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Many universities offer the Master of Public Administration (MPA)
or other public affairs degree, which includes at least one course
in public budgeting or public financial management. The faculty who
teach these courses can however sometimes struggle to cover the
breadth of material required and to fully engage students in what
can be a technical subject. Teaching Public Budgeting and Finance:
A Practical Guide addresses this challenge by sharing hands-on
classroom expertise from leading scholars and creative instructors
in the field. Drawing on their extensive experiences with teaching,
researching, and engaging in service, each contributor reflects on
how their area of expertise can be taught most effectively,
providing a discussion of student learning outcomes, pedagogical
approaches, relevant resources, and appropriate course assignments.
While no one book can provide a final say on classroom instruction,
this first-of-its kind primer on teaching public budgeting and
financial management courses is a detailed, indispensable guide for
all faculty looking to improve the learning experience of students
in the classroom. Teaching Public Budgeting and Finance: A
Practical Guide is required reading for early career faculty as
they prepare to teach the course for what may be the first time, as
well as for more senior faculty looking to update their course,
complement their own teaching strengths, or teaching the course for
the first time in several years.
Known in the Dominican Republic and Togo as Vodu, in Benin as
Vodun, and in Haiti as Vodou, West African religion has, for
hundreds of years, served as a repository of sacred knowledge while
simultaneously evolving in response to human experience and
globalization. Spirit Service: Vodun and Vodou in the African
Atlantic World explores this dynamic religion, its mobility, and
its place in the modern world. By examining the systems-ritual
practices, community-based spirit veneration, and spiritual means
of securing opportunity and well-being-alongside the individuals
who worship, this rich collection offers the first comprehensive
ethnographic study of West African spirit service on a broad scale.
Contributors consider social encounters between African/Haitian
practitioners and European / North American spiritual seekers,
economies and histories, funerary rites and spirit possessions, and
examinations of gender and materiality. Offering much-needed
perspective on this historically disparaged religion, Spirit
Service reminds us all that the gods are growing, assimilating, and
demanding recognition and respect.
Many universities offer the Master of Public Administration (MPA)
or other public affairs degree, which includes at least one course
in public budgeting or public financial management. The faculty who
teach these courses can however sometimes struggle to cover the
breadth of material required and to fully engage students in what
can be a technical subject. Teaching Public Budgeting and Finance:
A Practical Guide addresses this challenge by sharing hands-on
classroom expertise from leading scholars and creative instructors
in the field. Drawing on their extensive experiences with teaching,
researching, and engaging in service, each contributor reflects on
how their area of expertise can be taught most effectively,
providing a discussion of student learning outcomes, pedagogical
approaches, relevant resources, and appropriate course assignments.
While no one book can provide a final say on classroom instruction,
this first-of-its kind primer on teaching public budgeting and
financial management courses is a detailed, indispensable guide for
all faculty looking to improve the learning experience of students
in the classroom. Teaching Public Budgeting and Finance: A
Practical Guide is required reading for early career faculty as
they prepare to teach the course for what may be the first time, as
well as for more senior faculty looking to update their course,
complement their own teaching strengths, or teaching the course for
the first time in several years.
Known in the Dominican Republic and Togo as Vodu, in Benin as
Vodún, and in Haiti as Vodou, West African religion has, for
hundreds of years, served as a repository of sacred knowledge while
simultaneously evolving in response to human experience and
globalization. Spirit Service: Vodún and Vodou in the African
Atlantic World explores this dynamic religion, its mobility, and
its place in the modern world. By examining the systems—ritual
practices, community-based spirit veneration, and spiritual means
of securing opportunity and well-being—alongside the individuals
who worship, this rich collection offers the first comprehensive
ethnographic study of West African spirit service on a broad scale.
Contributors consider social encounters between African/Haitian
practitioners and European / North American spiritual seekers,
economies and histories, funerary rites and spirit possessions, and
examinations of gender and materiality. Offering much-needed
perspective on this historically disparaged religion, Spirit
Service reminds us all that the gods are growing, assimilating, and
demanding recognition and respect.
"As a historical legacy, and in the present, servitude remains an
ideal macrocosm for examining the racial and class stratification
that built this country. Margaret Jordan's brilliant analysis of
fictional representations of servitude in the US reminds us of the
extent to which the reproduction of the American family, community,
and nation has been accomplished through racialized human
interactions. Servitude continues today as racialized occupations
built on the blood, sweat and tears of the working poor, many of
whom are immigrants. "African American Servitude and Historical
Imaginings" challenges current scholarship on the commodification
of care work and material consumption that rely solely on gendered
metaphors for serving and being served. Without understanding the
legacy of Black servitude as America's racialized past, we cannot
begin to illuminate the significance that race continues to play in
our daily lives and most intimate spaces."--Mary Romero, author of
"Maid in USA""Where does the truth lie? Does the truth lie? Can
history tell the truth? Is the truth of history best served by
fiction? Dr. Margaret Jordan boldly probes into the heart of
woefully neglected considerations of power, color, caste, work, and
guilt in A"frican American Servitude and Historical Imaginings.
