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Creative Politics

Taxes and Public Goods in a Federal System

By: Glenn Douglas Beamer

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Creative Politics

Taxes and Public Goods in a Federal System

By: Glenn Douglas Beamer

State legislators are constantly making tradeoffs between changing taxes and providing public services. Not only must they reconcile their own policy preferences with the preferences of their constituents, but they must consider the impact of actions taken by both the federal government and competing states. Glenn Beamer uses a series of in-depth case studies in eleven states to show how legislators made decisions dealing with taxation, economic development, education financing, and Medicaid. Beamer identifies six factors that influence legislators' decisions: accountability, dependability, equity, obscurability, and horizontal and vertical transferability. Within the context created by citizen demands, intergovernmental politics, policy histories, court interventions, and state constitutions, this study analyzes how legislators employ these principles to develop and enact policies. In addition to modeling state politics within the context of federalism, Creative Politics, reflecting the author's extensive interviews with legislators, is novel in its focus on politicians' views about public services, the strategies to finance them, and efforts to develop and maintain political support for them. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of political science, economics, and public administration, and, more specifically, of federalism, state politics and policy, and legislative decision-making. Glenn Beamer is Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in Health Policy Research, University of California, Berkeley, and Assistant Professor of Government, University of Virginia.

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University of Michigan Press

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047202678X

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9780472026784

The Steelworkers' Retirement Security System

A Worker-based Model for Community Investment

By: Glenn Beamer

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The Steelworkers' Retirement Security System

A Worker-based Model for Community Investment

By: Glenn Beamer

The Steelworkers' Retirement Security System: A Worker-based Model for Community Investment articulates a new model for economic security based upon steelworkers’ pension provisions and labor politics after World War II. Labor’s collective bargaining agreements created interdependent commitments that sustained jobs and stabilized communities. The evidence in The Steelworkers' Retirement Security System includes an empirical analysis of United States steel towns and case studies of Weirton, West Virginia, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and Johnstown, Pennsylvania. By understanding the politics that bound firms and workers together and adapting these commitments to the post-industrial economy, The Steelworkers' Retirement Security System offers a new means by which communities can provide workers security and economic growth. This new model, the Guaranteed Pension and Community Investment plan, provide workers with lifetime retirement annuities and communities with reliable investment capital.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1611461898

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9781611461893

Miracles and Massacres

True and Untold Stories of the Making of America

By: Glenn Beck,Kevin Balfe,Hannah Beck

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Miracles and Massacres

True and Untold Stories of the Making of America

By: Glenn Beck,Kevin Balfe,Hannah Beck

History is about so much more than memorizing facts. It is, as more than half of the word suggests, about the story. And, told in the right way, it is the greatest one ever written: Good and evil, triumph and tragedy, despicable acts of barbarism and courageous acts of heroism.

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Simon and Schuster

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1476771200

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9781476771205

The Washingtons. Volume 9

The Presidential Branch: Six Wright Lines

By: Justin Glenn

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The Washingtons. Volume 9

The Presidential Branch: Six Wright Lines

By: Justin Glenn

This is the ninth volume of a comprehensive history that traces the “Presidential Line” of the Washingtons. Volume one began with the immigrant John Washington who settled in Westmoreland Co., Va., in 1657, married Anne Pope, and was the great-grandfather of President George Washington. It contained the record of their descendants for a total of seven generations. Subsequent volumes two through eight continued this family history for an additional eight generations, highlighting most notable members (volume two) and tracing lines of descent from the royalty and nobility of England and continental Europe (volume three). Volume nine collects over 8,500 descendants of the recently discovered line of William Wright (died in Franklin Co., Va., ca. 1809). It also provides briefer accounts of five other early Wright families of Virginia that have often been mentioned by researchers as close kinsmen of George Washington, including: William Wright (died in Fauquier Co., Va., ca. 1805), Frances Wright and her husband Nimrod Ashby, and William Wright (died in Greensville Co., Va., by 1827). A cumulative index will complete the series as volume ten.

