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  • My Baby Rides the Short Bus

    The Unabashedly Human Experience of Raising Kids with Disabilities

    In lives where there is a new diagnosis or drama every day, the stories in this collection provide parents of “special needs” kids with a welcome chuckle, a rock to stand on, and a moment of reality held far enough from the heart to see clearly. Featuring works by “alternative” parents who have attempted to move away from mainstream thought—or remove its influence altogether—this anthology, taken ... Read more

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  • Policy Agendas in British Politics

    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Using a unique dataset spanning fifty years of policy-making in Britain, this book traces how topics like the economy, international affairs, and crime have shifted in importance. It takes a new approach to agenda setting called focused adaptation, and sheds new light on key points of change in British politics, such as Thatcherism and New Labour. ... Read more

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  • Textbook of Psychiatry for Intellectual Disability and Autism Spectrum Disorder

    Series series Medicine (R0)
    This textbook provides a state of the art of the knowledge on the prevalence, risk and etiological factors, clinical features, assessment procedures and tools, diagnostic criteria, treatment, and prognosis of the psychiatric disorders encountered in people with intellectual disability (ID) and low-functioning autism spectrum disorder (ASD). ID and ASD represent two meta-syndromic groups of several ... Read more

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  • Madison's Managers

    Public Administration and the Constitution

    Series series Johns Hopkins Studies in Governance and Public Management
    Combining insights from traditional thought and practice and from contemporary political analysis, Madison's Managers presents a constitutional theory of public administration in the United States. Anthony Michael Bertelli and Laurence E. Lynn Jr. contend that managerial responsibility in American government depends on official respect for the separation of powers and a commitment to judgment, ... Read more

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  • My Baby Rides The Short Bus

    THE UNABASHEDLY HUMAN EXPERIENCE OF RAISING KIDS WITH DISABILITIES

    An assortment of authentic, shared experiences from parents at the fringes is a partial antidote to the stories that misrepresent, ridicule and objectify disabled kids and their parents. ... Read more

    $16.29 CAD

  • Madison's Managers

    Public Administration and the Constitution

    Series series Johns Hopkins Studies in Governance and Public Management
    A case for the constitutional roots of public administration: "Essential to the field as we develop new theories and applications in a postmodern America." ? Political Studies ReviewCombining insights from traditional thought and practice and from contemporary political analysis, Madison's Managers presents a constitutional theory of public administration in the United States. Anthony Michael ... Read more

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  • Gender Economics in the Global South

    Series series Elements in Development Economics
    Despite past progress towards gender equality, recent trends reveal a stagnating - or even reversing - situation since 2019. According to recent estimates, full parity is to be reached in 134 years, shifting this achievement from 2030 to 2158. Women still exhibit worse conditions than men everywhere in the world, but the gender gaps are particularly stark in the global south. This Element provides ... Read more

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  • Public Administration and Democracy

    The Complementarity Principle

    Series series Elements in Public and Nonprofit Administration
    This Element argues for a complementarity principle – governance values should complement political values – as a guide for designing the structures and procedures of public administration. It argues that the value-congruity inherent in the complementarity principle is indispensable to administrative responsibility. It identifies several core democratic values and critically assesses systems of ... Read more

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  • The Political Economy of Public Sector Governance

    In The Political Economy of Public Sector Governance, Anthony Michael Bertelli introduces core ideas in positive political theory as they apply to public management and policy. Though recent literature that mathematically models relationships between politicians and public managers provides insight into contemporary public administration, the technical way these works present information limits ... Read more

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  • The Politics Of Law

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    The Politics of Law is the most widely read critique of the nature and role of the law in American society. This revised edition continues the book's concrete focus on the major subjects and fields of law. New essays on emerging fields and the latest trends and cases have been added to updated versions of the now-classic essays from earlier editions.A unique assortment of leading scholars and ... Read more

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