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Renewing Black Intellectual History: The Ideological and Material Foundations of African American Thought מאת Kenneth W. Warren Reflecting critically on the discipline of African American studies is a complicated undertaking, and making sense of the black American experience requires situating it within the larger cultural, political-economic, and ideological dynamics that shape American life. Renewing Black Intellectual His...

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Thinking in Place: Art, Action, and Cultural Production (Cultural Politics & the Promise of Democracy) מאת Carol Becker Thinking in Place is a meditation on place as a physical as well as a conceptual construct that encompasses both history and memory. The book begins with Defining Place, a piece about the memory of childhood as located in two unique locations Crown Heights, in Brooklyn, New York, and Hastings, a coa...

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Perilous Power: The Middle East and U.S. Foreign Policy Dialogues on Terror, Democracy, War, and Justice מאת Noam Chomsky The volatile Middle East is the site of vast resources, profound passions, frequent crises, and long-standing conflicts, as well as a major source of international tensions and a key site of direct U.S. intervention. Two of the most astute analysts of this part of the world are Noam Chomsky, the pre...

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Discourses on Liberation: An Anatomy of Critical Theory (Great Barrington Books) מאת Kyung-Man Kim What binds the theoretical work of Pierre Bourdieu, Anthony Giddens, and Jurgen Habermas? Although these and other contemporary theorists offered powerful critiques of society, they stopped short of plausible proposals to achieve the liberation of individuals and societies. Kyung-Man Kim offers a po...

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Talent Abounds: Profiles of Master Teachers and Peak Performers מאת Robert F. Arnove How can youthful talent become world-class talent? Talent Abounds tells the stories of master teachers and their students who raise performance to peak levels in classical music and conducting, jazz, opera, modern dance, chess, mathematics, swimming and diving, and the culinary arts. The book is uni...

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Performative Democracy (The Yale Cultural Sociology Series) מאת Elzbieta Matynia Performative Democracy explores a potential in political life that easily escapes theorists: the indigenously inspired enacting of democracy by citizens. Written by one who experienced an emerging public sphere within Communist Poland, the book seeks to identify the conditions for performativity per...

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Women, Family, and Class: The Lillian Rubin Reader (Classics in Gender Studies) מאת Michael S. Kimmel For more than 40 years, Lillian Rubin's work has stood as a model for the integration of the psychological and the sociological in studies of class, male-female relationships and friendships, women and aging, the sexual revolution, and the contemporary crisis of the American family. Worlds of Pain: ...

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Performative Democracy (The Yale Cultural Sociology Series) מאת Elzbieta Matynia Performative Democracy explores a potential in political life that easily escapes theorists: the indigenously inspired enacting of democracy by citizens. Written by one who experienced an emerging public sphere within Communist Poland, the book seeks to identify the conditions for performativ...

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The Battle for Congress: Iraq, Scandal, and Campaign Finance in the 2006 Election מאת David B. Magleby Just in time for the coming election year, this book looks at the changing of the guard in 2006 and speculates on where the system may be heading in 2008. It provides an in-depth examination of the ways in which candidates, interest groups, and parties perceived their opportunities and allocated the...

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Thinking in Place: Art, Action, and Cultural Production (Cultural Politics & the Promise of Democracy) Carol Becker

Thinking in Place: Art, Action, and Cultural Production (Cultural Politics & the Promise of Democracy) מאת Carol Becker Thinking in Place is a meditation on place as a physical as well as a conceptual construct that encompasses both history and memory. The book begins with Defining Place, a piece about the memory of childhood as located in two unique locations Crown Heights, in Brooklyn, New York, and Hastings, a coa...

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Diverse Nations: Explorations in the History of Racial and Ethnic Pluralism (U.S. History in International Perspective) מאת George M. Fredrickson One of the world's leading historians of race relations, George Fredrickson in his newest book probes the history of racial and ethnic diversity in the United States and other parts of the world. Diverse Nations explores recent interpretations of slavery and race relations in the United States and i...