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671

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Savas Publishing

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1940669340

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9781940669342

The Collector's Protégé

By: Glenn Rehder

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The Collector's Protégé

By: Glenn Rehder

Danny Sardano, newly elected Sheriff of Tuolumne County, has achieved his lifelong goal. As a third generation resident in this rural community in the majestic Sierra Nevada Mountains, his life seems perfect. Then, a serial killer decides to move from his hunting grounds in Tennessee to Sardano’s jurisdiction—a move that turns this normally peaceful tourist destination into Danny’s worst nightmare. The serial killer is known as the Face Collector and preys on women with auburn hair. Former FBI agent Leonard Baskem’s life has been upturned in the hunt for this mysterious killer. He has no doubt that the Face Collector is still out there, walking around a free man, but many twists and turns lie in wait as he searches for the old murderer and a kid protégé. The new sheriff decides he can’t solve this case with the resources the county has available, so he calls on an old friend from the FBI. Now, a horror, decades in the making, descends on a small town. Who will come out the victor in a battle already scripted and crafted by the murderer?

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Archway Publishing

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1665722118

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Courage After the Crash

Flight 93 Aftermath : an Oral & Pictorial Chronicle

By: Glenn J. Kashurba

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Courage After the Crash

Flight 93 Aftermath : an Oral & Pictorial Chronicle

By: Glenn J. Kashurba

Courage After the Crash is the definitive chronicle of the aftermath of the United Flight 93. On September 11, 2001, the courageous passengers and crew of Flight 93 began the defense of the USA. Their revolt saved hundreds or thousands of lives and made them American heroes. When the 747 crashed in rural Somerset County, Pennsylvania, another group of men and women responded with compassion, determination, and quiet courage. These emergency crews, police officers, investigators, support personnel, counselors and community volunteers helped begin the healing of the USA. Courage After the Crash is a hardbound book with 200 pages of pictures and first-person accounts that tells an unforgettable and uplifting story of American compassion, courage, and patriotism.

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212

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SAJ Publishing

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0972103163

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9780972103169

The Dean: on Duty

An Experience in Education

By: Glenn Swanson

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The Dean: on Duty

An Experience in Education

By: Glenn Swanson

The Dean: On Duty What is a Dean of Students? What does he do when he is "on duty?" What do teenagers do when the adults are not looking? How important are education and parenting? This book offers some insights and perhaps even some answers. The Dean: On Duty explores a number of important issues that students, parents and schools confront on a regular basis. The anecdotes reflect real people and real issues, and though each person or incident is unique the broader implications for society in general bubble to the surface throughout the book. This is not an in depth study of homophobia, ethnicity, politics or philosophy, but those are among the broad issues that emerge throughout the book, often with their own chapter headings but not exclusive to those chapters. This is a personal story, not the result of research or planning. "I live on campus at a boarding/day school of teenagers in grades 9-12, with an additional day population in the 7th and 8th grades that has a separate administrator. Even though only a small portion of the American population has contact with or knowledge of these institutions, what I have to say has broad enough implications that there will be useful nuggets for many people: parents, students, school personnel, former students. Much of what I do say is anecdotal, personal. I am not a social scientist. I do not have the broad data to make solid conclusions about education or parenting. I am a student of history, a teacher of history; however, I am not an historian. I have no PH.D. I have taught US History, including the Advanced Placement class, European History, Ancient History, Geography, American Government, electives on Hitler and Nazi Germany for nearly 30 years, Russian History, and, more recently Western Philosophy. I have taught 7th through 12th graders, although only juniors and seniors with a smattering of sophomores for the last ten years. I have coached soccer, basketball, golf and baseball. I have lived in boys dorms, a girls dorm, in my own mortgaged house, and in school housing. I have taken school trips to Outward Bound programs, Germany and the USSR. In short, I have some experience and some experiences. After 33 years as a teacher, 9 as a Dean of Students, I am on a bit of a break. I have a sabbatical during the 2nd half of the 2001-02 year, and it is the first year after 32 consecutive years in the classroom that I am not teaching. I decided that I would discipline myself to try to write enough for a book during my sabbatical." "I have been in schools for more than 50 consecutive years. Most of what I have to say is about the last ten and where all of us are right now." While the job of being a Dean of Students is indeed a serious one, the ability to remain personally stable and successful requires empathy, patience and certainly a sense of humor. While there are no rollicking escapades described in the book, there are indeed some amusing, although sometimes, poignant moments as well. The author attempts to demonstrate his personal style as a Dean with that hint of humor as he goes along. "Dean is a four-letter word. While it is not always clear what the term means, my title at the school is Dean of Students. We also have a Dean of Faculty and an Academic Dean. One of the earliest definitions of Dean was a senior member of a monastery overseeing ten monks. Fortunately, that does not apply to me. It is also a definition of a senior member of a male group (female version: doyen), It is in my case a side effect of constancy with one employer. As Dean of Students, I am essentially in charge of discipline, another of those elements of the definition of Dean. Dean of Discipline. Dean of Dress. Dean of Issues Other People Want to Avoid. That sounds too much like a march to martyrdom, and martyrdom is not

