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  • Power Despite Precarity

    Strategies for the Contingent Faculty Movement in Higher Education

    par Joe Berry, Helena Worthen ...
    Collections series Wildcat
    Higher education is the site of an ongoing conflict. At the heart of this struggle are the precariously employed faculty ‘contingents’ who work without basic job security, living wages or benefits. Yet they have the incentive and, if organized, the power to shape the future of higher education.Power Despite Precarity is part history, part handbook and a wholly indispensable resource in this fight. ... En savoir plus

    $16.29 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

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  • State Building

    Governance and World Order in the 21st Century

    par Francis Fukuyama ...
    Weak or failed states - where no government is in control - are the source of many of the world's most serious problems, from poverty, AIDS and drugs to terrorism. What can be done to help? The problem of weak states and the need for state-building has existed for many years, but it has been urgent since September 11 and Afghanistan and Iraq.The formation of proper public institutions, such as an ... En savoir plus

    $11.89 CAD

  • The Fall of the Faculty:The Rise of the All-Administrative University and Why It Matters

    par Benjamin Ginsberg ...
    Until very recently, American universities were led mainly by their faculties, which viewed intellectual production and pedagogy as the core missions of higher education. Today, as Benjamin Ginsberg warns in this eye-opening, controversial book, "deanlets"--administrators and staffers often without serious academic backgrounds or experience--are setting the educational agenda. The Fall of the ... En savoir plus

    $34.39 CAD

  • Public Administration

    A Very Short Introduction

    par Stella Z. Theodoulou, Ravi K. Roy ...
    Collections series Very Short Introductions
    Public administration ensures the development and delivery of the essential public services required for sustaining modern civilization. Covering areas from public safety and social welfare to transportation and education, the services provided through the public sector are inextricably part of our daily lives. However, mandatory budgetary cuts in recent years have caused public administrators to ... En savoir plus

    $7.19 CAD

  • When Work Disappears

    The World of the New Urban Poor

    par William Julius Wilson ...
    Wilson, one of our foremost authorities on race and poverty, challenges decades of liberal and conservative pieties to look squarely at the devastating effects that joblessness has had on our urban ghettos. Marshaling a vast array of data and the personal stories of hundreds of men and women, Wilson persuasively argues that problems endemic to America's inner cities--from fatherless households to ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $13.99 CAD Maintenant $9.99 CAD

  • Fired Up about Capitalism

    par Tom Malleson ...
    Collections Livre 1 - Fired Up
    There is no alternative to free-market capitalism. At least that’s what we’ve been told since the 1980s, when Margaret Thatcher first declared the debate over. Politicians daily declare it, journalists parrot it, talk show hosts acquiesce to it, rich people gloat about it, and regular people simply assume it.Fired Up about Capitalism forcefully argues that this is nothing but a myth. Tom Malleson ... En savoir plus

    $15.19 CAD

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  • Reproducing Racism

    How Everyday Choices Lock In White Advantage

    par Daria Roithmayr ...
    Argues that racial inequality reproduces itself automatically over time because early unfair advantage for whites has paved the way for continuing advantageThis book is designed to change the way we think about racial inequality. Long after the passage of civil rights laws, blacks and Latinos possess barely a nickel of wealth for every dollar that whites have. Why have we made so little progress ... En savoir plus

    $19.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Lessons Learned

    Reflections of a University President

    par William G. Bowen ...
    Collections series The William G. Bowen Series
    An insider's account of higher education from a legendary university leaderLessons Learned gives unprecedented access to the university president's office, providing a unique set of reflections on the challenges involved in leading both research universities and liberal arts colleges. In this landmark book, William Bowen, former president of Princeton University and of the Andrew W. Mellon ... En savoir plus

    $26.09 CAD

  • State-Building

    Governance and World Order in the 21st Century

    par Francis Fukuyama ...
    Collections series Messenger Lectures
    Francis Fukuyama famously predicted "the end of history" with the ascendancy of liberal democracy and global capitalism. The topic of his latest book is, therefore, surprising: the building of new nation-states. The end of history was never an automatic procedure, Fukuyama argues, and the well-governed polity was always its necessary precondition. "Weak or failed states are the source of many of ... En savoir plus

    $13.59 CAD

  • The Transformation of Governance

    Public Administration for the Twenty-First Century

    par Donald F. Kettl ...
    Collections series Interpreting American Politics
    An updated edition of the classic text on public administration presents practical steps for managing government effectively in an age of hyperpartisanship.Co-winner of the Louis Brownlow Book Award from the National Academy of Public AdministrationThe traditional theory of public administration is based on entrenched notions of hierarchy and authority. However, as the structure of public work has ... En savoir plus

    $30.39 CAD

  • The Faculty Lounges

    And Other Reasons Why You Won't Get the College Education You Pay For

    par Naomi Schaefer Riley ...
    Veteran journalist Naomi Shaefer Riley contends that tenure—the jobs-for-life entitlement that comes with a university position—is at the heart of so many problems with higher education today. She explores how tenure—with the job security, mediocre salaries, and low levels of accountability it entails—may be attracting the least innovative and interesting members of our society into teaching. ... En savoir plus

    $24.49 CAD

  • About Canada: Immigration

    par Nupur Gogia, Bonnie Slade ...
    Collections Livre 4 - About Canada
    Many Canadians believe that immigrants steal jobs away from qualified Canadians, abuse the healthcare system and refuse to participate in Canadian culture. In About Canada: Immigration, Gogia and Slade challenge these myths with a thorough investigation of the realities of immigrating to Canada. Examining historical immigration policies, the authors note that these policies were always ... En savoir plus

    $19.99 CAD