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Counterpoints eBook Series

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  • Capitalism’s Educational Catastrophe

    And the Advancing Endgame Revolt!

    by Ricardo D. Rosa, Joao J. Rosa ...
    Series Book 459 - Counterpoints
    Neoliberal capitalism has paved the way to educational catastrophe. It has also opened paths for politically productive and transformative forms of localized resistance(s). This book examines the perilous catastrophe before us, and the possibility that we can reclaim our rights as citizens and redefine democracy as a process for global good rather than a euphemism for our collective enslavement to ... Read more

    $43.09 USD

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    by Kim Howells ...
    Substantial Savings can be made without too much difficultyMany of the books on the market today simply provide generic answers to the questions of how you can make those savings, but this e book does cover very specific areas of how you can prevent your profit from just slipping away.Kim has owned multiple Salons and has used Salon Marketing Tools herself to determine where and how money can be ... Read more

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  • The Great Mutual Fund Trap

    How Americans Are Losing Billions to the Mutual Fund and Brokerage Industries-- and How You Can Earn More with Less Risk

    by Gregory Baer, Gary Gensler ...
    Convinced that your star mutual fund manager will help you beat the market? Eager to hear the latest stock picking advice on CNBC? FORGET ABOUT IT! The Great Mutual Fund Trap shows that the average mutual fund consistently underperforms the market, and that strategies for picking above-average funds -- everything from past performance to expert rankings -- are useless. Picking individual stocks on ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Experiential Learning

    Experience as the Source of Learning and Development

    by David Kolb ...
    Experiential learning is a powerful and proven approach to teaching and learning that is based on one incontrovertible reality: people learn best through experience. Now, in this extensively updated book, David A. Kolb offers a systematic and up-to-date statement of the theory of experiential learning and its modern applications to education, work, and adult development.Experiential Learning, ... Read more

    $151.19 USD

  • The New Public Service

    Serving, Not Steering

    by Janet V. Denhardt, Robert B. Denhardt ...
    The New Public Service: Serving, not Steering provides a framework for the many voices calling for the reaffirmation of democratic values, citizenship, and service in the public interest. It is organized around a set of seven core principles: (1) serve citizens, not customers; (2) seek the public interest; (3) value citizenship and public service above entrepreneurship; (4) think strategically, ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • From Higher Aims to Hired Hands

    The Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as a Profession

    by Rakesh Khurana ...
    Is management a profession? Should it be? Can it be? This major work of social and intellectual history reveals how such questions have driven business education and shaped American management and society for more than a century. The book is also a call for reform. Rakesh Khurana shows that university-based business schools were founded to train a professional class of managers in the mold of ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Capitalist Imperialism in Contemporary Theoretical Frameworks

    New Theories

    by Filip Ilkowski ...
    Series Book 13 - Studies in Politics, Security and Society
    This book analyzes the controversy surrounding imperialism associated with capitalist development. The last dozen years passed under the shadow of two momentous events: the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan conducted in the framework of the broader «war on terror», and the economic crisis. They occurred against the backdrop of global economic integration, but also against the contradictions in its ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Guide to Dyspraxia and Developmental Coordination Disorders

    by Amanda Kirby, Sharon Drew ...
    Built upon the good practice for which the Dyscovery Centre has become so well known, this book takes a broader view of the difficulties that those with additional needs face. It considers whether this is a health, educational or social difficulty and what the wider implications are for the individual and how they manage at home and in the community.The authors look at what happens, what can be ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Leap into Modernity – Political Economy of Growth on the Periphery, 1943–1980

    by Anna Wolff-Poweska, Adam Leszczyński ...
    Series Book 16 - Studies in History, Memory and Politics
    This book describes struggles of different countries and their development after World War II. It presents a panorama of different ideologies of accelerated development, which dominated the world just before the war and in the next 40 years. The author explains why in the 1970s global and local elites began to turn away from the state, exchanging statism for the belief in the «invisible hand of ... Read more

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  • Innovation, Complexity and Policy

    Contributions from 30 years of innovation policy research in Austria

    Edited by Matthias Weber ...
    This book brings together a set of contributions that show the breadth and depth of the scientific work of Josef Fröhlich and his influence on Austrian research, technology and innovation (RTI) policy. It is edited in honour of the occasion of his retirement as Head of Innovation Systems Department at the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology. The contributors provide an overview of important ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Doing Better with Less? The Future of the Government Workforce

    Politics of Public HRM Reforms in 32 Countries

    by Christoph Demmke ...
    This publication contributes to a discussion about the future of public employment and HR policies in the context of a changing statehood and new financial pressures. It presents comparative quantitative and qualitative data in the field of public employment and human resources management. These data were collected through the OECD «2015 Survey on Managing Budgeting Constraints: Implications for ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Competition, Coordination, Social Order

    Responsible Business, Civil Society, and Government in an Open Society

    by Jacek Giedrojć ...
    Series Book 12 - Studies in Politics, Security and Society
    The author analyses competition as one of four coordinating mechanisms helping agents mutually to orientate their actions, avoid chaos, and produce social order. Competition is a key dimension of developed societies. It helps to structure and is also conducive to social change. Competing agents constrain one another, making it hard for anyone to change their position. They discover new routines ... Read more

    $77.99 USD