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“victoria cain”

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  • Schools and Screens

    A Watchful History

    by Victoria Cain ...
    Why screens in schools—from film screenings to instructional television to personal computers—did not bring about the educational revolution promised by reformers.Long before Chromebook giveaways and remote learning, screen media technologies were enthusiastically promoted by American education reformers. Again and again, as schools deployed film screenings, television programs, and computer games ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Handbook on State Criminality

    Edited by Dawn L. Rothe, Victoria E. Collins, Calli M. Cain ...
    This authoritative Handbook explores new developments in scholarship on state criminality, highlighting how private capital, corporations, and states’ interests intersect. Expert contributors demonstrate that state criminality is not a deviation from governance but one of its central logics, embedded in capitalism and neoliberal logics, patriarchalism, empire, and global governance.Reflecting ... Read more

    $67.99 CAD

  • Life on Display

    Revolutionizing U.S. Museums of Science and Natural History in the Twentieth Century

    by Karen A. Rader, Victoria E.M. Cain ...
    Rich with archival detail and compelling characters, Life on Display uses the history of biological exhibitions to analyze museums' shifting roles in twentieth-century American science and society. Karen A. Rader and Victoria E. M. Cain chronicle profound changes in these exhibitions—and the institutions that housed them—between 1910 and 1990, ultimately offering new perspectives on the history of ... Read more

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    How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone

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    An examination of why "doing what you love" is a recipe for exploitation, creating a new tyranny of work in which we cheerily acquiesce to doing jobs that take over our lives.**“Illuminating and inspiring." —**New RepublicYou're told that if you "do what you love, you'll never work a day in your life." In Work Won't Love You Back, Sarah Jaffe, a preeminent voice on labor, inequality, and social ... Read more

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  • Bowling Alone: Revised and Updated

    The Collapse and Revival of American Community

    by Robert D. Putnam ...
    Once we bowled in leagues, usually after work -- but no longer. This seemingly small phenomenon symbolizes a significant social change that Robert Putnam has identified in this brilliant volume, Bowling Alone*,* which The Economist hailed as "a prodigious achievement."Drawing on vast new data that reveal Americans' changing behavior, Putnam shows how we have become increasingly disconnected from ... Read more

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  • Rational Ritual

    Culture, Coordination, and Common Knowledge

    by Michael Suk-Young Chwe ...
    Why do Internet, financial service, and beer commercials dominate Super Bowl advertising? How do political ceremonies establish authority? Why does repetition characterize anthems and ritual speech? Why were circular forms favored for public festivals during the French Revolution? This book answers these questions using a single concept: common knowledge.Game theory shows that in order to ... Read more

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  • State Building

    Governance and World Order in the 21st Century

    by Francis Fukuyama ...
    Weak or failed states - where no government is in control - are the source of many of the world's most serious problems, from poverty, AIDS and drugs to terrorism. What can be done to help? The problem of weak states and the need for state-building has existed for many years, but it has been urgent since September 11 and Afghanistan and Iraq.The formation of proper public institutions, such as an ... Read more

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  • The New Education

    How to Revolutionize the University to Prepare Students for a World In Flux

    by Cathy N. Davidson ...
    “One of the most thoughtful voices from within academia” (Washington Post) argues the American university is stuck in the past—and shows how we can revolutionize itWe’re living in a period of great upheaval—yet there hasn't been a corresponding change in our system of higher education. In The New Education, Cathy N. Davidson argues we need a new theory and practice of learning that emphasizes ... Read more

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  • Globalization

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Prof Manfred B. Steger ...
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    Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring We live today in an interconnected world in which ordinary people can became instant online celebrities to millions of fans thousands of miles away, in which religious leaders can influence billions globally, in which humans are altering the climate and environment, in which new infectious diseases spread across continents at lightning speed, ... Read more

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  • The SAGE Handbook of Globalization

    Edited by Paul Battersby, Manfred B. Steger, Joseph M Siracusa ...
    Global studies is a fresh and dynamic discipline area that promises to reinvigorate undergraduate and postgraduate education in the social sciences and humanities. In the Australian context, the interdisciplinary pedagogy that defines global studies is gaining wider acceptance as a coherent and necessary approach to the study of global change. Through the Global Studies Consortium (GSC), this new ... Read more

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  • Informing the News

    by Thomas E. Patterson ...
    As the journalist Walter Lippmann noted nearly a century ago, democracy falters “if there is no steady supply of trustworthy and relevant news.” Today’s journalists are not providing it. Too often, reporters give equal weight to facts and biased opinion, stir up small controversies, and substitute infotainment for real news. Even when they get the facts rights, they often misjudge the context in ... Read more

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  • The Third Awokening

    A 12-Point Plan for Rolling Back Progressive Extremism

    by Eric Kaufmann ...
    We in the West are in the third wave of cultural-left ideological enthusiasm. Each “Awokening” has crested, fallen a little, consolidated, then surged again to reach a higher level. The cumulative result is an elite creed which has produced a crime wave, a worsening education system, chaos at the border, and social division. Fired by a cultural socialism that puts equal results and emotional ... Read more

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