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Learning While Governing
Expertise and Accountability in the Executive Branch
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Although their leaders and staff are not elected, bureaucratic agencies have the power to make policy decisions that carry the full force of the law. In this groundbreaking book, Sean Gailmard and John W. Patty explore an issue central to political science and public administration: How do Congress...
Economic Development
The History of an Idea
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2015
Economic development has been for many years the dominant national policy objective of the countries in the Third World, but there has been little consensus on the goals and definitions of development. Focusing on the era since World War II, H. W. Arndt traces the history of thought about economic...
Bankers and Empire
How Wall Street Colonized the Caribbean
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2017
From the end of the nineteenth century until the onset of the Great Depression, Wall Street embarked on a stunning, unprecedented, and often bloody period of international expansion in the Caribbean. A host of financial entities sought to control banking, trade, and finance in the region. In the process,...
Finance in America
An Unfinished Story
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
The economic crisis of 2008 led to an unprecedented focus on the world of high finance—and revealed it to be far more arcane and influential than most people could ever have imagined. Any hope of avoiding future crises, it’s clear, rest on understanding finance itself.
To...
Forgive and Remember
Managing Medical Failure, 2nd Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2011
On its initial publication, Forgive and Remember emerged as the definitive study of the training and lives of young surgeons. Now with an extensive new preface, epilogue, and appendix by the author, reflecting on the changes that have taken place since the book's original publication, this updated second edition of Charles L. Bosk's classic study is as timely as ever.
A Shared Future
Faith-Based Organizing for Racial Equity and Ethical Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2015
Faith-based community organizers have spent decades working for greater equality in American society, and more recently have become significant players in shaping health care, finance, and immigration reform at the highest levels of government.
In A Shared Future, Richard L. Wood and Brad R....
The Conquest of Cool
Business Culture, Counterculture, and the Rise of Hip Consumerism
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 1998
While the youth counterculture remains the most evocative and best-remembered symbol of the cultural ferment of the 1960s, the revolution that shook American business during those boom years has gone largely unremarked. In this fascinating and revealing study, Thomas Frank shows how the youthful revolutionaries...
by Raymond E. Callahan
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2010
Raymond Callahan's lively study exposes the alarming lengths to which school administrators went, particularly in the period from 1910 to 1930, in sacrificing educational goals to the demands of business procedures. He suggests that even today the question still asked is: "How can we operate...
The Public School Advantage
Why Public Schools Outperform Private Schools
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Nearly the whole of America’s partisan politics centers on a single question: Can markets solve our social problems? And for years this question has played out ferociously in the debates about how we should educate our children. From the growth of vouchers and charter schools to the implementation...
Citizen Speak
The Democratic Imagination in American Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
When we think about what constitutes being a good citizen, routine activities like voting, letter writing, and paying attention to the news spring to mind. But in Citizen Speak, Andrew J. Perrin argues that these activities are only a small part of democratic citizenship—a standard of citizenship...
Sound Reporting
The NPR Guide to Audio Journalism and Production
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2012
Perhaps you’ve always wondered how public radio gets that smooth, well-crafted sound. Maybe you’re thinking about starting a podcast, and want some tips from the pros. Or maybe storytelling has always been a passion of yours, and you want to learn to do it more effectively. Whatever the case—whether...
Housekeeping by Design
Hotels and Labor
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
One of the great pleasures of staying in a hotel is spending time in a spotless, neat, and organized space that you don’t have to clean. That doesn’t, however, mean the work disappears—when we’re not looking, someone else is doing it.
With Housekeeping by Design, David Brody introduces...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
In the years since the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA, or, colloquially, Obamacare), most of the discussion about it has been political. But as the politics fade and the law's many complex provisions take effect, a much more interesting question begins to emerge:...
Designing Human Practices
An Experiment with Synthetic Biology
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2012
In 2006 anthropologists Paul Rabinow and Gaymon Bennett set out to rethink the role that human sciences play in biological research, creating the Human Practices division of the Synthetic Biology Engineering Research Center—a facility established to create design standards for the engineering of...