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Gender Play

Girls and Boys in School

by Barrie Thorne, C.J. Pascoe ...

When it first appeared in 1993, Barrie Thorne’s Gender Play: Girls and Boys in School became an instant classic in the budding fields of feminist sociology and childhood studies. Through detailed first-hand observations of fourth and fifth graders at play, she investigated questions like: Why do girls and boys tend to self-segregate in the schoolyard? What can playful teasing and ritualized games ... Read more

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When it first appeared in 1993, Barrie Thorne’s Gender Play: Girls and Boys in School became an instant classic in the budding fields of feminist sociology and childhood studies. Through detailed first-hand observations of fourth and fifth graders at play, she investigated questions like: Why do girls and boys tend to self-segregate in the schoolyard? What can playful teasing and ritualized games
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Social Problems across the Life Course

by Patricia A. Adler, Peter Adler, Christine Bowditch, Spencer E. Cahill, Sheldon Goldenberg, Robert Granfield, Thomas Koenig, Zella Luria, Eleanor Maticka-Tyndale, Susan E. Martin, Frances B. McCrea, Madonna Harrington Meyer, David L. Morgan, Allan Schnaiberg, Jay D. Teachman, Barrie Thorne, David R. Unruh, Susan Walzer ...

Series series Understanding Social Problems: An SSSP Presidential Series
The human life course is filled with and subject to a wide range of personal difficulties, many of which are shared by others. Life events and processes such as birth, childhood, training for and entering an occupation, marriage, and procreation, growing older, death and dying are all subject to dilemmas, obstacles, and barriers. Social Problems across the Life Course offers accessible readings ... Read more

$47.79 USD

The human life course is filled with and subject to a wide range of personal difficulties, many of which are shared by others. Life events and processes such as birth, childhood, training for and entering an occupation, marriage, and procreation, growing older, death and dying are all subject to dilemmas, obstacles, and barriers. Social Problems across the Life Course offers accessible readings
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Newbourne Park

by Jennifer Thorne ...

Narrated by Barrie Kreinik ...

Unabridged

10 hours

From the USA Today bestselling author of Diavola comes a darkly funny, blood-soaked horror novel about the terrifying seduction of unlimited power.After years of caring for her dying mother, Martha Shaw feels empty, exhausted, and far older than her twenty-six years. So when her brother invites her to a weekend getaway at the opulent, two-hundred-acre country estate where his friend works, Martha ... Read more

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From the USA Today bestselling author of Diavola comes a darkly funny, blood-soaked horror novel about the terrifying seduction of unlimited power.After years of caring for her dying mother, Martha Shaw feels empty, exhausted, and far older than her twenty-six years. So when her brother invites her to a weekend getaway at the opulent, two-hundred-acre country estate where his friend works, Martha
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Hall of Mirrors

The Great Depression, the Great Recession, and the Uses-and Misuses-of History

by Barry Eichengreen ...

Narrated by Stephen R. Thorne ...

Unabridged

22 hours 2 min

The two great financial crises of the past century are the Great Depression of the 1930s and the Great Recession, which began in 2008. Both occurred against the backdrop of sharp credit booms, dubious banking practices, and a fragile and unstable global financial system. Pain and suffering were widespread.The question, given this, is why didn't policymakers do better? Hall of Mirrors, Barry ... Read more

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The two great financial crises of the past century are the Great Depression of the 1930s and the Great Recession, which began in 2008. Both occurred against the backdrop of sharp credit booms, dubious banking practices, and a fragile and unstable global financial system. Pain and suffering were widespread.The question, given this, is why didn't policymakers do better? Hall of Mirrors, Barry
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Courage to Act, The

A Memoir of a Crisis and Its Aftermath

by Ben S. Bernanke ...

Narrated by Grover Gardner ...

Unabridged

22 hours 36 min

A New York Times Bestseller“A fascinating account of the effort to save the world from another [Great Depression]. . . . Humanity should be grateful.”—Financial TimesIn 2006, Ben S. Bernanke was appointed chair of the Federal Reserve, the unexpected apex of a personal journey from small-town South Carolina to prestigious academic appointments and finally public service in Washington’s halls of ... Read more

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A New York Times Bestseller“A fascinating account of the effort to save the world from another [Great Depression]. . . . Humanity should be grateful.”—Financial TimesIn 2006, Ben S. Bernanke was appointed chair of the Federal Reserve, the unexpected apex of a personal journey from small-town South Carolina to prestigious academic appointments and finally public service in Washington’s halls of
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Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes, Second Edition

by Robert M. Emerson, Rachel I. Fretz, Linda L. Shaw ...

