הוצאת NEW PRESS
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From the prizewinning "master of atmosphere" (Boston Globe) comes the surprising and affecting story of a man well past middle age who suddenly finds himself on the threshold of renewal. Living on a tiny island entirely surrounded by ice during the long winter months, Fredrik... |
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A haunting novel juxtaposing a man's coming-of-age in Sweden with his life in Zambia, from the internationally bestselling author.Interweaving past and present, Sweden and Zambia, The Eye of the Leopard draws on bestselling author Henning Mankell's deep understanding of the two worlds ...
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On Language: Chomsky's Classic Works "Language and Responsibility" and "Reflections on Language" in One Volume
מאת Noam Chomsky
Two of Chomsky's most famous and accessible works, back in print in one affordable, attractive volume. Restoring to print two of Chomsky's most famous and popular books in one omnibus volume, On Language features some of the noted linguist and political critic's most informal and highly accessible w...
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In a single volume, the seminal writings of the world's leading philosopher, linguist, and critic, published to coincide with his eightieth birthday.For the past forty years Noam Chomsky's writings on politics and language have established him as a preeminent public intellectual and as one of...
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Building on the success of her previous book, Consuming Kids, Linn argues that children more than ever need the time, space, and tools essential for creative play. In modern America, creative play is under siege since it is seen as a threat to corporate profits. At the heart of the book ar...
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The New Press's Abridged Teaching Edition of A People's History of the United States has made Howard Zinn's original text available specifically for classroom use. With exercises and teaching materials to accompany each chapter, this edition spans American Beginnings, Reconstruction, the Civi...
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"Our greatest living historian." --The New York Review of Books
Encompassing a century of world history, Eric Hobsbawm's On Empire sketches the tangled relationship between globalization, war, and the prospects for peace in a world of uninterrupted military conflict since ... |
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The highly praised new book that delivers a "hefty emotional wallop" (Chicago Tribune) from the acclaimed author of Other People's Houses and Her First American.Shakespeare's Kitchen, Lore Segal's first major work of fiction in more than twenty years, was widely ce...
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Martin Duberman describes himself as having "the double vision of the outsider who is let inside . . . a spy in the culture." Fortunately for the rest of us, he's decided to tell what he learned through his spying. This wonderful mixture of diary and retrospective commentary puts some of the impor...
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The final volume in the definitive collection of Foucault's articles, interviews, and seminars. Power, the third and final volume of The New Press's Essential Works of Foucault series, draws together Foucault's contributions to what he saw as the still-underdeveloped practice of political ana...
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The extraordinary pages of The War, written in 1944 but finished in 1985, form a totally new image of the heroine of The Lover and, through her, of Paris during the Nazi occupation and the first months of liberation. Married and living in Paris, part of a resistance network headed by Franois Mittera...
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A People's History of Sports in the United States: From Bull-Baiting to Barry Bonds . . . 250 Years of Politics, Protest, People, and Play (New Press People's Histories)
מאת Dave Zirin
In this long-awaited book from the rising superstar of sportswriting, whose blog “The Edge of Sports” is read each week by thousands of people across the country, Dave Zirin offers a riotously entertaining chronicle of larger-than-life sporting characters and dramatic contests and what amou...
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"Working has been a book, a radio drama, a Broadway musical, and now a gripping graphic novel. I can't speak for Studs, but I suspect he would have been tickled to see it adapted by a former government file clerk and wage slave, who knows all about working." --Roger Ebert
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The New York Times-bestselling book of spiritual ruminations with a progressive political edge from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author.A New York Times bestseller in hardcover, Pulitzer Prize winner Alice Walker's We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For was called "stunni...
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A sweeping, revelatory history of poverty in America from the nineteenth century to today, told through the eyes and experiences of the poor themselves. "When you live in a shelter, other people control your life. They tell you when you may come in and w... |
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Sacred Matters: Celebrity Worship, Sexual Ecstasies, The Living Dead and Other Signs of Religious Life in the United States
מאת Gary Laderman
"From Snow White to the ghost cult of Tupac Shakur to the legend of Deep Throat, Gary Laderman reveals that though these `living myths' of the American landscape lack God, they have everything else: rituals, relics, and the everyday work of meaning-making. . . . Sacred Matters is a ...
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Radical Acts: Collected Political Plays (In White America, Mother Earth, Posing Naked, Visions of Kerouac)
מאת Martin Duberman
Four inspiring, bold political plays that bring history alive as theater, from the Bancroft Prize-winning historian, cultural critic, and public intellectual.BR>"Martin Duberman occupies a singularly important place in American culture."—Catharine R. Stimpson, Dean and University Pro...
