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Real-life Solutions to the Challenges Facing Public Administrators! Complex management issues in the public sector can't be addressed with limited, short-term fixes. Strategic, well-conceived approaches are critical to meet your organization's long-term needs. Through expert advice and real-world examples, Strategic Public Management: Best Practices from Government and Nonprofit Organizations presents the solutions that today's public administrators are putting into practice to address a variety of challenges, including planning and managing core mission functions, integrating new technology, and pursuing measurable results. Nineteen contributors representing local and federal government, no...
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Join us on a fascinating journey across cultures and through time; from Mesopotamia to India, from China to Egypt to Greece and on to the Americas to discover the ancient roots of human thought concerning health and healing. Over the ages, dealing with illness has been an essential aspect of culture, and people everywhere have come up with unique solutions to this fundamental problem. Drawing upon an intimate relationship with a particular environment, treatments have evolved that range from herbs and foods to acupuncture needles. In this book, remedies that can be quite effective for acute conditions will be examined. You will also explore models of healing that allow the whole person to be treated while addressing the underlying pattern of dis-ease. These energetic systems of medicine are especially appropriate in treating chronic illness, where focusing on the symptom fails to address the deeper cause.
Felicia Knaul, an economist who has lived and worked for two decades in Latin America on health and social development, documents the personal and professional sides of her breast cancer experience. Beauty without the Breast contrasts her difficult but inspiring journey with that of the majority of women throughout the world who face not only the disease but stigma, discrimination, and lack of access to health care. This wrenching contrast is the cancer divide—an equity imperative in global health. Knaul exposes barriers affecting women in low and middle-income countries and highlights the role of men, family, and community in responding to the challenge of breast cancer. She shares striki...
What would you say is the most important thing in the entire world? What is most important to you at this moment? You will be facinated as you read and compare your answers with that of the author. This work offers profound insigets about the world's most important and valuable treasure that will gurantee eternal success. It presents the most valuable entity on this side of eternity. It shows how to obtain it and the implications for the person who embraces it. This book will cause the reader to prioritize all of life's activities in such a way that there will be joy, happiness, success, wealth and peace. It is a compendium of the key components of the value-driven life in which Jesus and value are synonymous. After reading one would have the personal assurance of present salvation in Christ and the wonderful implications thereof.
The book is impressive and practical, developed by a publishing company in Indiana. It features a How to Step in creating a Compstat Team; data that your department needs to compete with the uniform services, and how to basically develop a program at no cost to your department. Additionally, the book chapters have exercises for the managers to follow in developing the system. The entire objective of this book is to take Quantitative data a turning it into Qualitative data. Measurements of any particular quantitative data are expressed as a specific quantity, referred to as a unit, multiplied by a number. .
“Worth a read for anyone who cares about making change happen.”—Barack Obama A powerful new blueprint for how governments and nonprofits can harness the power of digital technology to help solve the most serious problems of the twenty-first century As the speed and complexity of the world increases, governments and nonprofit organizations need new ways to effectively tackle the critical challenges of our time—from pandemics and global warming to social media warfare. In Power to the Public, Tara Dawson McGuinness and Hana Schank describe a revolutionary new approach—public interest technology—that has the potential to transform the way governments and nonprofits around the world ...
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We were on a rat race, seeing the same people every week, so we wanted to get on a different rat race. We bought a sailboat and were to sail around the world, ran out of money, worked for thirty-three years in St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands, had a lot of island experiences, including an airplane crash at sea, becoming a real estate broker for twenty years, selling Sand Dollar, moving to Florida, moving to manufactured homes in gated community, then assisted living space.