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“clair berube”

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  • STEM and the City

    A Report on STEM Education in the Great American Urban Public School System

    by Clair Berube, SueAnne McKinney ...
    STEM and the City (second edition) is a book that takes the topics of the first edition and brings them into a post-Covid educational world. Urban public schools are under attack, and the American culture wars are re-emerging and finding their way back into public school curriculum. The authors remain true to their original premise: that American public schools are the greatest vehicle for ... Read more

    $39.39 USD

  • The Investments

    An American Conspiracy

    by Clair Berube ...
    This book examines American societal structures and institutions, beginning and ending with public education, and exposes how dysfunction and the investment in this dysfunction is an actual political agenda. The Investments focuses on the capitalization, privatization and dismantling of public education, and how other social systems such as for-profit prisons, healthcare (or the lack thereof), ... Read more

    $39.39 USD

  • The X Factor; Personality Traits of Exceptional Science Teachers

    Edited by Clair Berube ...
    American science education is in trouble. As the United States continues to lag behind other nations in science achievement, the question is asked: how can we better get our students excited and inspired by science? This is the science teacher’s duty. The irony of the education profession is that some of the most important aspects of it are the hardest to measure and replicate. The things that ... Read more

    $39.39 USD

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  • Connected

    The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives

    by Nicholas A. Christakis, MD, PhD, James H. Fowler, PhD ...
    Celebrated scientists Nicholas Christakis and James Fowler explain the amazing power of social networks and our profound influence on one another's lives.Your colleague's husband's sister can make you fat, even if you don't know her. A happy neighbor has more impact on your happiness than a happy spouse. These startling revelations of how much we truly influence one another are revealed in the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • A Theory of Everyone

    The New Science of Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We’re Going

    by Michael Muthukrishna ...
    **Get a science-based introduction to cultural and human evolution—and discover a blueprint for a better future—in this fascinating book for fans of Sapiens and Guns, Germs, and Steel.Who are we, and what makes us different from other species?**Playing on the phrase “a theory of everything” from physics, Michael Muthukrishna’s ambitious, original, and deeply hopeful book A Theory of Everyone draws ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Mind of the Market

    How Biology and Psychology Shape Our Economic Lives

    by Michael Shermer ...
    Bestselling author Michael Shermer explains how evolution shaped the modern economy—and why people are so irrational about moneyHow did we make the leap from ancient hunter-gatherers to modern consumers and traders? Why do people get so emotional and irrational about bottom-line financial and business decisions? Is the capitalist marketplace a sort of Darwinian organism, evolved through natural ... Read more

    $18.79 USD

  • How Culture Shapes the Climate Change Debate

    by Andrew J. Hoffman ...
    Though the scientific community largely agrees that climate change is underway, debates about this issue remain fiercely polarized. These conversations have become a rhetorical contest, one where opposing sides try to achieve victory through playing on fear, distrust, and intolerance. At its heart, this split no longer concerns carbon dioxide, greenhouse gases, or climate modeling; rather, it is ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • The Way Out

    How to Overcome Toxic Polarization

    by Peter T. Coleman ...
    The partisan divide in the United States has widened to a chasm. Legislators vote along party lines and rarely cross the aisle. Political polarization is personal, too—and it is making us miserable. Surveys show that Americans have become more fearful and hateful of supporters of the opposing political party and imagine that they hold much more extreme views than they actually do. We have cordoned ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

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  • The Age of Resilience

    Reimagining Existence on a Rewilding Earth

    by Jeremy Rifkin ...
    A sweeping new interpretation of the history of civilization and a transformative vision of how our species will thrive on an unpredictable Earth.The viruses keep coming, the climate is warming, and the Earth is rewilding. Our human family has no playbook to address the mayhem unfolding around us. If there is a change to reckon with, argues the renowned economic and social theorist Jeremy Rifkin, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Aid on the Edge of Chaos

    Rethinking International Cooperation in a Complex World

    by Ben Ramalingam ...
    It is widely recognised that the foreign aid system - which today involves every country in the world - is in need of drastic change. But there are conflicting opinions as to what is needed. Some call for dramatic increases in resources, to meet long-overdue commitments, and to scale up what is already being done around the world. Others point to the flaws in aid, and bang the drum for cutting it ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Somebody Should Do Something

    How Anyone Can Help Create Social Change

    by Michael Brownstein, Daniel Kelly, Alex Madva ...
    A novel and scientific approach to creating transformative social change—and the surprising ways that each of us can help make a real difference.Changing the world is difficult. One reason is that the most important problems, like climate change, racism, and poverty, are structural. They emerge from our collective practices: laws, economies, history, culture, norms, and built environments. The ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • The Test

    Why Our Schools are Obsessed with Standardized Testing–But You Don't Have to Be

    by Anya Kamenetz ...
    "[The anti-testing] movement now has a guidebook. . . . Kamenetz shows how fundamentally American it would be to move toward a more holistic system." -- New York Times Book ReviewThe Test is an essential and critically acclaimed book for any parent confounded by our national obsession with standardized testing. It recounts the shocking history and tempestuous politics of testing and borrows ... Read more

    $11.99 USD