Freedom and Reform

Two forcibly segregated, separate sex and rurally isolated schools are inhabited by malevolent masters, petrified pupils, more-kindly matrons and a...

Reducere. The fifteen essays in this collection, first published in 1947, treat a variety of economic, social, political, and philosophical problems and were...

Reducere. Since its original publication in 1984, Manning Marable's Race, Reform, and Rebellion has become widely known as the most crucial political and soc...

Sara Trevelyan was independent, clever, and privileged. She was a qualified doctor who campaigned for penal reform. She fell in love with and in 19...

Reducere. "We Who Believe in Freedom: Activism and the Struggle for Social Justice" is an inspirational book that exposes readers to weighty topics such as p...

Reducere. "We Who Believe in Freedom: Activism and the Struggle for Social Justice" is an inspirational book that exposes readers to weighty topics such as p...

This book develops market democratic interpretations of the ideas of predistribution and the property-owning democracy, and presents a powerful cas...

This book presents the remarkable constitutional reforms undertaken by the Blair and Brown governments in the UK. The reforms are remarkable in tha...

Reducere. "Can schools do all the things we ask them to do? Are they the best means of doing it? What might be other or better ways?" asks John Holt while lo...

Over a career spanning American history from the 1880s to the 1950s, John Dewey sought not only to forge a persuasive argument for his conviction t...

DescriptionMost people in jail have not been convicted of a crime. Instead, they have been accused of a crime and cannot afford to post the bail am...

DescriptionDrawing on personal stories, research, and historical events, an esteemed educator offers a vision of educational justice inspired by th...

DescriptionDrawing on personal stories, research, and historical events, an esteemed educator offers a vision of educational justice inspired by th...

Reducere. A distinguished professor of law and philosophy at the University of Chicago, a prolific writer and award-winning thinker, Martha Nussbaum stands a...

Reducere. Japan boasts the second largest economy in the world and almost two thousand years of history. Yet, its first modern constitution, the Meiji Consti...

Reducere. Throughout his presidency, John F. Kennedy was passionate about the issue of immigration reform. He believed that America is a nation of people who...

DescriptionBianchi's wide-ranging book draws together insights from the social sciences, the humanities, and religion to establish a holistic frame...

In recent years, libertarian impulses have increasingly influenced national and economic debates, from welfare reform to efforts to curtail affirma...

Reducere. DescriptionLiberty's Prisoners examines how changing attitudes about work, freedom, property, and family shaped the creation of the penitentiary sy...

Reducere. In this thrilling narrative, the reader is introduced to Arnold Josiah Ford - giant of black music; legendary black Jewish Rabbi; stalwart of the M...

A young teen escapes to America from Mao's China in the early 60s and experiences the consequent culture shock of cruel racism, financial hardships...

Reducere. Award NameBenjamin Franklin AwardAward categoryFirst NonfictionDescriptionThis book is a four-generation family journey from repression and poverty...

Reducere. An informed, provocative, astute consideration of salvific alternatives to contemporary policing and imprisonment. -- Starred Review, Kirkus With d...

Reducere. In this powerful book we enter the world of Jurgis Rudkus, a young Lithuanian immigrant who arrives in America fired with dreams of wealth, freedom...

Reducere. A volume of Thomas Paine's most essential works, showcasing one of American history's most eloquent proponents of democracy. Upon publication, Thom...

Lucretia Coffin Mott was one of the most famous and controversial women in nineteenth-century America. Now overshadowed by abolitionists like Willi...

Reducere. A glimpse into the diverse stories of Black Jews in the United States What makes a Jew? This book traces the history of Jews of African descent in ...

Reducere. On October 24, 1929, America met the greatest economic devastation it had ever known. In this first installment of his Pulitzer Prize-winning Freed...

Reducere. This is the story of one man's journey from heroin addiction, crime, and prison to productive member of society, family man and community activist....

George Bourne was one of the early American republic's first immediate abolitionists, an influential figure who paved the way for the campaign agai...

Is the American public school doing what we want it to do? Or, is what we want it to do in conflict with what society allows it to do? This book ta...

Reducere. DescriptionGottfried Feder's The German State on a National and Socialist Foundation is one of a series of three books by the important German camp...

Three thirty-year-old friends reunite in Beijing after nearly 10 years apart. They used to be free-wheeling rock-and-rollers without a care in the ...

Reducere. The world needs more Christian daycares! In this book, Pastor Ellsworth McIntyre will show you how it is possible to build your Christian daycare a...

One man can shape the future...but at what cost? "In every revolution, there is one man with a vision." Captain James T. Kirk of the United Federat...

Reducere. "Luther is lyrical, even ecstatic, as he proclaims the benefits of justification by faith alone...The three treatises are short reads. It would not...