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  • The Limits of Legitimacy

    Dissenting Opinions, Media Coverage, and Public Responses to Supreme Court Decisions

    by Michael Zilis ...
    When the U.S. Supreme Court announces a decision, reporters simplify and dramatize the complex legal issues by highlighting dissenting opinions and thus emphasizing conflict among the justices themselves. This often sensationalistic coverage fosters public controversy over specific rulings despite polls which show that Americans strongly believe in the Court’s legitimacy as an institution. In The ... Read more

    $36.69 USD

  • The Rights Paradox

    How Group Attitudes Shape US Supreme Court Legitimacy

    by Michael A. Zilis ...
    The US Supreme Court is the chief institution responsible for guarding minority rights and equality under the law, yet, in order to function authoritatively, the Court depends on a majority of Americans to accept its legitimacy and on policymakers to enforce its rulings. The Rights Paradox confronts this tension, offering a careful conceptualization and theory of judicial legitimacy that ... Read more

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  • Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management

    10th International Conference, KSEM 2017, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, August 19-20, 2017, Proceedings

    Edited by Gang Li, Yong Ge, Zili Zhang, Zhi Jin, Michael Blumenstein ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management, KSEM 2017, held in Melbourne, Australia, in August 2017.The 35 revised full papers and 12 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 134 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: text mining and document analysis; ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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  • The Imperative of Integration

    by Elizabeth Anderson ...
    A powerful new argument for reviving the ideal of racial integrationMore than forty years have passed since Congress, in response to the Civil Rights Movement, enacted sweeping antidiscrimination laws in the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Fair Housing Act of 1968. As a signal achievement of that legacy, in 2008, Americans elected their first African American ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • The Courts, the Charter, and the Schools

    The Impact of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms on Educational Policy and Practice, 1982-2007

    Edited by Michael Manley-Casimir, Kristen Manley-Casimir ...
    The adoption of the Canadian Constitution Act in 1982, with its embedded Charter of Rights and Freedoms, ushered in an era of unprecedented judicial influence on Canada's public policy. The Courts, the Charter, and the Schools examines how the Constitution Act has affected educational policy during the first twenty-five years of the Charter by analyzing landmark rulings handed down from appellate ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The Psychology of Diversity

    Beyond Prejudice and Racism

    by James M. Jones, John F. Dovidio, Deborah L. Vietze ...
    The Psychology of Diversity presents a captivating social-psychological study of diversity, the obstacles confronting it, and the benefits it provides.Goes beyond prejudice and discrimination to discuss the personal and social implications of diversity for both majority and minority group membersConsiders how historical, political, economic, and societal factors shape the way people think about ... Read more

    $99.00 USD

  • Controversy in the Classroom

    The Democratic Power of Discussion

    by Diana E. Hess ...
    Series series Critical Social Thought
    In a conservative educational climate that is dominated by policies like No Child Left Behind, one of the most serious effects has been for educators to worry about the politics of what they are teaching and how they are teaching it. As a result, many dedicated teachers choose to avoid controversial issues altogether in preference for "safe" knowledge and "safe" teaching practices. Diana Hess ... Read more

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  • Going to Extremes

    How Like Minds Unite and Divide

    by Cass R. Sunstein ...
    Why do people become extremists? What makes people become so dismissive of opposing views? Why is political and cultural polarization so pervasive in America? In Going to Extremes, renowned legal scholar and best-selling author Cass R. Sunstein offers startling insights into why and when people gravitate toward extremism. Sunstein marshals a wealth of evidence that shows that when like-minded ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • The Law and Society Reader II

    by Erik Larson, Patrick Schmidt ...
    Series series Washington Mews
    "A cornucopia of knowledge and insight on the biggest questions in the sociolegal tradition . . . an invaluable resource for researchers and teachers." —Michael McCann, Gordon Hirabayashi Professor for the Advancement of Citizenship, University of WashingtonLaw and society scholars challenge the common belief that law is simply a neutral tool by which society sets standards and resolves disputes. ... Read more

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  • Shattered Bonds

    The Color Of Child Welfare

    by Dorothy Roberts ...
    The story of foster care in the United States is the story of the failure of the social safety net to aid poor, largely black, parents in their attempt to make a home for their children.Shattered Bonds tells this story as no other book has before -- from the perspective of a prominent black, female legal theoretician. The current state of the child-welfare system in America is a well-known tragedy ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • White Logic, White Methods

    Racism and Methodology

    Edited by Tukufu Zuberi, Eduardo Bonilla-Silva ...
    In this collection of essays, the authors examine how racial considerations have affected the way social science is conducted; how issues are framed, and data is analyzed. With an assemblage of leading scholars, White Logic, White Methods explores the possibilities and necessary dethroning of current social research practices, and demands a complete overhaul of current methods, towards ... Read more

    $60.79 USD

  • An Introduction to Multicultural Education

    From Theory to Practice

    by Chinaka S. DomNwachukwu ...
    An Introduction to Multicultural Education provides a balance between the principles and practice of multicultural education in the K-12 classroom, presenting multicultural education as a learner-centered pedagogy. DomNwachukwu's book projects foundational principles and practices that make multicultural education relevant and appealing, while eliminating ideas and practices that produce negative ... Read more

    $64.79 USD