Series series Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and
In Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes, Robert M. Emerson, Rachel I. Fretz, and Linda L. Shaw present a series of guidelines, suggestions, and practical advice for creating useful fieldnotes in a variety of settings, demystifying a process that is often assumed to be intuitive and impossible to teach. Using actual unfinished notes as examples, the authors illustrate options for composing, reviewing, ... Read more

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In Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes, Robert M. Emerson, Rachel I. Fretz, and Linda L. Shaw present a series of guidelines, suggestions, and practical advice for creating useful fieldnotes in a variety of settings, demystifying a process that is often assumed to be intuitive and impossible to teach. Using actual unfinished notes as examples, the authors illustrate options for composing, reviewing,
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Blindspot

Hidden Biases of Good People

by Mahzarin R. Banaji, Anthony G. Greenwald ...

“Accessible and authoritative . . . While we may not have much power to eradicate our own prejudices, we can counteract them. The first step is to turn a hidden bias into a visible one. . . . What if we’re not the magnanimous people we think we are?”—The Washington PostI know my own mind.I am able to assess others in a fair and accurate way.These self-perceptions are challenged by leading ... Read more

$6.99 USD

“Accessible and authoritative . . . While we may not have much power to eradicate our own prejudices, we can counteract them. The first step is to turn a hidden bias into a visible one. . . . What if we’re not the magnanimous people we think we are?”—The Washington PostI know my own mind.I am able to assess others in a fair and accurate way.These self-perceptions are challenged by leading
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Normal Sucks

How to Live, Learn, and Thrive, Outside the Lines

by Jonathan Mooney ...

Confessional and often hilarious, in Normal Sucks a neuro-diverse writer, advocate, and father offers a radical message of acceptance and empowerment.Jonathan Mooney blends anecdote, expertise, and memoir to present a new mode of thinking about how we live and learn. As a neuro-diverse kid diagnosed with dyslexia and ADHD who didn't learn to read until he was twelve, the realization that he wasn’t ... Read more

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Confessional and often hilarious, in Normal Sucks a neuro-diverse writer, advocate, and father offers a radical message of acceptance and empowerment.Jonathan Mooney blends anecdote, expertise, and memoir to present a new mode of thinking about how we live and learn. As a neuro-diverse kid diagnosed with dyslexia and ADHD who didn't learn to read until he was twelve, the realization that he wasn’t
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The War Against Boys

How Misguided Policies are Harming Our Young Men

by Christina Hoff Sommers ...

An updated and revised edition of the controversial classic—now more relevant than ever—argues that boys are the ones languishing socially and academically, resulting in staggering social and economic costs.Girls and women were once second-class citizens in the nation’s schools. Americans responded with concerted efforts to give girls and women the attention and assistance that was long overdue. ... Read more

$13.99 USD

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An updated and revised edition of the controversial classic—now more relevant than ever—argues that boys are the ones languishing socially and academically, resulting in staggering social and economic costs.Girls and women were once second-class citizens in the nation’s schools. Americans responded with concerted efforts to give girls and women the attention and assistance that was long overdue.
... Read more

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Deep Secrets

Boys’ Friendships and the Crisis of Connection

by Niobe Way ...

“Boys are emotionally illiterate and don’t want intimate friendships.” In this empirically grounded challenge to our stereotypes about boys and men, Niobe Way reveals the intense intimacy among teenage boys especially during early and middle adolescence. Boys not only share their deepest secrets and feelings with their closest male friends, they claim that without them they would go “wacko.” Yet ... Read more

$19.69 USD

“Boys are emotionally illiterate and don’t want intimate friendships.” In this empirically grounded challenge to our stereotypes about boys and men, Niobe Way reveals the intense intimacy among teenage boys especially during early and middle adolescence. Boys not only share their deepest secrets and feelings with their closest male friends, they claim that without them they would go “wacko.” Yet
... Read more
The Skin That We Speak

Thoughts on Language and Culture in the Classroom

Edited by Lisa Delpit, Joanne Kilgour Dowdy ...

"Lucid, accessible" research on classroom language bias for educators and "parents concerned about questions of power and control in public schools" ( Publishers Weekly).In this collection of twelve essays, MacArthur Fellow Lisa Delpit and Kent State University Associate Professor Joanne Kilgour Dowdy take a critical look at the issues of language and dialect in the education system. The Skin That ... Read more

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"Lucid, accessible" research on classroom language bias for educators and "parents concerned about questions of power and control in public schools" ( Publishers Weekly).In this collection of twelve essays, MacArthur Fellow Lisa Delpit and Kent State University Associate Professor Joanne Kilgour Dowdy take a critical look at the issues of language and dialect in the education system. The Skin That
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Oppression and the Body

Roots, Resistance, and Resolutions

Edited by Christine Caldwell, Lucia Bennett Leighton ...

A timely anthology that explores power, privilege, and oppression and their relationship to marginalized bodiesAsserting that the body is the main site of oppression in Western society, the contributors to this pioneering volume explore the complex issue of embodiment and how it relates to social inclusion and marginalization. In a culture where bodies of people who are brown, black, female, ... Read more

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A timely anthology that explores power, privilege, and oppression and their relationship to marginalized bodiesAsserting that the body is the main site of oppression in Western society, the contributors to this pioneering volume explore the complex issue of embodiment and how it relates to social inclusion and marginalization. In a culture where bodies of people who are brown, black, female,
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