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Managing the Research University provides a comprehensive background and discussion of all major topics encountered routinely in managing the academic research enterprise. It serves as a surrogate mentor by providing advice and guidance on best practices that set the professional standards for academic research management....

The Pension Crisis concerns the changing demographic profile of the economy: an increasing number of elderly persons supported by fewer young people. Understanding and tackling this impending crisis is a key task for public policy. An annuity protects an individual from outliving their savings, and is central to pensions policy: this book explores...

Waxman here presents an ambitious and comprehensive attempt to link the philosophers known as the British Empiricists--Locke, Berkeley, and Hume--to the philosophy of Immanuel Kant. Much has been written about all these thinkers but Waxman argues that, contrary to conventional wisdom, Kant is actually the culmination of the British empiricist...

This is a study of an anonymous ancient work, originally composed in Greek, titled   Joseph and Aseneth. Although relatively unknown outside of scholarly circles, the story is remarkable because of its focus on a female character and its absence of overt misogyny. It has traditionally been viewed as an early 2nd-century C.E. conversion story of...

In print for fifty years, White Collar by C. Wright Mills is considered a standard        on the subject of the new middle class in twentieth-century America. This landmark        volume demonstrates how the conditions and styles of middle class life--originating        from elements of both the newer lower and upper classes--represent modern...

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