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  • School - No Place for Children 6.2

    A Wake-Up Call for Parents and Teachers

    by David Adelman ...
    Did you thrive at school or did it do your head in? Were you bullied, belittled or just plain bored to tears? Did it prepare you for the challenges of adult life and give you the confidence to see you through? Did it help resolve social and emotional issues? Did you find and fully express your true gifts, talents and passions? Were you really valued and appreciated just for who you are?Do your ... Read more

    $9.20 CAD

  • Art Collecting and Middle Class Culture from London to Brighton, 1840–1914

    by David Adelman ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Art History
    This study explores the interplay between money, status, politics and art collecting in the public and private lives of members of the wealthy trading classes in Brighton during the period 1840–1914.Chapters focus on the collecting practices of five rich and upwardly mobile Victorians: William Coningham (1815–84), Henry Hill (1813–82), Henry Willett (1823–1905) and Harriet Trist (1816–96) and her ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

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    School - No Place for Children

    A Wake-Up Call

    by David Adelman ...
    Narrated by David Adelman ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 11 min

    Do you know what goes on in a typical modern classroom? Have you noticed how many children actually hate going into school and the effect school has on them? Do you yourself feel an irrational fear of authority, ridiculously low in resilience, self-worth and self-confidence?You are not alone. This book reveals the dark agenda of the modern schooling system and its toxic effects on both pupils and ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Remote Warfare

    New Cultures of Violence

    Edited by Rebecca A. Adelman, David Kieran ...
    Considers how people have confronted, challenged, and resisted remote warfareDrone warfare is now a routine, if not predominant, aspect of military engagement. Although this method of delivering violence at a distance has been a part of military arsenals for two decades, scholarly debate on remote warfare writ large has remained stuck in tired debates about practicality, efficacy, and ethics. ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • WBAI

    The First 75 Years

    by Charlotte Adelman, David A. Hurst ...
    A short history of the WBAI, as well as news clippings from the early 1900s. Biographies and photos of WBAI members. ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Past Trends and Future Prospects of the American City

    The Dynamics of Atlanta

    by Robert M. Adelman, Fred Brooks, Jennifer Chirico, Obie Clayton, Glenn T. Eskew, Charles A. Gallagher, Gregory Hall, Katherine B. Hankins, Melissa M. Hayes, Cynthia Hewitt, Charles Jaret, Larry Keating, Douglas J. Krupka, Douglas S. Noonan, Glenwood Ross, Michael Rushton, Matthew Wooten, David L Sjoquist, Truman A. Hartshorn ...
    Atlanta's experience over the past 15 to 20 years is reflective of many cities, particularly those in the south and west. Thus, the story of how and why Atlanta has changed is informative for cities in general. What accounts for the positive turn-around of the city of Atlanta? What can other cities learn from Atlanta's experience?This collection examines changes in the city of Atlanta over the ... Read more

    $142.19 CAD

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    Leisure and Pleasure in Victorian Britain

    by Judith Flanders ...
    A delightful and fascinating social history of Victorians at leisure, told through the letters, diaries, journals and novels of nineteenth-century men and women, from the author of the bestselling ‘The Victorian House’.Imagine a world where only one in five people owns a book, where just one in ten has a knife or a fork – a world where five people out of every six do not own a cup to hold a hot ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • A Theory of the Drone

    by Grégoire Chamayou ...
    Drone warfare has raised profound ethical and constitutional questions both in the halls of Congress and among the U.S. public. Not since debates over nuclear warfare has American military strategy been the subject of discussion in living rooms, classrooms, and houses of worship. Yet as this groundbreaking new work shows, the full implications of drones have barely been addressed in the media.In a ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Last Call

    The Rise and Fall of Prohibition

    by Daniel Okrent ...
    A brilliant, authoritative, and fascinating history of America’s most puzzling era, the years 1920 to 1933, when the U.S. Constitution was amended to restrict one of America’s favorite pastimes: drinking alcoholic beverages.From its start, America has been awash in drink. The sailing vessel that brought John Winthrop to the shores of the New World in 1630 carried more beer than water. By the 1820s ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • London In The Nineteenth Century

    'A Human Awful Wonder of God'

    by Jerry White ...
    London in the nineteenth century was the greatest city mankind had ever seen. Its wealth was dazzling. Its horrors shocked the world. As William Blake put it, London was 'a Human awful wonder of God'. It was a century of genius - of Blake, Thackeray and Mayhew, of Nash, Faraday, Disraeli and Dickens. Jerry White's dazzling book is the first in a hundred years to explore London's history over the ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Cities Under Siege

    The New Military Urbanism

    by Stephen Graham ...
    Cities are the new battleground of our increasingly urban world. From the slums of the global South to the wealthy financial centers of the West, Cities Under Siege traces the spread of political violence through the sites, spaces, infrastructure and symbols of the world’s rapidly expanding metropolitan areas.Drawing on a wealth of original research, Stephen Graham shows how Western militaries and ... Read more

    $24.79 CAD

  • Because of Sex

    One Law, Ten Cases, and Fifty Years That Changed American Women's Lives at Work

    by Gillian Thomas ...
    "Thomas writes with precision and grace (and a lovely lack of jargon) about ten cases that established the full reach and scope of Title VII." ― The Boston GlobeBest known as a monumental achievement of the civil rights movement, the 1964 Civil Rights Act also revolutionized the lives of America's working women. Title VII of the law made it illegal to discriminate "because of sex." But that simple ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD

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