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Australian Film Festivals
Audience, Place, and Exhibition Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
This is thefirst book to offer an in-depth examination of the history, operation, and growth of film festivals as a cultural phenomenon within Australia. Tracing the birth of film festivals in Australia in the 1950s through to their present abundance, it asks why film festivals have prospered as audience-driven...
The Multiracial Urban High School
Fearing Peers and Trusting Friends
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2010
From 1996-2000, thirty minority teenagers (African American, Chinese American, Puerto Rican American, and Dominican American) were interviewed every year for four years to investigate how their experiences in high school shaped their social relationships.
Organizations in the Face of Crisis
Managing the Brand and Stakeholders
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
Organizations in the Face of Crisis offers a new approach to the treatment of threats to an organization, the brand, and the stakeholders. Case studies and diagnostic tools are used to demonstrate the effects of a crisis and to provide insight and strategies on managing the crisis at hand as well as the long-term effects.
Navigating Community Development
Harnessing Comparative Advantages to Create Strategic Partnerships
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
This book describes the evolution of the community development sector over the past 50 years, and it presents a framework and road map for how community development organizations can advance their mission through strategic partnerships that utilize their core competencies. The authors describe the...
by N. Saleh
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2010
This book challenges the widely-held view that the information technology (IT) revolution has empowered people in the Third World. Tracing the making of the global IT regime, it shows that governments and corporations of the wealthy countries dominated this process, systematically excluding representatives of low-income countries.
Economic Development from the State and Local Perspective
Case Studies and Public Policy Debates
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2014
This definitive work mixes case law, public policy, economic strategy, and examines the wide range of issues facing efforts to improve the American economy, to illustrate how economic growth is driven through strong public-private partnerships, and how successful growth strategies from the state and local level operate to grow jobs.
Reforming Boston Schools, 1930–2006
Overcoming Corruption and Racial Segregation
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2008
Boston s schools in 2006 won the Eli Broad Prize for the Most Improved Urban School System in America. But from the 1930s into the 1970s the city schools succumbed to scandals including the sale of jobs and racial segregation. This book describes the black voices before and after court decisions and...
Collective Bargaining and the Battle of Ohio
The Defeat of Senate Bill 5 and the Struggle to Defend the Middle Class
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
The story of how the Ohio conference of the American Association of University Professors mobilized its resources and fought alongside Teamsters, firefighters, janitors, and police to defeat Ohio Senate Bill 5 by referendum, restoring collective bargain rights across the state.
Reforming a School System, Reviving a City
The Promise of Say Yes to Education in Syracuse
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Can a bold investment in education turn around the economy of an entire city? Gene I. Maeroff, former national education correspondent for the New York Times , explores how the nonprofit group Say Yes to Education has instituted a network of reforms in Syracuse, New York, that aim to expand the city's the middle class by supporting its children.
Indigenous Concepts of Education
Toward Elevating Humanity for All Learners
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
Featuring in-depth examinations of concepts of knowing, learning, and education from a range of cultures worldwide, this book offers a rich theory of indigenous concepts of education, their relation to Western concepts, and their potential for creating education that articulates the aspirations of communities and fosters humanity for all learners.
The Capacity to Share
A Study of Cuba’s International Cooperation in Educational Development
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2012
This discussion of Cuba's international policies in education shows how Cuba shares its educational resources with other countries. The postcolonial critique underlying the book explores Cuba's role in relation to how the disengagement from colonial legacies in education is taking place in many countries.
Political Parties and Democracy
Contemporary Western Europe and Asia
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2012
Well-reputed political scientists residing and teaching in ten countries, five in Asia and five in Europe, comparatively examine the place of political parties in democracy, and provide an empirically rigorous, up-to-date, comprehensive synthesis of the organization of political parties and their links with citizens in a democracy.
by G. Bright
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
This book explores how the cultural process of making any disease a "plague" results in discrimination against certain groups, as it has for those with AIDS in America. Gina M. Bright here captures the discrimination produced by plague-making in her analysis and her portraits of the people she has cared for with AIDS over the past quarter-century.
Hegemonic Transformation
The State, Laws, and Labour Relations in Post-Socialist China
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
This book contends that the Chinese economic reform inaugurated since 1978 has been a top-down passive revolution, in Gramsci’s term, and that after three decades of reform the role of the Chinese state has been changing from steering the passive revolution through coercive tactics to establishing...