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Masonry Wall Construction

Masonry Wall Construction

This volume provides a concise overview of the main facets of masonry wall construction including materials structural design types of walls movement insulation rain exclusion site practice defects and repair. The subject is covered in sufficient depth for a comprehensive introduction with reading lists after each chapter for those interested in further detail. Drawing on a wealth of experience the authors present an essential and comprehensive coverage of masonry wall design and construction for students of civil and structural engineering architecture building surveying and related courses. It will also be a useful guide for practising engineers and other professionals who require a general knowledge of masonry construction.

GBP 175.00
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Jeff Wall and the Concept of the Picture

Jeff Wall and the Concept of the Picture

This book grapples with fundamental questions about the evolving nature of pictorial representation and the role photography has played in this ongoing process. These issues are explored through a close analysis of key themes that underpin the photography practice of Canadian artist Jeff Wall and through examining important works that have defined his oeuvre. Wall’s strategic revival of ‘the picture’ has had a resounding influence on the development of contemporary art photography by expanding the conceptual and technical frameworks of the medium and introducing a self-reflexive criticality. Naomi Merritt brings a new and original contribution to the scholarship on one of the most significant figures to have shaped the course of contemporary art photography since the 1970s and shines a light on the multilayered connections between photography and art. This book will be of interest to scholars in the history of photography art and visual culture and contemporary art history. | Jeff Wall and the Concept of the Picture

GBP 130.00
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Ophthalmic Imaging Posterior Segment Imaging Anterior Eye Photography and Slit Lamp Biomicrography

Ophthalmic Imaging Posterior Segment Imaging Anterior Eye Photography and Slit Lamp Biomicrography

Ophthalmic Imaging serves as a reference for the practicing ophthalmic imager. Ophthalmic imaging combines photography and diagnostic imaging to provide insight into not only the health of the eye but also the health of the human body as a whole. Ophthalmic photographers are specialists in imaging through and in the human eye one of the only parts of the body where the circulation and nervous system is visible non-invasively. With technical perspective as context this book will provide instructional techniques as well as the background needed for problem solving in this exciting field. The book covers all aspects of contemporary ophthalmic imaging and provides image support to ophthalmologists and sub-specialties including retinal specialists corneal specialists neuro-ophthalmologists and ocular oncologists. This text serves as a reference for the practicing ophthalmic imager or to imagers just getting started in the field. | Ophthalmic Imaging Posterior Segment Imaging Anterior Eye Photography and Slit Lamp Biomicrography

GBP 150.00
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The Rise and Fall of the German Democratic Republic 1945-1990

The Rise and Fall of the German Democratic Republic 1945-1990

This new book investigates communist rule in East Germany from its establishment as a sphere of Soviet influence after World War II to its rapid collapse after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Using newly available archive material the early chapters trace the emergence of the GDR out of the Soviet zone of occupation. Later chapters cover the dramatic episodes of the 1953 uprising against Soviet dominance and the building of the Berlin Wall in 1961. The subsequent stabilisation of the GDR and the establishment of an uneasy compromise between the ruling elites and the population in the later 1960s and 1970s are explained with reference to a range of internal social economic and political factors. The disintegration of the regime in 1989 is explained in the light of : The chronic weakness of Gorbachev's Soviet Union. The bravery of the protestors. The enduring appeal of West Germany's social market economy. Political pluralism. This clear and comprehensive survey marshals secondary and original primary sources in order to give a unique insight into the GDR's struggles and achievements. | The Rise and Fall of the German Democratic Republic 1945-1990

GBP 130.00
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Architect's Legal Pocket Book

Architect's Legal Pocket Book

A little book that's big on information the Architect's Legal Pocket Book is the definitive reference on legal issues for architects and architectural students. This handy pocket guide covers key legal principles which will help you to quickly understand the law and where to go for further information. Now in a fully updated new edition this bestselling book covers a wide range of subjects focused on the UK including building legislation negligence liability planning policy and development listed buildings party wall legislation and rights of light. This edition also contains greater coverage of contracts including the RIBA contracts dispute resolution and legal issues in professional practice. Illustrated with clear diagrams and featuring key cases this is an invaluable source of practical information and a comprehensive guide of the current law for architects. It is a book no architect should be without.

