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Higher Education in a Global Society, Volume 5: Achieving Diversity, Equity and Excellence (Advances in ...

JAI Press, 2006

The "problem of the 21st century" is rapidly expanding diversity alongside stubbornly persistent status and power inequities by race, ethnicity, gender, class, language, citizenship and region. Extensive technological, economic, political and social changes, along with immigration, combine to produce a global community of great diversity and interpenetration. Unfortunately, this global community continues to be fractured by extreme disparities ... 		  
  







  
  
Global Trends in Educational Policy, Volume 6 (International Perspectives on Education and Society)

JAI Press, 2005

This volume of International Perspectives on Education and Society highlights the valuable role that educational policy plays in the development of education and society around the world. The role of policy in the development of education is crucial. Much rests on the decisions, support, and most of all resources that policymakers can either give or withhold in any given situation. The eleven chapters in this volume present persuasive ... 		  
  







  
  
Current Perspectives in Special Education Administration, Volume 17 (Advances in Special Education)1 review

JAI Press, 2006

Not one of hers
Violet Dawn While this is a very good book...IT IS NOT one OF mine. I write only fiction. 		  
  







  
  
Comparative Studies of Social and Political Elites, Volume 23 (Comparative Social Research)

JAI Press, 2006

How can the existence of elites be compatible with democratic governance? Any democratic society is inevitably confronted by this basic question. This book reviews existing research on elites and their interactions with those around them. How the recruitment to elites changes in the long run according to class and gender is one of the core themes of the present volume. Other topics explored include the relationship between elites and the ... 		  
  







  
  
Devolution, Port Governance and Port Performance, Volume 17 (Research in Transportation Economics)1 review

JAI Press, 2007

Great Resource for Port Professionals and Academics
This is a great resource for port professionals, policy makers and academics. It is a bit pricey, but the inforamtion is quite useful. The comparison of port governance around the globe was quite interesting, albeit it Dr. Brooks' revised port goverance structure. A tabular comparison with the convential port governence structures would have been useful. It would have been good to see more ... 		  
  







  
  
Evolving Theories of Public Budgeting, Volume 6 (Research in Public Administration)
Jay White

JAI Press, 2001

As the study of public administration becomes more theoretically aware, researchers need to understand the strengths and weaknesses of different theoretical perspectives. This volume examines seven theoretical perspectives of public budgeting: incrementalism, the budget process model, the organizational process model, the median voter model, the "greedy bureaucrat" model, a post-modern model, and the transaction cost model. Major research from ... 		  
  







  
  
Learning from Research on Teaching, Volume 11: Perspective, Methodology, and Representation (Advances in ...

JAI Press, 2005

This volume is designed to accomplish three primary purposes: (1) illustrate a variety of qualitative methods that researchers have used to study teaching and teacher education; (2) assess the affordances and constraints of these methods and the ways that they focus and shape explorations of teaching; and (3) illuminate representative questions and findings associated with each method described. The book is organized around three issues that ... 		  
  







  
  
Authentic Leadership Theory and Practice, Volume 3: Origins, Effects and Development (Monographs in ...1 review

JAI Press, 2005

Authentic Leadership
I am presently completing a thesis in Authentic Leadership Development at the University of Auckland and have found the Monographs Volume 3 on Authentic Leadership to be very well structured and insightful in moving forward. The authors have succeeded with their objective to "produce original views on authentic leadership development and ground breaking insights for future theory, research, and ... 		  
  







  
  
Transformational and Charismatic Leadership, Volume 2 : The Road Ahead (Monographs in Leadership and ...2 reviews

JAI Press, 2002

Great stuff!
This is an interesting collection of essays. I never realized just how much leadership research has advanced. It seems like Avolio and Yammarino's associates are really pushing the frontiers of leadership knowledge forward. I am really pleased that some real scientific work is being done, because frankly, I am getting sick of reading some of the popular works, which come a dime a dozen. Buy ... 		  
  







  
  
Chinese Perspectives in Rhetoric and Communication (Advances in Communication and Culture)

JAI Press, 2000

This volume presents recent and unpublished research by Chinese scholars from China and the US on ways in which Chinese culture influences and intersects with communication theory and practice in China. It focuses on communication and cultural concepts as they function in Chinese society, in the media, in the workplace, and in the way people think. It includes historical analyses of Mao's political rhetoric before and during the Cultural ... 		  
  







