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  • Schooling the Symbolic Animal

    Social and Cultural Dimensions of Education

    by Bradley A. U. Levinson, Margaret Eisenhart, Keith Basso, Gregory Bateson, Caroline Bledsoe, Yehudi Cohen0, R. W. Connel et al1, Emile Durkheim2, Donna Eder3, Julianna Flinn4, Signithia Fordham5, Clifford Geertz6, Jules Henry7, Dorothy Holland8, Margaret Mead9, Hugh Mehan0, Jan Nespor1, John Ogbu2, Sherry Ortner3, Deborah Reed-Danahay4, Laura Rival5, Margaret Sutton6, Carlos Velez-Ibáñez7, James B.Greenberg8, Howard S. Becker9, Dr. Shirley Brice Heath0, Raymond Williams1 ...
    This anthology introduces some of the most influential literature shaping our understanding of the social and cultural foundations of education today. Together the selections provide students a range of approaches for interpreting and designing educational experiences worthy of the multicultural societies of our present and future. The reprinted selections are contextualized in new interpretive ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Igbo in the Atlantic World

    African Origins and Diasporic Destinations

    by Audra A. Diptee, John K. Thornton, Kenneth Morgan, A.E. Afigbo, Gloria Chuku, Nwando Achebe, Hannah N. Eby Chukwu, Gendolyn Midlo Hall, Paul E. Lovejoy, Douglas B. Chambers, Chima J. Korieh, Vincent Carretta, Maureen Warner-Lewis, Robert W. Nicholls, Waibinte Elekima Wariboko, Sylvester Okwunodu Ogbechie, Ogbu U. Kalu ...
    The Igbo are one of the most populous ethnic groups in Nigeria and are perhaps best known and celebrated in the work of Chinua Achebe. In this landmark collection on Igbo society and arts, Toyin Falola and Raphael Chijioke Njoku have compiled a detailed and innovative examination of the Igbo experience in Africa and in the diaspora. Focusing on institutions and cultural practices, the volume ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Black American Students in An Affluent Suburb

    A Study of Academic Disengagement

    by John U. Ogbu ...
    Series series Sociocultural, Political, and Historical Studies in Education
    John Ogbu has studied minority education from a comparative perspective for over 30 years. The study reported in this book--jointly sponsored by the community and the school district in Shaker Heights, Ohio--focuses on the academic performance of Black American students. Not only do these students perform less well than White students at every social class level, but also less well than immigrant ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • A Selection of Satirical and Licentious Verse of John Wilmot 2nd Earl of Rochester

    by John Wilmot 2nd Earl of Rochester, Neil Azevedo ...
    Series Book 7 - The Reader's Library
    A thoroughly representative selection of the poetry of John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester. Rochester (1647–1680) was among the worst (best?) of the Restoration rakes, and also one of the period’s best satirists employing a direct language rife with plenty of four-letter words and an obsessive indulgence of the most vulgar vernacular used on behalf of satirical shredding, scatological humor, and ... Read more

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    CASE OF THE MISSING TOOTH A Martino Family History, THE: From Italian Roots to Connecticut Legacy

    by Michael Ditter ...
    Narrated by Digital Voice Narrator E, Digital Voice John Martino Sr E, Digital Voice John Ditter E, Digital Voice Narrator 2 E, Digital Voice Rick Martino E ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 53 min

    This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Embark on a sweeping journey through time and tradition in this meticulously crafted family saga. The Case of the Missing Tooth chronicles the remarkable odyssey of the Martino family, tracing their humble beginnings in the rugged landscapes of southern Italy to their enduring legacy in Connecticut. Blending rigorous historical research with evocative ... Read more

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  • Minority Status, Oppositional Culture, & Schooling

    Edited by John U. Ogbu ...
    Series series Sociocultural, Political, and Historical Studies in Education
    This book is the definitive and final presentation of John Ogbu’s cultural ecological model and the many debates that his work has sparked during the past decade. The theory and empirical foundation of Ogbu’s scholarship, which some have mistakenly reduced to the "acting white hypothesis," is fully presented and re-visited in this posthumous collection of his new writings plus the works of over 20 ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

  • Watt's Special Purpose

    by John Murphy ...
    This book was written to encourage children. So many children today judge themselves according to their peers or what they see on television. They struggle with who they are and often don't realize how important and special they are. This book I hope will help them learn for themselves the wonderful things they have to offer and help them become all that they can be. I also hope it will teach ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Syntactic Theory and First Language Acquisition

    Cross-linguistic Perspectives -- Volume 1: Heads, Projections, and Learnability -- Volume 2: Binding, Dependencies, and Learnability

    Edited by (Vol.1)Barbara Lust, Margarita Su¤er, John Whitman, (Vol.2)Barbara Lust, Gabriella Hermon ...
    Universal Grammar (UG) is a theory of both the fundamental principles for all possible languages and the language faculty in the "initial state" of the human organism. These two volumes approach the study of UG by joint, tightly linked studies of both linguistic theory and human competence for language acquisition. In particular, the volumes collect comparable studies across a number of different ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • In One Hour - The Imminent Future of America

    by New email [email protected] John Freemantle ...
    You are going to read one of the most important research studies of the 21st century. There will be events happening very soon that will change every single aspect of everyone's daily life forever, nationally as well as internationally. What we are going to encounter in America will transform the world as we know it. No event in world history ever had or will have a greater impact on society since ... Read more

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  • Collected Poems of William Wordsworth

    by William Wordsworth, Neil Azevedo ...
    Series Book 14 - The Reader's Library
    William Wordsworth, 1770 – 1850, was an English poet most commonly associated with being, along with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, one of the early figures of British romanticism. Their publication of the volume LYRICAL BALLADS in 1798 often serves as a marker of sorts for when that movement publicly began. As a young artist—already showing signs of being a gifted writer and thinker at St. John’s ... Read more

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