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  • A PUBLIC SECTOR JOURNEY TO OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE
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    A PUBLIC SECTOR JOURNEY TO OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE
    KATE MCGOVERN
    A Public Sector Journey to Operational Excellence links effective government operations to the ability to accomplish bold social goals. The book illustrates how the principles and techniques of continuous improvement can be applied to public sector management and public policy development. The linkage of management to policy is woven throughout the four sections: Part 1 begins ...

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  • ENLIVENING INSTRUCTION WITH DRAMA AND IMPROV
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    ENLIVENING INSTRUCTION WITH DRAMA AND IMPROV
    MELISA CAHNMANN-TAYLOR / KATHLEEN MCGOVERN
    This engaging and complete resource has everything you need to bring drama and theatre techniques into the ESL, EFL, or World Language Classroom. Are your students reluctant to speak out in class? Do they lack confidence in their language skills? The dynamic drama games in this book are the perfect catalyst to transform your students into engaged learners, and help them build c...

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  • A PUBLIC-SECTOR JOURNEY TO LEAN
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    A PUBLIC-SECTOR JOURNEY TO LEAN
    KATE MCGOVERN
    Most Lean practitioners learn about the three Ms: muda (waste), mura (unevenness or variability), and muri (overburden), and beginners in Lean generally focus on the removal of muda. The impact of muri is not as readily understood. It is extremely significant, however, for those working in government. Decisions on staffing levels and resource allocation are made by elected offi...

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  • NILPOTENT ORBITS IN SEMISIMPLE LIE ALGEBRA
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    NILPOTENT ORBITS IN SEMISIMPLE LIE ALGEBRA
    DAVID .H. COLLINGWOOD / WILLIAM .M. MCGOVERN
    Through the 1990s, a circle of ideas emerged relating three very different kinds of objects associated to a complex semisimple Lie algebra: nilpotent orbits, representations of a Weyl group, and primitive ideals in an enveloping algebra. The principal aim of this book is to collect together the important results concerning the classification and properties of nilpotent orbits, ...

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  • YANKEE FAMILY
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    YANKEE FAMILY
    JAMES MCGOVERN
    The voluminous records of the Pierce and Poor families weave a story that runs from the late eighteenth century until World War I. The extent and qual-ity of their source materials, and their positions as representative middle-class to upper-middle-class New England families, make these subjects of Yankee Family particularly well suited for analyzing processes of continuity and...

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  • GLOBALIZATION AND THIRD WORLD WOMEN
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    GLOBALIZATION AND THIRD WORLD WOMEN
    LIGAYA LINDIO-MCGOVERN / ISIDOR WALLIMANN
    Adopting the notion of 'third world' as a political as well as a geographical category, this volume analyzes marginalized women's experiences of globalization. It unravels the intersections of race, culture, ethnicity, nationality and class which have shaped the position of these women in the global political economy, their cultural and their national history. In addition to a ...

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  • FUNDAMENTALS OF COLITIS
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    FUNDAMENTALS OF COLITIS
    S. J. M. GOULSTON / V. J. MCGOVERN
    Fundamentals of Colitis covers the basic facts of several forms of colitis and the correlation between the clinical manifestations and the underlying pathological changes. This book is composed of eight chapters that specifically consider the infective forms of colitis, since these disorders can mimic other more serious disorders, both inflammatory and neoplastic. Each chapter...

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  • COCKTAILS FOR BOOK LOVERS
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    COCKTAILS FOR BOOK LOVERS
    TESSA SMITH MCGOVERN
    Host the perfect book club discussion night or literary-themed party with 50 fun author-themed cocktails for the budding home mixologist and book lover! From Jane Austen's little-known fondness for wine to Hemingway's beloved mojitos, each entry pairs a classic or contemporary author with a cocktail recipe that's inspired by either one of their works or a popular drink from the...

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  • LONG-TERM STEWARDSHIP AND THE NUCLEAR WEAPONS COMPLEX
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    LONG-TERM STEWARDSHIP AND THE NUCLEAR WEAPONS COMPLEX
    KATHERINE N. PROBST / MICHAEL H. MCGOVERN
    Decades of U.S. nuclear weapons production have exacted a heavy environmental toll. The Department of Energy estimates that cleaning up waste and contamination resulting from production activities will cost over $150 billion. Yet even once that money is spent, these sites will need long-term attention to assure protection of human health and the environment. In the authors' wor...

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  • ALCOHOL PROBLEMS IN THE UNITED STATES
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    ALCOHOL PROBLEMS IN THE UNITED STATES
    THOMAS F MCGOVERN / WILLIAM WHITE
    Alcohol Problems in the United States: Twenty Years of Treatment Perspective presents an overview of trends in the treatment of alcohol problems over a 20-year period from three vantage points: broader treatment perspectives, experienced views from the field, and personal perspectives. Some of the field's foremost experts, including Alcoholics Anonymous historian Dr. Ernest Kur...

