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John Taylor Gatto's radical treatise on public education, a New Society Publishers bestseller for 25 years, continues to advocate for the unshackling of children and learning from formal schooling. Now, in an ever-more-rapidly changing world with an explosion of alternative routes to learning, it's poised to continue to shake the world of institutional education for many more years.
2) I'm new here
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Three children from other countries (Somalia, Guatemala, and Korea) struggle to adjust to their new home and school in the United States.
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The first Christians were weird. Just how weird is often lost on today's believers.
Within Roman society, the earliest Christians stood out for the oddness of their beliefs and practices. They believed unusual things, worshiped God in strange ways, and lived a unique lifestyle. They practiced a whole new way of thinking about and doing religion that would have been seen as bizarre and dangerous when compared to Roman religion and most other religions...
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Émile Durkheim is often referred to as the father of sociology. Along with Karl Marx and Max Weber he was a principal architect of modern social science and whose contribution helped established it as an academic discipline. "The Division of Labor in Society", published in 1893, was his first major contribution to the field and arguably one his most important. In this work Durkheim discusses the construction of social order in modern societies, which...
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Un libro necesario para entender un conflicto de alcance mundial que dura más de seis décadas y en que el autor ha pretendido: "meter los pies en el barro para que israelíes y palestinos vivan juntos, entremezclados y en paz".
Este nuevo libro no es un libro teórico sobre el conflicto palestino-israelí sino el fruto de numerosos diálogos mantenidos durante años con las personas que se me acercan y buscan respuestas a tantas preguntas, desde...
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Learn to solve problems together with this nonfiction book. Ideal for young readers, the book includes a fiction story related to the topic, a connected project, glossary, useful text features, and engaging sidebars. This 28-page full-color book explores real-world problems and how individuals have come together to find solutions. It also covers key topics like creative problem-solving and brainstorming, and includes an extension activity for grade...
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There has been a lot of talk about "fake news" in the news lately. Being able to spot the difference between credible and non-credible sources is a vital 21st century skill to have. Learn the tricks and traps of deception and the skills required to achieve information literacy--and always get to the truth of the matter! Packed with fun facts and detailed sidebars, this informational text explores contemporary issues and high-interest, relevant subjects....
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This essential presents the state of urban research on gentrification in a condensed form. This term, which has been used in the scientific community since the 1960s, has now also become established in the public debate. It describes how rising rents in the cities and the lack of affordable housing lead to poorer residents being driven out of their neighbourhoods. It becomes clear in what way gentrification is a general principle of urban development...
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Applied Psychology: Practical Guide to the Human Mind, Step-by-Step Advice to the Understandings of Psychology
What people are saying: This is a surprisingly fascinating book. Well written in an easy to understand style and well researched. Applied Psychology: Practical Guide to the Human Mind, Step-by-Step Advice to the Understandings of Psychology (Positive Psychology) by Jonny Bell gives you a great overview of psychology and the workings of the...
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Dessa's friend Kat has started dating a girl and wants to keep it quiet. When Dessa accidentally reveals Kat's secret, a bully makes Kat a target. Dessa tries to defend her friend, but ends up suspended in the process.
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We need our neighbors and community to stay healthy, produce jobs, raise our children, and care for those on the margin. Institutions and professional services have reached their limit of their ability to help us. The consumer society tells us that we are insufficient and that we must purchase what we need from specialists and systems outside the community. We have become consumers and clients, not citizens and neighbors. John McKnight and Peter Block...
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The Global Agenda for Social Justice provides accessible insights into some of the world's most pressing social problems and proposes practicable international public policy responses to those problems. Written by a highly respected team of authors brought together by the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP), chapters examine topics such as education, violence, discrimination, substance abuse, public health, and environment. The volume...
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What is it like to grow old? Only the elderly can tell you. John Doyle is 88.What is it like to live in an elderly retirement community. Only one who lives there can tell you. John Doyle does.These are questions of great interest to some 37 million people in the U.S. over 75 and many times that number of children and grandchildren. The latter may be stunned to learn what kind of life their beloved parents and grandparents are experiencing.These questions...
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El cóndor americano sobrevuela a gran altura la Cordillera de los Andes. Desde allí mira con calma el paisaje; casi sin mover las alas recorre esa geografía espectacular. En su observación domina la totalidad del conjunto. Solo cuando algo le interesa, apunta, desciende y apoya sus patas en la tierra.
De la misma manera, Identidad de la mujer Latinoamericana contempla el vasto paisaje femenino; sobrevolando la fisiología, la historia, las luchas...
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Nos encontramos actualmente en una especie de tránsito que nos está llevando a un abandono o revisión minuciosa de un paradigma, el de la Modernidad, hacia otro que aún no alcanzamos a vislumbrar a plenitud. Este tránsito solicita una comprensión del momento por el que estamos pasando en diversos ámbitos de nuestra realidad, para ello el mejor recurso con el que actualmente contamos es el de la hermenéutica, que ni está totalmente restringida...
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#1 The United States was founded on the principle of diversity, but that has always been an uphill battle in America. Americans have always struggled with unity in diversity, and it is draining to constantly have to check your ego.
#2 In the future, white people will be a minority in America. This has many people worried, as they don't know how the country will handle...
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#1 The war against pandemics took a personal turn for me and my husband, Tom, when we were infected with the superbug Tomcat. We found out that there were no approved treatment options for the disease.
#2 Tom and I were globetrotting scientists who went looking for trouble in the world of infectious diseases. We had been planning our dream vacation, but after the attacks...
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A Thrice-Told Tale is one ethnographer's imaginative and powerful response to the methodological issues raised by feminist and postmodernist critics of traditional ethnography. The author, a feminist anthropologist, uses three texts developed out of her research in Taiwan-a piece of fiction, anthropological fieldnotes, and a social science article-to explore some of these criticisms. Each text takes a different perspective, is written in a different...
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Entre el 19 y el 21 de mayo de 2010 tuvo lugar el Seminario Internacional: Las Otras Voces de la Independencia: Sectores Populares, Afrodescendientes e Indígenas en la Independencia de Colombia, organizado por la Universidad Nacional de Colombia, sede Medellín, en conjunto con la Corporación Afrocolombiana de Desarrollo Social y Cultural Carabantú. Planteado en el contexto de las celebraciones del Bicentenario de la Independencia de Colombia,...
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#1 President Lyndon B. Johnson gave the first known affirmative action speech for black students at Howard University in 1965. He stated that the country had overcome legal segregation, but that the disparity between white and black Americans had widened after the Second World War.
#2 By the start of 1965, the Selma voting rights campaign had already been going on for...
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