Independent institutes conducting policy research, analysis and public dialogue, or 'think tanks' as they are more commonly known, are one of the leading catalysts for ideas and action in civil societ...
Widened in scope and completely updated, this new edition of a well-established textbook provides an authoritative introduction to all modes of public transport; from taxis and local buses to intercit...
This book reflects the current moves away from public health medicine to a multi-disciplinary approach to public health concerns and aims to explore the meaning of the 'new' public health within the c...
The first part of this two-volume set contains eight essays on various topics in Public Economics by international leaders in the field. It begins with an historical perspective on the growth of the a...
Performance thinking has a substantial impact on the management of public organizations, as governments around the world use performance measurement to evaluate their products and services. Managing P...
This book provides invaluable insights to one of the most difficult areas of European integration. Public procurement represents an instrument of policy choice for governments and its regulation inter...
From disaster relief to AIDS education, we see public health efforts in action around the world. While the field of medicine deals with the diagnosis and treatment of individual patients, public healt...
Contract plays a vitally important role in the delivery of public services today. Both central and local governments make extensive use of private firms to provide facilities, goods, and services. Gov...
With this newly expanded sixth edition of CLASSICS OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION, authors Jay M. Shafritz and Albert C. Hyde aim to introduce students to the principles of public administration via the mos...
This book describes an outstanding training programme in public psychiatry developed by the Connecticut Mental Health Center. It is a worthwhile and valuable contribution to the field that has no curr...
The 'great divide' between public and private knowledge in capitalism is an unstable frontier at the core of contemporary economic transformations. Based on research in the USA, Europe and Brazil into...
Gordon Tullock, eminent political economist and one of the founders of public choice, offers this new and fascinating look at how governments and externalities are linked. Economists frequently justif...
Addressing a critical need, Advertising and Public Relations Law explores the issues and ideas that affect the regulation of advertising and public relations speech. Coverage includes the categorizati...
Bringing together the perspectives of both researchers and practitioners on public opinion processes, these case studies look at public opinion data, communication theory and international examples to...
This multidisciplinary work explores ways of making environmental policy decisions in managing public goods and natural parks with the goal of maximizing economic benefits to society. The contributors...
Environmental Communication and the Public Sphere is the first comprehensive undergraduate textbook in the growing field of environmental communication. It takes as its theme the role of communication...
Treadwell & Treadwell's Student Workbook gives students the opportunity to put their learning into practice. The workbook introduces four fictional clients, two of them new, for which students may 'wo...
The Encyclopedia of Public Relations explores the evolution of the PR field, with examples from history describing events, changing practices, and the key figures who developed and expanded the profes...
Lecture Notes: Epidemiology and Public Health Medicine new edition, is a core text that covers the basics of epidemiology - preventive medicine - public health - the organisation of medical care. The ...
Public Relations: Contemporary Issues and Techniques
Over the last decade, Sue Townsend has written a monthly column for Sainsbury
This is a unique practical guide to the practice of public health on a day-to-day basis. It is a simple, easy to use book on public health skills-a first resort for all those in training and practice....
This work is a Public Expenditure and Institutional Review (PEIR) on Bulgaria by the World Bank. The objective of this Country Study is to outline policies and institutional issues to improve the effi...
Investigating public and elite scepticism in Eastern Europe towards the European Union, this important book examines how citizens' and parties' responses to integration have been affected by economic,...
What, exactly, is promoting public health activity? How should we promote public health? Whose values are most important? Which theories can help inform health promoting practice? Theory and Research ...
The book presents a series of researched biographies of professional accountants who immigrated to the United States and developed their careers there in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centur...
An authoritative and comprehensive guide to the major issues, challenges, methods, and approaches of global public health. This encyclopedia will cover all dimensions of the field, from details of spe...
A guide to evidence-based decision making for healthcare, medical and nurse managers.
This important volume by one of the leading scholars in the field examines and discusses how library professionals can meet the demands of policy makers to open up the public library service without d...
This is an expert selection of statutes relating to public law and human rights designed to provide an easy-to-use reference whether in the lecture hall or in the examination. It contains the essentia...