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This timely Handbook explores the handling of city and municipal
finances in the 21st century. It examines the impact of the Great
Recession and Covid-19 pandemic on cities and municipalities,
highlighting strengths, weaknesses, and avenues for future progress
in city and municipal financial management. Bringing together
leading global scholars of public finance and budgeting, economics,
law, political science and policy analysis, this Handbook
scrutinises how cities and municipalities have adapted after crisis
periods. It combines theoretical ideas, empirical findings and
practical applications, focusing on federalist systems as well as
including global case studies from diverse governance contexts.
Contributors analyse sources of revenue for cities and
municipalities, critical areas of spending, fiscal structure,
budgeting, debt, pensions and financial resilience. Forward
thinking, it considers the strength and resilience of city and
municipal finances in meeting long-term liabilities and responding
to short-term crises. This Handbook will be an invaluable resource
for students and scholars of public finance and administration,
urban economics, and political economy. Providing cutting-edge
policy recommendations, it will also be a highly useful guide for
policy-makers and administrators seeking to effectively guide city
and municipal finances.
We Are Being Lied To It's time to get honest with ourselves.
Culture's beauty standards are messed up. We all know it, and we
all think we can resist the pull to look a certain way. Yet most of
us--our daughters and nieces too--still strive for a broken kind of
beauty and feel I'm. not. good. enough. For Melissa Johnson, a
marriage and family therapist, this lie eventually led to battling
an eating disorder. Through that experience, she saw that chasing
broken beauty breaks women in so many ways. She also realized that
true, soul-deep beauty is not impossible--it abounds in us and all
around us. And now Melissa's on a mission to help you · uncover
the hidden damage cultural lies about beauty have on your mind and
soul · reconnect with God, in whose image you are made · walk
away from shame and striving · love yourself--and
others--unconditionally True beauty is the fullness of life we are
longing for. It's the reality that blows our minds, affirms our
true worth, and invites us into an adventure that meets our deepest
longings. And it's true beauty that will save us if we open our
eyes to it. "Nothing is more shattered or more misunderstood in our
lives than beauty. On our own, we are unable to recapture God's
vision for it, and every generation needs guides who can
reintroduce it to us again for the first time. In Melissa Johnson,
we have such a guide."--CURT THOMPSON, MD, author of The Soul of
Desire and The Soul of Shame
The ability of a nation to finance its basic infrastructure is
essential to its economic well-being in the 21st century. This
second edition of State and Local Financial Instruments covers the
municipal securities market in the United States from the
perspective of its primary capital financing role in a fiscal
federalist system, where subnational governments are responsible
for financing the nation's essential physical infrastructure. Using
the latest financial research, the authors use data-driven analysis
to inform current public policy debates regarding the future of
subnational government debt finance. The theories, research and
practical examples in the book illustrate the policies and
practices that helped governments navigate through the COVID-19
pandemic, the Financial Crisis and Great Recession, and that
contributed to government shipwrecks. The book is designed to help
officials make good, sound fiscal choices in a fast changing,
complex financial world entwined in a network of intermediaries,
and within the constraints imposed by fiscal rules and
institutions. This updated edition will be of interest to
academics, students and researchers interested in economics,
finance, international studies and public administration and
policy. It is also an excellent reference tool for government
officials, public policymakers and professionals working in
finance.
1. Introduces students to current and emerging environmental
hazards to human and related ecosystem health. 2. Explains
detrimental policy changes of existing policies and recently
developed policies that impact the health of the environment and
that of communities. 3. Presents a perspective for global sources
of pollution and how international actions have emerged for control
of environmental hazards such as climate change and global air
pollution. 4. Includes foundation lectures, case studies, and
practice questions to help create student-led discussions for both
in-class and homework assignments. 5. Describes the integrated One
Health concept and critically examines the interconnectedness of
human- and ecosystem health. 6. Written by environmental health
experts with a long teaching career on policy and public health.
• Continues to be an indispensable text for mental health
professionals and pastoral counsellors. • Updated according to
the latest empirical research and DSM-V. • Revised chapters
significantly cover issues regarding diversity and culture which
clergy may struggle with, as well as diagnostic interviewing and
cultural humility. • Written in a consistent, easy-to-follow
structure in each chapter includes case example, introduction, key
indicators, and recommendations • Updated citations and
references to psychological disorders throughout, with special
emphasis on the family. • helps pastors understand some of the
most widely used and evidence based treatments and what to look for
when referring to professionals (e.g., licensure, board
certification, specialty training and certification, etc.). •
highlights the limited role of medication for most mental health
difficulties and when its use is indicated. • Members of the
clergy are frequently the first person a parishioner seeks out for
support, guidance, and assistance when grappling with many of
life’s challenges and problems. Ensuring that members of the
clergy are appropriately trained to serve in this role is of vital
importance
Karl Barth is one of the most influential theologians of the 20th
century. His work is considered essential reading for nearly every
student of theology. Reading Barth's theology poses a challenge,
however, because of the sheer size of his corpus, the complexity of
his claims, and the distance between his context and the context of
his readers. In this accessible introduction, a respected scholar
in Barthian studies offers a one-stop resource on Barth's thought,
providing a selection of his most important writings, critical
commentary, and detailed introductory and concluding chapters.
A Black-Jewish dialogue lifts a veil on these groups' unspoken
history, shedding light on the challenges and promises facing
American democracy from its inception to the present In this
uniquely structured conversational work, two scholars-one of
African American politics and religion, and one of contemporary
American Jewish culture-explore a mystery: Why aren't Blacks and
Jews presently united in their efforts to combat white supremacy?
As alt-right rhetoric becomes increasingly normalized in public
life, the time seems right for these one-time allies to rekindle
the fires of the civil rights movement. Blacks and Jews in America
investigates why these two groups do not presently see each other
as sharing a common enemy, let alone a political alliance. Authors
Terrence L. Johnson and Jacques Berlinerblau consider a number of
angles, including the disintegration of the "Grand Alliance"
between Blacks and Jews during the civil rights era, the
perspective of Black and Jewish millennials, the debate over Louis
Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam, and the Israel-Palestine
conflict. Ultimately, this book shows how the deep roots of the
Black-Jewish relationship began long before the mid-twentieth
century, changing a narrative dominated by the Grand Alliance and
its subsequent fracturing. By engaging this history from our
country's origins to its present moment, this dialogue models the
honest and searching conversation needed for Blacks and Jews to
forge a new understanding.
Introduces students to current environmental hazards to human and
related ecosystem health. Explains detrimental policy changes to
existing policies and recently developed policies that impact the
health of the environment and that of communities. Presents a
perspective for global sources of pollution and how actions have
emerged for control of environmental hazards such as climate change
and global air pollution. Includes foundation lectures, case
studies, and practice questions to help create student led
discussions for both in-class and homework assignments. Describes
social justice issues and COVID-19 impacts in relation to
environmental hazards.
This Handbook offers a collection of cutting-edge essays on all
aspects of strategic culture by a mix of international scholars,
consultants, military officers, and policymakers. The volume
explicitly addresses the analytical conundrums faced by scholars
who wish to employ or generate strategic cultural insights, with
substantive commentary on defining and scoping strategic culture,
analytic frameworks and approaches, levels of analysis, sources of
strategic culture, and modalities of change in strategic culture.
The chapters engage strategic culture at the civilizational,
regional, supra-national, national, non-state actor, and
organizational levels. Divided into five thematic parts, the volume
will appeal both to students new to the subject and to scholars who
wish to incorporate strategic culture into their toolbox of
analytical techniques. Part I assesses the evolving theoretical
strengths and weaknesses of the field. Part II lays out elements of
the theoretical and methodological foundations of the field,
including sources and components of strategic culture. Part III
presents a number of national strategic cultural profiles
representing the state of contemporary strategic culture
scholarship. Part IV addresses the utility of strategic culture for
practitioners and scholars. Part V summarizes the key theoretical
and practical insights offered by the volume’s contributors. This
handbook will be of much interest to students of strategic studies,
defense studies, security studies and International Relations in
general, as well as to professional practitioners.
The ability of a nation to finance its basic infrastructure is
essential to its economic well-being in the 21st century. This book
covers the municipal securities market in the United States from
the perspective of its primary capital financing role in a fiscal
federalist system, where subnational governments are responsible
for financing the nation s essential physical infrastructure. Using
the latest financial research and theory, Johnson, Luby and
Moldogaziev use data-driven analysis to inform current public
policy debates regarding the future of subnational government debt
finance, including the regulation of professional financial service
providers. The theories, research and practical examples in the
book illustrate the policies and practices that helped governments
navigate through the recent financial crisis and great recession,
and those policies and practices that contributed to government
shipwrecks. The book is designed to help officials make good, sound
fiscal choices in a fast changing, complex financial world, and
within the constraints imposed by fiscal rules and institutions.
State and Local Financial Instruments will be of interest to
academics, students and researchers interested in economics,
finance, international studies and public policy. It is also an
excellent reference tool for government officials, public
policymakers and professionals working in finance. Contents: 1.