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Peacekeeping under Fire: Culture and Intervention מאת Robert A. Rubinstein The international community increasingly responds to civil wars, humanitarian crises, and other intrastate conflicts through the instrument of UN peacekeeping. Nearly all of these interventions take place in non-Western areas and involve interactions among militaries and nongovernmental organization...

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Uncommon Sense from the Writings of Howard Zinn (Series in Critical Narrative) מאת Howard Zinn Why Howard Zinn has become one of the most important and influential American historians is perhaps nowhere more evident than in this new book. Few social critics have been as inspiring as the ever-hopeful Zinn and, unlike many historians, Zinn turns historical details toward deeper observations on ...

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Anthropology Unbound: A Field Guide to the 21st Century, Second Edition מאת E. Paul Durrenberger The first edition of the widely popular Anthropology Unbound (Paradigm 2007) prepared readers to see how the dynamics of Western economies were rapidly becoming unsustainable. This updated edition takes readers into the heart of the economic meltdown as it explains the many recent world events it ha...

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Paulo Freire and the Curriculum (Series in Critical Narrative) מאת Georgios Grollios How can Paulo Freire’s progressive and vital contributions to curriculum planning can be made more relevant today for educators, policy makers and anybody involved in education? This book provides a necessary framework as it articulates significant questions. The first deals with Freire’s positi...

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President Barack Obama: A More Perfect Union מאת John K. Wilson Barack Obama's improbable quest has become a fact of American life and a benchmark in American history. Striving now toward a more perfect union, Obama and the nation confront obstacles unforeseen at the outset of the 2008 electoral campaign. John K. Wilson tracks the sweep of this progress from the...

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The Long Sixties: From 1960 to Barack Obama מאת Tom Hayden Barack Obama would not be possible without the Sixties, Tom Hayden writes in his unique and compelling new book. Obama was conceived because of changing mores on interracial marriage; was electable because of the civil rights movement and voting rights laws; and was successful because of a new socia...

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Mousepads, Shoe Leather, and Hope: Lessons from the Howard Dean Campaign for the Future of Internet Politics (Media & Power) (Media and Power) מאת Zephyr Teachout Howard Dean's campaign for president changed the way in which campaigns are run today. With an unlikely collection of highly talented and motivated staffers drawn from a variety of backgrounds, the Dean campaign transformed the way in which money was raised and supporters galvanized by using the Int...

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Pedal Power: The Quiet Rise of the Bicycle in American Public Life J. Harry Wray

Pedal Power: The Quiet Rise of the Bicycle in American Public Life מאת J. Harry Wray In an era of steep gas prices, snarled traffic, catastrophic climate change, and a yearning for a higher quality of life, interest in bike-friendly public policies is surging nationwide. A surprising array of political organizations, visionary politicians, and colorful individuals powers this moveme...

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Morality Wars: How Empires, the Born Again and the Politically Correct Do Evil in the Name of Good מאת Charles Derber Is patriotism a good thing in an empire? Did General Petraeus betray us or did moveon.org? Does morality often serve immoral purposes? This book offers a new way to approach these questions, which lie just beneath our increasingly poisoned political conversation today. Derber and Magrass show th...

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Everyday Law for Consumers מאת Michael L. Rustad Whenever you purchase goods or services in a personal, household, or family capacity, you are entitled to the rights and remedies of state and federal consumer law. Realistically, only a very small percentage of consumer problems can be addressed by hiring a private attorney. Everyday Law for Consum...

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Re-Engage! American and the World after Bush; An Informed Citizen's Guide מאת Helena Cobban Since 9/11, the United States has pursued a foreign policy some have called a control paradigm a unilateral domination of world affairs through military means that tries to keep the lid on insecurity without addressing root causes or protecting human rights. The Bush administration's energetic use o...

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The Leading Rogue State: The U.S. and Human Rights מאת Judith Blau It has been over six decades since the United States closed its borders to international human rights laws and agreements, and, of course, a great deal has happened in those intervening six decades. Most significant is that more of the world s people embrace the language of human rights and articula...

