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Accounts, Excuses, and Apologies, Third Edition

Proposes a theory and case studies on repairing a damaged or threatened image or reputation.

Win or Die

This entertaining and accessible guide shows readers how to turn danger into opportunity, even when dragons threaten.

Student Success

Helps students achieve their academic and career goals by clarifying the behaviors that they alone are responsible for, explaining why they are important, how they are assessed, and how they can lead to success.

Colombian Peasants in the Neoliberal Age

Presents a timely discussion of the core problems faced by peasant communities under neo-liberal economics.

Works like a Charm

Breaks the spell of economic thought by interrogating the widespread language and logic of “incentives” in public life from a Lacanian perspective.

Convergence as Adaptivity

Argues that states substitute unwanted policy changes dictated by globalization with politically feasible ones, leading to policy convergence.

The Motorcycle Industry in New York State, Second Edition

The compelling chronicle of 120 years of motorcycle making in the Empire State.

Following the Ticker

Traces the influence of the stock market on Americans' beliefs about politics.

China and Its Small Neighbors

Analyzes the nature, processes, and political consequences of the asymmetrical relationships between China and its six small neighbors in Asia.

Cinema of Discontent

Uses popular films to reveal the tensions generated during Japan’s postwar "economic miracle," challenging the prevailing view that it was a story of great national success.

Servant-Leadership, Feminism, and Gender Well-Being

Combines servant-leadership and feminism into a new understanding of leadership.

Bitter Harvest

Explores the duality between humans and Earth through a focus on the economic system changes that began with grain agriculture and has now reached its apogee in global capitalism.

Virgin Capital

Ethnography situating the contemporary financial services industry in the US Virgin Islands within broader histories of racial capitalism and gender inequality.

Capitalism for All

Demonstrates that a true liberal capitalism has the capacity to enable personal well-being while dealing with new challenges such as pandemics, climate change, and automation.

Creating a Culture of Mindful Innovation in Higher Education

Offers a vision for innovation in higher education focused on societal progress and human development, as well as for higher education's role within a broader culture of innovation.

The Atlantic and Africa

Traces the inner connections between the second slavery in the Americas, slavery in Africa, the abolition of the Atlantic slave trade, and the "Great Transformation" of the nineteenth century world economy.

Imagining the Fed

Traces the six-decade struggle for power within the Federal Reserve System from the perspective of the central bankers who shaped the Fed.

Vera and the Ambassador

A behind-the-scenes look at diplomacy and international relations in post-communist Eastern Europe.

Globalizing Organic

By Rafi Grosglik
Subjects: Sociology

Traces how alternative food movements are affected by global and local trends, with a focus on how organic agriculture was integrated in Israel.

The Split Economy

Draws on philosophy, economics, theology, and psychoanalytic theory to reveal a fundamental dynamic of capitalism.

Capital in the Mirror

Analyzes contemporary capitalism through the products of culture and art for fresh insight into emancipatory possibilities concealed within capitalism’s darkest dynamics.

DIY on the Lower East Side

Engaging look at Lower East Side writers and artists in the wake of the 1975 New York fiscal crisis.

Servant-Leadership and Forgiveness

A compelling gathering of perspectives on the intersection of servant-leadership and forgiveness.

The Great Agrarian Conquest

Groundbreaking analysis of how colonialism created new conceptual categories and spatial forms that reshaped rural societies.

The Big Thaw

Explores the unprecedented and rapid climate changes occurring in the Arctic environment.

Beyond the Xs and Os

Inside account of the negotiations between the football Bills, New York State, and Erie County to sign a long-term stadium lease and thereby keep the team in Buffalo.

Rumble and Crash

Analyzes six films as allegories of capitalism’s precarious state in the early twenty-first century.

Tax Increment Financing and Economic Development, Second Edition

Examines the many issues raised by TIF, the most widely used tool of local economic and community development.

The Future of (Post)Socialism

Explores the current and future trajectories of the paradigm of postsocialism.

NATO's Durability in a Post-Cold War World

Examines how NATO has adapted and endured after the end of the Cold War, transforming itself to deal with a host of new security challenges.

