Spatial Transformations : Kaleidoscopic Perspectives on the Refiguration of Spaces
Angela Million;Christian Haid;Ignacio Castillo Ulloa;Nina Baur;Angela Milli...
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Spatial Transformations : Kaleidoscopic Perspectives on the Refiguration of Spaces
2022
The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781003036159, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. This book examines a variety of subjective spatial experiences and knowledge production practices in order to shed new light on the specifics of contemporary socio-spatial change, driven as it is by inter alia, digitalization, transnationalization, and migration. Considering the ways in which emerging spatial phenomena are conditioned by an increasing interconnectedness, this book asks how spaces are changing as a result of mediatization, increased mobility, globalization, and social dislocation. With attention to questions surrounding the negotiation and (visual) communication of space, it explores the arrangements, spatialities, and materialities that underpin the processes of spatial refiguration by which these changes come about. Bringing together the work of leading scholars from across diverse range disciplines to address questions of socio-spatial transformation, this volume will appeal to sociologists and geographers, as well as scholars and practitioners of urban planning and architecture.
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Sociology - Space--Social aspects - Spatial behavior - Social changeContent provider:
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Cultural Dynamics in a Globalized World : Proceedings of the Asia-Pacific Research in Social Sciences and Humanities, Depok, Indonesia, November 7-9, 2016: Topics in Arts and Humanities
Melani Budianta;Manneke Budiman;Abidin Kusno;Mikihiro Moriyama;Melani Budia...
The book contains essays on current issues in arts and humanities in which peoples and...
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Cultural Dynamics in a Globalized World : Proceedings of the Asia-Pacific Research in Social Sciences and Humanities, Depok, Indonesia, November 7-9, 2016: Topics in Arts and Humanities
2020
The book contains essays on current issues in arts and humanities in which peoples and cultures compete as well as collaborate in globalizing the world while maintaining their uniqueness as viewed from cross- and interdisciplinary perspectives. The book covers areas such as literature, cultural studies, archaeology, philosophy, history, language studies, information and literacy studies, and area studies. Asia and the Pacifi c are the particular regions that the conference focuses on as they have become new centers of knowledge production in arts and humanities and, in the future, seem to be able to grow signifi cantly as a major contributor of culture, science and arts to the globalized world. The book will help shed light on what arts and humanities scholars in Asia and the Pacifi c have done in terms of research and knowledge development, as well as the new frontiers of research that have been explored and opening up, which can connect the two regions with the rest of the globe.
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Humanities--Congresses - Globalization--Congresses - Arts and society--CongressesContent provider:
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The Story of Silver : How the White Metal Shaped America and the Modern World
William L. Silber;William L. Silber
How silver influenced two hundred years of world history, and why it matters todayThis...
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The Story of Silver : How the White Metal Shaped America and the Modern World
2019
How silver influenced two hundred years of world history, and why it matters todayThis is the story of silver's transformation from soft money during the nineteenth century to hard asset today, and how manipulations of the white metal by American president Franklin D. Roosevelt during the 1930s and by the richest man in the world, Texas oil baron Nelson Bunker Hunt, during the 1970s altered the course of American and world history. FDR pumped up the price of silver to help jump start the U.S . economy during the Great Depression, but this move weakened China, which was then on the silver standard, and facilitated Japan's rise to power before World War II. Bunker Hunt went on a silver-buying spree during the 1970s to protect himself against inflation and triggered a financial crisis that left him bankrupt.Silver has been the preferred shelter against government defaults, political instability, and inflation for most people in the world because it is cheaper than gold. The white metal has been the place to hide when conventional investments sour, but it has also seduced sophisticated investors throughout the ages like a siren. This book explains how powerful figures, up to and including Warren Buffett, have come under silver's thrall, and how its history guides economic and political decisions in the twenty-first century.
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Mines and mineral resources--Economic aspects - Silver--History - Silver industry--HistoryContent provider:
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Essays on the Arts and Sciences
Miloslav Rechcigl;Miloslav Rechcigl
To celebrate the 270th anniversary of the De Gruyter publishing house, the company is ...
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Essays on the Arts and Sciences
2019; Vol. Volume II
To celebrate the 270th anniversary of the De Gruyter publishing house, the company is providing permanent open access to 270 selected treasures from the De Gruyter Book Archive. Titles will be made available to anyone, anywhere at any time that might be interested. The DGBA project seeks to digitize the entire backlist of titles published since 1749 to ensure that future generations have digital access to the high-quality primary sources that De Gruyter has published over the centuries.
