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Permanent Crisis The Humanities in a Disenchanted Age
ISBN: HB: 9780226738062, University of Chicago Press, May 2021
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The humanities, considered by many as irrelevant for modern careers and hopelessly devoid of funding, seem to be in a perpetual state of crisis, at the mercy of modernizing and technological forces that are driving universities towards academic pursu...
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£28,00
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Digital Divisions How Schools Create Inequality in the Tech Era
ISBN: PB: 9780226726694, ISBN: HB: 9780226726557, University of Chicago Press, August 2020
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 6 tables
In the digital age, schools are a central part of a nationwide effort to make access to technology more equitable, so that all young people, regardless of identity or background, have the opportunity to engage with the technologies that are essential...
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£18,00
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£68,00
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Safe Enough Spaces A Pragmatist's Approach to Inclusion, Free Speech, and Political Correctness on College Campuses
ISBN: HB: 9780300234855, Yale University Press, October 2019
160 pp., 21x14 cm
n this bracing book, Michael S. Roth stakes out a pragmatist path through the thicket of issues facing colleges today to carry out the mission of higher education. With great empathy, candor, subtlety, and insight, Roth offers a sane approach to the...
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£18,99
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Next Generation of Research in Interpreter Education Pursuing Evidence-Based Practices
ISBN: HB: 9781944838331, Gallaudet University Press, September 2019
144 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
This collection contributes to an emerging body of research in sign language interpreter education, a field in which research on teaching practices has been rare. "The Next Generation of Research in Interpreter Education" investigates learning experi...
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£48,00
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Human Targets Schools, Police, and the Criminalization of Latino Youth
ISBN: PB: 9780226090993, ISBN: HB: 9780226090856, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
224 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 12 halftones, 12 line drawings
At fifteen, Victor Rios found himself a human target – flat on his ass amid a hail of shotgun fire, desperate for money and a place on the street. Faced with the choice of escalating a drug turf war or eking out a living elsewhere, he turned to a tea...
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£15,00
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£45,00
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Beyond the University Why Liberal Education Matters
ISBN: PB: 9780300212662, Yale University Press, July 2015
232 pp., 21x14 cm
Contentious debates over the benefits – or drawbacks – of a liberal education are as old as America itself. From Benjamin Franklin to the Internet pundits, critics of higher education have attacked its irrelevance and elitism – often calling for more...
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£10,99
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Learning American Sign Language in High School Motivation, Strategies, and Achievement
ISBN: HB: 9781563686429, Gallaudet University Press, June 2015
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 36 tables
Reflecting the exponential growth of college courses offering American Sign Language (ASL) as a foreign language, high schools have followed suit with significant increases in ASL classes during the past two decades. Despite this trend, high school A...
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£41,50
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Educating in the Divine Image Gender Issues in Orthodox Jewish Day Schools
ISBN: PB: 9781611684582, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, October 2013
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Although recent scholarship has examined gender issues in Judaism with regard to texts, rituals, and the rabbinate, there has been no full-length examination of the education of Jewish children in day schools. Drawing on studies in education, social...
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£32,00
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Listen. Write. Present. The Elements for Communicating Science and Technology
ISBN: PB: 9780300176278, Yale University Press, February 2012
192 pp., 21x14 cm
Even the best ideas have little value if they are not explained clearly, concisely, and convincingly to others. Scientists, engineers, health care professionals, and technology specialists become leaders in their fields not just by way of discovery,...
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£21,00
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People Who Spell The Last Students from the Mexican National School for the Deaf
ISBN: HB: 9781563685057, Gallaudet University Press, November 2011
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 photos
The Escuela Nacional para Sordomudos (ENS), translated as the Mexican National School for the Deaf, opened its doors in the 1860s as part of the republic s intention to educate its deaf people. The ENS did not use Lengua de Senas Mexicana (LSM), Mexi...
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£48,00
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