In The Culture Trap, Derron Wallace argues that the overreliance on culture to explain Black students' achievement and behavior in schools is a trap that undermines the historical factors and institutional processes that shape how Black students experience schooling.
In The Culture Trap, Derron Wallace argues that the overreliance on culture to explain Black students' achievement and behavior in schools is a trap that undermines the historical factors and institutional processes that shape how Black students experience schooling.
On October 28, 1917, just days after the Bolsheviks seized power, the great Council of the Russian Orthodox Church voted to restore the patriarchate, which had been abolished by Peter the Great two centuries earlier.
A look inside one of America's most politically consequential churchesMark Driscoll, the founding pastor of Seattle's Mars Hill Church, indelibly impacted American evangelicalism.
A look inside one of America's most politically consequential churchesMark Driscoll, the founding pastor of Seattle's Mars Hill Church, indelibly impacted American evangelicalism.
The first history of polyamory, this work examines the roots of sexual non-monogamy in political thought and countercultural spiritualism and traces its path to mainstream practice and cultural discussion today.
Apostles of Development recounts the work of six individuals, all former classmates at Cambridge University, who helped make international development--the effort to reduce poverty and inequality around the world--into a juggernaut of the second half of the twentieth century.
An investigation of what consolidating religion as a technology of peacebuilding and development does to people's accounts of their religious and cultural traditions and why interreligious peacebuilding entrenches colonial legacies in the present.
An investigation of what consolidating religion as a technology of peacebuilding and development does to people's accounts of their religious and cultural traditions and why interreligious peacebuilding entrenches colonial legacies in the present.
A sweeping history of Islamism in Central Asia from the Russian Revolution to the present through Soviet-era archival documents, oral histories, and a trove of interviews and focus groups.
A sweeping history of Islamism in Central Asia from the Russian Revolution to the present through Soviet-era archival documents, oral histories, and a trove of interviews and focus groups.
This book examines how older adults with physical disabilities living at home develop dietary resilience strategies to maintain independence, agency, and dignity in later life.
Tells the story of the changing relationship between sport and religion from 1800 to the present day Both religion and sport stir deep emotions, shape identities, and inspire powerful loyalties.
Tells the story of the changing relationship between sport and religion from 1800 to the present day Both religion and sport stir deep emotions, shape identities, and inspire powerful loyalties.
This book examines the paradox whereby spiritual afflictions (conditions attributed to ancestors, jinns, spirits, witchcraft, and other intangible entities) remain central to everyday therapeutic worlds in Africa and the diaspora, yet are routinely sidelined or rendered invisible in official public health policies and global health agendas.
This book examines the various systems, processes, and agencies responsible for overseeing police conduct across Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, and to a lesser extent, the United States, and Republic of Ireland.
Tombs, Mummies and Burials: The Ancient World's Obsession With DeathBeneath the healing springs and Victorian spires of Eureka Springs lie echoes of humanity's oldest rituals—ancient tombs hidden in Ozark hollows, cave burials, and legends of the restless dead that mirror civilizations half a world away.
We are seeing what is now reaching a critical mass of people crying out for renewal and reform, as we experience the consequences of living in a withering civilisation.
Lost Worlds: From Ancient Civilizations to Unexplained PhenomenaStep into the shadowed hollows and mist-veiled bluffs of the Ozarks, where the veil between past and present thins.
The Data Analytics Advantage is a comprehensive guide that equips readers with the essential skills to analyze and leverage social media data for strategic decision-making.
Race and Racism: A Decolonial Approach argues that the topics of race and racism need a decolonial framing if we are to understand their genealogy in the modern world, and explores their current iterations and the path forward.
Few writers on the Irish in America have looked beyond the nineteenth-century ethnic enclaves of New York, Boston, Philadelphia, or Chicago, or have asked how the notion of an Irish-American ethnic identity in contemporary America can be reconciled with five, six, or seven generations of intermarriage and assimilation over the last century and a half.
The Data Analytics Advantage is a comprehensive guide that equips readers with the essential skills to analyze and leverage social media data for strategic decision-making.
The 1933 killing by the Papin sisters of their mistress and her daughter was an act of unexampled violence by women against women, whose repercussions have been felt in French culture ever since.
