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  • Public Service Ethics

    Individual and Institutional Responsibilities

    by James S. Bowman, Jonathan P. West ...
    Ethics—in all its exemplary and exhausting forms—matters. It deals with the most gripping question in public life: "What is the right thing to do?" Bowman and West examine individual-centered and organization-focused ethics, applying ideas and ideals from both to contemporary dilemmas. The authors take on controversial issues—from whistle blowing incidents to corruption exposés—to explain how they ... Read more

    $70.19 USD

  • On Tangled Paths

    by Theodor Fontane ...
    Translated by Peter James Bowman ...
    Series series Pushkin Press Classics
    **PERFECT FOR FANS OF JANE AUSTEN: A seamstress and cavalry officer fall in love across class divides in this “sparkling, tender, delicately ironic” portrait of 19th-century Berlin (New York Review of Books).“A joy for its humanity, subtlety and visual immediacy.”— Independent**From Germany’s greatest 19th-century novelist, this realist masterpiece interrogates the strict social codes of a rapidly ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Honor

    A History

    by James Bowman ...
    The importance of honor is present in the earliest records of civilization. Today, while it may still be an essential concept in Islamic cultures, in the West, honor has been disparaged and dismissed as obsolete. In this lively and authoritative book, James Bowman traces the curious and fascinating history of this ideal, from the Middle Ages through the Enlightenment and to the killing fields of ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Public Service Ethics

    Individual and Institutional Responsibilities

    by James S. Bowman, Jonathan P. West ...
    The study and practice of ethics, in all its exemplary and execrable forms, matter now more than ever. It deals with one of the most gripping questions in life: "What is the right thing to do?"Public Service Ethics: Individual and Institutional Responsibilities, Third Edition, introduces readers to this personally relevant and professionally challenging field of study. No matter the topic—the ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • The Life, Death and Life of Amelia Hollow

    by Edward James Bowman ...
    In the year 2808 AD, eighteen year-old Amelia Hollow gets accepted into Starside Academy: the top United Systems of Mel naval academy. She is the first human to ever be accepted into such an elite academy as the human race is looked down upon by the USM... and because she has a huge ego she wants to shame the USM for doubting her.Amelia thought screwing over the academy was going to be a challenge ... Read more

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  • The Professional Edge

    Competencies in Public Service

    by James S. Bowman, Jonathan P. West, Margo Berman, Montgomery Van Wart ...
    The new context and character of public service - shifting values, entrepreneurship, information technology, multi-sector careers - require enhanced technical, ethical, and leadership skills. This concise and readable work describes what it means to be a consummate professional public servant. It sets standards for everyone who conducts the public's business and links them with performance ... Read more

    $91.99 USD

  • Achieving Competencies in Public Service: The Professional Edge

    The Professional Edge

    by James S. Bowman, Jonathan P. West, Marcia A. Beck ...
    The new context and character of public service - shifting values, entrepreneurship, information technology, and multi-sector careers - require a 'skills triangle' of technical, ethical, and leadership abilities. This concise and readable work focuses on these three essential skills, and describes what it means to be a consummate professional public servant. Essential reading for both ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Seraphim Collective Chronicles Book 2

    by James R Bowman ...
    The SERAPHIM COLLECTIVE. Keeping the world safe for thousands of years. There are many who've worked for and with them throughout history, doing what was necessary, even at the cost of their lives. One of the SC's top operatives is one Major Tomas Walker, all round specialist and the one the SC turns to when things get...difficult. But Tomas is more than just an exceptional agent, he has a destiny ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • American Public Service

    Radical Reform and the Merit System

    by James S. Bowman, Jonathan P. West ...
    Series series Public Administration and Public Policy
    Understanding the effects of radical change on public personnel systems is critically important both now and in the future to all those interested in the quality of American democracy. Civil service reform is occurring at all levels of government both in the United States and abroad.American Public Service: Radical Reform and the Merit System is a collection of papers that examine the innovations, ... Read more

    $131.99 USD

  • Anion Coordination Chemistry

    Edited by Kristin Bowman-James, Antonio Bianchi, Enrique García-Espana ...
    Building on the pioneering work in supramolecular chemistry from the last 20 years or so, this monograph addresses new and recentapproaches to anion coordination chemistry. Synthesis of receptors, biological receptors and metallareceptors, the energetics of anion binding, molecular structures of anion complexes, sensing devices are presented and computational studies addressed to aid with the ... Read more

    $172.00 USD

  • The Fortune Hunter

    A German Prince in Regency England

    by Peter James Bowman ...
    The two decades after Waterloo marked the great age of foreign fortune hunters in England. Each year brought a new influx of impecunious Continental noblemen to the world’s richest country, and the more brides they carried off, the more alarmed society became.The most colourful of these men was Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muskau (1785-1871), remembered today as Germany’s finest landscape gardener. ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Humanity

    by Edward James Bowman ...
    Set on the planet of Manticore in the 50th century, Lord Koris Young and Lord Lysander Jordanis vie for the chairman role in the soon-approaching election while also trying to keep sanity in their personal lives as their worlds fall apart around them.Koris Young, the youngest chairman candidate in Manticorian history at seventy, must learn to survive in the political game with natural ageism and ... Read more

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