B·盖伊·彼得斯，美国宾西法尼亚州匹兹堡大学政治科学系教授、主任，香港大学名誉教授。其研究方向为比较政治学、公共政策与公共行政等，其代表著作除本书外还有《政府未来的治理模式》、《当代政府与政治》、《比较政治的理论与方法》、《公共政策的病态》、《政府会消亡吗？》等。

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"As an author, editor, and publisher, I never paid much attention to the competition--except in a few cases. This is one of those cases. The UNIX System Administration Handbook is one of the few books we ever measured ourselves against." --From the Foreword by Tim O'Reilly, founder of O'Reilly Media "This book is fun and functional as a desktop reference. If you use UNIX and Li...(展开全部)

尼古拉斯·亨利（Nicholas Henry）是一位著名的公共行政学家，专长于公共政策分析与公共管理研究。他先后在美国印第安纳大学布卢明顿校区（Indiana University, Bloomington）获得公共管理硕士（MPA）和哲学博士学位。亨利教授著书十余本，发表论文几十篇，其论文获得过《美国公共行政评论》颁发的埃德文·O·斯坦恩（Edwin O.Stene）奖。他曾就职于美国印第安纳州立大学、新墨西哥大学、佐治亚大学以及亚利桑那州立大学。他所领导的佐治亚南部大学曾被CNN专题报道为美国高等教育的一颗新星，而他本人也步入了佐治亚洲100位当代最有影响人物的行列。

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Studying Public Policy develops an analytical framework that will enable students to study public policy more effectively. The first of the books three parts examines different approaches to studying public policy by providing inventories of the relevant types of policy actors, structures, and ideas involved in public policy-making. Part Two then breaks down the policy process ...(展开全部)

First published in 1980, Street-Level Bureaucracy received critical acclaim for its insightful study of how public service workers, in effect, function as policy decision makers, as they wield their considerable discretion in the day-to-day implementation of public programs. Three decades later, the need to bolster the availability and effectiveness of healthcare, social servic...(展开全部)

Python was recently ranked as today's most popular programming language on the TIOBE index, thanks to its broad applicability to design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and maintenance. With this updated fourth edition, you'll learn how to get the most out of Python, whether you're a professional programmer or someone who needs this language to solve problems in a partic...(展开全部)

The extensively updated fourth edition of the leading introductory textbook on theoretical syntax, including an all-new chapter and additional problem sets Now in its fourth edition, Andrew Carnie's Syntax: A Generative Introduction remains the leading introduction to the rules, principles, and processes that determine the structure of sentences in language. Comprehensive yet a...(展开全部)