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  • Phoenix Warriors

    Rising from the Ashes of Domestic Violence

    by Angels of Love, PEREZ RODRIGUEZ ...
    Phoenix Warriors: Rising From the Ashes of Domestic ViolenceStories of Courage, Survival, and the Unbreakable Spirit of Those Who Refused to Be SilencedPhoenix Warriors is a powerful compilation of true stories from survivors of domestic violence who refused to let abuse define them. Written with unflinching honesty, each account reveals the journey from fear and isolation to strength, freedom, ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Contingent Faculty and the Remaking of Higher Education

    A Labor History

    by Eric Fure-Slocum, Claire Goldstene, Gary Rhoades, Elizabeth Hohl, Elizabeth Tandy Shermer, Joe Berry, Helena Worthen, Gwendolyn Alker, Sue Doe0, Steven Shulman1, Aimee Loiselle2, Claire Raymond3, Diane Angell4, Miguel Juarez5, Erin Hatton6, Maria C Maisto7, Anne Wiegard8, William A Herbert9, Joseph van der Naald0, Jeff Schuhrke1, Anne McLeer2, Trevor Griffey3, Steven Parfitt4, Naomi R Williams5, Jiyoon Park6 ...
    Series series Working Class in American History
    An educational crisis from its origins to present-day experiencesIn the United States today, almost three-quarters of the people teaching in two- and four-year colleges and universities work as contingent faculty. They share the hardships endemic in the gig economy: lack of job security and health care, professional disrespect, and poverty wages that require them to juggle multiple jobs.This ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Goodbye, Mexico

    Poems of Remembrance

    by Sarah Cortez, Paul David Adkins, Diane Anhalt, Jose Angel Araguz, Jack B. Bedell, Diane Gonzales Bertrand, Alan Birkelbach, David Bowels, Jerry Bradley, Augustin Caden0, Abigail Carl-Klassen1, Sherry Craven2, Carolyn Dahl3, Jim Daniels4, Margo Davis5, Martin Espada6, Maureen Tolman Flannery7, Christa Forster8, James Hoggard9, Ann Howells0, Elizabeth Humber1, Lois P. Jones2, Kate Kingston3, AM Krohn4, Peter Ludwin5, Tony Mares6, Paul Mariani7, Kathleen Markowitz8, C.M. Mayo9, Janet McCann0, Celeste Guzman Mendoza1, karla k. morton2, Erin O'Luanaigh3, Carol C. Reposa4, Alberto Rios5, Jan Seale6, Martha Serpas7, Seth Strickland8, Loueva Smith9, Sandi Stromberg0, Melissa Studdard1, Larry D. Thomas2, C. Derick Varn3, Randall Watson4, Germaine Welch5, Patrick Allen Wright6, Rebecca Young Eunn Yook7 ...
    This anthology gathers the strong voices of accomplished poets reaching into and beyond nostalgia to remember, to honor, and to document through figurative imagery their experiences of Mexico and the vibrant border areas before the ravages of narco-violence.Locals Listen to the Mariachi Band at El Jardin in San MiguelYou see their silhouettes along the stone wallor arm in arm below the glow of ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

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  • The Fall of the Faculty:The Rise of the All-Administrative University and Why It Matters

    by Benjamin Ginsberg ...
    Until very recently, American universities were led mainly by their faculties, which viewed intellectual production and pedagogy as the core missions of higher education. Today, as Benjamin Ginsberg warns in this eye-opening, controversial book, "deanlets"--administrators and staffers often without serious academic backgrounds or experience--are setting the educational agenda. The Fall of the ... Read more

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  • The Cult of Efficiency

    by Janice Gross Stein ...
    Series series The CBC Massey Lectures
    We live in an age dominated by the cult of efficiency. Efficiency in the raging debate about public goods is often used as a code word to advance political agendas. When it is used correctly, efficiency is important: it must always be part of the conversation when resources are scarce and citizens and governments have important choices to make among competing priorities.Even when the language of ... Read more

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  • Equal Is Unfair

    America's Misguided Fight Against Income Inequality

    by Don Watkins, Yaron Brook ...
    "Shows that government intervention in all areas of our lives—not income inequality—is what's really threatening the American Dream." —Mallory Factor, New York Times–bestselling author of ShadowbossesWe've all heard that the American Dream is vanishing, and that the cause is rising income inequality. The rich are getting richer by rigging the system in their favor, leaving the rest of us to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Public Administration

    Key Issues Challenging Practitioners

    by Michael Anthony Tarallo ...
    How public affairs are run depends upon the degree of authority and control central government decides to relinquish to regional and local governments, and the extent to which it favors citizen involvement in the governing process. Public administrators do not operate in a vacuum. The context within which decision-making takes place greatly influences public administrators approach to public ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Corporatizing Canada

    Making Business Out of Public Service

    by Jamie Brownlee, Chris Hurl, Kevin Walby ...
    From schools to hospitals, from utilities to food banks, over the past thirty years corporatization has transformed the public sector in Canada. Economic elites take control of public institutions and use business metrics to evaluate their performance, transforming public programs into corporate revenue streams.Senior managers use corporate methodology to set priorities in social services and ... Read more

    $24.49 USD

  • Philanthropy in Democratic Societies

    History, Institutions, Values

    Edited by Rob Reich, Chiara Cordelli, Lucy Bernholz ...
    Philanthropy is everywhere. In 2013, in the United States alone, some $330 billion was recorded in giving, from large donations by the wealthy all the way down to informal giving circles. We tend to think of philanthropy as unequivocally good, but as the contributors to this book show, philanthropy is also an exercise of power. And like all forms of power, especially in a democratic society, it ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Understanding Canadian Public Administration

    An Introduction to Theory and Practice, Fifth Edition

    by Gregory J. Inwood ...
    Understanding Canadian Public Administration introduces students to both the theory and the practice of public administration in Canada. It surveys the basic elements of the field in a historical context, but with close attention to contemporary issues and developments, to emphasize the real, day-to-day impacts of public administration.The text provides an overview of the field in the context of ... Read more

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  • Academia, Inc.

    How Corporatization Is Transforming Canadian Universities

    by Jamie Brownlee ...
    Canadian universities are being slowly but inexorably corporatized. Casualizing academic labour, remaking students into consumers of education, implementing corporate management models and commercializing academic research all point to the ascendance of business interests and values in Canada’s higher education system.Academia, Inc. examines the tensions that result from the merging of two ... Read more

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  • The Faculty Lounges

    And Other Reasons Why You Won't Get the College Education You Pay For

    by Naomi Schaefer Riley ...
    Veteran journalist Naomi Shaefer Riley contends that tenure—the jobs-for-life entitlement that comes with a university position—is at the heart of so many problems with higher education today. She explores how tenure—with the job security, mediocre salaries, and low levels of accountability it entails—may be attracting the least innovative and interesting members of our society into teaching. ... Read more

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