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  • The Social and Cultural Construction of Risk

    Essays on Risk Selection and Perception

    Edited by V.T. Covello, B.B. Johnson ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The Social and Cultural Construction of Risk: Issues, Methods, and Case Studies Vincent T. Covello and Branden B. Johnson Risks to health, safety, and the environment abound in the world and people cope as best they can. But before action can be taken to control, reduce, or eliminate these risks, decisions must be made about which risks are important and which risks can safely be ignored. The ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

  • 10 Ways We Can Advance Social Justice

    by Hannibal B. B Johnson ...
    Social justice matters because we-each of us-matter. Unless we learn to co-exist as equals, we will never live optimally. To denigrate any one of us is to demean all of us.Absent the wholesale embrace of social justice, we risk succumbing to human tendencies to stereotype, "otherize," and scapegoat. Those tendencies, left unchecked, lead to horrific ends.When we see ourselves in others, we ... Read more

    $11.19 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

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  • The End of Race Politics

    Arguments for a Colorblind America

    by Coleman Hughes ...
    An exciting new voice makes the case for a colorblind approach to politics and culture, warning that the so-called ‘anti-racist’ movement is driving us—ironically—toward a new kind of racism.As one of the few black students in his philosophy program at Columbia University years ago, Coleman Hughes wondered why his peers seemed more pessimistic about the state of American race relations than his ... Read more

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  • The Canceling of the American Mind

    Cancel Culture Undermines Trust and Threatens Us All—But There Is a Solution

    by Greg Lukianoff, Rikki Schlott ...
    A “galvanizing” (The Wall Street Journal) deep dive into cancel culture and its dangers to all Americans from the team that brought you Coddling of the American Mind.Cancel culture is a new phenomenon, and The Canceling of the American Mind is the first book to codify it and survey its effects, including hard data and research on what cancel culture is and how it works, along with hundreds of new ... Read more

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  • The Innovative University

    Changing the DNA of Higher Education from the Inside Out

    by Clayton M. Christensen, Henry J. Eyring ...
    The Innovative University illustrates how higher education can respond to the forces of disruptive innovation , and offers a nuanced and hopeful analysis of where the traditional university and its traditions have come from and how it needs to change for the future. Through an examination of Harvard and BYU-Idaho as well as other stories of innovation in higher education, Clayton Christensen and ... Read more

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  • You're More Powerful Than You Think

    A Citizen's Guide to Making Change Happen

    by Eric Liu ...
    **A handbook for how political power really works, and what it takes to make change happen“[Liu] addresses a central question of this age: what, exactly, citizens who are unhappy with national politics can do, other than write a check or await the next chance to vote.” —The Atlantic**In this age of epic political turbulence, citizens everywhere are organizing to claim their power. Do you ... Read more

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  • The Golden Passport

    Harvard Business School, the Limits of Capitalism, and the Moral Failure of the MBA Elite

    by Duff McDonald ...
    From the New York Times–bestselling author of The Firm: "A massively detailed history of Harvard Business School . . . and a searing critique." — Kirkus ReviewsWith The Firm, financial journalist Duff McDonald pulled back the curtain on consulting giant McKinsey & Company. In The Golden Passport, he reveals the inner workings of a singular nexus of power, ambition, and influence: Harvard Business ... Read more

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  • The Power of Privilege

    How white people can challenge racism

    by June Sarpong ...
    The death of George Floyd and subsequent Black Lives Matter protests have made clear to everyone the vicious reality of racism that persists today.Many of those privileged enough to be distanced from racism are now having to come to terms with the fact that they continue to prosper at the detriment of others. Having spent the last four years researching, writing, and speaking about the benefits of ... Read more

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  • Higher Education?

    How Colleges Are Wasting Our Money and Failing Our Kids—and What We Can Do About It

    by Andrew Hacker, Claudia Dreifus ...
    What's gone wrong at our colleges and universities—and how to get American higher education back on trackA quarter of a million dollars. It's the going tab for four years at most top-tier universities. Why does it cost so much and is it worth it?Renowned sociologist Andrew Hacker and New York Times writer Claudia Dreifus make an incisive case that the American way of higher education, now a $420 ... Read more

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  • Make Your Own Job

    How the Entrepreneurial Work Ethic Exhausted America

    by Madeleine Baker ...
    A New Yorker Best Book of the YearA sweeping new history of the changing meaning of work in the United States, from Horatio Alger to Instagram influencers.How Americans think about work changed profoundly over the course of the twentieth century. Thrift and persistence came to seem old-fashioned. Successful workers were increasingly expected to show initiative and enthusiasm for change—not just to ... Read more

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  • Diversity, Inc.

    The Failed Promise of a Billion-Dollar Business

    by Pamela Newkirk ...
    One of Time Magazine's Must-Read Books of 2019An award-winning journalist shows how workplace diversity initiatives have turned into a profoundly misguided industry--and have done little to bring equality to America's major industries and institutions.Diversity has become the new buzzword, championed by elite institutions from academia to Hollywood to corporate America. In an effort to ensure ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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