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  • Grad Skool Rulz: Everything You Need to Know about Academia from Admissions to Tenure

    by Fabio Rojas ...
    Grad Skool Rulz: Everything You Need to Know about Academia from Admissions to Tenure is for students in Ph.D. programs. These programs have a poor track record. Less than 50% of students who begin their Ph.D. program will leave with their degree. Many of those who graduate will needlessly spend a decade or more pursuing their degree.Grad Skool Rulz is designed to help you finish graduate school ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • From Black Power to Black Studies

    How a Radical Social Movement Became an Academic Discipline

    by Fabio Rojas ...
    The black power movement helped redefine African Americans' identity and establish a new racial consciousness in the 1960s. As an influential political force, this movement in turn spawned the academic discipline known as Black Studies. Today there are more than a hundred Black Studies degree programs in the United States, many of them located in America’s elite research institutions. In From ... Read more

    $26.19 USD

  • Theory for the Working Sociologist

    by Fabio Rojas ...
    Theory for the Working Sociologist makes social theory easy to understand by revealing sociology's hidden playbook. Fabio Rojas argues that sociologists use four different theoretical "moves" when they try to explain the social world: how groups defend their status, how people strategically pursue their goals, how values and institutions support each other, and how people create their social ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Party in the Street

    The Antiwar Movement and the Democratic Party after 9/11

    by Michael T. Heaney, Fabio Rojas ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics
    Party in the Street explores the interaction between political parties and social movements in the United States. Examining the collapse of the post-9/11 antiwar movement against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, this book focuses on activism and protest in the United States. It argues that the electoral success of the Democratic Party and President Barack Obama, as well as antipathy toward ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

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  • Is Everyone Really Equal?

    An Introduction to Key Concepts in Social Justice Education

    by Robin DiAngelo, Özlem Sensoy ...
    Series series Multicultural Education Series
    This award-winning guide to social justice education is appropriate for students from high school through graduate school.Based on the authors’ extensive experience in a range of settings in the United States and Canada, the book addresses the most common stumbling blocks to understanding social justice. This comprehensive resource includes new features such as a chapter on intersectionality and ... Read more

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  • Cultivating Communities of Practice

    A Guide to Managing Knowledge

    by Etienne Wenger, William Snyder, Richard A. McDermott ...
    Today's economy is fueled by knowledge. Every leader knows this to be true, yet few have systematic methods for converting organizational knowledge into economic value. This book argues that communities of practice--groups of individuals formed around common interests and expertise--provide the ideal vehicle for driving knowledge-management strategies and building lasting competitive advantage. ... Read more

    $27.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Fall of the Faculty:The Rise of the All-Administrative University and Why It Matters

    by Benjamin Ginsberg ...
    Until very recently, American universities were led mainly by their faculties, which viewed intellectual production and pedagogy as the core missions of higher education. Today, as Benjamin Ginsberg warns in this eye-opening, controversial book, "deanlets"--administrators and staffers often without serious academic backgrounds or experience--are setting the educational agenda. The Fall of the ... Read more

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  • Freedom Is an Endless Meeting

    Democracy in American Social Movements

    by Francesca Polletta ...
    This "excellent study of activist politics in the United States over the past century" challenges the conventional wisdom about participatory democracy ( Times Literary Supplement).Freedom Is an Endless Meeting offers vivid portraits of American experiments in participatory democracy throughout the twentieth century. Drawing on meticulous research and more than one hundred interviews with ... Read more

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  • On Being Included

    Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life

    by Sara Ahmed ...
    What does diversity do? What are we doing when we use the language of diversity? Sara Ahmed offers an account of the diversity world based on interviews with diversity practitioners in higher education, as well as her own experience of doing diversity work. Diversity is an ordinary, even unremarkable, feature of institutional life. Yet diversity practitioners often experience institutions as ... Read more

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  • Organization Theory

    Selected Classic Readings

    Edited by Derek S. Pugh ...
    This book spans seventy years of theory from Max Weber's seminal writings on bureaucratic organization to the latest management thinking represented by Handy, Peters and Waterman. Covering three main areas of interest, those of the structure of organizations, management and decision making, as well as that of organizational behaviour, this thoroughly revised and updated edition contains a vast ... Read more

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  • Maverick

    A Biography of Thomas Sowell

    by Jason L Riley ...
    A “fascinating” and “rare” (National Review) biography of Thomas Sowell, one of America’s most influential conservative thinkersThomas Sowell is one of the great social theorists of our age. In a career spanning more than a half century, he has written over thirty books, covering topics from economic history and social inequality to political theory, race, and culture. His bold and unsentimental ... Read more

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