GBP 160.00
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The Design of Lighting

The Design of Lighting

This fully updated edition of the successful book The Design of Lighting provides the lighting knowledge needed by the architect in practice the interior designer and students of both disciplines. The new edition offers a clear structure carefully selected material and linking of lighting with other subjects in order to provide the reader with a comprehensive and specifically architectural approach to lighting. Features of this new edition include:Technical knowledge of lighting in the context of architectural design. An emphasis on imagination in architectural light and presentation of the tools necessary in practice for creative design. Additional chapters on the behaviour of light and on the context of design. A strong emphasis on sustainable design and energy saving with data and examples. Analyses of actual lighting schemes and references to current standards and design guides. An up-to-date review of lamp and lighting technology with recommendations on the choice of equipment. A revision of the calculation section with examples and step-by-step instructions based on recent student feedback about the book.

GBP 175.00
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Looking Through Freud's Photos

Looking Through Freud's Photos

A moody Freud posed against a background of holiday pictures pinned to a wall; or lurking at the very edge of a large family group; or lost in a crowd of nineteenth-century scientists. These snapshots or posed portraits not only tell stories they also carry a specific emotional charge. The earlier essays in this book follow traces of Freud's early years through the evidence of such album photographs; the later essays use them to reconstruct the stories of various family members. An unknown photo of his half-brother Emanuel initiates an investigation into the Manchester Freuds. An identity photo of his daughter Anna and the document to which it is attached throw light on the critical final days of her trip to England in 1914. A faded idyllic print of children playing evolves into a discussion of Ernst Freud's luck and childhood. The suicide of Anna's artist cousin Tom Seidmann Freud emerges from a snap of her infant daughter Angela. | Looking Through Freud's Photos

GBP 130.00
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Photonic Signal Processing Second Edition Techniques and Applications

Photonic Signal Processing Second Edition Techniques and Applications

This Second Edition of Photonic Signal Processing updates most recent R&D on processing techniques of signals in photonic domain from the fundamentals given in its first edition. Several modern techniques in Photonic Signal Processing (PSP) are described: Graphical signal flow technique to simplify the analysis of the photonic transfer functions plus its insights into the physical phenomena of such processors. The resonance and interference of optical fields are presented by the poles and zeros of the optical circuits respectively. Detailed design procedures for fixed and tunable optical filters. These filters brick-wall-like now play a highly important role in ultra-broadband (100GBaud) to spectral shaping of sinc temporal response so as to generate truly Nyquist sampler of the received eye diagrams 3-D PSP allows multi-dimensional processing for highly complex optical signals Photonic differentiators and integrators for dark soliton generations. Optical dispersion compensating processors for ultra-long haul optical transmission systems. Some optical devices essentials for PSP. Many detailed PSP techniques are given in the chapters of this Second Edition. | Photonic Signal Processing Second Edition Techniques and Applications

GBP 175.00
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Space Movement and Visibility in Pompeian Houses

Space Movement and Visibility in Pompeian Houses

This volume examines the pivotal role of movement visibility and experience within Pompeian houses as a major factor determining house form; the use of space; and the manner meaning and modalities of domestic daily life through the application of GIS-based analysis. Through close consideration of ancient literature detailed explanations of methodology and exploration of results Michael Anderson provides new perspectives on Pompeian domestic space including room types and household activities that rarely feature in the discussion of ancient housing. Readers gain a better understanding of priorities in the design of Pompeian houses the degree to which daily life was interrupted by earthquake damage in the site’s final years and evolving motivations behind wall painting decoration. The volume not only explores how Pompeian houses reflected the needs of everyday life as imagined by their architects but also how these spaces served to influence and control daily activities and ultimately how they were transformed by the spatial and visual requirements of domestic life. Space Movement and Visibility in Pompeian Houses is suitable for students and scholars of Pompeian houses and domestic life Roman architecture and urbanism and spatial analysis and space syntax.

