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The Library of Congress World War II Companion

2 reviews
Margaret E. Wagner, Linda Barrett Osborne, ...

Simon & Schuster, 2007

An excellent illustrated survey
This is a very attractive and extensive survey of World War II. It should be invaluable to the student of the period, enlightening to the history enthusiast, and an important reference work for scholars. It has an emphasis on the American experience overall, but adequately covers the relative involvements of all the major national powers (and many minor ones) from the level of private citizens ...

104 Questions Children Ask about Heaven and Angels (Questions Children Ask)

2 reviews
James C. Wilhoit, Bruce B. Barton, ...

Tyndale Kids, 1996

104 Questions Children ask about Heaven and Angels
This book was enjoyable for myself as well as my 9-year old. The cartoons and explanations as well as scripture verses were helpful and fun. I learned right along with my child. We both would recommend this book and others in the series to those searching and new to the faith. It is reassuring to know the answers to some of those suprising questions my children ask!

Creating High-Performance Government Organizations (Jossey-Bass Nonprofit and Public Management Series)

6 reviews

Jossey-Bass, 1998

Good source of ideas - challenging AND concise
This is one of a couple of books I've found that have proven to be helpful in both my day-to-day work and in trying to think more strategically and long-term about helping the city agency I work for perform at a significantly higher level.

The Reinventor's Fieldbook: Tools for Transforming Your Government

10 reviews
David Osborne, Peter Plastrik

Jossey-Bass, 2000

One Of A Kind
For most people government means bureaucracy. Not anymore. The Reinventor's Fieldbook lays out a new organization that will grab your imagination and focus it on performance. The book describes "how to" build a high performance government organization. It is filled with tools, stories, and references from all over the world. The hard research has been done for you. Frankly I didn't think you ...

Reinventing Government : How the Entrepreneurial Spirit is Transforming the Public Sector (Plume)

12 reviews
David Osborne, Ted Gaebler

Plume, 1993

Reinventing Government
This is an excellent book that covers all of the facts about our old and new government laws in comparison to current events that occur within our society. Regulations and guidelines are also described about the Private and Public Sector and how they differ. It is definately a great book.

The Price of Government: Getting the Results We Need in an Age of Permanent Fiscal Crisis

12 reviews
David Osborne, Peter Hutchinson

Basic Books, 2006

Easy Read with Great Info
This is a another great book written by David Osborne, with practical, yet out of the box ideas on balancing government budgets. A great process that can be emulated by public administrators to focus taxpayer dollars on the most important programs and services. It challenges administrators to go beyond hacking away at every program budget until all the programs are barely running on a ...

102 Questions Children Ask about the Bible (Questions Children Ask)

2 reviews
David R. Veerman, James C. Wilhoit, ...

Tyndale Kids, 1994

Fun for the whole family, and interesting!
I bring home a lot of Christian books that I think my kids will read, but they rarely do. This one is different...my 8 and 10 yr olds are truly interested. They like to ask me the questions and see what kind of answer I come up with. With the scripture included, it's a devotional study in disquise!

The B-17 Flying Fortress Story: Design-Production-History

4 reviews
Roger Anthony Freeman, David R. Osborne

Sterling Pub Co Inc, 1998

This book is an excellent reference source on the B-17.
Anyone familiar with the history of the B-17 and, in particular, the Eighth Air Force, knows the name of Roger Freeman. Author of the reknowned series beginning with "The Mighty Eighth", Freeman and co-author David Osborne assembled a new volume entitled "The B-17 Flying Fortress Story." This new book fills a gap in the literature about the Flying Fortress. The first quarter of the book covers ...

Banishing Bureaucracy: The Five Strategies for Reinventing Government

10 reviews
David Osborne

David Osborne, 2006

Great Thoughts That Did Not Take Root in USG
Well, the Vice President loved it and the President bought into it, but it did not make a difference. The National Performance Review identified a number of substantive objectives for intelligence reform, and the intelligence bureaucracy was successful in ignoring the White House. I suspect it has something to do with one of the fundamentals: "Unleash-but Harness-the Pioneers." The U.S. ...

Directory of Unpublished Experimental Mental Measures
William L. Osborne, David F. Mitchell

American Psychological Association (APA), 1996

An invaluable resource for those who conduct and supervise research, the Directory of Unpublished Experimental Mental Measures provides an ideal reference for identifying potentially useful test instruments. Each entry includes the following: test name, purpose, description, statistics, validity, author, and source. Indexes allow the reader to locate test instruments by author or subject. Covers the years 1974-1985.

Laboratories of Democracy
David Osborne

Harvard Business School Press, 1988

The future of American politics is already visible. To see it, one must look beyond Washington to America's "laboratories of democracy," the states. Today's governors are hammering out a wide range of new approaches to the economic and social problems created by the transition to a post-industrial economy. In the process, they are constructing a new political paradigm: a post-Great Society, post-Reagan politics molded to the realities of the ...

Crime and the Media : The Postmodern Spectacle

Pluto Press (UK), 1996

The Reinventing Government Workbook: Introducing Frontline Employees to Reinvention
David Osborne, Victor Colon Rivera

Jossey-Bass, 1998

In this user-friAndly set of training materials, David Osborne and Victor Colon Rivera give managers and employees advice on how they can apply the principles behind the reinvention revolution that is changing the way government works. Designed for use in federal, state, and local governments, this workbook includes exercises, brain teasers, and discussion items to create an interactive, involving learning environment. The Reinventing Government ...

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