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Joshua Sharfstein, “The Public Health Crisis Survival Guide: Leadership and Management in Trying Times” (Oxford UP, 2018)

Joshua Sharfstein
The Public Health Crisis Survival Guide
Leadership and Management in Trying Times
Oxford University Press, 2018

New Books in Medicine New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Public Policy New Books in Science & Technology New Books Network September 21, 2018 Jeremy Corr

Dr. Joshua Sharfstein has learned a lot as from his years of experience as a public health leader. He has dealt with everything from a rabid raccoon, to protestors, to potentially losing refrigeration on the city of Baltimore’s stock of vaccines. And now he has turned the insight gained from... Read More

Alyshia Gálvez, “Eating NAFTA: Trade, Food Policies, and the Destruction of Mexico” (U. California Press, 2018)

Alyshia Gálvez
Eating NAFTA
Trade, Food Policies, and the Destruction of Mexico
University of California Press, 2018

New Books in Anthropology New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Economics New Books in Food New Books in Latin American Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Public Policy New Books Network September 19, 2018 Eric LeMay

The North American Free Trade Agreement—or NAFTA, as we Americans call it—is very much in the news of late, primarily because President Trump has decided to make good on what he famously called “the single worst trade deal” that the United States has ever approved. Trump’s assessment, like so many... Read More

Freeden Blume Oeur, “Black Boys Apart: Racial Uplift and Respectability in All-Male Public Schools” (U Minnesota Press, 2018)

Freeden Blume Oeur
Black Boys Apart
Racial Uplift and Respectability in All-Male Public Schools
University of Minnesota Press, 2018

New Books in African American Studies New Books in American Studies New Books in Education New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Public Policy New Books in Sociology New Books Network September 13, 2018 Sarah Patterson

How do schools empower but also potentially emasculate young black men? In his new book, Black Boys Apart: Racial Uplift and Respectability in All-Male Public Schools (University of Minnesota Press, 2018), Freeden Blume Oeur uses observational and interview methods to better understand the lived experiences of young black men in two... Read More

J. Lester, C. Lochmiller, and R. Gabriel, “Discursive Perspectives on Education Policy and Implementation” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017)

Jessica Lester, Chad Lochmiller, and Rachael Gabriel, eds.
Discursive Perspectives on Education Policy and Implementation

Palgrave Macmillan, 2017

New Books in Communications New Books in Education New Books in Language New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Public Policy New Books in Sociology New Books Network September 13, 2018 Pengfei Zhao

The study of education policy is a scholarly field that sheds light on important debates and controversies revolving around education policy and its implementation. In this episode, we will be talking with three scholars who have made substantial contributions to this field by introducing an innovative perspective to the studies... Read More

Spencer Piston, “Class Attitudes in American Politics: Sympathy for the Poor, Resentment of the Rich, and Political Implications” (Cambridge UP, 2018)

Spencer Piston
Class Attitudes in American Politics
Sympathy for the Poor, Resentment of the Rich, and Political Implications
Cambridge University Press, 2018

New Books in American Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Political Science New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Public Policy New Books in Sociology New Books Network September 12, 2018 Stephen Pimpare

It has long been a truism that Americans’ disdain for poor people–our collective sense that if they only worked harder or behaved more responsibly they would do well in this land of opportunity–explains, at least in part, why it is we have such a weak and limited public welfare state.... Read More