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Science--Czechoslovakia - Arts--CzechoslovakiaContent provider:
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Dictionary of Midwestern Literature, Volume 2 : Dimensions of the Midwestern Literary Imagination
Philip A. Greasley;Philip A. Greasley
The Midwest has produced a robust literary heritage. Its authors have won half of the ...
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Dictionary of Midwestern Literature, Volume 2 : Dimensions of the Midwestern Literary Imagination
2016; Vol. Volume two
The Midwest has produced a robust literary heritage. Its authors have won half of the nation's Nobel Prizes for Literature plus a significant number of Pulitzer Prizes. This volume explores the rich racial, ethnic, and cultural diversity of the region. It also contains entries on 35 pivotal Midwestern literary works, literary genres, literary, cultural, historical, and social movements, state and city literatures, literary journals and magazines, as well as entries on science fiction, film, comic strips, graphic novels, and environmental writing. Prepared by a team of scholars, this second volume of the Dictionary of Midwestern Literature is a comprehensive resource that demonstrates the Midwest's continuing cultural vitality and the stature and distinctiveness of its literature.
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American literature--Middle West--Dictionaries - Authors, American--Homes and haunts--Middle West--Dictionaries - American literature--Middle West--Bio-bibliography--DictionariesContent provider:
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Free Spirits : Spiritualism, Republicanism, and Radicalism in the Civil War Era
Mark A. Lause;Mark A. Lause
Often dismissed as a nineteenth-century curiosity, spiritualism influenced the radical...
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Free Spirits : Spiritualism, Republicanism, and Radicalism in the Civil War Era
2016
Often dismissed as a nineteenth-century curiosity, spiritualism influenced the radical social and political movements of its time. Believers filled the ranks of the Free Democrats, agitated for land and monetary reform, fought for abolition, and held egalitarian leanings that found powerful expression in campaigns for gender and racial equality. In Free Spirits, Mark A. Lause considers spiritualism as a political and cultural force in Civil War-era America. Lause reveals the scope, spread, and influence of the movement, both in its links to reformist causes and its ability to amplify previously marginalized voices. Rooting spiritualism's appeal in the crises of the time, Lause considers how spiritualist influences, through the distillation of the war, forced reassessments of the question of Radical Republicanism and radicalism in general. He also delves into unexplored areas such as the movement's role in Lincoln's reelection and the relationship between Native Americans and spiritualists.
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Radicalism--United States--History--19th century - Spiritualism--United States--History--19th century - Republicanism--United States--History--19th centuryContent provider:
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Allie Victoria Tennant and the Visual Arts in Dallas
Cummins, Light Townsend;Cummins, Light Townsend
Winner, 2016 Liz Carpenter Award for the Research in the History of Women, presented a...
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Allie Victoria Tennant and the Visual Arts in Dallas
2015
Winner, 2016 Liz Carpenter Award for the Research in the History of Women, presented at the Texas State Historical Association Annual Meeting At Fair Park in Dallas, a sculpture of a Native American figure, bronze with gilded gold leaf, strains a bow before sending an arrow into flight. Tejas Warrior has welcomed thousands of visitors since the Texas Centennial Exposition opened in the 1930s. The iconic piece is instantly recognizable, yet few people know about its creator: Allie Victoria Tennant, one of a notable group of Texas artists who actively advanced regionalist art in the decades before World War II. Light Townsend Cummins follows Tennant's public career from the 1920s to the 1960s, both as an artist and as a culture-bearer, as she advanced cultural endeavors, including the arts. A true pathfinder, she helped to create and nurture art institutions that still exist today, most especially the Dallas Museum of Art, on whose board of trustees she sat for almost thirty years. Tennant also worked on behalf of other civic institutions, including the public schools, art academies, and the State Fair of Texas, where she helped create the Women's Building. Allie Victoria Tennant and the Visual Arts in Dallas sheds new light on an often overlooked artist.
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Art, American--Texas--Dallas--20th century - Women sculptors--Texas--Dallas--Biography - Sculptors--Texas--Dallas--BiographyContent provider:
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This Indian Country : American Indian Activists and the Place They Made
Frederick Hoxie;Frederick Hoxie
Frederick E. Hoxie, one of our most prominent and celebrated academic historians of Na...