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How the United States Racializes Latinos: White Hegemony and Its Consequences מאת Jose A. Cobas Up until recently, members of Congress, major newspapers, and entrepreneurs in the United States openly racialized Latinos and Latin Americans. Latinos and Latin Americans were inferior mongrels that had to be saved from their ways. Such ideology justified armed invasions of sovereign nations, dispo...

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The Constitution of Imperium מאת Ronnie D. Lipschutz The title of this book is a play upon several important concepts and forces in the ongoing debate about American empire. Since September 11, 2001, the Bush administration and its counsels in the U.S. Department of Justice have been both constituting an empire of American hegemony and, in so doing, v...

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Vibrations: A Memoir David Amram

Vibrations: A Memoir מאת David Amram David Amram has played and rambled and galloped and staggered through a remarkably broad sweep of American life, experience, and creative struggle. The Boston Globe has described him as the Renaissance man of American Music. Amram and Jack Kerouac collaborated on the first-ever jazz poetry reading i...

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Lessons from Iraq: Avoiding the Next War מאת Miriam Pemberton and William D. Hartung If what is shaping up to be the worst foreign policy disaster in U.S. history has an upside, it is that the current war in Iraq should definitively, permanently settle a handful of critical questions about American conduct in the world. This book provides a list of those questions and even ventures ...

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Art/Museums: International Relations Where We Least Expect It (Media and Power) מאת Christine Sylvester Art/Museums takes the study of international relations to the art museum. It seeks to persuade those who study international relations to take art/museums seriously and for museum studies scholars to take up the insights of international relations. And it does so at a time when both international re...

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The Effective Presidency: Lessons on Leadership from John F. Kennedy to George W. Bush מאת Erwin C. Hargrove Every four years the American public goes to the polls in hopes of electing a hero to the presidency, trying to find someone larger than life. But heroes are hard to find and sometimes they turn out to be villains. Senior presidential scholar Erwin Hargrove recommends that we shift our sights to ele...

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Activist Scholarship: Antiracism, Feminism, and Social Change (Transnational Feminist Studies) מאת Julia Sudbury Can scholars generate knowledge production and pedagogy that bolster local and global forms of resistance to U.S. imperialism, racial/gender oppression, and the economic violence of capitalist globalization? This book explores what happens when scholars create active engagements between the academy ...

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Rebuild America: Civic Works for a 21st Century New Deal מאת Scott Myers-Lipton In Barack Obama's America public works is once again a part of the national dialogue. Today it is offered as a solution to the economic downturn and to the public infrastructure crisis. This timely book examines the reasons for the economic crisis facing Main Street, and connects them to why the nat...

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One Night in America: Robert Kennedy, Cesar Chavez, and the Dream of Dignity מאת Steven W. Bender Robert Kennedy and Cesar Chavez came from opposite sides of the tracks of race and class that still divide Americans. Both optimists, Kennedy and Chavez shared a common vision of equality. They united in the 1960s to crusade for the rights of migrant farm workers. Farm workers faded from public cons...

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Everyday Law for Latino/as מאת Steven W. Bender Now the most populous minority group in the United States, Latino/as increasingly need guidance on the everyday issues that affect their economic livelihood, their freedom, and their equal rights to dignity and opportunity. This comprehensive guide is organized around the three flashpoints that cont...

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From Cronkite to Colbert: The Evolution of Broadcast News (Media and Power) מאת GeoffreyD. Baym In a time when increasing numbers of people are tuning out the nightly news and media consumption is falling, the late-night comedians have become some of the most important newscasters in the country. From Cronkite to Colbert explains why. It examines an historical path that begins at the height of...

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Education and the Making of a Democratic People מאת John I. Goodlad Unfortunately, civic values such as equity and justice that constitute the moral grounding of American democracy are losing their place in public affairs. The promise of this democracy is inclusive: no one is to be left out. Yet many people are. Education and the Making of a Democratic People regard...

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Human Rights: A Primer מאת Judith Blau Achieving human rights is an ongoing struggle in fact a collective struggle. Even though the progressive realization of human rights for all depends on international, national, and local laws, human rights are realized on the ground, in praxis and reciprocally, which is to say, in deeply democratic ...