"Examining four American novelists' tales of master/servant
relationships Jordan's perceptive examination, at long last,
provides a proper place for vital discussions about the role of the
help."--Bill Harris, author of "Robert Johnson: Trick the Devil"
and "Yardbird Suite: Side One: A Biopoem on Charlie Parker""In
"African American Servitude" Dr. Jordan shines clear light on the
inclination of some writersto project and sustain damaging
stereotypes. We see the all too familiar happy mammy, the wanton
Jezebel, the ne'er-do-well lazy Willie shuckin' and jivin', the
dangerous brute. We see resistance to accounting for and reckoning
with the mothers, lovers, citizens, fathers, and builders living in
full color beneath those encrusted, enforced, fradulent false faces
masked by servitude. But Dr. Jordan also powerfully reveals that in
the hands of some writers, such as Doctorow and Morrison, these
'dumb' not-quite-'people' turn out to be landmines for the national
psyche. Beyond the book pages, and the writers' imaginings, we are
forced to consider a society in denial."--Ron Milner, author of
"Who's Got His Own" and "What the Wine Sellers Buy"
This book presents a theoretical and historicized reading of the
production of the 'autonomous' subject in Milton's prose and in
Paradise Lost. It rejects the current orthodoxy that liberal
humanism is just a form of domination, and reads Milton's texts as
revolutionary. Although Milton participates in the formation of
discourses of sexuality, labour and the nature of reason which come
to be normative, neither Milton's texts nor modernity more
generally can be understood without also accepting the dynamism
inherent in the belief in individual freedom.
This book presents a theoretical and historicized reading of the
production of the 'autonomous' subject in Milton's prose and in
Paradise Lost. It rejects the current orthodoxy that liberal
humanism is just a form of domination, and reads Milton's texts as
revolutionary. Although Milton participates in the formation of
discourses of sexuality, labour and the nature of reason which come
to be normative, neither Milton's texts nor modernity more
generally can be understood without also accepting the dynamism
inherent in the belief in individual freedom.
An Independent Publisher Book Awards Gold Medal Winner A
Progressive Book of the Year A TechCrunch Favorite Read of the Year
"Deeply researched and thoughtful." -Nature "An extended exercise
in myth busting." -Outside "A critique of both popular and
scientific understandings of the hormone, and how they have been
used to explain, or even defend, inequalities of power." -The
Observer Testosterone is a familiar villain, a ready culprit for
everything from stock market crashes to the overrepresentation of
men in prisons. But your testosterone level doesn't actually
predict your appetite for risk, sex drive, or athletic prowess. It
isn't the biological essence of manliness-in fact, it isn't even a
male sex hormone. So what is it, and how did we come to endow it
with such superhuman powers? T's story begins when scientists first
went looking for the chemical essence of masculinity. Over time, it
provided a handy rationale for countless behaviors-from the boorish
to the enviable. Testosterone focuses on what T does in six
domains: reproduction, aggression, risk-taking, power, sports, and
parenting, addressing heated debates like whether high-testosterone
athletes have a natural advantage as well as disagreements over
what it means to be a man or woman. "This subtle, important book
forces rethinking not just about one particular hormone but about
the way the scientific process is embedded in social context."
-Robert M. Sapolsky, author of Behave "A beautifully written and
important book. The authors present strong and persuasive arguments
that demythologize and defetishize T as a molecule containing
quasi-magical properties, or as exclusively related to masculinity
and males." -Los Angeles Review of Books "Provides fruitful ground
for understanding what it means to be human, not as isolated
physical bodies but as dynamic social beings." -Science
Leadership Bloopers and Blunders is a common-sense book on what not
to do as a leader. The book is divided into six distinct chapters
that help to identify common leadership mistakes that can lead to
disaster for teachers and school leaders. This book shares
real-life stories based on actual events. Some stories are based on
court cases or events that made the news, while others were
compiled from events shared by colleagues. Each story is followed
by discussion questions to facilitate discussion to enhance
leadership development. The chapters highlight legal and good-sense
commentary on how to avoid leadership mishaps from those who have
seen it all.
In African-American Servitude and Historical Imaginings Margaret
Jordan initiates a new way of looking at the African American
presence in American literature. Twentieth-century retrospective
fiction is the site for this compelling investigation about how
African American servants and slaves have enormous utility as
cultural artifacts, objects to be acted upon, agents in place, or
agents provocateurs. Jordan argues that those who even those
seemingly innocuous, infrequently visible, or silent servants are
vehicles through which history, culture and social values and
practices are cultivated and perpetuated, challenged and
destabilized. Jordan demonstrates how African American servants and
servitude are strategically deployed and engaged in ways which
encourage a rethinking of the past. She examines the ideological
underpinnings of retrospective fiction by writers who are clearly
social theorists and philosophers. Jordan contends that they do not
read or misread history, they imagine history as meditations on
social realties and reconstruct the past as a way to confront the
present.
Although the presidential election of 1944 placed FDR in the
White House for an unprecedented fourth term, historical memory of
the election itself has been overshadowed by the war, Roosevelt s
health and his death the following April, Truman's ascendancy, and
the decision to drop the atomic bomb. Today most people assume that
FDR s reelection was assured. Yet, as David M. Jordan s engrossing
account reveals, neither the outcome of the campaign nor even the
choice of candidates was assured. Just a week before Election Day,
pollster George Gallup thought a small shift in votes in a few key
states would award the election to Thomas E. Dewey. Though the
Democrats urged voters not to "change horses in midstream," the
Republicans countered that the war would be won "quicker with Dewey
and Bricker." With its insider tales and accounts of party
politics, and campaigning for votes in the shadow of war and an
uncertain future, FDR, Dewey, and the Election of 1944 makes for a
fascinating chapter in American political history."
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