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  • Adirondack

    Wild School Tales from Miami

    by George Guess ...
    When private school English teacher John Gausman learns that his former student, James Brooke, had been killed in the recent Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba, he decides with support of his school Adirondack Grove School near Miami to delve deeper into Brooke’s life. Reviewing his incomplete diary, interactions and interviews with former classmates, discussions with friends and faculty, and ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Dogs of Catherine Town

    by George Guess ...
    Russian-American professor Nicholas Krylov encounters a host of unusual characters while doing summer research on the 2018 World Cup Football Games to be held in multiple Russian cities.A serious stray dog problem threatens to derail the Games in Yekaterinburg (Catherine Town). Head city veterinarian Dr. Ivan Krastov is devising new methods to capture and kill or train and adopt the strays. He is ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Politics of United States Foreign Aid

    by George M. Guess ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Development
    First published in 1987, this reissue explores contemporary United States foreign aid policies and thinking in the Reagan era. The author argues that aid policy is often confused as a result of bureaucratic decision-making processes. The book contrasts the experience of the many countries where aid-giving has produced unwished-for effects with the few countries where the desired results have ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Government Budgeting

    A Practical Guidebook

    by George M. Guess ...
    Practitioner-oriented sampling of the major tools used to deal with current public-sector fiscal issues.Directed at state and local financial managers, Government Budgeting presents, in a short and succinct manner, a sampling of the major tools used to deal with current fiscal problems. George M. Guess provides examples from a number of states and localities and explains how to use them in diverse ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Building Democracy and International Governance

    by George M. Guess ...
    Efforts by governments to promote sustained domestic economic development have been mixed. Success depends on many factors including location, geography, climate, external competition, human resources, natural resources, timing, political and governmental institutions, government capacity, implementation, leadership, values—and maybe luck. This complexity means that while development experts can ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • Comparative Public Budgeting

    Global Perspectives on Taxing and Spending

    by George M. Guess, James D. Savage ...
    Every government engages in budgeting and public financial management to run the affairs of state. Effective budgeting empowers states to prioritize policies, allocate resources, and discipline bureaucracies, and it contributes to efficacious fiscal and macroeconomic policies. Budgeting can be transparent, participatory, and promote democratic decision-making, or it can be opaque, hierarchical, ... Read more

    $40.19 USD

  • International Development Management for Public and Nonprofit Organizations

    by George M. Guess ...
    Managing international development and aid programs often relies on trial and error and flexibility. Practitioners need a mix of management theory and field practice to prepare them for work in other countries—transitional, developing, wealthier, and poorer alike. Filling an important gap in the literature for graduate students and practitioners in the public sector, private firms, contractors, ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Cases in Public Policy Analysis

    Third Edition

    by George M. Guess, Paul G. Farnham ...
    Combining the insights of an economist and a political scientist, this new third edition of Cases in Public Policy Analysis offers real world cases to provide students with the institutional and political dimensions of policy problems as well as easily understood principles and methods for analyzing public policies.Guess and Farnham clearly explain such basic tools as problem-identification, ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Comparative Public Budgeting

    Global Perspectives on Taxing and Spending

    by George M. Guess, Lance T. LeLoup ...
    Holistic, comparative analysis of multiple budget systems and contexts.Increasingly, governments must respond to the negative impacts of global economic crises on their revenues to finance needed services, and the collapse of their real industrial and financial-banking sectors. How they respond most effectively is a new study area which demands sharing of lessons between nations on government ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • International Public Policy Analysis

    by Thomas Husted, George Guess ...
    Most public policy analysis books currently on the market are US-centric and focused on quantitative analysis, while comparative public policy textbooks are oriented around countries and specific policy processes. International Public Policy Analysis is the first textbook to take a truly comparative and cross-cultural approach, organized around policy issues, to examine important policy ‘lessons’ ... Read more

    $93.99 USD

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  • The Fastest Billion

    The Story Behind Africa's Economic Revolution

    by Charles Robertson ...
    From the vantage point of many in the West, Africa remains a continent of woe – a place stalked by ethnic conflict, corrupt dictatorships, religious strife, war and famine. But today, at last, the flawed mythology that treats Africa as a homogenous disaster area is being challenged by investors, economists, fund managers and academics. Age is not often associated with speed; but Africa, the cradle ... Read more

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