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  • The Gee Years, 2007–2013

    by Herbert B. Asher ...
    The Gee Years, 2007–2013 chronicles E. Gordon Gee’s second tenure as president of The Ohio State University and the fourteenth in the university’s history. With previous posts at Vanderbilt, Brown, Colorado, West Virginia, and a previous term at Ohio State, Gee is the longest continually serving college president in the country. His second tenure with Ohio State boasted overall fundraising at ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • American Labor Unions in the Electoral Arena

    by Herbert B. Asher, Eric S. Heberlig, Randall B. Ripley, Karen Snyder ...
    Series series People, Passions, and Power: Social Movements, Interest Organizations, and the P
    Are contemporary U.S. labor unions irrelevant, or in fact a changing force to be reckoned with as they grow into a new economy in a globalized America? Is the current political power exercised by U.S. labor unions more akin to the social movements of the sixties or the interest politics of the nineties? After winning the presidency of the AFL-CIO in 1995, John Sweeney and his colleagues have taken ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD

  • Polling and the Public

    What Every Citizen Should Know

    by Herbert Asher ...
    Polling and the Public helps readers become savvy consumers of public opinion polls, offering solid grounding on how the media cover them, their use in campaigns and elections, and their interpretation. This trusted, brief guide by Herb Asher also provides a non-technical explanation of the methodology of polling so that students become informed participants in political discourse. Fully updated ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Causal Modeling

    by Herbert Asher ...
    Series series Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences
    Retains complete coverage of the first edition, while amplifying key areas such as direct/indirect effects, standardized/unstandardized variables, multicollinie-arity, and nonrecursive modeling. ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • Chronic Heart Failure

    I. Quality of Life II. Nitrate Therapy

    Edited by Herbert Viefhues, Wolfgang Schoene, R. Rychlik, Asher Kimchi, Basil S. Lewis, Marija Weiss ...
    A. Schneeweiss Although the syndrome of congestive heart failure has been recognized many years ago, the approach for its evaluation and treatment has until recently, been partial and 'fragmentary'. Various aspects of the disease have been treated according to the evaluation tools and therapeutic measures available at each period. This approach resulted in some of the greatest achievements in the ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

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  • Winner-Take-All Politics

    How Washington Made the Rich Richer--and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class

    by Jacob S. Hacker, Paul Pierson ...
    A groundbreaking work that identifies the real culprit behind one of the great economic crimes of our time— the growing inequality of incomes between the vast majority of Americans and the richest of the rich.We all know that the very rich have gotten a lot richer these past few decades while most Americans haven’t. In fact, the exorbitantly paid have continued to thrive during the current ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

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  • So Rich, So Poor

    Why It's so Hard to End Poverty in America

    by Peter Edelman ...
    "A competent, thorough assessment from a veteran expert in the field." — Kirkus ReviewsIncome disparities in our wealthy nation are wider than at any point since the Great Depression. The structure of today's economy has stultified wage growth for half of America's workers—with even worse results at the bottom and for people of color—while bestowing billions on the few at the very top.In this ... Read more

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  • "They're Bankrupting Us!"

    And 20 Other Myths about Unions

    by Bill Fletcher, Jr. ...
    Series Book 2 - Myths Made in America
    From Wisconsin to Washington, DC, the claims are made: unions are responsible for budget deficits, and their members are overpaid and enjoy cushy benefits. The only way to save the American economy, pundits claim, is to weaken the labor movement, strip workers of collective bargaining rights, and champion private industry. In "They're Bankrupting Us!": And 20 Other Myths about Unions, labor leader ... Read more

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  • Democracy in America?

    What Has Gone Wrong and What We Can Do About It

    by Benjamin I. Page, Martin Gilens ...
    "Important and riveting . . . The solution isn't to redistribute wealth from the have-mores to the have-lesses. It's to redistribute political power to everyone." —Robert B. ReichAmerica faces daunting problems—stagnant wages, high health care costs, neglected schools, deteriorating public services. How did we get here? Through decades of dysfunctional government. In Democracy in America? veteran ... Read more

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  • The Limits of Party

    Congress and Lawmaking in a Polarized Era

    by James M. Curry, Frances E. Lee ...
    Series series Chicago Studies in American Politics
    To many observers, Congress has become a deeply partisan institution where ideologically-distinct political parties do little more than engage in legislative trench warfare. A zero-sum, winner-take-all approach to congressional politics has replaced the bipartisan comity of past eras. If the parties cannot get everything they want in national policymaking, then they prefer gridlock and stalemate ... Read more

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  • Hell to Pay

    How the Suppression of Wages Is Destroying America

    by Michael Lind ...
    From one of America’s leading thinkers, a provocative diagnosis of the cause of America’s decline—and a searing indictment of those who caused itFor nearly half a century, Americans have been bombarded by neoliberal propaganda promoting the lie that wages are objectively determined by impersonal labor markets. This falsehood has been repeated by academics, journalists, business leaders, and ... Read more

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  • The Development Dance

    How Donors and Recipients Negotiate the Delivery of Foreign Aid

    by Haley J. Swedlund ...
    In a book full of directly applicable lessons for policymakers, Haley J. Swedlund explores why foreign aid is delivered in different ways at different times, and why various approaches prove to be politically unsustainable. She finds that no aid-delivery mechanism has yet resolved commitment problems in the donor-recipient relationship; bargaining compromises break down and have to be renegotiated ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD