Authors:Paul Epstein, Paul M. Coates, Lyle D. Wray, David
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Keywords: measuring, performance, getting, things, citizens, engaging, matter, improving, communities, results
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2005-12-02
List price: $32.00
ISBN-10: 0787960586
ISBN-13: 9780787960582

Today’s communities—whether they are currently strong, or struggling to survive—face difficult challenges if they want to be tomorrow’s healthy, vibrant communities. The challenge for leaders and citizens of modern communities is not just to solve specific problems today. Their real challenge is to keep learning from their experience so they can keep improving their communities tomorrow. Results That Matter will provide a new governance framework for using valuable tools of community improvement—especially performance measurement and citizen engagement—to empower com

Author: Robert Wray
Publisher: Rutgers University Pre
Keywords: profit, pleasure, trees, christmas
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2009-01-30
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0813544173
ISBN-13: 9780813544175

Christmas Trees for Pleasure and Profit is for anyone who enjoys being and working outdoors and is seeking a profitable hobby or small business venture. Robert Wray has updated this fourth edition to include the latest techniques and tools for harvesting trees, new methods of transport, the most recent data on herbicides, and advice on how to run a Christmas-tree business today. A perennial bestseller, this illustrated guide covers selecting land, choosing species, planting, harvesting, and managing a plantation. Wray provides guidance for choosing species suitable for the grower’s situa

Author: Jacilee Wray
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Pre
Keywords: peninsula, olympic, peoples, native
Number of Pages: 185
Published: 2003-06-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0806135522
ISBN-13: 9780806135526

The Native tribes of Washington State?s Olympic Peninsula share complex histories of trade, religion, warfare, and kinship. Yet few books have depicted the indigenous people of this region from a Native perspective. "Native Peoples of the Olympic Peninsula" introduces readers to nine tribes: the Elwha Klallam, Jamestown S’Klallam, Port Gamble S’Klallam, Skokomish, Squaxin Island, Quinault, Hoh, Quileute, and Makah. Written by members of the Olympic Peninsula Intertribal Cultural Advisory Committee and enhanced by photographs and maps, the book is divided into sections focusing on e

Author: L. Randall Wray
Publisher: Edward Elgar Pu
Keywords: employment, price, stability, full, key, modern, money, understanding
Number of Pages: 198
Published: 2006-06-29
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 1845429419
ISBN-13: 9781845429416

In this innovative and very practical book, Randall Wray argues that full employment and price stability are not the incompatible goals that current economic theory and policy assume. Indeed, he advances a policy that would generate true, full employment while simultaneously ensuring an even greater degree of price stability than has been achieved in the 1990s.

Author: Harry Wray
Publisher: Bergin & Garvey
Keywords: practices, attitudes, education, american, japanese
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 1999-06-30
List price: $131.95
ISBN-10: 0897896521
ISBN-13: 9780897896528

In the United States and Japan there are cultural attitudes that both promote and hinder education. While Japanese education is usually described as superior to an American education, a careful examination reveals that in both systems certain values and attitudes are carried to extremes and have a negative impact. This book shows how cultural attitudes shape schools and how Americans and Japanese can overcome the educational maladies in both countries.

Author: Matt Wray
Publisher: Duke University Press
Keywords: whiteness, boundaries, trash, quite
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 2006-12-30
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 0822338734
ISBN-13: 9780822338734

White trash. The phrase conjures up images of dirty rural folk who are poor, ignorant, violent, and incestuous. But where did this stigmatizing phrase come from? And why do these stereotypes persist? Matt Wray answers these and other questions by delving into the long history behind this term of abuse and others like it. Ranging from the early 1700s to the early 1900s, Not Quite White documents the origins and transformations of the multiple meanings projected onto poor rural whites in the United States. Wray draws on a wide variety of primary sources—literary texts, folklore, diaries and jo

Author: J. Harry Wray
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Keywords: sense, politics, culture, american, non
Number of Pages: 172
Published: 2000-09-09
List price: $31.20
ISBN-10: 0130833436
ISBN-13: 9780130833433

Designed to introduce readers to the ways that American culture structures the outcomes of political life, Wray’s book addresses American culture and politics with a three-phase approach. First it provides readers with a careful analysis of what culture is, as well as its political significance. The text then offers four distinctive American cultural characteristics and encourages readers to consider how these values influence modern political life. Provides a complete analysis of American cultural characteristics and political culture. For individuals interested in the US political sy