The public's view of lobbying is that it is synonymous with corruption. Corruption is rare despite the popular perception, but there is plenty of evidence that the lobbying profession has a serious problem with inaccurate representation of member or client interests, which Holyo…
Contemporary Indonesia is haunted by two millenia of migrations and inspirations from throughout Eurasia. However, the colonial administration in Batavia ultimately condensed the archipelago's heterogeneity into a distinction between Natives and the West, a distinction that has …
Now published in more than twenty countries, David Bornstein's How to Change the World has become the bible for social entrepreneurship--in which men and women around the world are finding innovative solutions to a wide variety of social and economic problems. Whether delivering…
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I would recommend The Practitioner's Handbook as a useful resource for therapists concerned with their professional development and the development of others' - Therapy Today, February 2009. The Practitioner's Handbook is an essential guide to profession.
The new and powerful methodology of participatory monitoring and evaluation (PM & E) is gaining wide use amongst international development agencies and research institutions around the world. PM & E brings together both researchers and stakeholders, such as farmers, government o…
The new and powerful methodology of participatory monitoring and evaluation (PM & E) is gaining wide use amongst international development agencies and research institutions around the world. PM & E brings together both researchers and stakeholders, such as farmers, government o…
Taktische Medizin - Notfallmedizin in besonderen Situationen Die Versorgung von Patienten in polizeilichen oder militärischen Einsätzen unterscheidet sich deutlich von der Versorgung von Verletzten in der zivilen Notfallmedizin: Einsatzkräfte arbeiten regelmäßig unter Lebensgefa…
Designing and Planning Programs for Nonprofit and Government Organizations is a comprehensive guide for practitioners who must carry out program planning projects in nonprofit or government human service organizations. Authors Edward J. Pawlak and Robert D.
Everything we know about drugs, from acid to epidemics to DARE and salvia, turns out to be wrong. Stock up on munchies and line up your water bottles: journalist Ryan Grim will take you on a cross-country tour of illicit drug use in the U.S. from the agony (the huge DEA bust of …
Discussing the complex history of Silicon Valley and other pioneering centres of venture capital, Lerner uncovers the extent of government influence in prompting growth. He examines the public strategies used to advance new ventures and reveals the common flaws undermining far t…
A blend of political theory, social theory, and philosophy of culture, the book will show the relationship and tension between thought and action, politics and literature, power and dissent in modern politics and culture.
In this sweeping tour of New Jersey's burial sites from the seventeenth century through the dawn of the twenty-first, readers will discover how headstones are much more than place markers for the deceased. From the earliest memorials that were once used by Native Americans, to s…
This volume addresses three important areas of current research in mental retardation: behavioral toxicology research and its implications for the cause and prevention of some types of mental retardation, cognitive processes in mentally retarded individuals and the significance …
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"Tackles such questions as why has assistance been so ineffectual and what can be learned from Haiti's plight concerning foreign aid in general, by analyzing nearly twenty years of Haitian history, politics, and foreign relations"--Provided by publisher.
