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Author
Publisher
Mcgraw-Hill Education
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Our health care system is in critical condition. The Affordable Care Act has insured more Americans than ever, yet deductibles keep rising and costs continue to climb. Now more than ever, the industry needs a shot in the arm. It needs The innovator's prescription, the now-classic approach to efficient affordable, affordable health care"--Back cover.
Author
Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Beginning in Africa and ending in Europe, Incarceration Nations is a first-person odyssey through the prison systems of the world. Professor, journalist, and founder of the Prison-to-College-Pipeline, Dreisinger looks into the human stories of incarcerated men and women and those who imprison them, creating a jarring, poignant view of a world to which most are denied access, and a rethinking of one of America's most far-reaching global exports: the...
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"A crusading legal scholar exposes the powerful psychological forces that undermine our criminal justice system--and affect us all Our nation is founded on the notion that the law is impartial, that legal cases are won or lost on the basis of evidence, careful reasoning and nuanced argument. But they may, in fact, turn on the temperature of the courtroom, the camera angle of a defendant's taped confession, or a simple word choice or gesture during...
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
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Description
When President Roosevelt took the oath of office in 1933, he was facing a devastated nation. Four years into the Great Depression, 13 million American workers were jobless. What people wanted were jobs, not handouts, and in 1935, after a variety of temporary relief measures, a permanent nationwide jobs program was created--the Works Progress Administration, which would forever change the physical landscape and the social policies of the United States....
12) The fifth risk
Author
Language
English
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Description
"The election happened," remembers Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, then deputy secretary of the Department of Energy. "And then there was radio silence." Across all departments, similar stories were playing out: Trump appointees were few and far between; those that did show up were shockingly uninformed about the functions of their new workplace. Some even threw away the briefing books that had been prepared for them. Michael Lewis takes us into the engine...
Author
Publisher
Jossey-Bass, a Wiley imprint
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Higher education leaders may not be directly responsible for preparing students for postsecondary success, but they are responsible for preparing their institutions to serve--in the best way possible--the students they admit. By asking themselves how they can be a student ready college, they can create a new culture of leadership that focuses on understanding and utilizing student assets and social capital to achieve their shared goals for student...
Author
Language
English
Description
The book tells the story of Ronald 'Ron' Keith Williamson of Ada, Oklahoma, a former minor league baseball player who was wrongly convicted in 1988 of the rape and murder of Debra Sue Carter in Ada and was sentenced to death. After serving 11 years on death row, he was exonerated by DNA evidence and other material introduced by the Innocence Project and was released in 1999.
16) Prioritizing academic programs and services: reallocating resources to achieve strategic balance
Author
Publisher
Jossey-Bass
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
"This newly revised best-selling classic Prioritizing Academic Programs and Services continues to offer a proven step-by-step approach to reallocating resources in tough times. This updated text includes templates, available also online, for prioritizing communications plans to ensure more successful campus implementation and to avoid mistakes. Based on the author's extensive consulting experiences including serving several hundred two- and four-year...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Based on a study of 256 exemplary community college presidents, this book examines the attributes of outstanding leaders and their ability to orchestrate organizational change. Chapter 1 provides the background for the study, emphasizes the importance of leadership, and identifies attributes common to transformational leaders; that is, leaders who work with their followers so that each raises the other to higher levels of motivation and morality....
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Systematically addresses the impact of class, race, and gender on criminological theory and all phases of the administration of criminal justice, including its workers. These topics represent the main sites of inequality, power and privilege in the U.S., which consciously or unconsciously shape people's understandings of who is a criminal and how society should deal with them. --from publisher description
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