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“david hursh”

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    The Story of the Parents’ Grassroots Movement to Achieve Whole-Child Public Schools

    by David Hursh, Jeanette Deutermann, Lisa Rudley, Zhe Chen, Sarah McGinnis ...
    A 2020 AESA Critics' Choice Book Award winnerThe rise of high-stakes testing in New York and across the nation has narrowed and simplified what is taught, while becoming central to the effort to privatize public schools. However, it and similar reform efforts have met resistance, with New York as the exemplar for how to repel standardized testing and invasive data collection, such as inBloom... ... Read more

    $23.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Good Medicine and Good Music

    A Biography of Mrs. Joe Person, Patent Remedy Entrepreneur and Musician, Including the Complete Text of Her 1903 Autobiography

    by David Hursh, Chris Goertzen ...
    Alice Morgan Person (1840-1913) was a colorful North Carolinian. Born wealthy and married well, she fell into hardship after the Civil War but remarkably overcame it by marketing her own patent medicine and playing and sharing her arrangements of folk tunes. Presented here is her previously unpublished autobiography as well as a detailed account of her life based on new research and first-hand ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Resisting Neoliberalism in Education

    Local, National and Transnational Perspectives

    by Carlos Vargas-Tamez, Lesley Hagger-Vaughan, Emily Winchip, Alison Milner, Howard Stevenson, Pamela Osmond, Keiko Yasukawa, Pia Cort, Anne Larson, Francesca Rapanà0, Marcella Milana1, Fergal Finnegan2, Jo Bates3, Katherine Quinn4, Annmarie Sheahan5, Mia Angelica Sosa-Provencio6, Shawn Secatero7, Shiv Desai8, Bob Lingard9, Zhe Chen0, David Hursh1, Christine Hall2, Pat Thomson3, Elisabeth Davies4, Rachel Heydon5, Lori Mckee6, Lyn Tett7, Rob Smith9, Gwyneth Allatt0, Vicky Duckworth1, Virginie Thériault2 ...
    Neoliberalism has been widely criticised because of its role in prioritising ‘free markets’ as the optimum way of solving problems and organising society. In the field of education, this leads to an emphasis on the knowledge economy that can reduce both persons and education to economic actors and be detrimental to wider social and ethical goals.Drawing on a range of international contexts across ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • Neoliberalism and Environmental Education

    Edited by Joseph Henderson, David Hursh, David Greenwood ...
    This timely book situates environmental education within and against neoliberalism, the dominant economic, political, and cultural ideology impacting both education and the environment. Proponents of neoliberalism imagine and enact a world where the primary role of the state is to promote capital markets, and where citizens are defined as autonomous entrepreneurs who are to fulfill their needs via ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

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    by Harold Schechter ...
    The heinous bloodlust of Dr. H.H. Holmes is notorious -- but only Harold Schechter's Depraved tells the complete story of the killer whose evil acts of torture and murder flourished within miles of the Chicago World's Fair. "Destined to be a true crime classic" (Flint Journal, MI), this authoritative account chronicles the methods and madness of a monster who slipped easily into a bright, affluent ... Read more

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  • The Lonely Hearts of Yesterday: Love & Mischief in 19th Century Personal Ads

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    Personal advertisements have been around as long as newspapers themselves. If you're curious about what a "matrimonial ad" from the 1800s looked like, this is your book. Read it aloud and marvel at missives like:"Gentleman, 38, height 5 ft., 9 in., weight 170, black hair, brown eyes, fair complexion, wishes to meet lady, 35 to 38, refined, normal weight, good looking, good teeth, not tired of ... Read more

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  • An Insatiable Thirst for Murder

    Serial Killer Henry Holmes - AMERICA’S FIRST DOCUMENTED SERIAL KILLER

    by Ben Hammott, Bill Wilkinson ...
    If you hear him lock the door, you are already dead!This book contains the shocking dramatization of real events carried out by the serial killer, Henry Howard Holmes.*"An atmospheric dramatization of a true crime mystery using source documents and the investigations carried out by detective Frank Geyer to portray a believable and disturbing account of the heinous murders and crimes of the serial ... Read more

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  • Diary of H. L. Mencken

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    H. L. Mencken's diary was, at his own request, kept sealed in the vaults of Baltimore's Enoch Pratt Library for a quarter of a century after his death. The diary covers the years 1930 -- 1948, and provides a vivid, unvarnished, sometimes shocking picture of Mencken himself, his world, and his friends and antagonists, from Theodore Dreiser, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sinclair Lewis, and William Faulkner ... Read more

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  • Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 6 (1907-1910)

    by Mark Twain, Albert Bigelow Paine ...
    pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. ... Read more

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