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  • Education For A New Society (RLE Edu L Sociology of Education)

    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Education
    Aimed at the layperson, this book discusses education for the man or woman in the street and the advantages to society of having an educated population, with the aim of not just convincing people of the importance of education but persuading them to take participate actively in education. ... Read more

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    Catherine Carmier

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    Catherine Carmier is a compelling love story set in a deceptively bucolic Louisiana countryside, where blacks, Cajuns, and whites maintain an uneasy coexistence.When Jackson returns home to his family after an absence of ten years, he discovers that his bonds to them have been irreparably rent by his absence. In the midst of his alienation, he falls in love with Catherine Carmier, setting the ... Read more

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    «Deux ans avant qu’il ne quitte la maison, mon père dit à ma mère que j’étais très laide.» Giovanna, fi lle unique d’un couple de professeurs, vit une enfance heureuse dans les hauteurs de Naples. L’année de ses douze ans, elle surprend une conversation dans laquelle son père la compare à Vittoria, une tante à la réputation maléfi que. Bouleversée par ce rapprochement aussi dévalorisant qu ... Read more

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    Le pays des autres

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    En 1944, Mathilde, une jeune Alsacienne, s’éprend d’Amine Belhaj, un Marocain combattant dans l’armée française. Après la Libération, le couple s’installe au Maroc à Meknès, ville de garnison et de colons. Tandis qu’Amine tente de mettre en valeur un domaine constitué de terres rocailleuses et ingrates, Mathilde se sent vite étouffée par le climat rigoriste du Maroc. Seule et isolée à la ferme ... Read more

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    Leurs enfants après eux - Prix Goncourt 2018

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    Août 1992. Une vallée perdue quelque part à l’Est, des hauts fourneaux qui ne brûlent plus, un lac, un après-midi de canicule. Anthony a 14 ans, et avec son cousin, ils s’emmerdent comme c’est pas permis. C’est là qu’ils décident de voler un canoë pour aller voir ce qui se passe de l’autre côté, sur la fameuse plage des culs-nus. Au bout, ce sera pour Anthony le premier amour, le premier été, ... Read more

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    Complot

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    Un archipel isolé au nord de la Norvège, battu par les vents. Et, au bord de la falaise, le corps nu et martyrisé d'une femme. Les blessures qui déchirent sa chair semblent être autant de symboles mystérieux.Quand l'inspectrice Sarah Geringën, escortée par les forces spéciales, apprend l'identité de la victime, c'est le choc. Le cadavre est celui de la Première ministre.Qui en voulait à la chef de ... Read more

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    L'art de perdre

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    Prix Goncourt des Lycéens. L’Algérie dont est originaire sa famille n’a longtemps été pour Naïma qu’une toile de fond sans grand intérêt. Pourtant, dans une société française traversée par les questions identitaires, tout semble vouloir la renvoyer à ses origines. Mais quel lien pourrait-elle avoir avec une histoire familiale qui jamais ne lui a été racontée ? Son grand-père Ali, un montagnard ... Read more

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  • Montessori

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    Montessori: Living the Good Life will surprise you more than you can imagine. With a masters degree in theology, author Connie Ripley Lujan delves deep into Marias spiritual understanding of the roots of war. Passionately she explains how we can make a difference.Maria Montessori discovered the secret miracle of childhood over one hundred years ago. Her vision of peace lives on in this passionate ... Read more

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  • Civil Examinations and Meritocracy in Late Imperial China

    During China's late imperial period (roughly 1400-1900 CE), men would gather by the millions every two or three years outside official examination compounds sprinkled across China. Only one percent of candidates would complete the academic regimen that would earn them a post in the administrative bureaucracy. Civil Examinations assesses the role of education, examination, and China's civil service ... Read more

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  • Does God Belong in Public Schools?

    Controversial Supreme Court decisions have barred organized school prayer, but neither the Court nor public policy exclude religion from schools altogether. In this book, one of America's leading constitutional scholars asks what role religion ought to play in public schools. Kent Greenawalt explores many of the most divisive issues in educational debate, including teaching about the origins of ... Read more

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  • Children and the Changing Family

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    This timely and thought-provoking book explores how social and family change are colouring the experience of childhood. The book is centred around three major changes: parental employment, family composition and ideology. The authors demonstrate how children's families are transformed in accordance with societal changes in demographic and economic terms, and as a result of the choices parents make ... Read more

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  • Making Minds Less Well Educated Than Our Own

    In the author's words: "This book is an honest attempt to understand what it means to be educated in today's world." His argument is this: No matter how important science and technology seem to industry or government or indeed to the daily life of people, as a society we believe that those educated in literature, history, and other humanities are in some way better informed, more knowing, and ... Read more

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