David Krueger: 10 books
by David Krueger, John David Mann
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2009
If money were about math, none of us would be carrying any debt.
The numbers are simple. What’s complicated is what we do with money. We use money to soothe our feelings and buy respect, to show how much we care or how little. We don’t simply earn, save, and spend money: we flirt with it,...
Myths of the Rune Stone
Viking Martyrs and the Birthplace of America
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
What do our myths say about us? Why do we choose to believe stories that have been disproven? David M. Krueger takes an in-depth look at a legend that held tremendous power in one corner of Minnesota, helping to define both a community’s and a state’s identity for decades.
In 1898, a Swedish...
Myth and Measurement
The New Economics of the Minimum Wage - Twentieth-Anniversary Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
David Card and Alan B. Krueger have already made national news with their pathbreaking research on the minimum wage. Here they present a powerful new challenge to the conventional view that higher minimum wages reduce jobs for low-wage workers. In a work that has important implications for public...
by Rick Ollerman, Reed Farrel Coleman, Jen Conley
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2018
Edited by Rick Ollerman. Alphabetical list of contributors: Scott Adlerberg, Eric Beetner, Kristi Belcamino, Michael A. Black, Michael Bracken, Don Bruns, Gary R. Bush, Austin Camacho, Dave Case, Jessie Chandler, Reed Farrel Coleman, Jen Conley, John Gaspard, Lois Greiman, Libby Fischer Hellmann,...
The Politics of Cultural Differences
Social Change and Voter Mobilization Strategies in the Post-New Deal Period
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
How did Republicans manage to hold the White House through much of the past half century even as the Democratic Party held the hearts of most American voters? The authors of this groundbreaking study argue that they did so by doing what Democrats have also excelled at: triggering psychological mechanisms...
Energy Sprawl Solutions
Balancing Global Developmand Conservation
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Over the next several decades, as human populations grow, the demand for energy will soar. But renewable energy sources have a large energy sprawl—the amount of land needed to produce energy—which can threaten biodiversity. In Energy Sprawl Solutions, scientists Joseph M. Kiesecker and David Naugle...
Renewed Accountability for Access and Excellence
Applying a Model for Democratic Professional Practice in Education
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
Renewed Accountability for Access and Excellence advances discussion of a conceptualized model for cultivating democratic professional practice in education (DPPE) and considers its relationship with contemporary teaching and leading praxes. A diverse and highly qualified group of scholars and practitioners...
by Hans Krueger, Dan Williams, Barbara Kaminsky
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2007
Despite significant progress due to public health campaigns and other policy efforts, smoking continues to be a serious health threat throughout the world. In addition, sedentary lifestyles, poor diet, and obesity continue to be major causes of chronic diseases. The Health Impact of Smoking and Obesity...
Community-Based Prevention
Reducing the Risk of Cancer and Chronic Disease
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Cancer and chronic disease are a rapidly increasing global health burden: according to the Milken Institute, the annual cost to the national US economy of the seven most common chronic conditions will rise to $4.2 trillion by 2023. The data are just as dramatic in Canada, Europe, Australia, and increasingly,...
by David W. Krueger
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2013
First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.