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Who is My Neighbor?: Communicating and Organizing to End Homelessness מאת Phillip K. Tompkins Who Is My Neighbor? is a compelling account of the author s ten-year journey as a volunteer at the St. Francis Center, a homeless shelter in Denver, Colorado. A retired Professor of Communication, Phil Tompkins marshals his considerable experience as a participant observer in recording the voices of...

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Netroots: Online Progressives and the Transformation of American Politics (Media and Power) Matthew R. Kerbel

Netroots: Online Progressives and the Transformation of American Politics (Media and Power) מאת Matthew R. Kerbel There is a big cohort of passionate, smart, politically savvy activists people who know how to organize, raise money, communicate and effectively utilize technology and new media who have come into politics within the last decade who feel like their strategies have been effective but their voices ar...

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Barack Obama and the Future of American Politics מאת Paul Street Many Americans believe Barack Obama represents a hopeful future for America. But does he also reflect the American politics of the past? This book offers the broadest and best-informed understanding on the meaning of the Obama phenomenon to date. Paul Street was on the ground throughout the Iowa cam...

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White Prescriptions?: Black Males and the Dangerous Social Potential of Ritalin and Other Psychotropic Drugs מאת Dr. Terence D. Fitzgerald For all the debates about black males and their role in American society, there has been little attention to a dangerous and growing trend: the overprescription of Ritalin and other behavioral drugs. This book reveals how and why black males are disproportionately targeted and controlled by American...

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Peace and Conflict 2010 (Peace & Conflict) מאת J. Joseph Hewitt Peace and Conflict is a new biennial publication that provides key data and documents trends in national and international conflicts ranging from isolated acts of terrorism to internal civil strife to full-fledged intercountry war. A major trend it tracks is the incidence of wars beyond the protract...

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Bureaucratic Culture and Escalating World Problems: Advancing the Sociological Imagination מאת Bernard Phillips On this fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Mills's The Sociological Imagination, the bureaucratic ethos that he described has continued to escalate. The 11 authors of this book carry further and systematically develop Mills's broad vision of the scientific method as they analyze escalating b...

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Indigenous Peoples and Globalization: Resistance and Revitalization מאת Thomas D. Hall The issues native peoples face intensify with globalization. Through case studies from around the world, Hall and Fenelon demonstrate how indigenous peoples? movements can only be understood by linking highly localized processes with larger global and historical forces. The authors show that indigen...

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The New Feminized Majority מאת Katherine Adam and Charles Derber Building beyond Lakoff's election-year best-seller, Don't Think of an Elephant, this new book shows how the values of American voters are dramatically shifting. With the arrival of the 2008 election year, a rising feminized majority made up of both women and men is emerging as the pivotal force in...

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How the United States Racializes Latinos: At Home and Abroad Jose A. Cobas

How the United States Racializes Latinos: At Home and Abroad מאת Jose A. Cobas Up until recently, members of Congress, major newspapers, and entrepreneurs in the United States openly racialized Latinos and Latin Americans. Latinos and Latin Americans were inferior mongrels that had to be saved from their ways. Such ideology justified armed invasions of sovereign nations, dispo...

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Arenas of Power מאת Theodore J. Lowi Arenas of Power represents the first time that Theodore J. Lowi's model of policy analysis has been presented together with key applications and case studies drawn from his long history of scholarship all in one place. Lowi's signature four-fold typology is shown as conceived and then as extended to...

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On Appreciating Congress: The People's Branch (On Politics) Louis Fisher

On Appreciating Congress: The People's Branch (On Politics) מאת Louis Fisher This book explains why Congress is the indispensable institution for safeguarding popular, democratic, and constitutional government. Even though its record over the past two centuries presents a mixed picture, the record of the other two branches is also decidedly mixed. The author has worked for C...

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Everyday Law for Immigrants מאת Victor C. Romero Immigration is one of the most controversial topics of the decade. Citizens and pundits from across the political spectrum argue for major and disparate changes to American immigration law. Yet few know what American immigration law actually is and how it functions. Everyday Law for Immigrants is an...

