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  • Remembering the Road to World War Two

    International History, National Identity, Collective Memory

    by Patrick Finney ...
    ‘This is comparative history on a grand scale, skilfully analysing complex national debates and drawing major conclusions without ever losing the necessary nuances of interpretation.’Stefan Berger, University of Manchester, UKRemembering the Road to World War Two is a broad and comparative international survey of the historiography of the origins of the Second World War. It explores how, in the ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Authenticity

    Reading, Remembering, Performing

    Edited by Patrick Finney ...
    The pursuit of authenticity is a contemporary obsession. From hipster fixations on artisan coffee and vintage clothing through to the electoral success of supposedly unspun populist politicians like Donald Trump, a yearning for the real pervades our culture. Yet while highly prized and desired, authenticity is also profoundly elusive and contested. This volume stages a wide-ranging ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Remembering the Second World War

    Edited by Patrick Finney ...
    Series series Remembering the Modern World
    Remembering the Second World War brings together an international and interdisciplinary cast of leading scholars to explore the remembrance of this conflict on a global scale. Conceptually, it is premised on the need to challenge nation-centric approaches in memory studies, drawing strength from recent transcultural, affective and multidirectional turns.Divided into four thematic parts, this book ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Her Blood Runs Cold

    Casefile: ARKHAM, #2

    by J.Ishiro Finney, Patrick McEvoy ...
    Series Book 2 - Casefile: ARKHAM
    Detective Hank Flynn returns for another case that will lead him into the darkest corners of Lovecraft's most cursed city—Arkham, Massachusetts. When an old friend shows up at Flynn's office waving a gun and rambling about "the Abyss of the Shoggoths," the detective is pulled into a case of love, revenge, and an elite family's generational feud—one which just so happen to have interbred with the ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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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    How to Restore the American Dream

    by Michael S. Barr, Jared Bernstein, Anita Brown-Graham, Carol Mendez Cassell, Martin Eakes, Michael Ferber, Richard B. Freeman, Jacob S. Hacker, Harry J. Holzer, Jack F. Kemp, Sara McLanahan, Ronald B. Mincy, Katherine S. Newman, Melvin L. Oliver, Peter Orszag, Dennis K. Orthner, Hillard Pouncy, Hugh B. Price, John Karl Scholz, Ruston Seaman, Thomas M. Shapiro, Michael Sherraden, David K. Shipler, Beth Shulman, David Spickard, Michael A. Stegman, Elizabeth Warren, William Julius Wilson ...
    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

    $25.99 USD

  • 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 ...
    The global financial crisis and recession have placed great strains on the free market ideology that has emphasized economic objectives and unregulated markets. The balance of economic and noneconomic goals is under the microscope in every sector of the economy. It is time to re-think the objectives of the employment relationship and the underlying assumptions of how that relationship operates ... Read more

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