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Author : David M. Konisky
Release Date : 03 April 2015
Publisher : MIT Press
Genre : Political Science
Pages : 296
ISBN 13 : 9780262028837

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The Promise of Failure

Author : John McNally
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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The Promise of Failure is part memoir of the writing life, part advice book, and part craft book; sometimes funny, sometimes wrenching, but always honest. McNally uses his own life as a blueprint for the writer’s daily struggles as well as the existential ones, tackling subjects such as when ...

The Failed Promise

Author : Robert S. Levine
Publisher : W. W. Norton
Genre : History
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Robert S. Levine foregrounds the viewpoints of Black Americans on Reconstruction in his absorbing account of the struggle between the great orator Frederick Douglass and President Andrew Johnson. When Andrew Johnson assumed the presidency after Abraham Lincoln's assassination, the country was on the precipice of radical change. Johnson, seemingly more ...

The Promise of a Pencil

Author : Adam Braun,Carlye Adler
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Genre : Business & Economics
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The author describes how he left a lucrative business consulting job to found the nonprofit Pencils of Promise, an organization responsible for building schools for the poor in developing countries around the world and which recently completed its two hundredth school....

From Failure to Promise

Author : Dr. C. Moorer
Publisher : Dr. C Moorer & Associates, Inc.
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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100% of net book proceeds (royalties) are used to fund scholarships for students and grants for educators. At a time when individuals need inspiration the most due to adversity, peer-pressure, and loss of direction, From Failure to Promise - 360 Degrees -- author Dr. Cleamon Moorer shares insights, experiences, and a miraculous ...

Heading Home

Author : Shani Orgad
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Genre : Social Science
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Women in today’s advanced capitalist societies are encouraged to “lean in.” The media and government champion women’s empowerment. In a cultural climate where women can seemingly have it all, why do so many successful professional women—lawyers, financial managers, teachers, engineers, and others—give up their careers after ...

Precarious Claims

Author : Shannon Gleeson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Genre : Social Science
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A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program for monographs. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Precarious Claims tells the human story behind the bureaucratic process of fighting for justice in the U.S. workplace. The global ...

America s Critical Thinking Crisis

Author : Steven J. Pearlman
Publisher : Steven J. Pearlman
Genre : Education
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Even though 95% of Americans consider critical thinking an essential skill that schools should teach, our students’ problem-solving skills rank among the lowest in the world. Students actually show lower brain activity in class than while watching TV or sleeping, and most college students, as well as half of American adults, ...

SYRIZA

Author : Cas Mudde
Publisher : Springer
Genre : Political Science
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This book studies the rollercoaster first year in office of the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA), which for many Europeans constituted the hope for a different Europe, beyond austerity and national egocentrism. Through a collection of sharp and short articles and interviews that critically chronicle the rapid rise of ...

The Death of Human Capital

Author : Phillip Brown,Hugh Lauder,Sin Yi Cheung
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Genre : Social Science
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Human capital theory, or the notion that there is a direct relationship between educational investment and individual and national prosperity, has dominated public policy on education and labor for the past fifty years. In The Death of Human Capital?, Phillip Brown, Hugh Lauder, and Sin Yi Cheung argue that the ...

Promise

Author : Judy Young
Publisher : Sleeping Bear Press
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
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Eleven-year-old Kaden has managed to stay under the radar for most of his life. With the exception of Kubla, a pet crow, Kaden doesn't have any friends his own age and he's okay with that. After all, friends can ask inconvenient questions. Questions like Why do you live with your ...

Developing Countries and the Multilateral Trade Regime

Author : Donatella Alessandrini
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Genre : Law
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This book explores the way in which 'development' has functioned within the multilateral trade regime since de-colonisation. In particular, it investigates the shift from early approaches to development under the GATT to current approaches to development under the WTO. It argues that a focus on the creation and transformation of ...

Recycling Reconsidered

Author : Samantha Macbride
Publisher : MIT Press
Genre : Political Science
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How the success and popularity of recycling has diverted attention from the steep environmental costs of manufacturing the goods we consume and discard. Recycling is widely celebrated as an environmental success story. The accomplishments of the recycling movement can be seen in municipal practice, a thriving private recycling industry, and ...

Posthuman Bliss

Author : Susan B. Levin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Genre : Philosophy
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A tightly argued and expansive examination of the pitfalls of transhumanism that reacquaints us with what it means to live well. Advocates of transhumanism, or "radical" enhancement, urge us to pursue the biotechnological heightening of select capacities - above all, cognitive ability - so far beyond any human limit that ...

I Am a Promise

Author : Shelly Ann Fraser Pryce
Publisher : Akashic Books
Genre : Juvenile Nonfiction
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"Pryce, who earned her fame as an illustrious athlete before putting pen to paper, remains an influential voice for young men and women the world over...She lives the promise entrusted to her." --Jamaica Gleaner "I Am a Promise...takes readers on a journey from [Shelly Ann Fraser Pryce's] childhood ...

The Promise Basket

Author : Bill Richardson
Publisher : Groundwood Books Ltd
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
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From award winning author Bill Richardson and highly acclaimed illustrator Slavka Kolesar comes a beautiful story about the love between a mother and daughter where a promise makes the perfect gift. A stone when it’s thrown can damage, can break, but nothing can shatter the promise I make. So ...