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by Desmond Gahan
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
Public speaking (also called oratory or oration) is the process or act of performing a speech to a live audience. This type of speech is deliberately structured with three general purposes: to inform, to persuade and to entertain. Public speaking is commonly understood as formal, face-to-face...
The Next Public Administration
Debates and Dilemmas
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
Written by two of the leading scholars in the field, this book explores public administration in the past, present and future, critically reviewing the modernization of public management reform. It reasserts public administration as an integral component of democratic governance and fostering a state-citizen...
The Language of Public Administration
Bureaucracy, Modernity, and Postmodernity
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2015
Coping with the practical problems of bureaucracy is hampered by the limited self-conception and the constricted mindsets of mainstream public administration thinking. Modernist public administration theory, although valuable and capable of producing ever more remarkable results, is limiting as an...
by Carl Shoup
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Broad in scope and carefully balanced in emphasis, this book is a major treatise on the theory and practice of public finance. It is unique in its presentation of a worldwide perspective and in its treatment of both the instruments of public finance and the goals, effects, and criteria of public finance...
Public Health Nursing
Scope and Standards of Practice
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2013
Health care in the U.S. is in the throes of shifting its emphasis from an illness care system to one focused on health promotion and disease prevention. The convergence of multiple economic, political, and social factors including Healthy People 2020, the Obama Administration’s National Prevention...
Inception Point
The Use of Learning and Development to Reform the Singapore Public Service
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2018
Inception Point: The Use of Learning and Development to Reform the Singapore Public Service fills a gap in current literature on Singapore's modernisation. While the political leadership of the late Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew and his People's Action Party (PAP) government were key to Singapore's...
by Tina Nabatchi, Matt Leighninger
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
A comprehensive text on the theory and practice of public participation
Written by two leaders in the field, Public Participation for 21st Century Democracy explores the theory and practice of public participation in decision-making and problem-solving. It examines how public participation...
EU Public Contract Law
Public Procurement and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
This book analyses many aspects of the present EU regulatory framework for public contracts, especially public procurement, taking the ongoing reform process into account. First, several chapters discuss the regime of the Public Sector Procurement Directive 2004/18/EC governing the procurement activities...
Public Policy Praxis
A Case Approach for Understanding Policy and Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
Public administration and policy analysis education has long emphasized tidiness, stages, and rationality, but practitioners frequently must deal with a world where objectivity is buffeted by, repressed by, and sometimes defeated by, value conflict. Too often public administration education has failed...
by Sean Lusk, Nick Birks
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2014
Strategy is vital to effective and efficient public service delivery as well as successful governance and leadership. This new text provides a concise yet systematic overview of the achievements, downfalls and complexities of public strategy in today's globalized and often market-driven world. It...
Multidisciplinary public health
Understanding the development of the modern workforce
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2016
Including the voices of key protagonists in the development of the public health workforce, this book is an important addition to the history of public health in England. It charts events leading to the unique achievement, from 2003, of specialist status, equivalent to public health medical consultants,...
Public Oratory
Speaking and Overcome your Fears
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2019
Are you afraid and are you insecure to speak in public?
Do you want to speak in front of an audience but are you ashamed to know the reaction of the people?
"Public Oratory" is the book that will be your guide so you know how to overcome those problems that do not let you develop...
by Joanna Penn
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Successful writers have to speak in public eventually.
It might be a festival or radio show, TV interview, podcast, panel or keynote. It will happen eventually, so why not prepare now with this book on public speaking.
As creatives in a crowded world, we can no longer sit in our rooms,...
Introduction to Strategic Public Relations
Digital, Global, and Socially Responsible Communication
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Winner of the 2019 Textbook & Academic Authors Association’s The Most Promising New Textbook Award
How can public relations play a more active role in the betterment of society?
Introduction to Strategic Public Relations: Digital, Global, and Socially Responsible Communicationprepares...