GBP 120.00
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Greek and Roman Painting and the Digital Humanities

Greek and Roman Painting and the Digital Humanities

This volume is a groundbreaking discussion of the role of digital media in research on ancient painting and a deep reflection on the effectiveness of digital media in opening the field to new audiences. The study of classical art always oscillates between archaeology and classics between the study of ancient texts and archaeological material. For this reason it is often difficult to collect all the data to have access to both types of information on an equal basis. The increasing development of digital collections and databases dedicated to both archaeological material and ancient texts is a direct response to this problem. The book’s central theme is the role of the digital humanities especially digital collection s such as the Digital Milliet in the study of ancient Greek and Roman painting. Part 1 focuses on the transition between the original print version of the Recueil Milliet and its digital incarnation. Part 2 addresses the application of digital tools to the analysis of ancient art. Part 3 focuses on ancient wall painting. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history classics archaeology and digital humanities. | Greek and Roman Painting and the Digital Humanities

GBP 130.00
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Red Magic The World’s Best Fairy Tales Collected and Arranged by Romer Wilson

Red Magic The World’s Best Fairy Tales Collected and Arranged by Romer Wilson

With a Preface and biographies from Jack Zipes as well as the original illustrations by Kay Nielsen this collection of fairy tales originally published by the award-winning Romer Wilson – Green Magic (1928) Silver Magic (1929) and Red Magic (1930) – offers a combination of classic fairy tales alongside lesser known global and diverse tales. Red Magic contains such classics as “Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp” from the Arabian Nights “A Child’s Dream on a Star” by Dickens and “The Chimera” by Hawthorne. It also contains previously unpublished tales such as “Princess Silver Silk” and “The Enchanted Deer. ” It was Romer Wilson’s intention to combine the familiar with the unknown and to introduce authors and cultures from a variety of countries. As a researcher Wilson uncovered a remarkable amount of stories from other countries that remain unknown today. This collection gives voice to unique and intriguing tales that inspire children to have a better understanding of how people and their stories are alike despite major differences. Through his Preface and commentary Jack Zipes shows how all three books are a means to bring people together in the name of peace and justice. These books will therefore be of interest to anyone researching or studying fairy tales folklore and children’s literature as well as global or comparative literature and social justice. | Red Magic The World’s Best Fairy Tales Collected and Arranged by Romer Wilson

GBP 120.00
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Women and the Collaborative Art of Gardens From Antiquity to the Present

Women and the Collaborative Art of Gardens From Antiquity to the Present

Women and the Collaborative Art of Gardens explores the garden and its agency in the history of the built and natural environments as evidenced in landscape architecture literature art archaeology history photography and film. Throughout the book each chapter centers the act of collaboration from garden clubs of the early twentieth century as powerful models of women’s leadership to the more intimate partnerships between family members to the delicate relationship between artist and subject. Women emerge in every chapter whether as gardeners designers owners writers illustrators photographers filmmakers or subjects but the contributors to this dynamic collection unseat common assumptions about the role of women in gardens to make manifest the significant ways in which women write themselves into the accounts of garden design practice and history. The book reveals the power of gardens to shape human existence even as humans shape gardens and their representations in a variety of media including brilliantly illuminated manuscripts intricately carved architectural spaces wall paintings black and white photographs and wood cuts. Ultimately the volume reveals that gardens are best apprehended when understood as products of collaboration. The book will be of interest to scholars and students of gardens and culture ancient Rome art history British literature medieval France film studies women’s studies photography African American Studies and landscape architecture. | Women and the Collaborative Art of Gardens From Antiquity to the Present

GBP 130.00
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Rem Koolhaas as Scriptwriter OMA Architecture Script for West Berlin

Rem Koolhaas as Scriptwriter OMA Architecture Script for West Berlin

This book is the first survey of a new field in architecture theory: script writing. Rem Koolhaas as Scriptwriter explores the intersection of architecture film and text using the example of the working method of scriptwriter Rem Koolhaas and the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA). This book argues that Koolhaas formulates his approach to architecture on the basis of the “written sketch” or script and questions its transformations into built environment in the oeuvre of OMA. Divided into two parts the first part is a theoretical outline that explores the notion of scriptwriting in film. It provides in-depth insights into the definition and historical evolution of the script - as a blueprint Hollywood script avant-garde script storyboard the relation to auteur theory and the difference between the script and scenario. It surveys the first original script for the Exodus of the Voluntary Prisoners of Architecture. The second part offers a unique perspective on the urban development of West Berlin in which Koolhaas created a metropolitan script or blueprint that spans the period 1971–1989 from his first visit to Berlin to the fall of the Berlin Wall. This book will be of interest to researchers and students of architectural theory urban history and film studies. | Rem Koolhaas as Scriptwriter OMA Architecture Script for West Berlin

GBP 130.00
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City for Conquest

