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Intersections eBook Series

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  • The Bully Society

    School Shootings and the Crisis of Bullying in America’s Schools

    by Jessie Klein ...
    Series Book 6 - Intersections
    Choice's Outstanding Academic Title list for 2013Through interviews and case studies, Klein develops an explanation for bully behavior in America's schoolsIn today’s schools, kids bullying kids is not an occasional occurrence but rather an everyday reality where children learn early that being sensitive, respectful, and kind earns them no respect. Jessie Klein makes the provocative argument that ... Read more

    €22.79

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  • Our Kids

    The American Dream in Crisis

    A New York Times bestseller and “a passionate, urgent” (The New Yorker) examination of the growing inequality gap from the bestselling author of Bowling Alone: why fewer Americans today have the opportunity for upward mobility.Central to the very idea of America is the principle that we are a nation of opportunity. But over the last quarter century we have seen a disturbing “opportunity gap” ... Read more

    €10.51

  • The Macho Paradox

    Why Some Men Hurt Women and and How All Men Can Help

    by Sourcebooks ...
    Praise for The Macho Paradox"An honest, intellectually rigorous and insightful work that challenges readers to truly engage in a political discourse that can change lives, communities and nations."--Rosalind Wiseman, author of Queen Bees and Wannabes"Jackson Katz is an American hero! With integrity and courage, he has taken his message--that the epidemic of violence against women is a men's issue- ... Read more

    €13.49

  • Is Marriage for White People?

    How the African American Marriage Decline Affects Everyone

    A distinguished Stanford law professor examines the steep decline in marriage rates among the African American middle class, and offers a paradoxical-nearly incendiary-solution.Black women are three times as likely as white women to never marry.That sobering statistic reflects a broader reality: African Americans are the most unmarried people in our nation, and contrary to public perception the ... Read more

    €7.59

  • What Works for Women at Work

    Four Patterns Working Women Need to Know

    A mother-daughter legal scholar team "offers unabashedly straightforward advice in a how-to primer for ambitious women . . . [A]ttention-grabbing revelations" (Debora L. Spar, The New York Times Book Review)What Works for Women at Work is a comprehensive and insightful guide for mastering office politics as a woman. Authored by Joan C. Williams, one of the nation's most-cited experts on women and ... Read more

    €14.39 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • "Multiplication Is for White People"

    Raising Expectations for Other Peoples Children

    by Lisa Delpit ...
    From the MacArthur Award–winning education reformer and author of the bestselling Other People's Children, a long-awaited new book on how to fix the persistent black/white achievement gap in America's public schoolsAs MacArthur Award–winning educator Lisa Delpit reminds us—and as all research shows—there is no achievement gap at birth. In her long-awaited second book, Delpit presents a striking ... Read more

    €12.09 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Why Boys Fail

    Saving Our Sons from an Educational System That's Leaving Them Behind

    This book takes a hard look at how this ominous reality came to be, how it has worsened in recent years, and why attempts to resolve it often devolve into finger-pointing and polarizing politics.The signs and statistics are undeniable: boys are falling behind in school. Contrary to conventional wisdom, the biggest culprits are not video games, pop culture, or female-dominated schools biased toward ... Read more

    €13.59 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Punished

    Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys

    Series Book 7 - New Perspectives in Crime, Deviance, and Law
    Honorable Mention, 2014 Eduardo Bonilla-Silva Outstanding Book Award presented by the Society for the Study of Social Problems2012 Best Book Award, Latino/a Sociology Section, presented by the American Sociological Association2012 Finalist, C. Wright Mills Book Award presented by the Study of Social ProblemsA classic ethnography that reveals how urban police criminalize black and Latino boysVictor ... Read more

    €22.79

  • Pushout

    The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools

    The “powerful” (Michelle Alexander) exploration of the harsh and harmful experiences confronting Black girls in schools, and how we can instead orient schools toward their flourishingOn the day fifteen-year-old Diamond from the Bay Area stopped going to school, she was expelled for lashing out at peers who constantly harassed and teased her for something everyone on the staff had missed: she was ... Read more

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  • Rampage

    The Social Roots of School Shootings

    In the last decade, school shootings have decimated communities and terrified parents, teachers, and children in even the most "family friendly" American towns and suburbs. These tragedies appear to be the spontaneous acts of troubled, disconnected teens, but this important book argues that the roots of violence are deeply entwined in the communities themselves. Rampage challenges the "loner ... Read more

    €11.99

  • Are We Born Racist?

    New Insights from Neuroscience and Positive Psychology

    Where do our prejudices come from? Why are some people more biased than others? Is it possible for individuals, and society as a whole, to truly defeat prejudice? In these pages, leading scientists, psychologists, educators, activists, and many others offer answers, drawing from new scientific discoveries that shed light on why and how our brains form prejudices, how racism hurts our health, steps ... Read more

    €10.79

  • Emerging Adulthood

    The Winding Road from the Late Teens through the Twenties

    Recently the lives of people from age 18 to 29 have changed so dramatically that a new stage of life has developed, emerging adulthood, that is distinct from both the adolescence that precedes it and the young adulthood that comes in its wake. Rather than marrying and becoming parents in their early twenties, most people in industrialized societies now postpone these transitions until at least ... Read more

    €6.89