Michael J: 2158 books
Measurement Theory in Action
Case Studies and Exercises, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
This book helps readers apply testing and measurement theories. Featuring 22 self-standing modules, instructors can pick and choose the ones that are most appropriate for their course. Each module features an overview of a measurement issue and a step-by-step application of that theory. Best practices...
Law of Connection
The Science of Using NLP to Create Ideal Personal and Professional Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Married couples...dating couples...parents and children...teachers and students...office workers...management and staff...business to business...
There is a simple solution to improving your communication and buiilding better, healthier relationships. It's called Law of Connection. Make it...
by Michael J. Prince, James J. Rice
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2000
No one is content with the state of health and social programs in Canada today. The Right thinks that there is too much government involvement, and the Left thinks there is not enough. In Changing Politics of Canadian Social Policy James Rice and Michael Prince track the history of the welfare state...
Institutional Bypasses
A Strategy to Promote Reforms for Development
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018
Institutional bypass is a reform strategy that creates alternative institutional regimes to give citizens a choice of service provider and create a form of competition between the dominant institution and the institutional bypass. While novel in the academic literature, the concept captures practices...
Collaborative Governance for Urban Revitalization
Lessons from Empowerment Zones
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2014
For more than one hundred years, governments have grappled with the complex problem of how to revitalize distressed urban areas. In 1995, the original urban Empowerment Zones (Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago, Detroit, New York, and Philadelphia) each received a $100 million federal block grant and access...
Three Bio-Realms
Biotechnology and the Governance of Food, Health, and Life in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012
Biotechnology has become one of the most important issues in public policy and governance, altering the boundaries between the public and the private, the economic and the social, and further complicating the divide between what is scientifically possible and ethically preferred. Given the importance...
by Michael J. Butler
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2009
This new textbook provides students with an accessible overview of the logic, evolution, application and outcomes of the five major approaches of the growing field of international conflict management:
traditional peacekeeping
peace enforcement and support operations
negotiation and bargaining
mediation
adjudication.
The...
Database Design for Mere Mortals: A Hands-On Guide to Relational Database Design
A Hands-On Guide to Relational Database Design
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2003
&a>Database Design for Mere Mortals™, Second Edition, is a straightforward, platform-independent tutorial on the basic principles of relational database design. It provides a commonsense design methodology for developing databases that work.
Database design expert Michael J. Hernandez...
Angry, Bored, Confused
A Citizen Handbook Of American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
Angry, Bored, and Confused—three words that aptly describe the typical American’s view toward the world of politics. But it doesn’t have to stay this way, argues Michael J. Kryzanek in Angry, Bored, Confused: A Citizen Handbook of American Politics. Kryzanek discusses issues central to American...
Absent Citizens
Disability Politics and Policy in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2009
Disability exists in the shadows of public awareness and at the periphery of policy making. People with disabilities are, in many respects, missing from the theories and practices of social rights, political participation, employment, and civic membership. Absent Citizens brings to light these chronic...
by Michael J. Franklin
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2011
This book covers in detail what professional bodyguards need to know about the every day defensive tactics that they will need to protect others. It covers the topics of escorting, bodyguarding protective formations and all possible emergency drills when on foot, Embus, Debus Points and Route selection...
Until the Last Man Comes Home
POWs, MIAs, and the Unending Vietnam War
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2009
Fewer Americans were captured or missing during the Vietnam War than in any previous major military conflict in U.S. history. Yet despite their small numbers, American POWs inspired an outpouring of concern that slowly eroded support for the war. Michael J. Allen reveals how wartime loss transformed...
by Michael J Elliott
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
David is more than just an angry young man, he's actually a psychopath. With no regard for anyone or anything than himself, David only lives for one thing-his beloved video games. When he discovers a game in an old second hand shop he's determined to find a way to own it, even if that means stealing...
Adapting the Beat Poets
Burroughs, Ginsberg, and Kerouac on Screen
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
In the post-World War II era, authors of the beat generation produced some of the most enduring literature of the day. More than six decades since, work of the Beat Poets conjures images of unconventionality, defiance, and a changing consciousness that permeated the 1950s and 60s. In recent years,...