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“harry c boyte”

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  • The Citizen Solution

    How You Can Make A Difference

    by Harry C. Boyte ...
    Nationally known community organizer and activist Harry C. Boyte incites readers to join today's "citizen movement," offering practical tools for how we can change the face of America by focusing on issues close to home.Targeting useful techniques for individuals to raise public consciousness and effectively motivate community-based groups, Boyte grounds his arguments in the country's tradition of ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Awakening Democracy through Public Work

    Pedagogies of Empowerment

    by Harry C. Boyte ...
    In the face of authoritarian, divisive trends and multiplying crises, when politics-as-usual is stymied, Awakening Democracy through Public Work shows it is possible to build foundations for a democratic awakening grounded in deep American traditions of a citizen-centered commonwealth.Awakening Democracy through Public Work begins with the story of Public Achievement, a youth civic education and ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • The Green New Deal and the Future of Work

    by Richard A. Walker, Hillary Angelo, Raj Patel, Jim Goodman, Alyssa Battistoni, Stephanie Luce, Wilson Sherwin, Dustin Guastella, Mindy Isser, Todd E. Vachon, Harvey Molotch, Daniel Aldana Cohen, J. Mijin Cha, Lara Skinner, Clark A. Miller, Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Harry C. Boyte, Trygve Throntveit, Richard Lachmann ...
    Catastrophic climate change overshadows the present and the future. Wrenching economic transformations have devastated workers and hollowed out communities. However, those fighting for jobs and those fighting for the planet have often been at odds. Does the world face two separate crises, environmental and economic? The promise of the Green New Deal is to tackle the threat of climate change ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • The Green New Deal and the Future of Work

    by Richard A. Walker, Hillary Angelo, Raj Patel, Jim Goodman, Alyssa Battistoni, Stephanie Luce, Wilson Sherwin, Dustin Guastella, Mindy Isser, Todd E. Vachon, Harvey Molotch, Daniel Aldana Cohen, J. Mijin Cha, Lara Skinner, Clark A. Miller, Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Harry C. Boyte, Trygve Throntveit, Richard Lachmann ...
    Catastrophic climate change overshadows the present and the future. Wrenching economic transformations have devastated workers and hollowed out communities. However, those fighting for jobs and those fighting for the planet have often been at odds. Does the world face two separate crises, environmental and economic? The promise of the Green New Deal is to tackle the threat of climate change ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Democracy's Education

    Public Work, Citizenship, and the Future of Colleges and Universities

    Edited by Harry C. Boyte ...
    Today Americans feel powerless in the face of problems on every front. Such feelings are acute in higher education, where educators are experiencing an avalanche of changes: cost cutting, new technologies, and demands that higher education be narrowly geared to the needs of today's workplace. College graduates face mounting debt and uncertain job prospects, and worry about a coarsening of the mass ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Democracy, Civic Engagement, and Citizenship in Higher Education

    Reclaiming Our Civic Purpose

    by William V. Flores, Katrina S. Rogers, Jonathan R. Alger, Terrence Bensel, Noël Bezette-Flores, Harry C. Boyte, Amanda Buberger, Martín Carcasson0, Rev. Monsignor Franklyn M. Casale1, Sean Creighton2, Waded Cruzado3, Rassoul Dastmozd4, Sean Decatur5, Kevin Drumm6, Abraham Goldberg7, Azuri Gonzalez8, Windy Y. Lawrence9, Otto Lee0, John Locke1, David Mathews2, James Mullen3, Eduardo Ochoa4, Adam Weinberg5, David Wilson6 ...
    In the most recent Democracy Index, the Economic Intelligence Unit downgraded the United States from a “full democracy” to a “flawed democracy.” Democracy, Civic Engagement, and Citizenship in Higher Education takes a hard look at the state of American democracy today through the lens of one of the nation’s most important actors: colleges and universities. Democracy is more than voting: it ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Climate Change across the Curriculum

    by Eric J. Fretz, Andrew Auge, Geoffrey Bateman, Harry C. Boyte, Stephen Getty, Chelsea C. Harry, Annamarie Hatcher, Douglas Hesse, Nicole Holthuis, Faith Kearns0, John A. Kinch1, Catherine Kleier2, Michael Mastrandrea3, Jennifer Saltzman4, Jeff Sinn5, Corrine Taylor6, K.C. Busch7, Rachel Lotan8 ...
    Climate Change across the Curriculum examines ways of thinking and conveying information about climate change across university curricula and within academic disciplines. The contributors provide methods, strategies, rationales, and theoretical justifications for teaching climate issues at the university level. The content of this book aims to introduce climate change to classes outside of the ... Read more

    $121.99 USD

  • Everyday Politics

    Reconnecting Citizens and Public Life

    by Harry C. Boyte ...
    Increasingly a spectator sport, electoral politics have become bitterly polarized by professional consultants and lobbyists and have been boiled down to the distributive mantra of "who gets what." In Everyday Politics, Harry Boyte transcends partisan politics to offer an alternative. He demonstrates how community-rooted activities reconnect citizens to engaged, responsible public life, and not ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Everyday Politics

    Reconnecting Citizens and Public Life

    by Harry C. Boyte ...
    Increasingly a spectator sport, electoral politics have become bitterly polarized by professional consultants and lobbyists and have been boiled down to the distributive mantra of "who gets what." In Everyday Politics, Harry Boyte transcends partisan politics to offer an alternative. He demonstrates how community-rooted activities reconnect citizens to engaged, responsible public life, and not ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

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  • The Faculty Lounges

    And Other Reasons Why You Won't Get the College Education You Pay For

    by Naomi Schaefer Riley ...
    Veteran journalist Naomi Shaefer Riley contends that tenure—the jobs-for-life entitlement that comes with a university position—is at the heart of so many problems with higher education today. She explores how tenure—with the job security, mediocre salaries, and low levels of accountability it entails—may be attracting the least innovative and interesting members of our society into teaching. ... Read more

    $19.69 USD

  • Bowling Alone: Revised and Updated

    The Collapse and Revival of American Community

    by Robert D. Putnam ...
    Once we bowled in leagues, usually after work -- but no longer. This seemingly small phenomenon symbolizes a significant social change that Robert Putnam has identified in this brilliant volume, Bowling Alone*,* which The Economist hailed as "a prodigious achievement."Drawing on vast new data that reveal Americans' changing behavior, Putnam shows how we have become increasingly disconnected from ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • We Have Never Been Woke

    The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite

    by Musa al-Gharbi ...
    How a new “woke” elite uses the language of social justice to gain more power and status—without helping the marginalized and disadvantagedSociety has never been more egalitarian—in theory. Prejudice is taboo, and diversity is strongly valued. At the same time, social and economic inequality have exploded. In We Have Never Been Woke, Musa al-Gharbi argues that these trends are closely related, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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