In this book, influential development practitioners reflect on their careers by writing letters of advice to their younger selves. Sharing their successes, failures, challenges, career barriers, the changes and continuities within their work, these accounts provide invaluable windows into the world of development practice.

Offers a comprehensive review of leadership theories in the field, from the classic to the cutting-edge, and how they relate specifically to the public sector and nonprofit contexts. Covers the major competency clusters in detail, portrayed in a leadership action cycle that aids readers in visually connecting theory and practice. Integrates expanded coverage of nonprofit leadership throughout the chapters, including in-depth discussions about managing volunteers, fundraising ethics, the nonpr...

Following his #1 New York Times bestseller, Our Endangered Values, the former president, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, offers an assessment of what must be done to bring permanent peace to Israel with dignity and justice to Palestine.

President Carter, who was able to negotiate peace between Israel and Egypt, has remained deeply involved in Middle East affairs since leaving the White House. He has stayed in touch with the major players from all sides in the conflict and has made num...

Tackling the disparity between the ideal and the practical, this text addresses the challenges of the American election system

The ideal course companion or primer for any undergraduate student of IR - the skeleton of the entire discipline in one accessible book.

Clear, student-friendly introduction to the technical concepts and policies of contemporay governance.

A highly practical book for courses on human service/social work administration which takes students through the nuts and bolts of managing a human service agency.

An eye-opening account of offshore finance: a secretive system making the rich richer while corroding democracy, capitalism, and the environment.

In turbulent global times, your study of this subject is increasingly necessary and urgent.

Featuring a new chapter on critical theories, and revised to take a less Eurocentric approach to concepts and case studies, this new edition allows you to tackle global politics' important concepts, debates and problems:

-How can theories help us to understand the politics of a global pandemic?

-Do we live in a 'post-truth' world of 'fake news' and disinformation?

-Does international aid work?

-Does t...