Democracy and the Arts of Schooling Medical parasitologyArnstine shows how schools have been distracted from education by reformers urging higher standards the code word for higher test scores. But education is revealed in the dispositions a person has: sensitivity and resourcefulness, amiability and responsibility, taste, wit, and a disciplined intelligence. This book examines the conditions needed to foster dispositions like these, for they are not acquired by having the young spend more time studying
it charts dichotomous attitudes towards public inquiries and discussions of increased political participation
Queering Motherhood articulates a provocative philosophy of queer kinship that need not be rooted in lesbian or gay sexual identities
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Women and Economics is a powerful work of sociological thought by a leading reformer and feminist of her day
The initial years (126-145) of al-Manṣūr's reign presented several significant challenges to nascent ʿAbbāsid hegemony
This comparative study of urban poverty is the first to chart the irregular pulse of poverty’s encounters with officialdom
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These range from biotechnological approaches for enhancing disease resistance to viruses to the application of biocontrol suppressors that help cassava plants resist infection from soil-dwelling fungal pathogens
In unpacking an argument of how and why patterns of policy implementation manifest as they do
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scholars consider how recent voices have succeeded older ones and reverberated in concert with them
Challenging the idea that nihilism has supplanted metaphysics
