Selden (management, Lynchburg College) makes a remarkable connection between strategic human resources and the management of governance. She combines currency RE and practice with case studies, examples, and metrics, providing strong advice on remodeling and strengthening the public workforce. She is fully aware that the tools used in private firms may not always apply when resources are particularly scarce, and expectations are particularly high, so she first explains how human capital management works in public systems. She explains how strategic human capital planning and management work, and how to recruit, select, retain, develop, and manage employees in the public sector. She also explains the particularities of reward in the case of public employees, the means of analyzing strategic human capital management and arriving intelligence from that analysis, and techniques to use in anticipation of new directions for human capital management in government. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)