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  • TO LHASA IN DISGUISE
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    TO LHASA IN DISGUISE
    WILLIAM MONTGOMERY MCGOVERN
    First published in 2004. A secret traveller to the Tibetan capital of Lhasa, the author of this unusual volume was forced to live, dress and behave as a Tibetan in order to remain undetected. Because of his unique perspective, he is able to provide an excellent description of the diplomatic, political, military and industrial situation of the country in the 1920s. His account o...

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  • POLICING AND MEDIA
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    POLICING AND MEDIA
    MURRAY LEE / ALYCE MCGOVERN
    This book examines the relationship between police, media and the public and analyses the shifting techniques and technologies through which they communicate. In a critical discussion of contemporary and emerging modes of mediatized police work, Lee and McGovern demonstrate how the police engage with the public through a fluid and quickly expanding assemblage of communications ...

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  • A MANUAL OF BUDDHIST PHILOSOPHY
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    A MANUAL OF BUDDHIST PHILOSOPHY
    WILLIAM MONTGOMERY MCGOVERN
    This is Volume VIII of sixteen in a collection on Buddhism. Originally published in 1923, this volume looks at cosmology. All forms of Buddhism, however divergent, claim to have but three objects of worship: the Buddha, the Dharma, and the Sangha.. The first is the founder of the faith, the second the teaching which he gave, and the third the order which he founded. Regarding e...

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  • GLOBALIZATION, LABOR EXPORT AND RESISTANCE
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    GLOBALIZATION, LABOR EXPORT AND RESISTANCE
    LIGAYA LINDIO-MCGOVERN
    Moving beyond polemical debates on globalization, this study considers complex intersections of gender, race, ethnicity, nationality and class within the field of globalized labor. As a significant contribution to the on-going debate on the role of neoliberal states in reproducing gender-race-class inequality in the global political economy, the volume examines the aggressive i...

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  • EDUCATION, MODERN DEVELOPMENT, AND INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE
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    EDUCATION, MODERN DEVELOPMENT, AND INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE
    SEANA MCGOVERN
    This book re-conceptualizes the field of international and comparative education by utilizing indigenous knowledge as a central component for altering the dominant, eurocentric social science research paradigm. Examples from indigenous sources of knowledge are juxtaposed to the dominant discourses on education and modern development in subaltern societies in order to provide sc...

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  • HRM, TECHNICAL WORKERS AND THE MULTINATIONAL CORPORATION
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    HRM, TECHNICAL WORKERS AND THE MULTINATIONAL CORPORATION
    PATRICK MCGOVERN
    This book is the first major in-depth study of the impact of contemporary management practices on a rapidly expanding set of white-collar occupations, namely technical workers. It investigates whether HRM schemes such as employee appraisals and performance related pay have transformed technical work to such an extent that it can no longer be described as a 'service contract'. T...

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  • A NEW BRAND OF EXPERTISE
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    A NEW BRAND OF EXPERTISE
    DENNIS RUSSELL / MARION MCGOVERN
    A New Brand of Expertise uniquely clarifies the dynamics of the red-hot "free agent" workplace and teaches the new skills and employment strategies independent professionals must master to succeed. In today's quick and turbulent markets, companies often need specialized professional talent on an interim basis to solve specific business problems, a major trend creating huge oppo...

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  • FLORIDA ALMANAC, 2012
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    FLORIDA ALMANAC, 2012
    BERNIE MCGOVERN
    An amazing atlas, directory, tourist guide, reference manual, and history book all in one—for natives, visitors, and new residents in the Sunshine State! From basic history and tourist information to obscure facts—such as the size of the largest squash grown—this book has it all. After reading the list of derivatives for the name of each Florida county, the Lake City Reporter c...

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  • PROTECTIVE OPERATIONS
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    PROTECTIVE OPERATIONS
    GLENN MCGOVERN
    A reference for law enforcement and security organizations tasked with protecting the welfare of an individual or groups of individuals, this volume offers suggestions and guidance for confronting high-threat scenarios as well as the more mundane protective details. Detailing the essence of protective operations that are run, in large part, covertly, the book explores operation...

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  • AN INTRODUCTION TO MAHĀYĀNA BUDDHISM
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    AN INTRODUCTION TO MAHĀYĀNA BUDDHISM
    WILLIAM MCGOVERN
    William Montgomery McGovern’s Introduction to Mahayana Buddhism was one of the first books on Mahayana Buddhism written for a Western audience. It predates influential English language overviews of Buddhism by D. T. Suzuki, A. Watts, and W. Rahula. The author was born in New York City in 1897 and spent his latter teenage years (1914-1917) training at the Nishi Hongwanji Mahayan...