City for Conquest

F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby still captivates readers with its vision of 1920s New York as a city of infinite potential where ambition and defeat live hand in hand. This sentiment is captured with even greater acuity in the pages of Aben Kandel's nearly forgotten masterpiece of urban life City for Conquest (1936). The source of the classic 1940s James Cagney film of the same name this panoramic New York novel captures the complex patterns of city life vividly evoking a metropolis of dreams and nightmares. Kandel portrays a volatile city inhabited by the aristocrat the criminal the idealist the bohemian the driven the entrapped and the impoverished all equally striving to make a dent in this town. The city itself is booming its new constructions callously built on destruction supplanting with equal disdain the slums of Brooklyn and the farm fields of the Bronx. This feverish microcosm of humanity inhabits a world of immense inequality where six blocks from Wall Street people haven't got a dime six blocks from duplex apartments people live in hovels and between the scarlet sore and the apple of the eye there lay a thick eyebrow of indifference. A literary triumph in the tradition of Stephen Crane's Maggie: A Girl of the Streets and John Dos Passos' Manhattan Transfer and out of print for far too long City for Conquest is the inaugural work of fiction in Transaction's new Lost Urban Classics series.

GBP 130.00
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Nanomaterials in Architecture and Art Conservation

Nanomaterials in Architecture and Art Conservation

The conservation and protection of buildings that constitute our cultural heritage are complex tasks calling for a comprehensive knowledge of the historical background of the buildings as well as the construction technologies and materials used. Nanomaterials in Architecture and Art Conservation gives a comprehensive overview of the state of the art of using nanomaterials in conservation sciences mainly for stone mortar and plaster strengthening but also for the consolidation of wall paintings. The book compiles and details deterioration mechanisms of stone and historical mortars as well as methods of characterising and testing consolidation effects. The non- or semi-destructive characterisation methods that will be presented allow additional measurements to characterise objects before and after any interventions. Besides general aspects of inorganic consolidants are targeted. The focus in particular is the application of nanolime as a new consolidation agent. Basic characteristics and application advices as well as beneficial combinations with other consolidation agents such as silicic acid esters are emphasised. What makes this book so special is the large number of practical applications described from the viewpoint of different restorers offering a direct inside view of the procedure for the conservation of historical monuments. Restorers dealing with stone mortar and plaster conservation; artists; advanced undergraduate- and graduate-level students of conservation science art and nanotechnology; offices for the protection of monuments and heritage agencies; and researchers in materials science conservation nanotechnology and chemistry especially those with an interest in applied sciences will find this book a great reference.

GBP 139.00
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Small and Short-Range Radar Systems

Small and Short-Range Radar Systems

Radar Expert Esteemed Author Gregory L. Charvat on CNN and CBS Author Gregory L. Charvat appeared on CNN on March 17 2014 to discuss whether Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 might have literally flown below the radar. He appeared again on CNN on March 20 2014 to explain the basics of radar and he explored the hope and limitations of the technology involved in the search for Flight 370 on CBS on March 22 2014. Get His Book Now Coupling theory with reality from derivation to implementation of actual radar systems Small and Short-Range Radar Systems analyzes and then provides design procedures and working design examples of small and short-range radar systems. Discussing applications from automotive to through-wall imaging autonomous vehicle and beyond the practical text supplies high-level descriptions theoretical derrivations back-of-envelope calculations explanations of processing algorithms and case studies for each type of small radar system covered including continuous wave (CW) ultrawideband (UWB) impulse linear frequency modulation (FM) linear rail synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and phased array. This essential reference: Explains how to design your own radar devices Demonstrates how to process data from small radar sensors Provides real-world measured radar data to test algorithms before investing development time Complete with downloadable MATLAB® scripts and actual radar measurements Small and Short-Range Radar Systems empowers you to rapidly develop small radar technology for your application.

GBP 89.99
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Donald J. Trump's Presidency Communicating Race and Migration

