Tag: Public

Free Download Nigel Cawthorne, "Public Executions: From Ancient Rome to the Present Day"
English | ISBN: 0785821198 | 2009 | 208 pages | EPUB | 5 MB
This fascinating and revealing book examines the social history behind this barbarism.

Free Download Risk And The Politics Of Public Health: A Critical Review
English | 2025 | ISBN: 9814689521 | 192 Pages | PDF (True) | 26 MB
Twentieth century public health initiatives have been crucially informed by perceptions and constructions of risk. Notions of risk identification, assessment and mitigation have guided political and institutional actions even before these concepts became an explicit part of the language of public administration and policy making. Past analyses investigating the link between risk perceptions and public health are relatively rare, and where researchers have investigated this nexus, it has typically been assumed that the collective identification of health risks has led to progressive improvements in public health activities.Risk and the Politics of Public Health addresses this gap by presenting a detailed critical historical analysis of the evolution of risk thinking within medical and health related discourses. Grouped around the four core themes of ‘immigration’, ‘race’, ‘armed conflict’ and ‘detention and prevention’ this book highlights the innovative capacity of risk related concepts as well as their vulnerability to the dysfunctional effects of dominant social ideologies. Risk and the Politics of Public Health is an essential reference for those who seek to understand the interplay of concepts of risk and public health throughout history as well as those who wish to gain a critical understanding of the social dynamics which have underpinned, and continue to underpin, this complex interaction.

Free Download Calvin B. Lang, "Public Transit Issues and Developments"
English | ISBN: 1606926896 | 2009 | 159 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Through the New Starts program, the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) evaluates and recommends new fixed guideway transit projects for funding using the evaluation criteria identified in law. In August 2007, FTA issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM), in part, to incorporate certain provisions within the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient, Transportation Equity A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU) into the evaluation process. SAFETEA-LU requires the authors to annually review FTA’s New Starts process. This book discusses (1) the information captured by New Starts project justification criteria, (2) challenges FTA faces as it works to improve the New Starts program, and (3) options for evaluating New Starts projects. To address these objectives, the authors reviewed statutes, FTA guidance and regulations governing the New Starts program, and interviewed experts, project sponsors, and Department of Transportation (DOT) officials.

Free Download Hatim A. Omar, "Obesity and Adolescence: A Public Health Concern "
English | ISBN: 160692821X | 2009 | 295 pages | PDF | 3 MB
A mantra has developed in the late 20th century and early 21st century that has an underlying bias again overweight and obese individuals, who are blamed for their "disease" and told by society to lose weight or suffer the consequences. Art was used from 22,000 BC through the 19th century to glorify obesity, while art of the current era vilifies or mocks obesity. Considerable discrimination awaits the obese child, adolescent, or adult in current society, whether in the form of bullying in school, limited social life, or job refusal. Concern over obesity leads many youth to unhealthy diet practices that involve starvation and/or bulimic features. In this book, leading international experts discuss obesity in adolescence. Indeed, what are the ethics of obesity management for the health care professionals of today? Perhaps proper obesity management begins with an examination of why obesity was desired for so many centuries, an acceptance that obesity is not the patient’s fault, that many overweight/obese individuals are happy as well as healthy and that the economics of current obesity "treatment" must be re-examined and reconfigured. This book has been created and edited by four leading physicians in child health and human development.

Free Download Black Women Legacies: Public History Sites Seen and Unseen (Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History) by Alexandria Russell
English | December 10, 2024 | ISBN: 0252088360 | 278 pages | EPUB | 8.53 Mb
From Black clubwomen to members of preservation organizations, African American women have made commemoration a central part of Black life and culture. Alexandria Russell illuminates the process of memorialization while placing African American women at the center of memorials they brought into being and others constructed in their honor. Their often undocumented and unheralded work reveals the importance of the memorializers and public memory crafters in establishing a culture of recognition. Forced to strategize with limited resources, the women operated with a resourcefulness and savvy that had to meet challenges raised by racism, gender and class discrimination, and specific regional difficulties. Yet their efforts from the 1890s to the 2020s shaped and honed practices that became indispensable to the everyday life and culture of Black Americans.

Free Download Beyond Instrumentalised Politics: Re-Conceptualising Public Governance
by Garrett Thomson, Scherto Gill
English | 2024 | ISBN: 3111240525 | 219 Pages | PDF | 1.6 MB

Free Download M. Ramesh, Eduardo Araral, Xun Wu, "Reasserting the Public in Public Services: New Public Management Reforms"
English | 2010 | ISBN: 0415547393 | EPUB | pages: 240 | 0.8 mb
After two decades of dominating the public sector reform agenda, privatization is on the wane as states gradually reassert themselves in many formerly privatized sectors. The change of direction is a response to the realization that privatization is not working as intended, especially in public service sectors.

Free Download John E. O’Rourke, "Jersey Troopers:: Sacrifice at the Altar of Public Service"
English | ISBN: 1596299789 | 2010 | 192 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
The New Jersey State Police is an organization rich in history and tradition. Formed in 1921, the outfit" has grown from a rural police force into one of the most diversified state agencies in the country. Sadly, this success did not come without a price; over thirty-five troopers gave their lives serving the citizens of the Garden State during the organization’s formative years, from 1921 to 1960. This book honors their memory, telling the stories of these brave men, and upholds the state police’s credo: It is the obligation-the Duty-of the living to remember-Honor-the dead. Let us always remember-Fidelity."

Free Download Making Sense of Identity and Equity in Public Sector Workplaces
English | 2025 | ISBN: 1032869526 | 261 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 6 MB
Identity and equity in public sector workplaces are two of the most crucial, yet complex, concepts for decision-makers to address. This important new book offers public administration scholars, practitioners, and students a comprehensive resource to make sense of identity and equity in the public sector workplace.

Free Download Charles T. Mathewes, "A Theology of Public Life"
English | 2007 | pages: 382 | ISBN: 0521832268, 0521539900 | PDF | 1,2 mb
What has Washington to do with Jerusalem? In the raging debates about the relationship between religion and politics, no one has explored the religious benefits and challenges of public engagement for Christian believers – until now. This book defends and details Christian believers’ engagement in contemporary pluralistic public life not from the perspective of some neutral ‘public’, but from the particular perspective of Christian faith, arguing that such engagement enriches both public life and Christian citizens’ faith themselves. As such it offers not a ‘public theology’, but a ‘theology of public life’, analysing the promise and perils of Christian public engagement, discussing the nature of civic commitment and prophetic critique, and the relation of a loving faith to a liberal politics of justice. Theologically rich, philosophically rigorous, politically, historically and sociologically informed, this book advances contemporary discussion of ‘religion and public life’ in fundamental ways.