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Landscapes of Menorca

A Countryside Guide

By: Rodney Ansell

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45 long and short walks, 2 car tours and 17 picnic suggestions are included in this 3rd edition. As well as modifying some exisiting routes, the author details recent changes made near to the popular resorts of Son Bou and Sant Tomas.

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Hunter Publishing, Inc

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1856911683

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Targeting Commitment

Interagency Performance in New Zealand

By: Rodney Scott,Ross Boyd

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Targeting Commitment

Interagency Performance in New Zealand

By: Rodney Scott,Ross Boyd

New Zealand's deceptively simple but effective program to improve public services New Zealand has long been considered at the forefront of public administration, experimenting with new ways of organizing and delivering public services. Even so, successive New Zealand governments had mixed results from using traditional public management tools to lift the performance of the public service and address persistent problems that required multi-agency action. In 2012 the government decided to try something different. As part of a reform package called Better Public Services, the government challenged the public service to organize itself around achieving just ten results that had proven resistant to previous interventions. The plan was deceptively simple: set ambitious targets and publicly report on progress every six months; hold small groups of public managers collectively responsible; use lead indicators; and learn from both success and failure. This book explores how and why the New Zealand government made progress and how the program was able to create and sustain the commitment of public servants and unleash the creativity of public entrepreneurs. The authors combine case studies based on the experience of people involved in the change, together with public management research. They explain how ambitious targets and public accountability were used as levers to overcome the bureaucratic barriers that impeded public service delivery, and how data, evidence, and innovation were used to change practice. New Zealand experimented, failed, succeeded, and learned from the experience over five years. This New Zealand experience demonstrates that interagency performance targets are a potentially powerful tool for fostering better public services and thus improving social outcomes.

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Brookings Institution Press

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0815739192

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9780815739197

Hypermobility of Joints

By: Peter H. Beighton,Rodney Grahame,Howard Bird

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Hypermobility of Joints

By: Peter H. Beighton,Rodney Grahame,Howard Bird

Hypermobility of Joints 4th Edition follows the same format as its successful predecessors. The aim of which was to provide an overview of hyperlaxity of joints and this edition follows that aim by describing the most recent research and new developments in biochemistry, as well as providing practical advice on clinical features and management. Hypermobility of Joints 4th Edition provides illustrative case histories, a review of hypermobility in the performing arts and sports and an outline of heritable hypermobility syndromes. This book is a valuable reference tool for a wide number of specialties, although it will particularly be of interest to rheumatologists, orthopedic surgeons and medical geneticists.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1848820852

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Hypermobility of Joints

By: Peter Beighton,Rodney Grahame,Howard Bird

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Hypermobility of Joints

By: Peter Beighton,Rodney Grahame,Howard Bird

This third edition of Hypermobility of Joints follows the same format as its successful predecessors. The aim of those editions was to provide an overview of hyperlaxity of joints and this edition follows that aim by describing the most recent research and new developments in biochemistry as well as providing practical advice on clinical features and management. Further chapters provide illustrative case histories, a review of hypermobility in the performing arts and sports and an outline of heritable hypermobility syndromes. Hypermobility of Joints has implications for a wide number of specialties although it will particularly be of interest to rheumatologists, orthopedic surgeons and medical geneticists.

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1447136330

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Hypermobility of Joints

By: Rodney Grahame,Peter Beighton,Howard Bird

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Hypermobility of Joints

By: Rodney Grahame,Peter Beighton,Howard Bird

Joint hypermobility, joint laxity or "double-jointedness" is no longer regarded as just a quaint clinical entity, but has gained recognition as a feature common to a heterogeneous group of generalized hereditary connective tissue disorders. This monograph examines the scientific basis, clinical features and treatment of this syndrome. The second edition has been thoroughly updated, with new contributions to cover in depth three areas in which new scientific advances have been made: biochemistry, genetics, and biomechanics. The case histories make fascinating reading, and the comprehensive coverage of the rarer hereditary disorders provides a valuable reference. From the reviews of the first edition: "This little book deals with a somewhat neglected subject and will prove useful in a number of ways." British Journal of Plastic Surgery #1 "This is a delightful book full of stimulating ideas, by three authors who have pooled their thoughts and the results of their studies." Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine #2

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1447139003

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Naming Neoliberalism

Exposing the Spirit of Our Age

By: Rodney Clapp

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Naming Neoliberalism

Exposing the Spirit of Our Age

By: Rodney Clapp

Neoliberalism, a panoply of cultural, political, and economic practices that set marketized competition at the center of social life, is rife in our age. Naming Neoliberalism lays out for pastors, thoughtful laypersons, and students, what neoliberalism is, where it has come from, and how it can be confronted through and in the church.

