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  • Anti-Intellectualism in American Life

    Winner of the 1964 Pulitzer Prize in NonfictionAnti-Intellectualism in American Life is a book which throws light on many features of the American character. Its concern is not merely to portray the scorners of intellect in American life, but to say something about what the intellectual is, and can be, as a force in a democratic society."As Mr. Hofstadter unfolds the fascinating story, it is no ... Read more

    $13.99 USD $7.99 USD

  • Historia de Bali: Una guía fascinante sobre la historia de Bali y el impacto que esta isla ha tenido en la historia de Indonesia y del sudeste asiático

    Descubra la magia de la isla indonesia de Bali en este fascinante libro sobre su historia, desde los orígenes de la formación geológica de Bali hasta los tiempos modernos.Bali es conocida como "la Isla de los Dioses", con sus decenas de miles de templos y santuarios que se remontan a más de un milenio de los exóticos imperios indios de Java que influyeron enormemente en Bali. Aunque fue testigo de ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • College

    What it Was, Is, and Should Be

    As the commercialization of American higher education accelerates, more and more students are coming to college with the narrow aim of obtaining a preprofessional credential. The traditional four-year college experience--an exploratory time for students to discover their passions and test ideas and values with the help of teachers and peers--is in danger of becoming a thing of the past. In College ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • School, Society, and State

    A New Education to Govern Modern America, 1890-1940

    “Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife,” wrote John Dewey in his classic work The School and Society. In School, Society, and State, Tracy Steffes places that idea at the center of her exploration of the connections between public school reform in the early twentieth century and American political development from 1890 to 1940.American public schooling, ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Too Hot to Handle

    A Global History of Sex Education

    The first comprehensive history of sex education around the worldToo Hot to Handle is the first truly international history of sex education. As Jonathan Zimmerman shows, the controversial subject began in the West and spread steadily around the world over the past century. As people crossed borders, however, they joined hands to block sex education from most of their classrooms. Examining key ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • 1620

    A Critical Response to the 1619 Project

    by Peter W. Wood ...
    When and where was America founded? Was it in Virginia in 1619, when a pirate ship landed a group of captive Africans at Jamestown? So asserted the New York Times in August 2019 when it announced its 1619 Project. The Times set out to transform history by tracing American institutions, culture, and prosperity to that pirate ship and the exploitation of African Americans that followed. A ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Kingfish U

    Huey Long and LSU

    by Robert Mann ...
    No political leader is more closely identified with Louisiana State University than the flamboyant governor and U.S. senator Huey P. Long, who devoted his last years to turning a small, undistinguished state school into an academic and football powerhouse. From 1931, when Long declared himself the “official thief” for LSU, to his death in 1935, the school’s budget mushroomed, its physical plant ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Divided We Fail

    The Story of an African American Community That Ended the Era of School Desegregation

    by Sarah Garland ...
    Examines why school desegregation, despite its success in closing the achievement gap, was never embraced wholeheartedly in the black community as a remedy for racial inequalityIn 2007, a court case originally filed in Louisville, Kentucky, was argued before the Supreme Court and officially ended the era of school desegregation— both changing how schools across America handle race and undermining ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Education Trap

    Schools and the Remaking of Inequality in Boston

    Why—contrary to much expert and popular opinion—more education may not be the answer to skyrocketing inequality.For generations, Americans have looked to education as the solution to economic disadvantage. Yet, although more people are earning degrees, the gap between rich and poor is widening. Cristina Groeger delves into the history of this seeming contradiction, explaining how education came to ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Zionism Vs. the West

    How Talmudic Ideology Is Undermining Western Culture

    A person can be brought into bondage in two different ways: by force or by his own will. Force is a crude way of bringing a person into submission, but using the persons own free will can be done sophistically and covertly. Under the banner of democracy and freedom, America has been under the bondage of what E. Michael Jones has aptly called sexual liberation and political control for over fifty ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Creature From the Bridgewater Triangle: and other Odd Tales from New England.

    by Bill Russo ...
    Bill Russo's riveting story, as seen on National Television on 'Monsters and Mysteries in America', and on 'America's Bermuda Triangle'; as well as in the award winning documentary film, 'The Bridgewater Triangle'. Bill Russo's story, as seen on National Television on 'Monsters and Mysteries in America', and on 'America's Bermuda Triangle'; as well as in the award winning documentary film, 'The ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Reclaiming the Multicultural Roots of U.S. Curriculum

    Communities of Color and Official Knowledge in Education

    Series series Multicultural Education Series
    Within curriculum studies, a “master narrative” has developed into a canon that is predominantly White, male, and associated with institutions of higher education. This canon has systematically neglected communities of color, all of which were engaged in their own critical conversations about the type of education that would best benefit their children. Building upon earlier work that reviewed ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Colonial America History for Kids : What Was It Like to Travel in the Mayflower? | Children's History Books

