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The Ambitious Elementary School
Its Conception, Design, and Implications for Educational Equality
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
The challenge of overcoming educational inequality in the United States can sometimes appear overwhelming, and great controversy exists as to whether or not elementary schools are up to the task, whether they can ameliorate existing social inequalities and initiate opportunities for economic and civic...
A Concise Introduction to Syntactic Theory
The Government-Binding Approach
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
This textbook is intended to give students a quick start in using theory to address syntactic questions. At each stage, Cowper is careful to introduce a theoretical apparatus that is no more complex than is required to deal with the phenomenon under consideration. Comprehensive and up-to-date, this...
Family Life and School Achievement
Why Poor Black Children Succeed or Fail
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
Working mothers, broken homes, poverty, racial or ethnic background, poorly educated parents—these are the usual reasons given for the academic problems of poor urban children. Reginald M. Clark contends, however, that such structural characteristics of families neither predict nor explain the wide...
Hearing Secret Harmonies
Book 12 of A Dance to the Music of Time
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Anthony Powell’s universally acclaimed epic A Dance to the Music of Time offers a matchless panorama of twentieth-century London. Now, for the first time in decades, readers in the United States can read the books of Dance as they were originally published—as twelve individual novels—but with...
Even the Rhinos Were Nymphos
Best Nonfiction
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2018
A few years ago, Christopher Buckley wrote of Bruce Jay Friedman in the New York Times Book Review that he "has been likened to everyone from J. D. Salinger to Woody Allen," but that "he is: Bruce Jay Friedman, sui generis, and no mean thing. No further comparisons are necessary."...
The Assignment
or, On the Observing of the Observer of the Observers
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
In Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s experimental thriller The Assignment, the wife of a psychiatrist has been raped and killed near a desert ruin in North Africa. Her husband hires a woman named F. to reconstruct the unsolved crime in a documentary film. F. is soon unwittingly thrust into a paranoid world...
The Body of Faith
A Biological History of Religion in America
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
The postmodern view that human experience is constructed by language and culture has informed historical narratives for decades. Yet newly emerging information about the biological body now makes it possible to supplement traditional scholarly models with insights about the bodily sources of human...
The Peregrine Returns
The Art and Architecture of an Urban Raptor Recovery
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017
Peregrine falcons have their share of claims to fame. With a diving speed of over two hundred miles per hour, these birds of prey are the fastest animals on earth or in the sky, and they are now well known for adapting from life on rocky cliffs to a different kind of mountain: modern skyscrapers....
by Michel Foucault
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2019
This volume collects a series of lectures given by the renowned French thinker Michel Foucault late in his career. The book is composed of two parts: a talk, Parrēsia, delivered at the University of Grenoble in 1982, and a series of lectures entitled “Discourse and Truth,” given at the University...
Genentech
The Beginnings of Biotech
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2011
In the fall of 1980, Genentech, Inc., a little-known California genetic engineering company, became the overnight darling of Wall Street, raising over $38 million in its initial public stock offering. Lacking marketed products or substantial profit, the firm nonetheless saw its share price escalate...
Digital Paper
A Manual for Research and Writing with Library and Internet Materials
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2014
Today’s researchers have access to more information than ever before. Yet the new material is both overwhelming in quantity and variable in quality. How can scholars survive these twin problems and produce groundbreaking research using the physical and electronic resources available in the modern...
Siena
City of Secrets
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Jane Tylus’s Siena is a compelling and intimate portrait of this most secretive of cities, often overlooked by travelers to Italy. Cultural history, intellectual memoir, travelogue, and guidebook, it takes the reader on a quest of discovery through the well- and not-so-well-traveled roads and alleys...
Steam-Powered Knowledge
William Chambers and the Business of Publishing, 1820-1860
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2012
With the overwhelming amount of new information that bombards us each day, it is perhaps difficult to imagine a time when the widespread availability of the printed word was a novelty. In early nineteenth-century Britain, print was not novel—Gutenberg’s printing press had been around for nearly...
Dreamland of Humanists
Warburg, Cassirer, Panofsky, and the Hamburg School
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Deemed by Heinrich Heine a city of merchants where poets go to die, Hamburg was an improbable setting for a major intellectual movement. Yet it was there, at the end of World War I, at a new university in this commercial center, that a trio of twentieth-century pioneers in the humanities emerged....