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Kill Khalid: The Failed Mossad Assassination of Khalid Mishal and the Rise of Hamas
מאת Paul McGeough A leading international correspondent reconstructs the pivotal moment in the rise of Hamas—a page-turning narrative reminiscent of The Day of the Jackal. "[It was] all very James Bond. One country needs the antidote held by another, to treat a... |
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Two of the twentieth century's most influential thinkers debate a perennial question.In 1971, at the height of the Vietnam War and at a time of great political and social instability, two of the world's leading intellectuals, Noam Chomsky and Michel Foucault, were invited by Dutch philosophe...
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The extraordinary, widely praised memoir—"a masterpiece about a life which itself is a sort of masterpiece" (Oliver Sacks)Chosen as a best book of the year in 2007 by the Chicago Tribune, Publishers Weekly, and Playboy, Studs Terkel's memoir Touch and Go is "history fro...
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"A summing up of the best of Terkel."—Herbert Mitgang, DoubletakeThe Studs Terkel Reader, originally published under the title My American Century, collects the best interviews from eight of Terkel's classic oral histories together with his magnificent introductions to ...
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A practical, hands-on primer on helping schools and families work better together to improve children's education.Countless studies demonstrate that students with parents actively involved in their education at home and school are more likely to earn higher grades and test scores, enroll in h...
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Now available for the first time in paperback from Vintage Canada, this international bestseller is the missing piece of the critically acclaimed Kurt Wallander mystery series: the story of Wallander's beginnings.The Pyramid is the prequel to the bestselling Kurt Wallander series, and reintro...
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Social Stratification in the United States: The American Profile Poster, Revised and Updated Edition
מאת Stephen J. Rose
A much-anticipated update of the classic book-and-poster set depicting who owns what, who makes how much, who works where, and who lives with whom.Generations of teachers, union organizers, and activists have relied on this book-and-poster set, originally published in 1979, to illustrate the ...
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Jared Diamond meets Stephen Hawking in the first popular book in an innovative new field that seeks to fit human history into the history of the universe, by an American Book Award winner. An epic book that Kirkus called "world history on a grand s... |
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Noted scholar and groundbreaking rabbi Rebecca Alpert discusses what the Torah actually says about sex, war, poverty, the environment, and other major contemporary issues."Jews believe in a God whose main interest was to take a bunch of rebellious slaves and set them free from oppression...
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A groundbreaking inquiry into the relationship between societies' inequality and their citizens' happiness and well-being.Comparing the United States with other market democracies and one state with another, this book offers irrefutable evidence that unequal societies create poor health, more...
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Widely recognized as "one of the nation's foremost scholars on the slave era" (Boston Globe), Bancroft Prize-winning historian Ira Berlin has changed the way we think about African American life in slavery and freedom. This classic volume, now available in a handsome new edition, is an indisp...
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A handsome new paperback edition of the bestselling classic on America's response to the Nazi assault on European Jews.The Abandonment of the Jews received enormous critical and commercial attention when it was first released in 1984, appearing on the New York Times bestseller l...
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In a single volume, the seminal writings of the world's leading philosopher, linguist, and critic, published to coincide with his eightieth birthday.For the past forty years Noam Chomsky's writings on politics and language have established him as a preeminent public intellectual and as one of...
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The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World (Reprint) (New Press People's History)
מאת Vijay Prashad
A landmark study that offers an alternative history of the Cold War from the point of view of the world's poor.
Here, from a brilliant young writer, is a paradigm-shifting history of both a utopian concept and global movement—the idea of the Third World. The Darker Na... |
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"Drawing authoritatively on the psychology of childhood and on the puppet therapy that she has created, Susan Linn has written an eloquent brief on the indispensability of unmediated, unadulterated play." --Howard Gardner, author of Five Minds for the Future
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A brilliant portrait of a dynamic teacher, Fuller's Earth will be an inspiration to progressive educators today. Toward the end of his life, the visionary American philosopher, inventor, architect, mathematician, and poet Buckminster Fuller was as... |
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By the acclaimed author of the bestselling Mexican Lives, a surprising, behind-the-headlines look at the lives of Mexican migrants, in the tradition of Oscar Lewis's classic Five Families"Either you work, or you work. Those are the two choices!"—Sara, a street vendor in...
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The acclaimed book of practical advice from students to their teachers.Since its initial publication in hardcover in 2003, Fires in the Bathroom has been through multiple printings and received the attention of teachers across the country. Now in paperback, Kathleen Cushman's groundbre...
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A major new examination of the American immigrant experience, revealing how recent immigrants are transforming religion in America and around the globe."People who know how to live in more than one cultural world have mastered the art of living in this global age, which is good for this co...
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A shocking exposé of the little-known corruption and exploitation found at the heart of the multibillion-dollar cocoa industry—blood diamond for chocolate."It's the measure of a vast gulf between the children who eat chocolate on their way to school in North America and those [in Africa...
