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Jan 6, 2025 | 
aei.org | Harvard Press |Frederick M. Hess |Michael Horn |Juliet Squire
Ten brilliant approaches that are disrupting US education and actionable advice for their broader implementationAvailable February 11, 2025In School Rethink 2.0, editors Frederick M. Hess, Michael B. Horn, and Juliet Squire gather leaders immersed in the nuts-and-bolts work of educational reinvention to present ten promising education improvements and ways to implement them.
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Aug 12, 2024 | 
madeherenow.com | Peter Marsh |Peter Loftus |Harvard Press |James Ashton
The new UK Labour government wants to promote growth. Much of this is about boosting high-productivity economic activity. Businesses in manufacturing, as economists and statisticians know, are generally well ahead of those in other sectors when it comes to this measure. They are more likely also to offer high wages and create technical advances that can permeate through to other parts of the economy.
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May 20, 2024 | 
transcend.org | Ato Sekyi-Otu |Harvard Press |Susan Neiman
Susan Neiman | The New York Review – TRANSCEND Media Service 6 Jun 2024 Issue – Frantz Fanon, the supposed patron saint of political violence, was instead a visionary of a radical universalism that rejected racial essentialism and colonialism. Yet what if we could return to Fanon’s vision?
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Apr 15, 2024 | 
theamericanconservative.com | Rachel Nolan |Harvard Press |Evie Solheim
Books
The Worst-Case Scenario of International Adoption
If children are the future, then Guatemala greatly undervalued its own.
Until I Find You: Disappeared Children and Coercive Adoptions in Guatemala, by Rachel Nolan, Harvard University PressInternational adoption has sharply declined over the last 15 years, but the fraud and corruption that characterized many countries’ adoption systems in its heyday is only now coming to light.
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Sep 22, 2023 | 
hup.medium.com | Harvard Press
The Power of Creative Destruction: Economic Upheaval and the Wealth of NationsOut now is also The Economics of Creative Destruction: New Research on Themes from Aghion and Howitt, presenting the latest cutting-edge work on economic growth and innovation. , available in paperback, draws on cutting-edge theory and research to examine today's most fundamental economic questions.
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Sep 15, 2023 | 
epw.in | Alessio Terzi |Harvard Press |Anjal Prakash
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Aug 13, 2023 | 
hup.medium.com | Harvard Press
Orlando Patterson's award-winning book The Confounding Island: Jamaica and the Postcolonial Predicament, out now in paperback, grapples with the paradox of this country: its remarkable achievements amid continuing struggles since independence. In this excerpt, Patterson offers a fresh answer to why Jamaica is so dominant in the sport of sprinting.
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Jul 19, 2023 | 
hup.medium.com | Harvard Press
Called "a brilliant tour d'horizon of the West" by the New York Review of Books, Michael Kulikowski's The Tragedy of Empire: From Constantine to the Destruction of Roman Italyis a sweeping political history of the turbulent two centuries that led to the demise of the Roman Empire. This excerpt introduces us to the changing political landscape in Constantinople in the 4th century, and the city's increasingly fraught relationship to the wider Roman Empire.
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Jun 21, 2023 | 
hup.medium.com | Harvard Press
In The Next Shift, Gabriel Winant takes us inside the Rust Belt to show how America's cities have weathered new economic realities. The following excerpt describes the intergenerational pull of class by focusing on the personal stories of steelworkers at Homestead Steel Works in Pittsburgh. Out now in paperback, The Next Shift was called "eye-opening" by the New York Times and was the winner of the Frederick Jackson Turner Award, among other accolades.
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May 30, 2023 | 
hup.medium.com | Harvard Press
In his book God In Gotham: The Miracle of Religion in Modern Manhattan, now out in paperback,Jon Butler reveals how faith adapted and thrived in the supposed capital of American secularism. The chosen excerpt offers a short tour of Manhattan in the early 20th century, as city spaces everywhere transformed into sacred sites. Jonathan D.
