Responsibility and Public Services (Davis Richard)(Paperback)

Responsibility and Public Services (Davis Richard)(Paperback)

Richard Davis is a founding member of Vanguard Consulting in the UK, and has worked with John Seddon for over 25 years. His was a significant role in developing the Vanguard method, which has allowed for dramatic improvements in public services. In this important book, Richard turns his attention

Public Administration: A Very Short Introduction (Theodoulou Stella Z.)(Paperback)

Public administration ensures the development and delivery of the essential public services required for sustaining modern civilization. Covering areas from public safety and social welfare to transportation and education, the services provided through the public sector are inextricably part of our

Bathroom Battlegrounds: How Public Restrooms Shape the Gender Order (Davis Alexander K.)(Paperback)

Today's debates about transgender inclusion and public restrooms may seem unmistakably contemporary, but they have a surprisingly long and storied history in the United States--one that concerns more than mere 'potty politics.' Alexander K. Davis takes readers behind the scenes of two hundred

Public Service Innovations in China (Jing Yijia)(Paperback)

0. Public Service Innovations in China: An Introduction1. China's Local Government Innovations in Inter-local Collaboration2. Network Structure, Resource Availability, and Innovation: A Study of the Adoption of Innovation in Elderly Services in Shanghai3. Providing Rural Public Services Through

A Future for Public Service Television (Freedman Des)(Pevná vazba)

A guide to the nature, purpose, and place of public service television within a multi-platform, multichannel ecology.Television is on the verge of both decline and rebirth. Vast technological change has brought about financial uncertainty as well as new creative possibilities for producers,

The Case for Universal Basic Services (Coote Anna)(Paperback)

The idea that healthcare and education should be provided as universal public services to all who need them is widely accepted. But why leave it there? Why not expand it to more of life's essentials? In their bold new book, Anna Coote and Andrew Percy argue that this transformational new policy -

Love and Responsibility (John Paul II)(Paperback)

Special Air Service: The Insider's Guide (McMunn Richard)(Paperback / softback)

National Service: A Generation in Uniform 1945-1963 (Vinen Richard)(Paperback)

Responsibility and Judgment (Arendt Hannah)(Paperback)

Responsibility and Judgment gathers together unpublished writings from the last decade of Arendt's life, where she addresses fundamental questions and concerns about the nature of evil and the making of moral choices. At the heart of the book is a profound ethical investigation, 'Some Questions of

Humanistic Contributions for Psychology 101: Growth, Choice, and Responsibility (Bargdill Richard)(Paperback)

Humanistic Contributions to Psychology 101 is the first of its kind: a supplemental text cataloging the major contributions of humanistic psychology often not included in general psychology courses or textbooks. The book mirrors a standard Introduction to Psychology textbook with chapters covering

Public Finance and Public Choice: Analytical Perspectives (Cullis John)(Paperback)

Public Finance and Public Choice provides a solid foundation in contemporary public economics, analysing different theoretical approaches and contextualising the theory with relevant and up-to-date examples. The authors have retained the focus on the public choice school of thought in this new

Street-Level Bureaucracy, 30th Anniversary Edition: Dilemmas of the Individual in Public Service (Lipsky Michael)(Paperback)

Why Capitalists Need Communists: The Politics of Flourishing (Seaford Charles)(Paperback)

Britain faces huge challenges: inequality, public services under constant pressure, climate change - and in the long term, the impacts of automation and artificial intelligence. At the same time, the political and economic elite seem to have reached an impasse: there is a sense that things can only

Taking Responsibility (Branden Nathaniel)(Paperback)

From Simon & Schuster, Taking Responsibility is Nathaniel Branden's guide to self-reliance and the accountable life, including self-realization through that self-reliance, offering a vision of society transformed by a new ethical individualism. The bestselling author of The Psychology of

Pragmatism as Anti-Authoritarianism (Rorty Richard)(Pevná vazba)

The last book by the eminent American philosopher and public intellectual Richard Rorty, providing the definitive statement of his mature philosophical and political views. Richard Rorty's Pragmatism as Anti-Authoritarianism is a last statement by one of America's foremost philosophers. Here Rorty

Pro Powershell for Amazon Web Services (Beach Brian)(Paperback)

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the leading public cloud platform. In this book you will learn to use Microsoft PowerShell to create, host, manage, and administer workloads using Amazon Web Services. You will learn how to create virtual machines, provision storage, configure networks, and more--all

Accountability, Social Responsibility and Sustainability: Accounting for Society and the Environment (Gray Rob)(Paperback / softback)

Gender & Nation (Yuval-Davis Nira)(Paperback)

Nira Yuval-Davis provides an authoritative overview and critique of writings on gender and nationhood, presenting an original analysis of the ways gender relations affect and are affected by national projects and processes. In Gender and Nation Yuval-Davis argues that the construction of nationhood

Sustainable Development and Corporate Social Responsibility (Zhang Dongyong)(Paperback)

This book explores the evolution of corporate social responsibility (CSR) across the developing world, with a particular focus on China and sustainable development. Through an extensive review of the literature and relevant case studies, the book examines whether CSR can make a contribution to

Public Opinion (Glynn Carroll J.)(Paperback)

'Public Opinion' is a comprehensive and multidisciplinary examination of public opinion in the United States. Drawing on scholarship in political science, psychology, sociology, and communications, the authors explore the nature of political and social attitudes in the United States and how these

Ethics and Public Policy: A Philosophical Inquiry (Wolff Jonathan)(Paperback)

Ethics and Public Policy: A Philosophical Inquiry, second edition subjects important and controversial areas of public policy to philosophical scrutiny. Jonathan Wolff, a renowned philosopher and veteran of many public committees, introduces and assesses core problems and controversies in public

Public Management and Governance (Bovaird Tony)(Paperback)

Public Management and Governance examines the factors which make government critically important and the barriers which often stop it being effective. It questions what it means to have effective policies, efficient management and good quality public services, and it explores how the process of

Public Finance and Public Policy: A Political Economy Perspective on the Responsibilities and Limitations of Government (Hillman Arye L.)(Paperback)