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  • Negrophobia and Reasonable Racism

    The Hidden Costs of Being Black in America

    by Jody David Armour ...
    Series Book 32 - Critical America
    Tackling the ugly secret of unconscious racism in American society, this book provides specific solutions to counter this entrenched phenomenon. ... Read more

    $29.69 CAD

  • School Resources, the Achievement Gap, and the Law

    Reconsidering School Finance, Policies, and Resources in US Education Policy

    by David J. Armor, John R. Munich, Aron Malatinszky ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Education Policy and Politics
    This book offers a novel and up-to-date exploration of the common belief that increasing conventional school resources will increase academic achievement and help close gaps between various advantaged and disadvantaged students. Taking the scholarship around this question, such as James S. Coleman’s 1965 report on the Equality of Educational Opportunity, as a starting point, it brings in an ... Read more

    $42.59 CAD

  • Maximizing Intelligence

    Edited by David Armor ...
    The "nature versus nurture" controversy dates back to at least the nineteenth century. How much of a role does genetics or environment play in accounting for reasoning skill and other intellectual aptitudes? At a time when the public school system in the United States is under attack, this debate has taken center stage in arguments about what accounts for differences in academic achievement. ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • The Scandinavian Prison Study

    by Stanton Wheeler, Hugh F. Cline ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book presents the formerly-unpublished manuscript by Wheeler and Cline detailing the landmark, comparative prisons study they conducted in the 1960s which examined fifteen Scandinavian prisons and nearly 2000 inmates across four Nordic countries. At the time, it was the largest comparative study of prisons and inmate behavior ever undertaken and despite 15 years of analysis and write-up it ... Read more

    $128.09 CAD

  • The Little Book of Restorative Justice for Colleges and Universities, Second Edition

    Repairing Harm and Rebuilding Trust in Response to Student Misconduct

    by David R. Karp ...
    Series series Justice and Peacebuilding
    A Practitioner's Reference and Guide to Implement Restorative Justice on CampusHere’s a call to colleges and universities to consider implementing restorative practices on their campuses, ensuring fair treatment of students and staff while minimizing institutional liability, protecting the campus community, and boosting morale, from an associate dean of student affairs who has put these models to ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

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  • The Bell Curve

    Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life

    by Richard J. Herrnstein, Charles Murray ...
    The controversial book linking intelligence to class and race in modern society, and what public policy can do to mitigate socioeconomic differences in IQ, birth rate, crime, fertility, welfare, and poverty. ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • The Social Benefits of Education

    Edited by Jere R. Behrman, Nevzer Stacey ...
    Series series Economics Of Education
    For decades, the primary argument in justifying education has been based on its direct economic effects. Yet education also provides "social benefits" for individuals and society at large, including a better way of taking care of ourselves, and consequently creating a better society to live in. Though it is difficult to quantify these social benefits, a more systematic analysis would improve our ... Read more

    $67.99 CAD

  • Family Investments in Children's Potential

    Resources and Parenting Behaviors That Promote Success

    Edited by Ariel Kalil, Thomas DeLeire ...
    Series series Monographs in Parenting Series
    The papers in this volume bring together a cross-disciplinary mix of researchers--developmental psychologists, evolutionary biologists, economists, anthropologists, and sociologists--working on the common theme of investments in children. The interdisciplinary conceptual framework adopted by this collection of papers is loosely built around the idea that there are two broad dimensions of parental ... Read more

    $114.04 CAD

  • Internet Resources For Nurses, Second Edition

    Edited by Joyce J. Fitzpatrick, PhD, MBA, RN, FAAN, Kristen S. Montgomery, PhD, RN, IBCLC ...
    This new edition of the award-winning guide to the web for nurses is nearly double in size and twice as useful! Expert nurses in more than 50 content areas have carefully selected and reviewed nearly 400 web sites available in their specialty areas --- resulting in an authoritative guide to the best the web has to offer for the professional nurse. Each web description includes a summary of the ... Read more

    $98.39 CAD

  • Marriage, Divorce, and Children′s Adjustment

    by Robert E. Emery ...
    Series series Developmental Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry
    "Robert Emery casts a keen eye on the tangle of findings and opinions regarding children′s adaptation to divorce and presents a thoughtful, balanced discussion of what science can tell us about complex social phenomenon."--Contemporary PsychologyThis is an authoritative, research-based book on children and divorce. Completely updated with the most recent findings from psychology, sociology, ... Read more

    $108.79 CAD

  • Monitoring School Performance

    A Guide For Educators

    by J. Douglas Willms ...
    This work evaluates methods of establishing and monitoring school systems either at the school, district, authority or state level from a theoretical and practical point of view. The analysis and interpretation of data on ... Read more

    $42.59 CAD

  • Hiding from Humanity

    Disgust, Shame, and the Law

    by Martha C. Nussbaum ...
    Should laws about sex and pornography be based on social conventions about what is disgusting? Should felons be required to display bumper stickers or wear T-shirts that announce their crimes? This powerful and elegantly written book, by one of America's most influential philosophers, presents a critique of the role that shame and disgust play in our individual and social lives and, in particular, ... Read more

    $56.09 CAD