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Leadership
five Studies in World Strategy
2022 || Hardcover || Henry Kissinger || Allen Lane
Kissinger's six leaders are Konrad Adenauer, Charles de Gaulle, Richard Nixon, Anwar Sadat, Lee Kuan Yew, and Margaret Thatcher. All of them were formed in a period when established institutions collapsed all over Europe, colonial structures gave way to independent states in Asia and Africa, and a new international order had to be created from the vestiges of the old. Kissinger penetratingly analyses each of these leaders' careers through the highly individual strategies of statecraft which h...
On Writing Well
The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction
2016 || Paperback || William Zinsser || HarperCollins
"On Writing Well is a bible for a generation of writers looking for clues to clean, compelling prose." New York Times
A beloved classic, this definitive volume on the art of writing nonfiction celebrates its thirtieth anniversary.
On Writing Well, which grew out of a course that William Zinsser taught at Yale, has been praised for its sound advice, its clarity, and for the warmth of its style. It is a book for anybody who wants to learn how to write or who needs to do some writing to get thro...
Facilitator's Guide to Participatory Decision-Making / 3rd edition
2014 || Paperback || Sam Kaner || Wiley
The third edition of this ground-breaking book continues to advance its mission to support groups to do their best thinking. It demonstrates that meetings can be much more than merely an occasion for solving a problem or creating a plan. Every well-facilitated meeting is also an opportunity to stretch and develop the perspectives of the individual members, thereby building the strength and capacity of the group as a whole.
This fully updated edition of The Facilitator's Guide to Participatory...
The Palgrave Handbook of Comparative Public Administration / 1st edition
Concepts and Cases
2022 || Hardcover || Murat Onder e.a. || Springer Verlag
This handbook discusses different countries' bureaucratic, institutional, constitutional, reforms and governance system. It analyses the legislative and policy making processes and applications, local structures and functions of public administration in a given country. It presents the comparative aspects of public administration across the globe with recent developments in the field.
Policy Paradox / 3rd edition
The Art of Political Decision Making
2012 || Paperback || Deborah Stone || WW Norton & Co
Policy making is a political struggle over values and ideas. By exposing the paradoxes that underlie even seemingly straightforward policy decisions, Policy Paradox shows students that politics cannot be cleansed from the process in favor of "rationality." Author Deborah Stone has fully revised and updated this popular text, which now includes many paradoxes that have arisen since September 11. Examples throughout the book have been updated, and the prose has been streamlined to make a great ...
Global Economic History
A Very Short Introduction
2011 || Paperback || Robert C. Allen || Oxford University Press
Why are some countries rich and others poor? In 1500, the income differences were small, but they have grown dramatically since Columbus reached America. Since then, the interplay between geography, globalization, technological change, and economic policy has determined the wealth and poverty of nations. The industrial revolution was Britain's path breaking response to the challenge of globalization.
Western Europe and North America joined Britain to form a club ofrich nations by pursuing fou...
How Mediation Works
Theory, Research, and Practice
2022 || Paperback || Stephen B. Goldberg || Emerald Publishing Limited || ook als eBook
How Mediation Works will introduce management and law students as well as businesses to this art of conflict resolution from the behavioral perspective, while also providing a valuable resource to continuing education programs, mediation training, and lawyers to familiarize clients with the mediation process.
Gender, Alterity and Human Rights
Freedom in a Fishbowl
2020 || Paperback || Ratna Kapur || Edward Elgar
'Long admired for her pioneering work on gender, neo-liberalism and human rights, in this volume Ratna Kapur builds on that scholarship to offer a bold and wide ranging set of arguments that will add immensely to the many current debates about human rights and their efficacy in this age of inequality. Kapur' s trenchant critique of rights and her vision of an alternative to the liberal concept of freedom offer strikingly original arguments that make this an indispensable volume for all who ar...
Public Administration
A Very Short Introduction
2016 || Paperback || Stella Z. Theodoulou e.a. || Oxford University Press
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 daily lives. However, mandatory budgetary cuts in recent years have caused public administrators to radically re-think how they govern in the modern age.
In this Very Short Introduction Stella Theo...
Words That Work
It's Not What You Say, It's What People Hear
2008 || Paperback || Frank Luntz || Hyperion