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  • Globalization and America

    Race, Human Rights, and Inequality

    by Cynthia Bejarano, David Embrick, Mary Hovsepian, Linda Lopez, Alberto Moncada, Mercedes Rubio, Rogelio Saenz, Jerome Scott, Ruth Thompson-Miller, Amy E. Ansell, Judith R. Blau, Karen M. Douglas, Joe R. Feagin, M Cristina Morales, Douglas A. Parker, Pat Rubio Goldsmith, James M. Thomas, Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, David L. Brunsma, Tanya Maria Golash-Boza, Walda Katz-Fishman, Mary Romero ...
    Series series Perspectives on a Multiracial America
    As globalization expands, more than goods and information are traded between the countries of the world. Hattery, Embrick, and Smith present a collection of essays that explore the ways in which issues of human rights and social inequality are shared globally. The editors focus on the United States' role in contributing to human rights violations both inside and outside its borders. Essays on ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • The Power of Sociology

    Grasping Our Unequal World

    by Gudmundur Oddsson, Jenny Stuber, James M. Thomas ...
    Explore the world of sociology through a defining feature of all societies: power.The Power of Sociology: Grasping Our Unequal World introduces students to sociology through the discipline’s primary concern: the causes and consequences of social inequality, and at its core, power. The central organizing principle of social life, power is relevant to every reader and fundamental to all major sub ... Read more

    $100.79 USD

  • The Souls of Jewish Folk

    W. E. B. Du Bois, Anti-Semitism, and the Color Line

    by James M. Thomas ...
    Series series Sociology of Race and Ethnicity
    The Souls of Jewish Folk argues that late nineteenth-century Germany’s struggle with its “Jewish question”—what to do with Germany’s Jews—served as an important and to-date underexamined influence on W.E.B. Du Bois’s considerations of America’s anti-Black racism at the turn of the twentieth century. Du Bois is well known for his characterization of the twentieth century’s greatest challenge, “the ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • Working to Laugh

    Assembling Difference in American Stand-Up Comedy Venues

    by James M. Thomas ...
    For decades, stand-up comedy has been central to the imbrication of popular culture and political discourse, reshaping the margins of political critique, and often within the contexts of urban nightlife entertainment. In Working to Laugh: Assembling Difference in American Stand-Up Comedy Venues, James M. Thomas (JT) provides an ethnographic analysis of urban nightlife sites where this popular form ... Read more

    $93.19 USD

  • Diversity Regimes

    Why Talk Is Not Enough to Fix Racial Inequality at Universities

    by James M. Thomas ...
    Series series The American Campus
    2021 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleAs a major, public flagship university in the American South, so-called “Diversity University” has struggled to define its commitments to diversity and inclusion, and to put those commitments into practice. In Diversity Regimes, sociologist James M. Thomas draws on more than two years of ethnographic fieldwork at DU to illustrate the conflicts and ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Affective Labour

    (Dis) assembling Distance and Difference

    by James M. Thomas, Jennifer G. Correa ...
    Affective Labour explores four distinct landscapes in order to demonstrate how collective feelings are organized by social actors in order to both reproduce and contest hegemony. Utilizing a variety of methods, including participant observation, in-depth interviews across field sites, and content analysis of mass media, Correa and Thomas demonstrate the centrality of affective labor in enabling ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • How to Use Value-Added Analysis to Improve Student Learning

    A Field Guide for School and District Leaders

    by Kate Kennedy, Mary Peters, James M. Thomas ...
    A step-by-step guide to transforming student learning with value-added analysisValue-added analysis is the most robust, statistically significant method available for helping educators quantify student progress over time. This powerful tool also reveals tangible strategies for improving instruction. Built around the work of Battelle for Kids, this bookprovides a field-tested continuous improvement ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

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    Do you have what it takes to succeed in your career?The secret of success is not what they taught you in school. What matters most is not IQ, not a business school degree, not even technical know-how or years of expertise. The single most important factor in job performance and advancement is emotional intelligence. Emotional intelligence is actually a set of skills that anyone can acquire, and in ... Read more

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  • Primal Leadership, With a New Preface by the Authors

    Unleashing the Power of Emotional Intelligence

    by Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis, Annie McKee ...
    This is the book that established emotional intelligence” in the business lexicon-and made it a necessary skill for leaders.Managers and professionals across the globe have embraced Primal Leadership, affirming the importance of emotionally intelligent leadership. Its influence has also reached well beyond the business world: the book and its ideas are now used routinely in universities, business ... Read more

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  • How to Be a Positive Leader

    Small Actions, Big Impact

    Edited by Jane E. Dutton, Gretchen M. Spreitzer ...
    Positive leaders are able to dramatically expand their people's—and their own—capacity for excellence. And they accomplish this without enormous expenditures or huge heroic gestures. Here leading scholars—including Adam Grant, author of the bestselling Give and Take; positive organizational scholarship movement cofounders Kim Cameron and Robert Quinn; and thirteen more—describe how this is being ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

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  • Cultures Built to Last

    Systemic PLCs at Work™

    by Richard DuFour, Michael Fullan ...
    Take your professional learning community to the next level! Discover a systemwide approach for re-envisioning your PLC while sustaining growth and continuing momentum on your journey. You’ll move beyond isolated pockets of excellence while allowing every person in your school system—from teachers and administrators to students—the opportunity to be an instrument of lasting cultural change. ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • The School Leader's Guide to Professional Learning Communities at Work TM

    by Richard DuFour, Rebecca DuFour ...
    Series series Essentials for Principals
    Are you a K–8 principal ready to implement the PLC at Work™ process? Two experienced practitioners show you how to explore the critical components needed to lay the foundation of a PLC, including how to develop a structure that supports collaborative teams, how to focus on effective monitoring strategies, how to reflect on your communication effectiveness, and more. ... Read more

    $17.29 USD