Authors:William G. Gale, J. Mark Iwry, David C. John, William
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Keywords: saves, america, way, changing, automatic
Number of Pages: 278
Published: 2009-08-04
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0815702787
ISBN-13: 9780815702788

Automatic offers an innovative new way to think about how Americans can save for retirement.Over the past quarter century, America’s pension system has shifted away from defined benefit plans and toward defined contribution savings programs such as 401(k)s and IRAs. There is much to be done to improve the defined contribution system. Many workers fail to participate and those who do often contribute too little, invest the funds poorly, and are not adequately prepared to manage funds while in retirement.To resolve these problems, the authors propose that employees should be automatically

Authors:William F. Gale, Terry C. Totemeier,
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinema
Keywords: eighth, book, reference, metals, smithells
Number of Pages: 2080
Published: 2004-01-01
List price: $249.00
ISBN-10: 0750675098
ISBN-13: 9780750675093

Smithells is the only single volume work which provides data on all key apsects of metallic materials.Smithells has been in continuous publication for over 50 years. This 8th Edition represents a major revision.Four new chapters have been added for this edition. these focus on; * Non conventional and emerging materials - metallic foams, amorphous metals (including bulk metallic glasses), structural intermetallic compounds and micr/nano-scale materials. * Techniques for the modelling and simulation of metallic materials. * Supporting technologies for the processing of metals and alloys.* An Ext

Authors:William G. Gale, Janet Rothenberg Pack,
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Keywords: affairs, urban, papers, wharton, brookings
Number of Pages: 305
Published: 2004-08
List price: $28.95
ISBN-10: 0815712782
ISBN-13: 9780815712787

Designed to reach a wide audience of scholars and policymakers, the Brookings-Wharton Papers on Urban Affairs is an annual series that serves as a forum for cutting-edge, accessible research on urban policy. The editors seek to integrate broader research into the urban policy discussion by bringing urban studies scholars together with economists and researchers studying subjects with important urban implications. The six papers in this issue address a variety of topics in urban economics including The Labor Market Effects of the 1960s Riots; The Rise of the Skilled City; School Funding Equa

Authors:William G. Gale, Janet Rothenberg Pack,
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Keywords: affairs, urban, papers, wharton, brookings
Number of Pages: 300
Published: 2000-06
List price: $36.00
ISBN-10: 0815730756
ISBN-13: 9780815730750

This new series serves as a forum for cutting-edge, accessible research on urban areas and issues. Designed to reach a wide audience of scholars and policymakers, each issue contains studies on urban sprawl, crime, taxes, education, poverty, and related subjects. Contributors include: Edwin Mills (Northwestern) Edward Glaeser (Harvard) Derek Neal (University of Wisconsin) Jeff Grogger (University of California, Los Angeles) John Quigley (University of California, Berkeley) Ingrid Gould Ellen (Wagner School of Public Service, New York University) Richard Voith (Federal Reserve Bank o

Authors:Peter R. Orszag, J. Mark Iwry, William G. Gale,
Publisher: Century Foundation Press
Keywords: security, america, retirement, improve, gracefully, ideas, aging
Number of Pages: 148
Published: 2006-09-30
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0870784994
ISBN-13: 9780870784996

Aging Gracefully gathers a collection of essays that highlight policy ideas for promoting greater retirement savings among Americans. The essays were written as part of the Retirement Security Project, which is dedicated to promoting common sense solutions to improve the retirement income prospects of millions of American workers. The project is supported by The Pew Charitable Trusts, in partnership with Georgetown University’s Public Policy Institute and the Brookings Institution.

Authors:Fredric G. Gale, Xin Liu Gale,
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Keywords: ideology, pedagogy, culture, conflicts, composition, textbooks, visioning
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 1999-04
List price: $53.50
ISBN-10: 0791441210
ISBN-13: 9780791441213

An exploration of the sometimes tenuous relationship between textbooks and the discipline of composition and rhetoric, (Re)Visioning Composition Textbooks critically scrutinizes the culture of textbooks from the vantage point of scholars and teachers. It examines a variety of textbooks including: standard rhetorics, handbooks, cross-cultural anthologies, readers, technical textbooks, and argumentation textbooks. Different perspectives are used to discuss the cultures, ideologies, traditions, and the material and political conditions that influence the writing and publishing of these works. Con

Authors:Gale A. Yee, Gale A. Yee,
Publisher: Fortress Press
Keywords: biblical, studies, approaches, new, method, judges
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 2007-10-01
List price: $22.00
ISBN-10: 0800638581
ISBN-13: 9780800638580

Judges and Method provides a unique classroom resource in biblical studies. Here are state-of-the-art introductions to leading critical methods in biblical study, all focused on a specific biblical book, Judges, and the larger Deuteronomistic history of which it is a part. The first edition of Judges and Method was published in 1995. This second edition features thorough updates of the original articles along with new essays on Gender Criticism, Cultural Criticism, and Post-colonial Criticism. Includes a glossary and index of ancient sources, topics, and names.