Greedy Bastards One City S Texas Size Struggle To Avoid A Financial Crisis

Author : Sheryl Sculley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Collective bargaining
ISBN : 1544508441

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Greedy Bastards by Sheryl Sculley Pdf

"When Sheryl Sculley was recruited to serve as San Antonio's new city manager in 2005, the organization she inherited was a disorganized mess. City infrastructure was crumbling, strong financial policies and systems were nonexistent, many executive positions were vacant, public satisfaction was low, ethical standards were weak, and public safety union salaries and benefits were outpacing revenues, crowding out other essential city services. Simply put: San Antonio was on the verge of collapse. Greedy Bastards tells the story of Sheryl and her new team's uphill battle to turn around San Antonio city government. She takes you behind closed doors to share the hard changes she made and the strategies she used to create mutually beneficial solutions to the city's biggest problems. Many of the issues Sheryl found in San Antonio are present in cities across the US. Packed with wins and losses, lessons learned, and pitfalls encountered, Greedy Bastards is a guidebook for any city official tasked with turning around a struggling city."--Amazon.

Author : Sheryl Sculley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1544508433

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Greedy Bastards: One City's Texas-Size Struggle to Avoid a Financial Crisis by Sheryl Sculley Pdf

Author : Scott Huler
Publisher : Rodale
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2010-05-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781605296470

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On the Grid by Scott Huler Pdf

Investigates the systems of infrastructure that sustain the world and the cultures of historical periods, following various elements, from electricity and pavement to water and waste disposal, back to their origins and people who operate them.

Author : Jay Amberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2001-04
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0970841604

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52 Poems for Men by Jay Amberg Pdf

Every poem in this collection speaks deeply and directly to men, capturing precious moments, powerful insights, and honest glimpses of life. The themes are universal: birth, death, love, loss, war, beauty, and family. Both classic and contemporary poetic masters are represented, including William Shakespeare, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Robert Frost, Gwendolyn Brooks, Robert Pinsky, Langston Hughes, and Dylan Thomas. Each poet speaks to men in voices and language they trust and understand, without using contrived poetic forms, avant-garde imagery, or esoteric references. This powerful anthology will leave no reader unmoved.

Author : Paul Kingsnorth
Publisher : Graywolf Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781555979720

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Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist and Other Essays by Paul Kingsnorth Pdf

A provocative and urgent essay collection that asks how we can live with hope in “an age of ecocide” Paul Kingsnorth was once an activist—an ardent environmentalist. He fought against rampant development and the depredations of a corporate world that seemed hell-bent on ignoring a looming climate crisis in its relentless pursuit of profit. But as the environmental movement began to focus on “sustainability” rather than the defense of wild places for their own sake and as global conditions worsened, he grew disenchanted with the movement that he once embraced. He gave up what he saw as the false hope that residents of the First World would ever make the kind of sacrifices that might avert the severe consequences of climate change. Full of grief and fury as well as passionate, lyrical evocations of nature and the wild, Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist gathers the wave-making essays that have charted the change in Kingsnorth’s thinking. In them he articulates a new vision that he calls “dark ecology,” which stands firmly in opposition to the belief that technology can save us, and he argues for a renewed balance between the human and nonhuman worlds. This iconoclastic, fearless, and ultimately hopeful book, which includes the much-discussed “Uncivilization” manifesto, asks hard questions about how we’ve lived and how we should live.

Author : Tim Casey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 197722833X

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The Mayor Married Who? A Look at the Lighter Side of a 40-Year Career in City Management by Tim Casey Pdf

Author : David Hackett Fischer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 972 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1991-03-14
Category : History
ISBN : 019974369X

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Albion's Seed by David Hackett Fischer Pdf

This fascinating book is the first volume in a projected cultural history of the United States, from the earliest English settlements to our own time. It is a history of American folkways as they have changed through time, and it argues a thesis about the importance for the United States of having been British in its cultural origins. While most people in the United States today have no British ancestors, they have assimilated regional cultures which were created by British colonists, even while preserving ethnic identities at the same time. In this sense, nearly all Americans are "Albion's Seed," no matter what their ethnicity may be. The concluding section of this remarkable book explores the ways that regional cultures have continued to dominate national politics from 1789 to 1988, and still help to shape attitudes toward education, government, gender, and violence, on which differences between American regions are greater than between European nations.

Author : Kevin B. Smith,Amanda Balzer
Publisher : CQ Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1608718344

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State and Local Government by Kevin B. Smith,Amanda Balzer Pdf

Every year, editor Kevin Smith pulls cutting-edge selections from publications such as Governing, State Legislatures, State News, and Campaigns & Elections to grab your students’ interest with highly readable and up-to-date articles that hit close to home. Nearly 40 new articles cover the significant issues facing state and local government with the same context and currency you have come to expect as hallmarks of this reader. The 2011–2012 edition will help bring the latest analysis into your state and local government course.

Author : Frank H. Mayer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : American bison
ISBN : STANFORD:36105021019836

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The Buffalo Harvest by Frank H. Mayer Pdf

The experiences of Mayer as a buffalo hunter.

Author : Saul Alinsky
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2010-06-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780307756893

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Rules for Radicals by Saul Alinsky Pdf

“This country's leading hell-raiser" (The Nation) shares his impassioned counsel to young radicals on how to effect constructive social change and know “the difference between being a realistic radical and being a rhetorical one.” First published in 1971 and written in the midst of radical political developments whose direction Alinsky was one of the first to question, this volume exhibits his style at its best. Like Thomas Paine before him, Alinsky was able to combine, both in his person and his writing, the intensity of political engagement with an absolute insistence on rational political discourse and adherence to the American democratic tradition.

