The book explores the significant challenges faced by governments, including global pandemics, climate change, and strategic rivalries. It emphasizes the vital role of public policy and administration in addressing these pressing issues. Aimed at officials, civil servants, and political students, it serves as a practical guide to understanding and navigating the complexities of contemporary governance.
Follows three first-time mothers as they experience pregnancy and giving birth in modern America, recounting the ups and downs, fears, joys and everyday moments of each woman's pregnancy and postpartum journey and discussing the rising popularity of midwifery.
A bildungsroman set over three acts, Ponyboy is a quest for self-identity set among the art world of Paris and Berlin.
Exploring a range of governance models, the book delves into the successes and failures of historical rulers and their advisors. It offers insights into statecraft, highlighting lessons learned from both effective leadership and significant missteps throughout history.
This book, written by leading recruitment expert Grant Duncan, guides mid-career and senior business executives in taking a more assertive and strategic longer-term approach to career choices. No other careers book includes insights from so many people who have steered their careers to the top of their professions.
The twenty-seven contributors to 'The Recollections of Virginia Woolf by Her Contemporaries' knew Virginia Woolf intimately, as relations, friends or acquaintances over a number of years. A must-read for those with an interest in Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury milieu.