Introduction 2. The Tax-Exemption of Municipal Debt 3. States as
Fiscal 'Sovereigns' - Implications for Ability and Willingness to
Pay in Full and on Time 4. The Federalist Framework: Fiscal
Sovereignty, Federal Regulation and Disclosure 5. Subnational
Government Debt Financial Management I - Financing Principles and
Policies v6. Subnational Government Debt Financial Management II -
Bringing an Issue to Market: Networks and Practices 7. The Serial
Debt Issue Structure 8. Secondary Market Disclosure 9. Financial
Engineering 10. Reducing Debt Service by Refunding Debt 11. Lessons
Learned From the Birth, Growth and Collapse of the Municipal
Auction Rate Securities (MARS) Market 12. Enhancing Municipal
Credit 13. 'Non-Traditional' Capital Financing Mechanisms 14.
Conclusion Index
Build a classroom of excited, talented young writers. This
wonderful teaching resource offers a complete approach to creating
a classroom of enthusiastic, skillful student writers. The authors
provide a comprehensive approach to teaching writing in the
classroom. This book offers the strategies teachers need to teach
writing skills that meet national standards and to produce
excellent results from children. Topics addressed in this guidebook
include: creating the writing classroom, teaching the writing
process, teaching effective writing strategies, teaching elements
of story structure, teaching the advanced craft of writing, and
using a writer's workshop to teach good writing. Writing is a great
differentiator. During the writer's workshop, each student is
engaged in meaningful ways. Pulling together more than three
decades of practical experience and research on the best strategies
for teaching writing, Writing Like Writers offers a friendly,
easy-to-use guide for any teacher seeking to build a classroom of
successful writers. Grades 2-6
Geometry of Derivation with Applications is the fifth work in a
longstanding series of books on combinatorial geometry (Subplane
Covered Nets, Foundations of Translation Planes, Handbook of Finite
Translation Planes, and Combinatorics of Spreads and Parallelisms).
Like its predecessors, this book will primarily deal with
connections to the theory of derivable nets and translation planes
in both the finite and infinite cases. Translation planes over
non-commutative skewfields have not traditionally had a significant
representation in incidence geometry, and derivable nets over
skewfields have only been marginally understood. Both are deeply
examined in this volume, while ideas of non-commutative algebra are
also described in detail, with all the necessary background given a
geometric treatment. The book builds upon over twenty years of work
concerning combinatorial geometry, charted across four previous
books and is suitable as a reference text for graduate students and
researchers. It contains a variety of new ideas and generalizations
of established work in finite affine geometry and is replete with
examples and applications.
Authored by current and former physicians at the Mayo Clinic,
Faust's Anesthesiology Review, 6th Edition, is an invaluable review
source for success on exams and in practice. It covers a broad
range of important and timely topics in a succinct, easy-to-read
format, providing the essential information you need to master the
latest advances, procedures, guidelines, and protocols in
anesthesiology. Provides in-depth, yet succinct clinical synopses
of all topic areas found on the ABA/ASA exam, with the perfect
amount of information to ensure exam success. Contains five
new chapters: Principles of Preoperative Evaluation; Anesthesia for
Patients who are Lactating; Peripheral Nerve Blocks of the Anterior
Trunk; Sustainability in Anesthesiology and the Operating Room; and
Anesthesia During a Pandemic. Covers the core knowledge
needed to succeed in today's anesthesiology practice, including
awake craniotomy, non-OR anesthesia (NORA), neuromodulation, using
arterial pressure waveform to derive cardiac output, enhanced
recovery (ERAS) pathways, chemical dependency in anesthesia
personnel, lung transplantation, anesthesia for robotic surgery,
and more. Includes boxes, tables, charts, and graphs
throughout to provide visual guidance and summarize critical
information.   Features concise chapters for
efficient review and effective recall, making this an ideal study
tool for certification, recertification, or as a refresher for
anesthesiology practice. An eBook version is included with
purchase. The eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures
and references, with the ability to search, customize your content,
make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud.Â
A solid, rigorous, yet comprehensible analysis of process
capability indices, this work bridges the gap between theoretical
statisticians and quality control practitioners, showing how an
understanding of these indices can lead to process improvement.
This volume contains an array of essays that reflect, and reflect
upon, the recent revival of scholarly interest in the self and
consciousness. Various relevant issues are addressed in
conceptually challenging ways, such as how consciousness and
different forms of self-relevant experience develop in infancy and
childhood and are related to the acquisition of skill; the role of
the self in social development; the phenomenology of being
conscious and its metapsychological implications; and the cultural
foundations of conceptualizations of consciousness. Written by
notable scholars in several areas of psychology, philosophy,
cognitive neuroscience, and anthropology, the essays are of
interest to readers from a variety of disciplines concerned with
central, substantive questions in contemporary social science, and
the humanities.
