1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910463375803321

Autore

Buck Pearl S (Pearl Sydenstricker), <1892-1973, >

Titolo

The good Earth Good Earth trilogy . Volume one / / Pearl S. Buck

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York : , : Open Road Media Integrated Media, , 2012

ISBN

1-4532-6356-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (357 p.)

Disciplina

813.54

Soggetti

Farmers' spouses

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910700923603321

Titolo

Better administration of Automated Targeting System controls can further protect personally identifiable information (redacted) [[electronic resource] /] / Office of Inspector General

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security, Office of Inspector General, , 2007

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (18 pages)

Soggetti

Data protection - Government policy - United States

Administrative agencies - Computer networks - Access control - United States - Evaluation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from title screen (viewed on November 24, 2007).

"OIG-08-06."



"October 2007."

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910785465303321

Autore

Nixon Jon

Titolo

Higher education and the public good [[electronic resource] ] : imagining the university / / Jon Nixon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Continuum International Pub. Group, c2011

ISBN

1-282-91265-8

9786612912658

1-4411-8610-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (167 p.)

Disciplina

370/.015

Soggetti

Education, Higher - Philosophy

Universities and colleges

Common good

Community life

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 The Public in Retreat; Chapter 2 Social Imaginaries; Chapter 3 Civic Imaginaries; Chapter 4 Cosmopolitan Imaginaries; Interlude: From Imaginaries to Actualities; Chapter 5 Human Capability; Chapter 6 Human Reasoning; Chapter 7 Human Purpose; Chapter 8 The Return of the Public; Coda: A Sense of Possibility; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

What constitutes the public good in a highly individualistic, consumerist and privatized society?. The global financial crisis of 2008 revealed the extent to which the public realm had been eroded over the last thirty years and the inroads that privatization and commercialization have made into the higher education sector. This book explores the institutional and sector-wide implications of the financial crisis for higher education - and the lessons to be learnt from that crisis and its aftermath for the university sector as a whole. Jon Nixon argues that the university now has to be re-imagin