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The Boat Captain’S Conundrum

A Whimsical Tour Through a Policy Wonk’S Mind

By: Tom Corbett, PhD

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The Boat Captain’S Conundrum

A Whimsical Tour Through a Policy Wonk’S Mind

By: Tom Corbett, PhD

In The Boat Captains Conundrum, author Tom Corbett completes an intellectual journey that reflects on his four-plus decades as a scholar and doer of social policy. That journey starts with Ouch, Now I Remember in which he recounts his early days growing up in a closed, working class, ethnic community from which he underwent several transformative experiences that broadened his worldview. In Browsing Through My Candy Store, the author shared his struggles while confronting many of the most vexing poverty and welfare battles of the last half century. This final volume, the Boat Captains Conundrum, completes the trilogy. This work takes the reader on quite a different journey, a path that goes deeper into how to think about the big policy issues and social challenges of our times. In the end, Corbett makes a number of compelling points. Becoming a successful policy wonk is more than conquering the technical skills of doing quantitative analysis. It demands that we do more than merely dissect issues with analytical acumen. Rather, doing good policy work requires creativity, imagination, breadth of interests, a nimble and acquisitive mind, historical depth, and just a little rebellious risk-taking. But if you can conjure up such traits, there is no better way to spend your professional life. Follow the author as he shares his take on how to do policy work well and even make a contribution to the public good. Get inside his head as he struggled to make sense out of the more daunting social challenges of the late twentieth century. Above all, enjoy his wistful and sometimes witty wanderings as seen through a policy wonks eye where he touches upon mind-numbing conundrums with deft insight. It is a great journey to be enjoyed both by students of policy and all those concerned with public life.

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1524548200

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Browsing Through My Candy Store

By: Tom Corbett, Ph.D.

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Browsing Through My Candy Store

By: Tom Corbett, Ph.D.

Tom Corbett takes us on a wild ride over the past four decades of welfare reform and antipoverty policy making. Drawing on his personal experiences in both academia and government, he exposes the raw realities of doing policy. Tom celebrates his policy life as an adventure, both challenging yet totally rewarding. He tells this story with a deft and light touch, bringing the characters and events to life with wit, wisdom, and sensitivity. It is a journey accessible to all who care about our nation and about our most vulnerable citizens.

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1499078188

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The Boat Captain’S Conundrum

A Whimsical Tour Through a Policy Wonk’S Mind

By: Tom Corbett, PhD

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A Whimsical Tour Through a Policy Wonk’S Mind

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Browsing Through My Candy Store

Selected Reflections of a Policy Wonk!

By: Tom Corbett, Ph.D.

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Browsing Through My Candy Store

Selected Reflections of a Policy Wonk!

By: Tom Corbett, Ph.D.

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1499078196

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9781499078190

Ouch, Now I Remember

Reflecting on an Earlier Time

By: Tom Corbett

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Ouch, Now I Remember

Reflecting on an Earlier Time

By: Tom Corbett

The author picks up where he left off in a witty memoir of his academic and policy careers in Browsing through My Candy Store. In this equally hilarious book, Tom Corbett brings us back to the postWorld War II period, where he came of age in a rough and tumble ethnic, working-class neighborhood. From a kid who showed no promise whatsoever, he underwent a series of transformative experiences from Catholic seminary training to the leader of a left-wing college group through Peace Corps service in India. His journey of self-discovery takes us through several early endeavors, such as guarding city sewers, tending hospital patients during the graveyard shift, reaching out to desperately poor kids in a distressed neighborhood, and faking it as an agricultural guru in the deserts of Rajasthan. Somehow, despite much incompetence and self-doubt, the author used grit and charm and serendipity to fall into a fulfilling career as a respected academic and policy wonk. Ouch, Now I Remember is a story that brings you back in time, helps you laugh a bit, and recalls a lost era. The reader might even shed a tear or two.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1514414120

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9781514414125

Godly Clergy in Early Stuart England

The Caroline Puritan Movement, C.1620-1643

By: Tom Webster

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Godly Clergy in Early Stuart England

The Caroline Puritan Movement, C.1620-1643

By: Tom Webster

An analysis of the networks constructed between Puritan ministers before the English Civil War.

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376

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Cambridge University Press

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0521521408

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9780521521406

Staying Young

How to Prevent, Slow, Or Reverse More Than 60 Signs of Aging

By: Tom Monte

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Staying Young

How to Prevent, Slow, Or Reverse More Than 60 Signs of Aging

By: Tom Monte

Based on scientific research and insights from top physicians, psychologists and other specialists, Staying Young offers hundreds of tips to halt much of the deterioration in mind, body, and appearance, no matter what the reader's age.

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Rodale Books

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0875962092

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Bureaucracy

A Key Idea for Business and Society

By: Tom Vine

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Bureaucracy

A Key Idea for Business and Society

By: Tom Vine

Bureaucracy is a curse – it seems we can’t live with it, we can’t live without it. It is without doubt one of the fundamental ideas which underpin the business world and society at large. In this book, Tom Vine observes, analyses and critiques the concept, placing it at the heart of our understanding of organisation. The author unveils bureaucracy as an endlessly emergent phenomenon which defies binary debate – in analysing organisation, we are all bureaucrats. In building an experiential perspective, the book develops more effective ways to interact with bureaucracy in theory and practice. Empirical material take centre stage, whilst the book employs ethnographic and auto-ethnographic methods to illuminate the existential function of bureaucracy. Taking examples from art, history and culture, this book provides an entertaining alternative academic analysis of bureaucracy as a key idea in business and society which will be essential reading for students and scholars of work and organisation

