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  • Our Schools Suck

    Students Talk Back to a Segregated Nation on the Failures of Urban Education

    by Jeanne Theoharis, Gaston Alonso, Noel S. Anderson, Celina Su ...
    Shares the voices of students speaking out against the failures of urban education"Our schools suck." This is how many young people of color call attention to the kind of public education they are receiving. In cities across the nation, many students are trapped in under-funded, mismanaged and unsafe schools. Yet, a number of scholars and of public figures have shifted attention away from the ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

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  • Public Opinion

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    by Walter Lippmann ...
    Walter Lippmann's Public Opinion begins with a startling premise: people do not live in direct contact with reality, but in the mental pictures they carry of it. From a story of islanders misreading the outbreak of World War I to historical examples of confident error, Lippmann shows how easily belief outruns fact and how ordinary life can continue inside a false world. He traces the same pattern ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

  • Great American City

    Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood Effect

    by Robert J. Sampson ...
    This "landmark work in urban sociology" examines the influence of neighborhoods on social phenomena and in our lives (Claude Fischer, City & Community).For over fifty years numerous public intellectuals and social theorists have insisted that community is dead. Some would have us believe that we act solely as individuals choosing our own fates regardless of our surroundings, while other theories ... Read more

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  • It's OK if You're Clueless

    and 23 More Tips for the College Bound

    by Terry McMillan ...
    When her son Solomon graduated from high school, Terry McMillan was asked to be the guest speaker at the commencement ceremony. Determined not to be dull or redundant, Terry thought back to when she was stepping out into the world for the first time and the things she wished people had told her. Printing up what she thought were the most important tips for these new graduates, Terry was surprised ... Read more

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    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Buck

    A Memoir

    by M.K. Asante ...
    “A story of surviving and thriving with passion, compassion, wit, and style.”—Maya Angelou“In America, we have a tradition of black writers whose autobiographies and memoirs come to define an era. . . . Buck may be this generation’s story.”—NPRA coming-of-age story about navigating the wilds of urban America and the shrapnel of a self-destructing family, Buck shares the story of a generation ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

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  • Indigenous in the City

    Contemporary Identities and Cultural Innovation

    Edited by Evelyn Peters, Chris Andersen ...
    Research on Indigenous issues rarely focuses on life in major metropolitan centres. Instead, there is a tendency to frame rural locations as emblematic of authentic or "real" Indigeneity. While such a perspective may support Indigenous struggles for territory and recognition, it fails to account for large swaths of contemporary Indigenous realities, including the increased presence of Indigenous ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Character Compass

    How Powerful School Culture Can Point Students Toward Success

    by Scott Seider ...
    Character Compass, Second Edition is now available: 9798895570302*******2013 American Educational Research Association's (AERA) Moral Development and Education Outstanding Book AwardIn Character Compass, Scott Seider offers portraits of three high-performing urban schools in Boston, Massachusetts that have made character development central to their mission of supporting student success, yet ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Rochdale Village

    Robert Moses, 6,000 Families, and New York City's Great Experiment in Integrated Housing

    by Peter Eisenstadt ...
    Series series American Institutions and Society
    From 1963 to 1965 roughly 6,000 families moved into Rochdale Village, at the time the world's largest housing cooperative, in southeastern Queens County. The moderate-income cooperative attracted families from a diverse background, white and black, to what was a predominantly black neighborhood. In its early years, Rochdale was widely hailed as one of the few successful large-scale efforts to ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

  • Against Security

    How We Go Wrong at Airports, Subways, and Other Sites of Ambiguous Danger - Updated Edition

    by Harvey Molotch, Harvey Molotch ...
    How security procedures could be positive, safe, and effectiveThe inspections we put up with at airport gates and the endless warnings we get at train stations, on buses, and all the rest are the way we encounter the vast apparatus of U.S. security. Like the wars fought in its name, these measures are supposed to make us safer in a post-9/11 world. But do they? Against Security explains how these ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Creating Multicultural Change on Campus

    by Raechele L. Pope, Amy L. Reynolds, John A. Mueller ...
    Embrace the best practices for initiating multicultural change in individuals, groups, and institutionsHigher education institutions have begun to take steps toward addressing multicultural issues on campuses, but more often than not, those in charge of the task have received little to no training in the issues that are paramount in serving culturally diverse students. Creating Multicultural ... Read more

    $48.99 CAD

  • Why Afterschool Matters

    by Ingrid A. Nelson ...
    Series series Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies
    Increasingly, educational researchers and policy-makers are finding that extracurricular programs make a major difference in the lives of disadvantaged youth, helping to reduce the infamous academic attainment gap between white students and their black and Latino peers. Yet studies of these programs typically focus on how they improve the average academic performance of their participants, paying ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Forget the Fear of Food: The Essential Guide

    by Dr Chris Fenn ...
    Series series Need2Know Books
    Are you in control of your eating habits, or do they control you? Does your self esteem depend on how many calories you have dodged or indulge in? Do you faithfully follow low fat diets wondering why you lose a bit of weight, and then get stuck? If you are obsessed with avoiding fat and calories, you may be doing more harm than good.Find out how food has changed, but why our metabolism is confused ... Read more

    $7.45 CAD