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Released: May 1, 2013
"A forcefully written treatment of the plight in which an increasing number of people find themselves."
What will the future hold when the best-educated generation ever can't find the employment for which it is qualified? Brussels-based
Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires reporter Froymovich debuts with an impressive presentation of the challenges raised by this question.
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NONFICTION
Released: May 1, 2013
"Alperovitz's conversational style avoids academic jargon while making complex issues easy (some might say too easy) to digest, but he's not likely to convince those of the conservative persuasion that a more hopeful future involves more collective action and government consolidation."
Any cure for America's economic plight lies deeper than politics as usual, argues an author who believes that a fundamental, radical, systemic transformation offers the possibility of an economic corrective.
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NONFICTION
Released: May 1, 2013
"A credible book to inspire even the most cynical among us."
The latest title in the publisher's School of Life series aims to be a guide to social and cultural change.
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NONFICTION
Released: April 23, 2013
"Due to the fact that Texas is thriving while much of America struggles, it might be wise to consider what Texas is doing right."
"I wanted to write a book that would help people come to terms with the existence of Texas," writes
Texas Monthly senior editor Grieder of her debut.
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NONFICTION
Released: April 22, 2013
"A clarion call for change and more--not less--engagement with Islam."
NONFICTION
Released: April 18, 2013
"Short, sweet, eye-opening thoughts on adoption and mixed-race parenthood."
NONFICTION
Released: April 16, 2013
"A brief look at what may surely be a historic class in American educational history--a subject worthy of deeper exploration."
The inaugural class of the first Islamic college in America share their hopes and dreams with a visiting journalist.
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NONFICTION
Released: April 16, 2013
"Apkon goes to great lengths to assay the obvious. Only in passing does he grant that the image does not exist in isolation, that word and image are inextricable. After all, he required this ancient technology--a book--to communicate his ideas."
Debut author Apkon, executive director of the Jacob Burns Film Center, makes a strong case for the moving image as today's primary form of communication. Yet, like many true believers, he pays short shrift to the cultural downside.
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NONFICTION
Released: April 11, 2013
"A no-holds-barred indictment of the system, filled with memorable anecdotes and accessibly written."
Two high-profile defense lawyers pull back the curtain on the U.S. criminal justice system and find much to criticize.
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NONFICTION
Released: April 10, 2013
"Generally engaging and often illuminating, but the study might better have gone deeper rather than wide."
The veteran journalist offers a survey of political caricature, international in scope, but a little sketchy in its short biographical summaries.
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NONFICTION
Released: April 9, 2013
"A dense sociological report on the facts and falsehoods of the political leanings of professors."
Gross (Sociology/Univ. of British Columbia;
Richard Rorty: The Making of an American Philosopher, 2008, etc.) examines the facts behind the conservative movement's oft-heard criticism of higher education: that American universities are, as presidential candidate Rick Santorum famously said, little more than "indoctrination mills" for the political left.
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NONFICTION
Released: April 9, 2013
"For students of Indian affairs or global economics, particularly in the East."
Bhagwati (Economics/Columbia Univ.) and Panagariya (Indian Economics/Columbia Univ.) collaborate again (co-editors:
India's Reforms: How They Produced Inclusive Growth, 2012, etc.) in this rebuttal of critics of India's present economic performance.
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