Journalist Dickerson presents an investigative history of the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission, created by the state legislature in the 1950s with the goal of preventing integration in Mississ
This collection of 150 ancient Russian animal tales illustrates all 119 animal tale types. They feature forest animals and domestic animals. Fish and birds appear less often, and humans play a minor r
Based on a set of papers prepared for a spring 1995 conference held at Massey College, University of Toronto, reflecting collaboration and discussion among specialists in law and justice in tsarist Ru
Always awe-inspiring, mountainous areas contain hundreds of millions of years of history, stretching back to the earliest continental landforms. This book shows how mountains are characterized by thei
Primarily treating the historical experience of the United States in the 1940s, but providing some global context, a little less than 600 alphabetical entries offer brief descriptions of particular hi
The essays in this volume assess key aspects of Soviet society and social policy under Gorbachev. It provides a survey of Soviet family problems and demographic change, economic and labour policy, the
Wetlands encompass a diversity of habitats that rely on the presence of water to survive. Over the last two centuries, these hard-to-reach areas have been viewed with disdain or eliminated by a public
Economists and researchers in labor relations and organizational behavior, mostly American but also Canadian and British, consider such topics as unions and new constituents, modeling unionism, union
Developing critical perspectives on topics such as foreign financial crises, health care, social security, and welfare reform, this anthology compiled by the Union for Radical Political Economics coun
The modern workplace is often thought of as cold and rational, as no place for the experience and expression of emotions. Yet it is no more emotionless than any other aspect of life. Individuals bring
States are the key to contemporary government reform efforts in the United States, but we know very little about their relative effectiveness at resource allocation and their actual capacity to absorb
While secondarily presenting ideas about the Japanese race ( jinshu ), ethnic group ( minzoku ), or culture ( bunka ), Morris-Suzuki (Japanese history, Australian National U.) probes categories of tho
States are the key to contemporary government reform efforts in the United States, but we know very little about their relative effectiveness at resource allocation and their actual capacity to absorb
Everyone has trouble with bureaucracy. Citizens and politicians have trouble controlling the runaway bureaucratic machine. Managers have trouble managing it. Employees dislike working in it. Clients c
Sams recounts the public heath reforms he accomplished in the two countries as chief of the Public Health and Welfare Section of the Supreme Command of Allied Powers in East Asia, and their significan
Public Service Values is written for both graduate and undergraduate courses in public affairs. It should be valuable reading in any course where discussion of public service values will enrich the le
"Here are Japanese women in infinite and fascinating variety -- ardent lovers, lonely single women, political activists, betrayed wives, loyal wives, protective mothers, embittered mothers, d
Unlike other works on the topic, this book fully develops the concept of organizational evil, conceptually weaving the interchange between evil individuals (the micro-level) who ultimately create an o
This collection of 17 essays emerges in light of growing reports of corporate abuse in a number of contexts--government, business, nonprofit, and academia--and boldly asserts that in many of these cas
Evidence-based management (EBMgt) derives principles of good management from scientific research, meta-analysis, literature reviews, and case studies, and then translates them into practice. This book
