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Disciplines in the Making: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Elites, Learning, and Innovation
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Disciplines in the Making: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Elites, Learning, and InnovationThe organization of higher education across the world is one of several factors that conspire to create the assumption that our own map of the intellectual disciplines is, broadly speaking, valid cross-culturally. This book challenges this in relation to eight main areas of human endeavour, namely philosophy, mathematics, history, medicine, art, law, religion, and science. The book focuses on historical and cross-cultural data that throw light on the different ways in which these disciplines were constituted and defined in different periods and civilisations

 
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Panderer to Power: The Untold Story of How Alan Greenspan Enriched Wall Street and Left a Legacy of Recession
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Panderer to Power: The Untold Story of How Alan Greenspan Enriched Wall Street and Left a Legacy of RecessionPanderer to Power: The Untold Story of How Alan Greenspan Enriched Wall Street and Left a Legacy of Recession

Praise For PANDERER TO POWER

“We all owe a great debt to Fred Sheehan. Fred demolishes the myth of Alan Greenspan’s omniscience, while revealing the dangerous credulity of those who set him on a pedestal above the rest of us. Panderer to Power will be invaluable in making the case for how we might preserve our solvency and our system.”




 
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The Making of a European Economist
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The Making of a European EconomistThe Making of a European Economist

David Colander's highly original and thought provoking book considers ongoing changes in graduate European economics education. Following up on his earlier classic studies of US graduate economic education, he studies the 'economist production function' in which universities take student 'raw material' and transform it into economists, in doing so he provides insight into economists andeconomics.
 
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Tags: European, education, economists, graduate, studies, Making
Being a Leader and Making Decisions
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Being a Leader and Making DecisionsBeing a Leader and Making Decisions

Most communities and organizations require an organizer to be successful and create change. "Being a Leader and Making Decisions" tells the stories of great leaders - why they led, how they gained support and became leaders, and why people followed them. Through historical and modern examples, readers will learn about both positive and negative traits of leaders and find suggestions about how to take the lead in their own lives and communities.
 
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Having It All ... And Making It Work: Six Steps for Putting Both Your Career and Your Family First
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Having It All ... And Making It Work: Six Steps for Putting Both Your Career and Your Family First Working 24x7? Delaying life until it's too late? You have the ability stop! Having it All ...and Making it Work is a fast-paced, easy-to-use book offering you a new pathway towards managing personal life and professional life--without sacrificing either one of them. This book isn't just more whining and exhortation: it delivers specific, bite-sized, no-fluff solutions for managing your life, including crucial execution steps you can take immediately. Mills teaches you how to identify and balance what's most important to you--and give up what you don't want badly enough.
 
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