Author: Lester M. Salamon
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Keywords: america, nonprofit, state, sector, resilient
Number of Pages: 124
Published: 2003-08-29
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0815776799
ISBN-13: 9780815776796

Like the arteries of a living organism, nonprofit organizations carry a life force that has long been a centerpiece of American culture—a faith in the capacity of individual action to improve the quality of human life. They embody two seemingly contradictory impulses at the heart of American character: a deep-seated commitment to freedom and individual initiative and an equally fundamental realization that people live in communities and consequently have responsibilities that extend beyond themselves. Uniquely among American institutions, those in the nonprofit sector blend these competing i

Authors:Lester M. Salamon, Michael S. Lund,
Publisher: Urban Institute Pre
Keywords: action, government, tools, privatization
Number of Pages: 284
Published: 1989-01-01
List price: $23.50
ISBN-10: 0877664544
ISBN-13: 9780877664543

This is the first book to address, within a common analytical framework, the numerous instruments or tools the public sector uses to carry out its objectives. Each has its own characteristics and consequences for program operations. Many problems attributed to poor management of public programs are really a consequence of the choice of tool that is made. Must reading for those who seek to understand not only how public programs work, but also how they should be designed.

Authors:Lester M. Salamon, Helmut K. Anheier,
Publisher: Manchester Univ Pr
Keywords: sector, non, profit, hopkins, series, johns, nonprofit, overview, emerging
Number of Pages: 140
Published: 1996-12
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0719048729
ISBN-13: 9780719048722

Nonprofit organizations, which collectively make up the emerging sector, have an increasingly influential role in the economies and societies of countries throughout the world. This book, the product of comprehensive international research into the sector, offers an international overview of its scope, structure, financing and role. The authors provide a comparative summary of the findings of individual empirical analyses into the nonprofit sectors in 12 countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Hungary, Japan, Brazil, Ghana, Egypt, Thailand and India.

Author: Ed Salamon
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Keywords: america, images, publishing, arcadia, golden, pittsburgh, radio
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2010-03-03
List price: $21.99
ISBN-10: 0738572233
ISBN-13: 9780738572239

Pittsburgh is the birthplace of radio, the location of many of radio’s first and most influential stations and broadcast personalities, and a key market for the development of new formats. Pittsburghers’ reaction to the music they heard on the radio helped to break records and create stars. Radio provided an unprecedented audience for live performances by local artists. After the big band era, radio gave voice to pop, rock and roll, and rhythm and blues. Pittsburgh’s Golden Age of Radio celebrates the city’s radio history, deejays, contests, concerts, public service, an

Author: Michael Salamon
Publisher: Financal Times Management
Keywords: practice, theory, relations, industrial
Number of Pages: 624
Published: 2001-06-10
List price: $110.00
ISBN-10: 027364646X
ISBN-13: 9780273646464

This well-known text draws on an extensive range of sources and materials to present a thorough, yet clear, introduction to the subject of industrial or employee relations for those studying at undergraduate, postgraduate or post-experience level. It provides a framework of concepts and knowledge for understanding and analysing approaches to the subject, the roles of the major participants, the issue confronting them and the strategies and processes used. The fourth edition retains the structure and international focus of the previous edition, but has been updated throughout and includes sever

Author: Julie Salamon
Publisher: Penguin Press HC, The
Keywords: behavior, tape, money, god, steroids, diversity, red, plus, woman, man, birth, death, infinity, hospital
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2008-05-15
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 1594201714
ISBN-13: 9781594201714

A bestselling author and award winning journalist follows a year in the life of a big urban hospital, painting a revealing portrait of how medical care is delivered in America today Most people agree that there are complicated issues at play in the delivery of health care today, but those issues may not always be what we think they are. In 2005, Maimonides Hospital in Brooklyn, New York, unveiled a new state-of-theart, multimillion-dollar cancer center. Determined to understand the whole spectrum of factors that determine what kind of medical care people receive in this country, bestselling au

Author: Dietmar Salamon
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: lecture, series, society, mathematical, geometry, london, symplectic
Number of Pages: 244
Published: 1994-02-25
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 0521446996
ISBN-13: 9780521446990

The area of symplectic geometry has developed rapidly in the past ten years with major new discoveries that were motivated by and have provided links with many other subjects such as dynamical systems, topology, gauge theory, mathematical physics, and singularity theory. The contributions to this volume reflect the richness of the subject and include expository papers as well as original research.