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  • Democracy and Higher Education

    Traditions and Stories of Civic Engagement

    de Scott J. Peters, Theodore R. Alter, Neil Schwartzbach ...
    Series series Transformations in Higher Education
    How are we to understand the nature and value of higher education's public purposes, mission, and work in a democratic society? How do-and how should-academic professionals contribute to and participate in civic life in their practices as scholars, scientists, and educators?Democracy and Higher Education addresses these questions by combining an examination of several normative traditions of civic ... Leer más

    $32.99 USD

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  • EcoMind

    Changing the Way We Think, to Create the World We Want

    de Frances Moore Lappe ...
    In EcoMind, Frances Moore Lapp' -- a giant of the environmental movement -- confronts accepted wisdom of environmentalism. Drawing on the latest research from anthropology to neuroscience and her own field experience, she argues that the biggest challenge to human survival isn't our fossil fuel dependency, melting glaciers, or other calamities. Rather, it's our faulty way of thinking about these ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • The Intersectional Environmentalist

    How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People + Planet

    de Leah Thomas ...
    From the 2022 TIME100 Next honoree and the activist who coined the term comes a primer on intersectional environmentalism for the next generation of activists looking to create meaningful, inclusive, and sustainable change.The Intersectional Environmentalist examines the inextricable link between environmentalism, racism, and privilege, and promotes awareness of the fundamental truth that we ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

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  • Change Here Now

    Permaculture Solutions for Personal and Community Transformation

    de Adam Brock ...
    Award-winning social entrepreneur and permaculturalist Adam Brock draws from ecology, sociology, community economics, social justice, and indigenous practices the world over to present more than eighty proven solutions for building healthy communities. Using the "pattern language" framework developed by architect Christopher Alexander and his colleagues in the 1970s, Brock outlines strategies for ... Leer más

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  • Harvard Envy

    Why Too Many Colleges Overshoot

    de Andrew S Rosen ...
    Harvard Envy is a chapter excerpt from Change.edu coming out October 18, 2011.Exploring the limitations of the exclusive, tradition-bound world of higher education, innovator Andrew S. Rosen, chairman and CEO of Kaplan, Inc., delivers a vision for making a world-class college experience available to students of all backgrounds.Little is known about John Harvard, who bequeathed his books and £779 ... Leer más

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  • The Myth of the Age of Entitlement

    Millennials, Austerity, and Hope

    de James Cairns ...
    We are said to be living in the age of entitlement. Scholars and pundits declare that millennials expect special treatment, do whatever they feel like, and think they deserve to have things handed to them. In The Myth of the Age of Entitlement, Cairns peels back the layers of the entitlement myth, exposing its faults and arguing that the majority of millennials are actually disentitled, facing ... Leer más

    $27.99 USD

  • Community Organizing

    A Holistic Approach

    de Joan Kuyek ...
    History is full of stories of the oppressed rebelling against the oppressor, only to reinstate an equally oppressive system. What we learn from oppression is how to oppress. If we want a truly transformative politics, then we must take up methods that embody the kind of world we want to create; we have to change deeply embedded beliefs and behaviours.In this engaging and passionate book, long-time ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Climate Change, Capitalism, and Corporations

    Processes of Creative Self-Destruction

    de Christopher Wright, Daniel Nyberg ...
    Climate change is one of the greatest threats facing humanity, a definitive manifestation of the well-worn links between progress and devastation. This book explores the complex relationship that the corporate world has with climate change and examines the central role of corporations in shaping political and social responses to the climate crisis. The principal message of the book is that despite ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Choosing a Sustainable Future

    Ideas and Inspiration from Ithaca, NY

    de Liz Walker ...
    A small city's big vision that can help transform your own community.We all want a sustainable future, but what does it look like, and how do we get there? In Ithaca, NY a new culture is blossoming-one that values cooperation, local production, environmental stewardship, social justice andcreativity. Ithaca is showing the way to meet the challenges of the day with a wide variety of practical, real ... Leer más

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  • Cultivating Food Justice

    Race, Class, and Sustainability

    Edición de Alison Hope Alkon, Julian Agyeman ...
    Series series Food, Health, and the Environment
    Documents how racial and social inequalities are built into our food system, and how communities are creating environmentally sustainable and socially just alternatives.Popularized by such best-selling authors as Michael Pollan, Barbara Kingsolver, and Eric Schlosser, a growing food movement urges us to support sustainable agriculture by eating fresh food produced on local family farms. But many ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • The Faculty Lounges

    And Other Reasons Why You Won't Get the College Education You Pay For

    de Naomi Schaefer Riley ...
    Veteran journalist Naomi Shaefer Riley contends that tenure—the jobs-for-life entitlement that comes with a university position—is at the heart of so many problems with higher education today. She explores how tenure—with the job security, mediocre salaries, and low levels of accountability it entails—may be attracting the least innovative and interesting members of our society into teaching. ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

  • A Perfect Mess

    The Unlikely Ascendancy of American Higher Education

    de David F. Labaree ...
    A history of higher education in America and an investigation into the secrets of its success: " A Perfect Mess should become a classic." — Times Higher EducationRead about America's colleges and universities—rising student debt, affirmative action debates, conflicts between faculty and administrators—and it's clear that higher education in this country is a total mess. But as David F. Labaree ... Leer más

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