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This Indian Country : American Indian Activists and the Place They Made
2012
Frederick E. Hoxie, one of our most prominent and celebrated academic historians of Native American history, has for years asked his undergraduate students at the beginning of each semester to write down the names of three American Indians. Almost without exception, year after year, the names are Geronimo, Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse. The general conclusion is inescapable: Most Americans instinctively view Indians as people of the past who occupy a position outside the central narrative of American history. These three individuals were warriors, men who fought violently against American expansion, lost, and died. It's taken as given that Native history has no particular relationship to what is conventionally presented as the story of America. Indians had a history too; but theirs was short and sad, and it ended a long time ago. In This Indian Country, Hoxie has created a bold and sweeping counter-narrative to our conventional understanding. Native American history, he argues, is also a story of political activism, its victories hard-won in courts and campaigns rather than on the battlefield. For more than two hundred years, Indian activists—some famous, many unknown beyond their own communities—have sought to bridge the distance between indigenous cultures and the republican democracy of the United States through legal and political debate. Over time their struggle defined a new language of “Indian rights” and created a vision of American Indian identity. In the process, they entered a dialogue with other activist movements, from African American civil rights to women's rights and other progressive organizations. Hoxie weaves a powerful narrative that connects the individual to the tribe, the tribe to the nation, and the nation to broader historical processes. He asks readers to think deeply about how a country based on the values of liberty and equality managed to adapt to the complex cultural and political demands of people who refused to be overrun or ignored. As we grapple with contemporary challenges to national institutions, from inside and outside our borders, and as we reflect on the array of shifting national and cultural identities across the globe, This Indian Country provides a context and a language for understanding our present dilemmas.
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Political activists--United States--History - Indian activists--United States--History - Indians of North America--Politics and governmentContent provider:
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CELEBRATING 100 YEARS OF FOREST SCIENCE: An Abridged History of the Southern Research Station.
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The Irony of the Solid South : Democrats, Republicans, and Race, 1865–1944
Glenn Feldman;Glenn Feldman
The Irony of the Solid South examines how the south became the “Solid South” for the D...
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The Irony of the Solid South : Democrats, Republicans, and Race, 1865–1944
2013
The Irony of the Solid South examines how the south became the “Solid South” for the Democratic Party and how that solidarity began to crack with the advent of American involvement in World War II. Relying on a sophisticated analysis of secondary research—as well as a wealth of deep research in primary sources such as letters, diaries, interviews, court cases, newspapers, and other archival materials—Glenn Feldman argues in The Irony of the Solid South that the history of the solid Democratic south is actually marked by several ironies that involve a concern with the fundamental nature of southern society and culture and the central place that race and allied types of cultural conservatism have played in ensuring regional distinctiveness and continuity across time and various partisan labels. Along the way, this account has much to say about the quality and nature of the New Deal in Dixie, southern liberalism, and its fatal shortcomings. Feldman focuses primarily on Alabama and race but also considers at length circumstances in the other southern states as well as insights into the uses of emotional issues other than race that have been used time and again to distract whites from their economic and material interests. Feldman explains how conservative political forces (Bourbon Democrats, Dixiecrats, Wallace, independents, and eventually the modern GOP) ingeniously fused white supremacy with economic conservatism based on the common glue of animus to the federal government. A second great melding is exposed, one that joined economic fundamentalism to the religious kind along the shared axis of antidemocratic impulses. Feldman's study has much to say about southern and American conservatism, the enduring power of cultural and emotional issues, and the modern south's path to becoming solidly Republican.
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Southern States--Politics and government--1865 - Democratic Party (U.S.)--History--20th century - Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )--History--20t - Southern States--Race relations--History--20Content provider:
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The War of 1812 : A Forgotten Conflict, Bicentennial Edition
Donald R Hickey;Donald R Hickey
This comprehensive and authoritative history of the War of 1812, thoroughly revised fo...