Donald J. Trump's Presidency Communicating Race and Migration

This book captures Donald J. Trump’s presidency by addressing the remarkable tropes that defined that period. It offers research-based investigations of the communicative aspects of Trump’s presidency with a focus on race immigration xenophobia and social conflicts as they interact with communication. The book utilizes research data to capture critical moments of the presidency. Chapters examine metadiscourse during President Trump’s press events where he accused the media of “Nasty Question” and “Fake News” offer computational framing analysis to expose the communication of racism and xenophobia in US-Mexico cross-border wall discourses and provide critical textual analysis of select episodes of CW’s critically acclaimed TV show Jane the Virgin exposing how citizenship or lack thereof shapes one’s relationship to the state and surrounding communities. They also offer textual analysis to demonstrate how a predominantly White newsroom differs from a newsroom that is racially diverse against the backdrop of the coverage of two politically charged issues of Black Lives Matter and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and explore interdisciplinary concepts related to understanding immigrants’ and sojourners’ believability evaluation of disinformation. Donald J. Trump's Presidency will be a key resource for scholars and researchers of communication studies political communication media and cultural studies race and ethnic studies and political science while also appealing to anyone interested in the communicative aspects of Trump’s presidency and American politics. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Howard Journal of Communications. | Donald J. Trump's Presidency Communicating Race and Migration

GBP 130.00
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American Public Administration Public Service for the Twenty-First Century

American Public Administration Public Service for the Twenty-First Century

American Public Administration has been the go-to introductory textbook for Public Administration courses with a focus on civil society for the last decade. Now in an extensively revised and updated second edition authors Cropf and Wagner weave the most recent and compelling research throughout every chapter to give students a useful in-depth understanding of the field today. Changes to this edition include: A stronger focus on e-governance and the ways in which technological change (e. g. social media government information policy surveillance) have transformed the government’s relationship with citizens as well as the role of the public servant/nonprofit worker at the federal state and local levels An expanded discussion of citizen participation in all aspects of governing including the 2016 elections the Occupy Wall Street movement and the Black Lives Matter movement Updated mini case studies throughout the text on topics such as climate change LGBT rights and violent extremism to maximize student engagement A new section on major local government issues including public–private partnerships land-use planning and economic development – and their relevance to Public Administration A chapter focusing on environmental policy administration and the role and responsibilities of public administrators in a time of global climate change Expanded coverage of the nonprofit sector and discussion of important linkages between Public Administration and Nonprofit Management A comprehensive suite of online supplements including PowerPoint slides an Instructor’s Manual with suggested lectures discussion questions and a test bank (includes multiple choice true-false matching) as well as student exercises (written individual group and web-based). Comprehensive well-written and offering a careful consideration of the fundamentals American Public Administration Second Edition is an ideal introductory text for courses at the undergraduate or graduate level offering students a broader civil society context in which to understand public service. | American Public Administration Public Service for the Twenty-First Century

GBP 94.99
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The New York City Police Department The Impact of Its Policies and Practices

The New York City Police Department The Impact of Its Policies and Practices

Studying the flagship New York City Police Department is critical to understanding policing and democratic society. An examination of the department by experts who have been studying it for years The New York City Police Department: The Impact of Its Policies and Practices provides a frank and open discussion about the NYPD from an elite group of scholars with varying viewpoints and concerns. The authors in this book are uniquely qualified to discuss and analyze the intricacies of policies and their impact. Researchers working the streets of Brooklyn expose stop-and-frisk policies. An expert academic covers marijuana arrest policies and their implications on citizens. The impact of the NYPD‘s development of innovative technology is demonstrated by a recently retired captain who worked on developing the department‘s real-time crime center. Presenting the insight of these and other experts the book explores critical questions such as: How are victims of crime faring in the NYPD‘s performance management system? Does the NYPD manipulate crime reports to make them appear better? How does the NYPD handle mass demonstrations? How does the community view the NYPD? How can an individual start a grassroots movement to influence policy and practices? The book explores hiring firing and retention; analyzes crime-fighting strategies; discusses the drop in homicide rate in recent years; and reviews legal concerns and the response to public demonstrations such as the Occupy Wall Street movement. The final chapter evaluates implications of the policies the NYPD follows and analyzes how it affects policing worldwide. A scintillating expos n police culture and resistance to change the book is destined to encourage enhanced social discourse on the topic for years to come. | The New York City Police Department The Impact of Its Policies and Practices

GBP 175.00
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The Pension Fund Revolution

