Author: Prof. Richard N. L. Andrews
Publisher: Yale University Press
Keywords: managing, policy, second, environmental, history, environment, ourselves, american
Number of Pages: 544
Published: 2006-09-18
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 030011124X
ISBN-13: 9780300111248

In this book, Richard N. L. Andrews looks at American environmental policy over the past four hundred years, shows how it affects environmental issues and public policy decisions today, and poses the central policy challenges for the future. This second edition brings the book up to date through President George W. Bush’s first term and the current state of American environmental politics and policy.

Authors:Prof. Richard G. C. Johnston, Prof. Henry E. Brady,
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Keywords: effects, campaign, capturing
Number of Pages: 408
Published: 2006-04-03
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0472069217
ISBN-13: 9780472069217

Do political campaign events determine election winners? For too long, political scientists argued that issues, not campaigns, determined whether politicians won or lost. Journalists and party activists, on the other hand, devoted their energy to refining candidates’ public images, through events, advertisements and media appearances. "Capturing Campaign Effects" brings together an outstanding list of experts in the emerging field of campaign effects to study the influence of campaigns on our political culture. The result is a broad exploration of various campaign factors - debates, news

Author: Prof. Richard Sennett
Publisher: Yale University Press
Keywords: craftsman
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2009-03-31
List price: $18.00
ISBN-10: 0300151195
ISBN-13: 9780300151190

Defining craftsmanship far more broadly than “skilled manual labor,” Richard Sennett maintains that the computer programmer, the doctor, the artist, and even the parent and citizen engage in a craftsman’s work. Craftsmanship names the basic human impulse to do a job well for its own sake, says the author, and good craftsmanship involves developing skills and focusing on the work rather than ourselves. In this thought-provoking book, one of our most distinguished public intellectuals explores the work of craftsmen past and present, identifies deep connections between material consciousnes

Author: Prof Richard Heeks
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Keywords: text, international, egovernment, managing, implementing
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2005-11-23
List price: $63.95
ISBN-10: 0761967923
ISBN-13: 9780761967927

Check out the companion website at www.sagepub.co.uk/heeks   Implementing and Managing eGovernment fills an important gap. It provides comprehensive coverage of the e-government issues faced by managers, consultants and other practitioners. Richard Heeks draws on international examples to guide readers through crucial e-government management issues such as the management of strategy and projects; data security; quality; people, money and policies, and dealing with political and ethical challenges. The second part of the book focuses on the implementation of e-government systems. It expl

Author: Prof. Richard Sennett
Publisher: Yale University Press
Keywords: capitalism, new, culture
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2007-01-31
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0300119925
ISBN-13: 9780300119923

In this provocative book Richard Sennett looks at the ways today’s global, ever-mutable form of capitalism is affecting our lives. He analyzes how changes in work ethic, in our attitudes toward merit and talent, and in public and private institutions have all contributed to what he terms “the specter of uselessness,” and he concludes with suggestions to counter this disturbing new culture.“Hardly any social thinkers have given serious thought to the drastic changes in corporate culture wrought by downsizing, ‘re-orging,’ and outsourcing. Fortunately, the exception—Richard Sennett

Author: Richard Andrews
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: theory, research, practice, improving, higher, education, argumentation
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 2009-09-08
List price: $135.00
ISBN-10: 0415995000
ISBN-13: 9780415995009

Argumentation in Higher Education offers professors, lecturers and researchers informative guidance for teaching effective argumentation skills to their undergraduate and graduate students. This professional guide aims to make the complex topic of argumentation open and transparent. Grounded in empirical research and theory, but with student voices heard strongly throughout, this book fills the gap of argumentation instruction for the undergraduate and graduate level. Written to enlighten even the most experienced professor, this text contributes to a better understanding of the demands of sp

Author: Richard Andrews
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: theory, research, practice, improving, higher, education, argumentation
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 2009-09-08
List price: $46.95
ISBN-10: 0415995019
ISBN-13: 9780415995016

Argumentation in Higher Education offers professors, lecturers and researchers informative guidance for teaching effective argumentation skills to their undergraduate and graduate students. This professional guide aims to make the complex topic of argumentation open and transparent. Grounded in empirical research and theory, but with student voices heard strongly throughout, this book fills the gap of argumentation instruction for the undergraduate and graduate level. Written to enlighten even the most experienced professor, this text contributes to a better understanding of the demands of sp