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The War of 1812 : A Forgotten Conflict, Bicentennial Edition
2012
This comprehensive and authoritative history of the War of 1812, thoroughly revised for the 200th anniversary of the historic conflict, is a myth-shattering study that will inform and entertain students, historians, and general readers alike. Donald R. Hickey explores the military, diplomatic, and domestic history of our second war with Great Britain, bringing the study up to date with recent scholarship on all aspects of the war, from the Gulf of Mexico to Canada. The newly expanded The War of 1812: A Forgotten Conflict, Bicentennial Edition includes additional information on the British forces, American Indians, and military operations such as the importance of logistics and the use and capabilities of weaponry. Hickey explains how the war promoted American nationalism and manifest destiny, stimulated peacetime defense spending, and enhanced America's reputation abroad. He also shows that the war sparked bloody conflicts between pro-war Republican and anti-war Federalist neighbors, dealt a crippling blow to American Indians, and solidified the United States's antipathy toward the British. Book-of-the-Month Club and History Book Club selections and received one of the two 1990'Best Book Awards'from the American Military Institute.
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The Encyclopedia of Public Choice
Charles Rowley;Friedrich Schneider;Charles Rowley;Friedrich Schneider
The Encyclopedia provides a detailed and comprehensive account of the subject known as...
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The Encyclopedia of Public Choice
2004
The Encyclopedia provides a detailed and comprehensive account of the subject known as public choice. However, the title would not convey suf- ciently the breadth of the Encyclopedia's contents which can be summarized better as the fruitful interchange of economics, political science and moral philosophy on the basis of an image of man as a purposive and responsible actor who pursues his own objectives as efficiently as possible. This fruitful interchange between the fields outlined above existed during the late eighteenth century during the brief period of the Scottish Enlightenment when such great scholars as David Hume, Adam Ferguson and Adam Smith contributed to all these fields , and more. However, as intell- tual specialization gradually replaced broad-based scholarship from the m- nineteenth century onwards, it became increasingly rare to find a scholar making major contributions to more than one. Once Alfred Marshall defined economics in neoclassical terms, as a n- row positive discipline, the link between economics, political science and moral philosophy was all but severed and economists redefined their role into that of ‘the humble dentist'providing technical economic information as inputs to improve the performance of impartial, benevolent and omniscient governments in their attempts to promote the public interest. This indeed was the dominant view within an economics profession that had become besotted by the economics of John Maynard Keynes and Paul Samuelson immediately following the end of the Second World War.
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Policy sciences--Encyclopedias - Economic policy--Encyclopedias - Social policy--EncyclopediasContent provider:
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EGU General Assembly 2015.
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Geophysical Research Abstracts. 2015, Vol. 17, p1-14302. 14302p.
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The Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court
Shultz, David;Shultz, David
The Last Titan : A Life of Theodore Dreiser
Jerome Loving;Jerome Loving
When Theodore Dreiser first published Sister Carrie in 1900 it was suppressed for its ...
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The Last Titan : A Life of Theodore Dreiser
2005
When Theodore Dreiser first published Sister Carrie in 1900 it was suppressed for its seamy plot, colloquial language, and immorality—for, as one reviewer put it, its depiction of'the godless side of American life.'It was a side of life experienced firsthand by Dreiser, whose own circumstances often paralleled those of his characters in the turbulent, turn-of-the-century era of immigrants, black lynchings, ruthless industrialists, violent labor movements, and the New Woman. This masterful critical biography, the first on Dreiser in more than half a century, is the only study to fully weave Dreiser's literary achievement into the context of his life. Jerome Loving gives us a Dreiser for a new generation in a brilliant evocation of a writer who boldly swept away Victorian timidity to open the twentieth century in American literature. Dreiser was a controversial figure in his time, not only because of his literary efforts, which included publication of the brutal and heartbreaking An American Tragedy in 1925, but also because of his personal life, which featured numerous sexual liaisons, included membership in the communist party, merited a 180-page FBI file, and ended in Hollywood. The Last Titan paints a full portrait of the mature Dreiser between the two world wars—through the roaring twenties, the stock market crash, and the Depression—and describes his contact with important figures from Emma Goldman and H.L. Mencken to two presidents Roosevelt. Tracing Dreiser's literary roots in Hawthorne, Emerson, Thoreau, and especially Whitman, Loving has written what will surely become the standard biography of one of America's best novelists.
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Novelists, American--20th century--Biography - Journalists--United States--BiographyContent provider:
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Isis Current Bibliography of the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences 2020.
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Isis: A Journal of the History of Science in Society; 2020 Supplement, Vol. 111, p1-317, 317p, 1 Color Photograph
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Isis: A Journal of the History of Science in Society; 2020 Supplement, Vol. 111, p1-317, 317p, 1 Color Photograph
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Isis Current Bibliography of the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences 2020.
