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Counterpoints eBook Series

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  • People Need to Know

    Confronting History in the Heartland

    by Robert M. Lucas ...
    Series Book 484 - Counterpoints
    People Need to Know follows a group of students as they study the defining event in their community’s history – a 1930 lynching that was captured in one of the century’s most iconic and disturbing photographs. With ambitions of contributing to public understanding, the students set out to create a collection of online resources about the lynching. As they encounter troubling information and ... Read more

    $47.15 CAD

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  • The Dumbest Generation

    How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future(Or, Don't Trust Anyone Under 30)

    by Mark Bauerlein ...
    This shocking, surprisingly entertaining romp into the intellectual nether regions of today's underthirty set reveals the disturbing and, ultimately, incontrovertible truth: cyberculture is turning us into a society of know-nothings.The Dumbest Generation is a dire report on the intellectual life of young adults and a timely warning of its impact on American democracy and culture.For decades, ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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  • Genealogical Standards of Evidence

    A Guide for Family Historians

    by Brenda Dougall Merriman ...
    Series Book 2 - Genealogist's Reference Shelf
    Genealogical evidence is the information that allows us to identify an individual, an event in his or her life, or the relationship between individuals. In such a process, we often hear or use words such as evidence, proof, or documentation. Brenda Dougall Merriman takes readers through the genealogical process of research and identification, along the way examining how the genealogical community ... Read more

    $6.47 CAD

  • Privacy

    by Garret Keizer ...
    Series series BIG IDEAS//small books
    American essayist and Harper's contributing editor Garret Keizer offers a brilliant, literate look at our strip-searched, over-shared, viral-videoed existence.Body scans at the airport, candid pics on Facebook, a Twitter account for your stray thoughts, and a surveillance camera on every street corner -- today we have an audience for all of the extraordinary and banal events of our lives. The ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Historical Thinking

    by Sam Wineburg ...
    Series series Critical Perspectives On The P
    Since ancient times, the pundits have lamented young people's lack of historical knowledge and warned that ignorance of the past surely condemns humanity to repeating its mistakes. In the contemporary United States, this dire outlook drives a contentious debate about what key events, nations, and people are essential for history students. Sam Wineburg says that we are asking the wrong questions. ... Read more

    $30.50 CAD

  • Truth Overruled

    The Future of Marriage and Religious Freedom

    by Ryan T. Anderson ...
    "Every leader in America needs to read this book! It's by far the best summary of what's at stake." —Rick WarrenThe Supreme Court has issued a decision, but that doesn't end the debate. Now that the Supreme Court has ruled, Americans face momentous debates about the nature of marriage and religious liberty. Because the Court has redefined marriage in all 50 states, we have to energetically protect ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Drucker’s Lost Art of Management: Peter Drucker’s Timeless Vision for Building Effective Organizations

    by Joseph A. Maciariello, Karen Linkletter ...
    For Drucker, management was a moral force, not merely a tool at the service of the amoral market . . ."Maciariello and Linkletter provide a very thoughtful and challenging journey in understanding Drucker's profound insights into the meaning of management as a liberal art."—C. William Pollard, Chairman Emeritus, The ServiceMaster Company"Linkletter and Maciariello have done a masterful job in ... Read more

    $56.24 CAD

  • Reflections on Judging

    by Richard A. Posner ...
    For Richard Posner, legal formalism and formalist judges--notably Antonin Scalia--present the main obstacles to coping with the dizzying pace of technological advance. Posner calls for legal realism--gathering facts, considering context, and reaching a sensible conclusion that inflicts little collateral damage on other areas of the law. ... Read more

    $41.39 CAD

  • Quality Education as a Constitutional Right

    Creating a Grassroots Movement to Transform Public Schools

    by Theresa Perry, Robert P. Moses, Lisa Delpit, Joan T. Wynne, Ernesto Cortes Jr. ...
    In 2005, famed civil rights leader and education activist Robert Moses invited one hundred prominent African American and Latino intellectuals and activists to meet to discuss a proposal for acampaignto guarantee a quality education for all children as a constitutional right—a movement that would “transform current approaches to educational inequity, all of which have failed miserably to yield ... Read more

    $16.55 CAD

  • Divergent Paths

    The Academy and the Judiciary

    by Richard A. Posner ...
    Judges and legal scholars talk past one another, if they have any conversation at all. Academics couch their criticisms of judicial decisions in theoretical terms, which leads many judges—at the risk of intellectual stagnation—to dismiss most academic discourse as opaque and divorced from reality. In Divergent Paths, Richard Posner turns his attention to this widening gap within the legal ... Read more

    $41.39 CAD

  • The Future of Reputation: Gossip, Rumor, and Privacy on the Internet

    by Daniel J. Solove ...
    Teeming with chatrooms, online discussion groups, and blogs, the Internet offers previously unimagined opportunities for personal expression and communication. But there’s a dark side to the story. A trail of information fragments about us is forever preserved on the Internet, instantly available in a Google search. A permanent chronicle of our private lives-often of dubious reliability and ... Read more

    $15.29 CAD

  • Debating Same-Sex Marriage

    by John Corvino, Maggie Gallagher ...
    Series series Point/Counterpoint
    Polls and election results show Americans sharply divided on same-sex marriage, and the controversy is unlikely to subside anytime soon. Debating Same-Sex Marriage provides an indispensable roadmap to the ongoing debate. Taking a "point/counterpoint" approach, John Corvino (a philosopher and prominent gay advocate) and Maggie Gallagher (a nationally syndicated columnist and co-founder of the ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD