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Desperately Seeking Certainty
The Misguided Quest for Constitutional Foundations
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
Irreverent, provocative, and engaging, Desperately Seeking Certainty attacks the current legal vogue for grand unified theories of constitutional interpretation. On both the Right and the Left, prominent legal scholars are attempting to build all of constitutional law from a single foundational idea....
High-Stakes Schooling
What We Can Learn from Japan's Experiences with Testing, Accountability, and Education Reform
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
If there is one thing that describes the trajectory of American education, it is this: more high-stakes testing. In the United States, the debates surrounding this trajectory can be so fierce that it feels like we are in uncharted waters. As Christopher Bjork reminds us in this study, however, we...
What About Mozart? What About Murder?
Reasoning From Cases
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2014
In 1963, Howard S. Becker gave a lecture about deviance, challenging the then-conventional definition that deviance was inherently criminal and abnormal and arguing that instead, deviance was better understood as a function of labeling. At the end of his lecture, a distinguished colleague standing...
by Howard S. Becker
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2015
OG Kush. Sour Diesel. Wax, shatter, and vapes. Marijuana has come a long way since its seedy days in the back parking lots of our culture. So has Howard S. Becker, the eminent sociologist, jazz musician, expert on “deviant” culture, and founding NORML board member. When he published Becoming a...
Streetwise
Race, Class, and Change in an Urban Community
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2013
In a powerful, revealing portrait of city life, Anderson explores the dilemma of both blacks and whites, the underclass and the middle class, caught up in the new struggle not only for common ground—prime real estate in a racially changing neighborhood—but for shared moral community. Blacks and...
Making the Unequal Metropolis
School Desegregation and Its Limits
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
In a radically unequal United States, schools are often key sites in which injustice grows. Ansley T. Erickson’s Making the Unequal Metropolis presents a broad, detailed, and damning argument about the inextricable interrelatedness of school policies and the persistence of metropolitan-scale inequality....
Unsettled Belonging
Educating Palestinian American Youth after 9/11
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2015
Unsettled Belonging tells the stories of young Palestinian Americans as they navigate and construct lives as American citizens. Following these youth throughout their school days, Thea Abu El-Haj examines citizenship as lived experience, dependent on various social, cultural, and political memberships....
by Gretchen Soderlund
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
In Sex Trafficking, Scandal, and the Transformation of Journalism, Gretchen Soderlund offers a new way to understand sensationalism in both newspapers and reform movements. By tracing the history of high-profile print exposés on sex trafficking by journalists like William T. Stead and George Kibbe...
Uncivil Rights
Teachers, Unions, and Race in the Battle for School Equity
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
Almost fifty years after Brown v. Board of Education, a wealth of research shows that minority students continue to receive an unequal education. At the heart of this inequality is a complex and often conflicted relationship between teachers and civil rights activists, examined fully for the first...
by Daniel Boyarin
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2009
What kind of literature is the Talmud? To answer this question, Daniel Boyarin looks to an unlikely source: the dialogues of Plato. In these ancient texts he finds similarities, both in their combination of various genres and topics and in their dialogic structure. But Boyarin goes beyond these structural...
Maimonides and Spinoza
Their Conflicting Views of Human Nature
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2012
Until the last century, it was generally agreed that Maimonides was a great defender of Judaism, and Spinoza—as an Enlightenment advocate for secularization—among its key opponents. However, a new scholarly consensus has recently emerged that the teachings of the two philosophers were in fact...
by Leo Strauss
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2013
The essays collected in Persecution and the Art of Writing all deal with one problem—the relation between philosophy and politics. Here, Strauss sets forth the thesis that many philosophers, especially political philosophers, have reacted to the threat of persecution by disguising their most controversial and heterodox ideas.
Maimonides' "Guide of the Perplexed"
A Philosophical Guide
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
A classic of medieval Jewish philosophy, Maimonides’s Guide of the Perplexed is as influential as it is difficult and demanding. Not only does the work contain contrary—even contradictory—statements, but Maimonides deliberately wrote in a guarded and dissembling manner in order to convey different...
Orchid
A Cultural History
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2016
At once delicate, exotic, and elegant, orchids are beloved for their singular, instantly recognizable beauty. Found in nearly every climate, the many species of orchid have carried symbolic weight in countless cultures over time. The ancient Greeks associated them with fertility and thought that...