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American Public Administration

Public Service for the Twenty-First Century

By: Robert A. Cropf,John L. Wagner

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American Public Administration

Public Service for the Twenty-First Century

By: Robert A. Cropf,John L. Wagner

American Public Administration has been the go-to introductory textbook for Public Administration courses with a focus on civil society for the better part of two decades. Now in an extensively revised and updated third 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: Three new chapters, including one on public administration’s role in community resilience, a second on public administration and public health, and a complete rewrite of the chapter on managing information resources in public organizations. Extended discussions about the importance of civil society in public administration as well as the growing role of information technology, including the role of government in combating misinformation and disinformation. New coverage of topics, including but not limited to: the need for better disaster and pandemic planning at all levels of government; a need for greater preparedness related to global climate change; the worsening of the wealth inequality gap in the United States; America’s changing role in the world’s economy; important efforts to achieve racial, economic, and social equality and the response from government; and the increasing and evolving relationship between police and the community in the United States. Fully updated pedagogical tools including chapter summaries, discussion questions, brief case studies, case study discussion questions, key terms, and suggestions for further reading in each chapter, as well as accompanying support material that can be easily incorporated into Learning Management Systems (LMS), including Canvas and Blackboard. Comprehensive, well-written, and offering a careful consideration of the fundamentals, American Public Administration, Third Edition is an ideal introductory text for courses at undergraduate or graduate level, offering students a broader civil society context in which to understand public service.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000905012

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9781000905014

The Life and Times of Missouri's Charles Parsons

Between Art and War

By: John Launius

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The Life and Times of Missouri's Charles Parsons

Between Art and War

By: John Launius

Charles Parsons is one of St. Louis's and the nation's most influential yet little-known figures. He was instrumental to the Union cause as a Civil War quartermaster and advisor to generals, politicians and presidents alike. As a world-traveling art connoisseur, he helped found the first art museum west of the Mississippi, to which he donated his remarkable collection of American, European and Asian art. To this day, his philanthropic work and dedication to education live on in some of the country's grandest institutions. Author John Launius tells the full story for the first time, from business failures in a riverside boomtown to national renown.

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196

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Arcadia Publishing

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1439669074

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9781439669075

These Movies Won No Hollywood Awards

By: John Reid

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These Movies Won No Hollywood Awards

By: John Reid

This selection of movies that won no Hollywood awards includes some that are famous like Garbo's "Queen Christina" and "A Woman of Affairs," William Wyler's "Carrie" and "Detective Story," Fritz Lang's "Metropolis," John Farrow's "California," Hitchcock's "Young and Innocent," John Ford's "Wee Willie Winkie," Albert Lewin's "Pandora and the Flying Dutchman," Mae West's "She Done Him Wrong," and DeMille's original version of "The Ten Commandments"; some that deserve to be famous like "Tonight and Every Night," "Sunnyside Up," "Ambassador Bill," "Diplomaniacs," "The Nitwits," "Fallen Angel" and "Rhythm on the Range"; and some that had no chance at all like "The Noose Hangs High," "Words and Music," "The Bohemian Girl," and 'Wagon Wheels Westward." Special added feature: a monograph on one of Hollywood's greatest directors, Henry Hathaway.

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240

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Lulu.com

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1411658469

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9781411658462

Movie Mystery & Suspense

By: John Howard Reid

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Movie Mystery & Suspense

By: John Howard Reid

Famous features such as "Sherlock Holmes Faces Death," "Johnny Allegro," "My Forbidden Past," "His Kind of Woman," "The Big Carnival," and "After the Thin Man" are examined, plus the "Bulldog Drummond" series, and a number of serials including "The Clutching Hand," "Chick Carter, Detective," "Panther Girl of the Congo," "Holt of the Secret Service" and "The Last of the Mohicans." Two bonus features are monographs on Robert Siodmak (of "Cobra Woman," "The Phantom Lady," "The Spiral Staircase," etc.) and Otto Preminger, who made "Laura," "Fallen Angel," "Whirlpool," "Where the Sidewalk Ends," "The 13th Letter" and "Angel Face.

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227

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Lulu.com

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1411676009

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9781411676008

Commentaries on the Law of Municipal Corporations

Vol. II

By: John Forrest Dillon

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Commentaries on the Law of Municipal Corporations

Vol. II

By: John Forrest Dillon

Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.

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618

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3385446376

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9783385446373

A World Safe for Democracy

Liberal Internationalism and the Crises of Global Order

By: G. John Ikenberry

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A World Safe for Democracy

Liberal Internationalism and the Crises of Global Order

By: G. John Ikenberry

A sweeping account of the rise and evolution of liberal internationalism in the modern era For two hundred years, the grand project of liberal internationalism has been to build a world order that is open, loosely rules-based, and oriented toward progressive ideas. Today this project is in crisis, threatened from the outside by illiberal challengers and from the inside by nationalist-populist movements. This timely book offers the first full account of liberal internationalism’s long journey from its nineteenth-century roots to today’s fractured political moment. Creating an international “space” for liberal democracy, preserving rights and protections within and between countries, and balancing conflicting values such as liberty and equality, openness and social solidarity, and sovereignty and interdependence—these are the guiding aims that have propelled liberal internationalism through the upheavals of the past two centuries. G. John Ikenberry argues that in a twenty-first century marked by rising economic and security interdependence, liberal internationalism—reformed and reimagined—remains the most viable project to protect liberal democracy.

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Yale University Press

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0300230982

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9780300230987

Best Western Movies

Winning Pictures, Favorite Films and Hollywood B Entries

By: John Howard Reid

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Best Western Movies

Winning Pictures, Favorite Films and Hollywood B Entries

By: John Howard Reid

This grab-bag of movie westerns ranges from the best to the worst; from lavish, no-expense-spared Cecil B. DeMille epics to Poverty Row double bills; from big-budget John Wayne vehicles like "In Old Oklahoma," "The War Wagon" and "The Fighting Kentuckian" to the sort of bottom-drawer product delivered by Sherman Scott and Monogram; from prestige, star-studded westerns like "My Darling Clementine" and "How the West Was Won" to the depths of "The Toughest Man in Arizona"; from the expertly crafted, super-popular "B" stables of Gene Autry, William Boyd, Roy Rogers, Charles Starrett and company to the fly-by-night efforts of long-forgotten brands like "The Range Busters." All reviews carry detailed credits. The book is rounded out with a Hopalong Cassidy filmography and many reproductions of original film posters.

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1847281818

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9781847281814

The Happiest Trails

By: John Brooker

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The Happiest Trails

By: John Brooker

John Brooker writes in his Introduction: "B westerns have always been part of my life. I decided ... to tour the US by Greyhound bus and try and track down some of my childhood heroes." From that and subsequent trips, Brooker began to write books, magazine columns, and even a TV series ("Movie Memories"). This book contains his interviews with the actors and other research on the B westerns. Fully illustrated.

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1365741222

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Popular Pictures of the Hollywood 1940s

By: John Reid

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Popular Pictures of the Hollywood 1940s

By: John Reid

A detailed review of 120 popular films, mostly from the 1940s. Includes comprehensive cast and technical credits, plus background and release information.

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1411617371

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9781411617377

The American Judicial Tradition : Profiles of Leading American Judges

Profiles of Leading American Judges

By: G. Edward White John B. Minor Professor of Law and Cromwell Research Professor of History University of Virginia

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The American Judicial Tradition : Profiles of Leading American Judges

Profiles of Leading American Judges

By: G. Edward White John B. Minor Professor of Law and Cromwell Research Professor of History University of Virginia

Now available in a newly revised and updated second edition, this highly-acclaimed volume presents a series of portraits of the most famous appellate judges in American history from John Marshall to the Burger court. G. Edward White traces the American judicial tradition through sketches of the careers and contributions of such significant judges as John Marshall, Joseph Story, Roger Taney, Stephen Field, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Louis Brandeis, Charles Evans Hughes, Felix Frankfurter, Hugo Black, Earl Warren, William Brennan, and Sandra Day O'Connor. This expanded edition contains a new preface, an updated bibliographical note, and two new chapters, one on Justice William O. Douglas and one on the Burger Court.

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566

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199729182

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9780199729180

Next-Generation Homeland Security

Network Federalism and the Course to National Preparedness

By: John Morton

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Next-Generation Homeland Security

