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The Public Administration Casebook
This book is designed to serve either as a companion to current introductory public administration textbooks or as a stand-alone casebook. It presents several case studies around several main themes or topics of public administration, including leadership, budgeting, ethics, and decision making.
The Mindful College Applicant
In a time when crossing guards are posted to prevent high schoolers from jumping in front of trains and parents shelling out $100K for packaged college applications, education has become a mad race to grab the Ivy ring. Based on experience in admissions with the Ivy League and other highly competitive universities, emerging scientific evidence on the impact of emotional intelligence and mindfulness, and discussions with admissions officers, students, families, and high school counselors, this book is a guide on how to go through the existing, however brutish, college applications process with less stress and anxiety, and more joy and mindfulness. Equipped with the powerful tools of emotional...
Democracy’s Discontent
A renowned political philosopher updates his classic book on the American political tradition to address the perils democracy confronts today. The 1990s were a heady time. The Cold War had ended, and America’s version of liberal capitalism seemed triumphant. And yet, amid the peace and prosperity, anxieties about the project of self-government could be glimpsed beneath the surface. So argued Michael Sandel, in his influential and widely debated book Democracy’s Discontent, published in 1996. The market faith was eroding the common life. A rising sense of disempowerment was likely to provoke backlash, he wrote, from those who would “shore up borders, harden the distinction between insid...
The Abundant University
Why our current system of higher education is financially and morally unsustainable and how to address the crisis with the creative implementation of digital technologies. For too long, our system of higher education has been defined by scarcity: scarcity in enrollment, scarcity in instruction, and scarcity in credentials. In addition to failing students professionally, this system has exacerbated social injustice and socioeconomic stratification across the globe. In The Abundant University, Michael D. Smith argues that the only way to create a financially and morally sustainable higher education system is by embracing digital technologies for enrolling, instructing, and credentialing studen...
Big Picture Pedagogy: Finding Interdisciplinary Solutions to Common Learning Problems
This volume builds on existing pedagogical research and efforts to showcase SoTL across the disciplines (Gurung, Chick, & Haynie, 2009; Chick, Haynie, & Gurung, 2012) but takes this important work in a new direction. In each chapter, interdisciplinary teams of authors address a single pedagogical question bringing each of their home discipline's specific literature and methodologies to the table. The result is a fresh examination of evidence-based practices for teaching and learning in higher education that is intentionally inclusive of faculty from different disciplines.
Cases on Web 2.0 in Developing Countries: Studies on Implementation, Application, and Use
As the majority of the world continues to move into an internet-based society we have seen significant social, cultural, economic and technological changes. Most developing countries have embraced Web 2.0 and have moved onto the next generation of the World Wide Web, however, some developing countries still struggle to bridge the digital divide. Cases on Web 2.0 in Developing Countries: Studies on Implementation, Application, and Use investigates the perception of the value of Web 2.0, the adoption and application of its technologies, as well as the different approaches and innovations necessary for the implementation of Web applications in developing countries.
The College Dropout Scandal
Each year, hundreds of thousands of students leave college without a degree, saddled with debt, and little to show for it. In The College Dropout Scandal, David Kirp outlines the scale of the problem and illustrates a range of reforms proven to boost undergraduate learning and raise graduation rates.
Justice Deferred
In the first comprehensive accounting of the U.S. Supreme CourtÕs race-related jurisprudence, a distinguished historian and renowned civil rights lawyer scrutinize a legacy too often blighted by racial injustice. The Supreme Court is usually seen as protector of our liberties: it ended segregation, was a guarantor of fair trials, and safeguarded free speech and the vote. But this narrative derives mostly from a short period, from the 1930s to the early 1970s. Before then, the Court spent a century largely ignoring or suppressing basic rights, while the fifty years since 1970 have witnessed a mostly accelerating retreat from racial justice. From the Cherokee Trail of Tears to Brown v. Board ...
Big Mary
THE STORY: It is the summer of 1916, and the circus has come to the small town of Eddington, Tennessee. But the star of the show, an elephant named Big Mary (the largest land animal in captivity), is not happy, as her trainer, Maurice Weglellen,
Tyranie zásluh
Toto jsou pro demokracii nebezpečné časy. Celá desetiletí se propast mezi vítězi a poraženými ve společnosti prohlubovala, ovlivňovala politiku a vzdalovala nás od sebe. K překonání zloby a nevraživosti vůči politickým a kulturním elitám bude zapotřebí, aby mainstreamové politické strany, podobně jako jejich protějšky po celém světě, přehodnotily svou misi a svůj účel. Bude třeba, aby si uvědomily, že meritokratická etika orientovaná na trh, kterou tolik propagovaly, podněcovala roztrpčenost a nakonec vyvolala i ostrou populistickou odezvu. Naděje na obrodu našeho morálního a občanského života závisí na tom, zda pochopíme, jak se v posledních čtyřech desítkách let postupně rozpadala společenská pouta i vzájemný respekt. Tato kniha se snaží vysvětlit, jak k tomu došlo, a uvažuje nad tím, jak by bylo možné nalézt cestu zpět k politice obecného dobra.