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Augsburg Fortress Publishers

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1506472656

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Contingent Collaboration

When to Use Which Models for Joined-up Government

By: Rodney J. Scott,Eleanor R. K. Merton

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Contingent Collaboration

When to Use Which Models for Joined-up Government

By: Rodney J. Scott,Eleanor R. K. Merton

The question of how agencies can work together has been central to the field of public administration for several decades. Despite significant research, the process of collaboration can still be a fraught endeavour for practitioners. Nevertheless, agencies keep trying to work together because it is the only way to make progress on the biggest challenges facing public administrators. This Element reveals the deeply contingent nature of collaboration, rejecting the idea that collaboration can be reduced to a universal best practice. The New Zealand government has implemented such a contingent approach that maps different collaborative methods against problem settings and the degree of trade-off required from the actors' core or individual work. This Element provides a detailed case study of the New Zealand approach, and 18 embedded elements or 'model' collaborative forms for joined-up government. It explains how New Zealand public servants approach the important question: 'when to use which models?'.

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Cambridge University Press

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1009302671

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Reducing Armed Violence with NGO Governance

By: Rodney Bruce Hall

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Reducing Armed Violence with NGO Governance

By: Rodney Bruce Hall

NGOs have proliferated in number and become increasingly influential players in world politics in the past three decades. From the 1970s, with the access of social movements and private NGOs to local and international institutions, NGOs have enjoyed an opening to bring impact global policy debates. Yet NGOs find themselves highly constrained in bringing their material and epistemic resources to bear in the security arena where their activities normally must be authorized by states, or international organizations acting with authority delegated from states. They also find their activities, particularly in the security arena come frequently under attack as lacking accountability or lacking legitimacy, as NGOs are self-appointed private actors, often representing only themselves, they are seen by many as self-appointed meddlers in transnational affairs, This book provides a comprehensive and accessible analysis whether, or the extent to which, NGOs can contribute as private actors to authoritative governance outcomes in the security realm, and thereby help mitigate armed violence by plugging governance gaps in this arena that state actors, or international governmental organizations (IGOs) either neglect, or can better address with NGO assistance. This book examines the current and future issues surrounding this objective in four sections: (i) a practitioner’s perspective of the potentials of conflict governance NGOs, (ii) global civil society and legitimation of conflict governance NGO activities, (iii) conflict governance NGOs as norm entrepreneurs and norm diffusion in global governance (iv) conflict governance NGOs in action.

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Routledge

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1135011494

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Heritage

Critical Approaches

By: Rodney Harrison

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Heritage

Critical Approaches

By: Rodney Harrison

Historic sites, memorials, national parks, museumsewe live in an age in which heritage is ever-present. But what does it mean to live amongst the spectral traces of the past, the heterogeneous piling up of historic materials in the present? How did heritage grow from the concern of a handful of enthusiasts and specialists in one part of the world to something which is considered to be universally cherished? And what concepts and approaches are necessary to understanding this global obsession? Over the decades, since the adoption of the World Heritage Convention, various e~crisese(tm) of definition have significantly influenced the ways in which heritage is classified, perceived and managed in contemporary global societies. Taking an interdisciplinary approach to the many tangible and intangible e~thingse(tm) now defined as heritage, this book attempts simultaneously to account for this global phenomenon and the industry which has grown up around it, as well as to develop a e~toolkit of conceptse(tm) with which it might be studied. In doing so, it provides a critical account of the emergence of heritage studies as an interdisciplinary field of academic study. This is presented as part of a broader examination of the function of heritage in late modern societies, with a particular focus on the changes which have resulted from the globalisation of heritage during the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Developing new theoretical approaches and innovative models for more dialogically democratic heritage decision making processes, Heritage: Critical Approaches unravels the relationship between heritage and the experience of late modernity, whilst reorienting heritage so that it might be more productively connected with other pressing social, economic, political and environmental issues of our time.

