For the Common Good: A New History of Higher Education in America, Hardcover - Charles Dorn

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Charles DornAre colleges and universities in a period of unprecedented disruption? Is a bachelor's degree still worth the i...

Reducere. From the Nobel Prize-winning economist, a bold new agenda for the role of economics in societyWhen Jean Tirole won the Nobel Prize in Economics, he...

Is business just a way to make money? Or can the marketplace a venue for service to others? Scott B. Rae and Kenman L. Wong seek to explore this an...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Mick LennonNumber of pages: 140Collection: RTPI Library SeriesPublication date: 2021Dimensions: 251 x 236...

Bringing together some of the brightest and most-engaged scholars and thinkers in the UK, this book offers solutions and suggestions for how to re-...

Reducere. The liberal state is dead, long live the partner stateAcross the world, the liberal nation state is on its knees. Rising inequality, deep political...

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): Alex John (Clara L West Professor of Ethics and Philosophy, Clara L West Professor of Ethics and P...

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Reducere. DescriptionThis comprehensive book guides one to substantially rethink aspects of the economic life. It opens doors for new perspectives, describes...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Courtney (Quinnipiac University, USA) MarcheseIllustration(s): 200 colour illus; 200 colour illusNum...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Courtney (Quinnipiac University, USA) MarcheseIllustration(s): 200 colour illusNumber of pages: 216P...

How can schools teach the skills required for a strong democracy to flourish? What Kind of Citizen? asks readers to imagine the kind of society the...

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DescriptionHow Does Societal Transformation Happen? Values Development, Collective Wisdom, and Decision Making for the Common Good is a guide for u...

Reducere. This biography chronicles the life of Louise Odencrantz, who promoted social and industrial reform during the early twentieth-century, applied Prog...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Dr Manuela (TU Dortmund University, Germany) Vida-MannlIllustration(s): 3 bw illusNumber of pages: 2...

DescriptionRobert B. Reich makes a powerful case for the expansion of America's moral imagination. Rooting his argument in common sense and everyda...

In this volume a distinguished set of authors explore various economic, philosophical, and ethical ideas from historical, contemporary, and future-...

Reducere. An explosive, long-forgotten story of police violence that exposes the historical roots of today's criminal justice crisis A deeply researched and ...

Indebtedness as the universal condition of modern life

Reducere. DescriptionDesigned to be accessible to young readers, these volumes offer a way of learning about the history of America. Each book includes infor...

Indebtedness as the universal condition of the contemporary world in the wake of the financial crisis.Publisher: Verso BooksAuthor(s): Richard Dien...

Reducere. Higher Education in America is a landmark work--a comprehensive and authoritative analysis of the current condition of our colleges and universitie...

Interviews originally conducted in French but first published in German under title: Feur eine Politik des Gemeinwohls.

The New Power University puts forward a philosophy for the future of higher education and the shift in how universities must respond to societal tr...

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Publisher: Hodder & StoughtonAuthor(s): Jonathan SacksNumber of pages: 384Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 130 x 198 x 32Cover type: Paperback / s...

Internationally acclaimed thought-leader Jonathan Sacks demonstrates how we can build a strong collective morality for the modern era.

Reducere. A decade ago, Walter Brueggemann called the church to journey together for the good of our community through neighborliness, covenanting, and recon...

Reducere. What Charles Darwin can teach us about building a fairer society Who was the greater economist--Adam Smith or Charles Darwin? The question seems ab...

DescriptionPresenting with moving insight the relations between man, as a person and as an individual, and the society of which he is a part, Marit...

Are you tired of hearing people dismiss the church as an irrelevant relic? (Do you secretly wonder if they are right?) Don Everts explores an excit...

Reducere. The chaotic individualism of these times demands a prayer practice that summons a communal prophetic action with those who are marginalized in our ...

An interpretation of human rights that centers on the rhetorical--and religious--power of testimony.Jeremy Bentham described the idea of human righ...

Economics Unmasked presents a cogent critique of the dominant economic system, showing that the theoretical constructions of mainstream economics w...

Explores Public-Interest Science as a Potential Alternative to CommodificationPublisher: University of Pittsburgh PressAuthor(s): Hans RadderNumber...

DescriptionCommon life in our society is in decline. Our communities are disintegrating, as the loss of meaningful work and the breakdown of the fa...

How to Make Finance a Force for Good Just as Thomas Piketty offered a sweeping critique and progressive reassessment of capitalism, former World Ba...

Reducere. DescriptionPolitical philosophy is nothing other than looking at things political under the aspect of eternity. This book invites us to look philos...

Evangelical Christians are active across all spheres of intellectual and public life today. But a disconnect remains: the work they produce too oft...

DescriptionA lost literary relic of the First World War, Common Cause tells the story of Jeremy Robson, a crusading newspaper editor in the fiction...

From lofty ideals to the complex realities of the Catholic Church's commitment to justice and peace-building since Vatican II.

Challenging the subject's current interpretation, this microhistorical study traces the social and civic dynamics of the French Revolution's religi...

Reducere. Our country is at a crossroads: One path, fixated on the me, inevitably benefits the powerful and well-connected. But the other path leads to we - ...