Frank J : 456 books
Toward a Culture of Consequences
Performance-Based Accountability Systems for Public Services -- Executive Summary
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2010
Performance-based accountability systems (PBASs) link incentives to measured performance to improve services to the public. Research suggests that PBASs influence provider behaviors, but little is known about PBASs' effectiveness at achieving their performance goals. This document explores the design...
Collaborative Resilience
Moving Through Crisis to Opportunity
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2011
Case studies and analyses investigate how collaborative response to crisis can enhance social-ecological resilience and promote community reinvention.
Crisis—whether natural disaster, technological failure, economic collapse, or shocking acts of violence—can offer opportunities for collaboration,...
by Robert J. Garmston, Valerie von Frank
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2012
How great groups make great schools
This field book shows educators how to develop group culture, enhance facilitators’ skills, and optimize the group’s most precious resource—its members. The authors describe how to form working committees, task forces, grade-level, and department teams,...
by Barbara Adam, Wendell Bell, Michael Burawoy
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2009
Public sociology—an approach to sociology that aims to communicate with and actively engage wider audiences—has been one of the most widely discussed topics in the discipline in recent years. The Handbook of Public Sociology presents a comprehensive look at every facet of public sociology in theory...
Labour, Finance and Inequality
The Insecurity Cycle in British Public Policy
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Following the 2008 "global" financial crisis, the viability of globalised financial capitalism was called into question. The resulting fear and uncertainty produced a momentary return to "Keynesian" policies. But as soon as emergency stimuli – and bank bail-outs – appeared...
World Water Vision
Making Water Everybody's Business
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
More than a billion people cannot get safe drinking water; half the world's population does not have adequate sanitation; within a generation over three billion will be suffering from water stress. This text analyzes the issues in this crisis of management and shows how water can be used effectively...
by Terry L. Anderson, Ann M. Carlos, Christian Dippel
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Most American Indian reservations are islands of poverty in a sea of wealth, but they do not have to remain that way. To extract themselves from poverty, Native Americans will have to build on their rich cultural history including familiarity with markets and integrate themselves into modern economies...
by J. Frank James
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2015
Lou Malloy meets a young and beautiful PI, Hilary Kelly, and together they fight to keep their freedom and $15 million in Mob money as Malloy and Kelly race to protect what he earned the hard way and find the people responsible for his sisters death.
by Michael Boyd, Bryan Brown, Paul Carr
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
Encountering Ensemble, is a text for students, teachers, researchers and practitioners who wish to develop a deeper understanding of the history, conceptual foundations and practicalities of the world of ensemble theatre. It is the first book to draw together definitions and practitioner examples,...
by J. Frank Dobie
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
TEXAS FOLKLORE SOCIETY: AUSTIN REBAPTIZED IN INK I never have liked the title Publications; it connotes nothing but dry-as-dustness. Yet an organization that issues volumes at more or less regular intervals needs some such general title. As editor, I decided years ago to retain Publications as a sub-title...
by Soumen Chakrabarti, Earl Cox, Eibe Frank
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2008
This book brings all of the elements of data mining together in a single volume, saving the reader the time and expense of making multiple purchases. It consolidates both introductory and advanced topics, thereby covering the gamut of data mining and machine learning tactics ? from data integration...
The Worlds of James Buchanan and Thaddeus Stevens
Place, Personality, and Politics in the Civil War Era
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2019
The Worlds of James Buchanan and Thaddeus Stevens examines the political interests, relationships, and practices of two of the era’s most prominent politicians as well as the political landscapes they inhabited and informed. Both men called Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, their home, and both were...
Fortress of Terror: 550+ Horror Classics, Supernatural Mysteries & Macabre Tales
The Phantom of the Opera, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Turn of the Screw, The Dunwich Horror, Frankenstein, The Vampire, Dracula, A Haunted Island, Black Magic, The Beetle, The Picture of Dorian Gray…
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2018
Musaicum Books presents to you this unique collection, designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Content: Edgar Allan Poe: The Tell-Tale Heart The Cask of Amontillado The Black Cat… Henry James: The Turn of the Screw The Ghostly Rental…...
World-Systems Theory in Practice
Leadership, Production, and Exchange
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 1998
In the quarter century since Wallerstein first developed world systems theory (WST), scholars in a variety of disciplines have adopted the approach to explain intersocietal interaction on a grand scale. These essays bring to light archaeological data and analysis to show that many historic and prehistoric...