Books for Civil Society
List of recommended titles

Last Modified April 14, 1999

Cultural management

 

 

 

Dragicevic-Šešic. Milena and Branimir Stojkovic

Cultural Management

 

 

Education

 

 

 

 

Archer, Margaret S.

Social Origins of Educational Systems (Abridged Edition)

Becher, Tony

Academic Tribes and Territories: Intellectual enquiry and the cultures of disciplines

Becher, Tony & Maurice Kogan

Process and Structure in Higher Education

Clark, Burton R.

The Higher Education System: Academic organization in cross-national perspective

Clark, Burton R. (editor)

Perspectives on Higher Education: Eight disciplinary and comparative views

Darvas , Peter (editor)

Higher Education Policy: A collection of key texts

English, Fenwick W.

Theory in Educational Administration

Fullan, Michael

Change Forces: Probing the depths of educational reform

Gibbons, M., C.Limoges, H.Nowotny, S.Schwartzman et al.

The New Production of Knowledge

Ortega y Gasset, Jose

Mision de la universidad

Sarason, Seymour B.

The Predictable Failure of Educational Reform

Stoll, Louise and Dean Fink

Changing Our Schools: Linking school effectiveness and school improvement

 

 

Human Rights

 

 

 

Buergenthal, Thomas

International Human Rights in a Nutshell

Donnelly, Jack

International Human Rights

Ishay, Micheline R.(editor)

Human Rights Reader: Major political writings, essays, speeches, and documents from the Bible to the present

Sieghart, Paul

The Lawful Rights of Mankind: An introduction to the international legal code of human rights

 

 

Librarianship

 

 

 

 

Abbott, Andrew D.

The System of Professions: An essay on the division of expert labor

McArthur, Tom

Worlds of Reference: Lexicography, learning and language from the clay tablet to the computer

Taylor, Robert S.

Value-added Processes in Information Systems

 

 

Media

 

 

 

Keane, John

The Media and Democracy

 

 

NGO management & governance; civic leadership

 

 

 

Civic Leadership: A collection of key texts

 

Bryson, John M.

Strategic Planning for Public and Nonprofit Organizations (Revised Edition)

Chan, Michelle

The Anatomy of a Deal: A handbook on international project finance

Fisher, Roger and William Ury

Getting to Yes: Negotiating agreement without giving in

Houde, Cyril O.

Governing Boards: Their nature and nurture

National Center for Nonprofit Boards

Nonprofit Board Governance

Senge, Peter M.

The Fifth Discipline: The art and practice of the learning organization

Wolf,Thomas

Managing a Nonprofit Organization

 

 

Public administration, public policy

 

 

 

Anderson, James

Public Policymaking: An introduction

Beetham, David

Bureaucracy

Boardman, A., D.H.Greenberg, A.R.Vining, D.L.Weimer

Cost Benefit Analysis: Concepts and Practice

Drechsler, Wolfgang (editor)

Foundations of Public Administration: A European collection

Geva-May, Iris & Aaron Wildavsky

An Operational Approach to Policy Analysis: The Craft -- Prescriptions for better analysis

Gyulas, Gyula (editor)

Public Service and Ethics: A reader

Kjell, A Eliassen, Jan Kooiman (editors)

Managing Public Organizations: Lessons from contemporary European experience

Lindblom, Charles E. & Edward J. Woodhouse

The Policy-Making Process

Nemec, Juraj & Glen Wright (editors)

Public Finance: Theory and practice in the Central European transition

Pieters, Danny

Introduction into the Basic Principles of Social Security

Rainey, Hal G.

Understanding and Managing Public Organizations

Rosen, Ellen Doree

Improving Public Sector Productivity: Concepts and Practice

Schoeber, Peter

Kommunale Selbstverwaltung. Die Idee der modernen Gemeinde

Simon, Herbert A.

Administrative Behavior: A study of decision-making processes in administrative organizations

Stone, Deborah

Policy Paradox: The art of political decision making

Weimer, David L. & Aidan R. Vining

Policy Analysis: Concepts and Practice

 

 

Publishing

 

 

 

Baverstock, Alison

How to Market Books

Davies, Gill

Book Commissioning and Acquisition

Forsyth, Patrick

Marketing in Publishing

Gerard, François-Marie & Xavier Roegiers

Concevoir et évaluer des manuels scholaires

Owen, Lynette

Buying and Selling Rights in Literary Works: A Practical Guide for Publishers

Willberg, Hans Peter

Lesetypographie

 

 

Women's issues

 

 

 

Schuler, Margaret A. & Dorothy Q.Thomas (editors)

Women's Human Rights Step by Step: A practical guide