John Wolff: 7 books
How to Make Pro Baseball Scouts Notice You
An Insider's Guide to Big League Scouting
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2009
The purpose of this book is twofold: one, to give ballplayers an inside look at just what scouts are really looking for in their search for professional ballplayers; and two, to help them market and sell themselves so that scouts will know they exist and see them put their best skills on display....
The 10 Best Books to Read for Easter: Selections to Inspire, Educate, & Provoke
Excerpts from new and classic titles by bestselling authors in the field, with an Introduction by James Martin, SJ.
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
With an Introduction by New York Times bestselling author James Martin, SJ, HarperOne presents The 10 Best Books to Read for Easter. This free sampler is a curated volume of excerpts from new and classic titles from leading authors in the field, including C. S. Lewis, N. T. Wright, Desmond Tutu, Ann...
Higher Education and Equality of Opportunity
Cross-National Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
The movement to broaden access to public universities, the dominant strategy during the 1970s and 1980s, has largely shifted to enable the marketplace, rather than the government, to shape the contours of higher education. Government funding is being reduced, affirmative action and other programs...
by John U. Wolff
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2016
The Cebuano language, also referred by most of its speakers as Bisaya or Binisaya (English: Visayan), is an Austronesian language spoken in the Philippines by about 20 million people, mostly in Central Visayas, eastern Negros Island Region, western parts of Eastern Visayas and major parts of Mindanao,...
The Criminalization of States
The Relationship between States and Organized Crime
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2019
This volume examines the relationship between states and organized crime. It seeks to add to the theoretical literature for analyzing the criminalization of the state. The volume also explores the nature of organized crime in countries throughout the Americas from Central America to the Southern Cone.
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Wie die westliche Welt Krisen erzeugt und Kriege vorbereitet
Language: German
Release Date: March 1, 2019
Westliche Staatsführungen und Finanzorganisationen sind mit einem zunehmenden Glaubwürdigkeitsverlust konfrontiert. Die Friedenshoffnung nach dem Zerfall der Sowjetunion und der Auflösung des Warschauer Paktes ist längst im Kampfgeschrei der NATO zerstoben. Der Wirtschaftskrise des Jahres 2008...
Embodied Difference
Divergent Bodies in Public Discourse
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2019
Focusing on the body as a visual and discursive platform across public space, we study marginalization as a sociocultural practice and hegemonic schema. Whereas mass incarceration and law enforcement readily feature in discussions of institutionalized racism, we differently highlight understudied...