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Cover of AARP: America's Largest Interest Group and its Impact
by Christine L. Day
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017

AARP is one of Washington's most influential interest groups, but just who does it represent? To some, it represents the narrow special interests of older Americans who already consume more than their share of government benefits. To others, its advocacy encompasses everyone, including those with...
Cover of Financial Crisis in American Households: The Basic Expenses That Bankrupt the Middle Class
by Joseph Nathan Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017

More than one-third of Americans could not sustain a basic livelihood without government assistance. Almost 60 percent of seniors are dependent on the government. Why is this? This book examines how the U.S. economy's failure to deliver high-quality, universally accessible basic necessities is creating...
Cover of Reproductive Rights and the State: Getting the Birth Control, RU-486, and Morning-After Pills and the Gardasil Vaccine to the U.S. Market
by Melissa Haussman
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013

Reproductive Rights and the State: Getting the Birth Control, RU-486, and Morning-After Pills and the Gardasil Vaccine to the U.S. Market tackles a subject that remains controversial more than 60 years after "the pill" was approved for use in the United States. The first book to examine...
Cover of Inquiry and the Common Core: Librarians and Teachers Designing Teaching for Learning

Inquiry and the Common Core: Librarians and Teachers Designing Teaching for Learning

Librarians and Teachers Designing Teaching for Learning

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Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013

Practicing librarians and library educators demonstrate the power of inquiry to achieve the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and promote school librarians as key partners in implementing this type of critical teaching and learning in K–12 schools. • Features a foreword by Allison Zmuda,...
Cover of Pay to Play: Race and the Perils of the College Sports Industrial Complex
by Kenneth J. Fasching-Varner Ph.D., Nicholas D. Hartlep Ph.D., Lori Latrice Martin
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017

Top-tier college sports are extremely profitable. Despite the billions of dollars involved in the amateur sports industrial complex, none winds up in the hands of the athletes. The controversies surrounding whether colleges and universities should pay athletes to compete on these educational institutions'...
Cover of Mexico Today: An Encyclopedia of Life in the Republic [2 volumes]
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Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2012

Viva Mexico! Border sharer. Major trade partner. Exporter of culture and citizens. Tourist destination. Mexico has always been of the utmost significance to the United States, with the shared 2,000-mile border, historical ties in mutual territory, and history of Mexican labor coming north and American...
Cover of Lessons from the Black Working Class: Foreshadowing America's Economic Health
by Hayward Derrick Horton, Teresa A. Booker, Lori Latrice Martin
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015

This book enables readers to better understand, explain, and predict the future of the nation's overall economic health through its examination of the black working class—especially the experiences of black women and black working-class residents outside of urban areas. • Contributes new...
Cover of The Case against Democracy
by Steven Michels
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013

Are the politics of the United States to blame for its current unsteady footing in the 21st century? This book aims to answer this uncomfortable but relevant question by examining the strengths and weaknesses of democracy, addressing complex topics such as the history of liberalism, the relationship...
Cover of Who Stole Conservatism? Capitalism And the Disappearance of Traditional Conservatism
by Mario R. DiNunzio
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016

During America's 19th-century Gilded Age, free-enterprise capitalist ideas distorted and deeply obscured traditional political conservatism. Conservatism today, argues distinguished historian Mario R. DiNunzio, is a grotesque version of the ideology crafted by its founders, including John Adams in...
Cover of Navigating the Whitewater Rapids of Entrepreneurial Success: Leading Small Business Growth
by Bret Golann
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2016

This book provides entrepreneurs with a clear, specific road map to successful business and growth management, explaining the vital details of techniques for executing changes in day-to-day business operations to handle rapid business growth. • Focuses on providing down-to-earth tips for...
Cover of Etiquette and Taboos around the World: A Geographic Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural Customs
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Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017

Readers of this one-volume reference will gain useful knowledge of what travelers should and shouldn't do when in countries outside of the United States. After a general introduction, approximately 100 alphabetically arranged entries cover topics such as greeting and meeting, appearance and dress,...
Cover of The Emergence of the Urban Entrepreneur: How the Growth of Cities and the Sharing Economy Are Driving a New Breed of Innovators
by Boyd Cohen, Pablo Muñoz
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016

Combining emerging trends in collaboration, democratization, and urbanization, this book examines the emergence of entrepreneurship and innovation as a primarily urban phenomenon, explains why urban environments are rapidly attracting global innovators across three distinct forms of "urbanpreneurship,"...
Cover of Introduction to Cybercrime: Computer Crimes, Laws, and Policing in the 21st Century

Introduction to Cybercrime: Computer Crimes, Laws, and Policing in the 21st Century

Computer Crimes, Laws, and Policing in the 21st Century

by Joshua B. Hill, Nancy E. Marion
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016

Explaining cybercrime in a highly networked world, this book provides a comprehensive yet accessible summary of the history, modern developments, and efforts to combat cybercrime in various forms at all levels of government—international, national, state, and local. • Provides accessible,...
Cover of misLeading Indicators: How to Reliably Measure Your Business
by Philip Green, George Gabor
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2012

This book reveals the hidden and potentially misleading nature of measurements, empowering readers to avoid making critical business decisions that are harmful, unreasonable, unwarranted, or plain wrong.
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