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  • Becoming Other

    Heterogeneity and Plasticity of the Self

    by David Berliner ...
    Most of us are conscious of having a single and stable self, but the self is more fragmented and plastic than we care to think. David Berliner explores the captivating world of identity through an array of astonishing experiences. From Napoleon doppelgangers to Philip Roth's alter-ego Nathan Zukerman and Wonder Woman cosplayers to anthropologists going native, he delves into the kaleidoscopic ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Public Education for Our Nation's Democracy

    Commentaries on Schooling in America

    by David C. Berliner ...
    Series series
    David Berliner, one of America's foremost educational researchers, issues an urgent message for all those who care about preserving the future of public education, and the future of democracy.Throughout his extraordinary career, educational psychologist David Berliner visited hundreds of classrooms in multiple countries. After many such visits, he wrote short notes about what he saw, felt, and ... Read more

    $37.99 USD

  • Losing Culture

    Nostalgia, Heritage, and Our Accelerated Times

    by David Berliner ...
    Translated by Dominic Horsfall ...
    We’re losing our culture… our heritage… our traditions… everything is being swept away.Such sentiments get echoed around the world, from aging Trump supporters in West Virginia to young villagers in West Africa. But what is triggering this sense of cultural loss, and to what ends does this rhetoric get deployed?To answer these questions, anthropologist David Berliner travels around the world, from ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • 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

    $26.99 USD

  • Slavery and Public History

    The Tough Stuff of American Memory

    by Ira Berlin, David W. Blight, Gary B. Nash ...
    "A fascinating collection of essays" by eminent historians exploring how we teach, remember, and confront the history and legacy of American slavery ( Booklist Online).In recent years, the culture wars have called into question the way America's history of slavery is depicted in books, films, television programs, historical sites, and museums. In the first attempt to examine the historiography of ... Read more

    $20.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Demoralized

    Why Teachers Leave the Profession They Love and How They Can Stay

    by Doris A. Santoro ...
    Demoralized: Why Teachers Leave the Profession They Love and How They Can Stay offers a timely analysis of professional dissatisfaction that challenges the common explanation of burnout. Featuring the voices of educators, the book offers concrete lessons for practitioners, school leaders, and policy makers on how to think more strategically to retain experienced teachers and make a difference in ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Public Education

    Defending a Cornerstone of American Democracy

    Edited by David C. Berliner, Carl Hermanns ...
    In this important collection, eminent education scholars and practitioners remind us that our nation’s system of free universal public education is under attack, putting our very democracy in jeopardy. Over and above preparing students for employability, American schools must prepare our youth to be informed citizens and active, constructive participants in the democratic process. These essayists, ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • School Communities of Strength

    Strategies for Educating Children Living in Deep Poverty

    by Peter W. Cookson Jr. ...
    An evidence-based plan of action to achieve educational justice for K–12 public school students from families whose income is 50% or more below the US poverty threshold ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

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  • Civil-Military Relations in Latin America

    New Analytical Perspectives

    Edited by David Pion-Berlin ...
    The armed forces may no longer rule nations throughout Latin America, but they continue to influence democratic governments across the region. In nine original, thought-provoking essays, this book offers fresh theoretical insights into the dilemmas facing Latin American politicians as they struggle to gain full control over their military institutions.Latin America has changed in profound ways ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Dynamics of Biblical Parallelism

    by Adele Berlin ...
    Series series The Biblical Resource Series (BRS)
    Understanding of biblical poetry is enhanced by the study of its structure. In this book Adele Berlin analyzes parallelism, a major feature of Hebrew poetry, from a linguistic perspective. This new edition of Berlin's study features an additional chapter, "The Range of Biblical Metaphors in Smikhut,"by late Russian linguist Lida Knorina. Berlin calls this addition "innovative and instructive to ... Read more

    $25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Anthropology and Nostalgia

    Edited by Olivia Angé, David Berliner ...
    Nostalgia is intimately connected to the history of the social sciences in general and anthropology in particular, though finely grained ethnographies of nostalgia and loss are still scarce. Today, anthropologists have realized that nostalgia constitutes a fascinating object of study for exploring contemporary issues of the formation of identity in politics and history. Contributors to this volume ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Disorders of Fat and Cellulite

    Advances in Diagnosis and Treatment

    Edited by David J. Goldberg, Alexander L. Berlin ...
    Series series Series in Cosmetic and Laser Therapy
    Alterations in the amount of subcutaneous fat lead to significant changes in appearance, whether from excess (as seen in bodily obesity) or in loss of fat (as seen in facial lipodystrophy associated with the aging process). This book incorporates the current knowledge of the physiology of fat with the numerous treatment modalities available today; it will be an important review and reference ... Read more

    $72.99 USD