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  • The Lost Promise

    American Universities in the 1960s

    The Lost Promise is a magisterial examination of the turmoil that rocked American universities in the 1960s, with a unique focus on the complex roles played by professors as well as students.The 1950s through the early 1970s are widely seen as American academia's golden age, when universities—well-funded and viewed as essential for national security, economic growth, and social mobility—embraced ... Leer más

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  • How Politics Makes Us Sick

    Neoliberal Epidemics

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Ted Schrecker and Clare Bambra argue that the obesity, insecurity, austerity and inequality that result from neoliberal (or 'market fundamentalist') policies are hazardous to our health, asserting that these neoliberal epidemics require a political cure. ... Leer más

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    American Inquisition

    The Era of McCarthyism

    Narrado por Ellen Schrecker ...

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    8 hora 11 minutos

    During the early years of the Cold War, the anticommunist witch hunt that we now call McCarthyism swept through American society. As we will discover, McCarthyism was much more than the career of the blustering senator from Wisconsin who gave it a name. It was the most widespread and longest-lasting episode of political repression in American history. Dozens of men and women went to prison, ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Right To Learn

    Resisting the Right-Wing Attack on Academic Freedom

    From leaders on the front lines of the battle for academic freedom in higher education, an empowering collection on fighting back against anti-CRT policies, book banning, and moreSpanning over 40 years of contested history through to today, The Right to Learn speaks out fearlessly against the far right’s decades-long war against intellectual freedom. This essential anthology outlines and ... Leer más

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  • The Lost Soul of Higher Education

    Corporatization, the Assault on Academic Freedom, and the End of the American University

    The professor and historian delivers a major critique of how political and financial attacks on the academy are undermining our system of higher education.Making a provocative foray into the public debates over higher education, acclaimed historian Ellen Schrecker argues that the American university is under attack from two fronts. On the one hand, outside pressure groups have staged massive ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Transatlantic Voyages and Sociology

    The Migration and Development of Ideas

    Edición de Cherry Schrecker ...
    Transatlantic Voyages and Sociology explores the transatlantic journeys which have inspired American and European sociologists and contributed to the development of sociology in Europe and in North America. Furthering our understanding of the very complex processes which affect the diffusion of ideas, it sheds light on the diverse influences which come into play, be they on an individual, ... Leer más

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  • The Ashgate Research Companion to the Globalization of Health

    Edición de Ted Schrecker ...
    Global health has emerged as a distinct field of academic research and professional activity. Over the last decade, health has become an important element of many nations' foreign policies, a routine agenda item for the G8 and a rapidly expanding focus of bilateral and multilateral development assistance. Some aspects of health, like the spread of easily transmitted communicable diseases, are self ... Leer más

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  • Globalization and Health

    Pathways, Evidence and Policy

    Series series Routledge Studies in Health and Social Welfare
    Contemporary globalization has had tremendous impact on health equity across the globe. However, no volume has systematically analyzed the relationship between globalization and global trends in health outcomes. This book consolidates and updates the findings of a global research project undertaken by the Globalisation Knowledge Network (GKN) of the World Health Organization’s Commission on Social ... Leer más

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  • Mrs. Chiang's Szechwan Cookbook

    When published in 1976, Mrs. Chiang's Szechwan Cookbook was the first authentic Szechwan cookbook to appear in the United States. The book was the result of Ellen and John Schrecker studying Chinese culture in Taiwan, during which they met Mrs. Chiang Jung-feng, a superb Chinese Szechwan cook. The tastes and textures of her dishes were always clear and bright. She was a master of the zhen wer or ... Leer más

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  • How Politics Makes Us Sick

    Neoliberal Epidemics

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book makes a powerful case that neoliberalism, the dominant economic and social policy paradigm of the post-1980 world, is hazardous to our health. It describes the destructive effects on health and health inequalities of neoliberal policies including labour market deregulation, welfare state retrenchment, and austerity, drawing on cross-national examples particularly from the United States ... Leer más

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    The Lost Promise

    American Universities in the 1960s

    Narrado por Janet Metzger ...

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    19 hora 37 minutos

    The 1950s through the early 1970s are widely seen as American academia's golden age, when universities—well funded and viewed as essential for national security, economic growth, and social mobility—embraced an egalitarian mission. Swelling in size, schools attracted new types of students and professors, including radicals who challenged their institutions' calcified traditions. But that halcyon ... Leer más

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  • Widows' Words

    Women Write on the Experience of Grief, the First Year, the Long Haul, and Everything in Between

    Becoming a widow is one of the most traumatic life events that a woman can experience. Yet, as this remarkable new collection reveals, each woman responds to that trauma differently. Here, forty-three widows tell their stories, in their own words.Some were widowed young, while others were married for decades. Some cared for their late partners through long terminal illnesses, while others lost ... Leer más

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