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Out of Crisis: Rethinking Our Financial Markets (Great Barrington Books) מאת David A. Westbrook Former Federal Reserve chair Greenspan recently said that the risk management paradigm is broken; thus our understanding of financial regulation no longer makes sense. More generally, the current financial crisis obliges us to rethink the relationships among financial markets and governments. Out of...

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Advancing Global Education (Patterns of Potential Human Progress) מאת Janet R. Dickson Education is one of the most fundamental prerequisites to economic growth and social stability in the world. It is also one of the most inadequately realized goals of development, with the average education of global adults remaining essentially at primary levels.Advancing Global Education is...

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Democracy Works: Joining Theory and Action to Foster Global Change מאת Torry Dickinson Throughout the world, from the United States to Tanzania, Chechnya, and Sri Lanka, everyday people are working together and taking actions to improve their lives, end inequality, and change global society. Action groups and movements see dialogue and learning as important ways to extend democracy an...

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Rebuild America: Solving the Economic Crisis through Civic Works מאת Scott Myers-Lipton In Barack Obama's America public works is once again a part of the national dialogue. Today it is offered as a solution to the economic downturn and to the public infrastructure crisis. This timely book examines the reasons for the economic crisis facing Main Street, and connects them to why the nat...

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Vibrations: A Memoir מאת David Amram David Amram has played and rambled and galloped and staggered through a remarkably broad sweep of American life, experience, and creative struggle. The Boston Globe has described him as the Renaissance man of American Music. Amram and Jack Kerouac collaborated on the first-ever jazz poetry reading i...

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Indigenous Peoples and Globalization: Resistance and Revitalization מאת Thomas D. Hall The issues native peoples face intensify with globalization. Through case studies from around the world, Hall and Fenelon demonstrate how indigenous peoples? Movements can only be understood by linking highly localized processes with larger global and historical forces. The authors show that indigen...

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Inside Jihadism: Understanding Jihadi Movements Worldwide (The Yale Cultural Sociology Series) מאת Farhad Khosrokhavar Jihad is the most organized force against Western capitalism since the Soviet era. Yet jihadism is multifaceted and complex, much broader than Al-Quaeda alone. In the first wide-ranging introduction to today's rapidly growing jihadism, Khosrokhavar explains how two key movements variously influence ...

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Staging Solidarity: Truth And Reconciliation in a New South Africa (Yale Cultural Sociology Series) (The Yale Cultural Sociology Series) מאת Tanya Goodman The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) is a modern social drama that enabled the nation’s apartheid past to be constructed as a cultural trauma, and by doing so created a new collective narrative of diversity and inclusion. The TRC relied primarily on testimonies from victims ...

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Red to Blue: Congressman Chris Van Hollen and Grassroots Politics מאת Sanford Gottlieb With a close eye on a rising star in the Democratic party, Chris Van Hollen, this book examines the movement toward a Democratic majority in American politics. Van Hollen, a state senator from suburban Maryland, was one of only two Democrats to defeat an incumbent Republican House member in the Repu...

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Politics, Identity, and Emotion (Great Barrington Books) מאת Paul Hoggett Politics is a field of mighty passions fueled by the identities of nation, religion, culture, gender, and class. Yet the study of politics is dominated by narrowly rationalist perspectives that see emotions as fleeting reactions and consider citizens primarily in terms of their individual interests....

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Barack Obama: This Improbable Quest מאת John K. Wilson Barack Obama is quickly becoming America's most popular politician, and his run for the presidency has brought huge crowds at home and an unprecedented wave of international attention as well. Much more than a biography, this book is a political tour of Obama's legislative experience as well as his ...

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Freedom at Work: Language, Professional, and Intellectual Development in Schools (Series in Critical Narrative) מאת Maria E. Torres-Guzman This book explores the freedom to use the language resources we have at our disposal to learn to our fullest, to engage in inquiry about learning and teaching, and to go beyond the surface in topics of schooling and education. Within a particular school context, the author explores how these freedom...

