Strategies for Governing: Reinventing Public Administration for a Dangerous Century (Roberts Alasdair)(Pevná vazba)

Strategies for Governing: Reinventing Public Administration for a Dangerous Century (Roberts Alasdair)(Pevná vazba)

With the fields of public administration and public management suffering a crisis of relevance, Alasdair Roberts offers a provocative assessment of their shortfalls. The two fields, he finds, no longer address urgent questions of governance in a turbulent and dangerous world. Strategies for

Open Democracy: Reinventing Popular Rule for the Twenty-First Century (Landemore Hlne)(Pevná vazba)

How a new model of democracy that opens up power to ordinary citizens could strengthen inclusiveness, responsiveness, and accountability in modern societies To the ancient Greeks, democracy meant gathering in public and debating laws set by a randomly selected assembly of several hundred citizens

A Life in Pictures (Gray Alasdair)(Pevná vazba)

Alasdair Gray is known throughout the world for his writing, but he is also a highly regarded artist who not only illustrates and designs his own books, but has created many beautiful and intriguing portraits, paintings, posters and murals.Alasdair started painting and writing from an early age,

On Psyche's Lawn: The Gardens at Plaz Metaxu (Forbes Alasdair)(Pevná vazba)

Alasdair Forbes has been developing his innovative and beautiful garden, Plaz Metaxu, in Devon, for the past thirty years. The thirty-two acre garden has been internationally acclaimed both as an unusually ambitious contemporary example of the making of place and for its poetic and psychological

Gustave Caillebotte: The Painter's Eye (Morton Mary)(Pevná vazba)

Though largely out of the public eye for more than a century, Gustave Caillebotte (1848 94) has come to be recognized as one of the most dynamic and original artists of the impressionist movement in Paris. His paintings are favorites of museum-goers, and recent restoration of his work has revealed

Training Strategies for Dressage Riders (de Kunffy Charles)(Pevná vazba)

Training Strategies for Dressage Riders is a unique guide to the art and technique of dressage, written by one of the most renowned equestrian trainers in the world today. It offers a complete training system for both horse and rider, paying special attention to how a rider's actions can influence

Talent Wins: The New Playbook for Putting People First (Charan Ram)(Pevná vazba)

Radical Advice for Reinventing Talent--and HRMost executives today recognize the competitive advantage of human capital, and yet the talent practices their organizations use are stuck in the twentieth century.Typical talent-planning and HR processes are designed for predictable environments,

Utilizing Technology, Knowledge, and Smart Systems in Educational Administration and Leadership (Durnali Mehmet)(Pevná vazba)

Within educational organizations, administration and leadership are relied upon for the allocation of resources as well as the optimization of processes that can include data storage, knowledge management, and decision making. To support these expectations, technologies, knowledge, and smart

Strategies of Fantasy (Attebery Brian)(Pevná vazba)

Brian Attebery's 'strategy of fantasy' include not only the writer's strategies for inventing believable impossibiltes, but also the reader's strategies for enjoying, challenging, and conspiring with the text. Drawing on a number of current literary theories (but avoiding most of their jargon),

The Red Sea Rules: 10 God-Given Strategies for Difficult Times (Morgan Robert J.)(Pevná vazba)

Bestselling author Robert Morgan offers ten strategies for dealing with hard times and discouragements in order to move from fear to faith--a divine protocol for handling life. Red Sea Rules has been updated with new study questions.Life is hard, especially for Christians. It is certain that we

From Women to the World: Letters for a New Century (Filippouli Elizabeth)(Pevná vazba)

Trauma and the Avoidant Client: Attachment-Based Strategies for Healing (Muller Robert T.)(Pevná vazba)

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,

Esperanza Rising (Ryan Pam Muoz)(Pevná vazba)

Pura Belpr Award WinnerIRA Notable Book for a Global SocietyNew York Public Library's 100 Titles for Reading and SharingEsperanza thought she'd always live with her family on their ranch in Mexico--she'd always have fancy dresses, a beautiful home, and servants. But a sudden tragedy forces

Pasta For Nightingales - A 17th-century handbook of bird-care and folklore(Pevná vazba)

How to Be Successful Without Hurting Men's Feelings - Non-threatening Leadership Strategies for Women (Cooper Sarah)(Pevná vazba)

Dangerous Book for Boys (Iggulden Conn)(Pevná vazba)

INSPIRATION FOR THE TV SHOW If ever there were a book to make you switch off your television set, The Dangerous Book for Boys is

Scaling Strategies for Social Entrepreneurs: A Market Approach (Jger Urs)(Pevná vazba)

Social entrepreneurs often experience difficulties when attempting to scale. The reason for this is that scaling isn't just about an entrepreneur's willingness to grow, but also--and, perhaps, even more importantly--his or her capacity to develop a scaling strategy that reflects an understanding of

Flex: Reinventing Work for a Smarter, Happier Life (Auerbach Annie)(Pevná vazba)

Seasoned trends forecaster and consultant Annie Auerbach takes a fresh look at women's professional lives today by rethinking the 9 to 5 in this 'no-nonsense guide to thinking and behaving more flexibly in order to have a happier, better, less frenetic life' (Marie Claire)--now widely available for

People Count: Contact-Tracing Apps and Public Health (Landau Susan)(Pevná vazba)

An introduction to the technology of contact tracing and its usefulness for public health, considering questions of efficacy, equity, and privacy. How do you stop a pandemic before a vaccine arrives? Contact tracing is key, the first step in a process that has proven effective: trace, test, and

A Man for Amanda (Roberts Nora)(Pevná vazba)

Efficient Amanda Calhoun finds easy-going architect Sloan O'Riley insufferable - and irresistible. To keep their family mansion, the Towers, standing tall on the coast of Maine, the Calhouns have hired architect Sloan O'Riley to perform long-needed repairs. Amanda Calhoun is responsible for

We Ate the Acid (Roberts Joe)(Pevná vazba)

Joe Roberts has worked as an artist in San Francisco for the last decade. His mixed media work has been released in various formats over the years and shown nationwide to great acclaim. Joe creates artwork which represents a variety of mixed media formats and is reminiscent of work from Jean-Michel

Rabbits (Miles Terry)(Pevná vazba)

Rabbits is a dangerous underground game, and rumours tell of incredible rewards for its elusive winners. K is about to find out how high the stakes really are . . . and is he ready to play? Based on the hit podcast from the Public Radio Alliance, Rabbits by Terry Miles is perfect for fans of

Strategies for Monetary Policy (Cochrane John H.)(Pevná vazba)

As the Federal Reserve System conducts its latest review of the strategies, tools, and communication practices it deploys to pursue its dual-mandate goals of maximum employment and price stability, Strategies for Monetary Policy--drawn from the 2019 Monetary Policy Conference at the Hoover