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Digby Differs

"Digby always felt like he didn't belong--like he was just a little different from everyone else. He longed for a place that felt like home. One day his yearning sends him on a journey of discovery that will take him to a place where 'feeling different' feels just right"--

"Digby always felt like he didn't belong--like he was just a little different from everyone else.

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Juris Types

Learning Law Through Self-understanding

As the first book of its kind, Juris Types presents a comprehensive guide for utilizing the Myers-Briggs personality types for successfully completing law school. Type and law experts Martha M. Peters and Don Peters present a clear understanding of how the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®) instrument, administered to many incoming law students throughout the country, holds clues for developing optimal study habits and techniques for approaching exams. You will discover step-by-step study habits for each of the sixteen types as well as a general introduction to the theories of psychological type. The book includes a CD-ROM with exercises that appear at the end of each chapter.

As the first book of its kind, Juris Types presents a comprehensive guide for utilizing the Myers-Briggs personality types for successfully completing law school.

The Global Factory

Networked Multinational Enterprises in the Modern Global Economy

This key new book synthesises Peter Buckley's work on ‘the global factory’ – the modern networked multinational enterprise. The role of interfirm networks, entrepreneurship and cooperation in the creation and management of global factories leads to a discussion of their governance, internal knowledge transfer strategies and performance, including their role in potentially combating societal failures. Emerging country multinationals are examined as a special case of global factories with a focus on Indian and Chinese multinationals, their involvement in tax havens and offshore financial centres, the performance and processes of their acquisition strategies – all seen as key aspects of globalisation.

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Developments in British Public Policy

This work provides a comprehensive review of all the key public policy sectors in contemporary British politics. Each chapter is written by a leading authority in their field and includes case studies, discussion questions and further reading.

The challenges therein for British foreign policy makers and the foreign policy-
making system can scarcely be overstated. Commitments far outweighed
capabilities. Traditional trade routes had been distorted or lost. Rising
nationalism in the developing world challenged British imperial possessions. The
emergence of the United States (US) and Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (
USSR) as two superpowers overtly reduced Britain's stature as a Great Power.
Europe was too close to ...

Public Policy

Originally published by Winthrop Publishers, Inc. in 1974, this volume concentrates upon the role of major political institutions in policy-making: interest groups, political parties, the presidency, Congress, courts, and the bureaucracy, covering both the formal and the informal context within which these institutions operate. The capability of each institution to affect public policy is assessed in an attempt to answer the question: where does the real power to make public policy reside in the political system?

policy process outside of the courts decisions are often made by ' experts in the
area of policy under consideration. This expertise is gained through
specialization. Specialization occurs in congressional committees, their staffs,
and administrative agencies, buttressed by specialized inputs from pressure
groups. The nature of the policy process means a diminished role for electoral
politics as an influence upon policy-makers. The average man, whether he is
aware or not of issues of ...

Handbook of Public Policy

'The new handbook by Peters and Pierre provides an invaluable addition to the literature. It offers new scholars and practitioners a means to navigate many of the complex theoretical and practical issues in contemporary policy analysis' - Mark Considine, University of Melbourne The public policies of governments affect the lives and livelihoods of citizens every day in every country around the world. This handbook provides a comprehensive review and guide to the study, theory and practice of public policy today. Section One, Making Policy, introduces the policy making process - the means by which public policies are formulated, adopted and implemented - and serves to review the many competing conceptualizations within the field. Section Two, Substantive Policy Areas, focuses on a number of substantive policy areas to consider both diversity and commonalties across different sectoral policy areas. Section Three, Evaluating Public Policy, addresses issues of policy analysis more directly and assesses successes and failures in public policy in an attempt to answer the question 'what is good policy?'. The concluding chapter considers the different disciplinary contributions to the research and study of public policy both retrospectively and prospectively. Drawing contributions from leading academics and policy analysts from around the world, the handbook illustrates the changing role of governments vis-à-vis the public and private sector and the different policy actors (national and international, governmental and non-governmental) involved in the policy making process. It will be an essential companion for all advanced undergraduates, graduates, academics and practitioners across public policy and public administration, public management, government and political science.

INTRODUCTION During the 1990s, argumentative policy analysis became a
major strand in the contemporary study of policy making and policy theory
development. The term argumentative policy analysis subsumes a group of
different approaches towards policy analysis that share an emphasis on
language as a key feature of any policy process and thus as a necessary key
component of policy analysis. Argumentative policy analysis links post-positivist
epistemology with social ...

Governance and Public Policy in Canada

A View from the Provinces

Governance and Public Policy in Canada lays the foundation for a systematic analysis of policy developments, shaped as they are by multiple players, institutional tensions, and governance legacies. Arguing that provinces are now the most central site of governance and policy innovation, the book assesses the role of the provinces and places the provincial state in its broader economic, institutional, social, and territorial context. The aim throughout is to highlight the crucial role of provinces in policy changes that directly affect the lives of citizens. Three key themes unify this book. First, it addresses the role of policy convergence and divergence among provinces. Although the analysis acknowledges enduring differences in political culture and institutions, it also points to patterns of policy diffusion and convergence in specific areas in a number of provinces. Second, the book explores the push and pull between centralization and decentralization in Canada as it affects intergovernmental relations. Third, it underscores that although the provinces play a greater role in policy development than ever before, they now face a growing tension between their expanding policy ambitions and their capacity to develop, fund, implement, manage, and evaluate policy programs. Governance and Public Policy in Canada describes how the provincial state has adapted in the context of these changing circumstances to transcend its limited capacity while engaging with a growing number of civil society actors, policy networks, and intergovernmental bodies.

The aim throughout is to highlight the crucial role of provinces in policy changes that directly affect the lives of citizens. Three key themes unify this book.

Spider-Man 2

The amazing adventures of one of the greatest superheroes of all time continue in Spider-Man 2. Two years have passed, and Peter Parker struggles to cope with the demands of life as a college student, a Daily Bugle photographer, and a crime-fighting superhero. But it hasn’t gotten any easier. Condemned by the press, tormented by secrets he can never reveal, forced to give up the girl of his dreams—at times the lonely burden of Spider-Man seems almost too great to bear . . . and the temptation to give up grows stronger by the hour. Enter the archfiend Doc Ock, armed with a lethal invention powerful enough to destroy half the city. If Spider-Man tries to stop Doc Ock, he’ll be placing the lives of those closest to him in mortal danger. If he doesn’t, it could be the end of the Big Apple. With millions of lives hanging in the balance, high about Manhattan’s glittering skyline, Spider-Man confronts his destiny, his fiercest enemy, and himself. From the Paperback edition.

With uncanny timing, he snagged Harry Osborn with a web-line and yanked him
upward. Osborn started to thrash in protest, and then a vicious bolt of energy
swept right through where Osborn had been. Harry, gasping, realizing the
narrowness of his escape, went limp. Octavius knew all too well Harry Osborn's
feelings about SpiderMan. He'd brought it up at random, almost disconnected
times in their association, as if the masked man was always preying on his mind.
Now, though ...