Cornell University Press: 1150 books
Motherhood, the Elephant in the Laboratory
Women Scientists Speak Out
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
About half of the undergraduate and roughly 40 percent of graduate degree recipients in science and engineering are women. As increasing numbers of these women pursue research careers in science, many who choose to have children discover the unique difficulties of balancing a professional life in...
Disability and Employer Practices
Research across the Disciplines
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
This book is about the employment of people with disabilities in the United States and the important role of employer practices. Nearly one in five people report some form of disability, and they are only half as likely to be employed as those without disabilities. With the aging workforce and returning...
Informal Workers and Collective Action
A Global Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
Informal Workers and Collective Action features nine cases of collective action to improve the status and working conditions of informal workers. Adrienne E. Eaton, Susan J. Schurman, and Martha A. Chen set the stage by defining informal work and describing the types of organizations that represent...
Life Support
Three Nurses on the Front Lines
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In this book, Suzanne Gordon describes the everyday work of three RNs in Boston—a nurse practitioner, an oncology nurse, and a clinical nurse specialist on a medical unit. At a time when nursing is often undervalued and nurses themselves in short supply, Life Support provides a vivid, engaging,...
by Harry C. Katz, Thomas A. Kochan, Alexander J. S. Colvin
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
This comprehensive textbook provides an introduction to collective bargaining and labor relations with a focus on developments in the United States. It is appropriate for students, policy analysts, and labor relations professionals including unionists, managers, and neutrals. A three-tiered strategic...
Anthropologies of Unemployment
New Perspectives on Work and Its Absence
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
Anthropologies of Unemployment offers accessible, theoretically innovative, and ethnographically rich examinations of unemployment in rural and urban regions across North and South America, Europe, Africa, and Asia. The diversity of case studies demonstrates that unemployment is a pressing global...
Biology and Conservation of Martens, Sables, and Fishers
A New Synthesis
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Mammals in the genus Martes are mid-sized carnivores of great importance to forest ecosystems. This book, the successor to Martens, Sables, and Fishers: Biology and Conservation, provides a scientific basis for management and conservation efforts designed to maintain or enhance the populations and...
Snakes
Ecology and Conservation
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Destruction of habitat due to urban sprawl, pollution, and deforestation has caused population declines or even extinction of many of the world's approximately 2,600 snake species. Furthermore, misconceptions about snakes have made them among the most persecuted of all animals, despite the fact that...
Creating the Health Care Team of the Future
The Toronto Model for Interprofessional Education and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
One way to significantly improve the delivery of health care is to teach the health professionals who provide care to work together, to communicate with each other across professional boundaries, and to start to think and act like a team that has the patient at its center. The team-based care movement...
Citizen Science
Public Participation in Environmental Research
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2012
Citizen science enlists members of the public to make and record useful observations, such as counting birds in their backyards, watching for the first budding leaf in spring, or measuring local snowfall. The large numbers of volunteers who participate in projects such as Project FeederWatch or Project...
The Battle for Veterans’ Healthcare
Dispatches from the Front Lines of Policy Making and Patient Care
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
In The Battle for Veterans' Healthcare, award-winning author Suzanne Gordon takes us to the front lines of federal policymaking and healthcare delivery, as it affects eight million Americans whose military service makes them eligible for Veterans Health Administration (VHA) coverage.
Gordon’s...
Who Cares?
How to Reshape a Democratic Politics
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2015
The Laurence and Lynne Brown Democracy Medal recognizes outstanding individuals, groups, and organizations that produce exceptional innovations to further democracy in the United States or around the world.
The 2015 winner of the Brown Democracy Medal, Joan C. Tronto, argues in Who Cares? that...
I, the Citizen
Unraveling the Power of Citizen Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
I, the Citizen is an attempt to understand citizen development and engagement. R. Balasubramaniam takes the reader through interpretations of development initiatives at the grassroots and what good governance means to ordinary people. He unravels the power of citizen engagement through his experiences...
Transforming the Clunky Organization
Pragmatic Leadership Skills for Breaking Inertia
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2018
Organizations, like people, get stuck! They get ensnared in routines and processes, and they fall back into old habits. This is the dangerous period of inertia, the period that precedes failure, when organizations show signs of sluggishness.
In Transforming the Clunky Organization Samuel B....