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Beyond Public Administration

Contemplating and Nudging Government-in-Context

de 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. ... Leer más

$59.99 USD

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.
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Public Administration in Perspective

Theory and Practice Through Multiple Lenses

de 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. ... Leer más

$77.99 USD

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.
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To Kill the King

Post-Traditional Governance and Bureaucracy

de 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 ... Leer más

$72.99 USD

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
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Crime Control

The Use and Misuse of Police Resources

de David John Farmer ...

Series series Business and Management (R0)
The question of how to use police resources productively, par ticularly in this era of tight municipal budgets, is a major con cern for police chiefs and others responsible for crime control. In Crime Control: The Use and Misuse of Police Resources, David J. Farmer provides new insights into this question and sug gests a practical resource allocation approach for police poli cymakers and ... Leer más

$49.99 USD

The question of how to use police resources productively, par ticularly in this era of tight municipal budgets, is a major con cern for police chiefs and others responsible for crime control. In Crime Control: The Use and Misuse of Police Resources, David J. Farmer provides new insights into this question and sug gests a practical resource allocation approach for police poli cymakers and
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The Language of Public Administration

Bureaucracy, Modernity, and Postmodernity

de 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 ... Leer más

$28.99 USD

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
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Legislating Without Experience

Case Studies in State Legislative Term Limits

de Christopher Z. Mooney, Richard J. Powell, Rick Farmer, John C. Green, Bruce Cain, David R. Berman, John A. Straayer, Gerald C. Wright, Art English0, Michael Smith1, Alan Rosenthal2 ...

Legislative term limits are reshaping the political landscape in numerous states; however, few of the effects are consistent across all states. Everything from the political environment to the level of legislative professionalism within a state influences the trends that are often attributed to term limits. To cut through these many trends and isolate the ones most likely created by term limits, ... Leer más

$55.99 USD

Legislative term limits are reshaping the political landscape in numerous states; however, few of the effects are consistent across all states. Everything from the political environment to the level of legislative professionalism within a state influences the trends that are often attributed to term limits. To cut through these many trends and isolate the ones most likely created by term limits,
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Dancing without Partners

How Candidates, Parties, and Interest Groups Interact in the Presidential Campaign

de Kelly D. Patterson, Lonna Rae Atkeson, Lindsay Battles, Stephen Brooks, Nancy Carillo, Robert E. Crew, Rick Farmer, Terri Susan Fine0, John C. Green1, E Terrence Jones2, Martha Kropf3, Susan A. MacMannus4, Michael Margolis5, Stephen T. Mockabee6, J Quin Monson7, Arthur Sanders8, Mekoce Walker9, Laura Wiedlocher0 ...

Series series Campaigning American Style
Political parties, interest groups, and candidate campaigns all pursue similar goals in presidential elections: each entity attempts to mobilize voters. However, the regulatory environment often prevents these groups from coordinating their efforts. With participants playing by new rules mandated by the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act, the 2004 presidential election included previously unseen ... Leer más

$40.99 USD

Political parties, interest groups, and candidate campaigns all pursue similar goals in presidential elections: each entity attempts to mobilize voters. However, the regulatory environment often prevents these groups from coordinating their efforts. With participants playing by new rules mandated by the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act, the 2004 presidential election included previously unseen
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Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction

A Century of Science Fiction

de Robert A. Heinlein, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Samuel Butler, Jules Verne, John W. Campbell, Jr., E.E. Doc Smith, Philip Franics Nowlan, L. Sprague de Camp, Frederik Pohl, Clifford D. Simak0, A. E. van Vogt1, Jack Williamson2, Tom Easton3, Avram Davidson4, Philip Jose Farmer5, C. M. Kornbluth6, Zenna Henderson7, Richard Matheson8, Jack Vance9, Robert Silverberg0, Brian W. Aldiss1, Isaac Asimov2, Ben Bova3, Joe Haldeman4, Ann McCaffrey5, R. A. Lafferty6, Octavia E. Butler7, Jack Dann8, Larry Niven9, Kitt Reed0, Vonda N. MacIntyre1, Joanna Russ2, Keith Roberts3, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.4, Gregory Benford5, H. P. Lovecraft6, Alan Dean Foster7, David Drake8, Pat Cadigan9, Lisa Goldstein0, James Morrow1, James Morrow2, Terry Pratchett3, Lucius Shepard4, Bruce Sterling5, Charles Stross6, Howard Waldrop7, Connie Willis8, Cory Doctorow9 ...

