In this Scholarly Bestseller, Derek Bok (President Emeritus of Harvard University), provides an  eloquent assessment of how America has fared in economic prosperity, quality of life, equality of opportunity, personal security, and societal values. This provocative work  offers a clear account of why, in a nation so prosperous, free, and stable, we tend to assume that the country is in dire straits and that the government can do little to help.

The State of the Nation: Government and the Quest for a Better Society

Bok, Derek Curtis

Business & Money

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<p>Examines the effects that the disappearance of work has on individual, family & neighborhood life</p>

When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban Poor

Wilson, William Julius

The Future of Capitalism: How Today's Economic Forces

Thurow, Lester C.

Economics

<p>Based on three years of interviews at a Fortune 500 company, the author traces the way home is being invaded by the time pressures and efficiency codes of work, where men and women are spending more and more time.</p>

The Time Bind: When Work Becomes Home and Home Becomes Work

Hochschild, Arlie Russell

Job Hunting & Careers

African Americans and the Public Agenda: The Paradoxes of Public Policy

Who truly represents African Americans in the American political process? If white racism is declining, why does there seem to be increased white resistance to programs that seek to redress inequality? And, why do so many programs that were intended to amend inequality seem to exacerbate it?  For the most part, policies important to the African American community continue to reflect the political moods of whites. And with conservative policy initiatives being  in vogue, such policies often have had little to do with the needs or preferences of Black citizens, and in many cases have done more harm than good. This "Presidential Collection" of policy-oriented chapters features contributions from Rev. Jesse Jackson, Prof. William Julius  Wilson, Dr. Cedric Herring, and other leading African American thinkers and policy analysts. It sheds light on the apparent paradoxes surrounding issues such as affirmative action, Afrocentric education, crime and unequal punishment, and work and welfare reform. This book contributes to our understanding of public policy with implications for racial inequality by providing new insights, fresh policy perspectives, and original evidence concerning some of the most pressing policy issues confronting this nation as it enters the 21st Century.

Politics & Social Sciences

Herring, Cedric

Social Sciences

Amelia Earhart : A Biography

Rich, Doris L.

Biographies & Memoirs

Christina Aguilera : The Unauthorized Audio Biography

Susan Van Dusen

Chris Herring

This expanded and revised edition explores and updates the cultural politics of the Walt Disney Company and how its ever-expanding list of products, services, and media function as teaching machines that shape children's culture into a largely commercial endeavor. The Disney conglomerate remains an important case study for understanding both the widening influence of free-market fundamentalism in the new millennium and the ways in which messages of powerful corporations have been appropriated and increasingly resisted in global contexts.New in this edition is a discussion of Disney's shift in its marketing strategies towards targeting tweens and teens, as Disney promises to provide (via participation in consumer culture) the tools through which young people construct and support their identities, values, and knowledge of the world. The updated chapters from the highly acclaimed first edition are complimented with two new chapters, "Globalizing the Disney Empire" and "Disney, Militarization, and the National Security State After 9/11," which extend the analysis of Disney's effects on young people to a consideration of the political and economic dimensions of Disney as a U.S.-based megacorporation, linking the importance of critical reception on an individual scale to a broader conception of democratic global community.

The Mouse That Roared: Disney and the End of Innocence

Henry A. Giroux

Literature & Fiction

Inside the Nation of Islam: A Historical and Personal Testimony of a Black Muslim

Vibert L. White Jr.

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