    The Mayflower was the great ship that brought the Pilgrims to a new land. It was big but there were a lot of people on board so there was hardly enough room for everyone. You don't encounter the same problem when you're traveling on ships these days. But for some time, can you image what it must have been like to travel in the Mayflower? ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • American Education

    A History

    American Education: A History, Sixth Edition is a comprehensive, highly regarded history of American education from precolonial times to the present. Chronologically organized, it provides an objective overview of each major period in the development of American education, setting the discussion against the broader backdrop of national and world events. In addition to its in-depth exploration of ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Lewis and Clark For Dummies

    The Lewis and Clark expedition was the greatest camping trip in history. It was one of those irresistible American adventures that many people dream of living. This book shares the delightful details of the journey that historians have gleaned from the group’s journals and maps, and also discusses what’s known of the Indian perspective of the expedition.Throughout the book, you find out about ... Read more

    $12.00 USD

  • Napoleon For Dummies

    Explains his influence on the military, law, politics, and religionGet the real story of Napoleon BonaparteNot sure what's true about Napoleon? This easy-to-follow guide gets past the stereotypes and introduces you to this extraordinary man's beginnings, accomplishments, and famous romances. It traces Napoleon's rise from Corsican military cadet to Emperor of the French, chronicles his military ... Read more

    $14.99 USD $13.00 USD

  • Beyond Education

    Radical Studying for Another World

    by Eli Meyerhoff ...
    A bold call to deromanticize education and reframe universities as terrains of struggle between alternative modes of studying and world-makingHigher education is at an impasse. Black Lives Matter and #MeToo show that racism and sexism remain pervasive on campus, while student and faculty movements fight to reverse increased tuition, student debt, corporatization, and adjunctification. Commentators ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Teaching Subject, A

    Composition Since 1966, New Edition

    by Joseph Harris ...
    In this classic text, Joseph Harris traces the evolution of college writing instruction since the Dartmouth Seminar of 1966. A Teaching Subject offers a brilliant interpretive history of the first decades during which writing studies came to be imagined as a discipline separable from its partners in English studies. Postscripts to each chapter in this new edition bring the history of composition ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Lies My Teacher Told Me

    Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong

    "Every teacher, every student of history, every citizen should read this book. It is both a refreshing antidote to what has passed for history in our educational system and a one-volume education in itself."—Howard ZinnA new edition of the national bestseller and American Book Award winner, with a new preface by the authorSince its first publication in 1995, Lies My Teacher Told Me has become one ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Teacher Wars

    A History of America's Most Embattled Profession

    In her groundbreaking history of 175 years of American education, Dana Goldstein finds answers in the past to the controversies that plague our public schools today.Teaching is a wildly contentious profession in America, one attacked and admired in equal measure. In The Teacher Wars, a rich, lively, and unprecedented history of public school teaching, Dana Goldstein reveals that teachers have been ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Illustrated, Inline Footnotes)

    Oakshot Press

    Series series Oakshot Press Classics
    Each play Illustrated with Illustrations unique to this release, over 350 Illustrations in total.Biography and literary critique includes annotated inline footnotes.The Plays.The Comedies of William Shakespeare.All's Well That Ends Well. (Illustrated)As You Like It. (Illustrated)Comedy of Errors. (Illustrated)Cymbeline. (Illustrated)Love's Labour's Lost. (Illustrated)Mea... ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • El 68. Los estudiantes, el presidente y la CIA

    Sergio Aguayo participó en el Movimiento del 68. Empezó a investigarlo en 1995 y este es su tercer libro sobre el tema. Es el más completo porque, apoyándose en archivos de diferentes países, construye un relato convincente sobre los hechos. El relato cubre un hueco: el papel desempeñado por los extranjeros, y en especial la CIA, cuyo jefe en México, Winston Scott, tuvo una gran influencia en las ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Train Go Sorry

    Inside a Deaf World

    A “remarkable and insightful” look inside a New York City school for the deaf, blending memoir and history (The New York Times Book Review).Leah Hager Cohen is part of the hearing world, but grew up among the deaf community. Her Russian-born grandfather had been deaf—a fact hidden by his parents as they took him through Ellis Island—and her father served as superintendent at the Lexington School ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ebony and Ivy

    Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities

    A groundbreaking exploration of the intertwined histories of slavery, racism, and higher education in America, from a leading African American historian.A 2006 report commissioned by Brown University revealed that institution's complex and contested involvement in slavery--setting off a controversy that leapt from the ivory tower to make headlines across the country. But Brown's troubling past was ... Read more

    $13.99 USD