Textbook Titles

Public Budgeting
Third Edition
David C. Nice & Patrick Fisher
- ISBN: 978-1-942456-14-8
- 2021
- Print: $66.00 (FREE shipping)
- Ebook: $50.00
Ebook Functionality and Terms of Purchase
- Updated coverage of record government debt and projected debt
- Analysis of the impact of the pandemic on government spending
- Analysis of the 2017 Tax cuts and Jobs Act on government revenue
- More in-depth coverage of budget preparation
- Revised and updated coverage of the linkages between budgets and the economy

Governmental Budgeting Workbook
Fourth Edition
David L. Baker, Marc K. Fudge & Alexandru V. Roman
- ISBN: 978-1-942456-13-1
- 2021
- Print: $33.00 (FREE shipping)
- Ebook: $25.00
Ebook Functionality and Terms of Purchase
- Ideally suited for online courses
- Incorporates contemporary issues of diversity, social equity, environmental justice, climate change, police funding, and deployment of new technology
- Practical knowledge is reinforced through experiential based analysis of budgeting, case study evaluation, and role-play simulation
- Instructor's Guide available

Avoiding Disappointment
Leadership Driven Factors that Produce Useful Strategic Plans
Second Edition
Thomas McWeeney
- ISBN: 97801-942456-12-4
- 2021
- $66.00 (FREE shipping)
- Ebook: $50.00
Ebook Functionality and Terms of Purchase
- Avoiding Disappointment presents a unique approach to public sector strategic planning that conveys the author's personal experiences with government leaders who sought to transform the government agencies that they were entrusted to lead. This approach has been used by dozens of government agencies whose experiences are chronicled throughout the book. Part 1 focuses on the CSF approach and its implementation. Part 2 includes a brief case study of six very successful leaders of high-level government agencies, the issues they faced, and how the process set forth in the book provided the means to overcome them.
- A must reading for leaders of public agencies who are seeking to begin a new strategic planning initiative or revise an existing one for their organization.

Public Affairs Practicum
Derek R. Slagle & Adam M. Williams
- ISBN: 978-1-942456-11-7
- 2020
- $32.00 (FREE shipping)
- Public Affairs Practicum addresses emergent issues in the field that should be of interest to a wide range of stakeholders from students and scholars to practitioners. First and foremost, the primary goal of this book is to explore ways to bridge the gap between theory and practice by examining issues that are viewed as relevant within the academy and by practitioners in public administration and policy.
Chapter 1 available as a free PDF download here. Chapters 2 through 12 are available for individual purchase as a password protected PDF for $5.00 per chapter.

Public Procurement
A Guide to the Body of Knowledge through Exercises and Case Studies
Second Edition
Alexandru V. Roman & Darin L. Matthews
- ISBN: 978-1-942456-10-0
- 2020
- $74.00 (FREE shipping)
- Ebook: $56.00
Ebook Functionality and Terms of Purchase
- Aligned with the UPPCC Body of Knowledge
- The ideal textbook to use to prepare for the CPPB, CPPO and MCPP
- Designed for both Students and Practitioners
- Powerpoint lecture slides
- Instructor's Guide with suggested answers and interpretations to the exercises

The Politics of Intergovernmental Relations
Third Edition
Elizabeth D. Fredericksen, Stephanie L. Witt, & David C. Nice
- ISBN: 978-1-942456-04-9
- 2016
- $66.00 (FREE shipping)
- Ebook: $50.00
Ebook Functionality and Terms of Purchase
- Thoroughly revised with up-to-date coverage of the evolving political demands being placed on all levels of government in the United States
- Features a new chapter on Native American Tribes and their complex relations with the federal, states’ and local governments
- New chapter on the development of networks of public, business and nonprofit organizations that work together to implement public policy

Public Administration
Social Change and Adaptive Management
Fourth Edition
N. Joseph Cayer, David L. Baker & Louis F. Weschler
- ISBN: 978-1-942456-01-8
- 2016
- $53.00 (FREE shipping)
- A concise, well-balanced overview of the field of public administration
- A thematic approach using the swamp as a metaphor to analyze the difficult and ever changing environment in which today’s public administrators must operate

Public Personnel Administration
Managing Human Capital
Sixth Edition
N. Joseph Cayer & Meghna Sabharwal
- ISBN: 978-1-942456-03-2
- 2016
- $53.00 (FREE shipping)
- Enhanced coverage on cyber security
- New discussions on the impact of social media on personnel management
- Updated research on sexual orientation, diversity, generational differences, and inclusion
- New section on employee engagement
- Instructor's resources include a test bank and PowerPoint lecture slide

Physical Anthropology Lab Manual
Second Edition
Janice Austin
- ISBN: 9780972441995
- 2015
- $27.00 (FREE shipping)
- Labs can be taught in any order to accomodate different teaching styles
- Takes a hands-on approach with exercises where students work directly on specimens rather than with photographs of specimens
- Extensive coverage of comparative primate anatomy and locomotor patterns, human osteology, and forensic skeletal analysis
- Thorough and up-to-date labs on primate and particularly hominin fossils
- An abundance of line drawings which clearly point out the morphological features under discussion
- Instructor's Guide available: provides step by step help on setting up labs and answer sheets for all assignments
Social Equity in a Time of Change
A Critical 21st Century Social Movement
Edited by Richard Greggory Johnson III