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Counterpoints eBook Series

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  • From Education to Incarceration

    Dismantling the School-to-Prison Pipeline, Second Edition

    Edited by Anthony J. Nocella II, Priya Parmar, David Stovall ...
    Series series Counterpoints
    The school-to-prison pipeline is a national concern, from the federal to local governments, and a leading topic in conversations in the field of urban education and juvenile justice. From Education to Incarceration: Dismantling the School-to-Prison Pipeline is a ground-breaking book that exposes the school system’s direct relationship to the juvenile justice system. The book reveals various tenets ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • Defining Critical Animal Studies

    An Intersectional Social Justice Approach for Liberation

    Edited by Anthony J. Nocella II, John Sorenson, Kim Socha, Atsuko Matsuoka ...
    Series Book 448 - Counterpoints
    This is the first book to define the philosophical and practical parameters of critical animal studies (CAS). Rooted in anarchist perspectives that oppose all systems of domination and authoritarianism, CAS both challenges anthropocentrism and presents animal liberation as a social justice movement that intersects with other movements for positive change. Written by a collection of internationally ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

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  • My Lovely Wife in the Psych Ward

    A Memoir

    by Mark Lukach ...
    International BestsellerA heart-wrenching, yet hopeful, memoir of a young marriage that is redefined by mental illness and affirms the power of love.Mark and Giulia’s life together began as a storybook romance. They fell in love at eighteen, married at twenty-four, and were living their dream life in San Francisco. When Giulia was twenty-seven, she suffered a terrifying and unexpected psychotic ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Perceptual Coherence

    Hearing and Seeing

    by Stephen Handel ...
    The job of any sensory system is to create objects in the world out of the incoming proximal stimulus energy. The energy is neutral; it does not specify the objects itself. Thus, sensory systems must abstract the energy that does specify objects and differentiate it from the noise energy. The perceptual variables that specify objects for both listening and looking become those of contrast and ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Visual Perception Problems in Children with AD/HD, Autism, and Other Learning Disabilities

    A Guide for Parents and Professionals

    by Elizabeth A Kurtz ...
    Series series JKP Essentials
    This book provides a comprehensive overview of vision problems in children with developmental disabilities such as AD/HD, autism spectrum disorders, and specific learning disabilities.Written in a very accessible style, it is appropriate for parents and professionals alike and offers non-technical explanations of how vision difficulties are screened for and advice on where to seek appropriate ... Read more

    $22.09 USD

  • First Steps in Parenting the Child who Hurts

    Tiddlers and Toddlers Second Edition

    by Caroline Archer ...
    `This excellent book looks at the attachment and development of very young children in the fostering and adoption situation. It deals sensitively and practically with the young child's "hurts" to help adopters and foster carers understand and cope with the many traumas they may experience in integrating a young child into their family. Caroline Archer is a real adoptive parent speaking from ... Read more

    $27.09 USD

  • Legacies of Crime

    A Follow-Up of the Children of Highly Delinquent Girls and Boys

    by Peggy C. Giordano ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Criminology
    Legacies of Crime explores the lives of seriously delinquent girls and boys in the United States who were followed over a twenty-year period as they grew to adulthood. In-depth interviews with these women and men and their children - a majority now adolescents themselves - depict the adults' economic and social disadvantages and continued criminal involvement, and in turn the unique ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • The Right To Be Loved

    by S. Matthew Liao ...
    S. Matthew Liao argues here that children have a right to be loved. To do so he investigates questions such as whether children are rightholders; what grounds a child's right to beloved; whether love is an appropriate object of a right; and other philosophical and practical issues. His proposal is that all human beings have rights to the fundamental conditions for pursuing a good life; therefore, ... Read more

    $75.99 USD

  • Reimagining Child Soldiers in International Law and Policy

    by Mark A. Drumbl ...
    The international community's efforts to halt child soldiering have yielded some successes. But this pernicious practice persists. It may shift locally, but it endures globally. Preventative measures therefore remain inadequate. Former child soldiers experience challenges readjusting to civilian life. Reintegration is complex and eventful. The homecoming is only the beginning. Reconciliation ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Caught

    The Prison State and the Lockdown of American Politics

    by Marie Gottschalk, Marie Gottschalk ...
    A major reappraisal of crime and punishment in AmericaThe huge prison buildup of the past four decades has few defenders, yet reforms to reduce the numbers of those incarcerated have been remarkably modest. Meanwhile, an ever-widening carceral state has sprouted in the shadows, extending its reach far beyond the prison gate. It sunders families and communities and reworks conceptions of democracy, ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Redressing Institutional Abuse of Children

    by K. Daly ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Winner of the Christine M. Alder Book Prize in 2015 from the Australian and New ZealandSociety of CriminologyHistorical abuse of children is a worldwide phenomenon. This book assesses the enablers of abuse and the reasons it took so long for officials to respond. It analyzes redress for institutional abuse in two countries, Canada and Australia, using first-hand accounts of survivors' experiences. ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • People Need to Know

    Confronting History in the Heartland

    by Robert M. Lucas ...
    Series Book 484 - Counterpoints
    People Need to Know follows a group of students as they study the defining event in their community’s history – a 1930 lynching that was captured in one of the century’s most iconic and disturbing photographs. With ambitions of contributing to public understanding, the students set out to create a collection of online resources about the lynching. As they encounter troubling information and ... Read more

    $43.99 USD