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  • Not in Service

    The TTC and the Trouble with Toronto Transit

    by Robert I. Binnick ...
    Something is badly, badly wrong with transportation in Toronto. Just riding public transit provides evidence of that, along with a pain in the neck.  Torontonians still love the TTC, but just wish it would shape up, and are painfully aware it hasn't been world-class for at least a generation. The author, no specialist in any of the relevant areas of research, brings his skills as an academic and ... Read more

    $3.00 USD

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  • The Obamas

    by Jodi Kantor ...
    Award-winning reporter Jodi Kantor takes readers deep inside the White House in an "insightful and evocative" portrait of Barack and Michelle Obama (Chicago Tribune) that will surprise even readers who thought they knew the two icons.When Barack Obama won the 2008 presidential election, he also won a long-running debate with his wife Michelle. Contrary to her fears, politics now seemed like a ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • The Five Giants [New Edition]

    A Biography of the Welfare State

    by Nicholas Timmins ...
    A TIMES POLITICAL BOOK OF THE YEARA LONGMAN/HISTORY TODAY BOOK OF THE YEARThe award-winning history of the British Welfare State –now fully revised and updated for the 21st Century.‘A masterpiece’ Sunday TimesGiant Want. Giant Disease. Giant Ignorance. Giant Squalor. Giant Idleness.These were the Five Giants that loomed over the post-war reconstruction... ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Politics and Civics of National Service

    Lessons from the Civilian Conservation Corps, VISTA, and AmeriCorps

    by Melissa Bass ...
    In 1933 President Franklin D. Roosevelt created America's first domestic national service program: the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). As part of this program-the largest and most highly esteemed of its kind-nearly three million unemployed men worked to rehabilitate, protect, and build the nation's natural resources. It demonstrated what citizens and government could accomplish together. Yet ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • The Reagan Revolution

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Gil Troy ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    "They called it the Reagan revolution," Ronald Reagan noted in his Farewell Address. "Well, I'll accept that, but for me it always seemed more like the great rediscovery, a rediscovery of our values and our common sense." Nearly two decades after that 1989 speech, debate continues to rage over just how revolutionary those Reagan years were. The Reagan Revolution: A Very Short Introduction ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Payment Technologies for E-Commerce

    Edited by Weidong Kou ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    Electronic payment is the economic backbone of all e-commerce transactions. This book covers the major subjects related to e-payment such as, for example, public key infrastructure, smart cards, payment agents, digital cash, SET protocols, and micro-payment. Its first part covers the infrastructure for secure e-payment over the Internet, whereas in the second part a variety of e-payment methods ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Leading Change from the Middle

    A Practical Guide to Building Extraordinary Capabilities

    by Jackson Nickerson ...
    Bookshelves abound with theoretical analyses, how-to guides, and personal success stories by famous corporate leaders, public officials, even athletic coaches, expounding on how to lead from the top. But what about those in the middle who are increasingly tasked with trying to reshape, reorient, or recreate the capabilities of an organization?Leading Change from the Middle takes you on the ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Social Media for Government

    A Practical Guide to Understanding, Implementing, and Managing Social Media Tools in the Public Sphere

    by Gohar F. Khan ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This book provides practical know-how on understanding, implementing, and managing main stream social media tools (e.g., blogs and micro-blogs, social network sites, and content communities) from a public sector perspective. Through social media, government organizations can inform citizens, promote their services, seek public views and feedback, and monitor satisfaction with the services they ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

  • Conspiracy Theories

    A Critical Introduction

    by J. Byford ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Through a series of specific questions that cut to the core of conspiracism as a global social and cultural phenomenon this book deconstructs the logic and rhetoric of conspiracy theories and analyses the broader social and psychological factors that contribute to their persistence in modern society. ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Public Administration and the State

    A Postmodern Perspective

    by Michael W. Spicer ...
    A critical examination of public administration's pervasive vision of a powerful stateWoodrow Wilson argued for a state led by a powerful government, guided by science and enlightened experts, for the accomplishment of a set of collective purposes—in other words, a purposive state. Michael Spicer contends that though Wilson and those who followed him have not typically explored questions of ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Transparency and the Open Society

    Practical Lessons for Effective Policy

    by Roger Taylor, Tim Kelsey ...
    Greater transparency is increasingly seen as the answer to a wide range of social issues by governments, NGOs and businesses around the world. However, evidence of its impact is mixed. Using case studies from around the world including India, Tanzania, the UK and US, Transparency and the open society surveys the adoption of transparency globally, providing an essential framework for assessing its ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • Restless Citizens

    by Udoh Elijah Udom ...
    Restless Citizens gives a unique insider's view of how the United Nations treats its employees. Written by Dr. Udoh E. Udom, a retired senior official in the World Health Organization, the book is a robustly critical but deeply informed view of all aspects of UN employment.Excerpted from the foreword by David Antill, School of Law, University of Leicester - UKWords: 60 ... Read more

    $39.69 USD