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  • Audiolibro

    Story of the Statue of Liberty, The

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    33 minutos

    The Statue of Liberty, one of the world’s most iconic symbols, was a gift from the people of France to the people of the United States. Standing proudly in New York Harbor, it became a welcoming sight to scores of immigrants.Although the statue commemorates the friendship between two countries, the gift almost didn’t occur!In this concise history, developed by the US National Park Service, you ... Leer más

    $5.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Reforming Education

    From Origins to Outcomes

    Ambitious programs of education reform have been introduced by many governments around the world. Reforming Education is an important study of large-scale education reform in five different settings: England, New Zealand, the Canadian provinces of Alberta and Manitoba and the US state of Minnesota. The book looks at a variety of reforms covering: school choice; charter schools; increased testing ... Leer más

    $68.99 USD

  • This Crown Is Mine

    History of Pretenders for the Crown, Civil War, and Foreign Invasion in Seventeenth-Century Russia

    In the early 17th century, Russia went through a foreign invasion and the nations first civil war a time so horrible that it acquired its own name in Russian history: The Times of Troubles. Internal and external forces came together to create a storm of such magnitude that it threatened the very existence of the nation. The country lay in ruins and a foreign army occupied Moscow. For a while it ... Leer más

    $3.99 USD

  • Benjamin, Deleuze and the Baroque

    The Early Modern Origins of Media Theory

    de Noa Levin ...
    Series series Walter Benjamin Studies
    For Walter Benjamin and Gilles Deleuze, who both authored seminal theoretical works on early cinema and photography, the history of modern media begins much earlier, in Baroque culture and science. Benjamin, Deleuze and the Baroque argues that their media theories were informed by their respective readings of the philosophy and mathematics of G.W. Leibniz, and the Baroque can thus be seen as the ... Leer más

    $93.99 USD

  • America's Urban Crisis and the Advent of Color-Blind Politics

    Education, Incarceration, Segregation, and the Future of the U.S. Multiracial Democracy

    Over 40 years ago the historic Kerner Commission Report declared that America was undergoing an urban crisis whose effects were disproportionately felt by underclass populations. In America's Urban Crisis and the Advent of Color-blind Politics, Curtis Ivery and Joshua Bassett explore the persistence of this crisis today, despite public beliefs that America has become a "post-racial" nation after ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Schools and the Changing World

    Suggestions are constantly being made, both in the popular media and academic literature, about the kinds of changes schools should make. The research in this text shows that schools are primarily inward-looking organizations, and would benefit from better ways of understanding the changes surrounding them and the pressures on them. This text offers theoretical discussion of the ideas around the ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • Levin and the Wild Zones

    In a world where everyone is born with a power, Levin Hartwell has none.At Oakridge Academy, students bend steel, phase through walls, and float above the running track. Levin can't do any of it. In a society that treats ability as destiny, being "powerless" makes him invisible—a statistical error even his own family has quietly stopped expecting anything from.Then a rogue superhuman tears through ... Leer más

    $3.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Red Flags Anthology

    Have you ever been in a situation where all of those internal warning signals went off but you went forward anyway? Or in a situation where you started to drive forward and then something told you to stop? This anthology is a collection of stories of similar situations that our authors experienced. Read on to find out about their own red flags. ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • A Weak Messianic Power

    Figures of a Time to Come in Benjamin, Derrida, and Celan

    In his famous theses on the philosophy of history, Benjamin writes: “We have been endowed with a weak messianic power to which the past has a claim.” This claim addresses us not just from the past but from what will have belonged to it only as a missed possibility and unrealized potential. For Benajmin, as for Celan and Derrida, what has never been actualized remains with us, not as a lingering ... Leer más

    $33.99 USD

  • Making a Difference in Urban Schools

    Ideas, Politics, and Pedagogy

    What can be done to improve the educational experiences of students who live in cities with increasingly high levels of diversity and inequality? Making a Difference in Urban Schools evaluates how school and community leaders have worked to change urban education in Canada for the better over the past fifty years.This analytic and comparative study traces the evolution of urban education in ... Leer más

    $38.99 USD

  • On a Chariot of Fire

    The Story of India’s Bene Israel

    de Erica Lyons ...
    Ilustraciones de Siona Benjamin ...
    Learn the other side of the Hanukkah story, A Chariot of Fire follows the Bene Israel community, as they flee Israel to find a new home in India.Two thousand years ago, a ship sailed east, alone on an endless sea. The people onboard were fleeing the same war that the Maccabees fought in the ancient land of Israel. They took with them their faith and their traditions, knowing they would sail for ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD