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  • The Way We Are: 100 Plain Dealer Op-Eds by Thomas Bier

    The Way We Are: 100 Plain Dealer Op-Eds

    Thomas Bier
    2023

    The book contains 100 op-ed articles submitted by Thomas Bier to the Plain Dealer and published between 1977 and 2022. Most of the articles concern a current event or issue in the city of Cleveland and/or communities in Northeast... (read more)

  • The Dynamics of Persuasion: Communication and Attitudes in the 21st Century by Richard M. Perloff

    The Dynamics of Persuasion: Communication and Attitudes in the 21st Century

    Richard M. Perloff
    2023

    The eighth edition of The Dynamics of Persuasion again guides readers in understanding the power and limits of persuasion in contemporary society.

    This edition continues its accessible and detailed illustration of the theoretical underpinnings of persuasive communication through contemporary... (read more)

  • Preserving the Vanishing City: Historic Preservation amid Urban Decline in Cleveland, Ohio by Stephanie Ryberg Webster

    Preserving the Vanishing City: Historic Preservation amid Urban Decline in Cleveland, Ohio

    Stephanie Ryberg Webster
    2023

    Preserving the Vanishing City considers the unique challenges, conditions, and opportunities facing Cleveland’s historic preservation community during the 1970s and 1980s. While pro-preservationists argued for the economic and revitalization benefits stemming from saving and repurposing older buildings, population loss... (read more)

  • Municipal Fiscal Stress, Bankruptcies, and Other Financial Emergencies by Tatyana Guzman and Natalia Ermasova

    Municipal Fiscal Stress, Bankruptcies, and Other Financial Emergencies

    Tatyana Guzman and Natalia Ermasova
    2022

    It is difficult to find someone who has not heard about the Puerto Rico, Detroit, Michigan, or Orange County, California, bankruptcies. While guides for responsibly managing government finances exist, problems often originate not because of poor financial reporting or... (read more)

  • Cleveland and the Civil War by W Dennis Keating

    Cleveland and the Civil War

    W Dennis Keating
    2022

    Although removed from the frontlines, Cleveland played an active role in national events before, during and after the Civil War. President Lincoln visited this abolitionist hotbed after his 1860 election. Following the president’s assassination five years later, his funeral... (read more)

  • The Dynamics of Political Communication: Media and Politics in a Digital Age by Richard M. Perloff

    The Dynamics of Political Communication: Media and Politics in a Digital Age

    Richard M. Perloff
    2022

    The third edition of The Dynamics of Political Communication continues its comprehensive coverage of communication and politics, focusing on problematic issues that bear on the functioning of democracy in an age of partisanship, social media, and political leadership that... (read more)

  • Strategies and Techniques for Teaching Environmental Law by Heidi Gorovitz Robertson

    Strategies and Techniques for Teaching Environmental Law

    Heidi Gorovitz Robertson
    2021

    Teaching law students is an enormous privilege and an immense responsibility. Teaching Environmental Law, in particular, gives the professor an opportunity to help future lawyers understand some important lessons. First, contrary to the belief of many first-year law students,... (read more)

  • Redistricting: A Guide for the GIS Community by Mark J. Salling PhD, GISP and Blake Esselstyn GISP

    Redistricting: A Guide for the GIS Community

    Mark J. Salling PhD, GISP and Blake Esselstyn GISP
    2021

    It is hoped that this guide encourages the GIS practitioner to participate in the process when possible, and it offers guidance in identifying how to do that. This guide will also be helpful to those involved in redistricting as... (read more)

  • Development Studies in Regional Science by Zhenhua Chen, William M. Bowen, and Dale Whittington

    Development Studies in Regional Science

    Zhenhua Chen, William M. Bowen, and Dale Whittington
    2020

    This book examines major policy and planning issues in development studies from the regional science perspective. It investigates questions such as: “How are communities able to deal with uncertainties raised by conflicts, technology, and external shocks in the process... (read more)

  • The Dynamics of News: Journalism in the 21st-Century Media Milieu by Richard M. Perloff

    The Dynamics of News: Journalism in the 21st-Century Media Milieu

    Richard M. Perloff
    2020

    This new and highly readable textbook by Richard M. Perloff introduces students to the complex world of contemporary news and its theoretical underpinnings, engaging with debates and ethical quandaries.

