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  • Death in Dublin During the Era of James Joyce’s Ulysses

    by Patrick Callan ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Cultural History
    The funeral of Paddy Dignam in James Joyce’s Ulysses serves as the pivotal event of the ‘Hades’ episode. This volume explores how Dignam’s interment in Glasnevin Cemetery allowed Joyce the freedom to consider the conventions, rituals and superstitions associated with death and burial in Dublin.Integrating the words and characters of Ulysses with its figurative locale, the book looks at the ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • The Attainment Agenda

    State Policy Leadership in Higher Education

    by Laura W. Perna, Joni E. Finney ...
    How state leadership determines effective higher education attainment.Although the federal government invests substantial resources into student financial aid, states have the primary responsibility for policies that raise overall higher educational attainment and improve equity across groups. The importance of understanding how states may accomplish these goals has never been greater, as ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • Financing American Higher Education in the Era of Globalization

    by William Zumeta, David W. Breneman, Patrick M. Callan, Joni E. Finney ...
    This ambitious book grows out of the realization that a convergence of economic, demographic, and political forces in the early twenty-first century requires a fundamental reexamination of the financing of American higher education.The authors identify and address basic issues and trends that cut across the sectors of higher education, focusing on such questions as how much higher education the ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

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    An " engrossing collection of rigorously researched articles" from Elizabeth Warren, Jared Bernstein, William Julius Wilson, and more ( Publishers Weekly).Can the wealthiest nation in the world do anything to combat the steadily rising numbers of Americans living in poverty—or the tens of millions of Americans living in "near poverty"? In this book, some of the country's most prominent scholars, ... Read more

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  • Advancing Equity Planning Now

    Edited by Norman Krumholz, Kathryn Wertheim Hexter ...
    What can planners do to restore equity to their craft? Drawing upon the perspectives of a diverse group of planning experts, Advancing Equity Planning Now places the concepts of fairness and equal access squarely in the center of planning research and practice. Editors Norman Krumholz and Kathryn Wertheim Hexter provide essential resources for city leaders and planners, as well as for students and ... Read more

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  • Good Enough for Government Work

    The Public Reputation Crisis in America (And What We Can Do to Fix It)

    by Amy E. Lerman ...
    American government is in the midst of a reputation crisis. An overwhelming majority of citizens—Republicans and Democrats alike—hold negative perceptions of the government and believe it is wasteful, inefficient, and doing a generally poor job managing public programs and providing public services. When social problems arise, Americans are therefore skeptical that the government has the ability ... Read more

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  • The States and Public Higher Education Policy

    Affordability, Access, and Accountability

    Edited by Donald E. Heller ...
    Affordability, access, and accountability have long been among the central challenges facing higher education—and they remain so today. Here, Donald E. Heller and other higher education scholars and practitioners explore the current debates surrounding these key issues.As students and their families struggle to meet rising tuition prices, and as state funding for higher education dwindles, ... Read more

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  • What Do Unions Do?

    A Twenty-year Perspective

    by James T. Bennett, Bruce E. Kaufman ...
    One of the best-known and most-quoted books ever written on labor unions is What Do Unions Do? by Richard Freeman and James Medoff. Published in 1984, the book proved to be a landmark because it provided the most comprehensive and statistically sophisticated empirical portrait of the economic and socio-political effects of unions, and a provocative conclusion that unions are on balance beneficial ... Read more

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  • Invisible Hands, Invisible Objectives

    Bringing Workplace Law and Public Policy Into Focus

    by Stephen F. Befort, John W. Budd ...
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  • Organizing for Community Controlled Development

    Renewing Civil Society

    by Patricia Watkins Murphy, James V. Cunningham ...
    "It is a worthy book, with probably the best collection of resources anywhere for those trying to combine organizing and development."--SHELTERFORCE MAGAZINEOrganizing for Community Controlled Development is about renewing and revitalizing local living places through shared grassroots work focused on stimulating racial unity, civic vigor, and economic fairness. It proposes a detailed model for ... Read more

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  • The Causes of Structural Unemployment

    Four Factors that Keep People from the Jobs they Deserve

    by Thomas Janoski, David Luke, Christopher Oliver ...
    Series series Work & Society
    There is a specter haunting advanced industrial countries: structural unemployment. Recent years have seen growing concern over declining jobs, and though corporate profits have picked up after the Great Recession of 2008, jobs have not. It is possible that “jobless recoveries” could become a permanent feature of Western economies.This illuminating book focuses on the employment futures of ... Read more

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  • Reforms at Risk

    What Happens After Major Policy Changes Are Enacted

    by Eric M. Patashnik ...
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    "A fascinating account of why some general-interest policy reforms stick and others fall apart . . . This is political science at its best." —Julian Zelizer, Princeton UniversityWinner of the Louis Brownlow Book Award, National Academy of Public AdministrationReforms at Risk is the first book to closely examine what happens to sweeping and seemingly successful policy reforms after they are passed. ... Read more

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