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  • American Dream Dying

    The Changing Economic Lot of the Least Advantaged

    Using recent polling results, this book identifies the core economic components of the American Dream: standard of living, financial security, and upward mobility. The authors document the trend in each of these components over the last thirty years, using figures (trend lines and bar charts) based upon the best available data. Collectively, this evidence has alarming implications for the economic ... Read more

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  • Dismantling the Disabling Environments of Education

    Creating New Cultures and Contexts for Accommodating Difference

    Series Book 24 - Disability Studies in Education
    Dismantling the Disabling Environments of Education: Creating New Cultures and Contexts for Accommodating Difference challenges assumptions that view people of difference to be "abnormal," that isolate attention to their difference solely in the individual, that treat areas of difference as matters of deficiency, and that separate youth of difference from the mainstream and treat them as ... Read more

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    The global financial crisis has made it painfully clear that powerful psychological forces are imperiling the wealth of nations today. From blind faith in ever-rising housing prices to plummeting confidence in capital markets, "animal spirits" are driving financial events worldwide. In this book, acclaimed economists George Akerlof and Robert Shiller challenge the economic wisdom that got us into ... Read more

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  • Neuroqueer Heresies

    Notes on the Neurodiversity Paradigm, Autistic Empowerment, and Postnormal Possibilities

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    The work of queer autistic scholar Nick Walker has played a key role in the evolving discourse on human neurodiversity.Neuroqueer Heresies collects a decade's worth of Dr. Walker's most influential writings, along with new commentary by the author and new material on her radical conceptualization of Neuroqueer Theory.This book is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the foundations, ... Read more

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  • Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy

    Raghuram Rajan was one of the few economists who warned of the global financial crisis before it hit. Now, as the world struggles to recover, it's tempting to blame what happened on just a few greedy bankers who took irrational risks and left the rest of us to foot the bill. In Fault Lines , Rajan argues that serious flaws in the economy are also to blame, and warns that a potentially more ... Read more

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  • Theoretical Perspectives for Direct Social Work Practice

    A Generalist-Eclectic Approach, Second Edition

    Series series Springer Series on Social Work
    " Praise for the first editionFinally, a social work practice text that makes a difference! This is the book that you have wished for but could never find. Although similar to texts that cover a range of practice theories and approaches to clinical practice, this book clearly has a social work frame of reference and a social work identity.--Gayla Rogers, Dean of the Faculty of Social Work, ... Read more

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  • Finance and the Good Society

    The reputation of the financial industry could hardly be worse than it is today in the painful aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis. New York Times best-selling economist Robert Shiller is no apologist for the sins of finance--he is probably the only person to have predicted both the stock market bubble of 2000 and the real estate bubble that led up to the subprime mortgage meltdown. But in this ... Read more

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    From Steiner to Dewey - Thinking on Special Educational Needs and Inclusion

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    The comprehensive guide to the most influential theorists and their ideas on how children with special educational needs learn and develop. ... Read more

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    Series series Applied Social Research Methods
    Qualitative Research Design: An Interactive Approach provides researchers and students with a user-friendly, step-by-step guide to planning qualitative research. It shows how the components of design interact with each other, and provides a strategy for creating coherent and workable relationships among these design components, highlighting key design issues. Written in an informal, jargon-free ... Read more

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  • Economics in Minutes

    Series series IN MINUTES
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