“Creating the New City of Sandy Springs” relates the story of the implementation of a new city in Georgia. The author played the key role in the implementation of the city which was the first to be incorporated in Georgia in fifty years. Sandy Springs became a city of over 90,000 citizens, making it the seventh largest city in the state, at birth. The implementation of Sandy Springs was unique in a number of ways: • 1t was necessary to create new laws to enable the incorporation. • The tim...

The essays that comprise Elusive Archives raise a common question: how do we study material culture when the objects of study are transient, evanescent, dispersed or subjective? Such things resist the taxonomic protocols that institutions, such as museums and archives, rely on to channel their acquisitions into meaningful collections. What holds these disparate things together here are the questions authors ask of them. Each essay creates by means of its method a provisional colle...

Focused on actively using systematic review as method, this book provides clear, step-by-step advice on the logic and processes of systematic reviewing.Stressing the importance of precision and accuracy, this new edition carefully balances a need for insightful theory with real-world pragmatism; it introduces a wide range of cutting-edge approaches to research synthesis including text mining, living reviews and new ideas in mixed methods reviews such as qualitative comparative anal...