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  • Fixing the Foundation

    Teachers and Basic Education in East Asia and Pacific

    by Rythia Afkar, Tara Beteille, Mary Breeding, Toby Linden, Andrew Mason, Aaditya Mattoo, Tobias Pfutze, Lars Sondergaard, Noah Yarrow ...
    Series series World Bank East Asia and Pacific Regional Report
    Countries in East Asia and the Pacific were already experiencing a learning crisis when the COVID-19 pandemic made things worse. This report examines key factors affecting learning outcomes in the region, including teaching, the use of educational technologies (EdTech), and public spending on education. ... Read more

    $39.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Getting the Right Teachers into the Right Schools

    Managing India's Teacher Workforce

    by Vimala Ramachandran, Tara Béteille, Toby Linden, Sangeeta Dey, Sangeeta Goyal, Prerna Goel Chatterjee ...
    Series series World Bank Studies
    India's landmark Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act (2009) guarantees education to all children aged 6-14 years. The Act mandates specific student-teacher ratios and emphasizes teacher quality. Writing this into legislation took seven years, but the seven years since has proven that ensuring effective teachers are recruited and placed in all schools in a time-bound manner is ... Read more

    $34.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ethics of Consumption

    The Good Life, Justice, and Global Stewardship

    by Luis A. Camacho, Colin H. Campbell, David A. Crocker, Eleonora Curlo, Herman E. Daly, Eliezer Diamond, Robert Goodland, Allen L. Hammond, Nathan Keyfitz, Robert E. Lane0, Judith Lichtenberg1, David Luban2, James A. Nash3, Martha C. Nussbaum4, ThomasW Pogge5, Mark Sagoff6, Juliet B. Schor7, Michael Schudson8, Jerome M. Segal9, Amartya Sen0, Alan Strudler1, Paul L. Wachtel2, Paul E. Waggoner3, David Wasserman4, Charles K. Wilber5 ...
    Series series Philosophy and the Global Context
    Scholars in diverse fields now agree on the importance of investigating the impact of consumption practices on the global environment, quality of life, and international justice. In this comprehensive collection of essays, most of which appear for the first time, eminent scholars from many disciplines-philosophy, economics, sociology, political science, demography, theology, history, and social ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

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    An Overview of Global Child Protection Programs and Policy

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  • A Dictionary of Disaster Management

    by Olivier Rubin, Rasmus Dahlberg ...
    Series series Oxford Quick Reference Online
    A Dictionary of Disaster Management offers over 200 terms covering different disasters from a social science perspective, brining together insights from many different disciplines including sociology, political science, history, anthropology, and natural science. It also features practical terms, key concepts in disaster research, and important organizations involved in disaster management. Terms ... Read more

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  • The Gardens of Democracy

    A New American Story of Citizenship, the Economy, and the Role of Government

    by Eric Liu, Nick Hanauer ...
    American democracy is informed by the 18th century’s most cutting edge thinking on society, economics, and government. We’ve learned some things in the intervening 230 years about self interest, social behaviors, and how the world works. Now, authors Eric Liu and Nick Hanauer argue that some fundamental assumptions about citizenship, society, economics, and government need updating. For many years ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Myth of the Rational Voter

    Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies - New Edition

    by Bryan Caplan ...
    The greatest obstacle to sound economic policy is not entrenched special interests or rampant lobbying, but the popular misconceptions, irrational beliefs, and personal biases held by ordinary voters. This is economist Bryan Caplan's sobering assessment in this provocative and eye-opening book. Caplan argues that voters continually elect politicians who either share their biases or else pretend to ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Changing The Trajectory : Education And Training For Youth In Democratic Republic Of Congo

    by Bashir Sajitha ...
    This study analyzes the current educational attainment and school enrollment status of youth, as well as the formal and informal post-secondary educational and training opportunities available to them. The study uses the results of a simulation model that incorporates enrollment in alternative education programs and considers alternative scenarios for developing the post-primary sector. Each ... Read more

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  • Tools for Conviviality

    by Ivan Illich ...
    A work of seminal importance, this book presents Ivan Illich's penetrating analysis of the industrial mode of production which characterises our contemporary world. The conviviality for which noted social philosopher Ivan Illich is arguing is one in which the individual's personal energies are under direct personal control and in which the use of tools is responsibly limited. This book claims out ... Read more

    $14.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Enduring Work

    Experiences with Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker Program

    by Catherine E. Connelly ...
    If you believed most of what’s said about the Canadian Temporary Foreign Worker program, you might naturally assume that there is a trade-off between workers’ poor experiences with the program and employers’ significant benefits. In reality, the experiences of workers are far worse than is commonly acknowledged, while employers are not reaping as much benefit as the public might suppose.In ... Read more

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  • The Soulful Science

    What Economists Really Do and Why It Matters - Revised Edition

    by Diane Coyle ...
    For many, Thomas Carlyle's put-down of economics as "the dismal science" rings true--especially in the aftermath of the crash of 2008. But Diane Coyle argues that economics today is more soulful than dismal, a more practical and human science than ever before. The Soulful Science describes the remarkable creative renaissance in economics, how economic thinking is being applied to the paradoxes of ... Read more

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  • How Culture Shapes the Climate Change Debate

    by Andrew J. Hoffman ...
    Though the scientific community largely agrees that climate change is underway, debates about this issue remain fiercely polarized. These conversations have become a rhetorical contest, one where opposing sides try to achieve victory through playing on fear, distrust, and intolerance. At its heart, this split no longer concerns carbon dioxide, greenhouse gases, or climate modeling; rather, it is ... Read more

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