Peter Stern: 8 books

The importance of the South in the development of the United States has always been clear, but in recent decades the rise of the sunbelt-politically, economically, and culturally-has made the significance of the region's history all the more apparent. In The Human Tradition in the Old South, Professor...

Why Conservatives Should Stop Opposing the Common Core (Common Core: Yea) by Sol Stern In the past few decades – as progressives gained influence in universities and schools of education – the idea of a coherent, content-rich curriculum has been erased from America’s classrooms. Now, for...

Jugendliche sind mit diversen biologischen, psychologischen und sozialen Veränderungen konfrontiert - in einer Lebensphase, in der maßgeblich die Weichen für den weiteren Lebensweg gestellt werden. Dieses Buch stellt den aktuellen Forschungsstand zum Jugendalter in verständlicher Weise vor und...

The Politically Correct University shows how the universities' quest for 'diversity' has produced in too many departments a stifling uniformity of thought. Required reading for those who want American universities to eschew political correctness." — Michael Barone, resident fellow, American Enterprise Institute

In this volume of essays, scholars of the interdisciplinary field of law and literature write about the role of emotion in English law and legal theory in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The law’s claims to reason provided a growing citizenry that was beginning to establish its...

At a time when biological psychiatry claims that drugs and electroshock are the best methods for helping deeply disturbed persons, mental health professionals need to be reminded that psychological and social approaches to mental illnesses remain more effective, less harmful, and much more able to...

Development economics is about understanding how and why lives change. How Lives Change: Palanpur, India, and Development Economics studies a single village in a crucially important country to illuminate the drivers of these changes, why some people do better or worse than others, and what influences...

Para el año 2000, las dictaduras que gobernaron los países del Cono Sur de América Latina -Argentina, Uruguay y Chile- en las décadas de 1970 y 1980 ya habían desaparecido. La democracia parecía consolidada, aunque aún hubiera de pasar por duras pruebas en la siguiente década. Este libro se...