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By Bob Buford and Jim Collins (foreword by)

Hardcover:

9781617952760 | Capitol Christian Dist, April 15, 2014, cover price $19.99

Miscellaneous:

9780312264680, titled "Skeptic" | St Martins Pr, December 1, 2000, cover price $6.99 | also contains Skeptic

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Product Description: How does a graduate student acquire the skills necessary to define a clear research agenda and write meaningful contributions to the scholarship in his or her field? Can the requirements of professional advancement in the ivory tower be reconciled with making a difference in the bare-knuckle world of policymaking? Can even a celebrated activist-scholar survive the seemingly relentless neoliberalization of higher education? Becoming a Footnote takes the reader on an inspirational journey through the experiences of researcher Sanford F...read more

Hardcover:

9781438447759 | State Univ of New York Pr, July 1, 2013, cover price $80.00 | About this edition: How does a graduate student acquire the skills necessary to define a clear research agenda and write meaningful contributions to the scholarship in his or her field?

Paperback:

9781438447742 | State Univ of New York Pr, July 1, 2013, cover price $31.95

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Paperback:

9781412845892 | 2 expanded edition (Transaction Pub, September 30, 2011), cover price $29.95

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Product Description: California on the Breadlines is the compelling account of how Dorothea Lange, the Great Depression’s most famous photographer, and Paul Taylor, her labor economist husband, forged a relationship that was private—they both divorced spouses to be together—collaborative, and richly productive...read more

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9780520266216 | Univ of California Pr, July 20, 2010, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: California on the Breadlines is the compelling account of how Dorothea Lange, the Great Depression’s most famous photographer, and Paul Taylor, her labor economist husband, forged a relationship that was private—they both divorced spouses to be together—collaborative, and richly productive.

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Product Description: Louis Mazzari brings to the fore one of the most important figures of the southern regionalist movement in the New Deal era. His is the first biography of Arthur Raper, a progressive sociologist, writer, and public intellectual who advocated racial and social justice in the South when such views were not only unpopular but dangerous, effectively laying a foundation for the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s...read more

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9780807131893 | Louisiana State Univ Pr, December 1, 2006, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: Louis Mazzari brings to the fore one of the most important figures of the southern regionalist movement in the New Deal era.

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The author tries to understand why a former classmate at Yale who showed enormous promise, should have ended his own life

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9780374226077 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, April 1, 1993, cover price $19.00 | About this edition: The author tries to understand why a former classmate at Yale who showed enormous promise, should have ended his own life

Paperback:

9780374529741 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, May 16, 2005, cover price $17.00
9780446670326 | Reprint edition (Grand Central Pub, April 1, 1994), cover price $11.99 | About this edition: The noted writer recalls Denny Hansen, a Rhodes Scholar whom he knew at Yale during the 1950s and who committed suicide at the age of fifty-five, and investigates the fall of a college hero

Hardcover:

9781891620300 | Public Affairs, April 1, 2000, cover price $28.50

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9781586480363 | Public Affairs, March 7, 2001, cover price $20.00

When a friend dies mysteriously, Dr. Mike Ballantine's assumptions about the universe are challenged, and with the help of a gifted CIA agent, he fights a conspiracy to steal research regarding evidence of life after death

Hardcover:

9780312193348 | St Martins Pr, March 1, 1999, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: When a friend dies mysteriously, Dr.

Paperback:

9780312969288 | St Martins Pr, March 1, 2000, cover price $6.99 | About this edition: Dr.

Miscellaneous:

9780312264680 | St Martins Pr, December 1, 2000, cover price $6.99 | also contains Drucker & Me: What a Texas Entrepreneur Learned From the Father of Modern Management

Miscellaneous:

9780312279370 | St Martins Pr, December 1, 2000, cover price $24.95 | also contains This Other London: Adventures in the Overlooked City

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Product Description: Catherine Bauer (1905–64) changed forever the concept of public housing in the United States―and inspired a generation of urban activists to include housing in welfare planning in the mid-20th century. She was one of a small group of idealists who called themselves Housers because of their commitment to raising the quality of urban life through improving shelter for low-income families...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780774807203 | Univ of British Columbia Pr, June 1, 1999, cover price $107.00 | About this edition: Catherine Bauer (1905–64) changed forever the concept of public housing in the United States―and inspired a generation of urban activists to include housing in welfare planning in the mid-20th century.

Paperback:

9780774807210 | Univ of British Columbia Pr, March 1, 2000, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Catherine Bauer (1905–64) changed forever the concept of public housing in the United States―and inspired a generation of urban activists to include housing in welfare planning in the mid-20th century.

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Hardcover:

9781560005100 | Large print edition (Transaction Pub Large Print, May 1, 1998), cover price $45.95

Product Description: A highly personalized account, Social Science in Actual Practice is a concrete, practical review of Rolf P. LyntonÆs career as a systems consultant, a hands-on trainer, and a CEO in manpower and institution development on three continents spanning five decades...read more

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9780761992073 | Sage Pubns, December 1, 1997, cover price $75.95 | About this edition: A highly personalized account, Social Science in Actual Practice is a concrete, practical review of Rolf P.

Paperback:

9780761992080 | Sage Pubns, March 1, 1998, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: A highly personalized account, Social Science in Actual Practice is a concrete, practical review of Rolf P.

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The famous management thinker and independent analyst offers a collection of autobiographical stories and vignettes that explore his life and times (view table of contents)

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9780471247395 | Reissue edition (John Wiley & Sons Inc, January 1, 1998), cover price $70.00 | About this edition: The famous management thinker and independent analyst offers a collection of autobiographical stories and vignettes that explore his life and times
9780060165659 | Reissue edition (Harpercollins, February 1, 1991), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: The author tells of childhood memories of Vienna, Germany, and Europe in the early 1930s, and his moves to and experiences in London and New York, and offers insights into the world of big business and corporate management

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9781560007388 | Transaction Pub, February 1, 1994, cover price $30.95 | About this edition: Peter Drucker’s lively and thoughtful memoirs are now available in paperback with a new introduction by the author.

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Hardcover:

9781557784070 | 1 edition (Universal Sales & Marketing, April 1, 1991), cover price $10.95

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The author, a noted sociologist whose parents immigrated from Russia, shares his memories of growing up in Harlem

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9780878054282 | Univ Pr of Mississippi, May 1, 1990, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: The author, a noted sociologist whose parents immigrated from Russia, shares his memories of growing up in Harlem

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This compilation of political essays written over the past three decades reveals the author's astute political awareness and consistent socialist standpoint on the newsmaking issues of America's recent past

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9780030044298 | Reissue edition (Henry Holt & Co, May 1, 1988), cover price $2.98 | About this edition: This compilation of political essays written over the past three decades reveals the author's astute political awareness and consistent socialist standpoint on the newsmaking issues of America's recent past

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