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Today, nearly every aspect of higher educationincluding student recruitment, classroom instruction, faculty research, administrative governance, and the control of intellectual propertyis embedded in a political economy with links to the market and the state. Academic capitalism offers a powerful framework for understanding this relationship. ......
The Rise of Industry Logic in Public Higher Education
American public higher education is in crisis. After decades of public scrutiny over affordability, access, and quality, indictments of the institution as a whole abound. Campus leaders and faculty report a loss of public respect resulting from their alleged unresponsiveness to demands for change. But is this loss of confidence warranted? And ......
The Management Revolution in American Higher Education
''A chilling, instructive, literate, compelling discussion of the staggering problems facing U.S. higher education and the management strategies required to cope with them.'' -- Washington Post''George Keller's best seller allows us to understand how techniques of strategic management can help deal with future uncertainties and shows how a number ......
Accreditation is essential to colleges and universities. Without it, they are unable to participate in federal student aid programs or confer legitimate degrees. In Accreditation on the Edge, Susan D. Phillips and Kevin Kinser bring together the expertise of different stakeholders to illustrate the complexities of the accreditation ......
The Alma-Ata Declaration of 1978 marked a potential turning point in global health, signaling a commitment to primary health care that could have improved the safety of air, food, water, roads, homes, and workplaces in all 180 countries that signed it. Unfortunately, progress in many countries stalled in the 1980s. The declaration was, ......
This book develops a scientific approach to the study of clinical acid-base physiology, giving emphasis to the areas of most significance in diagnosis and therapy.
A Regional Geography of the United States and Canada
Based on decades of research and written in clear, concise prose by one of the foremost geographers in North America, John C. Hudson'sAcross This Land is a comprehensive regional geography of the North American continent. Dividing the terrain into ten regions, which are then subdivided into twenty-seven smaller ......
Although the idea that all human beings are descended from Adam is a longstanding conviction in the West, another version of this narrative exists: human beings inhabited the Earth before, or alongside, Adam, and their descendants still occupy the planet.In this engaging and provocative work, David N. Livingstone traces the history of the idea of ......
Addiction to alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs is one of the major public health issues of our time. It accounts for one of every five deaths in the United States and costs approximately onehalf trillion dollars per year in health care expenditures and lost productivity. Its human costs are untold and perhaps uncountable. Addiction and Art puts a ......
