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Автор: Mettler Suzanne Название: Degrees of Inequality: How the Politics of Higher Education Sabotaged the American Dream ISBN: 0465044964 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780465044962 Издательство: Little Brown Цена: 22250.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: America's higher education system is failing its students. In the space of a generation, we have gone from being the best-educated society in the world to one surpassed by eleven other nations in college graduation rates. Higher education is evolving into a caste system with separate and unequal tiers that take in students from different socio-economic backgrounds and leave them more unequal than when they first enrolled. Until the 1970s, the United States had a proud history of promoting higher education for its citizens. The Morrill Act, the G.I. Bill and Pell Grants enabled Americans from across the income spectrum to attend college and the nation led the world in the percentage of young adults with baccalaureate degrees. Yet since 1980, progress has stalled. Young adults from low to middle income families are not much more likely to graduate from college than four decades ago. When less advantaged students do attend, they are largely sequestered into inferior and often profit-driven institutions, from which many emerge without degrees and shouldering crushing levels of debt. In Degrees of Inequality, acclaimed political scientist Suzanne Mettler explains why the system has gone so horribly wrong and why the American Dream is increasingly out of reach for so many. In her eye-opening account, she illuminates how political partisanship has overshadowed America s commitment to equal access to higher education. As politicians capitulate to corporate interests, owners of for-profit colleges benefit, but for far too many students, higher education leaves them with little besides crippling student loan debt. Meanwhile, the nation s public universities have shifted the burden of rising costs onto students. In an era when a college degree is more linked than ever before to individual and societal well-being, these pressures conspire to make it increasingly difficult for students to stay in school long enough to graduate. By abandoning their commitment to students, politicians are imperiling our highest ideals as a nation. Degrees of Inequality offers an impassioned call to reform a higher education system that has come to exacerbate, rather than mitigate, socioeconomic inequality in America.
Автор: Murphy Adrienne L., Mettler Lois a. Название: Can You See the Rainbow?: Creating Limitless Possibilities for the Child with Special Needs ISBN: 069264248X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780692642481 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 22930.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: LAM SHIFTS THE PERCEPTION FROM FIXING TO SUPPORTING THE CHILD WITH AUTISM, OPPOSITIONAL DEFIANCE, SENSORY PROCESSING AND GENETIC DISORDERS
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Japan’s official surrender to the United States in 1945 brought to an end one of the most bitter and brutal military conflicts of the twentieth century. U.S. government officials then faced the task of transforming Japan from enemy to ally, not only in top-level diplomatic relations but also in the minds of the American public. Only ten years after World War II, this transformation became a success as middle-class American consumers across the country were embracing Japanese architecture, films, hobbies, philosophy, and religion. Cultural institutions on both sides of the Pacific along with American tastemakers promoted a new image of Japan in keeping with State Department goals. Focusing on traditions instead of modern realities, Americans came to view Japan as a nation that was sophisticated and beautiful yet locked harmlessly in a timeless “Oriental” past. What ultimately led many Americans to embrace Japanese culture was a desire to appear affluent and properly “tasteful” in the status-conscious suburbs of the 1950s.
In How to Reach Japan by Subway, Meghan Warner Mettler studies the shibui phenomenon, in which middle-class American consumers embraced Japanese culture while still exoticizing this new aesthetic. By examining shibui through the popularity of samurai movies, ikebana flower arrangement, bonsai cultivation, home and garden design, and Zen Buddhism, Mettler provides a new context and perspective for understanding how Americans encountered a foreign nation in their everyday lives.
Автор: Mettler Yves Название: Atlas Europe Square ISBN: 1913029530 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781913029531 Издательство: MIT Press Рейтинг: Цена: 28160.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
An artist examines the plethora of Europe Squares, Europa Places, Places de l'Europe, and Europaplatzes and what they tell us about the ideality of "Europe."
If the built environment is a record of our modes of organization and the compromises we make in order to live together, then what are we to make of the plethora of Europe Squares, Europa Places, Places de l'Europe, and Europaplatzes? Public spaces that connect numerous disparate towns and cities through a "supersite" called Europe, they may appear as avatars of an idea in crisis, as "eurocentric values" and the concept of Europe as a unified political space are attacked and eroded from all sides.
Atlas Europe Square documents a body of work by Swiss artist Yves Mettler who, since 2003, has engaged in an ongoing mapping and documentation of these sites, along with a series of projects triangulating between particular squares, interrogating their differing architectural, environmental, and public functions, and what they tell us about the ideality of "Europe" and the (im)possibility of its concrete instantiation. Here this work is extended into reflections on the relationship between art and public space, site-specificity, and the artist's own implication in the imaginary of Europe as he becomes enmeshed in a network of projects, funds, and public bodies that seek to promote European culture through art. Alongside extensive photographic documentation, Atlas Europe Square contains texts by the artist alongside essays by Reza Negarestani, Teresa Pullano, Laurent Th venot, and Stephen Zepke, discussing Mettler's work.
Автор: Mettler, Suzanne. Название: Dividing citizens : ISBN: 0801485460 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780801485466 Издательство: Wiley EDC Рейтинг: Цена: 40040.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
The New Deal was not the same deal for men and women—a finding strikingly demonstrated in Dividing Citizens. Rich with implications for current debates over citizenship and welfare policy, this book provides a detailed historical account of how governing institutions and public policies shape social status and civic life. In her examination of the impact of New Deal social and labor policies on the organization and character of American citizenship, Suzanne Mettler offers an incisive analysis of the formation and implementation of the pillars of the modern welfare state: the Social Security Act, including Old Age and Survivors' Insurance, Old Age Assistance, Unemployment Insurance, and Aid to Dependent Children (later known simply as "welfare"), as well as the Fair Labor Standards Act, which guaranteed the minimum wage.