Network Federalism and the Course to National Preparedness

By: John Morton

Security governance in the second decade of the 21st century is ill-serving the American people. Left uncorrected, civic life and national continuity will remain increasingly at risk. At stake well beyond our shores is the stability and future direction of an international political and economic system dependent on robust and continued U.S. engagement. Outdated hierarchical, industrial structures and processes configured in 1947 for the Cold War no longer provide for the security and resilience of the homeland. Security governance in this post-industrial, digital age of complex interdependencies must transform to anticipate and if necessary manage a range of cascading catastrophic effects, whether wrought by asymmetric adversaries or technological or natural disasters. Security structures and processes that perpetuate a 20th century, top-down, federal-centric governance model offer Americans no more than a single point-of-failure. The strategic environment has changed; the system has not. Changes in policy alone will not bring resolution. U.S. security governance today requires a means to begin the structural and process transformation into what this book calls Network Federalism. Charting the origins and development of borders-out security governance into and through the American Century, the book establishes how an expanding techno-industrial base enabled American hegemony. Turning to the homeland, it introduces a borders-in narrative—the convergence of the functional disciplines of emergency management, civil defense, resource mobilization and counterterrorism into what is now called homeland security. For both policymakers and students a seminal work in the yet-to-be-established homeland security canon, this book records the political dynamics behind the creation of the Department of Homeland Security, the impact of Hurricane Katrina and the ongoing development of what is now called the Homeland Security Enterprise. The work makes the case that national security governance has heretofore been one-dimensional, involving horizontal interagency structures and processes at the Federal level. Yet homeland security in this federal republic has a second dimension that is vertical, intergovernmental, involving sovereign states and local governments whose personnel are not in the President’s chain of command. In the strategic environment of the post-industrial 21st century, states thus have a co-equal role in strategy and policy development, resourcing and operational execution to perform security and resilience missions. This book argues that only a Network Federal governance will provide unity of effort to mature the Homeland Security Enterprise. The places to start implementing network federal mechanisms are in the ten FEMA regions. To that end, it recommends establishment of Regional Preparedness Staffs, composed of Federal, state and local personnel serving as co-equals on Intergovernmental Personnel Act (IPA) rotational assignments. These IPAs would form the basis of an intergovernmental and interdisciplinary homeland security professional cadre to build a collaborative national preparedness culture. As facilitators of regional unity of effort with regard to prioritization of risk, planning, resourcing and operational execution, these Regional Preparedness Staffs would provide the Nation with decentralized network nodes enabling security and resilience in this 21st century post-industrial strategic environment.

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Naval Institute Press

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1612510892

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9781612510897

Coriolanus on Stage in England and America, 1609-1994

By: John Ripley

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Coriolanus on Stage in England and America, 1609-1994

By: John Ripley

Drawing upon promptbooks and other theater documents, engravings and photographs, reviews, interviews, letters, diaries, and memoirs, he creates a richly layered account of a play persistently denied its character and rarely staged without explicit or implicit apology.

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Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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0838637418

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9780838637418

Packers by the Numbers

Jersey Numbers and the Players who Wore Them

By: John Maxymuk

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Packers by the Numbers

Jersey Numbers and the Players who Wore Them

By: John Maxymuk

Numbers conjure up vivid memories in sports. If you say "3" most sports fans would think of Babe Ruth; Green Bay Packer fans would remember Tony Canadeo. If you say "75" most football fans would think of Mean Joe Green, but Packer fans would recall Forrest Gregg. This unique book features 99 chapters one keyed to each uniform number. The history of each number provides a different slice of Packer history, representing a thematic rather than chronological approach to Green Bay's rich heritage. There is no other book like this that reviews a team history by its uniform numbers. A refreshing take on a most popular team!

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468

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Big Earth Publishing

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1879483904

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9781879483903

Screen World, 1988

By: John Willis

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Screen World, 1988

By: John Willis

This authoritative guide to the 1987 movie season offers complete listings of the credits for every film along with speical biographical notes on selected individuals. More than 1,000 black-and-white photographs.

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Crown

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0517569639

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American Public Administration

American Public Administration

The Life and Times of Missouri's Charles Parsons

The Life and Times of Missouri's Charles Parsons

These Movies Won No Hollywood Awards

These Movies Won No Hollywood Awards

Movie Mystery & Suspense

Movie Mystery & Suspense

Commentaries on the Law of Municipal Corporations

Commentaries on the Law of Municipal Corporations

A World Safe for Democracy

A World Safe for Democracy

Best Western Movies

Best Western Movies

The Happiest Trails

The Happiest Trails

Popular Pictures of the Hollywood 1940s

Popular Pictures of the Hollywood 1940s

The American Judicial Tradition : Profiles of Leading American Judges

The American Judicial Tradition : Profiles of Leading American Judges

Next-Generation Homeland Security

Next-Generation Homeland Security

Coriolanus on Stage in England and America, 1609-1994

Coriolanus on Stage in England and America, 1609-1994

Packers by the Numbers

Packers by the Numbers

Screen World, 1988

Screen World, 1988

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