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Critical Interventions eBook Series

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  • Elsewhere in America

    The Crisis of Belonging in Contemporary Culture

    by David Trend ...
    Series series Critical Interventions
    Americans think of their country as a welcoming place where everyone has equal opportunity. Yet historical baggage and anxious times can restrain these possibilities. Newcomers often find that civic belonging comes with strings attached––riddled with limitations or legally punitive rites of passage. For those already here, new challenges to civic belonging emerge on the basis of belief, behavior, ... Read more

    $80.07 CAD

  • Anxious Creativity

    When Imagination Fails

    by David Trend ...
    Series series Critical Interventions
    Creativity is getting new attention in today’s America––along the way revealing fault lines in U.S. culture. Surveys show people overwhelmingly seeing creativity as both a desirable trait and a work enhancement, yet most say they just aren’t creative. Like beauty and wealth, creativity seems universally desired but insufficiently possessed. Businesses likewise see innovation as essential to ... Read more

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    by Joseph Heath ...
    The co-author of the internationally bestselling The Rebel Sell brings us "slow politics": promoting slow thought, slow deliberation and slow debate.Over the last twenty years, the political systems of the western world have become increasingly divided--not between right and left but between crazy and non-crazy. Whats more, the crazies seem to be gaining the upper hand. Rational thought cannot ... Read more

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  • Sociology

    by BarCharts,Inc ...
    This study guide contains fundamental sociological definitions and principles which are specifically designed to aid students. Topics covered include: social structure & culture, formal organizations, socialization & deviance, basic concepts of demography, population changes, social inequality & stratification, social classes, race, gender & inequality, economy, politics & education, family, ... Read more

    $4.94 CAD

  • Politics in Time

    History, Institutions, and Social Analysis

    by Paul Pierson ...
    This groundbreaking book represents the most systematic examination to date of the often-invoked but rarely examined declaration that "history matters." Most contemporary social scientists unconsciously take a "snapshot" view of the social world. Yet the meaning of social events or processes is frequently distorted when they are ripped from their temporal context. Paul Pierson argues that placing ... Read more

    $49.31 CAD

  • The Maternal Factor

    Two Paths to Morality

    by Nel Noddings ...
    In this provocative new book, renowned educator and philosopher Nel Noddings extends her influential work on the ethics of care toward a compelling objective—global peace and justice. She asks: If we celebrate the success of women becoming more like men in professional life, should we not simultaneously hope that men become more like women—in caring for others, rejecting violence, and valuing the ... Read more

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  • Introduction to Sociological Theory

    Theorists, Concepts, and their Applicability to the Twenty-First Century

    by Michele Dillon ...
    The extensively revised and updated second edition combines carefully chosen primary quotes with wide-ranging discussion and everyday illustrative examples to provide an in-depth introduction to classical and contemporary sociological theory.Combines classical and contemporary theory in a single, integrated textShort biographies and historical timelines of significant events provide context to ... Read more

    $80.99 CAD

  • School and Society

    by Walter Feinberg, Jonas F. Soltis ...
    Series series Thinking About Education Series
    This widely used text has been expanded to include the most important issues in contemporary schooling, including:New end-of-chapter sections for Further Reading.New references added to the useful Additional Resources section.School and Society, Fifth Edition uses realistic case studies, dialogues, and open-ended questions designed to stimulate thinking about problems related to school and society ... Read more

    $33.29 CAD

  • Conflict, Security, Foreign Policy, and International Political Economy

    Past Paths and Future Directions in International Studies

    Edited by Michael Brecher, Frank P. Harvey ...
    Series series Millennial reflections on international studies
    No study of international relations is complete without consideration of foreign policy processes and an understanding of state security, conflict in global politics, and the relationship between the world economy and international behavior. Conflict, Security, Foreign Policy, and International Political Economy: Past Paths and Future Directions in International Studies consists of twelve original ... Read more

    $21.59 CAD

  • Peter Singer Under Fire

    The Moral Iconoclast Faces His Critics

    Edited by Ph.D. Jeffrey A. Schaler ...
    One of the leading ethical thinkers of the modern age, Peter Singer has repeatedly been embroiled in controversy. Protesters in Germany closed down his lectures, mistakenly thinking he was advocating Nazi views on eugenics. Conservative publisher Steve Forbes withdrew generous donations to Princeton after Singer was appointed professor of bioethics. His belief that infanticide is sometimes morally ... Read more

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  • Philosophy of Education

    Introductory Readings

    by William Hare, John P. Portelli ...
    Revised and updated with 25 new essays, the fourth edition of this bestselling collection brings together more than 30 leaders in the field of educational theory. An engaging exploration of the ideas and trends shaping education in today’s classrooms, Philosophy of Education includes topics on high-stakes testing, consumerism in education, and social justice issues in the classroom. How can we ... Read more

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  • Critical Education in the New Information Age

    by Manuel Castells, Ramón Flecha, Paulo Freire, Henry A. Giroux, Donaldo Macedo, Paul Willis ...
    Series series Critical Perspectives Series: A Book Series Dedicated to Paulo Freire
    Essays by some of the world's leading educators provide a revolutionary portrait of new ideas and developments in education that can influence the possibility of social and political change.The authors take into account such diverse terrain as feminism, ecology, media, and individual liberty in their pursuit of new ideas that can inform the fundamental practice of education and promote a more ... Read more

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