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"In 2001, the National Science Foundation's ADVANCE Institutional Transformation program began awarding five-year grants to colleges and universities to address a common problem: how to improve the work environment for women faculty in science and engineering. Drawing on the expertise of scientists, engineers, social scientists, specialists in organizational behavior, and university administrators, this collection is the first to describe the variety...
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In Passage to Union, Sarah Gordon has written a richly informed narrative history of the growth of the railroads, an American icon. But her conclusions are surprising. Where the railroads and their entrepreneurs are ordinarily celebrated for their accomplishments, Ms. Gordon finds that the cost of their achievements was high. Conflicts of interest - at local, state, and regional levels - characterized railroad growth at every stage. Despite the stated...
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"Millions of school-age children in the United States get out of school each day before their parents get home from work. Some participate in after-school programs and some are supervised by older teenagers or other adults, but many are on their own, either at home or somewhere else. Are these latchkey kids at risk for behavioral, emotional, or educational problems? Or do they benefit from the challenge of structuring their own time and taking care...
12) A way of seeing
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Essays originally published in Redbook magazine, Jan. 1962 to Oct. 1969.
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Considers major developments in the US affecting children and traces the social construction of childhood during the years between WWI and WWII. Contains chapters on expansion of education, the US Children's Bureau, the rise of child-rearing experts, social agencies and their impact on children and families, and the importance of the Great Depression and the New Deal for young people and youth culture. Includes b & w photos. c. Book News Inc.
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