Books from Paradigm Pub
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Making a Difference: Developing Meaningful Careers in Education
By Karen Hunter QuartzWritten for teachers and other educational professionals, this book dispels this simple dichotomy by representing the range of responses and career pathways that enable educators to make a difference.
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Rethinking Contemporary Social Theory
By Black Hawk Hancock, Roberta Garner, Grace BudrysTextbook which introduces students to a new, comprehensive understanding of sociological theory.
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Rethinking Contemporary Social Theory
By Black Hawk Hancock, Roberta Garner, Grace BudrysTextbook which introduces students to a new, comprehensive understanding of sociological theory.
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Observational Skills for Effective Teaching: Research-Based Practice
By Gary D. BorichThoroughly updated for the new era of Common Core Standards, this seventh edition is vital in this time of educational change.
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Leadership Matters: Unleashing the Power of Paradox
By Michael A. Genovese, Thomas E. CroninBoth context and agency matter. The best of leaders learn to read contexts, anticipate challenges and disruptions, and employ smart power. This book sets leaders on that path-to unleash the power of paradox.
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Families in Context
By Gene H. StarbuckThis updated edition brings the study of the family into the era of Barack Obama. A hallmark of Families in Context remains the well-researched, data-driven nature of the text.
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The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters: C. L. Dellums and the Fight for Fair Treatment and Civil Rights
By Robert Allen"'C.L. Dellums: International President of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters Union and Civil Rights Leader' (interview by Joyce A. Henderson, Regional Oral History Office, Bancrot Library, University of California, 1973) cited in the ...
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Terminate Terrorism: Framing, Gaming, and Negotiating Conflicts
By Karen A. Feste"This is the product of extraordiarily deep and thorough research, framed in a penetrating use of salient concepts, to provide a path-breaking understanding of the terrorist challenge for both analysts and practitioners.
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Strengthening Governance Globally: Forecasting the Next 50 Years
By Barry B. Hughes, Devin K. Joshi, Timothy D. SiskStrengthening Governance Globally is the fifth volume in a series entitled Patterns of Potential Human Progress that explores prospects for human development and the improvement of the global human condition.
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The Teacher's Toolkit
By Brad OlsenThe Teacher's Toolkit does just that. Using powerful tools of inquiry, narrative, critical reflection, and analysis, these books help new and experienced teachers to achieve balance and perspective in their professional and personal lives.
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Beyond Critique: Exploring Critical Social Theories and Education
By Bradley A. LevinsonThis book introduces educational practitioners, students, and scholars to the people, concepts, questions, and concerns that make up the field of critical social theory.
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Conflict Sociology: A Sociological Classic Updated
By Stephen K. Sanderson, Randall CollinsThis new edition is a substantial update and abridgement of the original book. Sanderson has retained the core chapters on stratification; deference and demeanor; state, economy, and ideology; and wealth and social mobility.
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Collective Violence, Contentious Politics, and Social Change: A Charles Tilly Reader
By Ernesto Castañeda, Cathy Lisa SchneiderThis book belongs in the classroom and in the library of social scientists, political analysts, cultural critics, and activists.
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On the Presidency: Teacher, Soldier, Shaman, Pol
By Thomas E. CroninCandidates always have the flaws associated with being human. Noted presidential scholar Thomas E. Cronin helps us consider these realities with clarity and .
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Beyond Boundaries: The Manning Marable Reader
By Manning MarableA collection of writings by the notable author, political activist, and Columbia University professor is divided into six sections covering race and racialization, black protest in the 1970s and 1980s, black protest from the 1990s to the ...
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W.E.B. Du Bois: Black Radical Democrat
By Manning MarableBlack Radical Democrat Manning Marable. of Race in American Life (Basic Books, 2003); Freedom on My Mind: The Columbia Documentary History of the African American Experience (general editor, Columbia University Press, 2003); Freedom ...
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The Beautiful Risk of Education
By Gert J. J. Biesta"This is a book about what many teachers know but are increasingly being prevented from talking about: that real education always involves a risk.
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Save the Humans?: Common Preservation in Action
By Jeremy BrecherToday our individual self-interest depends on what the author calls common preservation--cooperation to provide for mutual well-being.
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Vibrations: The Adventures and Musical Times of David Amram
By David AmramTells the story of David Amram's adventures growing up on a farm in Pennsylvania, working odd jobs, misfitting in the Army, barnstorming through Europe with the famous Seventh Army Symphony, exiling in Paris, scuffling on the Lower East ...
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The "miracle Worker" and the Transcendentalist: Annie Sullivan, Franklin Sanborn, and the Education of Helen Keller
By David WagnerAnnie Sullivan taught the blind and deaf Helen Keller, and the philanthropist Franklin Sanborn saved Sullivan from the poorhouse. This is their story.