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Philanthropy Reconsidered: Private Initiatives - Public Good - Quality of Life

George McCully

AuthorHouse, 2008

A great book for any philanthropist
An extremely thought provoking book for any current or aspiring philanthropist. Whether you are a scholar, a student, a donor, a board member, a politician, or an employee of a nonprofit, you will certainly come away with a much better understanding of the ...

Barbarians to Angels: The Dark Ages Reconsidered

Peter S. Wells

W. W. Norton, 2008

Barbarians to Angels
There are so many lengthy difficult books about the Early Middle Ages, written for and by specialists, what a delight to find a short and easy to read summary of the latest scholarship of this rapidly changing multi-disciplinary field, written for a general audience by ...

Inventing Grand Strategy and Teaching Command: The Classic Works of Alfred Thayer Mahan Reconsidered (Woodrow ...

Jon Tetsuro Sumida

The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999

Mahan in Full
There is no more prominent name - American or otherwise - in naval theory and grand strategy than Alfred Thayer Mahan (1840-1914). The only more enduring name in strategic studies today is that of the Prussian master, Carl von Clausewitz. Unfortunately, like ...

Scholarship Reconsidered: Priorities of the Professoriate

Ernest L. Boyer

Jossey-Bass, 1997

A must read for all higher education faculty
Ernest Boyer has presented a very thoughtful conception of the changing demands placed upon those faculty who work in higher education. Recognizing the triad which governs the "tenurability" of faculty, Boyer addresses the need to rethink what higher education is ...

The Complexities of Care: Nursing Reconsidered (The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work)

ILR Press, 2006

Captivating, Contraversial and Critical for Nurses to read!
This is THE BEST nursing book I've ever read. Had to read it for a required nursing class and I will read it again. Any nurse who cares about the nursing profession needs to read this book. I have passed it around work and everyone loves it. It holds your interest, ...

All Things Reconsidered: My Birding Adventures

Roger Tory Peterson

Houghton Mifflin, 2007

Fitting Tribute
The author, who died ten years ago, is the well-known originator of the Peterson's Field Guides. This book makes available to a wider audience a selection of columns he wrote for a bird magazine. In them, he takes us all over the world and familiarizes us with a wide ...

Congress Reconsidered

CQ Press, 2004

As students and scholars have come to expect from this classic reader, Dodd and Oppenheimer's winning team of distinguished scholars delivers the most up-to-date, accessible, and cutting-edge research on the development of the modern Congress. Over the course of seven editions, this innovative volume was the first to detail and assess the ...

Open Society Reforming Global Capitalism Reconsidered

George Soros

PublicAffairs, 2000

Economic theory has misrepresented how markets behave
Reflexivity, is the two way interaction between thinking and reality. Reality is not separate from thinking. Reflexivity is acceptance that there is a reality and we are a part of that reality. Reflexity, strength of its statement is contingent on their impact. ...

For Better or For Worse: Divorce Reconsidered

E. Mavis Hetherington, John Kelly

W. W. Norton & Company, 2003

No Agenda, Except the Truth
This was a most helpful, elucidating book. It maps out what life after divorce is like, on the basis of an enormous, scientific study. Anyone who has been divorced, or is the child of divorced parents (or marrying one) will find in it all the touchstones you need to ...

Jewish Christianity Reconsidered: Rethinking Ancient Groups and Texts

Augsburg Fortress Publishers, 2007

Uneven but Helpful
It is encouraging to note that the study of early Jewish Christianity has experienced something of a revival in recent years, after decades of serious neglect. The neglect can most likely be traced to the influence of such scholars as Adolph Harnack and Rudolph ...

Trafficking And Prostitution Reconsidered: New Perspectives On Migration, Sex Work, And Human Rights ...

Kamala Kempadoo (Editor)

Paradigm Publishers, 2005

LEGALIZE ADULT PROSTITUTION
Prostitution between consenting adults (adults!) should have been decriminalized generations ago. The primary reason it's still on our criminal statute books is because Christian fundamentalists still have a grip on our legislative branch. And of course no politician ...

A House of Many Mansions: The History of Lebanon Reconsidered

Kamal Salibi

University of California Press, 1990

The multi-faceted history of Lebanon.
This book isn't so much a history of Lebanon as about how the Maronites, the Druze, the Sunnites, and the Shi'ites hold different views of the history of Lebanon. It is difficult to understand one's history if there is little concensus about what is fact and what is ...

Dementia Reconsidered: the Person Comes First
Tom Kitwood

Open University Press, 1997

"For some years now, Tom Kitwood's work on dementia care has stood out as the most important, innovative and creative development in a field that has for too long been neglected. This book is a landmark in dementia care; it brings together, and elaborates on, Kitwood's theory of dementia and of person-centred care in an accessible fashion, that ...

Faculty Priorities Reconsidered: Rewarding Multiple Forms of Scholarship

Jossey-Bass, 2005

No reform effort in American higher education in the last twenty years has been more important than the attempt to enlarge the dominant understanding of the scholarly work of facult--what counts as scholarship. Faculty Priorities Reconsidered assesses the impact of this widespread initiative to realign the priorities of the American ...

The Washington Consensus Reconsidered: Towards a New Global Governance (Initiative for Policy Dialogue)

Oxford University Press, USA, 2008

This volume brings together many of the leading international figures in development studies, such as Jose Antonio Ocampo, Paul Krugman, Dani Rodrik, Joseph Stiglitz, Daniel Cohen, Olivier Blanchard, Deepak Nayyer and John Williamson to reconsider and propose alternative development policies to the Washington Consensus. Covering a wide range of ...