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“sid gardner”

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  • Five Paths

    by Sid Gardner ...
    Five Paths is a companion novel to a nonfiction book published in March 2016: The Future of the Fifth Child. Both books are about international child abuse and trafficking. In Five Paths, five college students graduate in 2000, inspired by a professor to work in the field of child protection. They adopt different paths in their work, choosing careers in politics, religious agencies, cyberfinance, ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Broken Bridges

    by Sid Gardner ...
    Broken Bridge is about a baby, a drug dealer, and all the forces that swept them both toward a tragedy. More than half a million babies are born each year in the U.S. who were exposed to drugs or alcohol before they were born. This book tells the story of one of them, and what happens when the drug dealer who sold drugs to her mother has a change of heart.From a hospital in a large city to the ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Middle of Nowhere

    by Sid Gardner ...
    The Middle of Nowhere is about a troubled 15-year-old girl, Lexie Crockett, who enters a residential treatment program somewhere in the Western United States. Based on personal experiences, the novel tells of the sometimes tragic, sometimes hilarious adventures of the thousands of girls who live away from home in residential facilities.As events unfold, Lexie finds a bond with the other girls and ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Recalling Amnesia

    by Sid Gardner ...
    A young draftee arrives in Vietnam, is assigned to work in the U.S. Embassy in Saigon, and experiences the most intense years of the American presence in Vietnam. Forty years later, he arrives in Iraq, serving as a senior diplomat in the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad. Inevitably, he reflects on whats the same and whats different about the two wars. Through relationships with two remarkable women in each ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Future of the Fifth Child

    An Overview of Global Child Protection Programs and Policy

    by Sid Gardner ...
    The premise of this book is that 400 million childrenone in five children aliveare abused and neglected in ways that could affect their entire lives, and that greater progress in protecting those children is both urgent and possible.The book reviews the long history of child maltreatment from prehistoric times to the present, contrasting statements about precious, innocent children with the ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Politics Of Linking Schools And Social Services

    The 1993 Yearbook Of The Politics Of Education Association

    Edited by Louise Adler, Sid Gardner ...
    From the time the reform movement began in the progressive era with concerns about public health and universal access to education, arguments have been raised for and against linking schools and social services, and the merits or otherwise of each system.; A new argument for the collaboration is that integration will lead to substantially better services than those provided by separate ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

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    The Politics of Public Sector Coordination

    by B. Guy Peters ...
    Series series Studies in Government and Public Policy
    From the first, specialization and coordination have presented governments with a conundrum: specialized program might be best for delivering one service to the public, but combining such programs for all public services inevitably produces costly redundancies and inefficiencies. In this long-awaited book, Guy Peters brings his expertise and extensive experience to bear on the problem of ... Read more

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  • Evidence-Based Policymaking

    Insights from Policy-Minded Researchers and Research-Minded Policymakers

    by Karen Bogenschneider, Thomas Corbett ...
    This book is for those who believe that good government should be based on hard evidence, and that research and policy ought to go hand-in-hand. Unfortunately, no such bond exists. Rather, there is a substantial gap, some say chasm, between the production of knowledge and its utilization. Despite much contrary evidence, the authors propose there is a way of doing public policy in a more reflective ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Humanitarian Work Psychology

    Edited by S. C Carr, M. MacLachlan, A. Furnham ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    Contextualizing Humanitarian work in history, justice, methods and professional ethics, this book articulates process skills for transformational partnerships between diverse organizations, motivating education, organisational learning and selecting the disaster workforce. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Cop Under Fire

    Moving Beyond Hashtags of Race, Crime and Politics for a Better America

    by David Clarke Jr. ...
    America has become increasingly divided and polarized in recent years. With growing racial tension, animosity toward law enforcement professionals, government corruption, and disregard for the constitutional process, there seems to be no easy answer in sight. But Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke knows where we must begin: we must stop blaming others; look at our problems with open eyes; take ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Wrong Side of Goodbye

    by Michael Connelly ...
    Series Book 19 - A Harry Bosch Novel
    In this #1 New York Times bestseller, California's newest private investigator, Detective Harry Bosch, must track down a missing heir while helping a police department connect the dots on a dangerous cold case.Harry Bosch is California's newest private investigator. He doesn't advertise, he doesn't have an office, and he's picky about who he works for, but it doesn't matter. His chops from thirty ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Take Your Breath Away

    A Novel

    by Linwood Barclay ...
    A missing woman. A husband suspected. The truth will . . .TAKE YOUR BREATH AWAYFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Find You First and Elevator Pitch comes a gripping psychological thriller about a formerly missing woman who has suddenly returned under mysterious circumstances.One weekend, while Andrew Mason was on a fishing trip, his wife, Brie, vanished without a trace. Most eve... ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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