Mettler draws on the methods of historical-institutionalists to develop a "structured governance" approach to her analysis of the New Deal. She shows how the new welfare state institutionalized gender politically, most clearly by incorporating men, particularly white men, into nationally administered policies and consigning women to more variable state-run programs. Differential incorporation of citizens, in turn, prompted different types of participation in politics. These gender-specific consequences were the outcome of a complex interplay of institutional dynamics, political imperatives, and the unintended consequences of policy implementation actions. By tracing the subtle and complicated political dynamics that emerged with New Deal policies, Mettler sounds a cautionary note as we once again negotiate the bounds of American federalism and public policy.
Автор: Mettler Diane Название: Adventures of a White Trash Wedding Planner ISBN: 1087852153 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781087852157 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 18390.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
Sheila Johnson designs inspired weddings out of her busted-up 1973 Airstream at the Wheel-In RV Park. She dreams of a better clientele--brides that don't need bouncers, grooms that don't need strippers, and DJs that don't need boom boxes.
In the meantime, Sheila does what she has to pull off her events while being guided by her romantic ideal, the '80s flick Dirty Dancing, and sticking to her personal motto: It's not a felony if it's for love.
She's sure that if she can win Best BrideMagazine's budget wedding contest with her current monkey-themed wedding idea, she could finally get her big break. But there are plenty of obstacles standing in her way: a dirt poor bride, a pregnant best friend and business partner, a trailer-stealing mom, a spectacular crush on her boss, and a precarious job at a lowly minimart. This wedding will go on . . . or land her in jail.
Автор: Mettler Suzanne, Lieberman Robert C. Название: Four Threats: The Recurring Crises of American Democracy ISBN: 1250244420 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781250244420 Издательство: Macmillan USA/Holtzbrink(MPS) Рейтинг: Цена: 17770.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: An urgent, historically-grounded take on the four major factors that undermine American democracy, and what we can do to address them.
Автор: Mettler Mark Название: Hell is the CEO ISBN: 1734437006 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781734437003 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 14930.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Tom Cooper's lucrative, thirty-year career in the corporate sector has hardened his heart and exhausted his spirit. He is the model executive for shareholder capitalism. He is precisely what he was expected to aspire to be. But after a particularly carnivorous exchange with a vendor, Tom realizes he has become his own worst fear: a bully. Long-suppressed childhood trauma resurfaces as Tom struggles to regain a sense of empathy and compassion when faced with the maniacal need to satisfy his superiors and the shareholders they represent. Tom comes to question the very nature of the cold, calculating world of corporate America, wondering: Is it possible to succeed in business without sacrificing one's humanity?
Автор: By Ibrahim Alkatout, By Liselotte Mettler Название: Practical Manual for Laparoscopic & Hysteroscopic Gynecological Surgery ISBN: 9352701941 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789352701940 Издательство: JayPee Brothers India Рейтинг: Цена: 127070.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: A unique guide to operative decision-making techniques in female endoscopic pelvic surgery, this new edition is a landmark in gynaecological endoscopy. The book is divided into basics and anatomical aspects of endoscopic surgery; specific gynecological laparoscopic procedures; specific hysteroscopic procedures; and complications in surgery.
Автор: Vargo Dina Название: Wild Women of Boston: Mettle and Moxie in the Hub ISBN: 1626197954 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781626197954 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 22060.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The sons of liberty are celebrated in the rebellious history of Boston--but what of their sisters? An audacious and determined procession of reformers, socialites, criminals and madams made the city what it is today. One hundred years before Rosa Parks, A
Автор: Mettler Suzanne Название: The Government-Citizen Disconnect ISBN: 087154668X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780871546685 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 27540.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Americans' relationship to the federal government is paradoxical. Polls show that public opinion regarding the government has plummeted to all-time lows, with only one in five saying they trust the government or believe that it operates in their interest. Yet, at the same time, more Americans than ever benefit from some form of government social provision. Political scientist Suzanne Mettler calls this growing gulf between people's perceptions of government and the actual role it plays in their lives the "government-citizen disconnect." In The Government-Citizen Disconnect, she explores the rise of this phenomenon and its implications for policymaking and politics. Drawing from original survey data which probed Americans' experiences of 21 federal social policies -- such as food stamps, Social Security, Medicaid, and the home mortgage interest deduction -- Mettler shows that 96 percent of adults have received benefits from at least one of them, and that the average person has utilized five. Overall usage rates transcend social, economic, and political divisions, and most Americans report positive experiences of their policy experiences. However, the fact that they have benefited from these policies has little positive effect on people's attitudes toward government. Mettler finds that shared identities and group affiliations, as well as ideological forces, are more powerful and consistent influences. In particular, those who oppose welfare tend to extrapolate their unfavorable views of it to government in general. Deep antipathy toward the government has emerged as the result of a conservative movement that has waged a war on social welfare policies for over forty years, even as economic inequality and benefit use have increased. Mettler finds that voting patterns exacerbate the government-citizen disconnect, as those holding positive views of federal programs and supporting expanded benefits have lower rates of political participation than those holding more hostile views of the government. As a result, the loudest political voice belongs to those who have benefited from policies but who give government little credit for their economic well-being, seeing their success more as a matter of their own deservingness. This contributes to the election of politicians who advocate cutting federal social programs. According to Mettler, the government-citizen disconnect frays the bonds of representative government and democracy. The Government-Citizen Disconnect illuminates a paradox that increasingly shapes American politics. Mettler's examination of hostility toward government at a time when most Americans will at some point rely on the social benefits it provides helps us better understand the roots of today's fractious political climate.
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