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“edward st clair”

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  • Recovering the Personal

    The Philosophical Anthropology of William H. Poteat

    by Ronald L. Hall, Dale W. Cannon, Bruce Haddox, Edward St. Clair, James W. Stines, Elizabeth Newman, R. Melvin Keiser, Kieran Cashell, William H. Poteat0 ...
    Modernity has radically challenged the assumptions that guide our ordinary lives as persons, in ways we are not normally aware. We live our concrete lives taking for granted that personal decisions, desires, relationships, actions, aspirations, values, and knowledge are central to our existence. But in modernity, we think of these matters as private, idiosyncratic, and subjective, even irrational. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Coping with Adversity

    Regional Economic Resilience and Public Policy

    by Harold Wolman, Howard Wial, Travis St. Clair, Edward Hill ...
    Coping with Adversity addresses the question of why some metropolitan-area regional economies are resilient in the face of economic shocks and chronic distress while others are not. It is particularly concerned with what public policies make a difference in whether a region is resilient. The authors employ a wide range of techniques to examine the experience of all metropolitan area economies from ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

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    Central Banks, Instability, and Recovering from Another Collapse

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  • Blind Spots

    Why We Fail to Do What's Right and What to Do about It

    by Max H. Bazerman, Ann E. Tenbrunsel ...
    When confronted with an ethical dilemma, most of us like to think we would stand up for our principles. But we are not as ethical as we think we are. In Blind Spots, leading business ethicists Max Bazerman and Ann Tenbrunsel examine the ways we overestimate our ability to do what is right and how we act unethically without meaning to. From the collapse of Enron and corruption in the tobacco ... Read more

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  • The New Localism

    How Cities Can Thrive in the Age of Populism

    by Bruce Katz, Jeremy Nowak ...
    The New Localism provides a roadmap for change that starts in the communities where most people live and work.In their new book, The New Localism, urban experts Bruce Katz and Jeremy Nowak reveal where the real power to create change lies and how it can be used to address our most serious social, economic, and environmental challenges.Power is shifting in the world: downward from national ... Read more

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  • Social Entrepreneurship for the 21st Century: Innovation Across the Nonprofit, Private, and Public Sectors

    by Georgia Levenson Keohane ...
    An expert’s inside look into the ways social entrepreneurship is changing the worldWhether you’re a policymaker, investor, or involved in a nonprofit, Social Entrepreneurship for the 21st Century gives you the knowledge you need to make the best possible decisions for the future. A former McKinsey consultant reveals how social entrepreneurship has filtered into the workings of government and ... Read more

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  • Is College Worth It?

    A Former United States Secretary of Education and a Liberal Arts Graduate Expose the Broken Promise of Higher Education

    by William J. Bennett, David Wilezol ...
    Is college worth the ever-increasing cost?From the mouths of politicians and parents alike, the notion that "everyone should go to college" is conventional wisdom in America. Yet half of today's college graduates are unemployed or underemployed. They have little to show for their time in school but a massive amount of student-loan debt and an education that's left them unprepared for the workplace ... Read more

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  • Ending Poverty in America

    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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  • Finding Time

    The Economics of Work-Life Conflict

    by Heather Boushey ...
    Employers today are demanding more and more of employees’ time. And from campaign barbecues to the blogosphere, workers across the United States are raising the same worried question: How can I get ahead at my job while making sure my family doesn’t fall behind?Heather Boushey argues that resolving work-life conflicts is as vital for individuals and families as it is essential for realizing the ... Read more

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  • The Dynamics of Opportunity in America

    Evidence and Perspectives

    Edited by Irwin Kirsch, Henry Braun ...
    Across the country, our children are beginning life from very different starting points. Some have aspirations and believe they can be achieved. For too many others, aspirations are tempered, if not dashed, by the sobering realities of everyday life. These different starting points place children on distinctly different trajectories of growth and development, ultimately leading to vastly different ... Read more

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