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Rainforest Warriors: Human Rights on Trial. Richard Price. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010. 280 pp

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Brent Ryan, Design After Decline: How America Rebuilds Shrinking Cities (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012).George Galster, Driving Detroit: The Quest for Respect in the Motor City (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012)

These two books, from different urban series published by the University of Pennsylvania Press, offer contrasting perspectives on the deindustrialization of America’s twentieth-century manufacturing centers. In Design After Decline, Brent Ryan focuses on the efforts of Philadelphia and Detroit to rebuild after decades of population loss and economic decline. He places both cities in the broader...

Of Economics University College Dublin Belfield Dublin 4

It is clear that education has an important effect on wages paid in the labour market However it not clear whether this is due to the role that education plays in raising the productivity of workers (the human capital explanation) or whether education simply reflects the ability of the worker (through a signalling role). In this paper we describe and implement, using a variety of UK datasets, a...

Humanities education at Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania.

The Department of Humanities at Pennsylvania State University's (Penn State) College of Medicine, created at the founding of the College in 1967, was the first of its kind at any medical school. This article begins by describing how the department has developed over the years, and then discusses its present configuration, including kinds of faculty appointments, information about how it is fund...