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  • Communicate for a Change

    Revitalizing Conversations for Higher Education

    by Lori Carrell, Robert Zemsky ...
    This is a different kind of book: a call for courageous conversations focusing on nine taboo subjects that bedevil higher education.For nearly a decade, distinguished scholars Lori Carrell and Robert Zemsky have been having frank conversations with each other—and with colleagues and friends—about the state of higher education. In Communicate for a Change, they bring together nine of their most ... Read more

    $29.49 USD

  • The College Stress Test

    Tracking Institutional Futures across a Crowded Market

    by Robert Zemsky, Susan Shaman, Susan Campbell Baldridge ...
    Provides an insightful analysis of the market stresses that threaten the viability of some of America's colleges and universities while delivering a powerful predictive tool to measure an institution's risk of closure.In The College Stress Test, Robert Zemsky, Susan Shaman, and Susan Campbell Baldridge present readers with a full, frank, and informed discussion about college and university ... Read more

    $35.29 USD

  • Checklist for Change

    Making American Higher Education a Sustainable Enterprise

    by Robert Zemsky ...
    Almost every day American higher education is making news with a list of problems that includes the incoherent nature of the curriculum, the resistance of the faculty to change, and the influential role of the federal government both through major investments in student aid and intrusive policies. Checklist for Change not only diagnoses these problems, but also provides constructive ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • The Market Imperative

    Segmentation and Change in Higher Education

    by Robert Zemsky, Susan Shaman ...
    Series series Reforming Higher Education: Innovation and the Public Good
    Thinking about American higher education as an economic market changes everything.It is no surprise that college tuition and student debt are on the rise. Universities no longer charge tuition to simply cover costs. They are market enterprises that charge whatever the market will bear. Institutional ambition, along with increasing competition for students, now shape the economics of higher ... Read more

    $27.09 USD

  • Making Sense of the College Curriculum

    Faculty Stories of Change, Conflict, and Accommodation

    by Robert Zemsky, Gregory R Wegner, Ann J. Duffield ...
    Readers of Making Sense of the College Curriculum expecting a traditional academic publication full of numeric and related data will likely be disappointed with this volume, which is based on stories rather than numbers. The contributors include over 185 faculty members from eleven colleges and universities, representing all sectors of higher education, who share personal, humorous, powerful, and ... Read more

    $15.09 USD

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  • The Great Mistake

    How We Wrecked Public Universities and How We Can Fix Them

    by Christopher Newfield ...
    Series series Critical University Studies
    A remarkable indictment of how misguided business policies have undermined the American higher education system.Winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title of the Choice ACRLHigher education in America, still thought to be the world leader, is in crisis. University students are falling behind their international peers in attainment, while suffering from unprecedented student debt. For over a ... Read more

    $27.09 USD

  • Nudge

    The Final Edition

    by Richard H. Thaler, Cass R. Sunstein ...
    **An essential new edition―revised and updated from cover to cover―of one of the most important books of the last two decades, by Nobel Prize winner Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein* More than 2 million copies sold* New York Times bestseller**Since the original publication of Nudge more than a decade ago, the title has entered the vocabulary of businesspeople, policy makers, engaged citizens ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Professor Is In

    The Essential Guide to Turning Your PhD into a Job

    by Karen Kelsky ...
    UPDATED FOR 2026 • The definitive career guide for grad students, adjuncts, post-docs, and anyone else eager to get tenure or turn their PhD into their ideal job—now refreshed with new material to equip readers for today’s job market“If you want unvarnished straight talk about the academic job market—and how to navigate it—then heed Karen Kelsky, and heed her now.”—Rebecca Schuman, education ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Capitalism without Capital

    The Rise of the Intangible Economy

    by Jonathan Haskel, Stian Westlake ...
    The first comprehensive account of the growing dominance of the intangible economyEarly in the twenty-first century, a quiet revolution occurred. For the first time, the major developed economies began to invest more in intangible assets, like design, branding, R&D, and software, than in tangible assets, like machinery, buildings, and computers. For all sorts of businesses, from tech firms and ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

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  • Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus

    How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity

    by Douglas Rushkoff ...
    **Why doesn’t the explosive growth of companies like Facebook and Uber deliver more prosperity for everyone?What is the systemic problem that sets the rich against the poor and the technologists against everybody else?**When protesters shattered the windows of a bus carrying Google employees to work, their anger may have been justifiable, but it was misdirected. The true conflict of our age isn’t ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Restarting the Future

    How to Fix the Intangible Economy

    by Jonathan Haskel, Stian Westlake ...
    From the acclaimed authors of Capitalism without Capital, r****adical ideas for restoring prosperity in today’s intangible economyThe past two decades have witnessed sluggish economic growth, mounting inequality, dysfunctional competition, and a host of other ills that have left people wondering what has happened to the future they were promised. Restarting the Future reveals how these problems ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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  • Impact Investing

    Transforming How We Make Money While Making a Difference

    by Antony Bugg-Levine, Jed Emerson ...
    A ground-breaking book on the transformative power of impact investingThis is the first book to chart the catalytic path of this new industry, explaining how it is and can be a positive disruptive force. It shows how impact investing is a transformational vehicle for delivering "blended value" throughout the investment spectrum, giving a single name to a set of activities previously siloed in ... Read more

    $31.00 USD

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