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  • The Work-Family Interface

    An Introduction

    by Stephen A. Sweet ...
    Series series Contemporary Family Perspectives (CFP)
    The author is a proud sponsor of the 2020 SAGE Keith Roberts Teaching Innovations Award—enabling graduate students and early career faculty to attend the annual ASA pre-conference teaching and learning workshop.This brief and accessible title integrates contemporary scholarly research with compelling vignettes to make it appealing to both instructors and undergraduate audiences. While focused on ... Read more

    $52.19 USD

  • Changing Contours of Work

    Jobs and Opportunities in the New Economy

    by Stephen A. Sweet, Peter F. Meiksins ...
    Series series Sociology for a New Century Series
    The authors are proud sponsors of the 2020 SAGE Keith Roberts Teaching Innovations Award—enabling graduate students and early career faculty to attend the annual ASA pre-conference teaching and learning workshop.Changing Contours of Work is an exploration of the American workplace in the larger context of an integrated global economy. Presented with engaging vignettes and rich data, this Fourth ... Read more

    $70.19 USD

  • Audiobook

    Inked by the Ithaqua

    Monstrous Meet Cutes

    by Wendi Guff ...
    Narrated by Lauren Sweet, Stephen Borne ...
    Series series Monstrous Meet Cutes

    Unabridged

    5 hours 45 min

    Inked by a monster—sounds cool, right?Until the guy accidentally imprinted on me. What was supposed to be a birthday gift to myself backfired in my face.How was I to know when I told him "Surprise me" that the fine-ass monster man would somehow embed his essence into my tattoo?Or that I'd come from his skilled fingers tapping a needle full of ink into my back?Now, ever since my tat-gasm, the guy ... Read more

    $17.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Work and Family Handbook

    Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives and Approaches

    Edited by Marcie Pitt-Catsouphes, Ellen Ernst Kossek, Stephen Sweet ...
    The Work and Family Handbook is a comprehensive edited volume, which reviews a wide range of disciplinary perspectives across the social sciences on the study of work-family relationships, theory, and methods. The changing demographics of the labor force has resulted in an expanded awareness and understanding of the intricate relations between work and family dimensions in people's lives. For the ... Read more

    $140.00 USD

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    What Everyone Needs to Know®

    by David Bornstein, Susan Davis ...
    Series series What Everyone Needs To Know®
    In development circles, there is now widespread consensus that social entrepreneurs represent a far better mechanism to respond to needs than we have ever had before--a decentralized and emergent force that remains our best hope for solutions that can keep pace with our problems and create a more peaceful world. David Bornstein's previous book on social entrepreneurship, How to Change the World, ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

  • Dream Hoarders

    How the American Upper Middle Class Is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust, Why That Is a Problem, and What to Do About It

    by Richard V. Reeves ...
    Dream Hoarders sparked a national conversation on the dangerous separation between the upper middle class and everyone else. Now in paperback and newly updated for the age of Trump, Brookings Institution senior fellow Richard Reeves is continuing to challenge the class system in America.In America, everyone knows that the top 1 percent are the villains. The rest of us, the 99 percent?we are the ... Read more

    $20.59 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • Dream Hoarders

    How the American Upper Middle Class Is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust, Why That Is a Problem, and What to Do About It

    by Richard V. Reeves ...
    Dream Hoarders sparked a national conversation on the dangerous separation between the upper middle class and everyone else. Now in paperback and newly updated for the age of Trump, Brookings Institution senior fellow Richard Reeves is continuing to challenge the class system in America.In America, everyone knows that the top 1 percent are the villains. The rest of us, the 99 percent-we are the ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

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  • Dream Factories

    Why Universities Won't Solve the Youth Jobs Crisis

    by Bill Morrison, Ken S. Coates ...
    Two professors look at the mystique around universities and the consequences of “credentialism.”For decades, we have promoted the idea that a university degree is a passport to future career success. Ken Coates and Bill Morrison argue that the over-promotion of higher education and university degrees is actually undermining the lives of young people, saddling them with enormous debts, and costing ... Read more

    $8.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Corporatizing Canada

    Making Business Out of Public Service

    by Jamie Brownlee, Chris Hurl, Kevin Walby ...
    From schools to hospitals, from utilities to food banks, over the past thirty years corporatization has transformed the public sector in Canada. Economic elites take control of public institutions and use business metrics to evaluate their performance, transforming public programs into corporate revenue streams.Senior managers use corporate methodology to set priorities in social services and ... Read more

    $24.49 USD

  • The Global Auction

    The Broken Promises of Education, Jobs, and Incomes

    by Phillip Brown, Hugh Lauder, David Ashton ...
    For decades, the idea that more education will lead to greater individual and national prosperity has been a cornerstone of developed economies. Indeed, it is almost universally believed that college diplomas give Americans and Europeans a competitive advantage in the global knowledge wars. Challenging this conventional wisdom, The Global Auction forces us to reconsider our deeply held and ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Mismatch

    How Affirmative Action Hurts Students It's Intended to Help, and Why Universities Won't Admit It

    by Richard Sander, Stuart Taylor Jr ...
    The debate over affirmative action has raged for over four decades, with little give on either side. Most agree that it began as noble effort to jump-start racial integration; many believe it devolved into a patently unfair system of quotas and concealment. Now, with the Supreme Court set to rule on a case that could sharply curtail the use of racial preferences in American universities, law ... Read more

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  • The Great Mistake

    How We Wrecked Public Universities and How We Can Fix Them

    by Christopher Newfield ...
    Series series Critical University Studies
    A remarkable indictment of how misguided business policies have undermined the American higher education system.Winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title of the Choice ACRLHigher education in America, still thought to be the world leader, is in crisis. University students are falling behind their international peers in attainment, while suffering from unprecedented student debt. For over a ... Read more

    $27.09 USD