  
  
Strategic Thinking & Entrepreneurial Action in the Health Care Industry, Volume 6 (Advances in Health Care ...1 review

JAI Press, 2007

Good reading about healthcare strategy
This book is a surprise for me. Good for a quick look over and refreshing the mind. It is very academic-focused as expected but it includes great reviews on the development of hospital (Chapter 2), basic model and analysis about the current healthcare crisis and future scenario (Chapter 3), comparison of internal fit (strategy and structure) and external fit (strategy and environment) on ... 		  
  







  
  
Equity and the Environment, Volume 15 (Research in Social Problems and Public Policy)

JAI Press, 2008

Around the time of the first "Earth Day," on April 22, 1970, the academic world joined in a virtual explosion of societal interest in a topic that inherently lies in the confluence between "social problems" and "public policy" -- the ways in which humans use and abuse the natural environment. In the worlds of social movement organizations and policy, that newfound interest showed up in dramatic growth of environmental organizations and a stream ... 		  
  







  
  
Technological Innovation: Generating Economic Results, Volume 18 (Advances in the Study of Entrepreneurship, ...

JAI Press, 2008

Profiting from technological innovation is a key strategic challenge in technology-intensive industries because it requires not only scientific and engineering expertise but also an understanding of how business and legal factors facilitate commercialization. This volume presents a multidisciplinary view of issues in technology commercialization and entrepreneurship. First, the strategic options available to an innovating firm attempting to ... 		  
  







  
  
Education for All, Volume 8: Global Promises, National Challenges (International Perspectives on Education ...

JAI Press, 2007

Since the World Conference on Education for All (EFA) in Jomtien, Thailand in 1990, the push for modern mass schooling has become a primary focus of national education policymakers and researchers around the world. The EFA declaration that grew out of this conference served as a culmination of a century-long movement to transform existing national educational systems into the most comprehensive mass system of schooling ever devised. Comparative ... 		  
  







  
  
The Structure of the Life Course: Standardized? Individualized? Differentiated?, Volume 9 (Advances in Life ...1 review

JAI Press, 2005

Important opera for life course studies
It is an important opera for scholars and phd students which are studying transition to adulthood (like me) or other items about life course. Massimo A. Zanetti Università della Valle d'Aosta Italia 		  
  







  
  
Motivation and Religion, Volume 14 (Advances in Motivation and Achievement)

JAI Press, 2006

Considerable evidence indicates that religion is a motivational force in the lives of most of the world's population, and recent social and political events have placed religion center stage. Motivation is considered an essential component of any adequate answer to the question, "Why religion?" That question concerned early psychologists, such as Freud and James, but was relatively neglected with the ascendancy of behaviorism. It has since ... 		  
  







  
  
Ecological Economics of Sustainable Watershed Management, Volume 7 (Advances in the Economics of ...

JAI Press, 2007

The papers in this volume illustrate the power of a scientific approach to ecological economics. Good science is a careful blend of theory and empirical testing. Theory without empirical grounding is of no practical value and random case studies without a theoretical context are not generalizable. The back and forth interplay between theory and evidence is apparent in the modeling exercises, evaluation studies, and policy design described in ... 		  
  







  
  
Exploring the Work and Non-Work Interface, Volume 6 (Research in Occupational Stress and Well Being)

JAI Press, 2007

This is an annual research series devoted to the examination of occupational stress, health and well being, with particular emphasis on the multi-disciplinary nature of occupational stress. Titles pull together the various streams of research from a variety of disciplines to better capture the significant bodies of work in occupational stress and well being. We provide a multidisciplinary and international perspective that gives a thorough ... 		  
  







  
  
Using Video in Teacher Education, Volume 10 (Advances in Research on Teaching)

JAI Press, 2003

This book features contribution from people who have developed and used video in teacher education. The focus is on video as opposed to other technology (e-mail, etc.) and its use in teacher education. The video can be stored on videotapes, CD-Rom, DVD, or computer drives, and it can be used in either preservice or inservice teacher education/professional development programs. Contributors explain the nature of the video they use in their ... 		  
  







  
  
Being There Even When You Are Not, Volume 4: Leading Through Strategy, Structures, and Systems (Monographs in ...

JAI Press, 2007

Whereas most of the leadership literature has focused on direct, interpersonal leadership, few researchers have examined indirect leadership or the leadership of organizations. Of course, direct, personal leadership plays an important role at all levels of the organization. However, we focus here on how leaders use strategy, structures, and systems to create the conditions that stimulate others to meaningfully contribute to the overarching goals ... 		  
  







  




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