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The Long Road to Baghdad: A History of U.S. Foreign Policy from the 1970s to the Present
מאת Lloyd C. Gardner
The renowned diplomatic historian looks back at the ideas, policies, and decisions that led from Vietnam to the Iraq War and to America's disastrous new role in the Middle East."What will stand out one day is not George W. Bush's uniqueness but the continuum from the Carter Doctrine of 197...
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The Last Three Miles: Politics, Murder, and the Construction of America's First Superhighway
מאת Steven Hart
In the tradition of Robert Caro's The Power Broker, a sweeping, investigative history of the building of the road connecting Manhattan to the rest of the country.At the dawn of America's love affair with the automobile, cars and trucks leaving the nation's largest city were unceremonio...
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning oral historian and nonagenarian makes a selection of his favorite unpublished writings, broadcasts, and interviews.Millions of Studs Terkel fans have come to know the prizewinning oral historian through his landmark books—"The Good War", Hard Times, Working, Wi...
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A highly accessible account of the history of terrorism that places 9/11 and al-Qaeda in historical context.Today, political violence has become the scourge of our world and terrorism is routinely described as a uniquely modern evil. Yet however unprecedented in scope the new terrorist organi...
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The New Blue Media: How Michael Moore, MoveOn.org, Jon Stewart and Company Are Transforming Progressive Politics
מאת Theodore Hamm
The penetrating—and entertaining—story of the rise of a new generation of liberal media figures, from Jon Stewart and Michael Moore to MoveOn and the blue blogosphere.The last decade brought a sea change in the American media landscape: while mainstream news outlets generally endorsed the...
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The world-renowned antinuclear activist's "expertly argued" (The Guardian) case against nuclear energy.In a world torn apart by wars over oil, politicians have increasingly begun to look for alternative energy sources—and their leading choice is nuclear energy. Among the myths that h...
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A bold new interpretation of our nation's founding moment, by the author of A People's History of the American Revolution. Using the wide-angle lens of a people's historian, Ray Raphael's The First American Revolution tells a surprising new story of America's revolutionary struggle. In...
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Field Guide to the U.S. Economy: A Compact and Irreverent Guide to Economic Life in America, Revised and Updated Edition
מאת Jonathan Teller-Elsberg
The twenty-first-century handbook to the myths and realities of the U.S. economy.Extensively revised and expanded with the most up-to-the-minute data, this new edition of the Field Guide to the U.S. Economy brings key economic issues to life, reflecting the collective wit and wisdom of...
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Asian Americans in the Twenty-First Century: Oral Histories of First- to Fourth- Generation Americans from China, Japan, India, Korea, the Philippines, Vietnam, and Laos
מאת Joann Faung Jean Lee
A follow-up to the 1992 bestselling classic Asian Americans—with all-new interviews that brilliantly illuminate the vibrant, ever-changing communities of Asian America."Everybody thinks I'm crazy. They think a Japanese country singer can never make it in the U.S. But I followed my...
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The story of our nation's founding has been steadily distilled into the triumphs and tribulations of a handful of courageous men. We know them well: Washington, Franklin, Jefferson, Hamilton, Adams, and Madison--the Founders. Yet the new nation also owed its existence to an entire generation of pa...
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The highly acclaimed, definitive collection of Abbott's popular New York photographs. Berenice Abbott (1898-1991) was one of this century's greatest photographers, and her New York City images have come to define 1930's New York. The response to The New Press's landmark hardcover publication of Bere...
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A compulsively readable true-crime tale, with a damning argument about the relationship between the death penalty and false confessions, based on an Innocence Project case."It's time for Virginia's governor to do something about the Norfolk Four....[This is] one of the most disturbing pote...
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For anyone who has ever lied—or been lied to—True-life tales about faking, from Clifford Irving to Stephen Glass, by an award-winning writer. Fakers are believed—and, at least for a time, celebrated—because they each promise us, screen-gazing and exper... |
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An updated edition of the classic revolutionary analysis of the role of race in the classroom.Winner of an American Educational Studies Association Critics' Choice Award and Choice Magazine's Outstanding Academic book award, and voted one of Teacher Magazine's "great books," ...
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A brilliant journalist takes us on a skewed odyssey through an american populated by idealists and outsiders in his first book, reminiscent of the classic new journalism of Tom Wolfe and Joan Didion.Writing for Harper's Magazine and The New Yorker over the last decade, David Sam...
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Unjust Deserts: How The Rich Are Taking Our Common Inheritance and Why We Should Take It Back
מאת Gar Alperovitz
Warren Buffett is worth nearly $50 billion. Does he “deserve” all this money? Buffett himself will tell you that “society is responsible for a very significant percentage of what I’ve earned.” Unjust Deserts offers an entirely new approach to the wealth question....
