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  • STRATEGIC MINDS
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    STRATEGIC MINDS
    JAMES D. RAMSAY, NELL BENNETT
    This unique book captures state of the art thinking and methodologies designed to advance intelligence education to produce a capable and qualified intelligence workforce. Intelligence is evolving because it must keep pace with the many wicked threats that face open democracies. Public health threats such as the COVID-19 pandemic, threats emanating from regional instabilities f...

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  • INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETICS, INC.
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    INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETICS, INC.
    JAMES BENNETT
    Intercollegiate Athletics, Inc. examines the corrupting influence and damaging financial effects of big-time intercollegiate athletics, especially football and to a lesser extent basketball, on American higher education. Including historical and contemporary perspectives, the book traces the growth of intercollegiate sports from largely student-run activities supervised by facu...

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  • TAX-FUNDED POLITICS
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    TAX-FUNDED POLITICS
    JAMES T. BENNETT
    "The past two decades have seen the growth of well-coordinated networks of political activists who have managed to obtain hundreds of millions of taxpayers' dollars for political lobbying. Although federal regulations prohibit such activities, loopholes in the law allow these monies to be masked as private resources. State and federal taxpayers, monies fund the lobbying efforts...

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  • WHAT DO UNIONS DO?
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    WHAT DO UNIONS DO?
    JAMES T. BENNETT / BRUCE E. KAUFMAN
    One of the best-known and most-quoted books ever written on labor unions is What Do Unions Do? by Richard Freeman and James Medoff. Published in 1984, the book proved to be a landmark because it provided the most comprehensive and statistically sophisticated empirical portrait of the economic and socio-political effects of unions, and a provocative conclusion that unions are on...

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  • HOMELAND SECURITY SCAMS
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    HOMELAND SECURITY SCAMS
    JAMES T. BENNETT
    A direct consequence of the War on Terror launched after the attacks of September 11, 2001 is an awareness of the need for homeland security. This war is being used to justify a huge expansion of government powers and spending, but funds allocated for homeland security are often for programs far removed from anything that might be termed defense or security. In Homeland Securit...

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  • INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND THE WORLD OF WORK
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    INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND THE WORLD OF WORK
    DAPHNE GOTTLIEB TARAS / JAMES T. BENNETT / ANTHONY M. TOWNSEND
    Information technologies have become both a means and an end, transforming the workplace and how work is performed. This ongoing evolution in the work process has received extensive coverage but relatively little attention has been given to how changing technologies and work practices affect the workers themselves. This volume specifi cally examines the institutional and social...

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  • SUBSIDIZING CULTURE
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    SUBSIDIZING CULTURE
    JAMES T. BENNETT
    In the American mind, state subsidization of writers and artists was long associated with monarchies and, in later years, socialist states. The support these regimes gave to intellectuals was understood to come with a cost, yet, beginning with the New Deal's Federal Writers', Art, and Theater Projects, a new policy consensus asserted that by offering financial support to the ar...

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  • CORPORATE WELFARE
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    CORPORATE WELFARE
    JAMES T. BENNETT
    From the time of Alexander Hamilton's "Report on Manufactures" through the Great Depression, American towns and cities sought to lure footloose companies by offering lavish benefits. These ranged from taxpayer-financed factories, to tax exemptions, to outright gifts of money. This kind of government aid, known as "corporate welfare," is still around today. After establishing it...

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  • MANDATE MADNESS
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    MANDATE MADNESS
    JAMES T. BENNETT
    What do drivers' licenses that function as national ID cards, nationwide standardized tests for third graders, the late unlamented 55 mile per hour speed limit, the outlawing of the eighteen-year-old beer drinker, and the disappearing mechanical lever voting machine have in common? Each is the product of an unfunded federal mandate: a concept that politicians of both parties pr...

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  • PAID PATRIOTISM?
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    PAID PATRIOTISM?
    JAMES T. BENNETT
    What does a nation owe its military veterans? Gratitude, esteem, land grants, medical care, pensions, higher education? Or is serving in the armed forces of one’s country an obligation to be undertaken without any expectation of compensation? If veterans are to receive government aid, should a distinction be made between those who served in wartime or faced enemy fire and those...

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  • THE FUTURE OF PRIVATE SECTOR UNIONISM IN THE UNITED STATES
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    THE FUTURE OF PRIVATE SECTOR UNIONISM IN THE UNITED STATES
    JAMES T. BENNETT / BRUCE E. KAUFMAN
    A study of the long-term decline of the labour movement in America, exploring the outlook for labour and unions in the 21st century. There are insights from contributors from a range of backgrounds - academic and non-academic, domestic and foreign, pro- and anti-union. ...

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  • MEDIA INDEPENDENCE
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    MEDIA INDEPENDENCE
    JAMES BENNETT
    Media independence is central to the organization, make-up, working practices and output of media systems across the globe. Often stemming from western notions of individual and political freedoms, independence has informed the development of media across a range of platforms: from the freedom of the press as the "fourth estate" and the rise of Hollywood’s Independent studios a...

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  • TELEVISION PERSONALITIES
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    TELEVISION PERSONALITIES
    JAMES BENNETT
    Television Personalities offers an exciting, engaging approach to studying and understanding the most prominent and popular performers in television and celebrity culture. It is an original, indispensable guide for undergraduate and postgraduate students of media, television and celebrity studies, as well as those interested in digital culture more widely. ...

