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  • The Triple Win

    How Hybrid Work Works for Everyone

    by Nicholas Bloom, James Liang, Roy Zhang ...
    From the “prophet of remote work,” the science-backed playbook for leading productive, profitable, and happy hybrid teams.All work is hybrid now. No matter your formal RTO policy, we are all remote from an important colleague or client. Yet many business leaders still treat flexibility as a concession: greater flexibility must mean weaker performance. Hybrid work overturns that logic.Informed by ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

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  • Public Housing Myths

    Perception, Reality, and Social Policy

    Edited by Nicholas Dagen Bloom, Fritz Umbach, Lawrence J. Vale ...
    Popular opinion holds that public housing is a failure; so what more needs to be said about seventy-five years of dashed hopes and destructive policies? Over the past decade, however, historians and social scientists have quietly exploded the common wisdom about public housing. Public Housing Myths pulls together these fresh perspectives and unexpected findings into a single volume to provide an ... Read more

    $25.59 CAD

  • Affordable Housing in New York

    The People, Places, and Policies That Transformed a City

    Edited by Nicholas Dagen Bloom, Matthew Gordon Lasner ...
    A richly illustrated history of below-market housing in New York, from the 1920s to todayA colorful portrait of the people, places, and policies that have helped make New York City livable, Affordable Housing in New York is a comprehensive, authoritative, and richly illustrated history of the city's public and middle-income housing from the 1920s to today. Plans, models, archival photos, and newly ... Read more

    $37.39 CAD

  • Fundamental Neuroscience

    Edited by Larry Squire, Floyd E. Bloom, Floyd E. Bloom, Nicholas C. Spitzer, Nicholas C. Spitzer, Larry R. Squire, Darwin Berg, Sascha du Lac, Anirvan Ghosh ...
    Fundamental Neuroscience, Third Edition introduces graduate and upper-level undergraduate students to the full range of contemporary neuroscience. Addressing instructor and student feedback on the previous edition, all of the chapters are rewritten to make this book more concise and student-friendly than ever before. Each chapter is once again heavily illustrated and provides clinical boxes ... Read more

    $95.19 CAD

  • Adventures into Mexico

    American Tourism beyond the Border

    Edited by Nicholas Dagen Bloom ...
    Series series Jaguar Books on Latin America
    Moving beyond the tequila-soaked clichés of Mexican tourism, this multifaceted book explores the influence and experiences of Americans in Mexico since World War II. The authors trace Mexico's growing role as an important refuge for Americans seeking not only sun and fun but also an alternative cultural and social model. And on the other side of the border, Mexican citizens and politicians have ... Read more

    $52.59 CAD

  • The Ph.D. Process

    A Student's Guide to Graduate School in the Sciences

    by Dale F. Bloom, Jonathan D. Karp, Nicholas Cohen ...
    The Ph.D. Process offers the essential guidance that students in the biological and physical sciences need to get the most out of their years in graduate school. Drawing upon the insights of numerous current and former graduate students, this book presents a rich portrayal of the intellectual and emotional challenges inherent in becoming a scientist, and offers the informed, practical advice a ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Great American Transit Disaster

    A Century of Austerity, Auto-Centric Planning, and White Flight

    by Nicholas Dagen Bloom ...
    A potent re-examination of America's history of public disinvestment in mass transit."[An] extensively researched and expertly argued exploration of the demise of urban public transit in the United States. . . . Layered and multifaceted." ― Pacific Historical ReviewMany a scholar and policy analyst has lamented American dependence on cars and the corresponding lack of federal investment in public ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    How States Shaped Postwar America

    State Government and Urban Power

    by Nicholas Dagen Bloom ...
    Narrated by Auto-narrated ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 59 min

    The history of public policy in postwar America tends to fixate on developments at the national level, overlooking the crucial work done by individual states in the 1960s and ’70s. In this book, Nicholas Dagen Bloom demonstrates the significant and enduring impact of activist states in five areas: urban planning and redevelopment, mass transit and highways, higher education, subsidized housing, ... Read more

    $13.73 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • How States Shaped Postwar America

    State Government and Urban Power

    by Nicholas Dagen Bloom ...
    The history of public policy in postwar America tends to fixate on developments at the national level, overlooking the crucial work done by individual states in the 1960s and ’70s. In this book, Nicholas Dagen Bloom demonstrates the significant and enduring impact of activist states in five areas: urban planning and redevelopment, mass transit and highways, higher education, subsidized housing, ... Read more

    $41.79 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Audiobook

    Great American Transit Disaster, The

    A Century of Austerity, Auto-Centric Planning, and White Flight

    by Nicholas Dagen-Bloom ...
    Narrated by Auto-narrated ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 32 min

    A potent re-examination of America’s history of public disinvestment in mass transit.Many a scholar and policy analyst has lamented American dependence on cars and the corresponding lack of federal investment in public transportation throughout the latter decades of the twentieth century. But as Nicholas Dagen Bloom shows in The Great American Transit Disaster, our transit networks are so bad for ... Read more

    $13.73 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Public Housing That Worked

    New York in the Twentieth Century

    by Nicholas Dagen Bloom ...
    When it comes to large-scale public housing in the United States, the consensus for the past decades has been to let the wrecking balls fly. The demolition of infamous projects, such as Pruitt-Igoe in St. Louis and the towers of Cabrini-Green in Chicago, represents to most Americans the fate of all public housing. Yet one notable exception to this national tragedy remains. The New York City ... Read more

    $51.19 CAD

  • The Metropolitan Airport

    JFK International and Modern New York

    by Nicholas Dagen Bloom ...
    Series series American Business, Politics, and Society
    John F. Kennedy International Airport is one of New York City's most successful and influential redevelopment projects. Built and defined by outsize personalities—Mayor Fiorello La Guardia, famed urban planner Robert Moses, and Port Authority Executive Director Austin Tobin among them—JFK was fantastically expensive and unprecedented in its scale. By the late 1940s, once-polluted marshlands had ... Read more

    $47.19 CAD