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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “david a backer”
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  • Peace and Conflict 2014

    by Paul K. Huth, Jonathan Wilkenfeld, David A. Backer ...
    Series series Peace and Conflict
    Peace and Conflict is a biennial publication that provides cutting-edge data and analysis concerning domestic and international conflicts and corresponding peacebuilding activities. The book include forecasts of risks of political and social instability, as well as trends and patterns in conflict. The 2014 edition focusses on the 'micro level' in the study of conflict and peacebuilding, such as ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Truth in the Public Sphere

    by Jason Hannan, David I. Backer, Chris Balaschak, Makeda Best, Charles Bingham, Christopher Gilbert, Lewis A. Friedland, Francis Halsall, Thomas Hove, Jeffrey W. Jarman0, Yacine Kout1, Paul Lawrie2, Jeanette Musselwhite3, Kelly M. O’Donnell4, Lisa Silvestri5, Shelley Sizemore6, Jenny Southard7, Spoma Jovanovic8 ...
    Has truth become a casualty of America’s increasingly caustic and volatile political culture? Truth in the Public Sphere seeks to understand the significance of truth for the everyday world of human communication. To this end, this book explores the place of truth in several facets of the public sphere: language, ethics, journalism, politics, media, and art. Featuring an international group of ... Read more

    $42.09 USD

  • As Public as Possible

    Radical Finance for America’s Public Schools

    by David I. Backer ...
    A witty and provocative treatise on the financial policies we’ll need to make our public schools work for all childrenFrom the anti-CRT panic to efforts to divert tax dollars to charter schools, the right-wing attack on education has cut deep. In response, millions of Americans have rallied to defend their cherished public schools. But this incisive book asks whether choosing between our embattled ... Read more

    $21.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Elements of Discussion

    by David I. Backer ...
    Series series Critical Constructions: Studies on Education and Society
    Discussion is distorting today. Within schools, social movements, and firms, there has been an increasing tendency for teachers and facilitators to announce that there will be a discussion while the interaction which follows this announcement is not a discussion, but something else, likely a recitation and lecture. This distortion of discussion promises democracy, equality, and participation ... Read more

    $39.39 USD

  • Peace and Conflict 2017

    Edited by Ravinder Bhavnani, David Backer, Paul Huth ...
    Series series Peace and Conflict
    An authoritative source of information on violent conflicts and peacebuilding processes around the world, Peace and Conflict is an annual publication of the University of Maryland’s Center for International Development and Conflict Management and the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (Geneva).The contents of the 2017 edition are divided into three sections:» Global ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Peace and Conflict 2016

    Edited by David Backer, Ravinder Bhavnani, Paul Huth ...
    Series series Peace and Conflict
    An authoritative source of information on violent conflicts and peacebuilding processes around the world, Peace and Conflict is an annual publication of the University of Maryland’s Center for International Development and Conflict Management and the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (Geneva).The contents of the 2016 edition are divided into three sections:» Global ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

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  • International Negotiation in a Complex World

    by Brigid Starkey, Mark A. Boyer, Jonathan Wilkenfeld ...
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    Peace-making in Colombia, Mozambique, the Philippines, and Syria

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