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Public Policy and Higher Education
Reframing Strategies for Preparation, Access, and College Success
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
Public Policy and Higher Education provides readers with new ways to analyze complex state policies and offers the tools to examine how policies affect students’ access and success in college. Rather than arguing for a single approach, the authors examine how policymakers and higher education administrators...
Strategic Human Resource Management
A Research Overview
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2019
The field of Strategic Human Resource Management (SHRM) has burgeoned over the past thirty years. Over this time there has been a shift towards a strategic conception which posited workers as ‘assets’ rather than ‘costs’. These ‘human resources’ were reconceptualised as a key source of...
Information, Technology, and Innovation
Resources for Growth in a Connected World
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2012
A big-picture look at how the latest trends in information management and technology are impacting business models and innovation worldwide
With all of the recent emphasis on "big data," analytics and visualization, and emerging technology architectures such as smartphone networks,...
Relationship-Driven Classroom Management
Strategies That Promote Student Motivation
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2003
Positive teacher-student relationships are an important factor in increasing student achievement and motivation as well as decreasing a student's risk of dropping out, substance abuse, bullying, and violence. Learn how to proactively and positively manage your classroom and students and build...
by M. Naveed, John Davidson
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
How to Increase Sales Using Customer Value Optimization - Make Money OnlineTable of ContentsIntroductionPrerequisites of the ImplementationGoals and Objectives of the ProfitabilityTime Bound GoalsCustomer Oriented ApproachMeasure Optimization QuantitativelyThink Long-term and be FlexibleBasic...
by M. Naveed, John Davidson
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
Make Money Online How to Make $500 Extra Per Month As a Writer on iWriter.comTable of ContentsIntroductionDon’t Resign from Your Day Job ImmediatelyLearn from the iWriter TutorialsPick Only Contracts you can DeliverUpgrade your AccountWrite Top-Notch Articles to Achieve Star StatusAnalyze...
Building the Intentional University
Minerva and the Future of Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
How to rebuild higher education from the ground up for the twenty-first century.
Higher education is in crisis. It is too expensive, ineffective, and impractical for many of the world's students. But how would you reinvent it for the twenty-first century—how would you build it from the ground...
by Judith Blau, Michael Burawoy, Gerard Delanty
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2006
At an earlier time, sociologists C. Wright Mills, W. E. Du Bois, and Jane Addams loudly protested injustices and inequities in American society, provided critiques and analyses of systems of oppression, and challenged sociologists to be responsible critics and constructive commentators. These giants...
Ending Poverty in America
How to Restore the American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2009
**An “**engrossing collection of rigorously researched articles” from Elizabeth Warren, Jared Bernstein, William Julius Wilson, and more (Publishers Weekly).
Can the wealthiest nation in the world do anything to combat the steadily rising numbers of Americans living in poverty—or the...
Microeconomic Theory Old and New
A Student's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2009
Microeconomic Theory Old and New: A Student's Guide has two main goals. The first is to give advanced undergraduate and graduate students an understanding of the core model of economics: Walrasian general equilibrium theory. The text presents in detail the three building blocks of Walrasian theory—establishing...
by John V. McCanny, Máire McLoone
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
In System-on-Chip Architectures and Implementations for Private-Key Data Encryption, new generic silicon architectures for the DES and Rijndael symmetric key encryption algorithms are presented. The generic architectures can be utilised to rapidly and effortlessly generate system-on-chip cores, which...
Employers’ Economics versus Employees’ Economy
How Adam Smith’s Legacy Obscures Public Investment in the Private Sector
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2017
This book argues that economic activity in the public sphere now underwrites private corporations, and rejects rigid adherence to traditional economic theories that no longer apply. Adam Smith's widely used "merchant's model" assumes that most investment is private, when in fact research...
Social Media and Civic Engagement
History, Theory, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
Social media platforms are the latest manifestation in a series of sociotechnical innovations designed to enhance civic engagement, political participation, and global activism. While many researchers started out as optimists about the promise of social media for broadening participation and enhancing...
Grounds for Agreement
The Political Economy of the Coffee Commodity Chain
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2004
As the popularity of coffee and coffee shops has grown worldwide in recent years, so has another trend—globalization, which has greatly affected growers and distributors. This book analyzes changes in the structure of the coffee commodity chain since World War II. It follows the typical consumer...