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Routledge

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1351055240

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Dementia Reconsidered Revisited: The Person Still Comes First

By: Tom Kitwood,Dawn Brooker

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Dementia Reconsidered Revisited: The Person Still Comes First

By: Tom Kitwood,Dawn Brooker

The original Dementia Reconsidered: The Person Comes First by Tom Kitwood was published by Open University Press in 1997. It was a seminal text in the field of dementia studies and is still cited and referenced as core reading on person-centred dementia care. Tom died unexpectedly, just 12 months after the book was published. This book continues to inspire many people to challenge simplistic paradigms about dementia. Since the original book was written, however, there have been many changes in our understanding of dementia. The editor of this new edition, Dawn Brooker was mentored by Tom Kitwood. She has drawn together a remarkable group of writers to provide a commentary on Kitwood’s work. This new edition reproduces the original chapters but provides extra content from subject experts to update the book to a contemporary level. Dementia Reconsidered Re-visited is an ideal main text or supplementary text for all those studying or working in nursing, medicine, psychiatry, psychology, occupational therapy, social work, adult education, gerontology and health and social care more generally. “This important book does three things. It brings to a new generation the insight and vision of Tom Kitwood. It highlights the remarkable progress we have made in recent years. But most important of all it reminds us what still needs to be done if we are to fully respect the rights of people with dementia and their family care-givers. Kitwood inspired Alzheimer’s Society to knit together research, care, and societal change. We are now re-inspired to make sure all progress is evidenced and evaluated for its impact. We must realise the enormous opportunities the digital age offers people affected by dementia but in doing so constantly listen to and learn from their many and varied voices across nations and cultures.” Jeremy Hughes CBE, Chief Executive, Alzheimer's Society, UK

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McGraw-Hill Education (UK)

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0335248039

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9780335248032

Youth Fiction and Trans Representation

By: Tom Sandercock

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Youth Fiction and Trans Representation

By: Tom Sandercock

Youth Fiction and Trans Representation is the first book that wholly addresses the growth of trans and gender variant representation in literature, television, and films for children and young adults in the twenty-first century. Ranging across an array of media—including picture books, novels, graphic novels, animated cartoons, and live-action television and feature films—Youth Fiction and Trans Representation examines how youth texts are addressing and contributing to ongoing shifts in understandings of gender in the new millennium. While perhaps once considered inappropriate for youth, and continuing to face backlash, trans and gender variant representation in texts for young people has become more common, which signals changes in understandings of childhood and adolescence, as well as gender expression and identity. Youth Fiction and Trans Representation provides a broad outline of developments in trans and gender variant depictions for young people in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries and closely analyzes a series of millennial literary and screen texts to consider how they communicate a range of, often competing, ideas about gender, identity, expression, and embodiment to implied child and adolescent audiences.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000607089

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9781000607086

Rethinking Ancient Woodland

The Archaeology and History of Woods in Norfolk

By: Gerry Barnes,Tom Williamson

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Rethinking Ancient Woodland

The Archaeology and History of Woods in Norfolk

By: Gerry Barnes,Tom Williamson

Ancient woodland' is a term widely used in England for long-established semi-natural woods, shaped by centuries of traditional management. Such woods are often assumed to provide a direct link with the natural vegetation of England, as this existed before the virgin forests were fragmented by the arrival of farming. This groundbreaking study questions many of these assumptions. Drawing on more than a decade of research in Norfolk, the authors emphasize the essentially unnatural character of ancient woods.

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Univ of Hertfordshire Press

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1909291609

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William Faden and Norfolk's Eighteenth Century Landscape

A Digital Re-Assessment of his Historic Map

By: Andrew Macnair,Tom Williamson

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William Faden and Norfolk's Eighteenth Century Landscape

A Digital Re-Assessment of his Historic Map

By: Andrew Macnair,Tom Williamson

William Faden's map of Norfolk, published in 1797, was one of a large number of surveys of English counties produced in the second half of the eighteenth century. This book, with accompanying DVD, presents a new digital version of the map, and explains how this can be interrogated to produce a wealth of new historical information. It discusses the making of the Norfolk map, and Faden's own career, within the wider context of the eighteenth-century "cartographic revolution". It explores what the map, and others like it, can tell us about contemporary social and economic geography. But it also shows how, carefully examined, the map can also inform us about the development of the Norfolk landscape in much more remote periods of time. The book includes a digital version of the map, on DVD. Andrew Macnair is Research Fellow at the School of History in the University of East Anglia; Tom Williamson is Professor of History and Head of the Landscape Group at the University of East Anglia.

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Windgather Press

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1905119852

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The Boat Captain’S Conundrum

The Boat Captain’S Conundrum

Browsing Through My Candy Store

Browsing Through My Candy Store

The Boat Captain’S Conundrum

The Boat Captain’S Conundrum

Browsing Through My Candy Store

Browsing Through My Candy Store

Ouch, Now I Remember

Ouch, Now I Remember

Godly Clergy in Early Stuart England

Godly Clergy in Early Stuart England

Staying Young

Staying Young

Bureaucracy

Bureaucracy

Dementia Reconsidered Revisited: The Person Still Comes First

Dementia Reconsidered Revisited: The Person Still Comes First

Youth Fiction and Trans Representation

Youth Fiction and Trans Representation

Rethinking Ancient Woodland

Rethinking Ancient Woodland

William Faden and Norfolk's Eighteenth Century Landscape

William Faden and Norfolk's Eighteenth Century Landscape

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