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  • Creating a Class

    College Admissions and the Education of Elites

    by Mitchell L. Stevens ...
    In real life, Mitchell Stevens is a professor in bustling New York. But for a year and a half, he worked in the admissions office of a bucolic New England college that is known for its high academic standards, beautiful campus, and social conscience. Ambitious high schoolers and savvy guidance counselors know that admission here is highly competitive. But creating classes, Stevens finds, is a lot ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • The Credential Society

    An Historical Sociology of Education and Stratification

    by Randall Collins ...
    Series series Legacy Editions
    The Credential Society is a classic on the role of higher education in American society and an essential text for understanding the reproduction of inequality. Controversial at the time, Randall Collins’s claim that the expansion of American education has not increased social mobility, but rather created a cycle of credential inflation, has proven remarkably prescient.Collins shows how credential ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • The Credential Society

    An Historical Sociology of Education and Stratification

    by Randall Collins ...
    Series series Legacy Editions
    The Credential Society is a classic on the role of higher education in American society and an essential text for understanding the reproduction of inequality. Controversial at the time, Randall Collins’s claim that the expansion of American education has not increased social mobility, but rather created a cycle of credential inflation, has proven remarkably prescient.Collins shows how credential ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

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    What happens to the liberal arts and science education when universities attempt to sell it as a form of job training? In Lowering Higher Education, a follow-up to their provocative 2007 book Ivory Tower Blues, James E. Côté and Anton L. Allahar explore the subverted 'idea of the university' and the forces that have set adrift the mission of these institutions. Côté and Allahar connect the ... Read more

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  • Women and Educational Leadership

    by Margaret Grogan, Charol Shakeshaft ...
    Series Book 10 - Jossey-Bass Leadership Library in Education
    This groundbreaking book presents a new way of looking at leadership that is anchored in research on women leaders in education. The authors examine how successful women in education lead and offer suggestions and ideas for developing and honing these exemplary leadership practices.Women and Educational Leadership shows how the qualities that characterize women's approaches to leadership differ ... Read more

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  • Straight Jobs Gay Lives

    by Sharon Silverstein, Annette Friskopp ...
    "The workplace has become the next frontier for gay rights, " stated a Fortune magazine cover story, and this book -- based on a series of groundbreaking interviews with more than 100 gay and lesbian alumni of the Harvard Business School -- is the most complete and most in-depth study ever made of gay and lesbian managers, executives, and employees in this country.Straight Jobs, Gay Lives frankly ... Read more

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  • Pedigree

    How Elite Students Get Elite Jobs

    by Lauren A. Rivera, Lauren A. Rivera ...
    How social class determines who lands the best jobsAmericans are taught to believe that upward mobility is possible for anyone who is willing to work hard, regardless of their social status, yet it is often those from affluent backgrounds who land the best jobs. Pedigree takes readers behind the closed doors of top-tier investment banks, consulting firms, and law firms to reveal the truth about ... Read more

    $15.09 USD

  • The Millennial Mosaic

    How Pluralism and Choice Are Shaping Canadian Youth and the Future of Canada

    by Reginald W. Bibby, Joel Thiessen, Monetta Bailey ...
    The bottom line: Millennials are looking goodThere’s a lot of consternation about the Millennial generation — Canada’s youngest adults born since the mid-1980s and now reaching their thirties. But the speculation has not been accompanied by sound and comprehensive information — until now.Highly respected sociologist and veteran trend-tracker Reginald W. Bibby teams up with two Gen X colleagues, ... Read more

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  • The Hidden Ivies

    50 Top Colleges—from Amherst to Williams —That Rival the Ivy League

    by Howard Greene, Matthew W. Greene ...
    Series Book 6 - Greene's Guides
    Completely revised and updated with a dozen new colleges and universities, the essential college admissions guide students need to help them choose and gain admission to the outstanding schools that fit them best.Based on Howard and Matthew Greene’s years of counseling experience and research on top colleges, The Hidden Ivies is an invaluable, in-depth look inside sixty-three renowned academic ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Educational Leadership at 2050

    Conjectures, Challenges, and Promises

    by Rosemary Papa, Fenwick W. English, Theodore Creighton ...
    This is a practical, bold, no-holds barred look at challenges facing educational leaders and the university programs that prepare them through mid-century. It examines key continuities and discontinuities of current times for school, education, and society. Both practice and preparation occur in contested social space, the implications of which are explored in a post industrial, digital age.The ... Read more

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  • Women and Philanthropy

    Boldly Shaping a Better World

    by Martha A. Taylor, Buffy Beaudoin-Schwartz, Sondra Shaw-Hardy ...
    Women & PhilanthropyWomen's philanthropy has led the way in virtually reinventing the world of fundraising and ways of giving. When women make a gift, are in a leadership position, or volunteer their time to a nonprofit or charitable organization, they tend to base their efforts on solid principles such as compassion, values, vision, and responsibility.Women are increasingly engaged in giving ... Read more

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  • The Abcs of Ethics

    A Resource for Leaders, Managers, and Professionals

    by Michael L. Buckner ...
    The ABCs of Ethics is designed for leaders, managers, professionals, students, and other people interested in improving ethical behavior within themselves, inside organizations, and throughout society. Michael L. Buckner answers the age-old question: Does the end justify the means?Using stories and anecdotes from his work as an attorney and a private investigator, Buckner concisely defines the ... Read more

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