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“richard a quantz”

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  • Sociocultural Studies in Education

    Critical Thinking for Democracy

    by Richard A Quantz ...
    Sociocultural Studies in Education: Critical Thinking for Democracy fills a void in the education of educators and citizens in a democracy. It explores some of the fundamentals around which disagreements in education arise. It presents a process with which those new to these debates can understand often confusing and entwined sets of facts and logics. This book leads the reader through some ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

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  • The Republican Brain

    The Science of Why They Deny Science--and Reality

    by Chris Mooney ...
    Bestselling author Chris Mooney uses cutting-edge research to explain the psychology behind why today’s Republicans reject reality—it's just part of who they are.From climate change to evolution, the rejection of mainstream science among Republicans is growing, as is the denial of expert consensus on the economy, American history, foreign policy and much more. Why won't Republicans accept things ... Read more

    $20.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • America's Education Deficit and the War on Youth

    Reform Beyond Electoral Politics

    by Henry A. Giroux ...
    America’s latest war, according to renowned social critic Henry Giroux, is a war on youth. While this may seem counterintuitive in our youth-obsessed culture, Giroux lays bare the grim reality of how our educational, social, and economic institutions continually fail young people. Their systemic failure is the result of what Giroux identifies as “four fundamentalisms”: market deregulation, ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • White Bound

    Nationalists, Antiracists, and the Shared Meanings of Race

    by Matthew Hughey ...
    Discussions of race are inevitably fraught with tension, both in opinion and positioning. Too frequently, debates are framed as clear points of opposition—us versus them. And when considering white racial identity, a split between progressive movements and a neoconservative backlash is all too frequently assumed. Taken at face value, it would seem that whites are splintering into antagonistic ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Democracy and Other Neoliberal Fantasies

    Communicative Capitalism and Left Politics

    by Jodi Dean ...
    Democracy and Other Neoliberal Fantasies is an impassioned call for the realization of a progressive left politics in the United States. Through an assessment of the ideologies underlying contemporary political culture, Jodi Dean takes the left to task for its capitulations to conservatives and its failure to take responsibility for the extensive neoliberalization implemented during the Clinton ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • How to Do Things with International Law

    by Ian Hurd ...
    A provocative reassessment of the rule of law in world politicsConventionally understood as a set of limits on state behavior, the “rule of law” in world politics is widely assumed to serve as a progressive contribution to a just, stable, and predictable world. In How to Do Things with International Law, Ian Hurd challenges this received wisdom. Bringing the study of law and legality together with ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Why Democracies Need an Unlovable Press

    by Michael Schudson ...
    Journalism does not create democracy and democracy does not invent journalism, but what is the relationship between them? This question is at the heart of this book by world renowned sociologist and media scholar Michael Schudson.Focusing on the U.S. media but seeing them in a comparative context, Schudson brings his understanding of news as at once a story-telling and fact-centered practice to ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

  • The Myth of Left and Right

    How the Political Spectrum Misleads and Harms America

    by Verlan Lewis, Hyrum Lewis ...
    Series series STUDIES IN POSTWAR AMERICAN POLITCAL
    A groundbreaking argument that the political spectrum today is inadequate to twenty-first century America and a major source of the confusion and hostility that characterize contemporary political discourse. As American politics descends into a battle of anger and hostility between two groups called "left" and "right," people increasingly ask: What is the essential difference between these two ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Childhood in a Global Perspective

    by Karen Wells ...
    This popular book provides a compelling introduction to thinking about childhood in rigorous and critical ways. Karen Wells offers a unique global perspective on children’s lives, showing how the notion of childhood varies widely and is continuously being radically re-shaped.Taking children seriously as active participants in society, the book explores key social issues such as how children are ... Read more

    $23.00 USD

  • Political Ideologies and Political Parties in America

    by Hans Noel ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Public Opinion and Political Psychology
    Political Ideologies and Political Parties in America puts ideology front and center in the discussion of party coalition change. Treating ideology as neither a nuisance nor a given, the analysis describes the development of the modern liberal and conservative ideologies that form the basis of our modern political parties. Hans Noel shows that liberalism and conservatism emerged as important ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Ethics in intercultural and international Communication

    Edited by Fred L. Casmir ...
    Series series Routledge Communication Series
    There has been an increased interest in both intercultural and international communication, as well as ethical aspects of such interactions. In spite of this, there are no books which address this specific subject matter beyond limited surveys of different types or forms of ethics, or attempted comparisons between various ethical or value systems.This book intends to engage readers rather than ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Constructing Public Opinion

    How Political Elites Do What They Like and Why We Seem to Go Along with It

    by Justin Lewis ...
    Is polling a process that brings "science" into the study of society? Or are polls crude instruments that tell us little about the way people actually think? The role of public opinion polls in government and mass media has gained increasing importance with each new election or poll taken.Here Lewis presents a new look at an old tradition, the first study of opinion polls using an ... Read more

    $30.99 USD