Author : Mark S. Hamm
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781437929591

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Crimes Committed by Terrorist Groups by Mark S. Hamm Pdf

This is a print on demand edition of a hard to find publication. Examines terrorists¿ involvement in a variety of crimes ranging from motor vehicle violations, immigration fraud, and mfg. illegal firearms to counterfeiting, armed bank robbery, and smuggling weapons of mass destruction. There are 3 parts: (1) Compares the criminality of internat. jihad groups with domestic right-wing groups. (2) Six case studies of crimes includes trial transcripts, official reports, previous scholarship, and interviews with law enforce. officials and former terrorists are used to explore skills that made crimes possible; or events and lack of skill that the prevented crimes. Includes brief bio. of the terrorists along with descriptions of their org., strategies, and plots. (3) Analysis of the themes in closing arguments of the transcripts in Part 2. Illus.

Author : Malcolm Gladwell
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780316535625

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Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell Pdf

Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Outliers, offers a powerful examination of our interactions with strangers and why they often go wrong—now with a new afterword by the author. A Best Book of the Year: The Financial Times, Bloomberg, Chicago Tribune, and Detroit Free Press How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a generation? Why did Neville Chamberlain think he could trust Adolf Hitler? Why are campus sexual assaults on the rise? Do television sitcoms teach us something about the way we relate to one another that isn’t true? Talking to Strangers is a classically Gladwellian intellectual adventure, a challenging and controversial excursion through history, psychology, and scandals taken straight from the news. He revisits the deceptions of Bernie Madoff, the trial of Amanda Knox, the suicide of Sylvia Plath, the Jerry Sandusky pedophilia scandal at Penn State University, and the death of Sandra Bland—throwing our understanding of these and other stories into doubt. Something is very wrong, Gladwell argues, with the tools and strategies we use to make sense of people we don’t know. And because we don’t know how to talk to strangers, we are inviting conflict and misunderstanding in ways that have a profound effect on our lives and our world. In his first book since his #1 bestseller David and Goliath, Malcolm Gladwell has written a gripping guidebook for troubled times.

Author : Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Publisher : Knopf Canada
Page : 11 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2010-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307375230

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The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Pdf

These twelve dazzling stories from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie — the Orange Broadband Prize–winning author of Half of a Yellow Sun — are her most intimate works to date. In these stories Adichie turns her penetrating eye to the ties that bind men and women, parents and children, Nigeria and the United States. In “A Private Experience,” a medical student hides from a violent riot with a poor Muslim woman, and the young mother at the centre of “Imitation” finds her comfortable life in Philadelphia threatened when she learns that her husband has moved his mistress into their Lagos home. Searing and profound, suffused with beauty, sorrow and longing, this collection is a resounding confirmation of Adichie’s prodigious literary powers.

Author : Jim Rushton
Publisher : Lioncrest Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1544505485

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Guaranteed Analytics by Jim Rushton Pdf

Decision-makers can't get enough from data. The problem is, most leaders only use data to reaffirm the obvious information--and their companies are suffering because of it. Executives interested in getting to scalable, insight-driven business decisions are not sure where to start. Who should lead such a program? Will it be worth the effort? The good news is that, yes, underneath that surface-level data lies a treasure trove of useful information, and with the right approach you can get to it. With business analytics, you can have the competitive advantage you've been missing. In Guaranteed Analytics, Jim Rushton offers a prescriptive approach to implementing an analytics program that will help you move past the obvious about the "stars" and "dogs" of your business and dive into where the true money--and competitive advantage--lies. Jim delivers a prescriptive approach on the discipline of analytics for organizations and how it can be leveraged to monetize your data. This is a book about identifying the opportunity analytics present, building an insight-focused culture, and unlocking the stories behind the numbers. Guaranteed.

Author : James S. A. Corey
Publisher : Orbit
Page : 511 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012-06-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316202275

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Caliban's War by James S. A. Corey Pdf

The second book in the NYT bestselling Expanse series, Caliban's War shows a solar system on the brink of war, and the only hope of peace rests on James Holden and the crew of the Rocinante's shoulders. Now a Prime Original series. HUGO AWARD WINNER FOR BEST SERIES We are not alone. On Ganymede, breadbasket of the outer planets, a Martian marine watches as her platoon is slaughtered by a monstrous supersoldier. On Earth, a high-level politician struggles to prevent interplanetary war from reigniting. And on Venus, an alien protomolecule has overrun the planet, wreaking massive, mysterious changes and threatening to spread out into the solar system. In the vast wilderness of space, James Holden and the crew of the Rocinante have been keeping the peace for the Outer Planets Alliance. When they agree to help a scientist search war-torn Ganymede for a missing child, the future of humanity rests on whether a single ship can prevent an alien invasion that may have already begun . . . The Expanse Leviathan Wakes Caliban's War Abaddon's Gate Cibola Burn Nemesis Games Babylon's Ashes Persepolis Rising Tiamat's Wrath ​Leviathan Falls Memory's Legion The Expanse Short Fiction Drive The Butcher of Anderson Station Gods of Risk The Churn The Vital Abyss Strange Dogs Auberon The Sins of Our Fathers