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The World of the Tavern Public Houses in Early Modern Europe


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English | ISBN: 0754603415 | 2002 | 264 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
The subject of drink received a great deal of attention from early modern Europeans. Preachers, physicians, authorities, artists and travellers all addressed it from a range of different perspectives. At the same time, inns, taverns and alehouses served as multifunctional centres in towns and villages throughout Europe. This combination resulted in a wealth of sources, both institutional and cultural, which are only now beginning to be explored. This anthology features new research on public houses in England, Russia and the German lands. In a series of general, thematic and regional studies, contributors engage with broader debates in early modern history, shedding light on such key issues as consumption, travel and communication, state building, confessional identity, fiscal practice, gender and household relations, and the use of public spaces. The result is a volume that should appeal to anybody with an interest in early modern cultural history.

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Schooling in the Antebellum South The Rise of Public and Private Education in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama


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English | ISBN: 0807164208 | 2016 | 240 pages | EPUB | 1313 KB
In Schooling in the Antebellum South, Sarah L. Hyde analyzes educational development in the Gulf South before the Civil War, not only revealing a thriving private and public education system, but also offering insight into the worldview and aspirations of the people inhabiting the region. While historians have tended to emphasize that much of the antebellum South had no public school system and offered education only to elites in private institutions, Hyde’s work suggests a different pattern of development in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama, where citizens actually worked to extend schooling across the region. As a result, students learned in a variety of settings―in their own homes with a family member or hired tutor, at private or parochial schools, and in public free schools. Regardless of the venue, Hyde shows that the ubiquity of learning in the region proves how highly southerners valued education.

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Grand Successes and Failures in IT. Public and Private Sectors IFIP WG 8.6 International Working Conference on Transfer and Di


Free Download Grand Successes and Failures in IT. Public and Private Sectors: IFIP WG 8.6 International Working Conference on Transfer and Diffusion of IT, TDIT 2013, Bangalore, India, June 27-29, 2013. Proceedings By Karlheinz Kautz, Dubravka Cecez-Kecmanovic (auth.), Yogesh K. Dwivedi, Helle Zinner Henriksen, David Wastell, Rahul De’ (eds.)
2013 | 670 Pages | ISBN: 3642388612 | PDF | 12 MB
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the IFIP WG 8.6 International Working Conference on Transfer and Diffusion of IT, TDIT 2013, held in Bangalore, India, in June 2013. The 35 revised full papers presented together with an invited paper, 12 short papers and 3 poster papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 65 submissions. The full papers are organized in the following topical sections: IS success and failure; studies of IT adoption; software development; IT in the public sector; and theory and methods.

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The Public Sector Pivot How Gen Z Will Lead a Renaissance in Public Service


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English | 2021 | ISBN: 1636769098, 1636763987 | EPUB | pages: 178 | 0.2 mb
The future of the U.S. is in jeopardy – and it’s not just because of partisanship. In the end, hope for the future always lies in the next generation, and yet the government is ignoring this crop of energetic, purpose-driven workers.

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The Public Administration Workbook


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English | 2016 | ISBN: 113868208X | EPUB | pages: 374 | 1.0 mb
Public administration is a craft that demands real-world application of concepts and theories often learned in a classroom. Yet many students find it difficult to make the leap from theory to practice completely unaided. The Public Administration Workbook, 8e is specifically designed with the theoretically-grounded, practice-minded student in mind. It reviews scholarship in political science, law, industrial psychology, and the sociology of organizations and then allows students to see how these intellectual fields inform the analytical and managerial tasks that comprise public administration. Where standard public administration textbooks examine the nature of public agencies and explain how bureaucracies relate to other institutions, this workbook promotes a more effective way of learning―by doing―and more directly prepares those who will pursue careers in public agencies.

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The Changing Role of the Public Intellectual


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English | 2006 | ISBN: 1138970131, 0415347823 | EPUB | pages: 192 | 0.2 mb
Ideas can define and transform society, but how healthy is intellectual life today? In a period when Big Brother refers not to George Orwell but to a reality TV show, and when bright young things are developing gameshow formats rather than scribbling essays; when thinkers join think tanks to design short-term government policy rather than reflecting on and challenging the status quo, and when the ever growing number of graduates seem more interested in job prospects than academic endeavour, is intellectual life in terminal decline?

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Recasting Science Consensual Procedures in Public Policy Making


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English | 2019 | ISBN: 036730063X | EPUB | pages: 158 | 0.5 mb
In this study, Connie Ozawa examines the relationship between the management of scientific information and political power in the USA. In cases ranging from local land use disputes to federal regulatory battles, decision-making methods based on generating a consensus among key players have been added to the conventional policy-making process. The a

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