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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “jerry a jacobs”
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  • In Defense of Disciplines

    Interdisciplinarity and Specialization in the Research University

    by Jerry A. Jacobs ...
    Calls for closer connections among disciplines can be heard throughout the world of scholarly research, from major universities to the National Institutes of Health. In Defense of Disciplines presents a fresh and daring analysis of the argument surrounding interdisciplinarity. Challenging the belief that blurring the boundaries between traditional academic fields promotes more integrated research ... Read more

    $24.49 USD

  • The Changing Face of Medicine

    Women Doctors and the Evolution of Health Care in America

    by Ann K. Boulis, Jerry A. Jacobs ...
    Series series The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
    The number of women practicing medicine in the United States has grown steadily since the late 1960s, with women now roughly at parity with men among entering medical students. Why did so many women enter American medicine? How are women faring, professionally and personally, once they become physicians? Are women transforming the way medicine is practiced? To answer these questions, The Changing ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

  • The Time Divide

    Work, Family, and Gender Inequality

    by Jerry A. Jacobs, Kathleen Gerson ...
    Series Book 3 - The Family and Public Policy
    In a panoramic study that draws on diverse sources, Jerry A. Jacobs and Kathleen Gerson explain why and how time pressures have emerged and what we can do to alleviate them. In contrast to the conventional wisdom that all Americans are overworked, they show that time itself has become a form of social inequality that is dividing Americans in new ways—between the overworked and the underemployed, ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

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    Edited by Walter W. Powell, Paul J. DiMaggio ...
    Long a fruitful area of scrutiny for students of organizations, the study of institutions is undergoing a renaissance in contemporary social science. This volume offers, for the first time, both often-cited foundation works and the latest writings of scholars associated with the "institutional" approach to organization analysis.In their introduction, the editors discuss points of convergence and ... Read more

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  • Behavioral Economics For Dummies

    by Morris Altman ...
    A guide to the study of how and why you really make financial decisionsWhile classical economics is based on the notion that people act with rational self-interest, many key money decisions—like splurging on an expensive watch—can seem far from rational. The field of behavioral economics sheds light on the many subtle and not-so-subtle factors that contribute to our financial and purchasing ... Read more

    $13.00 USD

  • Institutions and Organizations

    Ideas, Interests, and Identities

    by W. Richard Scott ...
    Creating a clear, analytical framework, this comprehensive exploration of the relationship between institutional theory and the study of organizations continues to reflect the richness and diversity of institutional thought—viewed both historically and as a contemporary, ongoing field of study. Drawing on the insights of cultural and organizational sociologists, institutional economists, social ... Read more

    $70.19 USD

  • Sustainability Assessment

    Criteria and Processes

    by Bob Gibson, Selma Hassan, James Tansey ...
    Sustainability assessment is now emerging as a more transparent, comprehensive, integrated and far-sighted approach to decision making. Its basic demand is that all significant undertakings must make a positive contribution to sustainability. To apply this test, decision makers need criteria based on the core requirements of sustainability and the particularities of the context. As well, they need ... Read more

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  • Professionalism

    The Third Logic

    by Eliot Freidson ...
    Eliot Freidson has written the first systematic account of professionalism as a method of organizing work. In ideal-typical professionalism, specialized workers control their own work, while in the free market consumers are in command, and in bureaucracy managers dominate. Freidson shows how each method has its own logic requiring different kinds of knowledge, organization, career, education and ... Read more

    $23.00 USD

  • Creating a Learning Society

    A New Approach to Growth, Development, and Social Progress

    by Joseph E. Stiglitz, Bruce C. Greenwald ...
    Series series Kenneth J. Arrow Lecture Series
    "A superb new understanding of the dynamic economy as a learning society, one that goes well beyond the usual treatment of education, training, and R&D."—Robert Kuttner, author of The Stakes: 2020 and the Survival of American DemocracySince its publication Creating a Learning Society has served as an effective tool for those who advocate government policies to advance science and technology. It ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Educational Goods

    Values, Evidence, and Decision-Making

    by Harry Brighouse, Helen F. Ladd, Susanna Loeb, Adam Swift ...
    "An ambitious effort that succeeds in providing a fundamentally new way to talk about and . . . think about policy choices in education." —Jeffrey R. Henig, Teachers College, Columbia UniversityWe spend a lot of time arguing about how schools might be improved. But we rarely take a step back to ask what we as a society should be looking for from education—what exactly should those who make ... Read more

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  • The Jossey-Bass Reader on Contemporary Issues in Adult Education

    Edited by Sharan B. Merriam, André P. Grace ...
    THE JOSSEY-BASS READER ON Contemporary Issues in Adult EducationWith contributions from leading experts in the field, The Jossey-Bass Reader on Contemporary Issues in Adult Education collects in one volume the best previously published literature on the issues and trends affecting adult education today. The volume includes influential pieces from foundational authors in the profession such as ... Read more

    $40.00 USD

  • Ivory Tower Blues

    A University System in Crisis

    by James Cote, Anton L. Allahar ...
    The present state of the university is a difficult issue to comprehend for anyone outside of the education system. If we are to believe common government reports that changes in policy are somehow making life easier for university graduates, we cannot help but believe that things are going right and are getting better in our universities. Ivory Tower Blues gives a decidedly different picture, ... Read more

    $44.99 USD