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Women Navigating Globalization
Feminist Approaches to Development
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
This up-to-date text offers a clear and cogent introduction to women in development. Exploring the global structures and processes that impede or support the empowerment of women, Jana Everett and Sue Ellen M. Charlton use a feminist lens to understand contemporary gender roles. Without such a lens,...
by A. Bowdoin Van Riper
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Popular media has become a common means by which students understand both the present and the past. Consequently, more teachers are using various forms of popular culture as pedagogical tools in the history classroom. Science fiction is one of the most popular genres of contemporary film, a genre...
Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek
The Original Cast Adventures
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2015
When it premiered on NBC in September 1966, Star Trek was described by its creator, Gene Roddenberry, as “Wagon Train to the stars.” Featuring a racially diverse cast, trips to exotic planets, and encounters with an array of alien beings who could be either friendly or hostile, the program opened...
by Hans Kelsen
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
Hans Kelsen is widely recognized as one of the most important legal theorists of the 20th century. Surprisingly, however, his political writings are not nearly as widely known as his legal theory, especially in the English-speaking world. This book fills the void between what is and isn't known about...
by Andrew E. Busch
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2001
In Ronald Reagan and the Politics of Freedom, Andrew E. Busch goes beyond economic and foreign policies to examine ReaganOs understanding of statesmanship. Busch analyzes Reagan's conscious attempt to strengthen the separation of powers, federalism, and traditional rhetoric, and his efforts to revive...
Lessons from a Diplomatic Life
Watching Flowers from Horseback
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2012
In his new book, Lessons from a Diplomatic Life: Watching Flowers from Horseback, retired State Department official and career diplomat Marshall P. Adair recounts and reflects on his time in the US Foreign Service. The story of his assignments throughout the world reveals important details about significant...
Teacherland
Inside the Myth of the American Educator
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
In the popular narrative teachers are cast as saints or slouches, heroes or zeros. They either forgo their material well-being for the reward of a higher calling, or they show movies, have too much time off, and are impossible to fire.
Teacherland fills the gap between these two clichés with insight,...
A Guide to Managing and Leading School Operations
The Principal's Field Manual
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2018
The job of school leader has become progressively more demanding. The role includes increasingly complex problems to be solved and increasingly deep piles of paperwork to complete. Unfortunately, the managing of employees, the preparing and justifying of resource – both personnel and financial -...
The Next Generation in Russia, Ukraine, and Azerbaijan
Youth, Politics, Identity, and Change
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
In the past twenty years, the countries that used to make up the former Soviet Union have seen plenty of change. There have been revolutions, youth-led protest movements, and other forms of incredible political upheaval. At the center of all of this were young leaders fighting to be heard and clamoring...
by Chris J. Dolan, John Frendreis, Raymond Tatalovich
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2007
The health of the American economy is a topic of discussion among undergraduate students in public policy and the American presidency. Policymakers and citizens also are concerned with economic prosperity and the problems associated with unemployment, taxation, health care, trade, and inflation as...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
Ideal for professors who want to provide a comprehensive set of the most important readings in the philosophy of technology, from foundational to the cutting edge, this book introduces students to the various ways in which societies, technologies, and environments shape one another. The readings examine...
One Size Does Not Fit All
Acknowledging and Addressing What’s Wrong with American Public Education
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Academic success requires talent (ability), which is not equally distributed among students. Almost all American undergraduates hail from K–12 public schools, based on the theory that everyone is academically educable. This has led to the one-size-fits-all system, which has underserved the less...
by Bret Hinsch
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2013
Masculinities in Chinese History is the first historical survey of the many ways men have acted, thought, and behaved throughout China’s long past. Bret Hinsch introduces readers to the basic characteristics of historical Chinese masculinity while highlighting the dynamic changes in male identity...
The Still Divided Academy
How Competing Visions of Power, Politics, and Diversity Complicate the Mission of Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010
The Still Divided Academy is a wonderful examination of the academic community that shows their inner workings by addressing a broad range of issues including: academic politics, tenure, perceived and real political imbalance, academic freedom, and diversity. Administrators, professors, and students...