Where Credit is Due

    Bringing Equity to Credit and Housing After the Market Meltdown

    by John Powell, Christy Rogers, Christy Rogers, Vanessa Carter, Gail Christopher, Rick Cohen, Jeffrey D. Dillman, Gary Dymski, Deyanira Del Rio, Ira Goldstein, Henry Korman0, Jillian Olinger1, Rhonda Ortiz2, Manuel Pastor3, Christopher L. Peterson4, john a. powell5, Thomas H. Stanton6, Hannah Thomas7, Dan Urevick-Ackelsberg8, Mark A. Willis9 ...
    While much recent attention has been focused on the subprime lending and foreclosure crisis, little has been said about its radically-disparate impact. Drawing upon history as well as insight into the current crisis, this book shows that this crisis is not an anomaly, especially for people of color; nor is it over. People of color have been excluded from wealth-building opportunities via ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

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  • Tear Down This Myth

    How the Reagan Legacy Has Distorted Our Politics and Haunts Our Future

    by Will Bunch ...
    In this provocative new book, award-winning political journalist Will Bunch unravels the story of how a right-wing cabal hijacked the mixed legacy of Ronald Reagan, a personally popular but hugely divisive 1980s president, and turned him into a bronze icon to revive their fading ideology. They succeeded to the point where all the GOP candidates for president in 2008 scurried to claim his mantle, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Business of America is Lobbying

    How Corporations Became Politicized and Politics Became More Corporate

    by Lee Drutman ...
    Series series Studies in Postwar American Political Development
    Corporate lobbyists are everywhere in Washington. Of the 100 organizations that spend the most on lobbying, 95 represent business. The largest companies now have upwards of 100 lobbyists representing them. How did American businesses become so invested in politics? And what does all their money buy? Drawing on extensive data and original interviews with corporate lobbyists, The Business of America ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • Democratic Accountability, Political Order, and Change

    Exploring Accountability Processes in an Era of European Transformation

    by Johan P. Olsen ...
    Ongoing transformations of the political organization of Europe, where both the nation-state and the European Union are challenged, make it possible to explore phenomena that are difficult to see in stable periods. An upsurge in accountability-demands, where political leaders are required to explain and justify what they are doing, is one such phenomenon. Mainstream approaches to democratic ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Beginning Apache Cassandra Development

    by Vivek Mishra ...
    Series series Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
    Beginning Apache Cassandra Development introduces you to one of the most robust and best-performing NoSQL database platforms on the planet. Apache Cassandra is a document database following the JSON document model. It is specifically designed to manage large amounts of data across many commodity servers without there being any single point of failure. This design approach makes Apache Cassandra a ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Working with Groupware

    Understanding and Evaluating Collaboration Technology

    by J.H. Erik Andriessen ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    This publication has grown out of two frustrations. One is the experience that so many applications in the area of information and communication technology (lCT) are built without an eye to what the users can handle or need for their work, systematic user oriented evaluation of new tools is therefore limited. The video recorder provides a good general example of this phenomenon, but more ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Patient Involvement in Health Technology Assessment

    Edited by Karen M. Facey, Helle Ploug Hansen, Ann N.V. Single ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    This is the first book to offer a comprehensive guide to involving patients in health technology assessment (HTA). Defining patient involvement as patient participation in the HTA process and research into patient aspects, this book includes detailed explanations of approaches to participation and research, as well as case studies. Patient Involvement in HTA enables researchers, postgraduate ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Why the Third Way failed

    Economics, morality and the origins of the 'Big Society'

    by Bill Jordan ...
    In the wake of the economic crash, public policy is in search of a new moral compass. This book explains why the Third Way's combination of market-friendly and abstract, value-led principles has failed, and shows what is needed for an adequate replacement as a political and moral project. It criticises the economic analysis on which the Third Way approach to policy was founded and suggests an ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • China Engages Global Health Governance

    Responsible Stakeholder or System-Transformer?

    by L. Chan ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book explores public health in China in particular the management of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, with the goal of understanding China's compliance with and resistance to the norms and rules embedded in the global health regime. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Business Information Systems Workshops

    BIS 2014 International Workshops, Larnaca, Cyprus, May 22-23, 2014, Revised Papers

    Edited by Witold Abramowicz, Angelika Kokkinaki ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the five workshops that were organized in conjunction with the International Conference on Business Information Systems, BIS 2014, which took place in Larnaca, Cyprus, in May 2014. The 27 papers in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 53 submissions and were revised and extended after the event. The workshop topics covered ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Participatory Budgeting and Civic Tech

    The Revival of Citizen Engagement

    by Hollie Russon Gilman ...
    In a time when citizens are deeply dissatisfied with the basic institutions and elected officials that govern them, the participatory budgeting movement empowers citizens to get results for pressing community needs. It creates a transparent process where citizens can propose projects through traditional community meetings or use civic technologies to provide input online, work with elected ... Read more

    $4.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus