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Education and Equality
ISBN: PB: 9780226566344, ISBN: HB: 9780226373102, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
160 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 line drawing, 3 tables
American education as we know it today – guaranteed by the state to serve every child in the country – is still less than a hundred years old. It's no wonder we haven't agreed yet as to exactly what role education should play in our society. In these...
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Unsettled Belonging Educating Palestinian American Youth after 9/11
ISBN: PB: 9780226289465, ISBN: HB: 9780226289328, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones
"Unsettled Belonging" tells the stories of young Palestinian Americans as they navigate and construct lives as American citizens. Following these youth throughout their school days, Thea Abu El-Haj examines citizenship as lived experience, dependent...
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£72,00
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Manufacturing Morals The Values of Silence in Business School Education
ISBN: PB: 9780226323510, ISBN: HB: 9780226092478, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones, 1 line drawing, 2 tables
Corporate accountability is never far from the front page, and as one of the world's most elite business schools, Harvard Business School trains many of the future leaders of Fortune 500 companies. But how does HBS formally and informally ensure facu...
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Aspiring Adults Adrift Tentative Transitions of College Graduates
ISBN: PB: 9780226197289, ISBN: HB: 9780226191157, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones, 19 line drawings, 18 tables
Few books have ever made their presence felt on college campuses – and newspaper opinion pages – as quickly and thoroughly as Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa's 2011 landmark study of undergraduates' learning, socialization, and study habits, Academical...
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History of Gallaudet University 150 Years of a Deaf American Institution
ISBN: HB: 9781563685958, Gallaudet University Press, June 2014
208 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 25 illus., 225 photos
On April 8, 1864, President Abraham Lincoln and the United States Congress put into effect legislation authorizing the granting of collegiate degrees by the Columbia Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind. At this moment,...
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Student's Guide to Law School What Counts, What Helps, and What Matters
ISBN: PB: 9780226067056, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
216 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Law school can be a joyous, soul-transforming challenge that leads to a rewarding career. It can also be an exhausting, self-limiting trap. It all depends on making smart decisions. When every advantage counts, "A Student's Guide to Law School" is li...
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Promiscuous "Portnoy's Complaint" and Our Doomed Pursuit of Happiness
ISBN: PB: 9780300192414, ISBN: HB: 9780300151909, Yale University Press, April 2013
240 pp., 21x14 cm
The publication of "Portnoy's Complaint" in 1969 provoked instant, powerful reactions. It blasted Philip Roth into international fame, subjected him to unrelenting personal scrutiny and conjecture, and shocked legions of readers – some delighted, oth...
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Gendered Paradoxes Educating Jordanian Women in Nation, Faith, and Progress
ISBN: PB: 9780226006918, ISBN: HB: 9780226006901, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
240 pp., 23x15 cm
In 2005 the World Bank released a gender assessment of the nation of Jordan, a country that, like many in the Middle East, has undergone dramatic social and gender transformations, in part by encouraging equal access to education for men and women. T...
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Education, Justice, and Democracy
ISBN: PB: 9780226012766, ISBN: HB: 9780226012629, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
368 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 tables, 6 line illus.
Education is a contested topic, and not just politically. For years scholars have approached it from two different points of view: one empirical, focused on explanations for student and school success and failure, and the other philosophical, focused...
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£78,00
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Academically Adrift Limited Learning on College Campuses
ISBN: PB: 9780226028569, ISBN: HB: 9780226028552, University of Chicago Press, January 2011
272 pp., 22.6x15 cm, 20 tables, 20 line illus.
In spite of soaring tuition costs, more and more students go to college every year. A bachelor's degree is now required for entry into a growing number of professions. And some parents begin planning for the expense of sending their kids to college w...
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