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  • The Society That Learns

    Constructionism and Lifelong Learning in Thailand

    by Paulo Blikstein, Deborah A. Fields ...
    How Thai farmers, teachers, and workers created new approaches to lifelong learning through constructionism—and transformed communities across the country as a result.The educational philosophy of constructionism holds that learning works best when it comes from creating things in the world and generating change on a personal, community, and even societal level. In The Society That Learns, Paulo ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

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  • Russia's Long Twentieth Century

    Voices, Memories, Contested Perspectives

    by Choi Chatterjee, Deborah A. Field, Lisa A. Kirschenbaum ...
    Covering the sweep of Russian history from empire to Soviet Union to post-Soviet state, this new edition of Russia's Long Twentieth Century is an accessible textbook that encourages students to start a lively conversation with Russia’s storied past.Chronologically organized, the book moves beyond the traditional Cold War framework, situating Russian history within world history. It covers topics ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Connected Play

    Tweens in a Virtual World

    by Yasmin B. Kafai, Deborah A. Fields ...
    Series series The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning
    How kids play in virtual worlds, how it matters for their offline lives, and what this means for designing educational opportunities.Millions of children visit virtual worlds every day. In such virtual play spaces as Habbo Hotel, Toontown, and Whyville, kids chat with friends from school, meet new people, construct avatars, and earn and spend virtual currency. In Connected Play, Yasmin Kafai and ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

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  • The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569�1999

    by Timothy Snyder ...
    Modern nationalism in northeastern Europe has often led to violence and then reconciliation between nations with bloody pasts. In this fascinating book, Timothy Snyder traces the emergence of Polish, Ukrainian, Lithuanian, and Belarusian nationhood over four centuries, discusses various atrocities (including the first account of the massive Ukrainian-Polish ethnic cleansings of the 1940s), and ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • Now You See It

    How Technology and Brain Science Will Transform Schools and Business for the 21st Century

    by Cathy N. Davidson ...
    A digital innovator shows how we can thrive in the new technological age.When Cathy Davidson and Duke University gave free iPods to the freshman class in 2003, critics said they were wasting their money. Yet when students in practically every discipline invented academic uses for their music players, suddenly the idea could be seen in a new light-as an innovative way to turn learning on its head ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Rise and Fall of Communism

    by Archie Brown ...
    "A work of considerable delicacy and nuance….Brown has crafted a readable and judicious account of Communist history…that is both controversial and commonsensical."—Salon.com"Ranging wisely and lucidly across the decades and around the world, this is a splendid book."—William Taubman, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Khrushchev: The Man and His EraThe Rise and Fall of Communism is the definitive ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • It's Complicated

    The Social Lives of Networked Teens

    by Danah Boyd ...
    A youth and technology expert offers original research on teens' use of social media, the myths frightening adults, and how young people form communities.What is new about how teenagers communicate through services like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram? Do social media affect the quality of teens' lives? In this book, youth culture and technology expert Danah Boyd uncovers some of the major myths ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Uncivil Society

    1989 and the Implosion of the Communist Establishment

    by Stephen Kotkin, Jan Gross ...
    Series Book 32 - Modern Library Chronicles
    Twenty years ago, the Berlin Wall fell. In one of modern history’s most miraculous occurrences, communism imploded–and not with a bang, but with a whimper. Now two of the foremost scholars of East European and Soviet affairs, Stephen Kotkin and Jan T. Gross, drawing upon two decades of reflection, revisit this crash. In a crisp, concise, unsentimental narrative, they employ three case studies–East ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • The Digital Divide

    Arguments for and Against Facebook, Google, Texting, and the Age of Social Networking

    by Mark Bauerlein ...
    This definitive work on the perils and promise of the social- media revolution collects writings by today's best thinkers and cultural commentators, with an all-new introduction by Bauerlein.Twitter, Facebook, e-publishing, blogs, distance-learning and other social media raise some of the most divisive cultural questions of our time. Some see the technological breakthroughs we live with as hopeful ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Everyday Stalinism:Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s

    Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s

    by Sheila Fitzpatrick ...
    Here is a pioneering account of everyday life under Stalin, written by one of our foremost authorities on modern Russian history. Focusing on urban areas in the 1930s, Sheila Fitzpatrick shows that with the adoption of collectivization and the first Five-Year Plan, everyday life was utterly transformed. With the abolition of the market, shortages of food, clothing, and all kinds of consumer goods ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Russian Revolution

    by Sheila Fitzpatrick ...
    The Russian Revolution had a decisive impact on the history of the twentieth century. In the years following the collapse of the Soviet regime and the opening of its archives, it has become possible to step back and see the full picture. Starting with an overview of the roots of the revolution, Fitzpatrick takes the story from 1917, through Stalin's 'revolution from above', to the great purges of ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

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  • The Fuzzy and the Techie

    Why the Liberal Arts Will Rule the Digital World

    by Scott Hartley ...
    "Artfully explains why it is time for us to get over the false division between the human and the technical."—Tim Brown, CEO of IDEO and author of Change by DesignScott Hartley first heard the terms fuzzy and techie while studying political science at Stanford University. If you majored in humanities or social sciences, you were a fuzzy. If you majored in computer or hard sciences, you were a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus