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College Student Retention
Formula for Student Success
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2012
Although access to higher education is virtually universally available, college student retention stills remains a vexing and puzzling problem for educators and legislators.
In College Student Retention: Formula for Student Success, second edition, Alan Seidman deals with this problematic issue...
The Power of the Stranger
Structures and Dynamics in Social Intervention - A Theoretical Framework
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
The decline of the welfare state in Western Europe has led to an increasing role both for citizen-led initiatives and for philanthropy in easing, solving or preventing social problems. Care and everyday help is being provided by strangers - people driven by enthusiasm and commitment but unfamiliar...
Women in the Academy
Learning From Our Diverse Career Pathways
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
This edited collection examines women’s roles in the academy. Statistics show that women outnumber men in most universities and that women’s pay still lags behind men’s, but the numbers only hint at the broader story. This edited collection fills that gap with the stories of twelve women—from...
by James V. Hoffman, Peter Afflerbach, Ann M. Duffy-Hester
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
This book appears at a time when the crisis rhetoric about schools, teaching, and learning to read is extremely high. There is a rising call within the profession for a balanced perspective on reading. Balancing Principles for Teaching Elementary Reading aspires to help set the agenda for improving...
by Harvard Business Review, Daniel Goleman, Peter F. Drucker
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
Becoming a great leader takes work. This collection from Harvard Business Review offers the ideas and strategies to help get you there. The HBR’s 10 Must Reads Leadership Collection (4 Books) includes the popular books HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Leadership, HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Managing Yourself,...
Project-Management in Practice
A Guideline and Toolbox for Successful Projects
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2016
This practice-oriented book explores a variety of cross-project topics and specific aspects of different project phases. It also offers tips, examples, templates and checklists, and discusses concrete problems and solutions from project practice in IT and the automotive industry.
The authors...
America's Urban Crisis and the Advent of Color-Blind Politics
Education, Incarceration, Segregation, and the Future of the U.S. Multiracial Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
Over 40 years ago the historic Kerner Commission Report declared that America was undergoing an urban crisis whose effects were disproportionately felt by underclass populations. In America's Urban Crisis and the Advent of Color-blind Politics, Curtis Ivery and Joshua Bassett explore the persistence...
Age Matters
Re-Aligning Feminist Thinking
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
This volume of original chapters is designed to bring attention to a neglected area of feminist scholarship - aging. After several decades of feminist studies we are now well informed of the complex ways that gender shapes the lives of women and men. Similarly, we know more about how gendered power...
Localizing and Transnationalizing Contentious Politics
Global Civil Society Movements in the Philippines
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2009
The Philippines makes an interesting case for examining direct and collective acts of contention against the neoliberal project of economic globalization. Crippled by foreign debt, indiscriminate liberalization of trade, falling stock markets, and perpetual corruption, the Philippines is also a democratic...
The Uprooted
Improving Humanitarian Responses to Forced Migration
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2005
By conservative estimates about 50 million migrants are currently living outside of their home communities, forced to flee to obtain some measure of safety and security. In addition to persecution, human rights violations, repression, conflict, and natural and human-made disasters, current causes...
Rethinking Engineering Education
The CDIO Approach
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2014
This book describes an approach to engineering education that integrates a comprehensive set of personal, interpersonal, and professional engineering skills with engineering disciplinary knowledge in order to prepare innovative and entrepreneurial engineers. The education of engineers is set in the...
Future Drive
Electric Vehicles And Sustainable Transportation
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
In Future Drive, Daniel Sperling addresses the adverse energy and environmental consequences of increased travel, and analyzes currinitiatives to suggest strategies for creating a more environmentally benign system of transportation. Groundbreaking proposals are constructed around the idea of electric...
by Michael E. Kitces, MSFS, MTAX
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
Field Guide to Financial Planning offers step-by-step solutions to hundreds of planning needs and challenges. It is the definitive guide for agents and financial planners to identify, understand, and employ the concepts and techniques used in financial and wealth management planning.The 2014...
Race, Population Studies, and America's Public Schools
A Critical Demography Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Race, Population Studies, and America's Public Schools: A Critical Demography Perspective explores the paradigm of critical demography—established in the late 1990s which articulates the manner in which the social structure differentiates dominant and subordinate populations. Moreover, critical...