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The Decline of the Welfare State: Demography and Globalization
An analysis of the welfare state from a political economy perspective that examines the effects of aging populations, migration, and globalization on industrialized economies.In The Decline of the Welfare State, Assaf Razin and Efraim Sadka use a political economy framework to analyze the effects of aging populations, migration, and globalization on the deteriorating system of financing welfare…
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- 9780262282147
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- 1 online resource (viii, 133 pages) :illustrations.
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Gaming the Metrics: Misconduct and Manipulation in Academic Research
How the increasing reliance on metrics to evaluate scholarly publications has produced new forms of academic fraud and misconduct. The traditional academic imperative to “publish or perish” is increasingly coupled with the newer necessity of “impact or perish”—the requirement that a publication have “impact,” as measured by a variety of metrics, including citations, views, and …
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Demystifying the Academic Research Enterprise: Becoming a Successful Scholar …
What next-generation scholars need to know in order to thrive, and how they can actively participate in shaping the academic research enterprise. The academic research enterprise is highly complex, involving multiple sectors of society and a vast array of approaches. In Demystifying the Academic Research Enterprise, Kelvin K. Droegemeier shows next-generation scholars across all disciplines …
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Beyond Bakelite: Leo Baekeland and the Business of Science and Invention
"I just want to say one word to you. Just one word. . . . Plastics." This line from the film The Graduate has come to symbolize the hubris, promise, and disappointment embodied in one of the world's most ubiquitous materials. At present, plastics are cheap, widely used, and durable. But that durability means that plastics persist in the environment for decades. Images of swaths of the ocean or …
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- 9780262357975
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The Work of Professional Football
A long-term study providing rare insights into the precarious career and ordinary working culture of professional footballers. Away from the celebrity-obsessed media gaze, the work of a professional footballer is rarely glamorous and for most players a career in football is insecure and short-lived. A former professional, Martin Roderick’s familiarity with the world of football is the foundat…
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- 9781134324866
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Neither physics nor chemistry :a history of quantum chemistry
The authors of this book examine the evolution of quantum chemistry into an autonomous discipline, tracing its development from the publication of early papers in the 1920s to the dramatic changes brought about by the use of computers in the 1970s.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262298759
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 351 pages) :illustrations.
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Dis...miss gender?
"Boldly illustrated mix of essays, poems, surveys, and manifestos that deliver an inclusive, celebratory, finger-on-the-pulse revelation of gender in the act of transforming"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262376112
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Ending epidemics :a history of escape from contagion
"From the discovery of microorganisms to the end of smallpox, the story of how we came to understand the infectious diseases that once killed us & how we might escape such diseases in the future"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262373869
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Migration stigma :understanding prejudice, discrimination, and exclusion
"Scholars from migration and stigma research introduce the concept of "migration stigma" to deepen understanding and inform future action"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262378833
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Art for coexistence :unlearning the way we see migration
"How contemporary artistic practice insists on and models coexistence in the face of the 21st century's monumental migration crises and its alienating and dehumanizing effects"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262371618
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