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Everyday Law for Gays and Lesbians: and Those Who Care about Them מאת Anthony C. Infanti Everyday Law for Gays and Lesbians and Those Who Care about Them accessibly explains the myriad ways the law applies to and affects lesbian and gay lives. Written both concretely and clearly, each chapter opens with a vivid story about actual experiences of lesbians and gay men and then uses those e...

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Postcapitalism: Moving Beyond Ideology in America's Economic Crisis מאת Raphael Sassower Debates over the role of government rage in the wake of America s deepest financial crisis since the Depression. This book suggests new ways of appreciating the political, legal, and moral context that could bring about a more sound economic future. Postcapitalism analyzes the contemporary American ...

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Postcapitalism: Moving Beyond Ideology in America's Economic Crisis מאת Raphael Sassower Debates over the role of government rage in the wake of America's deepest financial crisis since the Depression. This book suggests new ways of appreciating the political, legal, and moral context that could bring about a more sound economic future. Postcapitalism analyzes the contemporary American ...

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Against Schooling: For an Education That Matters (The Radical Imagination) Stanley Aronowitz

Against Schooling: For an Education That Matters (The Radical Imagination) מאת Stanley Aronowitz In Against Schooling, Stanley Aronowitz passionately raises an alarm about the current state of education in our country. Discipline and control over students, Aronowitz argues, are now the primary criteria of success, and genuine learning is sacrificed to a new educational militarism. In an age whe...

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The Sixties at 40: Leaders and Activists Remember and Look Forward מאת Ben Agger Millions of people were involved in or influenced by the protest and social change movements of the 1960s. Today, they are moms, dads, even grandparents. They are teachers, architects, artists, entrepreneurs. Having intimations of mortality, they are searching for their identities what formed them, ...

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The Sixties at 40: Leaders and Activists Remember and Look Forward מאת Ben Agger Millions of people were involved in or influenced by the protest and social change movements of the 1960s. Today, they are moms, dads, even grandparents. They are teachers, architects, artists, entrepreneurs. Having intimations of mortality, they are searching for their identities what formed them, ...

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Red to Blue: Congressman Chris Van Hollen and Grassroots Politics מאת Sanford Gottlieb With a close eye on a rising star in the Democratic party, Chris Van Hollen, this book examines the movement toward a Democratic majority in American politics. Van Hollen, a state senator from suburban Maryland, was one of only two Democrats to defeat an incumbent Republican House member in the Repu...

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Rethinking America: The Imperial Homeland in the 21st Century Jeff Maskovsky

Rethinking America: The Imperial Homeland in the 21st Century מאת Jeff Maskovsky How has domestic life been reorganized to accommodate the new U.S. imperial ambitions? What are the consequences of empire for the people living here “at home”? This new collection of essays answers these questions by exploring the cultural, political, and economic shifts that are now under way ...

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Making a Difference: Developing Meaningful Careers in Education (Teacher's Toolkit) Karen Hunter Quartz

Making a Difference: Developing Meaningful Careers in Education (Teacher's Toolkit) מאת Karen Hunter Quartz Our culture and media often simplify the choice educators face stay in or leave classroom teaching. Written for teachers and other educational professionals, this book dispels this simple dichotomy by representing the range of responses and career pathways that enable educators to make a difference....

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Injustice at Work (The Yale Cultural Sociology Series) מאת Francois Dubet Though it is difficult to describe what a just world should be, everyone is able to denounce injustice when he/she is a victim or a witness of it. Based on a long-term study of workers, this new book tests and expands upon prevailing theories of justice by Rawls, Nozick, Taylor, Walzer, and other im...

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Saints, Heroes, Myths, and Rites: Classical Durkheimian Studies of Religion and Society (The Yale Cultural Sociology Series) Marcel Mauss

Saints, Heroes, Myths, and Rites: Classical Durkheimian Studies of Religion and Society (The Yale Cultural Sociology Series) מאת Marcel Mauss Classical Durkheimian Studies of Myth and the Sacred presents English translations of several important essays, some never before translated, by members of the famous Année sociologique group around Emile Durkheim. These works by Marcel Mauss, Henri Hubert, and Robert Hertz are key contribut...