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    The Research Handbook on Decent Work in a Post-COVID-19 World is an essential read, assessing prospects for employment, labour standards and the organisation of work in the wake of the pandemic. Contributing authors cover key developments and challenges in the field, from low pay to social protection.This Research Handbook investigates topics that have become more prominent since the COVID-19 ... Read more

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  • Getting Health Reform Right

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    This book provides a multi-disciplinary framework for developing and analyzing health sector reforms, based on the authors' extensive international experience. It offers practical guidance - useful to policymakers, consultants, academics, and students alike - and stresses the need to take account of each country's economic, administrative, and political circumstances. The authors explain how to ... Read more

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  • Routledge Handbook of Sport and Soft Power

    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    This is the first book to fully examine – in depth and breadth – the topic of sport as soft power.With nation states increasingly realising the potential of sport as a geopolitical tool, and with sporting organisations becoming increasingly visible and influential as political actors on the global stage, this book explores the international politics of sport and the geopolitical trends that are ... Read more

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    Corporate State, The

    by Charles Reich ...
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    Unabridged

    1 hour 49 min

    The philosopher/author of The Greening of America and Sorcerer of Bolinas Reef reveals the essence and the dangers of the megalithic corporate conglomerate. An especially relevant conversation for our time. ... Read more

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  • Island of Dreams

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    Island of Dreams: Environmental Crisis in Japan, the classic work that explores Japan's tragic environmental crisis, is back in print to celebrate the book's Fiftieth Anniversary since it was first published in 1975. This edition includes a new preface by the authors to show the relevance of Japan's past experiences with environmental pollution to today's global crisis.The book describes the human ... Read more

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  • Routledge Handbook of Sport in the Middle East

    This Handbook provides a succinct overview of sport in the Middle East, drawing in scholars from a wide variety of geographical and disciplinary backgrounds (history, politics, sociology, economics and regional studies), with different methodological approaches, to create the ‘go-to’ text on the subject.After the introduction, 33 chapters from leading subject experts cover areas including history, ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • When Mandates Work

    Raising Labor Standards at the Local Level

    Starting in the 1990s, San Francisco launched a series of bold but relatively unknown public policy experiments to improve wages and benefits for thousands of local workers. Since then, scholars have documented the effects of those policies on compensation, productivity, job creation, and health coverage. Opponents predicted a range of negative impacts, but the evidence tells a decidedly different ... Read more

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  • Labor in the Era of Globalization

    The third quarter of the twentieth century was a golden age for labor in the advanced industrial countries, characterized by rising incomes, relatively egalitarian wage structures, and reasonable levels of job security. The subsequent quarter-century has seen less positive performance along a number of these dimensions. This period has instead been marked by rapid globalization of economic ... Read more

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  • Medical Education in East Asia

    Past and Future

    Series series China Medical Board Centennial Series
    Pivotal to Asia's future will be the robustness of its medical universities. Lessons learned in the past and the challenges facing these schools in the future are outlined in this collection, which offers valuable insights for other medical education systems as well. The populations in these rapidly growing countries rely on healthcare systems that can vigorously respond to the concerns of ... Read more

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    Failure to Disrupt

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    Unabridged

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    Proponents of large-scale learning have boldly promised that technology can disrupt traditional approaches to schooling, radically accelerating learning and democratizing education. Much-publicized experiments, often underwritten by Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, have been launched at elite universities and in elementary schools in the poorest neighborhoods. Such was the excitement that, in 2012, ... Read more

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    Tourists, The

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    From the New York Times bestselling author of Matterhorn comes a heart-stopping thriller about a man who returns to a life of espionage to save the woman he loves and the City of Light.Retired special agent Mac Dekker travels to Paris to propose to Ava Attal, once Mossad’s deadliest operative. After too long, life is good. But before he can propose, Ava leaves the table to take an urgent call. And ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

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    Once a Thief

    Narrated by Paul Michael ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 5 min

    Facing enemies at every turn, private spy Simon Riske dashes across Europe to find the truth behind a mysterious investor in this high-stakes international espionage series: "comparison to the Bond novels is apt in many ways." (Booklist)Simon Riske sits in sun-dappled Napa Valley, toasting the record hundred-million-dollar sale of a rare 1963 Ferrari which he restored himself. The buyer, a ... Read more

    $27.99 USD