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  • The Lost Promise

    American Universities in the 1960s

    The Lost Promise is a magisterial examination of the turmoil that rocked American universities in the 1960s, with a unique focus on the complex roles played by professors as well as students.The 1950s through the early 1970s are widely seen as American academia's golden age, when universities—well-funded and viewed as essential for national security, economic growth, and social mobility—embraced ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • How Politics Makes Us Sick

    Neoliberal Epidemics

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Ted Schrecker and Clare Bambra argue that the obesity, insecurity, austerity and inequality that result from neoliberal (or 'market fundamentalist') policies are hazardous to our health, asserting that these neoliberal epidemics require a political cure. ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

  • Post-Millennium Rhapsody

    A minor celebrity clips his toenails in the Oval Office, a gnat ties the bulb of a Christmas light to his back, and plainclothes policemen search for God at a carnival. With his second collection of poetry, J. Andrew Schrecker returns with a unique blend of observation, surrealism, and confession. ... Read more

    $7.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    American Inquisition

    The Era of McCarthyism

    Narrated by Ellen Schrecker ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 11 min

    During the early years of the Cold War, the anticommunist witch hunt that we now call McCarthyism swept through American society. As we will discover, McCarthyism was much more than the career of the blustering senator from Wisconsin who gave it a name. It was the most widespread and longest-lasting episode of political repression in American history. Dozens of men and women went to prison, ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Right To Learn

    Resisting the Right-Wing Attack on Academic Freedom

    From leaders on the front lines of the battle for academic freedom in higher education, an empowering collection on fighting back against anti-CRT policies, book banning, and moreSpanning over 40 years of contested history through to today, The Right to Learn speaks out fearlessly against the far right’s decades-long war against intellectual freedom. This essential anthology outlines and ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Lost Soul of Higher Education

    Corporatization, the Assault on Academic Freedom, and the End of the American University

    The professor and historian delivers a major critique of how political and financial attacks on the academy are undermining our system of higher education.Making a provocative foray into the public debates over higher education, acclaimed historian Ellen Schrecker argues that the American university is under attack from two fronts. On the one hand, outside pressure groups have staged massive ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Transatlantic Voyages and Sociology

    The Migration and Development of Ideas

    Edited by Cherry Schrecker ...
    Transatlantic Voyages and Sociology explores the transatlantic journeys which have inspired American and European sociologists and contributed to the development of sociology in Europe and in North America. Furthering our understanding of the very complex processes which affect the diffusion of ideas, it sheds light on the diverse influences which come into play, be they on an individual, ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • The Ashgate Research Companion to the Globalization of Health

    Edited by Ted Schrecker ...
    Global health has emerged as a distinct field of academic research and professional activity. Over the last decade, health has become an important element of many nations' foreign policies, a routine agenda item for the G8 and a rapidly expanding focus of bilateral and multilateral development assistance. Some aspects of health, like the spread of easily transmitted communicable diseases, are self ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Globalization and Health

    Pathways, Evidence and Policy

    Series series Routledge Studies in Health and Social Welfare
    Contemporary globalization has had tremendous impact on health equity across the globe. However, no volume has systematically analyzed the relationship between globalization and global trends in health outcomes. This book consolidates and updates the findings of a global research project undertaken by the Globalisation Knowledge Network (GKN) of the World Health Organization’s Commission on Social ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Mrs. Chiang's Szechwan Cookbook

    When published in 1976, Mrs. Chiang's Szechwan Cookbook was the first authentic Szechwan cookbook to appear in the United States. The book was the result of Ellen and John Schrecker studying Chinese culture in Taiwan, during which they met Mrs. Chiang Jung-feng, a superb Chinese Szechwan cook. The tastes and textures of her dishes were always clear and bright. She was a master of the zhen wer or ... Read more

    $6.00 USD

  • How Politics Makes Us Sick

    Neoliberal Epidemics

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book makes a powerful case that neoliberalism, the dominant economic and social policy paradigm of the post-1980 world, is hazardous to our health. It describes the destructive effects on health and health inequalities of neoliberal policies including labour market deregulation, welfare state retrenchment, and austerity, drawing on cross-national examples particularly from the United States ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Lost Promise

    American Universities in the 1960s

    Narrated by Janet Metzger ...

    Unabridged

    19 hours 37 min

    The 1950s through the early 1970s are widely seen as American academia's golden age, when universities—well funded and viewed as essential for national security, economic growth, and social mobility—embraced an egalitarian mission. Swelling in size, schools attracted new types of students and professors, including radicals who challenged their institutions' calcified traditions. But that halcyon ... Read more

    $29.99 USD