Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “bryan r warnick”
Skip side bar filters

  • Spare the Rod

    Punishment and the Moral Community of Schools

    by Campbell F. Scribner, Bryan R. Warnick ...
    Spare the Rod traces the history of discipline in schools and its ever increasing integration with prison and policing, ultimately arguing for an approach to discipline that aligns with the moral community that schools could and should be.In Spare the Rod, historian Campbell F. Scribner and philosopher Bryan R. Warnick investigate the history and philosophy of America's punishment and discipline ... Read more

    $18.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Walter Feinberg's Democratic Vision

    Classic Writings on Public Education

    by Walter Feinberg ...
    Series series SUNY series, Horizons in the Philosophy of Education
    Collects Walter Feinberg's classic writings on the meaning of democracy for public education.For over fifty years, Walter Feinberg has been a leader in interpreting democracy in and its meaning for public education. In this collection, Feinberg explores the question of how to study education, the necessary role of history and philosophy in this endeavor, and the need for educational theorists to ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Understanding Student Rights in Schools

    by Bryan R. Warnick ...
    What rights should students expect to exercise in public schools? Should bible study meetings be allowed during free periods? Should students be allowed to wear t-shirts that exhort taking drugs or committing violent acts? Should students be required to participate in drug testing? In this concisely argued book, Bryan Warnick examines how student rights in three areas—free speech, privacy, and ... Read more

    $44.09 USD

  • The Relevance of Higher Education

    Exploring a Contested Notion

    by Stephen Clements, Michael Schwartz, Jason R. Jividen, Michael Wayne Hail, Jon M. Fennell, Mark Jonas, James Scott Johnston, Bryan R. Warnick, Lee Trepanier, Wayne Willis, Bradley C.S. Watson, Wilfred M. McClay ...
    Most statements today about higher education begin with the assumption that it should be relevant. That it should be relevant, however, does not settle the matter. The significance of relevance depends on the power of something else that is more fundamental. Relevance may be a true standard of judgment, but it does not stand by itself. Assuming higher education should be relevant, the question ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

People who read these also enjoyed

  • Justice and the Politics of Difference

    by Iris Marion Young ...
    In this classic work of feminist political thought, Iris Marion Young challenges the prevailing reduction of social justice to distributive justice. It critically analyzes basic concepts underlying most theories of justice, including impartiality, formal equality, and the unitary moral subjectivity. The starting point for her critique is the experience and concerns of the new social movements ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Political Philosophy

    A Beginners' Guide for Students and Politicians

    by Adam Swift ...
    Politicians invoke grand ideas: social justice, democracy, liberty, equality, community. But what do these ideas really mean? How can politicians across the political spectrum appeal to the same values?This new edition of Adam Swift's highly readable introduction to political philosophy answers these important questions, and includes new material on global justice, feminism, and method in ... Read more

    $26.00 USD

  • The Age of Responsibility

    by Yascha Mounk ...
    Yascha Mounk shows why a focus on personal responsibility is wrong and counterproductive: it distracts us from the larger economic forces determining aggregate outcomes, ignores what we owe fellow citizens regardless of their choices, and blinds us to key values such as the desire to live in a society of equals. In this book he proposes a remedy. ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • On Human Rights

    by James Griffin ...
    What is a human right? How can we tell whether a proposed human right really is one? How do we establish the content of particular human rights, and how do we resolve conflicts between them? These are pressing questions for philosophers, political theorists, jurisprudents, international lawyers, and activists. James Griffin offers answers in his compelling new investigation of the foundations of ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

  • Understanding Thomas Sowell

    by Richard Patterson ...
    Thomas Sowell is the Rose and Milton Friedman Senior Fellow at The Hoover Institution. He studied economics at Harvard, Columbia, and the University of Chicago and has taught at Cornell, UCLA, Brandeis, and Amherst. He has published over 45 books and written countless articles and op-ed pieces. Paul Johnson has described him as "the most original and interesting philosopher at work in America." In ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Oxford Handbook of Political Theory

    by John S Dryzek, Bonnie Honig, Anne Phillips ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Long recognized as one of the main branches of political science, political theory has in recent years burgeoned in many different directions. Close textual analysis of historical texts sits alongside more analytical work on the nature and normative grounds of political values. Continental and post-modern influences jostle with ones from economics, history, sociology, and the law. Feminist ... Read more

    $48.59 USD

  • Contemporary Sociological Theory

    Edited by Craig Calhoun, Joseph Gerteis, James Moody, Steven Pfaff, Indermohan Virk ...
    The new edition of the definitive undergraduate guide to contemporary sociological theory, with updated reading selections throughoutThe fourth edition of Contemporary Sociological Theory offers a thorough introduction to current perspectives and approaches in sociology and social science. Covering a broad range of essential topics, this comprehensive volume provides students with the foundation ... Read more

    $42.00 USD

  • A Larger Sense of Purpose

    Higher Education and Society

    by Harold T. Shapiro ...
    Series series The William G. Bowen Series
    Universities were once largely insular institutions whose purview extended no further than the campus gates. Not anymore. Today's universities have evolved into multifaceted organizations with complex connections to government, business, and the community. This thought-provoking book by Harold Shapiro, former president of both Princeton University and the University of Michigan, and Chairman of ... Read more

    $39.99 USD