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  • Blinded by the Lights

    Texas High School Football and the Myth of Integration

    by Don E. Albrecht ...
    Series series Prairie View A&M University Series
    Using the lens of arguably the state’s most popular sport, Blinded by the Lights: Texas High School Football and the Myth of Integration describes the highs and lows in the ongoing battle for equal educational opportunities for all Texas students. According to former Texas A&M athletic recruiter Don Albrecht, the high school football team, often the most visible symbol of the community, was ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Building a Resilient Twenty-First-Century Economy for Rural America

    by Don E. Albrecht ...
    In Building a Resilient Twenty-First-Century Economy for Rural America, Don E. Albrecht visits rural communities that have traditionally been dependent on a variety of goods-producing industries, explores what has happened as employment in these industries has declined, and provides a path by which they can build a vibrant twenty-first-century economy. Albrecht describes how structural economic ... Read more

    $15.09 USD

  • Addressing Climate Change at the Community Level in the United States

    Edited by Paul R. Lachapelle, Don E. Albrecht ...
    Series series Community Development Research and Practice Series
    The concept of community, in all its diverse definitions and manifestations, provides a unique approach to learn more about how groups of individuals and organizations are addressing the challenges posed by climate change. This new volume highlights specific cases of communities developing innovative approaches to climate mitigation and adaptation around the United States. Defining community more ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Rural Housing and Economic Development

    Edited by Don E. Albrecht, Scott Loveridge, Stephan Goetz, Rachel Welborn ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Regional Economics, Science and Policy
    Housing is crucial to the quality of life and wellbeing for individuals and familes, but the availability of adequate or affordable housing also plays a vital role in community economic development. Rural areas face a substantial disadvantage compared to urban areas in regard to housing, and this book explores these issues.Rural Housing and Economic Development includes chapters from nationally ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Our Energy Future

    Socioeconomic Implications and Policy Options for Rural America

    Edited by Don E. Albrecht ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Energy Policy
    Rapid changes in energy production and consumption are having major socioeconomic implications for the communities of rural America. Technological developments in horizontal drilling, hydraulic fracturing (fracking) nuclear energy, biofuels, wind and solar energy have significantly increased domestic energy production and the production of energy from renewable sources has encouraged energy ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

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    Heroes, Rogues, and the Inside Story of the Baseball Hall of Fame

    by Zev Chafets ...
    If baseball is America's national religion, then the Hall of Fame is its High Church. Being named among its 286 inductees makes you the closest thing our country has to an undisputed hero - even a secular saint. But the men in the Hall of Fame are no angels. Among their number are gamblers, drunks, race-baiters, at least one murderer, and perhaps the greatest collection of bona fide characters ... Read more

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  • In the Wake of the Crisis

    Leading Economists Reassess Economic Policy

    Edited by Olivier Blanchard, David Romer, Michael Spence, Joseph E. Stiglitz ...
    Prominent economists reconsider the fundamentals of economic policy for a post-crisis world.In 2011, the International Monetary Fund invited prominent economists and economic policymakers to consider the brave new world of the post-crisis global economy. The result is a book that captures the state of macroeconomic thinking at a transformational moment.The crisis and the weak recovery that has ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Black Ball

    Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Spencer Haywood, and the Generation that Saved the Soul of the NBA

    by Theresa Runstedtler ...
    A vital narrative history of 1970s pro basketball, and the Black players who shaped the NBAAgainst a backdrop of ongoing resistance to racial desegregation and strident calls for Black Power, the NBA in the 1970s embodied the nation’s imagined descent into disorder. A new generation of Black players entered the league, among them Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Spencer Haywood, and the press and public ... Read more

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  • The Carbon Bubble

    What Happens to Us When It Bursts

    by Jeff Rubin ...
    As the price of oil falls, bestselling author and economist Jeff Rubin takes us to the epicentre of the bursting global carbon bubble, and dares us to imagine a new engine for growth that does not run on oil.For a decade, the vision of Canada's future as an energy superpower has driven the country's political agenda, as well as the fast-paced development of Alberta's oil sands and the push for ... Read more

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  • A Guide to Impact Fees and Housing Affordability

    by Liza K. Bowles, Julian C. Juergensmeyer, James C. Nicholas, Arthur C. Nelson, Dr. ...
    Impact fees are one-time charges that are applied to new residential developments by local governments that are seeking funds to pay for the construction or expansion of public facilities, such as water and sewer systems, schools, libraries, and parks and recreation facilities. In the face of taxpayer revolts against increases in property taxes, impact fees are used increasingly by local ... Read more

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  • Fourth and Long

    The Fight for the Soul of College Football

    by John U. Bacon ...
    From New York Times bestselling author and Michigan football expert John Back, an analysis of the state of college football: Why we love the game, what is at risk, and the fight to save it.In search of the sport’s old ideals amid the roaring flood of hypocrisy and greed, bestselling author John U. Bacon embedded himself in four college football programs—Penn State, Ohio State, Michigan, and ... Read more

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  • Tar Sands

    Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent, Revised and Updated Edition

    by Andrew Nikiforuk ...
    Tar Sands critically examines the frenzied development in the Canadian tar sands and the far-reaching implications for all of North America. Bitumen, the sticky stuff that ancients used to glue the Tower of Babel together, is the world’s most expensive hydrocarbon. This difficult-to-find resource has made Canada the number-one supplier of oil to the United States, and every major oil company now ... Read more

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