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  • Power Despite Precarity

    Strategies for the Contingent Faculty Movement in Higher Education

    Serien 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. Lesen Sie mehr

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    Governance and World Order in the 21st Century

    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 Lesen Sie mehr

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

    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 Lesen Sie mehr

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  • Public Administration

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    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 Lesen Sie mehr

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  • When Work Disappears

    The World of the New Urban Poor

    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 Lesen Sie mehr

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  • Fired Up about Capitalism

    von Tom Malleson
    Serien Buch 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 Lesen Sie mehr

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  • Reproducing Racism

    How Everyday Choices Lock In White Advantage

    von 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 Lesen Sie mehr

    15,18 €

  • Lessons Learned

    Reflections of a University President

    Serien 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 Lesen Sie mehr

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  • The Transformation of Governance

    Public Administration for the Twenty-First Century

    von Donald F. Kettl
    Serien 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 Lesen Sie mehr

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  • The Faculty Lounges

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

    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. Lesen Sie mehr

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  • Out of Poverty

    Sweatshops in the Global Economy

    von Benjamin Powell
    Serien series Cambridge Studies in Economics, Choice, and Society
    This book provides a comprehensive defense of third-world sweatshops. It explains how these sweatshops provide the best available opportunity to workers and how they play an important role in the process of development that eventually leads to better wages and working conditions. Using economic theory, the author argues that much of what the anti-sweatshop movement has agitated for would actually Lesen Sie mehr

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  • A Perfect Mess

    The Unlikely Ascendancy of American Higher Education

    A history of higher education in America and an investigation into the secrets of its success: " A Perfect Mess should become a classic." — Times Higher EducationRead about America's colleges and universities—rising student debt, affirmative action debates, conflicts between faculty and administrators—and it's clear that higher education in this country is a total mess. But as David F. Labaree Lesen Sie mehr

    14,43 €