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According to Paul C. Light's controversial new book, The New Public Service, this January's 4.8 percent federal pay increase will do little to compensate for what potential employees think is currently missing from federal careers.

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Journeys inside the world of contemporary news media to explain why news reporting is deteriorating, the values that dominate the news business, and how to restore serious, incorruptible, and revelatory journalism.

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Analysts, political scientists, scholars and consultants - this book describes the individuals that the media approach for "inside information", background or predictions concerning the outcome of news. This book is based on three major networks' broadcasts between 1987 and 1988.

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In this lively account of the rise of a commercial newspaper industry in imperial Russia, Louise McReynolds explores how the mass-circulation press created a forum for popular opinion advocating political change. From the Great Reforms of Tsar Alexander II in 1855 to the Bolsheviks' shut-down of the newspapers in 1917, she chronicles the exploits o

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An epic social history of steamship travel from the 19th-century to the Lusitania, the Mauretania and the Titanic.

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Examines a variety of topics such as the experiences of OPEC and non-OPEC oil suppliers in the 1980s, the adjustment of oil importers to changes in the market, the impact of oil price changes on both the developed and developing world, and future developments in the global oil market.

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Flying is an extremely safe way to travel. Fewer than 14,000 individuals perished in U.S. airline disasters during the twentieth century. In contrast, nearly three times as many people lose their lives in automobile accidents every year.

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Assessing the Polish Coal Miners' Union and the German labour movement, this volume examines such areas as: national solidarity in the interest of the working class; the consolidation of the Polish union movement, 1905-1912; and the integration of the ZZP in the labour movement, 1905-1914.

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The contributors show that digital media are disrupting entire media industries, but without erasing the past and insist that one media sector is not the same as the next. As the title signals even in the age of convergence and remix culture, different media continue to display their own distinctive political economies.

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This study examines various perspectives of the problem of hunger in the world. Thus, while our economic system produces many advantages for some people, it also produces many disadvantages for others.

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This interdisciplinary approach to development provides a rapid yet in-depth look at the major economic and political issues in Senegal.

The editors' comprehensive introduction, Structural Change in a Difficult World, provides both the historical and the thematic foundations for the essays that follow.

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Based on a policy-making theoretical framework and on the recent experiences of 10 developing countries, this study explores the factors that lead to the success or failure of telecommunications reform.

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The Political Economy of Venezuelan Oil describes the historic role of multinationals in establishing the oil industry there and the resulting coordination of an integrated, nationalized industry.

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This clear and thorough examination begins with a description of the objectives, major programs, and historical background of U.S. aid to Israel--military aid, economic aid, and private grants and subsidies.

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The Politics of Right to Work presents both a comprehensive history of organized labor's response to the challenges posed by the right to work movement and an in-depth examination of the partisan political dimensions of that challenge.

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Puts the politics of the oil industry in global context. This book examines the major players, the issues, and the most important oil-exporting countries. It provides a balanced portrait of the industry that looks beyond its role in war and Middle East politics. It is accessibly written for the lay reader.

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This book challenges the assumptions that reporters and their audiences alike have about the way the journalistic trade operates and how it sees the world. It unpacks the taken-for-granted aspects of the lives of war correspondents, exposing the principles of interaction and valorisation that usually go unacknowledged. -- .

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A study of the transition from partisan to commercial newspapers as a gradual process between the founding of the penny papers in New York through the Civil War.

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This informal history by a former long-time editor of The Jerusalem Post represents the only book to date that depicts the relationship between the press and the political system in Israel.

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