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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “james robert baker”
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  • Boy Wonder

    by James Robert Baker ...
    Told in the form of interviews with those who knew and hated him, this hilarious and irreverent mockumentary recounts the rise and fall of notorious Hollywood producer Shark Trager. As a young man, Shark had dreams of directing artistic movies, but when his film school project is savaged by a snobby French critic, Shark turns instead to producing exploitative trash, the more shocking and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • How College Presidents Succeed

    Lessons in Leadership from Three Generations of Reveleys

    by Michael Nelson, James A. Baker ...
    Leadership lessons in higher education and what they can teach us about leadership in all walks of lifeIn an era when college presidents serve for on average fewer than six years—leaving out of personal ambition for a next post or being forced to leave under fire—there is an inspirational counterexample of leaders dedicated to the long-term success of their institutions. This book weaves together ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Contextualizing Security

    A Reader

    by James McRae, Mark Boulton, Judge James E. Baker, Robert E. Burnett, Anna Holyan, Kristan Stoddart, Jeremy B. Straughn, Lisa C. Fein, Amelia Ayers, Kali Wright-Smith, Naji Bsisu, Laila Farooq, Amanda Murdie, Daniel Egbe, J. R. Swanegan, David L. McDermott ...
    Series Book 33 - Studies in Security and International Affairs
    Security studies, also known as international security studies, is an academic subfield within the wider discipline of international relations that examines organized violence, military conflict, and national security. Meant to serve as an introduction to the field of security studies, Contextualizing Security is a collection of original essays, primary source lectures, and previously published ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

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  • The Teacher Wars

    A History of America's Most Embattled Profession

    by Dana Goldstein ...
    In her groundbreaking history of 175 years of American education, Dana Goldstein finds answers in the past to the controversies that plague our public schools today.Teaching is a wildly contentious profession in America, one attacked and admired in equal measure. In The Teacher Wars, a rich, lively, and unprecedented history of public school teaching, Dana Goldstein reveals that teachers have been ... Read more

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  • How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything

    Tales from the Pentagon

    by Rosa Brooks ...
    “A dynamic work of reportage” (The New York Times) written “with clarity and...wit” (The New York Times Book Review) about what happens when the ancient boundary between war and peace is erased.Once, war was a temporary state of affairs. Today, America’s wars are everywhere and forever: our enemies change constantly and rarely wear uniforms, and virtually anything can become a weapon. As war ... Read more

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  • Democracy in Black

    How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul

    by Eddie S. Glaude Jr. ...
    A powerful polemic on the state of black America that savages the idea of a post-racial society.America’s great promise of equality has always rung hollow in the ears of African Americans. But today the situation has grown even more dire. From the murders of black youth by the police, to the dismantling of the Voting Rights Act, to the disaster visited upon poor and middle-class black families by ... Read more

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  • The Age of Unpeace

    How Connectivity Causes Conflict

    by Mark Leonard ...
    A FINANCIAL TIMES ECONOMICS BOOK OF THE YEAR'Compulsively readable... An essential course in geopolitical self-help' - Adam Tooze'Full of fresh - and often surprising - ideas' - Niall Ferguson'Extraordinary... One of those rare books that defines the terms of our conversation about our times' - Michael IgnatieffWe thought connecting the world would bring lasting peace. Inste... ... Read more

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  • The Price of Admission (Updated Edition)

    How America's Ruling Class Buys Its Way into Elite Colleges--and Who Gets Left Outside the Gates

    by Daniel Golden ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “A fire-breathing, righteous attack on the culture of superprivilege.”—Michael Wolff, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Fire and Fury, in the New York Times Book ReviewNOW WITH NEW REPORTING ON OPERATION VARSITY BLUESIn this explosive and prescient book, based on three years of investigative reporting, Pulitzer Prize winner Daniel Golden shatters the myth of an Ameri ... Read more

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  • Higher Education?

    How Colleges Are Wasting Our Money and Failing Our Kids—and What We Can Do About It

    by Andrew Hacker, Claudia Dreifus ...
    What's gone wrong at our colleges and universities—and how to get American higher education back on trackA quarter of a million dollars. It's the going tab for four years at most top-tier universities. Why does it cost so much and is it worth it?Renowned sociologist Andrew Hacker and New York Times writer Claudia Dreifus make an incisive case that the American way of higher education, now a $420 ... Read more

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  • Collective Courage

    A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice

    by Jessica Gordon Nembhard ...
    In Collective Courage, Jessica Gordon Nembhard chronicles African American cooperative business ownership and its place in the movements for Black civil rights and economic equality. Not since W. E. B. Du Bois’s 1907 Economic Co-operation Among Negro Americans has there been a full-length, nationwide study of African American cooperatives. Collective Courage extends that story into the twenty ... Read more

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    by Marcus Gilroy-Ware ...
    Why do we no longer trust facts, experts and statistics? In this essential guide to the turbulent times in which we live, Marcus Gilroy-Ware investigates our era of post-truths and fake news and answers the question of where we can go from here.We are supposed to have more information at our disposal now than at any time in history. So why, in a world of rising sea levels, populist leaders, ... Read more

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