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  • How to Survive in Social Work

    by Neil Thompson, John McGowan ...
    Series series The Neil Thompson Practice Collection
    Social worker. You're a helping hand, a rock in the tempest, a friendly face through the hard times, and a catalyst for change. But what about you? How do you keep going when the pressure just keeps rising?In this no-nonsense handbook, Neil Thompson and John McGowan distil years of social work expertise into key strategies to overcome the challenges that come with the profession. Each chapter is ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • American Liberalism

    An Interpretation for Our Time

    by John McGowan ...
    Series series H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman Series
    Americans live in a liberal democracy. Yet, although democracy is widely touted today, liberalism is scorned by both the right and the left. The United States stands poised between its liberal democratic tradition and the illiberal alternatives of liberalism’s critics. John McGowan argues that Americans should think twice before jettisoning the liberalism that guided American politics from James ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • A New Deal for the Humanities

    Liberal Arts and the Future of Public Higher Education

    by Gordon Hutner, Feisal G. Mohamed, Roger L. Geiger, Sheldon Rothblatt, Kathleen Woodward, Yolanda Moses, Daniel Lee Kleinman, Charlotte Melin, Bethany Nowviskie0, John McGowan1, Jeffrey J. Williams2, Christopher Newfield3 ...
    Series series The American Campus
    Many in higher education fear that the humanities are facing a crisis. But even if the rhetoric about “crisis” is overblown, humanities departments do face increasing pressure from administrators, politicians, parents, and students. In A New Deal for the Humanities, Gordon Hutner and Feisal G. Mohamed bring together twelve prominent scholars who address the history, the present state, and the ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Pragmatist Politics

    Making the Case for Liberal Democracy

    by John McGowan ...
    In our current age of cynicism, John McGowan suggests that the time is right to take a fresh look at pragmatism, the philosophy of American democracy. As McGowan shows, pragmatism can be an inspiring alternative to the despair that seems to dominate contemporary American politics. Pragmatist Politics is passionate and convincing, both heartfelt and clear-eyed. It offers an expansive vision of what ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • A Global Perspective on the European Economic Crisis

    Edited by Bruno Dallago, Gert Guri, John McGowan ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the European Economy
    The financial and economic crisis in Europe is not over, and the radically opposing strategies on how to proceed has only increased the complexity of problems in the region, revealing the shortcomings of the EU’s architecture. The European Union, perhaps for the first time in its history of more than seventy years, is being perceived as a threat to the financial and monetary stability of the world ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Crises in Europe in the Transatlantic Context

    Economic and Political Appraisals

    Edited by Bruno Dallago, John McGowan ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy
    The adoption and management of the common currency has led the Eurozone to a critical point. This book analyzes in an interdisciplinary way the fundamental causes of distress, making sure to relate economic issues to the social and political aspects of the problem. The book explores the reasons why the Eurozone has fallen into a policy trap, as well as what Europe did and should do to exit the ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • Democracy's Children

    Intellectuals and the Rise of Cultural Politics

    by John McGowan ...
    How do American intellectuals try to achieve their political and social goals? By what means do they articulate their hopes for change? John McGowan seeks to identify the goals and strategies of contemporary humanistic intellectuals who strive to shape the politics and culture of their time. In a lively mix of personal reflection and shrewd analysis, McGowan visits the sites of intellectual ... Read more

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    How Cognition Explains the World Humans Create

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  • The Cult of Creativity

    A Surprisingly Recent History

    by Samuel W. Franklin ...
    A New Yorker Best Book of the Year. "A beautifully written and well-documented account of how creativity gained the societal value it has today." —Vlad Glăveanu, author of CreativityCreativity is one of American society's signature values, but the idea that there is such a thing as "creativity"—and that it can be cultivated—is surprisingly recent, entering our everyday speech in the 1950s. As S ... Read more

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  • A Degree in a Book: Economics

    Everything You Need to Know to Master the Subject - in One Book!

    by Elaine Schwartz ...
    Series series Degree in a Book
    An essential guide to everything you can learn by taking a degree in Economics, this full-colour book leads the reader through the crucial aspects of economic theory and the involvement of economics in our day-to-day lives.Packed with flow diagrams, infographics, pull-out features and profiles of prominent economists (past and present), the book reveals how economic policies are constructed on ... Read more

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  • The Secret Lives of Buildings

    From the Ruins of the Parthenon to the Vegas Strip in Thirteen Stories

    by Edward Hollis ...
    A strikingly original, beautifully narrated history of Western architecture and the cultural transformations that it represents.Concrete, marble, steel, brick: little else made by human hands seems as stable, as immutable, as a building. Yet the life of any structure is neither fixed nor timeless. Outliving their original contexts and purposes, buildings are forced to adapt to each succeeding age. ... Read more

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  • Regina

    The Queens Who Could Have Been

    by Emily Murdoch Perkins ...
    'A fantastic, feminist dance through history.' - JULIA QUINNWhat queens would England have had if firstborn daughters, not firstborn sons, had inherited the throne?We may think of princesses as dutiful and elegant, wearing long flowing dresses, but the eldest daughters of England's kings have been very different.Political intriguers. Abducted nuns who demanded divorces. Murderers.It's time we ... Read more

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