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0415591953

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Group Model Building

Using Systems Dynamics to Achieve Enduring Agreement

By: Rodney Scott

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Group Model Building

Using Systems Dynamics to Achieve Enduring Agreement

By: Rodney Scott

This book describes the cognitive and interpersonal effects of group model building, and presents empirical research on what group model building achieves and how. Further, it proposes an integrated causal mechanism for the effects on participants. There have been multiple previous attempts at explaining the effects of group model building on participants, and this book integrates these various theories for the first time. The causal mechanisms described here suggest a variety of design elements that should be included in group model building practice. For example, practitioners typically try to reduce complexity for clients, to make the process feel more accessible. In contrast, the findings presented here suggest that the very act of muddling through complexity increases participants’ affective commitment to the group and the decisions made. The book also describes implications for theory and practice. System dynamics has traditionally been interested in using technical modeling processes to make policy recommendations. Group model building demonstrates that these same techniques also have implications for group decision making as a method for negotiating agreement. The book argues for the value of group model building as a mediating or negotiating tool, rather than merely a positivist tool for technical problems.

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9811089590

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New Creation

A Primer on Living in the Time Between the Times

By: Rodney Clapp

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New Creation

A Primer on Living in the Time Between the Times

By: Rodney Clapp

New Creation introduces readers to the thrilling, biblically-based vision of a whole world created by and to be redeemed by God. Written at an eminently accessible level, it shows how endings (or eschatologies) animate our lives. It rehearses the biblical story from an eschatological angle, emphasizing that Christian eschatology entails a politics. It then delves into how eschatology affects the priesthood of all believers, peace-making, prayer, and creation (including the rocks and trees, dogs and bees, and maybe even sex). With a light hand, it provides biblical cultural background where needed. Throughout, it connects theological groundings to present-day life, Christian discipleship, and contemporary issues. Here is a view of eschatology that bypasses escapist Rapture theology and puts forward a robust, exciting life now and in the age to come, very different from New Yorker cartoons featuring the afterlife as a bland, boring affair of strumming harps on clouds.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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153263966X

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9781532639661

Religion and Cultural Memory

Ten Studies

By: Jan Assmann,Rodney Livingstone

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Religion and Cultural Memory

Ten Studies

By: Jan Assmann,Rodney Livingstone

In ten brilliant essays, Jan Assmann explores the connections between religion, culture, and memory. Building on Maurice Halbwachs's idea that memory, like language, is a social phenomenon as well as an individual one, he argues that memory has a cultural dimension too. He develops a persuasive view of the life of the past in such surface phenomena as codes, religious rites and festivals, and canonical texts on the one hand, and in the Freudian psychodrama of repressing and resurrecting the past on the other. Whereas the current fad for oral history inevitably focuses on the actual memories of the last century or so, Assmann presents a commanding view of culture extending over five thousand years. He focuses on cultural memory from the Egyptians, Babylonians, and the Osage Indians down to recent controversies about memorializing the Holocaust in Germany and the role of memory in the current disputes between Israelis and Palestinians in the Middle East and between Protestants and Catholics in Northern Ireland.

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Stanford University Press

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0804745234

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9780804745239

Ni-Co 2013

By: Thomas P. Battle,Michael Moats,Violina Cocalia,Harald Oosterhof,Shafiq Alam,Antoine Allanore,Rodney T. Jones,Nathan Stubina,Corby Anderson,Shijie Wang

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Ni-Co 2013

By: Thomas P. Battle,Michael Moats,Violina Cocalia,Harald Oosterhof,Shafiq Alam,Antoine Allanore,Rodney T. Jones,Nathan Stubina,Corby Anderson,Shijie Wang

With both nickel and cobalt featuring heavily in modern industry, there is an ongoing and intense interest in ore supplies and processing, applications development, and recycling. This book presents a collection of authoritative papers covering the latest advances in all aspects of nickel and cobalt processing, including fundamentals, technology, operating practices, and related areas of Platinum-Group Metals (PGM) processing. Special emphasis is given to the treatment of sulphide and laterite ores, concentrates, and secondary materials for the production of nickel and cobalt.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118658817

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Landscapes of Menorca

A Countryside Guide

By: Rodney Ansell

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A Countryside Guide

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Landscapes of Menorca

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Targeting Commitment

Targeting Commitment

Hypermobility of Joints

Hypermobility of Joints

Hypermobility of Joints

Hypermobility of Joints

Hypermobility of Joints

Hypermobility of Joints

Naming Neoliberalism

Naming Neoliberalism

Contingent Collaboration

Contingent Collaboration

Reducing Armed Violence with NGO Governance

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Group Model Building

Group Model Building

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New Creation

Religion and Cultural Memory

Religion and Cultural Memory

Ni-Co 2013

Ni-Co 2013

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