Books by Steven Cohen

This book is a succinct handbook of the essentials of management for current and future practitioners. Leadership experts Steven Cohen and William Eimicke concisely explain management best practices, aiming to equip managers with the tools of the trade and prepare them to tackle decision making.

Are you overwhelmed by debt? In over your head? Don't know where to go or what to do? Feel like you have no plan for the future and that your creditors are attacking you left and right? Do you just look at finances and purchases with a blind eye hoping that the numbers will work themselves out? Then this is your guidebook. "Christian in Crisis" provides practical and Biblically based solutions to those drowning in debt with guidance from an expert on numerous issues and situations. It is also an excellent financial guide to those not yet in debt, with key insights into the workings of the debt market and how to avoid the pitfalls and snares which creditors so willingly allow us to fall into in our modern financial world. The text deals systematically and proactively with the most common financial situations facing Christians and non Christians alike today. Do you have what it takes to become debt savvy?!!! You do, but each and every purchase you make and each paycheck you receive is either one step closer toward financial freedom or financial crisis. "Christian in Crisis" provides a chapter by chapter guide to the most common problems and situations facing those in financial trouble today. The text explores how one gets into debt, how to budget your way out of debt and what to do when you are sued or feel the walls are collapsing in around you. Guidelines for buying a car and a home are just a few of the many topics delved into with numerous rules of thumb on how to make wise choices when facing the many common financial choices facing consumers today. We live in a world which looks at your credit score as it as if it were a modern Rock Star or Idol if you will. But our Idol should not be our credit score but the Lord. With a focus towards the wisdom of Solomon, the trials of Job and the teachings of our Lord Jesus, you too can escape debt's hold and be free, debt free!

Steven Cohen presents an approachable and applicable guide to urban sustainability that highlights how new, greener trends in city development touch our lives on a daily basis. Replete with recommendations and insights, The Sustainable City has invaluable lessons for anyone seeking to link public policy to promoting a sustainable lifestyle.

Delves into the issues of how to ensure that the work done by private sector contractors serves the public interest and argues for the necessity of making these organizations act as extensions of the public sector while maintaining their private character.

Revised and updated, this important resource offers highly-accessible coverage of the fundamentals of leading and managing public organizations. All of the key areas of the field are covered and thoughtfully explored through the strategic use of new case studies and real-world examples that are based on recent developments in the sector.

While many books hype the latest fad, here at last (!) is a ?realist's' toolbox designed for public administrators who need to know the costs as well as the benefits of managerial theories and technologies.