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The Blackboard and the Bottom Line: Why Schools Ca...
$9.91
"Ford Motor Company would not have survived the competition had it not been for an emphasis on results. We must view education the same way," the U.S. Secretary of Education declared in 2003. But is he right In this provocative new book, Larry Cuban takes aim at the alluring cliché that schools sho..
The Blackboard and the Bottom Line: Why Schools Ca...
$15.70
"Ford Motor Company would not have survived the competition had it not been for an emphasis on results. We must view education the same way," the U.S. Secretary of Education declared in 2003. But is he right In this provocative new book, Larry Cuban takes aim at the alluring cliché that schools sho..
The Bolsheviks: The Intellectual and Political His...
$10.75
The rise of the Bolsheviks is an epic Russian story that now has a definitive end. The major historian of the subject, Adam Ulam, has enlarged his classic work with a new Preface that puts the revolutionary moment, and especially Lenin, in perspective for our modern age. Author: Ulam, Adam B. Publis..
The Bomb: A Life
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Bombs are as old as hatred itself. But it was the twentieth century--one hundred years of incredible scientific progress and terrible war--that brought forth the Big One, the Bomb, humanity's most powerful and destructive invention. In The Bomb: A Life, Gerard DeGroot tells the story of this once un..
The Boy Who Would Be a Helicopter
$8.68
How does a teacher begin to appreciate and tap the rich creative resources of the fantasy world of children What social functions do story playing and storytelling serve in the preschool classroom And how can the child who is trapped in private fantasies be brought into the richly imaginative soci..
The Braid of Literature: Children’s Worlds of Re...
$24.38
As parent, reading partner, and social science observer, Shelby Wolf documented countless moments during the preschool and early grade-school years of her two daughters. The Braid of Literature interweaves her careful observations and analysis with Shirley Brice Heath's insightful commentary, drawin..
The Butcher Workmen: A Study of Unionization (Wert...
$68.37
The advance of trade unionism in the first part of the 20th century to a dominant place in the American economy brought with it a major change in the life of the nation. This phenomenal growth has not hitherto been adequately studied. This is the first book to deal with the actual process of unioniz..
The Cactus Primer
$68.23
The Cactus Primer presents the amateur cactophile with an excellent introduction to cactus biology and provides the informed reader with an invaluable summary of the last forty years' research. This book goes far beyond books that instruct readers in the propagation, growth, and care of these plants..
The Canon of Sir Thomas Wyatt’s Poety
$64.93
Thomas Wyatt is the finest English poet between Chaucer and the Elizabethans. Many poems have been wrongly attributed to him, however, and the authenticity of different versions of his lyrics has been a matter of dispute. Richard Harrier makes a significant contribution both by establishing accurate..
The Case of the Female Orgasm: Bias in the Science...
$34.34
Why women evolved to have orgasms--when most of their primate relatives don't--is a persistent mystery among evolutionary biologists. In pursuing this mystery, Elisabeth Lloyd arrives at another: How could anything as inadequate as the evolutionary explanations of the female orgasm have passed muste..
The Challenge of Crime: Rethinking Our Response
$15.02
From Booklist Having displaced both South Africa and the former Soviet Union as the world's top jailor, America urgently needs the kind of unflinching analysis offered by these two leading authorities on dealing with crime. The authors show why our police, state prosecutors, juvenile courts, and pen..
The Child’s Understanding of Number
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The authors report the results of some half dozen years of research into when and how children acquire numerical skills. They provide a new set of answers to these questions, and overturn much of the traditional wisdom on the subject. Author: Gallistel, C. R. Publisher: Harvard University Press Bind..
The Chinese Army After Mao
$16.49
Ellis Joffe has drawn on a lifetime of experience as an analyst of Chinese military affairs in this authoritative assessment of a highly elusive subject: military modernization and the politics of civilian-military relations in the post-Mao period. He has sifted vast amounts of evidence, primary and..
The Chinese Garden: History, Art and Architecture,...
$21.96
Dense with winding paths, dominated by huge rock piles and buildings squeezed into small spaces, the characteristic Chinese garden is, for many foreigners, so unlike anything else as to be incomprehensible. Only on closer acquaintance does it offer up its mysteries; and such is the achievement of Ma..
The Clash of Empires: The Invention of China in Mo...
$28.81
What is lost in translation may be a war, a world, a way of life. A unique look into the nineteenth-century clash of empires from both sides of the earthshaking encounter, this book reveals the connections between international law, modern warfare, and comparative grammar--and their influence on the..
The Cold War and the Color Line: American Race Rel...
$12.33
After World War II the United States faced two preeminent challenges: how to administer its responsibilities abroad as the world’s strongest power, and how to manage the rising movement at home for racial justice and civil rights. The effort to contain the growing influence of the Soviet Union resul..
The College Administrator’s Survival Guide
$9.92
Late one afternoon, as you are organizing your new office as department chair, one of the senior members of the department drops by. He affably informs you of his plans for the coming semester: that contrary to the published class schedule, he only teaches on Tuesday afternoon, Wednesday, and Thursd..
The Colosseum (Wonders of the World)
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Read the Bldg Blog interview with Mary Beard about the Wonders of the World series (Part I and Part II)Byron and Hitler were equally entranced by Rome's most famous monument, the Colosseum. Mid-Victorians admired the hundreds of varieties of flowers in its crannies and occasionally shuddered at its ..
The Communist Controversy in Washington: From the ...
$21.09
History of political concerns over Communism in the United States from the New Deal of the 1930s to the Red Scare of the 1940s-1950s. Author: Latham, Earl Publisher: Harvard University Press Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0674150007 ISBN-13: 9780674150003..
The Conquest of the Microchip
$22.51
Hans Queisser tells the exciting story behind the birth of a new industry and a new knowledge that has resulted not only in a restructuring of science, technology, and industry but also in major rearrangements of political and economic power. Queisser observed at first hand the hectic growth, the tr..
The Consolation of Philosophy
$44.99
In this highly praised new translation of Boethius’s The Consolation of Philosophy, David R. Slavitt presents a graceful, accessible, and modern version for both longtime admirers of one of the great masterpieces of philosophical literature and those encountering it for the first time. Slavitt prese..
The Constitution and the New Deal
$32.52
In a powerful new narrative, G. Edward White challenges the reigning understanding of twentieth-century Supreme Court decisions, particularly in the New Deal period. He does this by rejecting such misleading characterizations as "liberal," "conservative," and "reactionary," and by reexamining severa..
The Control Revolution: Technological and Economic...
$39.01
Why do we find ourselves living in an Information Society How did the collection, processing, and communication of information come to play an increasingly important role in advanced industrial countries relative to the roles of matter and energy And why is this change recent or is it James Benige..
The Conversion of Imagination: From Pascal through...
$192.44
From romanticism through postmodernism, the imagination has become an indispensable reference point for thinking about the self, culture, philosophy, and politics. How has imagination so thoroughly influenced our understanding of experience and its possibilities In a bold reinterpretation of a cruc..
The Copernican Revolution: Planetary Astronomy in ...
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For scientist and layman alike this book provides vivid evidence that the Copernican Revolution has by no means lost its significance today. Few episodes in the development of scientific theory show so clearly how the solution to a highly technical problem can alter our basic thought processes and a..