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  • New Islamic Schools

    Tradition, Modernity, and Class in Urban Pakistan

    de S. Riaz ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    The first ethnographic study of the trend toward religious, parochial schooling in urban Pakistan, this book provides data from over fifty-Karachi area schools to establish the complex reasons middle- and upper-class families enroll in religious Islamic schools. ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

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  • The City Game

    Basketball from the Garden to the Playgrounds

    de Pete Axthelm ...
    "The master prose stylist portrays parallel basketball worlds in New York City: Madison Square Garden . . . and the playgrounds of Harlem" ( Sports Illustrated ).The New York Knickerbockers, one of the NBA's charter franchises, played professionally for twenty-four years before winning their first championship in 1970, defeating the Los Angeles Lakers in a thrilling seven-game series. Those Knicks ... Leer más

    $2.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Toxic Schools

    High-Poverty Education in New York and Amsterdam

    de Bowen Paulle ...
    Series series Fieldwork Encounters and Discoveries
    Violent urban schools loom large in our culture: for decades they have served as the centerpieces of political campaigns and as window dressing for brutal television shows and movies. Yet unequal access to quality schools remains the single greatest failing of our society—and one of the most hotly debated issues of our time. Of all the usual words used to describe non-selective city schools ... Leer más

    $27.99 USD

  • Field of Schemes

    How the Great Stadium Swindle Turns Public Money into Private Profit, Revised and Expanded Edition

    de Neil deMause, Joanna Cagan ...
    Field of Schemes is a play-by-play account of how the drive for new sports stadiums and arenas drains $2 billion a year from public treasuries for the sake of private profit. While the millionaires who own sports franchises have seen the value of their assets soar under this scheme, taxpayers, urban residents, and sports fans have all come out losers, forced to pay both higher taxes and higher ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

  • The Nature of a Crime

    de Joseph Conrad, Ford Maddox Ford ...
    “The worst that Death can do to me is to deliver me up for ever to unsatisfied longings for you. Well, that is all that Life has done, that is all that Life can do, for me.”  After gambling with, and losing, money from his employer’s estate and fearing that discovery and a prison sentence is around the corner, the narrator decides to end his life rather than face up to the disgrace.  His last ... Leer más

    $0.99 USD

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

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

    de Grace Lee Boggs, Benjamin DeMott, Erica Frankenberg, Andrew Grant-Thomas, Lani Guinier, Maria Hinojosa, Gary Howard, Colbert I. King, Marc Mauer, Trinh Minh-Ha, Michael Omi, John Telford, Lisa Thurau, Johanna Wald, James J. Zogby, Nell Irvin Painter, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Houston Baker, Bob Herbert, Arthur Levine, Manning Marable, Alvin F. Poussaint, Cornel West, john a. powell ...
    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

  • Music/City

    American Festivals and Placemaking in Austin, Nashville, and Newport

    de Jonathan R. Wynn ...
    Austin's famed South by Southwest is far more than a festival celebrating indie music. It's also a big networking party that sparks the imagination of hip, creative types and galvanizes countless pilgrimages to the city. Festivals like SXSW are a lot of fun, but for city halls, media corporations, cultural institutions, and community groups, they're also a vital part of a complex growth strategy. ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Urban Encounters

    Affirmative Action and Black Identities in Brazil

    de A. Cicalo ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Winner of the Latin American Studies Association Brazil Section Book Awards. Utilizing an ethnographic study of a public university and its users, Cicalo analyzes the practical and symbolic potential that affirmative action has to redress historically-produced and territorialized inequalities in the urban space. ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

  • Behind the Gates

    Life, Security, and the Pursuit of Happiness in Fortress America

    de Setha Low ...
    In the last twenty years, thousands upon thousands of the upper and middle classes have retreated into gated communities. In 2002 it is estimated that one in eight Americans will live in these exclusive neighborhoods. What has sparked this alarming trend?Behind the Gates is Low's revealing account of what life is like inside these suburban fortresses. After years researching and interviewing ... Leer más

    $73.99 USD

  • Transitions to Early Care and Education

    International Perspectives on Making Schools Ready for Young Children

    Edición de DeAnna M. Laverick, Mary Renck Jalongo ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    Transitions to new educational experiences are a universal rite of passage encountered by children worldwide. This volume in the Educating the Young Child: Advances in Theory and Research, Implications for Practice series provides early childhood educators with a resource that focuses on the transitions that young children make to early care and education settings, along with the issues that ... Leer más

    $89.99 USD

  • Reinventing the Curriculum

    New Trends in Curriculum Policy and Practice

    Edición de Dr Mark Priestley, Professor Gert Biesta ...
    Scotland's Curriculum for Excellence offers an example of a different approach to national curriculum development. It combines what are claimed to be the best features of top-down and bottom-up approaches to curriculum development, and provides an indication of the broad qualities that school education should promote rather than a detailed description of curriculum content. Advocates of the ... Leer más

    $42.99 USD

  • Creating Citizenship Communities

    Education, Young People and the Role of Schools

    de I. Davies, V. Sundaram, G. Hampden-Thompson, M. Tsouroufli, G. Bramley, T. Breslin, T. Thorpe ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    On the basis of a national research project undertaken in England, this volume explores how and why young people's engagement is so important globally in education and society, and looks at what teachers and students think about citizenship and community. The authors make recommendations to enhance understanding and the potential for engagement. ... Leer más

    $89.99 USD