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A deeply informed political and cultural narrative of a country thrust into the international spotlight.Praised by leading academics in the field as "extraordinary," "a brilliant analysis," "fresh, provocative and iconoclastic," Iran: A People Interrupted has distinguished itself as a ...
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"Paul Butler utilizes his years as a prosecutor and law teacher to dramatically describe this country's war on crime as one encouraging what it seeks to eliminate, corrupting those commissioned to enforce its laws and, in the process, ruining more lives than it protects. Butler conveys this trage...
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Wage Theft in America: Why Millions of Working Americans Are Not Getting Paid - And What We Can Do About It
מאת Kim Bobo
In what has been described as “the crime wave no one talks about,” billions of dollars worth of wages are stolen from millions of workers in the United States every year. The scope of these abuses is staggering—paying employees far less than the legal minimum wage, purposefully misclassifying ...
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The page-turning story behind the 2005 intelligent design case in Dover, Pennsylvania—the case that made front-page news around the world."What happened in Dover is a tiny sliver, a broken shard of glass mirroring what plays out across the country. A war of fundamentalist Christian value...
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The widely contrasting approaches to U.S. history that can be found in the textbooks of other nations. "The American invaders...accompanied by their puppets, finally waged the war...The bastards who crossed the 38th paralle... |
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A leader of the new generation of progressive evangelicals reclaims her faith from partisan politics, in this book in the acclaimed "Does Not Equal" series.
"To let the religious right define evangelical...wipes out the memory of real people who lived and fought for just... |
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A provocative new illustrated history of the famed early chronicler of New York's immigrant poor, seen here as an opportunistic, camera-toting social reformer whose legacy lives on."I don't remember my mother or my aunts and uncles talking of their father as a photographer....In his letter...
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Twenty-one of the world's greatest writers offer a "liberating message about the power of language" (Bloomsbury Review)From the political to the aesthetic, Nobel Lectures collects the words of a quarter-century of literature laureates, offering a glimpse into the inspirations, m...
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A fascinating and revealing look at the United States' largest, most controversial group of immigrants, by Mexico's former foreign minister.In the wake of the massive, nationwide rally in support of immigrant rights in May 2006, which drew a record number of participants, one thing has become...
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A scathing portrait of contemporary executive power run amok, by the author of the original 1976 Church Committee report on executive abuse."In thirty-four years, I have repeatedly seen an erosion of the powers and the ability of the president of the United States to do his job."—Vic...
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Reviewing the historical record of the past sixty years and envisioning the prospects for a just and lasting peace, Ellis makes an unyielding case--based on the most cherished Jewish values--that the present policies of the Israeli state cannot reasonably be defended. The future not only of Judai... |
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A remarkable achievement. The heroes and heroines are all there, the pace is fast, and the level of emotion is truly high. Dr. Sullivan has achieved for the NAACP centennial and for all of us an exciting account of its life. --JOHN HOPE FRANKLIN, DUKE UNIVERSITY
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The evidence that the Bush administration is guilty of war crimes, presented in the form of a court case brought by one of the premier civil rights organizations in the United States. "He won't be tried in the United States. He can't be tried by an intern... |
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Unmarketable: Brandalism, Copyfighting, Mocketing, and the Erosion of Integrity
מאת Anne Elizabeth Moore
A writer and activist investigates corporate America's inroads into—and alliances with—the cultural underground."There's an industry around you that works, whether you agree with it or not."—Alec Bourgeois, Dischord Records label managerFor years the do-it-yourself (DIY)/punk und...
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"A book you read in a single sitting" (Le Magazine Littéraire), here is a "story worthy of Hitchcock" (Paris Vogue), from one of the most promising French novelists to emerge since Michel Houellebecq. Bestselling French wunderkind Tanguy ... |
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One of the leading educational philosophers of the twentieth century, Theodore Brameld helped pioneer the idea that education can be used to transform society for the better. He believed that schools should help the individual not only to develop socially but to learn how to be responsible citi...
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Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water
מאת Maude Barlow
A passionate call to action from one of the leading voices in the global struggle for universal access to the earth's most vital element—a sequel to the acclaimed Blue Gold."Life requires access to clean water; to deny the right to water is to deny the right to life."—from t...
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Made in America: Immigrant Students in Our Public Schools, Tenth Anniversary Edition
מאת Laurie Olsen
With a new introduction by author Laurie Olsen, this timely reissue probes the challenges facing teachers and immigrant students in our public schools.As the United States reexamines its borders and immigration policies, the debate over educating immigrant students in our public schools has d...
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A stunning narrative history of the emergence of electronic "free culture," from open-source software and Creative Commons licenses to remixes and Web 2.0—in the tradition of Lawrence Lessig's Free Culture. A world organized around centrali... |
