Three decades ago, conservative ideologues at The Heritage Foundation produced a primer on the Reagan Revolution entitled Mandate for Leadership, which offered an overarching philosophy against the role of government and in favor of markets. This volume, produced by the Institute for Policy Studies, which since 1963 has been the nation's leading progressive policy organization, offers a set of specific policy proposals for the incoming national administration on every major domest...

Facts, figures, and essays on women and poverty by Barbara Ehrenreich, Kirsten Gillibrand, LeBron James, and other high-profile contributors.Fifty years after President Lyndon B. Johnson called for a War on Poverty and enlisted Sargent Shriver to oversee it, the most important social issue of our day is once again the dire economic straits of millions of Americans. One in three live in poverty or teeter on the brink—and seventy million are women and the children wh...

Inspiration and Innovation in Teaching and Teacher Education is an edited collection that offers a variety of conceptual and research-based discussions on teaching and teacher education in Canada and internationally. The ideas, research, and practices presented in the book focus on three broad themes: the essence of teacher education, innovative practices in teacher education, and emerging issues in teacher education. The book includes chapter contributions from a group of international sc...

The Summer 2018 Issue. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Two out of each year’s four issues are guest-edited by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles; the Fall and Winter issues are staff-edited.As guest-editor Jill McCorkle writes in her introduction, “Some of the most satisfying moments in fiction are those where I might gasp with shock or surprise only to immediately see that I should have known, that in...

Vintage Sci-Fi 16 - 22 Classic Science Fiction Short Stories from Philip K. Dick, Isaac Asimov, Harlan Ellison, Arthur C. Clarke, Ray Bradbury, Harry Harrison and moreQuarantined Species by J. F. BoneYellow Streak Hero by Harlan EllisonThe Space Beasts by Clifford D. SimakFinis by Frank Lillie PollockS as in Zebatinsky by Isaac AsimovIn The Walls of Eryx by H. P. Lovecraft and Kenneth SterlingSpawn of Inferno by Hugh...

50 Vintage Sci-Fi Short Stories from the 1930s, 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. More than 31 hours of vintage science fiction. These science fiction short stories were written by some of the most acclaimed, successful and influential authors of the time including, Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Philip K. Dick, Ray Bradbury, Harlan Ellison, H. P. Lovecraft, Jack London, Clifford D. Simak, Robert Silverberg, John Wyndham, Frederik Pohl, Fritz Leiber, Fredric Brown, Edmond ...