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Showing 1 - 12 of 130 results for “nancy c roberts”
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  • Design Strategy

    Challenges in Wicked Problem Territory

    by Nancy C. Roberts ...
    Series series Design Thinking, Design Theory
    A new approach to addressing the contemporary world’s most difficult challenges, such as climate change and poverty.Conflicts over “the problem” and “the solution” plague the modern world and land problem solvers in what has been called “wicked problem territory”—a social space with high levels of conflict over problems and solutions. In Design Strategy, Nancy C. Roberts proposes design as a ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • The Age of Direct Citizen Participation

    by Nancy C. Roberts ...
    Citizen involvement is considered the cornerstone of democratic theory and practice. Citizens today have the knowledge and ability to participate more fully in the political, technical, and administrative decisions that affect them. On the other hand, direct citizen participation is often viewed with skepticism, even wariness. Many argue that citizens do not have the time, preparation, or interest ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Civil Society and Government

    Edited by Nancy L. Rosenblum, Robert C. Post ...
    Series series Ethikon Series in Comparative Ethics
    Civil Society and Government brings together an unprecedented array of political, ethical, and religious perspectives to shed light on the complex and much-debated relationship between civil society and the state. Some argue that civil society is a bulwark against government; others see it as an indispensable support for government. Civil society has been portrayed both as a independent of the ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • Recursive Methods in Economic Dynamics

    by Nancy L. Stokey, Robert E. Lucas Jr. ...
    Three eminent economists provide in this book a rigorous, self-contained treatment of modern economic dynamics. Nancy L. Stokey, Robert E. Lucas, Jr., and Edward C. Prescott develop the basic methods of recursive analysis and emphasize the many areas where they can usefully be applied.After presenting an overview of the recursive approach, the authors develop economic applications for ... Read more

    $94.09 USD

  • Dancing without Partners

    How Candidates, Parties, and Interest Groups Interact in the Presidential Campaign

    by Kelly D. Patterson, Lonna Rae Atkeson, Lindsay Battles, Stephen Brooks, Nancy Carillo, Robert E. Crew, Rick Farmer, Terri Susan Fine0, John C. Green1, E Terrence Jones2, Martha Kropf3, Susan A. MacMannus4, Michael Margolis5, Stephen T. Mockabee6, J Quin Monson7, Arthur Sanders8, Mekoce Walker9, Laura Wiedlocher0 ...
    Series series Campaigning American Style
    Political parties, interest groups, and candidate campaigns all pursue similar goals in presidential elections: each entity attempts to mobilize voters. However, the regulatory environment often prevents these groups from coordinating their efforts. With participants playing by new rules mandated by the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act, the 2004 presidential election included previously unseen ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • RCRA Hazardous Wastes Handbook

    by Richard E. Schwartz, Nancy S. Bryson, Timothy R. McCrum, Robert C. Davis, Ridgway M. Hall Jr. ...
    This updated edition examines the latest regulatory and judicial developments involving the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) and provides a clear, practical explanation of its requirements.Using this book, you will learn how to manage the "field side" of RCRA compliance, including identifying hazardous waste, transporting hazardous materials under EPA and DOT regulations, and ... Read more

    $198.49 USD

  • Border Crossings

    Toward a Comparative Political Theory

    by Fred Dallmayr, Azizah Y. al-Hibri, Yoko Arisaka, John J. Clarke, Ahmet Davutoglu, Manochehr Dorraj, Roxanne L. Euben, Russell Arben Fox, Nancy J. Hirschmann, Robert C. Johansen, Hwa Yol Jung, L H. M. Ling, Thomas Pantham, Chih-Yu Shih ...
    Series series Global Encounters: Studies in Comparative Political Theory
    Comparative political theory is at best an embryonic and marginalized endeavor. As practiced in most Western universities, the study of political theory generally involves a rehearsal of the canon of Western political thought from Plato to Marx. Only rarely are practitioners of political thought willing (and professionally encouraged) to transgress the canon and thereby the cultural boundaries of ... Read more

    $42.19 USD

  • China's Strategic Arsenal

    Worldview, Doctrine, and Systems

    by James M. Smith, Paul J. Bolt, Andrew Scobell, Christopher P. Twomey, Sugio Takahashi, Hans M. Kristensen, Phillip C. Saunders, David C. Logan, Bates Gill0, Nancy W. Gallagher1, Brad Roberts2 ...
    A critical look at how China’s growing strategic arsenal could impact a rapidly changing world orderChina’s strategic capabilities and doctrine have historically differed from the United States’ and Russia’s. China has continued to modernize and expand its arsenal despite its policy of no first use, while the United States and Russia have decreased deployed weapons stocks.This volume brings ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

  • Magical Muse

    Millennial Essays on Tennessee Williams

    by Philip C. Kolin, Albert J. Devlin, Jeffrey B. Loomis, Robert Siegel, Nancy M. Tischler, Allean Hale, Barbara M. Harris, Michael Paller, Dan Sullivan, George W. Crandell, W. Kenneth Holditch, Jackson R. Bryer ...
    In this unique and engaging collection, twelve essays celebrate the legacy of one of America's most important playwrights and investigate Williams's enduring effect on America's cultural, theatrical, and literary heritage.Like Faulkner before him, Tennessee Williams gave universal appeal to southern characters and settings. His major plays, from Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and The Glass Menagerie to A ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Making Policy, Making Law

    An Interbranch Perspective

    by Mark C. Miller, Jeb Barnes, Robert A. Kagan, Nancy Kassop, R. Shep Melnick, Lawrence Baum, Lori Hausegger, Thomas F. Burke0, Stephen G. Bragaw1, Louis Fisher2, Lee Epstein3, Jack Knight4, Andrew D. Martin5, Neal Devins6 ...
    Series series American Governance and Public Policy series
    The functioning of the U.S. government is a bit messier than Americans would like to think. The general understanding of policymaking has Congress making the laws, executive agencies implementing them, and the courts applying the laws as written—as long as those laws are constitutional. Making Policy, Making Law fundamentally challenges this conventional wisdom, arguing that no dominant ... Read more

    $31.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Prehistoric World Unveiled: 21 Essential Reads

    Foundational Writings on Human Origins, Stone Tools, Cave Art, and Ancient Civilizations

    by Henry Fairfield Osborn, William Henry Holmes, John Evans, Emory Adams Allen, William Boyd Dawkins, Conrado O. Benitez, Austin Craig, Robert J. Braidwood, Inigo Jones, Robert W. Neuman, Nancy W. Hawkins, H. C. Shetrone, Jon L. Gibson, L. W. King, Donald A. Mackenzie, Walter Besant, S. Laing, Daniel Sir Wilson, Erik Norman Kjellesvig-Waering, Michael Casilliano, Paul O. McGrew ...
    The Prehistoric World Unveiled: 21 Essential Reads assembles a capacious inquiry into humanity's deep past, moving among archaeology, paleontology, antiquarian scholarship, comparative history, and speculation about vanished cultures. Its selections range from documentary and analytical prose to evocative reconstructions of prehistoric life, tracing artifacts, monuments, migrations, technologies, ... Read more

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  • The Gold Seekers

    Gold, Ghosts and Legends from Carolina to California

    by Nancy Roberts ...
    A history of the earlier Southern gold rush and its legends that—for the first time—ties it to the well-known California gold rush of 1849.Nancy Roberts tells how it all began in North Carolina, which supplied all the domestic gold coined at the US Mint between 1804 and 1828. She tells the story of the discovery of the gold in Virginia, the Carolinas, Georgia, and Alabama and later in California ... Read more

    $12.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus