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American Higher Education in Crisis?: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Goldie Blumenstyk · Oxford University Press, USA
Pages: 198
Format: Paperback
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American higher education is at a crossroads. Technological innovations and disruptive market forces are buffeting colleges and universities at the very time their financial structure grows increasingly fragile. Disinvestment by states has driven up tuition prices at public colleges, and student... |
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Cut Adrift: Families in Insecure Times
Marianne Cooper · University of California Press
Pages: 296
Format: Print book
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Cut Adrift makes an important and original contribution to the national conversation about inequality and risk in American society. Set against the backdrop of rising economic insecurity and rolled-up safety nets, Marianne Cooper's probing analysis explores what keeps Americans up at night.... |
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Looking behind the Label: Global Industries and the Conscientious Consumer
Tim Bartley · Indiana University Press
Format: Hardcover
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What does it mean when consumers shop with a conscience and choose products labeled as fair or sustainable? Does this translate into meaningful changes in global production processes? To what extent are voluntary standards implemented and enforced, and can they really govern global industries?... |
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Library Service Design: A LITA Guide to Holistic Assessment, Insight, and Improvement
Joe Marquez · Rowman & Littlefield
Pages: 156
Format: Print book
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Service design is a holistic, co-creative, and user-centered approach to understanding user behavior for creating or refining services. Use this LITA Guide to help as a toolkit for implementing service design studies and projects at all types of libraries. It begins with directions for how to create... |
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The Year of Voting Dangerously The Derangement of American Politics
Maureen Dowd · Twelve
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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Maureen Dowd's incendiary takes and takedowns from 2016--the most bizarre, disruptive and divisive Presidential race in modern history. Trapped between two candidates with the highest recorded unfavorables, Americans are plunged into The Year of Voting Dangerously. In this perilous and shocking... |
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A Legal Guide for Lesbian & Gay Couples
Frederick Hertz · NOLO; Seventeenth Edition edition
Format: Paperback
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Laws affecting LGBT couples are changing rapidly, and while its an exciting time for all gay and lesbian partners, keeping up with the myriad ways the shifting legal landscape touches your family life can be daunting. Now more than ever, its important that you take the proper legal steps... |
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Unprecedented: The Election That Changed Everything
Thomas Lake · Melcher Media
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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Unprecedented's second printing features a new cover for the inauguration, with an exclusive portrait of the president-elect.Packed with exclusive photojournalism and new revelations straight from the front lines, Unprecedented: The Election That Changed Everything chronicles the most hard-... |
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Trouble in the Tribe: The American Jewish Conflict over Israel
Dov Waxman · Princeton University Press
Pages: 328
Format: Print book
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Trouble in the Tribe explores the increasingly contentious place of Israel in the American Jewish community. In a fundamental shift, growing numbers of American Jews have become less willing to unquestioningly support Israel and more willing to publicly criticize its government. More than... |
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Kingdom of Olives and Ash: Writers Confront the Occupation
Michael Chabon · Harper Perennial
Pages: 448
Format: Paperback
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A groundbreaking collection of essays by celebrated international writers bears witness to the human cost of fifty years of Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. In Kingdom of Olives and Ash, Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman, two of today's most renowned novelists and essayists,... |
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Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama
DAVID GARROW · William Morrow
Pages: 1472
Format: Hardcover
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As epic in vision and rigorous in detail as Robert Caro's The Years of Lyndon Johnson series, the definitive account of Barack Obama's life before he became the 44th president of the United States - the formative years, confluence of forces, and influential figures who helped shaped an extraordinary... |
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Michelle Obama: A Photographic Journey
INC STERLING PUBLISHING CO · Sterling
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
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A stunning pictorial celebration of one of the most beloved First Ladies of our time: Michelle Obama. With 140 photographs, inspiring quotes, and excerpts from five historic speeches, this gorgeous volume pays tribute to Michelle Obama. Although it primarily focuses on 2007 to 2016, the book... |
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