Michael Dennis Harmon

M.P.A. Comprehensive Exam Study Guide

The M.P.A. Comprehensive Exam Study Guide was created by leading professors in the field of Public Administration. The guide is designed to provide in-depth preparation for Comprehensive Exams, and covers all topics in the M.P.A. curriculum. The guide includes real exam questions and answers from st...

Public Administration's Final Exam: A Pragmatist Restructuring of the Profession and the Discipline

Examines why public administration’s literature has failed to justify the profession’s legitimacy as an instrument of governance.Michael Harmon employs the literary conceit of a Final Exam, first “written” in the early 1930s, in a critique of the field’s answers to the legitimacy question. Because t...

Stick

“Stick” is the best wide receiver in the history of his high school—the football seems magnetically drawn to his hands, hence his nickname. Preston is an outcast, and his pipsqueak stature and nerdy social status couldn’t be further from a star athlete’s. Stick puts on his football costume every ...

The Last Exit to Normal

It’s true: After 17-year-old Ben’s father announces he’s gay and the family splits apart, Ben does everything he can to tick him off: skip school, smoke pot, skateboard nonstop, get arrested. But he never thinks he’ll end up yanked out of his city life and plunked down into a small Montana town with...

Brutal

With her martyr-doctor mother gone to save lives in some South American country, Poe Holly suddenly finds herself on the suburban doorstep of the father she never knew, who also happens to be a counselor at her new high school. She misses Los Angeles. She misses the guys in her punk band. Weirdly, s...

Under the Bridge

Tate's younger brother Indy is probably the best skateboarder in Spokane. He's also really smart though he couldn't care less about school. But when Indy clashes with his father one too many times and drops out of school, it's up to Tate to win his brother back from the seedier elements of Spokane. ...

Skate

There’s not much keeping Ian McDermott in Spokane, but at least it’s home. He’s been raising Sammy practically on his own ever since their mom disappeared again on one of her binges. They get by, finding just enough to eat and plenty of time to skateboard. But at Morrison High, Ian is getting the di...

Organization Theory for Public Administration

Organization Theory for Public Administration

Responsibility As Paradox: A Critique of Rational Discourse on Government

Responsibility As Paradox: A Critique of Rational Discourse on Government

Skate

Skate

Skate

The Savvy Guide to Fantasy Sports

Michael Harm

Michael Harmon was born in 1969 and is the author of three books: Skate, The Last Exit to Normal, and Brutal. [edit] External links. Official web site ...