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  • Ethics and Practice in Science Communication

    From climate to vaccination, stem-cell research to evolution, scientific work is often the subject of public controversies in which scientists and science communicators find themselves enmeshed. Especially with such hot-button topics, science communication plays vital roles. Gathering together the work of a multidisciplinary, international collection of scholars, the editors of Ethics and Practice ... Leer más

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  • From China Seas to Desert Sands

    A Medical Life in Six Countries

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    Series series True Stories
    “This is an exceptionally moving and fascinating account of a family of six who graciously adapted to working in five continents over seven decades.It starts with Jean aged nine, captured in China by brutal Japanese soldiers and imprisoned with her family, where she was half-starved, lost much education, and her family life was totally disrupted. [She] overcame all these deprivations, and went on ... Leer más

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  • Educational Leadership for the 21St Century

    Building a Capacity for Change

    Public education, once considered a dogmatic institution in the 20th century, now finds itself challenged at almost every level in todays sociopolitical environment. New realities, as evidenced by the political complexities of the global village, widespread technological advances that undermine established educational practices, and ever mounting pressures on the curriculum to appease corporate ... Leer más

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  • The New Institutionalism in Organizational Analysis

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  • Professionalism

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    Eliot Freidson has written the first systematic account of professionalism as a method of organizing work. In ideal-typical professionalism, specialized workers control their own work, while in the free market consumers are in command, and in bureaucracy managers dominate. Freidson shows how each method has its own logic requiring different kinds of knowledge, organization, career, education and ... Leer más

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  • Politics in Time

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  • Transitions to Sustainable Development

    New Directions in the Study of Long Term Transformative Change

    Series series Routledge Studies in Sustainability Transitions
    Over the past few decades, there has been a growing concern about the social and environmental risks which have come along with the progress achieved through a variety of mutually intertwined modernization processes. In recent years these concerns are transformed into a widely-shared sense of urgency, partly due to events such as the various pandemics threatening livestock, and increasing ... Leer más

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  • In Defense of Disciplines

    Interdisciplinarity and Specialization in the Research University

    Calls for closer connections among disciplines can be heard throughout the world of scholarly research, from major universities to the National Institutes of Health. In Defense of Disciplines presents a fresh and daring analysis of the argument surrounding interdisciplinarity. Challenging the belief that blurring the boundaries between traditional academic fields promotes more integrated research ... Leer más

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  • Creating Interdisciplinary Campus Cultures

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  • The Public Administration Theory Primer

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  • Return to Meaning

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