• Continues to be an indispensable text for mental health
professionals and pastoral counsellors. • Updated according to
the latest empirical research and DSM-V. • Revised chapters
significantly cover issues regarding diversity and culture which
clergy may struggle with, as well as diagnostic interviewing and
cultural humility. • Written in a consistent, easy-to-follow
structure in each chapter includes case example, introduction, key
indicators, and recommendations • Updated citations and
references to psychological disorders throughout, with special
emphasis on the family. • helps pastors understand some of the
most widely used and evidence based treatments and what to look for
when referring to professionals (e.g., licensure, board
certification, specialty training and certification, etc.). •
highlights the limited role of medication for most mental health
difficulties and when its use is indicated. • Members of the
clergy are frequently the first person a parishioner seeks out for
support, guidance, and assistance when grappling with many of
life’s challenges and problems. Ensuring that members of the
clergy are appropriately trained to serve in this role is of vital
importance
Introduces students to current and emerging environmental hazards
to human- and related ecosystem health. Explains detrimental policy
changes to existing policies and recently developed policies that
impact the health of the environment and that of communities.
Presents a perspective for global sources of pollution and how
actions have emerged for control of environmental hazards such as
climate change and global air pollution. Includes foundation
lectures, case studies, and practice questions to help create
student led discussions for both in-class and homework assignments.
Describes social justice issues and COVID-19 impacts in relation to
environmental hazards.
* This book offers theoretical, methodological, curricula and
pedagogical illustrations of teaching racial and linguistic
diversity in the classroom drawn from cutting-edge research * A
good fit for preservice English teachers, this book provides a
comprehensive set of tools for counteracting racism and deficit
perspectives in the classroom * A timely book at in a climate of
heightened racial tension and violence, this book furthers the
literature on critical race scholarship by presenting a new
framework, Critical Race English Education, to identify and combat
dehumanizing pedagogy and racism.
* This book offers theoretical, methodological, curricula and
pedagogical illustrations of teaching racial and linguistic
diversity in the classroom drawn from cutting-edge research * A
good fit for preservice English teachers, this book provides a
comprehensive set of tools for counteracting racism and deficit
perspectives in the classroom * A timely book at in a climate of
heightened racial tension and violence, this book furthers the
literature on critical race scholarship by presenting a new
framework, Critical Race English Education, to identify and combat
dehumanizing pedagogy and racism.
This book is concerned with the economic value of natural
resources. It presents examples of progress and problems in
valuation theory and method development. The book also presents
empirical applications of nonmarket valuation techniques. .
The concept of deviance is complex, given that norms vary
considerably across groups, times, and places. Society tends to
primarily recognize traditional portraits of deviants such as
street-offenders and drug addicts. The label "deviant" is commonly
cast upon society's undesirables, but this socially constructed
image often overlooks subtler-and arguably more dangerous-deviance.
Physician malfeasance is an especially problematic form, given that
medical professionals garner trust, autonomy, and prestige from
society, which allows them to operate outside of the public eye.
This book responds to a growing number of concerns regarding
deviant physician actions such as physically and sexually abusive
behaviors, fabricating medical findings and records, and taking
advantage of patients (e.g., filing fraudulent Medicaid claims). It
explores theoretical explanations for physician deviance, and goes
on to consider potential responses such as Medicaid Fraud Control
Units, the Questionable Doctors database, and the ability of
doctors to police themselves. The unique perspective offered in
this book informs discussions of white-collar crime and deviance
and has important implications for researchers, policymakers, and
students involved in criminal justice and public policy.
What Works (and Doesn't) in Reducing Recidivism offers
criminologists and students an evidence-based discussion of the
latest trends in corrections. Experts Latessa, Johnson, and Koetzle
translate the research and findings about what works and doesn't
work in reducing recidivism into understandable concepts and terms,
presenting them in a way that illustrates the value of research to
practice. Over the last several decades, research has clearly shown
that rehabilitation efforts can be effective in reducing recidivism
among criminal offenders, but it is clear that treatment is not a
one-size-fits-all approach. Offenders vary by gender, age, crime
type, and/or addictions, to name but a few ways, and these
individual needs must be addressed by providers. Finally, issues
such as leadership, quality of staff, and evaluation efforts affect
the quality and delivery of treatment services. While other texts
have addressed issues regarding treatment in corrections, this text
is unique in that it not only discusses the research on "what
works" but also addresses the implementation issues faced as
practitioners move from theory to practice, as well as the
importance of staff, leadership, and evaluation efforts. This book
synthesizes the vast research for the student interested in
correctional rehabilitation as well as for the practitioner working
with offenders.
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