The Pension Fund Revolution

In The Pension Fund Revolution originally published nearly two decades ago under the title The Unseen Revolution Drucker reports that institutional investors especially pension funds have become the controlling owners of America's large companies the country's only capitalists. He maintains that the shift began in 1952 with the establishment of the first modern pension fund by General Motors. By 1960 it had become so obvious that a group of young men decided to found a stock-exchange firm catering exclusively to these new investors. Ten years later this firm (Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette) became the most successful and one of the biggest Wall Street firms. Drucker's argument that through pension funds ownership of the means of production had become socialized without becoming nationalized was unacceptable to the conventional wisdom of the country in the 1970s. Even less acceptable was the second theme of the book: the aging of America. Among the predictions made by Drucker in The Pension Fund Revolution are: that a major health care issue would be longevity; that pensions and social security would be central to American economy and society; that the retirement age would have to be extended; and that altogether American politics would increasingly be dominated by middle-class issues and the values of elderly people. While readers of the original edition found these conclusions hard to accept Drucker's work has proven to be prescient. In the new epilogue Drucker discusses how the increasing dominance of pension funds represents one of the most startling power shifts in economic history and he examines their present-day Impact. The Pension Fund Revolution is now considered a classic text regarding the effects of pension fund ownership on the governance of the American corporation and on the structure of the American economy altogether. The reissuing of this book is more timely now than ever. It provides a wealth of information for sociologists economists and political theorists.

GBP 130.00
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Introducing Public Administration

Introducing Public Administration

Now in an extensively revised tenth edition Introducing Public Administration provides students with the conceptual foundation they need while introducing them to important trends in the discipline. This classic textbook—blending historical accounts with contemporary events—examines the most important issues in the field of public administration through the use of examples from various disciplines and modern culture. Its approach of using extensive case studies at the end of each chapter encourages students to think critically about the nature purpose and public value of public administration today. Refreshed and revised throughout the tenth edition contains a number of critical updates for the field: All-new case studies at the end of each chapter to address various challenges including social justice climate change action smart cities transforming governmental institutions and economic responses to the global pandemic. The case studies—many with legal dimensions as well—cover emerging issues and are well suited for further research by students. Two chapters by contributing authors on 1) Social equity and justice covering contemporary challenges in the US from police reform to voting rights and homelessness and 2) Public budgeting contrasting government fiscal efforts between two recessions illuminating successes and failures with a case study on the federal government shutdown in 2019 over border wall funding. Keynotes at the start of each chapter to help introduce students to historical figures contemporary dilemmas and examples of public service in action including subjects such as diversity and inclusion marijuana legalization organizational effects of remote work and examining scenarios for the future. A completely rewritten concluding chapter on leadership followership and leading teams with a discussion of destructive leadership types and a flipped case study on defining what leadership effectiveness is. Complete with a fully updated companion website containing instructor slides for each chapter a chapter-by-chapter instructor’s manual and sample syllabus student learning objectives and self-test questions Introducing Public Administration is the ideal introduction to the discipline for first year masters students as well as for the growing number of undergraduate public administration courses and programs.

GBP 145.00
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Reflections on the Revolution in Europe

Reflections on the Revolution in Europe

The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 effectively ended the division of Europe into East and West and the features of our world that have resulted bear little resemblance to those of the forty years that preceded the Wall's fall. The rise of a new Europe prompts many questions most of which remain to be answered. What does it all mean? Where is it going to lead? Are we witnessing the conclusion of an era without seeing anything to replace an old and admittedly dismal way of life? What will a market economy do to the social texture of various countries of Central Europe? Will it not make some rich while many will become poorer than ever? How can the rule of law be brought about?In this incisive and lucid book Ralf Dahrendorf one of Europe's most distinguished scholars ponders these and other equally vexing questions. He regards what has happened in East Central Europe as a victory for neither of the social systems that once opposed each other across the Iron Curtain. Rather he views these events as a vote for an open society over a closed society. The continuing conundrum he argues which will plague peoples everywhere will be how to balance the need for economic growth with the desire for social justice while building authentic and enduring democratic institutions. Reflections on the Revolution in Europe which includes a new introduction from the author is a humane skeptical and anti-utopian work a manifesto for a radical liberalism in which the social entitlements of citizenship are as important a condition of progress as the opportunities for choice. A fascinating study of change and geopolitics in the modern world Reflections points the way towards a new politics for the twenty-first century. Ralf Dahrendorf born in Hamburg Germany in 1929 is a member of Britain's House of Lords. He was professor of sociology at Hamburg Tobingen and Konstanz from 1957 to 1968 and in 1974 moved to Britain. He has been the director of the London School of Economics warden of St. Antony's College and pro vice-chancellor of the University of Oxford. He is the author of numerous books including The Modern Social Conflict and After 1989: Morals Revolution and Civil Society.

GBP 130.00
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