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Xlibris Corporation

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146283468X

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9781462834686

The Washingtons. General Index, A-K

By: Justin Glenn

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The Washingtons. General Index, A-K

By: Justin Glenn

Published in two parts, the General Index of all Washington descendants and their spouses completes a ten-volume history that traces the “Presidential Line” of the Washington family in America. Volume one began with the immigrant John Washington who settled in Westmoreland County, Va., in 1657, married Anne Pope, and became the great-grandfather of President George Washington. It contained the record of their descendants for a total of seven generations. Subsequent volumes two through eight continued this family history for an additional eight generations, also highlighting most notable members (volume two) and tracing lines of descent from the royalty and nobility of England and continental Europe (volume three). Volume nine treated in detail the recently discovered line of William Wright (died in Franklin County, Va., ca. 1809). It also provided briefer accounts of five other Southern Wright families that have often been mentioned by researchers as close kinsmen of George Washington. ADVANCE PRAISE “At long last the Washingtons have a published history worthy of their place in history. Glenn has done a masterful job. . . . I am convinced that his work will be of wide interest to historians and academics as well as members of the Washington family itself. Although the surname Washington is perhaps the best known in American history and much has been written about the Washington family for well over a century, it is surprising that no comprehensive family history has been published. Justin M. Glenn’s The Washingtons: A Family History finally fills this void for the branch to which General and President George Washington belonged, identifying some 63,000 descendants. This is truly a family history, not a mere tabulation of names and dates, providing biographical accounts of many of the descendants of John Washington who settled in Westmoreland County, Virginia, in 1657.” — John Frederick Dorman, editor of The Virginia Genealogist (1957-2006) and author of Adventurers of Purse and Person “Decades of reviewing Civil War books have left me surprised and delighted when someone applies exhaustive diligence to a topic not readily accessible. Dr. Glenn surely meets that standard with the meticulous research that unveils the Washington family in gratifying detail—many of them Confederates of interest and importance.” — Robert K. Krick, author of The Smoothbore Volley that Doomed the Confederacy and Stonewall Jackson at Cedar Mountain

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1940669359

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9781940669359

Organic Winegrowing Manual

By: Glenn T. McGourty,Jeri Ohmart,David Chaney

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Organic Winegrowing Manual

By: Glenn T. McGourty,Jeri Ohmart,David Chaney

This full-color guide provides information on practices and considerations for organic and conventional growers alike. Includes information on organic soil management, the roles of compost and cover crops, and a calendar of recommended practices for year-round soil fertility management. Illustrated with 18 tables and 89 figures and photos, including close-up color photographs of important natural enemies and disease symptoms.

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UCANR Publications

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1601075634

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9781601075635

Gynecologic Pathology, An Issue of Surgical Pathology Clinics

By: Blaise Clarke,Glenn McCluggage

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Gynecologic Pathology, An Issue of Surgical Pathology Clinics

By: Blaise Clarke,Glenn McCluggage

This issue of the Surgical Pathology Clinics, edited by Drs. Blaise Clarke and Glenn McCluggage, focuses on Gynecologic Pathology. Topics covered in the issue include, but are not limited to: Gynecologic manifestations of the DICER1 syndrome; Prophylactic gynecologic specimens from hereditary cancer carriers; Lynch syndrome associated endometrial cancer; Peutz-jeghers syndrome associated gynecologic tumors; Gynecologic manifestations of less commonly encountered hereditary syndromes; and Clinical testing for hereditary predisposition.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0323446396

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9780323446396

Creative Politics

Taxes and Public Goods in a Federal System

By: Glenn Douglas Beamer

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Creative Politics

Taxes and Public Goods in a Federal System

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The Steelworkers' Retirement Security System

A Worker-based Model for Community Investment

By: Glenn Beamer

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A Worker-based Model for Community Investment

By: Glenn Beamer

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The Washingtons. Volume 9

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The Washingtons. General Index, A-K

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Organic Winegrowing Manual

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Gynecologic Pathology, An Issue of Surgical Pathology Clinics

Gynecologic Pathology, An Issue of Surgical Pathology Clinics

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Creative Politics

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