Examines how democratic representatives make decisions in crisis situations. By analysing parliamentary asylum debates in Germany, Julius Rogenhofer identifies the ability to project decisiveness as a
Better Crime Prevention provides a critical guide to theory, research, ethics and politics in relation to crime prevention policy and practice. It concludes with an agenda for continuous improvement. The book also demonstrates what is involved in doing theoretically informed and realistic applied social science orientated to reducing harms.The focus throughout this book is on ethical and effective ways to reduce crime-related harms. There are chapters on how to target crime prevention efforts, crime prevention theories and frameworks, ethical issues in crime prevention, the practical conduct of crime prevention, evidence-based crime prevention, the politics of crime prevention, and the need for continuous adaptation in crime prevention.Student readers will obtain an overview of and capacity critically to engage with crime prevention theory and practice. Policy-maker and practitioner readers will be able to make better-informed decisions about what to do and how to allocate crime preven
The modern manager faces a bewildering range of challenges every single day. Their ability to make critical decisions, often under pressure, can directly determine the future success of the company an
Roberta Snow and Paul Phillips present a clear and structured way to manage the challenges of limited resources, competing demands, and the need for accountability while remaining true to a nonprofit’
The success of the modern day leader depends in no small part on their ability to bring clarity and purpose to a world that is otherwise swamped in a fog of information, complexity and change. Somewh
The 1980s was a time of significant social, political and cultural change. In Australia law was pivotal to these changes. The two High Court cases that this book explores-Koowarta v Bjelke-Petersen in
This scenario-based text provides answers to urgent and emergent questions in acute, emergency, and critical care situations focusing on the electrocardiogram in patient care management. The text is a
Matt Spruill, a retired US Army colonel, Civil War historian and lecturer, former Gettysburg battlefield guide, and author, and Lee Spruill, a retired US Army lieutenant colonel and author, delinea
This history for general readers and scholars examines the actions of commanders on both sides of the Battle of Second Manassas during the Civil War, looking at 14 critical decisions made by Confed
An ancestor of his being a Confederate general there, Peterson studied the November 1863 Battle of Chattanooga in detail, and concluded that, while there was an element of luck in the US victory,
Powell’s book assumes that readers will have a basic working knowledge of the course of the events of the battle of Chicamauga, described as the most confusing of all the Civil War battles: the te
