Education Trap. Schools and the Remaking of Inequality in Boston, Hardback - Cristina Viviana Groeger

Education is thought to be the route out of poverty, but history disagrees. Cristina Groeger explores the Gilded Age origins of this idea and shows...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Forging Leninism in China re-examines the Chinese revolution by focusing on the transformation of the Chinese Communist Party between 1927 and 1932...

The first book to document the full range of entitlements granted to Cubans over other immigrants for more than half a century, highlighting the ra...

The true, behind-the-scenes history of the people who built Silicon Valley and shaped Big Tech in America Long before Margaret O'Mara became one of...

"In his highly influential 1996 book, Huntington offers a vision of a post-Cold War world in which conflict takes place not between competing ideol...

Reducere. Alice Echols reveals the ways in which disco transformed popular music, propelling it into new sonic territory and influencing rap, techno, and tra...

The classic study of post-Cold War international relations, now even more relevant in the post-September 11 world.

In this account of the Algerian War's effect on French political structures and notions of national identity, Todd Shepard asserts that the separat...

Its atmosphere - slow, dark, meditative, luminous - became all-pervasive for a generation, and has remained the epitome of melancholy coolness ever...

Reducere. The definitive account of the 1945 Potsdam Conference: the historic summit where Truman, Stalin, and Churchill met to determine the fate of post-Wo...

Reducere. Latinas/os and Asians are rewriting the meaning and history of race in the American South by complicating the black/white binary that has frequentl...

When and how did the Himalaya become the highest mountains in the world? Lachlan Fleetwood tells the story of the scientific, political and imagina...

Explaining the complexities of modern economics in a clear, accessible style, The Inequality Trap is the must-read rejoinder to the idea that fight...

Based on extensive research & interviews, highlights the many great players France has produced, analyses key events as the game emerged from the c...

The New Madrid earthquakes of 1811-12 were the strongest temblors in the North American interior in at least the past five centuries. From the Grea...

Reducere. A revealing look at the intersection of wealth, philanthropy, and conservation Billionaire Wilderness takes you inside the exclusive world of the u...

Daniel Barish explores debates surrounding the education of the final three Qing emperors, showing how imperial curricula became proxy battles for ...

Publisher: New York University PressAuthor(s): Daanika GordonNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 153 x 229 x 20Cover type: Paperb...

Reducere. A bold new interpretation of the First World War and the birth of the American Century In the depths of the Great War, with millions dead and no en...

Contributor(s): Author: James ChappelIn 1900 the Catholic Church stood staunchly against human rights, religious freedom, and the secular state. Ac...

Reducere. A Financial Times and The Economist Best Book of the Year and a New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceA SURPRISING, GRIPPING NARRATIVE DEPICTIN...

Millions of southerners left the South in the twentieth century in a mass migration that has, in many ways, rewoven the fabric of American society ...

An examination of shifting global power dynamics in climate change politics, and how this affects our ability to achieve equitable and sustainable ...

A groundbreaking, urgent report from the front lines of dirty work--the work that society considers essential but morally compromisedDrone pilots w...

Reducere. An in-depth look at how a team and a city were rebuilt around LeBron James . . .When the Cleveland Cavaliers drew the top pick in the 2003 NBA draf...

Using archival sources from three continents written in multiple languages, this book offers a new appreciation for the deep historicity of languag...

From the sidewalk to City Hall, in the corporate boardroom, and around the kitchen table, The Heart of Toronto traces the power dynamics and projec...

From the sidewalk to City Hall, in the corporate boardroom, and around the kitchen table, The Heart of Toronto traces the power dynamics and projec...

Reducere. This book examines how gender enables the globalization of markets and how emerging forms of service labor are changing women's social status in Ch...

Reducere. In the face of life-threatening news, how does our view of life change--and what do we do it transform it? Remaking a Life uses the HIV/AIDS epidem...

Reducere. In the face of life-threatening news, how does our view of life change--and what do we do it transform it? Remaking a Life uses the HIV/AIDS epidem...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Amanda E. LewisAuthor: John B. DiamondOn the surface, Riverview High School looks like the post-racial ideal. Serving an en...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Amanda E. LewisAuthor: John B. DiamondOn the surface, Riverview High School looks like the post-racial ideal. Serving an en...

Publisher: University of Illinois PressAuthor(s): Falina EnriquezIllustration(s): 11 black & white photographsNumber of pages: 280Publication date:...

A wealth of new research and thinking on Lawrence, the Arab Revolt, and World War One in the Middle East, providing essential background to today's...

Combining an intellectual history of social policy with a sweeping history of the educational system, Daniel S. Moak looks beyond the rise of neoli...

A look at the benefits and consequences of the rise of community-based organizations in urban development Who makes decisions that shape the housin...