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  • Negotiating Privilege and Identity in Educational Contexts

    by Adam Howard, Brianne Wheeler, Aimee Polimeno ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Education
    Recent efforts emphasize the roles that privilege and elite education play in shaping affluent youths’ identities. Despite various backgrounds, the common qualities shared among the eight adolescents showcased in this book lead them to form particular understandings of self, others, and the world around them that serve as means for them to negotiate their privilege. These self-understandings are ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

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  • Felix Holt

    by George Eliot ...
    Felix Holt" is an engrossing story the major events of which unfold against the backdrop of the general elections of 1832. Set in the fictional town of Terby Magna it is a tale that combines vivid characterization with a strong storyline. Eliot's narrative prowess is at its best as she deftly deals with the intertwined themes of politics love and family issues. Captivating! ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Trouble with Boys

    A Surprising Report Card on Our Sons, Their Problems at School, and What Parentsand Educators Must Do

    by Peg Tyre ...
    From the moment they step into the classroom, boys begin to struggle. They get expelled from preschool nearly five times more often than girls; in elementary school, they’re diagnosed with learning disorders four times as often. By eighth grade huge numbers are reading below basic level. And by high school, they’re heavily outnumbered in AP classes and, save for the realm of athletics, show ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Knowledge-building

    Educational studies in Legitimation Code Theory

    Edited by Karl Maton, Susan Hood, Suellen Shay ...
    Series series Legitimation Code Theory
    Education and knowledge have never been more important to society, yet research is segmented by approach, methodology or topic. Legitimation Code Theory or ‘LCT’ extends and integrates insights from Pierre Bourdieu and Basil Bernstein to offer a framework for research and practice that overcomes segmentalism. This book shows how LCT can be used to build knowledge about education and society. ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Teachers Doing Research

    The Power of Action Through Inquiry

    Edited by Gail E. Burnaford ...
    This popular text describes the processes of doing teacher action research. But it is much more than a dry presentation of "methods." Filled with examples of teacher action research projects, provided by teachers themselves, the book places teachers at the heart of the action research process. Teachers' own writing about their work and research questions is featured in 11 examples of teacher ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Sludge Management: An Exploratory Research Report in Bangladesh

    by Md. Lokman Hossain ...
    The treatment and disposal of industrial and residential sludge is an environmentally sensitive problem. Some traditional disposal routes, such as disposal at sea, are coming under pressure which necessitates finding alternatives. This book describes the effect of composted sludge on the growth of Acacia auriculiformis and Swietenia mahagoni seedlings in the nursery. The experiment was established ... Read more

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  • Where Bad Jobs Are Better

    Retail Jobs Across Countries and Companies

    by Chris Tilly, Francoise Carre ...
    Retail is now the largest employer in the United States. For the most part, retail jobs are “bad jobs” characterized by low wages, unpredictable work schedules, and few opportunities for advancement. However, labor experts Françoise Carré and Chris Tilly show that these conditions are not inevitable. In Where Bad Jobs Are Better, they investigate retail work across different industries and seven ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • England's Ideal and Other Papers on Social Subjects

    by Edward Carpenter ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals: The Collected Works of Edward Carpenter
    Originally published in 1887, Edward Carpenter’s England’s Ideal and other Papers on Social Subjects is a collection of his essays in the field of Social Science with a focus on English society at the time of writing. His writing was so influential that there was a near constant demand in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries for this work to be reprinted with this particular edition ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Ethnicity, Class, and Nationalism

    Caribbean and Extra-Caribbean Dimensions

    by Shona N. Jackson, Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, Jeffrey O.G. Ogbar, Steven Ratuva, Cenk Saraçoglu, Diana Thorburn ...
    Series series Caribbean Studies
    Celebrants of an ever-emerging "globalization" fly the banner of free trade, the mass marketization of once faltering economies, and rising economic and social standards for all. Many opponents to globalization rightfully point out that borders still exist largely for the purposes of keeping one "commodity" in its place: the labor commodity or, the more familiar, immigrant. Arguments of this type ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Culture, Class, Distinction

    by Tony Bennett, Mike Savage, Elizabeth Bortolaia Silva, Alan Warde, Modesto Gayo-Cal, David Wright ...
    Series series CRESC
    Choice Recommended Title, February 2010Culture, Class, Distinction is major contribution to international debates regarding the role of cultural capital in relation to modern forms of inequality. Drawing on a national study of the organisation of cultural practices in contemporary Britain, the authors review Bourdieu’s classic study of the relationships between culture and class in the light of ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Quantifying Neighbourhood Effects

    Frontiers and perspectives

    Edited by Jorg Blasius, Jurgen Friedrichs, George Galster ...
    Many policies in several Western European countries and the U.S. aim to counter spatial concentrations of deprivation and create more socio-economically mixed residential areas. Such policies are founded on the belief that neighbourhoods have a strong and independent effect upon the well-being and life-chances of individuals. The adequacy of the evidence base to support this position has been the ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • The Fugitive

    by Marcel Proust ...
    In the sixth volume of the series fitting seems that Proust's past actions conclude with a fair resolution. The captive is now the fugitive. Like in previous volumes, envy and distrusts eventually reveals unsuspected and unwanted revelations that leads Proust to reconcile himself with his melancholy. But unfortunately happiness still running away for him, and the marriage of his once good friends ... Read more

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