    The book takes readers on a concept-guided tour of the... (read more)

  • The Evolution of Local Dealerships: The Backbone of the U.S. Automobile Industry by Richard Klein

    The Evolution of Local Dealerships: The Backbone of the U.S. Automobile Industry

    Richard Klein
    2019

    The numerous business contributions made by some of the major Cleveland, OH auto dealerships over the past 130-years will be recognized in this book and how their innovative approaches towards both marketing and selling vehicles influenced the automotive industry... (read more)

  • Legacy Cities: Continuity and Change amid Decline and Revival by J. Rosie Tighe and Stephanie Ryberg Webster

    Legacy Cities: Continuity and Change amid Decline and Revival

    J. Rosie Tighe and Stephanie Ryberg Webster
    2019

    Legacy cities, also commonly referred to as shrinking, or post-industrial cities, are places that have experienced sustained population loss and economic contraction. In the United States, legacy cities are those that are largely within the Rust Belt that thrived... (read more)

  • Housing Dynamics in Northeast Ohio: Setting the Stage for Resurgence by Thomas E. Bier

    Housing Dynamics in Northeast Ohio: Setting the Stage for Resurgence

    Thomas E. Bier
    2017

    The book presents an overview of regional housing dynamics and consequent impacts in Northeast Ohio since the 1940s. Focus is on the city of Cleveland and its host county. Dynamics are examined in terms of supply and demand, population... (read more)

  • The Legacy of the Pharmacy Industry: Cleveland, Ohio by Richard Klein

    The Legacy of the Pharmacy Industry: Cleveland, Ohio

    Richard Klein
    2017

    This book recognizes the many business contributions made by the major Cleveland, Ohio-based drugstore chains over the past two hundred years and how their highly resourceful approaches towards marketing and retailing affected the national pharmacy industry over that same... (read more)

  • Retired, Rehabbed, Reborn: The Adaptive Reuse of America’s Derelict Religious Buildings and Schools by Robert A. Simons, Gary DeWine, and Larry Ledebur

    Retired, Rehabbed, Reborn: The Adaptive Reuse of America’s Derelict Religious Buildings and Schools

    Robert A. Simons, Gary DeWine, and Larry Ledebur
    2017

    Each year in the United States, hundreds of religious buildings and schools become vacant or underutilized as congregations and populations merge, move or diminish. These structures are often well located, attractive, eligible for tax credits, and available for redevelopment.... (read more)

  • The Social Enterprise Zoo: A Guide for Perplexed Scholars, Entrepreneurs, Philanthropists, Leaders, Investors and Policymakers by Dennis R. Young, Elizabeth A. M. Searing, and Cassady V. Brewer

    The Social Enterprise Zoo: A Guide for Perplexed Scholars, Entrepreneurs, Philanthropists, Leaders, Investors and Policymakers

    Dennis R. Young, Elizabeth A. M. Searing, and Cassady V. Brewer
    2016

    The Social Enterprise Zoo employs the metaphor of the zoo to gain a more comprehensive understanding of social enterprise – especially the diversity of its forms; the various ways it is organized in different socio-political environments; how different forms... (read more)

  • Using Social Marketing for Public Emergency Preparedness: Social Change for Community Resilience by Nancy Meyer-Emerick

    Using Social Marketing for Public Emergency Preparedness: Social Change for Community Resilience

    Nancy Meyer-Emerick
    2015

    Less than half of the public in the U.S. have taken the three steps to prepare for emergencies that are recommended by FEMA and the Red Cross: having a 3-day emergency kit, a family communication plan, and knowing where... (read more)

  • The Road Through the Rust Belt: From Preeminence to Decline to Prosperity by William M. Bowen

    The Road Through the Rust Belt: From Preeminence to Decline to Prosperity

    William M. Bowen
    2014

    By now the story is familiar: A once-booming midwestern city whose growth was fueled by manufacturing is now struggling with a lack of jobs, declining population, abandoned properties, creaky infrastructure, and desperate finances. Inhabitants often flee to areas offering... (read more)

  • End of Academic Freedom: The Coming Obliteration of the Core Purpose of the University by William M. Bowen, Michael Schwartz, and Lisa Camp

    End of Academic Freedom: The Coming Obliteration of the Core Purpose of the University

    William M. Bowen, Michael Schwartz, and Lisa Camp
    2014

    This book is premised upon the assumption that the core purpose of universities is to create, preserve, transmit, validate, and find new applications for knowledge. It is written in the perspective of critical university studies, in which university governance... (read more)

  • Beyond Community Policing: From Early American Beginnings to the 21st Century by James Chriss

    Beyond Community Policing: From Early American Beginnings to the 21st Century

    James Chriss
    2013

    Beyond Community Policing uses history and general sociological theory to examine the trajectory of municipal policing from Britain in the 1830s to its adoption and evolution in the America. By analyzing the uncertain and uneven historical development of policing,... (read more)

  • The Affordable Housing Reader by Elizabeth Mueller and J. Rosie Tighe

    The Affordable Housing Reader

    Elizabeth Mueller and J. Rosie Tighe
    2013

    The Affordable Housing Reader brings together classic works and contemporary writing on the themes and debates that have animated the field of affordable housing policy as well as the challenges in achieving the goals of policy on the ground.... (read more)

  • Integral Psychotherapy: Inside Out/Outside In by Elliott R. Ingersoll and David M. Zeitler

    Integral Psychotherapy: Inside Out/Outside In

    Elliott R. Ingersoll and David M. Zeitler
    2012

    Introduces Integral Psychotherapy to scholars, practicing psychotherapists, and general readers. In Integral Psychotherapy, self-help meets rigorous scholarship. Integral Psychotherapy is a dynamic framework for understanding the mind and uniting spirituality and psychotherapy. Authors R. Elliott Ingersoll and David M.... (read more)

  • Freedom of Choice: Vouchers in American Education by James Carl

    Freedom of Choice: Vouchers in American Education

    James Carl
    2011

    This book reveals that, far from being the result of a groundswell of support for parental choice in American education, the origins of school vouchers are seated in identity politics, religious schooling, and educational entrepreneurship.

    As the most radical... (read more)

  • Framing Matters: Perspectives on Negotiation Research and Practice in Communication by W. Donohue, Randall G. Rogan, and Sanda Kaufman

    Framing Matters: Perspectives on Negotiation Research and Practice in Communication

    W. Donohue, Randall G. Rogan, and Sanda Kaufman
    2011

    The framing metaphor is commonly used in negotiation and communication research to characterize how individuals place interpretive and linguistic boundaries around phenomena, objects, or events. This book develops this construct, exploring its potential to provide research insights, and illustrating... (read more)

  • Reading and Learning to Read, 8th ed. by Mary Gove, Jo Ann L. Vacca, Richard T. Vacca, Linda C. Burkey, Lisa A. Lenhart, and Christine A. McKeon

    Reading and Learning to Read, 8th ed.

    Mary Gove, Jo Ann L. Vacca, Richard T. Vacca, Linda C. Burkey, Lisa A. Lenhart, and Christine A. McKeon
    2011

    The new edition of this popular active learning tool continues its comprehensive coverage of philosophies, teaching strategies, and assessment practices that underscore the concepts of evidence-based reading research, the essential components of reading instruction, and data-driven decision making. In... (read more)

 
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