The Debt of the Living

An analysis of theological and philosophical understandings of debt and its role in contemporary capitalism.

Over a Barrel

How a small family company in the Finger Lakes became one of the most important wine producers in the United States, only to be taken down by corporate greed and mismanagement.

The Politics of the Second Slavery

Sheds new light on both pro and antislavery politics in the nineteenth-century Americas.

International Disaster Management Ethics

Responds to the demanding political and ethical challenges faced by the international disaster management community.

Austerity and the Labor Movement

An overview and analysis of austerity policies and labor movement resistance in several countries.

Slavery in the Circuit of Sugar, Second Edition

Traces the historical development of slave labor and plantation agriculture in nineteenth-century Martinique.

Beer of Broadway Fame

Explores the hundred-year history of Piel Bros. , one of the prominent German American brands that once made New York City the brewing capital of America.

A Great Undertaking

Explores the social disruption resulting from industrialization in a Chinese coalmining community at the turn of the twentieth century.

In the Face of Inequality

First comparative historical analysis of the organizational growth of black colleges.

The Chinese Market Economy, 1000–1500

Documents the rise and fall of a market economy in China from 1000-1500.

BRAC, Global Policy Language, and Women in Bangladesh

A critical examination of the impact of BRAC, the world's largest NGO, on the status of women in Southern Bangladeshi cultural life.

Young Faculty in the Twenty-First Century

Demonstrates how the success of universities depends on the working conditions of the younger academic generation.

Government in the Twilight Zone

Illuminates how local board systems operate and the motivations and experiences of their members.

Massively Parallel Globalization

Explores how individuals and groups adapt to the challenges of globalization.

Corporate Power, Oligopolies, and the Crisis of the State

Addresses the power of oligopolistic corporations in contemporary society.

Disaster Emergency Management

Examines how public officials in the US, China, Japan, and Indonesia have interacted with communities affected by natural disasters.

Conversations on Servant-Leadership

Some of the world’s foremost thought leaders consider the role of leadership, love, and power in the midst of political and social upheaval.

Accounts, Excuses, and Apologies, Second Edition

Updated with a timely literature review and new case studies from sports, international politics, and third party image repair.

Community, Culture, and Economic Development, Second Edition

Newly updated comparative study of economic development policy, and its relationship with local power structures and cultural and social relations, in two Maryland towns.

Mr. New York

The life and times of an instrumental figure in New York City’s recovery from the fiscal and social crises of the 1970s and 1980s, and in the general revitalization of the city over two generations.

Integral Leadership

A groundbreaking book that brings the insights of Integral Theory to business and organizational development.

Interstate Economic Relations

A comprehensive look at the economic relations among states, and how they might be better optimized.

California Dreaming

Multidisciplinary study of the citrus industry in Palestine before World War II.

China's America

A fascinating look at Chinese perceptions of the United States and the cultural and political background that informs them.

Regulating the Business of Insurance in a Federal System

Analysis on a dual insurance regulation system and its effectiveness relevant to the current system of regulation.

Comparative Public Budgeting

Holistic, comparative analysis of multiple budget systems and contexts.

The Challenges of Global Business Authority

An astute assessment of democratic principles and decision-making structures in the global business world.

Globalizing Justice

Essays assessing the impact of globalization on law and court systems across the world.

Proving Up

Uses the interdisciplinary approach of evolutionary economics to explore the history of land domestication in the United States.

Mission Expansion in the Federal Home Loan Bank System

Studies the Federal Home Loan Bank System, how it has changed over time and why

Spirits of Resistance and Capitalist Discipline, Second Edition

New edition of Aihwa Ong’s classic ethnographic study of Malay women factory workers.

Policing Narratives and the State of Terror

Examines the recent “War on Terror” and the increasing privatization of international policing through the lens of detective fiction and security and espionage narratives.

America's Economic Moralists

By Donald E. Frey
Subjects: History

Traces the history of two rival American economic moralities from colonial times to the present.