A survey of the last 100 years of science fiction, with representative stories and illuminating essays by the top writers, poets, and scholars, from Edgar Rice Burroughs and Samuel Butler to Robert A. Heinlein and and Jack Vance, from E.E. "Doc" Smith and Clifford D. Simak to Ted Chiang and Charles Stross-- and everyone in between. More than one million words of classic fiction and essays! ... Leer más

$28.99 USD

A survey of the last 100 years of science fiction, with representative stories and illuminating essays by the top writers, poets, and scholars, from Edgar Rice Burroughs and Samuel Butler to Robert A. Heinlein and and Jack Vance, from E.E. "Doc" Smith and Clifford D. Simak to Ted Chiang and Charles Stross-- and everyone in between. More than one million words of classic fiction and essays!
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The Farmers' Game

Baseball in Rural America

de David Vaught ...

A journey through the national pastime's roots in America's small towns and wide-open spaces: "An absorbing read." — The Tampa TribuneIn the film Field of Dreams, the lead character gives his struggling farming community a magical place where the smell of roasted peanuts gently wafts over the crowded grandstand on a warm summer evening, just as the star pitcher takes the mound. In The Farmers' ... Leer más

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A journey through the national pastime's roots in America's small towns and wide-open spaces: "An absorbing read." — The Tampa TribuneIn the film Field of Dreams, the lead character gives his struggling farming community a magical place where the smell of roasted peanuts gently wafts over the crowded grandstand on a warm summer evening, just as the star pitcher takes the mound. In The Farmers'
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Lowering the Boom

Critical Studies in Film Sound

de Jay Beck, Jay Beck, Tony Grajeda, John Belton, Clark Farmer, Paul Grainge, David T. Johnson, Anahid Kassabian, David Laderman0, James Lastra1, Arnt Maasø2, Matthew Malksy3, Barry Mauer4, Robert Miklitsch5, Nancy Newman6, Melissa Ragona7, Petr Szczepanik8, Paul Théberge9, Debra White-Stanley0 ...

As the first collection of new work on sound and cinema in over a decade, Lowering the Boom addresses the expanding field of film sound theory and its significance in rethinking historical models of film analysis. The contributors consider the ways in which musical expression, scoring, voice-over narration, and ambient noise affect identity formation and subjectivity. Lowering the Boom also ... Leer más

$14.99 USD

As the first collection of new work on sound and cinema in over a decade, Lowering the Boom addresses the expanding field of film sound theory and its significance in rethinking historical models of film analysis. The contributors consider the ways in which musical expression, scoring, voice-over narration, and ambient noise affect identity formation and subjectivity. Lowering the Boom also
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Fantastic Stories Presents the Fantastic Universe Super Pack

de Harry Harrison, Frank Belknap Long, Philip José Farmer, Alan E. Nourse, Poul Anderson, H. Beam Piper, Philip K. Dick, Richard R. Smith, Evelyn E. Smith, Judith Merril, John Foster West, Lyn Venable, Walt Sheldon, C. L. Moore, Robert J. Shea, V. E. Thiessen, Basil Wells, Henry Slesar, Charles E. Fritch, William Campbell Gault, George Edrich, Roger Dee, David C. Knight, Sam Merwin, Jr., Frederic Max, M. C. Pease, William F. Nolan, Irving E. Cox, Jr., Robert Moore Williams ...

Series Libro 24 - Positronic Super Pack Series
Fantastic Universe' started publishing in 1953 and continued until March 1960. It was one of the better magazines to launch during the boom in science fiction magazines publishing. It published many important stories' by some of the fields best known writers. Collected in this over sized edition are more than 175,000 words of science fiction and fantasy. Escape back to the golden age of science ... Leer más

$1.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

Fantastic Universe' started publishing in 1953 and continued until March 1960. It was one of the better magazines to launch during the boom in science fiction magazines publishing. It published many important stories' by some of the fields best known writers. Collected in this over sized edition are more than 175,000 words of science fiction and fantasy. Escape back to the golden age of science
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Audiolibro

Preservation [Dramatized Adaptation]

Battle Mage Farmer 6

de Seth Ring ...

Narrado por Full Cast, Peter Holdway, Wyn Delano, Jenna Sharpe, Matthew Bassett, Eric Messner, Michael John Casey, Dawn Ursula, Nanette Savard, Nora Achrati, Alex Hill-Knight, David Cui Cui ...

Series series Battle Mage Farmer
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10 hora 58 minutos

Insane cult trying to undermine the stability of society? Powerful mage whose very presence unmakes the world?John doesn’t care. He’s getting married.After rescuing Katrine, sealing himself into a manaless state, and defending against the most dangerous beast tide the world has ever seen, John only has one thing on his mind. Getting married, and going on a honeymoon. Oh, and trying to figure out a ... Leer más

$30.99 USD

Insane cult trying to undermine the stability of society? Powerful mage whose very presence unmakes the world?John doesn’t care. He’s getting married.After rescuing Katrine, sealing himself into a manaless state, and defending against the most dangerous beast tide the world has ever seen, John only has one thing on his mind. Getting married, and going on a honeymoon. Oh, and trying to figure out a
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