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“janine jones”

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  • Pursuing Trayvon Martin

    Historical Contexts and Contemporary Manifestations of Racial Dynamics

    Edited by Janine Jones, George Yancy ...
    On February 26, 2012, seventeen-year-old African American male Trayvon Martin was shot and killed by George Zimmerman, a twenty-eight-year-old white Hispanic American male in Sanford, Florida. Zimmerman killed Martin in a gated community. Pursuing Trayvon Martin: Historical Contexts and Contemporary Manifestations of Racial Dynamics, featuring a new preface by editors George Yancy and Janine Jones ... Read more

    $63.39 CAD

  • White on White/Black on Black

    by Kal Alston, Molefi Kete Asante, Bettina G. Bergo, Robert Bernasconi, Janine Jones, Chris Cuomo, Clarence Sholé Johnson, John H. McClendon III, Greg Moses, Monique Roelofs, Crispin Sartwell, Anna Stubblefield ...
    White on White/Black on Black is a unique contribution to the philosophy of race. The book explores how fourteen philosophers, seven white and seven black, philosophically understand the dynamics of the process of racialization. Combined, the contributions demonstrate different and similar conceptual trajectories of raced identities that emerge from within and across the racial divide. Each of the ... Read more

    $71.69 CAD

  • Straight Talk for Veterans

    A Guide to Success in College

    by David Vacchi, Kevin Jones, Janine Wert, Aynsley Diamond, Adam Fullerton, Sharon Young, Michael Kirchner, Sarah E. Minnis, Glenn Phillips, Sosanya Jones ...
    Straight Talk for Veterans: A Guide to Success in College answers the call by veterans and practitioners to move away from academic volumes that don't resonate with the reader and frankly fall short of really helping veterans succeed in college. Veteran-friendliness is a straightforward concept that is, in most contexts, more lip-service than action and is rarely achieved. Conceptualizing veteran ... Read more

    $13.73 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Justice for Hedgehogs

    by Ronald Dworkin ...
    In Dworkin’s master work, the central thesis is that all areas of value depend on one another. This is one, big thing that the hedgehog knows, in contrast to the fox, who knows many little things. Dworkin’s understanding of the relationship—between ethics, morality, and political morality—is significantly revised and also greatly elaborated. He argues that “dignity” is the essential core of living ... Read more

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  • Leadership Lessons from West Point

    Edited by Major Doug Crandall ...
    Series Book 105 - Frances Hesselbein Leadership Forum
    With Leadership Lessons from West Point as a guide, leaders in the business, nonprofit, and government sectors can learn leadership techniques and practices from contributors who are teaching or have taught at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and have served in positions of leadership that span the globe. These military experts cover a broad range of topics that are relevant to any ... Read more

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  • How To Read Foucault

    by Johanna Oksala ...
    Michel Foucault was a twentieth-century philosopher of extraordinary talent, a political activist, social theorist, cultural critic and creative historian. He shaped the ways we think today about such controversial issues as power, sexuality, madness and criminality. Johanna Oksala explores the conceptual tools that Foucault gave us for constructing new forms of thinking as well as for smashing ... Read more

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  • The Extraordinary Leader: Turning Good Managers into Great Leaders

    by John Zenger, Joseph Folkman ...
    People can learn how to lead. This was the position John H. Zenger and Joseph R. Folkman took when they wrote their now-classic leadership book The Extraordinary Leader—and it’s a fact they reinforce in this new, completely updated edition of their bestseller.When it was first published, The Extraordinary Leader immediately attracted a wide audience of aspiring leaders drawn to its unique feature: ... Read more

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  • Beautiful Risk of Education

    by Gert J. J. Biesta ...
    This is a book about what many teachers know but are increasingly being prevented from talking about: that real education always involves a risk. The risk is there because, as W. B. Yeats has put it, education is not about filling a bucket but about lighting a fire. It is there because students are not to be seen as objects to be moulded and disciplined, but as subjects of action and ... Read more

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  • Humans Are Underrated

    What High Achievers Know That Brilliant Machines Never Will

    by Geoff Colvin ...
    As technology races ahead, what will people do better than computers?What hope will there be for us when computers can drive cars better than humans, predict Supreme Court decisions better than legal experts, identify faces, scurry helpfully around offices and factories, even perform some surgeries, all faster, more reliably, and less expensively than people?It’s easy to imagine a nightmare ... Read more

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  • From Extreme Violence to the Problem of Civility

    A Selection from Violence and Civility: On the Limits of Political Philosophy

    by Étienne Balibar ...
    Translated by G.M. Goshgarian ...
    In this impassioned argument, Étienne Balibar boldly confronts the insidious causes of violence, racism, nationalism, and ethnic cleansing worldwide. Through a novel synthesis of theory and empirical studies of violence drawn from contemporary life, Balibar tests the limits of political philosophy to formulate new, productive conceptions of war, revolution, sovereignty, and class. Balibar explores ... Read more

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  • Transformational Leadership

    by Bernard M. Bass, Ronald E. Riggio ...
    Transformational Leadership, Second Edition is intended for both the scholars and serious students of leadership. It is a comprehensive review of theorizing and empirical research that can serve as a reference and starting point for additional research on the theory. It can be used as a supplementary textbook in an intense course on leadership--or as a primary text in a course or seminar focusing ... Read more

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