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  • Women and Work

    A Handbook

    Edited by Sonia Carreon, Amy Cassedy, Kathryn Borman, Paula J. Dubeck ...
    Focuses on vital contemporary issuesWomen in the work force today are still subjected to the glass ceiling, sexual discrimination, income inequality, stereotyping, and other obstacles to equal employment and professional advancement. Now a collection of 150 original articles written for this handbook explores the challenges and career blocks that today's women face in the workplace, discuss ... Read more

    $107.17 CAD

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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

    $23.99 CAD

  • No Excuses

    Closing the Racial Gap in Learning

    by Stephan Thernstrom, Abigail Thernstrom ...
    Black and Hispanic students are not learning enough in our public schools, and their typically poor performance is the most important source of ongoing racial inequality in America today—thus, say Abigail and Stephan Thernstrom, the racial gap in school achievement is the nation's most critical civil rights issue and an educational crisis; it's no wonder that "No Child Left Behind," the 2001 ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • 50 Myths and Lies That Threaten America's Public Schools

    The Real Crisis in Education

    by David C. Berliner, Gene V Glass ...
    Two of the most respected voices in education and a team of young education scholars identify 50 myths and lies that threaten America's public schools. With hard-hitting information and a touch of comic relief, Berliner, Glass, and their Associates separate fact from fiction in this comprehensive look at modern education reform. They explain how the mythical failure of public education has been ... Read more

    $30.79 CAD

  • 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

    $36.79 CAD

  • Disciplining the Poor

    Neoliberal Paternalism and the Persistent Power of Race

    by Joe Soss, Richard C. Fording, Sanford F. Schram ...
    Series series Chicago Studies in American Politics
    Disciplining the Poor explains the transformation of poverty governance over the past forty years—why it happened, how it works today, and how it affects people. In the process, it clarifies the central role of race in this transformation and develops a more precise account of how race shapes poverty governance in the post–civil rights era. Connecting welfare reform to other policy developments, ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Can We Talk about Race?

    And Other Conversations in an Era of School Resegregation

    by Beverly Tatum, Theresa Perry ...
    Series series Race, Education, and Democracy
    **Major new reflections on race and schools—by the best-selling author of “Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?“A Simmons College/Beacon Press Race, Education, and Democracy Series Book**Beverly Daniel Tatum emerged on the national scene in 1997 with “Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?,“ a book that spoke to a wide audience about the ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD

  • Mismatch

    How Affirmative Action Hurts Students It's Intended to Help, and Why Universities Won't Admit It

    by Richard Sander, Stuart Taylor Jr ...
    The debate over affirmative action has raged for over four decades, with little give on either side. Most agree that it began as noble effort to jump-start racial integration; many believe it devolved into a patently unfair system of quotas and concealment. Now, with the Supreme Court set to rule on a case that could sharply curtail the use of racial preferences in American universities, law ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • No Citizen Left Behind

    by Meira Levinson ...
    Series series Educational psychology: critical pedagogical perspectives ;
    While teaching at an all-Black middle school in Atlanta, Levinson realized that her students’ individual self-improvement would not necessarily enable them to overcome their historical marginalization. In order to overcome their civic empowerment gap, students must learn how to reshape power relationships through public political and civic action. ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • 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

    $49.49 CAD

  • Affirmative Action

    Racial Preference in Black and White

    by Tim J. Wise ...
    Series series Positions: Education, Politics, and Culture
    Affirmative Action examines the larger structure of institutional white privilege in education, and compares the magnitude of white racial preference with the policies typically envisioned when the term "racial preference" is used. In doing so, the book demonstrates that the American system of education is both a reflection of and a contributor to a structure of institutionalized racism and racial ... Read more

    $92.06 CAD

  • Inequality

    A Contemporary Approach to Race, Class, and Gender

    by Lisa A. Keister, Darby E. Southgate ...
    Inequality: A Contemporary Approach to Race, Class, and Gender offers a comprehensive introduction to the topics animating current sociological research focused on inequality. Contemporary, engaging, and research-oriented, it is the ideal text to help undergraduate students master the basic concepts in inequality research and gain a deeper understanding of the ways in which race, class, and gender ... Read more

    $48.79 CAD