Foreign Workers in Israel

Explores how the entry of migrant workers into Israel raises questions beyond just those of the labor market.

Environmental Integration

A new and original way of looking at the challenge presented by environmental issues.

When the Pot Boils

By David A. Paul
Subjects: Education

Tells the story of the decline and near bankruptcy of a major American university, and how its dramatic turnaround was quickly achieved.

Always at Odds?

By Mary C. Wright
Subjects: Education

How faculty and administrators at research universities can create a shared sense of values.

The Little School System That Could

Examines, from four organizational perspectives, Virginia’s Manassas Park City School’s ten-year turnaround.

Comparing Apples and Mangoes

Uncovers important similarities in the political features of developing countries in Africa, Asia,and Latin America.

Global Liberalism and Political Order

Examines the possibilities of global governance in the wake of the challenges of globalization.

Governmental Transparency in the Path of Administrative Reform

How federal management reforms have impacted the implementation of the Freedom of Information Act.

Deep History

Blends insights from several disciplines to offer a general theory of social evolution.

Rescuing Regulation

Fashions a new way of defending the importance of economic regulation.

Governance and the Public Good

Grapples with a variety of policy issues in order to provoke a discussion of the state of higher education in the 21st century.

Civil Service Reform in the States

Assesses recent civil service reforms undertaken by state governments.

Product Market Structure and Labor Market Discrimination

Measures the relationship between market competition and the treatment of women, minorities, and the disabled in the workplace.

Mediating Globalization

Argues that institutional context drives economic globalization in the United States and Britain.

The Japan That Never Was

Contests conventional wisdom on Japan's postwar economic success and its economic and political problems in the 1990s, providing a new account of these conditions.

Petty Capitalists and Globalization

Examines how small firms, like large ones, are mobilizing to compete in a global economy.

The Striking Cabbies of Cairo and Other Stories

Challenges existing views of crafts and service workers in Egypt in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Speculative Management

Argues that recent initiatives by industrial management were directed more toward short-term gains than improving efficiency.

Workers and Narratives of Survival in Europe

Chronicles the growing impact of job uncertainty on workers in Europe.

In the Name of Harmony and Prosperity

Offers an analysis of the dynamics of Taiwan's export-oriented industrialization, particularly its impact on women and other workers.

Social Construction and the Logic of Money

Examines the nature of international economic leadership since the seventeenth century.

Debating the Global Financial Architecture

Looks at alternatives to international financial institutions such as the IMF and World Bank.

Technology, Development, and Democracy

The impact of internet technologies on international politics.

Contesting Agriculture

Examines the privatization of agriculture in eastern Germany since 1989.

Quicker, Better, Cheaper?

Scholars and practitioners explore American government performance management offering diverse views.

Rip Van Winkle's Neighbors

Explores the social and economic transformations of the mid-Hudson River Valley during the key expansionist period in American history.

Excellence in Communicating Organizational Strategy

Essays on how organizations effectively communicate strategy to optimize performance.

Gradual Economic Reform in Latin America

In-depth case study of Costa Rican economic reform efforts.

Money and Power in Europe

Traces the history of European monetary negotiations from the 1960s to the 1990s.

Tax Increment Financing and Economic Development

Examines the many issues raised by the increasing popularity of tax increment financing.

Higher Education in Crisis

Explores the university’s altering landscape, the conflicts over its core values and legitimacy, and the challenge for the university to negotiate the new landscape and to redefine itself within a larger educational context.

Constructing Sustainable Development

Defines, analyzes, critiques, and proposes new policy solutions for achieving sustainable development.

Transitions to Competitive Government

Describes how private-sector management strategies can help governments obtain greater access to global resources, create more jobs, and provide better social services to their citizens.

Global Leaders for the Twenty-First Century

Identifies eight new competencies that will be required by twenty-first century leaders, and profiles twelve up-and-coming leaders who exemplify them.

Big Business and the State

Examines the evolution of corporate form and managerial process from the 1880s to the 1990s, detailing how corporations influenced government to affect changes in response to economic transitions.

Religion and Economics

New perspectives on the bond between religion and economics.