Faculty Books
Elements of Environmental Chemistry, 2nd Edition
By: Ron Hites and Jonathan Raff
Published: May 2012
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 978-1-1180-4155-0
Short Description: Tutorial in style, this book fully incorporates real-world problems and extensive end-of-chapter problem sets to immerse the reader in the field. Chapters cover mass balance, chemical kinetics, carbon dioxide equilibria, pesticide structures and much more. Extensively revised, updated, and expanded, this Second Edition includes new chapters on atmospheric chemistry, climate change, and polychlorinated biphenyls and dioxins, and brominated flame retardants. In addition, new practice problems and a helpful tutorial on organic chemistry names and structures have been added to improve both the scope and accessibility of the book.
Coping with Terrorism
Origins, Escalation, Counterstrategies, and Responses
By: Rafael Reuveny and William R. Thompson
Published: November 2010
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-4384-3313-4
Short Description: A comprehensive examination of multiple dimensions of terrorism. Terrorism is imprinted on Western society’s consciousness. Nearly every week a terrorist attack occurs in the world. The academic world, in attempting to understand terrorism, has often been limited to descriptive work rather than analysis, and has produced surprisingly few mainstream collections on the subject. Coping with Terrorism offers a collection of essays that ask: who are terrorists, what are their goals, who supports them, and how can we combat their tactics? The essays are scholarly, rather than journalistic or ideological, in their approach. As such, they scrutinize a much-discussed and prevalent subject and bring it into the mainstream for international relations.
Working Together:
Collective Action, the Commons, and Multiple Methods in Practice
By: Amy R. Poteete, Marco A. Janssen and Elinor Ostrom
Published: May 2010
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Short Description: Acknowledging the academic incentives that influence and constrain how research is conducted, Working Together reworks the theory of collective action and offers practical solutions for researchers and students across a spectrum of disciplines. The authors provide numerous examples of collaborative, multimethod research related to collective action and the commons.
Bush on the Home Front
Domestic Policy Triumphs and Setbacks
By: John D. Graham
Published: March 2010
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN-13: 9780253222152
Short Description: In this book Graham gives a comprehensive assessment of George W. Bush’s domestic policy record while providing valuable insights into how future presidents can shape U.S. domestic policy while facing continuing partisan polarization.
Fiscal Administration, 8th Edition
By: John Mikesell
Published: 2010
Publisher: WADSWORTH CENGAGE Learning
ISBN-13: 9780495795827
Short Description: This edition is based on two principles: that students must understand precisely where the money for public budgets comes from; and that, to learn public finance and budgeting, students must "run the numbers." John L. Mikesell--an authority on the revenue side of public finance--gives students detailed instruction to equip them to deal with the complex issues and calculations they will encounter in the field.
The Jossey-Bass Reader on Nonprofit and Public Leadership
By: James L. Perry (Editor), James M. Kouzes (Foreword)
Published: December 2009
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
ISBN-13: 9780470479490
Short Description: An ideal resource for students and professionals, this comprehensive reader offers a diverse collection of the foremost writings on leadership and management in the public and nonprofit sectors. The book includes previously published essays, articles and extracts from leading books and periodicals, framed and vetted by author and professor James L. Perry.
Democracy and Economic Openness in an Interconnected System
Complex transformations
By: Quan Li and Rafael Reuveny
Published: July 2009
Publisher: Cambridge
ISBN-13: 9780521728904
Short Description: In this book, Quan Li and Rafael Reuveny combine the social scientific approach with a broad, interdisciplinary scope to address some of the most intriguing and important political, economic, and environmental issues of our times. In the process, the authors develop theories and empirical models that link several disciplines into a global structure of international interconnectivity.
Indiana (In)decision: Hoosiers at an Economic Crossroads
By: Mark Akers
Publisher: University of Indianapolis Press
ISBN-13: 9781880938751
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Short Description: Examines the culture of Hoosiers and what makes them happy, the global economic forces that the state is facing, and describes those actions that state and local governments must implement to compete for economic growth—world-class infrastructure, the best education system anywhere, highly attractive cities and towns, meaningful incentives, and a stable, predictable, and helpful government. This book is meant for everyone, not just economists or academics.
The Collaborative Public Manager
New Ideas for the Twenty-first Century
Co–Edited: Rosemary O’Leary and
Lisa Blomgren Bingham
Released: December 2008
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
ISBN: 9781589012233
Short Description: The book brings together original contributions by some of today’s top public management and public policy scholars who address cutting-edge issues that affect government managers worldwide. It pushes scholars, students, and professionals to rethink what they know about collaborative public management—and to strive harder to achieve its full potential.
Social Experimentation, Program Evaluation, and Public Policy
By: Maureen Pirog
Published: November 2008
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN-13: 97814051939311
Short Description: This volume provides a single collection some of the best articles on social experimentation and program evaluation that have appeared in the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management (JPAM).