Association for the Study of Higher Education Outstanding Book Award Winner, 2020
This book outlines the beginning of student organizing around issues of sexual orientation at Midwestern universities from 1969 to the early 1990s. Collegiate organizations were vitally important to establishing a public presence as...
Almost four decades after the discovery of HIV/AIDS, the world continues to grapple with this public health challenge. Thinking Differently about HIV/AIDS explores the limits of mainstream approaches to the HIV/AIDS epidemic and challenges readers to develop alternate solutions, emphasizing the value of critical social...
Risk is real?but you can manage it with this hard-hitting guide to reducing risk on any project, in any industry
All projects, large and small, are subject to various risks. But the failure to manage inherent risk with diligence and know-how can lead to devastating consequences for an organization. In this...
This volume addresses an important problem in social scientific research on global religions and spirituality: How to evaluate the role of diverse religious and spiritual (R/S) beliefs and practices within the rapid evolution of spiritual globalization and diversification trends. The book examines this question by bringing together a...
An exploration of the hidden history of camping in American life that connects a familiar recreational pastime to camps for functional needs and political purposes.
Camping appears to be a simple proposition, a time-honored way of getting away from it all. Pack up the car and hit the road in search of a...
The card catalog at the local public library was my first database. The catalog made it
possible to find books based on titles, authors, or subjects just like writing a SQL query.
Of course, I could walk around and locate books because they were arranged thanks to
the Dewey Decimal System, but having that old drawer-filled cabinet...
EVER WONDERED WHY PEOPLE REALLY DO WHAT THEY DO? (AND WHAT WE COULD ACCOMPLISH IF WE ONLY KNEW?)
We need a clear-eyed look at what’s happening in society right now. Misinformation, fake news, and politicization is affecting how we as a society come to grips with a global pandemic, economic inequality, and...
A retired Wall Street Journal editor and mother compares two generations of women—boomers and GenXers—to examine how each navigates the emotional and professional challenges involved in juggling managerial careers and families.
We are delighted to have finalized the Handbook of Feminist Economics project we began in
summer 2018. We set off with the goal of taking stock of the accumulated wisdom on feminist
economics from the social provisioning perspective to feminist economics, delineated by Marilyn
Power in 2004. Power’s short piece inductively...
This first chapter is a primer on how virtualization is used to
create a software-defined data center (an SDDC) . One of the
central pillars of the software-defined data center is the use of
software defined networking (SDN). To better understand
NSX-T (VMware’s SDN solution), it is best to first understand
the...
For many years, major software companies like Microsoft and Oracle made previously
unfathomable profits by selling enterprise software that companies would buy and
operate in their own data centers. In the last 20 years, we have seen a gradual transition
to a wide variety of software and services models – SaaS, IaaS, PaaS...