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  • FILM AND TELEVISION AFTER DVD
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    FILM AND TELEVISION AFTER DVD
    JAMES BENNETT
    Heralded as "the most significant invention [for film] since the coming of sound" (The Observer 2003), by 2005 DVD players were in approximately 84 million homes in the US, making it the "fastest selling item in history of US consumer electronics market" (McDonald 2007: 135). This book examines the phenomenal growth of DVDs in relation to the cultures, economies, texts, audienc...

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  • THE PENAL SYSTEM
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    THE PENAL SYSTEM
    MICHAEL CAVADINO / JAMES DIGNAN / GEORGE MAIR / JAMIE BENNETT
    Now in its Sixth Edition, this book remains the most comprehensive and authoritative on the penal system, providing students with an incisive, critical account of the punitive, managerial and humanitarian approaches to criminal justice.   Fully updated to cover the most recent changes in the Criminal Justice System, the new edition:  Outlines contemporary policy debates on sent...

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  • A QUIET DESPERATION
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    A QUIET DESPERATION
    JAMES W. BENNETT
    A Quiet Desperation is the straightforward autobiographical account of one man’s disturbing journey through disabling mental illness and into the Community of Faith.  This is a book that has provided help for many who have suffered psychiatric disorders, bringing hope without easy answers. ...

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  • OLD HOSS
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    OLD HOSS
    JAMES W. BENNETT
    Charles Radbourn won fifty-nine games in 1884, the stuff of legends. In eleven years he racked up over three hundred wins and forty-five hundred innings—mind-blowing numbers. And yet the facts of this Hall of Famer’s play are more credible than the stories of his life of alcohol, womanizing, wild brawling, and, later, the ravages of syphilis.     Radbourn’s plaque at Cooperstow...

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  • FAITH WISH
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    FAITH WISH
    JAMES W. BENNETT
    A teenage girl is drawn to a Christian preacher who could save her soul—or destroy her life Anne-Marie has gone to church her whole life, but until she sets foot in the revival tent, she has never felt the power of faith. She goes to watch Brother Jackson preach not because she’s interested in what he has to say, but to accompany a friend who has a crush on one of the boys in t...

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  • I CAN HEAR THE MOURNING DOVE
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    I CAN HEAR THE MOURNING DOVE
    JAMES W. BENNETT
    An ALA Best Book for Young Adults: A teenage girl fights to overcome depression with help from a rebellious friend Outside her window, Grace hears a dove. The birdsong reminds her that there is a world outside her hospital room, that life is not always as confusing as it seems. It’s a reminder she needs badly, because Grace’s life has gotten pretty scrambled lately. After her f...

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  • THE FLEX OF THE THUMB
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    THE FLEX OF THE THUMB
    JAMES W. BENNETT
    Struck by a flying bat, a high school pitcher becomes a completely different person in this hilarious story of sports and growing up The boy on the mound is Vano Lucas, and he may be the greatest pitcher the world has ever seen. He can throw a fastball 115 miles per hour, and that means wealth, stardom, and a spot in the Hall of Fame. His father wants him to bypass college and ...

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  • BLUE STAR RAPTURE
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    BLUE STAR RAPTURE
    JAMES W. BENNETT
    A high school junior fights to protect his best friend from the dark side of college athletics Tyron has finally shed his baby fat, and he’s starting to look like a star. He moves with grace on the basketball court, showing the brilliance that eludes him everywhere else. He has the talent to win himself a college scholarship that could change his life—but he might not be strong...

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  • HARVEY PORTER DOES DALLAS
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    HARVEY PORTER DOES DALLAS
    JAMES W. BENNETT
    An unusual boy gets a second chance in a very peculiar Texas school in this comical parody Bailey Mushrush is on his way home from work when he sees the homeless boy sitting outside his house. The boy is bigger than Bailey, with a ghastly scar down his forehead and a cigarette clenched between his lips. His name is Harvey Porter, and he has come to stay. Harvey is a transient w...

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  • DAKOTA DREAM
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    DAKOTA DREAM
    JAMES W. BENNETT
    An ALA Best Book for Young Adults: To fulfill his destiny, a teenage boy takes refuge on an Indian reservation Ever since he can remember, Floyd Rayfield has wanted to be a Native American. Abandoned by his family and raised in foster care, Floyd has never had a sense of who he was meant to be until the night he has the dream. He sees himself as a warrior of the Sioux Indians a...

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  • PLUNKING REGGIE JACKSON
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    PLUNKING REGGIE JACKSON
    JAMES W. BENNETT
    His brother dead, a baseball star struggles to fill his footsteps Coley Burke’s brother, Patrick, taught him how to throw a baseball, how to get girls, and how to keep their overbearing father off his back. Everything came easily to Patrick, whose natural talent on the baseball diamond had him set up for a career in the major leagues—right until the drunk-driving accident that ...

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  • THE SQUARED CIRCLE
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    THE SQUARED CIRCLE
    JAMES W. BENNETT
    Sonny lives for basketball, and if he’s not careful, he might die for it Sonny Youngblood stands in the darkened fraternity house, a pledge bracing for another round of hazing. As he watches his fellow freshmen endure humiliation, Sonny’s mind is elsewhere. He’s not thinking about school, or women, or the relief that will come when the hazing is through. In his mind, Sonny is o...

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