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  • Immigration and Children’s Literature

    Stories, Social Justice, and Critical Consciousness

    by Wilma Robles-Melendez, Audrey Henry ...
    Series series Immigration and Childhood Education
    This book explores the issues faced by immigrant children through the lens of children's literature. The authors employ the UN convention of the Rights of the Child, the lens of equity, and Freire's principles of critical consciousness as a framework for analysing children's literature and immigration. They focus on circumstances and experiences of immigration from the perspective of young ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

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  • Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?

    And Other Conversations About Race

    by Beverly Daniel Tatum ...
    The classic, New York Times-bestselling book on the psychology of racism that shows us how to talk about race in America.“An unusually sensitive work about the racial barriers that still divide us in so many areas of life.” ―Jonathan Kozol, author of Amazing GraceWalk into any racially mixed high school and you will see Black, White, and Latino youth clustered in their own... ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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  • Social Work, Social Justice, and Human Rights

    A Structural Approach to Practice, Second Edition

    by Colleen Lundy ...
    Social workers take pride in their commitment to social and economic justice, peace, and human rights, and in their responses to related inequalities and social problems. At a time when economic globalization, armed conflict, and ecological devastation continue to undermine human rights and the possibilities for social justice, the need for linking a structural analysis to social work practice is ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • Nothing About Us Without Us

    Disability Oppression and Empowerment

    by James I. Charlton ...
    James Charlton has produced a ringing indictment of disability oppression, which, he says, is rooted in degradation, dependency, and powerlessness and is experienced in some form by five hundred million persons throughout the world who have physical, sensory, cognitive, or developmental disabilities. Nothing About Us Without Us is the first book in the literature on disability to provide a ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Adaptive Mediation and Conflict Resolution

    Peace-making in Colombia, Mozambique, the Philippines, and Syria

    Edited by Cedric de Coning, Ako Muto, Rui Saraiva ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This open access book introduces adaptive mediation as an alternative approach that enables mediators to go beyond liberal peace mediation, or other determined-design models of mediation, in the context of contemporary conflict resolution and peace-making initiatives. Adaptive mediation is grounded in complexity theory, and is specifically designed to cope with highly dynamic conflict situations ... Read more

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  • Schools and Societies

    Third Edition

    by Steven Brint ...
    Schools and Societies provides a synthesis of key issues in the sociology of education, focusing on American schools while offering a global, comparative context. Acknowledged as a standard text in its first two editions, this fully revised and updated third edition offers a broader sweep, stronger theoretical foundation, and a new concluding chapter on the possibilities of schooling. Instructors, ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Moved to Action

    Motivation, Participation, and Inequality in American Politics

    by Hahrie C. Han ...
    Wealthy, educated, and more privileged people are more likely to participate and be represented in politics than their poorer, less educated, and less privileged counterparts. To reduce these inequalities, we need a better understanding of how the disadvantaged become motivated to participate. Moved to Action fills the current gap in this area of research by examining the commitments and pathways ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Academic Profiling

    Latinos, Asian Americans, and the Achievement Gap

    by Gilda L. Ochoa ...
    Today the achievement gap is hotly debated among pundits, politicians, and educators. In particular this conversation often focuses on the two fastest-growing demographic groups in the United States: Asian Americans and Latinos. In Academic Profiling, Gilda L. Ochoa addresses this so-called gap by going directly to the source. At one California public high school where the controversy is lived ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • A Small State's Guide to Influence in World Politics

    by Tom Long ...
    Series series Bridging the Gap
    A complete guide for how small states can be strikingly successful and influential--if they assess their situations and adapt their strategies. Small states are crucial actors in world politics. Yet, they have been relegated to a second tier of International Relations scholarship. In A Small State's Guide to Influence in World Politics, Tom Long shows how small states can identify opportunities ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Gap Year

    How Delaying College Changes People in Ways the World Needs

    by Joseph O'Shea ...
    The first study of how the gap year can make young people more effective students and better citizens.With some of the most prestigious universities in America urging students to defer admissions so they can experience the world, the idea of the gap year has taken hold in America. Since its development in Britain nearly fifty years ago, taking time off between secondary school and college has ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Nuclear Family Values, Extended Family Lives

    The Power of Race, Class, and Gender

    by Natalia Sarkisian, Naomi Gerstel ...
    Series series Framing 21st Century Social Issues
    Nuclear Family Values, Extended Family Lives shows how the current emphasis on the nuclear family – with its exclusion of the extended family – is narrow, even deleterious, and misses much of family life. This omission is tied to gender, race, and class.This book is broken down into six chapters. Chapter one discusses how, when promoting "family values" and talking about "family as the basic unit ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Citizen Speak

    The Democratic Imagination in American Life

    by Andrew J. Perrin ...
    Series series Morality and Society Series
    When we think about what constitutes being a good citizen, routine activities like voting, letter writing, and paying attention to the news spring to mind. But in Citizen Speak, Andrew J. Perrin argues that these activities are only a small part of democratic citizenship—a standard of citizenship that requires creative thinking, talking, and acting.For Citizen Speak, Perrin met with labor, church, ... Read more

    $23.99 USD