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  • The Saber-Tooth Curriculum, Classic Edition

    by Abner J. Peddiwell ...
    The 65th-anniversary edition of an educational classic proves its relevance in examining today's educational quandariesMcGraw-Hill first published The Saber- Tooth Curriculum in 1939, and it has remained a classic bestseller to this date. The book is just as relevant and applicable to the key questions in education today as it was when it was first published.With tongue firmly in cheek, Peddiwell ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

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  • The Curiosity of School

    Education And The Dark Side Of Enlightenment

    by Zander Sherman ...
    It's one thing we all have in common. We've all been to school. But as Zander Sherman shows in this fascinating, often shocking account of institutionalized education, sending your kids off to school was not always normal. In fact, school is a very recent invention. Taking the reader back to 19th-century Prussia, where generals, worried about soldiers' troubling individuality, sought a way to ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Weapons of Mass Instruction

    A Schoolteacher's Journey Through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling

    by John Taylor Gatto ...
    Expose the hidden mechanisms that turn curious children into compliant workers. John Taylor Gatto's explosive follow-up to Dumbing Us Down reveals the specific techniques schools use to destroy imagination, discourage critical thinking, and create a false view of learning as rote memorization rather than creative discovery.The Weaponization of Education:This isn't conspiracy theory - it's ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Vanishing American Adult

    Our Coming-of-Age Crisis--and How to Rebuild a Culture of Self-Reliance

    by Ben Sasse ...
    A Clarion Call to Save America's Future by Empowering the Next GenerationIn The Vanishing American Adult, Senator Ben Sasse warns of an existential threat facing America. A generation of young people, raised by overprotective parents and coddled by misguided government programs, is ill-equipped to survive in today's highly-competitive global economy.Core coming-of-age experiences like learning the ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

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  • In Defense of a Liberal Education

    by Fareed Zakaria ...
    **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERCNN host and best-selling author Fareed Zakaria argues for a renewed commitment to the world’s most valuable educational tradition.**The liberal arts are under attack. The governors of Florida, Texas, and North Carolina have all pledged that they will not spend taxpayer money subsidizing the liberal arts, and they seem to have an unlikely ally in President Obama. While ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Applied Imagination - Principles and Procedures of Creative Writing

    by Alex Osborn ...
    The purpose of this book is to present the principles and procedures of creative thinking. Chapters included are, the all importance of imagination, indispensability of creativity in science. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Geography Of Time

    On Tempo, Culture, And The Pace Of Life

    by Robert N. Levine ...
    In this engaging and spirited book, eminent social psychologist Robert Levine asks us to explore a dimension of our experience that we take for granted-our perception of time. When we travel to a different country, or even a different city in the United States, we assume that a certain amount of cultural adjustment will be required, whether it's getting used to new food or negotiating a foreign ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • What Are People For?

    Essays

    by Wendell Berry ...
    In the twenty-two essays collected here, Wendell Berry, whom The Christian Science Monitor called "the prophetic American voice of our day," conveys a deep concern for the American economic system and the gluttony of consumerismWendell Berry identifies himself as both "a farmer of sorts and an artist of sorts," which he deftly illustrates in the scope of these essays. Ranging from America’s ... Read more

    $16.79 CAD

  • The Organization Man

    by William H. Whyte, Joseph Nocera ...
    Regarded as one of the most important sociological and business commentaries of modern times, The Organization Man developed the first thorough description of the impact of mass organization on American society. During the height of the Eisenhower administration, corporations appeared to provide a blissful answer to postwar life with the marketing of new technologies—television, affordable cars, ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

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  • Writings from The New Yorker 1927-1976

    by E. B. White ...
    A wise, witty, spirited collection of short pieces and essays by the inimitable E. B. White.Written for the New Yorker over a span of forty-nine years, these 161 pieces show White’s changing concerns and development as a writer. In matchless style White writes about everything from cicadas to Khrushchev, from Thoreau to hyphens, from academic freedom to lipstick, from New York garbagemen to the ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • In CHEAP We Trust

    The Story of a Misunderstood American Virtue

    by Lauren Weber ...
    Cheap suit. Cheap date. Cheap shot. It's a dirty word, an epithet laden with negative meanings. It is also the story of Lauren Weber's life. As a child, she resented her father for keeping the heat at 50 degrees through the frigid New England winters and rarely using his car's turn signals-to keep them from burning out. But as an adult, when she found herself walking 30 blocks to save $2 on subway ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

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  • It All Turns on Affection

    The Jefferson Lecture and Other Essays

    by Wendell Berry ...
    An impassioned and rigorous appeal for reconnection to the land and human feeling by one of America’s most heartfelt and humble writersWhen he accepted the invitation to deliver The Jefferson Lecture—our nation’s highest honor for distinguished intellectual achievement—Wendell Berry decided to take on the obligation of thinking again about the problems that have engaged him throughout his long ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD