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  • Profession 2013

    by Michael Brub, Joshua A. Boldt, Beth Landers, Maria Maisto, Robert Samuels, Ifeoma Kiddoe Nwankwo, Richard T. Rodriguez, Frances R. Aparicio, Robert Warrior, Dana A. Williams, Doug Steward, Stephanie L. Kerschbaum, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Sushil K. Oswal, Amy Vidali, Susan Ghiaciuc, Margaret Price, Jay Dolmage, Craig A. Meyer, Brenda Jo Brueggemann, Ellen Samuels, Rogelio Miana, Joseph R. Urgo, Julia M. Wright ...
    This issue of Profession contains Michael Bérubé’s introduction to his Presidential Forum, Avenues of Access, which was held at the 2013 MLA convention, and the essays of the forum participants: Joshua A. Boldt, Beth Landers, Maria Maisto, and Robert Samuels. The issue also features a section on a statistical study documenting the participation of people of color in humanities doctoral ... Read more

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  • 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

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    Robinson Crusoe is a novel by Daniel Defoe. This first edition credited the work's fictional protagonist Robinson Crusoe as its author, leading many readers to believe he was a real person and the book a travelogue of true incidents. Epistolary, confessional, and didactic in form, the book is a fictional autobiography of the title character—a castaway who spends years on a remote tropical island ... Read more

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  • Lost and Found Groom (A Place Called Home Book 1)

    by Patricia McLinn ...
    Series Book 1 - A Place Called Home
    ❤ A stranger rescues her, but disappears when she needs him most because she’s carrying his baby. Until he knocks on her door, years later and half a world away... ❤Journalist Kendra Jenner chases the biggest story of her career – to find the truth behind a mysterious outlaw figure who defies danger to help the neediest caught in conflict in Santa Estella.On assignment on the distant island to be ... Read more

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  • Out of Time: A Time Travel Mystery

    (Out of Time #1)

    by Monique Martin ...
    Series Book 1 - Out of Time
    Book one in an exciting time travel series...Professor Simon Cross has spent his life searching for evidence of vampires and avoiding emotional entanglements. When a mysterious accident transports Simon and his assistant, Elizabeth West, back in time, Simon finally finds both the proof that he's been looking for, and the romance that he hasn't.Simon and Elizabeth's developing relationship is ... Read more

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  • Heller Brothers Hockey — A Five Book Hockey Romance Collection

    by Kelly Jamieson ...
    Series series Heller Brothers Hockey
    USA TODAY BESTELLING series in one boxed set!These brothers play the game…but the women know the score…Included in this collection are:Breakaway (Jase)Faceoff (Tag)One Man Advantage (Logan)Hat Trick – The Hellers are Home for the HolidaysOffside (Matt) ... Read more

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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

    $35.09 USD

  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • Philanthropy in Democratic Societies

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    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

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