David Mcnabb: 14 books
The Dying Time
Practical Wisdom for the Dying & Their Caregivers
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2011
"One of the best books available on caring for the dying, The Dying Time combines deep insight and down-to-earth practicality. All caregivers need to know what's between these covers. This book demystifies the process of death, yet honors the sacredness of life's final transition. Highly recommended."
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Fiction River Special Edition: Spies
An Original Anthology Magazine
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2019
In this third Fiction River Special Edition, award-winning editor Kristine Kathryn Rusch proves a master of intrigue with a wide variety of spy stories. Ranging in tone from satire to serious, from touching to brutal, from light to oh-so-very-dark, these fifteen stories illuminate the secret world...
Fiction River Special Edition: Editor Saves
An Original Anthology Magazine
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2018
In this second Fiction River Special Edition, award-winning editor Kristine Kathryn Rusch performs editing magic in assembling this anthology of stories saved by not one but six different Fiction River editors. Culled from stories that did not fit in the magazine’s regular run, these gems piece...
The New Face of Government
How Public Managers Are Forging a New Approach to Governance
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Change is sweeping the globe, and at the government level, operational changes are prompting many public administrators to develop new management styles and ways of delivering services to their citizens. In the process, they are changing the face of government. **The New Face of Government: How Public...
by David E. McNabb
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
Discerning the early stages of the rebirth of a new Russian empire from the ashes of the Soviet Union, Vladimir Putin and Russia’s Imperial Revival argues that Russia’s recent overtly aggressive actions and foreign policy doctrines have signaled a renewal of the Cold War. At the least, Russia’s...
by Professor David E. McNabb
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
A welcome and much-needed addition to the literature on survey data quality in social research, Nonsampling Error in Social Surveys, by David E. McNabb, examines the most common sources of nonsampling error: frame error; measurement error; response error, nonresponse error, and interviewer error....
Fiction River: Pulse Pounders
Kobo Special Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
Starts with a bang.
Ends with a bang.
And a lot of bang in between.
Pulse Pounders. Ranging from straight thriller to science fiction, fantasy to pulp adventure, these stories make your heart race. Share the excitement as a woman held hostage in a chair has only a few minutes...
Fiction River: Universe Between
An Original Anthology Magazine
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
Between the earth and the sky, between the past and the present, between the musical notes and the silence exist universes. Millions of them. The eighth volume of Fiction River presents fourteen universes, all different, all powerful. From a planetary survey ship moored in an alien ocean to a comic...
Public Utilities, Second Edition
Old Problems, New Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2016
A thoroughly updated introduction to the current issues and challenges facing managers and administrators in the investor and publicly owned utility industry, this engaging volume addresses management concerns in five sectors of the utility industry: electric power, natural gas, water, wastewater systems and public transit.
Water Resource Management
Sustainability in an Era of Climate Change
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
This book is about how water managers in the United States are responding to the call for increased effort to achieve sustainable supplies of clean fresh water for present and future generations. The author, himself a participant in the water supply chain, demonstrates that while water is indeed one...
Energy Policy in the U.S.
Politics, Challenges, and Prospects for Change
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
In an effort to provide greater awareness of the necessary policy decisions facing our elected and appointed officials, Energy Policy in the U.S.: Politics, Challenges, and Prospects for Change presents an overview of important energy policies and the policy process in the United States, including...
Oil and the Creation of Iraq
Policy Failures and the 1914-1918 War in Mesopotamia
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Off to the sidelines of the brutal western front of World War I was a nasty little campaign by British and India troops sent to secure Persian oil fields. Explaining what and how this happened in the early decades of the twentieth century goes beyond being just another history of a distant campaign...
by David E. McNabb
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2019
This book investigates the current and future state of freshwater and the global drive to achieve the UN sustainability goal. It first explores the major barriers to achieving the goal and then examines some of the programs water managers are adopting to overcome those barriers. These programs include...
by David E. McNabb
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2017
Now in a thoroughly revised and refreshed fourth edition, Research Methods in Public Administration and Nonprofit Management is beloved by students and professors alike for its exceptional clarity and accessibility and plentiful illustrations. This new edition integrates quantitative, qualitative,...