Isis: A Journal of the History of Science in Society; 2020 Supplement, Vol. 111, p1-317, 317p, 1 Color Photograph
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Reevaluation of the Subgeneric Classification of the North American Species of Prionus Geoffroy (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Prioninae: Prionini), with a Revision of the Subgenus Neopolyarthron Semenov and Notes on Prionus (Antennalia) Fissicornis Haldeman...
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Living Within Limits : Ecology, Economics, and Population Taboos
Garrett Hardin;Garrett Hardin
'We fail to mandate economic sanity,'writes Garrett Hardin,'because our brains are add...
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Living Within Limits : Ecology, Economics, and Population Taboos
1995
'We fail to mandate economic sanity,'writes Garrett Hardin,'because our brains are addled by...compassion.'With such startling assertions, Hardin has cut a swathe through the field of ecology for decades, winning a reputation as a fearless and original thinker. A prominent biologist, ecological philosopher, and keen student of human population control, Hardin now offers the finest summation of his work to date, with an eloquent argument for accepting the limits of the earth's resources--and the hard choices we must make to live within them. In Living Within Limits, Hardin focuses on the neglected problem of overpopulation, making a forceful case for dramatically changing the way we live in and manage our world. Our world itself, he writes, is in the dilemma of the lifeboat: it can only hold a certain number of people before it sinks--not everyone can be saved. The old idea of progress and limitless growth misses the point that the earth (and each part of it) has a limited carrying capacity; sentimentality should not cloud our ability to take necessary steps to limit population. But Hardin refutes the notion that goodwill and voluntary restraints will be enough. Instead, nations where population is growing must suffer the consequences alone. Too often, he writes, we operate on the faulty principle of shared costs matched with private profits. In Hardin's famous essay,'The Tragedy of the Commons,'he showed how a village common pasture suffers from overgrazing because each villager puts as many cattle on it as possible--since the costs of grazing are shared by everyone, but the profits go to the individual. The metaphor applies to global ecology, he argues, making a powerful case for closed borders and an end to immigration from poor nations to rich ones.'The production of human beings is the result of very localized human actions; corrective action must be local....Globalizing the'population problem'would only ensure that it would never be solved.'Hardin does not shrink from the startling implications of his argument, as he criticizes the shipment of food to overpopulated regions and asserts that coercion in population control is inevitable. But he also proposes a free flow of information across boundaries, to allow each state to help itself.'The time-honored practice of pollute and move on is no longer acceptable,'Hardin tells us. We now fill the globe, and we have no where else to go. In this powerful book, one of our leading ecological philosophers points out the hard choices we must make--and the solutions we have been afraid to consider.
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Population - Birth control - Family planning servicesContent provider:
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EGU General Assembly 2016.
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Geophysical Research Abstracts. 2016, Vol. 18, p1-16028. 16028p.
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Biographies of Western Photographers : A Reference Guide to Photographers Working in the 19th Century American West
Mautz, Carl;Mautz, Carl
Biographies of Western Photographers : A Reference Guide to Photographers Working in the 19th Century American West
1997
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Handbook of Public Administration
Rabin, Jack;Hildreth, W. Bartley;Miller, Gerald;Rabin, Jack;Hildreth, W. Ba...
This bestselling reference examines all major areas in public administration from the ...
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Handbook of Public Administration
1998; Vol. 00065
This bestselling reference examines all major areas in public administration from the enlightening perspectives of history and the five'great'concepts or theories framing each topic, including public budgeting, financial management, decision making, public law and regulation, and political economy. The American Reference Books Annual calls this'...stimulating and thought-provoking….thorough and inclusive….a valuable contribution.,'and Canadian Public Administration said it is'….impressive…an extremely useful reference tool… the writing and analysis and the scope of the coverage make the volume a good investment for both government and university libraries.'
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Index to American Reference Books Annual 1990-1994 : A Cumulative Index to Subjects, Authors, and Titles
Patterson, Anna Grace;Patterson, Anna Grace
Index to American Reference Books Annual 1990-1994 : A Cumulative Index to Subjects, Authors, and Titles
1994
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Dwight D. Eisenhower : A Bibliography of His Times and Presidency
Lee, R. Alton;Lee, R. Alton