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  • TARGETED VIOLENCE
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    TARGETED VIOLENCE
    GLENN P. MCGOVERN
    Drawn from case examples of incidents from around the world, Targeted Violence: A Statistical and Tactical Analysis of Assassinations, Contract Killings, and Kidnappings is the most complete resource of information on the attack methodologies, tactics used, and groups responsible for targeted killings and kidnappings. The author, a former SWAT and ...

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  • ALL AMERICAN
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    ALL AMERICAN
    ROBERT P MCGOVERN
    Captain Robert McGovern epitomizes all that is right and good in America. One of nine children growing up in a New Jersey family, he made local headlines as a high school football phenom before becoming a star linebacker for the Kansas City Chiefs, the Pittsburgh Steelers, and the New England Patriots. When his illustrious NFL career was over, he earned a law degree from Fordha...

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  • THE ORIGINS AND ANCIENT HISTORY OF WINE
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    THE ORIGINS AND ANCIENT HISTORY OF WINE
    PATRICK E. MCGOVERN
    This volume presents contemporary evidence scientific, archaeological, botanical, textual, and historical for major revisions in our understanding of winemaking in antiquity. Among the subjects covered are the domestication of the Vinifera grape, the wine trade, the iconography of ancient wine, and the analytical and archaeological challenges posed by ancient wines. The essayis...

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  • URBAN POLICY RECONSIDERED
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    URBAN POLICY RECONSIDERED
    CHARLES C. EUCHNER / STEPHEN J. MCGOVERN
    In the past decade, America has experienced an urban renaissance. Cities as varied as New York, Chicago and Boston are no longer seen as ungovernable and doomed to crime and blight. However, they still face formidable problems. Urban Policy Reconsidered is a comprehensive overview of the issues and problems facing our cities today and cover every important issue in urban a...

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  • PRIESTLY IDENTITY
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    PRIESTLY IDENTITY
    THOMAS J. MCGOVERN
    It is generally accepted that since the end of Vatican II there has been a crisis in the Catholic priesthood. This is reflected in two areas in particular--defections from the priesthood and a serious decline in vocations, primarily in the developed countries of the West. John Paul II has addressed this situation many times during his pontificate, especially in Pastores dabo vo...

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  • SEEING THROUGH RELIGION
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    SEEING THROUGH RELIGION
    NATHAN MCGOVERN
    Seeing Through Religion is a cutting-edge textbook designed to help students in their study and research of the world's religious traditions. Providing the tools to learn this valuable subject theoretically, McGovern argues that religion isn’t a thing out there in the world; it’s the glasses on your face through which you see the world, shaped by Western history and, in particu...

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  • LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT IN SAUDI ARABIA
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    LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT IN SAUDI ARABIA
    FAHAD F.H. ALANAZI / CHARLES HARVEY / TOM MCGOVERN / MAIRI MACLEAN
    Leadership Development in Saudi Arabia offers a comprehensive examination of the role of leadership development in expanding capabilities for national economic development, accelerating realization of the ambitious goals of Vision 2030, the country’s blueprint for socioeconomic transformation. Based on nine case studies of leading Saudi companies, this book explores how and why...

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  • WE'RE GOOD
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    WE'RE GOOD
    MEG KEESHAN MCGOVERN
    We're Good is an inspiring story about a well-rounded teenage athlete whose life changed in the blink of an eye. Chris O'Brien innocently dove into the ocean, hit a sandbar, and was instantly paralyzed. Going from a D-1 athlete to quadriplegic at eighteen years old is life changing. Chris was a swimmer, sailor, and student in college going about life before the accident. First ...

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  • A SOCIALIST PEACE?
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    A SOCIALIST PEACE?
    MIKE MCGOVERN
    For the last twenty years, the West African nation of Guinea has exhibited all of the conditions that have led to civil wars in other countries, and Guineans themselves regularly talk about the inevitability of war. Yet the country has narrowly avoided conflict again and again. In A Socialist Peace?, Mike McGovern asks how this is possible, how a nation could beat the odds and ...

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  • UNMASKING THE STATE
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    UNMASKING THE STATE
    MIKE MCGOVERN
    When the Republic of Guinea gained independence in 1958, one of the first policies of the new state was a village-to-village eradication of masks and other ritual objects it deemed “fetishes.” The Demystification Program, as it was called, was so urgent it even preceded the building of a national road system. In Unmasking the State, Mike McGovern attempts to understand why this...

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